All Site Content
-
NPR Is Not Left Wing Opposite of Right Wing Media Machine (Bill Moyers and Michael Winship)
Our publicly supported media is not perfect, but we must defend it against this current assault Mar. 25, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing ...
Read more... -
Vermont House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill (Chris Garofolo)
Vermont Single-Payer Health Care Rally. Jobs with Justice, flickr Mar. 25, 2011 -- MONTPELIER (Brattleboro Reformer) -- The Vermont House of Representatives passed a bill calling for a single-payer ...
Read more... -
Japan Nuclear situation 'grave and serious' (Irish Times)
Japanese prime minister Naota Kan at a news conference Friday. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Mar 25, 2011 (Irish Times) -- The situation at Japan's crippled nuclear complex in Fukushima 240km ...
Read more... -
Fukushima Radiation: Some Difficult Truths (Ritt Goldstein)
Mar. 24, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- As radiation counts elevate in Japan, news of nuclear contamination spreading across a widening spectrum of life and its necessities, official pronouncements ...
Read more... -
Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans (Stephen Leahy)
Marine debris on a Hawaiian beach. Credit:NOAA Mar. 24, 2011 -- HONOLULU, Hawaii (IPS) -- That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing ...
Read more... -
Libya Shows US Policy Inconsistencies (Steven R. Hurst)
Mar. 24, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S.-led attacks against an autocrat in oil-rich Libya have opened the Obama administration to questions about why it's holding back from more robust support ...
Read more... -
'Kinetic Military Action' or 'War'? (Jonathan Allen)
Mar. 24, 2011 (Politico.com) -- Police action, conflict, hostilities and now “kinetic military action.” They’re all euphemisms for that word that this White House and many before it have been so ...
Read more... -
California’s Tax Hike Did Not Work (John Carney)
Mar. 24, 2011 (CNBC) -- California’s tax collections grew at around half of what the state projected for 2010—indicating that the state’s fiscal situation may be even more dire than previously ...
Read more... -
Ex-White House economists issue debt warning (AFP)
Mar. 24, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AFP) – Ten former White House economists on Thursday called for US politicians of all stripes to get serious about tackling the country's spiraling debt, warning of a ...
Read more... -
Radiation spikes in seawater by stricken Japan plant (Chizu Nomiyama and Shinichi Saoshiro)
Leslie's CHP Atomic Fish (Tablecloth) 8:00 p.m. JST (7 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactivity levels are soaring in seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, Japan's nuclear safety ...
Read more... -
Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as Economies 'Recover' (James Petras)
The bailouts of banks, speculators and manufacturers served their real purposes: the multi-millionaires became billionaires and the later became multi-billionaires Mar. 24, 2011 (Information ...
Read more...
Page 485 of 909
