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Agenda for the Dark Ages: GOP Frontrunner Rick Santorum's 5 Most Extremist Themes
If Santorum gets to bear the standard for the GOP, the party moves even further to the right. Here's a taste of what's on that plate.
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Pioneering a Way to Distinguish Blood Disorders From Child Abuse
by Gretchen Gavett, Special to ProPublica
Last year, as part of our ongoing investigation into the troubled state of death investigation in America, PBS "Frontline," ProPublica and NPR took a closer look at what can be the most troubling and...
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Two Wall Street Players Ensnared in New Probe
by Jake Bernstein
More than three years after the financial crisis, Wall Street watchdogs are still uncovering questionable actions rooted in that time. The latest revelation involves one of the more creative...
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Wis. Republican Pressures UW School of Workers to Cancel Labor Arts Exhibit
By Matthew Rothschild, February 21, 2012
“The School of Workers survived McCarthyism,” says one labor cartoonist. “It may not survive Walker.”read more
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Greenpeace from the Rooftop: 'Do Not Drill in the Arctic'
Greenpeace activists today scaled the National Gallery in London to deliver a clear message from the rooftop: 'Shell Oil, Stay Out of the Arctic.' Shell: it's no oil painting. (Credit: Greenpeace / Sandison)
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The Abortion Wars: The Real People Behind the Restrictions
Written by Carole Joffe for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
The last ten days or so we have seen Republicans, and their religious allies, wage a...
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Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices, Not Lower Them
A basic Republican attack on President Obama is shaping up for the 2012 election: that the national debt, the unemployment level and gas prices are all way too high.
Two of these three issues find a home in the Keystone XL pipeline—the...
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SEC Warns Top Banker of Charges Over Magnetar Deal
by Cora Currier
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission has warned a top banker that it may bring civil charges against him for his role in creating a risky collateralized debt...
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Rick Santorum or Satanic Heavy Metal: the Quiz
Houses of the Holy: Rick Santorum rocks out. On his rise to the top of the Republican charts, Rick Santorum has picked up plugs and plaudits from media and entertainment luminaries including Glenn Beck, the Duggars, Pat Boone, and Dave Mustaine....
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On Josh Malihabadi’s death anniversary
On Josh Malihabadi’s 30th death anniversary, doing the rounds is this recently uploaded interview of the Urdu poet, amongst a rich archive uploaded on YouTube by Radio Pakistan. Josh migrated to Pakistan only in 1958. About the loss of...
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Why the west should rule out military action against Iran - Iran/Persia
The threat of military force heightens tensions and makes a peaceful outcome less likely.
With tough new sanctions in place, further measures threatened by Iran, naval forces mustering in the Persian Gulf, and state-sponsored terrorism ongoing,...
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Zakia Jafri's fight for the truth is the interests of all Indians
After the 2002 riots, the National Human Rights Commission, a statutory watchdog, had sent a team to Gujarat to investigate. It reported "a comprehensive failure on the part of the state government to control the persistent violation of the rights...
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US-Trained Police Fire on Anti-US Protesters in Afghanistan
At least 5 people are reported killed in Afghanistan after US-trained Afghan police open fired on demonstrators after a second day of protests that came in response to widespread reports that US officials had burned Islamic Qrans at the US Bagram...
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Medical research funding cuts could be hazardous to America’s health
By Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, February 22, 2012
President Obama’s budget recommendation to freeze funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is shortsighted.read more
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Follow the Money: Payment Trail Reveals Challenges of Ridding Liberia of Corruption
by Johnny Dwyer, Special to ProPublica
This story was co-published with Foreign Policy.
Last July, five months before she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf welcomed Chevron CEO John Watson into the...
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As Greece Erupts, BBC's Paul Mason on "The New Global Revolutions" Over Austerity, Inequality
Greece is bracing for protests after eurozone finance ministers concluded a deal that will provide a $170 billion bailout in return for another round of deep austerity cuts. The bailout is opposed by several unions and left-wing groups in Greece...
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Video: Keeping the oil in the ground
Photographer Julio Etchart traveled to the Yasuní national park and met the Huaorani community who are battling corporations with eco-tourism.
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Why Small-Town America Is Drowning in Drugs
A look at how the collapse of industry, poor labor conditions and the anxiety of economic decline facilitated mass drug use in one small town.
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Ohio To Use Foreclosure Settlement Funds Meant To Aid Homeowners To Demolish Homes
Already, two states — Missouri and Wisconsin — have set out plans to use funds from the $26 billion foreclosure fraud settlement to balance their budgets, rather than their intended purpose of helping troubled homeowners avoid...
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Beautiful Acts of Resistance
By Bryan Farrell, March 2012 issue
Palestinian playwright Abdelfattah Abusrour's cultural center is an oasis.read more
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