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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The forensic search for the mysterious agent that almost melted Greenland goes on. The latest suspect to be rounded up for questioning is the jet stream, scientists in the U.K. say.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
A careful examination of the security situation in Africa suggests that it is in the process of becoming Ground Zero for a veritable terror diaspora set in motion in the wake of 9/11 that has only accelerated in the Obama years. U.S. “stability” operations in Africa have increased, militancy has spread, insurgent groups have proliferated and the continent has become more unsettled.
Posted on Jun 19, 2013
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By Paul Kiel, ProPublica —
Bank of America employees regularly lied to homeowners seeking loan modifications, denied their applications for made-up reasons, and were rewarded for sending homeowners to foreclosure, according to sworn statements by former bank employees.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
The Edward Snowden revelations about NSA spying and just how far we’ve come in the building of a surveillance state have swept over us 24/7. When a flood sweeps you away, it’s always hard to find a little dry land to survey the extent and nature of the damage. Here’s my attempt to identify five urges essential to understanding the world Snowden has helped us glimpse.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Lakes are warming on both sides of the Atlantic—and this is bad news both for water quality and the fish.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Robert Scheer — The name of the game is threat inflation, and no one has been better at it than the folks at Booz Allen Hamilton, the inventors of the new boondoggle called cyberwarfare.
Posted on Jun 18, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible “moderates” whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really about.
Posted on Jun 17, 2013
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Chris Hedges is off this week and will resume his column at the usual time next week. In the meantime, you can access all his previous columns, plus recent appearances, by clicking on this item.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Those who defend our economic status quo have other alibis. We don’t need to make any structural changes in our economy, the argument goes. People who want to advance just need to understand that our new economic circumstances place a very high premium on education. Get a good education, and you will do OK.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Pentagon whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg remains a steadfast example of the courage he recognizes in Edward Snowden and others in the current generation of whistle-blowers.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By Michael Grabell, ProPublica —
Since the Rana Plaza building collapse killed more than 1,100 people in April, Walmart has released a list of more than 200 factories it said it had barred from producing its merchandise because of serious or repeated safety problems. But at least two of the factories on the list have continued to send massive shipments to Walmart stores in recent months.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By Robert Reich — There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today—places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made in secret, and are unchecked either by effective democratic oversight or by market competition.
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance —
Turkish physicians and other health professionals who started administering treatment to protesters at Istanbul’s Gezi Park became the target of repression this week as the Health Ministry forbade them to do their jobs.
Posted on Jun 15, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Work by 100 scientists over five years reveals that more than half of species studied are endangered by a warming planet.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Rather than hyping the terrorist threat, like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, President Obama has repeatedly framed a calmer—if equally resolute—attitude toward Islamist extremism.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
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