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By Reinhold Niebuhr; Robin W. Lovin (Introduction by)
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U.S. Navy MC2 Jesse B. Awalt
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By Eugene Robinson — Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi’s tyrannical regime will be disappointed.
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
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Deng Coy Miel, Cagle Cartoons, Singapore —
Posted on Mar 18, 2011
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University of Maryland professor Michael Greenberger, former director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, explains the rising cost of oil. His answer—not international turmoil, not Japanese disaster.
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Mar 15, 2011
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Flickr / cliff1066™(CC-BY)
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The latest economic assessment-slash-prognostication from the Federal Reserve isn’t all bad—in fact, CNN Money goes so far as to characterize it as relatively “bullish,” despite mitigating factors such as soaring oil prices and the crisis in Japan.
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By Eugene Robinson — Nuclear power was beginning to look like a panacea—a way to lessen our dependence on oil, make our energy supply more self-sufficient and significantly mitigate global warming, all at the same time. Now it looks more like a bargain with the devil.
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bbc.co.uk
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The struggle for control of Libya continued Thursday, with Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces reportedly gaining ground in the oil ports of Ras Lanuf and Sidra, sending rebels into retreat from those strongholds and claiming civilian lives in the ongoing conflict.
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Mar 9, 2011
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News
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By Richard Reeves — Although Barack Obama may be a touch too thoughtful to be a president in the decisive mold of a Harry Truman, he does have a lot to think about. I count at least 11 options in Libya, all of them risky.
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AP / Mahesh Kumar A.
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By Chris Hedges — We seem condemned as a species to drive ourselves and our societies toward extinction, although this moment appears be the denouement to the whole sad show of settled, civilized life that began some 5,000 years ago.
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 6, 2011
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Mar 5, 2011
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The Pug Father (CC-BY)
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Scientists at the Institute of Marine Mammal Studies are investigating unusually high numbers of stillborn and aborted dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico region. Seventeen infant dolphins have washed up on shore so far this year, compared to an average of one or two a month, says one scientist. (more)
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By William Pfaff — Revolutions are known for devouring their children, but the people making the current revolution in the Middle East may prove indigestible.
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AP / Shawn Poynter
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By Chris Hedges — The writer and philosopher Wendell Berry, armed with little more than a copy of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and his conscience, has been camped out for three days with a handful of other activists in the governor’s outer office in Frankfort, Ky.
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By Eugene Robinson — Bargains with the devil never end well. For decades, successive U.S. administrations have embraced autocratic, repressive regimes in the Arab world—and now, as we see in the bloody streets of Cairo, it’s time to pay the price.
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Yonhap via AP / Jo Jung-ho
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By Steven Borowiec — The rise of piracy in the Arabian Sea has raised difficult legal questions, but there’s little ambiguity about how the accused will be handled by South Korea.
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By William Pfaff — The events in the Arab world during the past three weeks have ended the era of American-Israeli domination/intimidation of the region.
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AP / Ben Curtis
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By Chris Hedges — Our failures in the Middle East have consequences. We are soaked with the stench of these regimes.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Be ready for the paradoxical phase of Barack Obama’s presidency. Many things will not be exactly as they appear.
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that can supplant coal and oil. But new research by the Environmental Protection Agency is casting doubt on the assumption that gas offers a quick and easy solution to climate change.
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Protests erupted in the Algerian capital of Algiers and several other cities this week as people took to the streets over a doubling of food prices and a stubborn 25 percent unemployment rate.
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USMC / Cpl. Brandon Rodriguez
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By William Pfaff — The paradox that is seldom discussed in politics or the press is that the United States, with total military resources equal to those of all the rest of the world combined, wages wars that consistently turn out badly, leaving American enemies in power.
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By Richard Reeves — This year was a game-changer, and what we need is a game-changer list. On that kind of list, I would drop one-off sensations, beginning with the oil spill, the Haitian earthquake and the mine rescue. No. 1 would be WikiLeaks.
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Flickr / Tim Keegan (CC-BY-SA)
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By Bill McKibben —
The president is fond of compromises, but the terms of the climate change conundrum aren’t set by contending ideologies. In the case of global warming, chemistry rules, which means there are lines, hard and fast.
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U.S. Coast Guard / Petty Officer 2nd Class John Miller
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Attorney General Eric Holder says the government is going after nine companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon spill “for government removal costs, economic losses and environmental damages without limitation.” ... (more)
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Flickr / The Pocket (CC-BY)
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By Richard Reeves — In 1982, Richard Nixon told me he thought that by the middle of this century the world would be dominated by Asians, primarily Chinese.
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White House / Karen Ballard
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Before he was vice president, Dick Cheney ran oil giant Halliburton, a subsidiary of which once dropped $180 million in bribes on Nigerian officials. Now Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency plans to charge Cheney over the affair.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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British Petroleum is still sloughing off assets to help cover its $40 billion fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil giant just sold a majority stake in Pan American Energy for $7 billion, putting its running total of recent asset sales at $21 billion.
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AP / Iranian Students News Agency / Arash Khamushi
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A serious rift has divided the Iranian government in a manner that could be tricky to resolve, as it puts the country’s parliament on one side and its president on the other. On Monday, the news broke that Iran’s parliament had been working on a plan to eject ... (continued)
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AP / Jeff Widener
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By Chris Hedges — There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. We must take to the streets, armed with the tiny acts of truth and kindness that throughout history have exposed the oppressor’s cruelty.
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U.S. Coast Guard
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Three of four tests showed that the cement mixture used by Halliburton in the construction of BP’s ill-fated oil well in the Gulf was unstable, but the mixture was used anyway, a presidential commission investigating the disaster has found. The only successful test, which BP did not know about, has since come under suspicion.
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The Guardian is reporting that some of Europe’s biggest polluters, including everyone’s favorite oil company, have given $240,200 in campaign donations to U.S. senators who, coincidentally, helped defeat climate change legislation.
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Flickr / Fibonacci Blue (CC-BY)
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By Stanley Kutler — While our media wizards report a groundswell of anger against the president, tea party candidates and financiers appear to be as bothered by the policies of Franklin Roosevelt as those of Barack Obama.
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AP / Mikhail Metzel
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With a little help from its friends, Venezuela is now one step closer to building its first nuclear power plant. After a two-day stint in Moscow, President Hugo Chavez has received the support of Russia for the construction of a nuclear power station aimed at diversifying the country’s energy supply.
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Flickr / dsearis
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After clamping down and imposing a ban on offshore drilling in the wake of last spring’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday that the moratorium is over and, as he put it, “We are open for business.”
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AP / Hussein Malla
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By Juan Cole — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Middle East’s populist answer to the American tea party, has stirred controversy with his trip to Lebanon, which will begin Wednesday.
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Those nerds at MIT have come up with something really amazing (not the first time). It’s a swarm of autonomous robots that talk to each other as they make their way around a spill, gobbling up the oil. Why didn’t we think of that?
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Scott Ritter — The president and the American people will all too soon come to recognize that the quagmire in Iraq is far from over. In fact, one might say it has only just begun.
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NASA
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It looks like the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is officially dead. The procedure to seal the well—or in oil industry terms, to “kill” it—has been pronounced a success, providing an unceremonious end to the spilling of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf.
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Richard Ellis
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With all of the hullabaloo surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the government’s lackluster performance in responding to that crisis, U.S. regulatory agencies have waved the yellow flag in allowing new offshore drilling in the Arctic.
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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New estimates of the cost of the BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico have jumped to a staggering $8 billion, up $2 billion in August alone as the company announced it had already paid out almost $400 million in claims to individuals affected by the spill.
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The president began his address to the nation on the end of combat operations in Iraq by acknowledging that “this historic moment comes at a time of great uncertainty for many Americans.”
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama’s address to the nation on Iraq this week underscores the agony of his presidency, and its core political problem. In a democracy, separating governing from “politicking” is impossible.
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By Joe Conason — It certainly seems unlikely that David Koch has ever encountered any of the folks who turn up at a typical tea party event or that he has ever showed up at a congressional town hall meeting to scream about health care reform. For Koch, the tea partyers are merely pawns.
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U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Bradley Lail
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By Fred Branfman, AlterNet —
Greatly expanded U.S. military Special Ops teams, U.S. drone strikes and private espionage networks run by former CIA assassins create a threat to our security.
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U.S. Coast Guard / Ensign Michael P. McGrew
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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is raining on Uncle Sam and BP’s well-capping parade. Researchers at the institute say a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide oil plume deep under the Gulf’s surface is degrading much slower than the government’s more optimistic claims.
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