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How The Shock Doctrine Set The Middle East Ablaze: An interview with Nick Beams (Mike Whitney)
Mar. 11, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Mike Whitney: In your article, “Global forces driving Middle East uprisings,” you suggest that the revolutions spreading across the Middle East are a ...
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Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Earth and Our Democracies (Bill McKibben)
Mar. 11, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Among other truths made completely clear by the showdown in Wisconsin: the outsized role of the Koch brothers in American politics. (Photo by Steve Rhodes.) ...
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Gulf Spill Sickness Wrecking Lives Nearly a year after the oil disaster began (Dahr Jamail)
Mar. 10, 2011 (Al Jazeera) -- Nearly a year after the oil disaster began, Gulf Coast residents are sick, and dying from BP's toxic chemicals. "I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body," ...
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Decline of Honey Bees Now a Global Phenomenon, says United Nations (Michael McCarthy)
Mar. 10, 2011 (Independent/UK) -- The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed. Declines in managed bee ...
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Illinois abolishes death penalty (Associated Press)
Governor of 16th US state to get rid of capital punishment says it was hardest decision he has made Mar. 10, 2011 (AP) -- Illinois has abolished the death penalty after two decades of deliberation ...
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BofA Segregates Almost Half of its Mortgages Into ‘Bad Bank’ (Dawn Kopecki)
Mar. 8, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. (BAC), the biggest U.S. lender by assets, is segregating almost half its 13.9 million mortgages into a “bad” bank comprised of its riskiest and ...
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'Nerve gas' used on Yemen protesters (Tom Finn)
Mar. 10, 2011 (AAP) -- Doctors from the scene of violent anti-government protests in Yemen's capital said that what was originally thought to be tear gas fired by government forces on demonstrators ...
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How The So-Called Guardians Of Free Speech Are Silencing The Messenger (John Pilger)
Mar. (Information Clearing House) -- As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and ...
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Kicking The Intervention Habit (Richard Falk)
Mar. 12, 2011 (Al-Jazeera) -- What is immediately striking about the bipartisan call in Washington for a no-fly zone and air strikes designed to help rebel forces in Libya is the absence of any ...
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Pack Journalism Promotes War on Libya (Stephen Lendman)
Mar. 10, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- America's major media never met an imperial war it didn't love and promote, never mind how lawless, mindless, destructive and counterproductive. Despite ...
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Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear reactor (Chris Meyers and Kim Kyung-hoon)
Mar. 12, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a ...
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