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World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank
Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Military plans to open more combat jobs to women by 2016
By 2016, women could be permitted to train for most combat roles, including infantry and artillery positions, under ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
From a caged teen in a basement in India to literary fame
Salma is now the most famous female poet in southern India – and the subject of a new documentary film. ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Abu Qatada treaty endorsed by King
The King of Jordan endorses a treaty with the UK, paving the way for the extradition of radical cleric Abu Qatada.Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Leaving the Land: China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
A 12-year plan to move hundreds of millions of rural residents into cities is intended to spur economic growth, but ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home
The exodus of colleagues exasperated Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Read more...Posted by Jack Powers
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Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes "False" Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate
(Multimedia) Obama distinguished his surveillance efforts from those of the Bush administration and reaffirmed his insistence ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Edward Snowden Q and A: "The US Government Destroyed Any Possibility of a Fair Trial at Home"
The 29-year-old former NSA contractor and source of the Guardian's NSA files coverage will – with the help of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Does the Government Understand the 4th Amendment?
Let's for a moment set aside all those questions about the strong probability of criminal lawbreaking that were so ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Which Trader Joe's Foods Are Healthiest?
I've fessed up before about my takeout addiction , and now I'm ready to come clean about another dinner habit: ...Posted by Brijesh Kumar
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Fighting climate change with nuclear energy
Nuclear power is currently the only carbon-free energy source that can provide base load electricity, Stepp writes, ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Op-Ed Contributor: Put the Spies Back Under One Roof
WASHINGTON — THE revelation that Edward J. Snowden, a contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, was responsible for the ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Gen. Helms and the Senator's 'Hold'
An Air Force commander exercised her discretion in a sexual-assault case. Now her career is being blocked by Sen. ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
It's Beyond Ridiculous That Email (But Not Mail) Has Been Left Out of Privacy Laws
It's Beyond Ridiculous That Email (But Not Mail) Has Been Left Out of Privacy LawsPosted by Jack Powers -
As Obama moves forward on climate, he faces a tough political task
A pair of fundraisers just 90 minutes apart in the San Francisco Bay Area last week laid bare the competing forces ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Obamacare, Public Opinion, and Conservative Self-Delusion
One of the more important conservative beliefs about Obamacare, running right alongside the certainty that the law ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The GOP Tries To Redefine Rape Exemptions—Again
The House debated and passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks across the country. The ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
If We Can't Stop Corporations from Hiding in Cayman Islands to Avoid Taxes, We All Need to Become Pirates
As usual, G8 members will advance measures aimed at maintaining, rather than resolving, these contradictions. Their ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Colbert Demolishes PRISM & President Obama With A Live Chicken (VIDEO)
(Video) And he's mostly mad at President Obama -- for carrying out President Bush's policies while having the audacity to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Sensenbrenner: Obama Administration’s NSA Assurances 'A Bunch of Bunk'
Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who introduced the PATRIOT Act on the House floor in 2001, has declared that ...Posted by Jack Powers
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