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Some of Universe's First Stars May Still Be Visible (Nola Taylor Redd)
Birth of a primordial star, as seen through a supercomputer simulation which found that the first stars in the universe likely formed in groups instead of alone. Clark, Glover, Smith, Greif, ...
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Can We Swap Obama for Chavez? (Mike Whitney)
Feb. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- On Monday, while Barack Obama was hob-nobbing with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Hugo Chavez was busy handing out laptop computers to second graders at a ...
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Kleptocrats at Work (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 8, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Kleptocracy is as old as government. Exotic car broker Michael Sheehan discovered an amazing case nine years ago when he was invited to purchase rare ...
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Recognizing the Language of Tyranny (Chris Hedges)
Feb. 7, 2011 (Truthdig) -- Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and ...
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The Egyptian Mirror (Glenn Greenwald)
Feb. 7, 2011 (Salon) -- One of the most revealing journalistic genres is the effort by establishment media outlets to explain to their American audiences why Those Other Countries -- usually in the ...
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Defending a Dictator US Envoy's Business Link to Egypt (Robert Fisk)
Obama scrambles to limit damage after Frank Wisner makes robust call for Mubarak to remain in place as leader Feb. 7, 2011 -- CAIRO (Independent) -- Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama's envoy to ...
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It's Not Radical Islam That Worries The US – It's Independence (Noam Chomsky)
The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains Feb. 5, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The Arab world is on ...
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Americans Are Oppressed, Too (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 4, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Police in the United States now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case ...
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Mass Tree Deaths Prompt Fears of Amazon 'Climate Tipping Point' (Damian Carrington)
Scientists fear billions of tree deaths caused by 2010 drought could see vast forest turn from carbon sink to carbon source Feb. 4, 2011 (The Guardian/UK) -- Billions of trees died in the record ...
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Inspired by a Revolution in Our Midst, Worried About a Revolution in Our Atmosphere (Bill McKibben)
Feb. 3, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- If you were in the space shuttle looking down yesterday, you would have seen a pair of truly awesome, even fearful, sights. Much of North America was obscured by a ...
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The New Face of Revolution: After Tunisia and Egypt, the World (Ted Rall)
Feb. 3, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Information Clearing House) -- From the British newspaper the Independent: "Like in many other countries in the region, protesters in Egypt complain about surging prices, ...
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