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People Power Trumps Corporate Power: R.I.P. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant (Carolyn Baker)
Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Carolyn Baker interviews a tireless Vermont activist Feb. 28, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- Last week I had the honor of speaking with Kathleen Krevetski of Rutland, ...
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Massive earthquake strikes Chile, 82 dead (Alonso Soto)
SANTIAGO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A huge magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 82 people, knocking down homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami that rolled ...
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The Picture (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Feb. 24, 2010 -- I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your minds eye. This was a perfectly healthy twenty two-year-old young man ...
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Round Midnight -- Tortillas And The Corporate State (Joe Bageant)
Bageant, Joe Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Feb. 24, 2010 (AJIJIC, Mexico) -- Near midnight and I am making tortillas on an iron skillet over a gas flame. Some three thousand miles to the north, my ...
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Methane levels may see 'runaway' rise, scientists warn (Michael McCarthy)
A rapid acceleration may have begun in levels of a gas far more harmful than CO2 Feb. 22, 2010 (Independent) -- Atmospheric levels of methane, the greenhouse gas which is much more powerful than ...
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U.S. Economy: Consumer Confidence Falls to Lowest Since April (Bob Willis)
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in February to the lowest level in 10 months, a sign that concern about job prospects may hold back the spending needed to sustain the ...
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2010 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting goes to ProPublica's T. Christian Miller (USC Annenberg)
Feb. 22, 2010 -- T. Christian Miller (pictured), a senior reporter for the non-profit news outlet ProPublica and a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, has won the 2010 Selden Ring Award for ...
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Rehearsals for a Civil War (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 22, 2010 -- Amid the general incoherence of the Tea Party rebels and the failure of progressives to recognize the structural changes underway in a peak ...
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Zero Point of Systemic Collapse (Chris Hedges)
Feb. 8, 2010 (Adbusters) -- Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system ...
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Teach Your Children Well: There Is No Law but Might and Murder (Chris Floyd)
Chris Floyd -- Empire Burlesque Saturday, 20 February 2010 01:22 This is the lesson that the United States government -- the government of the historic progressive, Barack Obama -- taught the ...
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Medical Dark Matter: Living Conditions Determine Health (Rock Climber)
Published Feb 6 2010 by The Oil Drum: Campfire, Archived Feb 7 2010 Medical dark matter: Living conditions determine health by "Rock climber" Below the fold is a guest essay from a friend of mine ...
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