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Following US Lead, Canadian Officials Go Mum on How New Pipelines Fuel Tar Sands Expansion | Common Dreams Staff
Internal documents show how official talking points changed after State Department draft came out Following 'flawed' US assessment, Canadian government's new rule about talking expanding pipeline ...
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'Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society' | Chelsea Manning
Aug. 21, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- The following is a rush transcript by Common Dreams of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning* as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday ...
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International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised | Jon Queally
Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 ...
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Remember the 'Labor' in Labor Day | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z.: Photo credit Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2013 “I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. ” - Mother Jones With the relentless, ongoing demonization of unions, it's no surprise ...
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Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to George W. Bush For Iraq War | Inder Comar
Aug. 20, 2013 -- SAN FRANCISCO -- (WarIsACrime.org) -- In court papers filed today (PDF), the United States Department of Justice requested that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, ...
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News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima) | Ana Miller and Greg Laden
News from Fukushima Update # 69 Aug. 24, 2013 (ScienceBlogs) -- Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear ...
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The Self-Rehypothecation of Ben Bernanke | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 26, 2013 How then did Ben Bernanke finally summon the fortitude to entertain tapering Federal Reserve bond purchases from $85 billion a month to, say, ...
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Fracking Boom Slouching Toward Bust | Richard Heinberg
Aug. 23, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- Stop me if you’ve heard this one. What’s an obscenity that starts with “f” and ends with “ck”? Oh wait, sorry, this is supposed to be a serious article about ...
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Obama Pushes for Warrantless Access to Phone Data... Again | Sarah Lazare
White House petitions Supreme Court to declare the practice lawful as public outrage over NSA warrantless spying continues to grow Aug. 20, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- Amid ongoing controversy over NSA ...
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Caution Against Intervention Amid Syria Chemical Weapons Fervor | Sarah Lazare
As top military brass warns against strikes, policy experts say armed intervention is no fix for humanitarian crisis General Martin Dempsey (Photo: Reuters) Aug. 22, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- Amid ...
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Sales of New U.S. Homes Fell More Than Forecast in July | Victoria Stilwell and Lorraine Woellert
Aug. 23, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Purchases of new U.S. homes plunged 13.4 percent in July, the most in more than three years, raising concern higher mortgage rates will slow the real-estate rebound. ...
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