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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that ...
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Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear reactor (Chris Meyers and Kim Kyung-hoon)
Mar. 12, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a ...
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A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a ...
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Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)
A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President ...
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Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...
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Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)
A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad ...
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How to Read Gates’s Shift on the Wars (Ray McGovern)
Mar. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Establishment Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys a charmed life based on a charming persona. The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) is ...
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Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)
Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers ...
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America's Stay-at-Home Ex-President (Ray McGovern)
Feb. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- As the news broke on Saturday that former President George W. Bush had abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance this week in Geneva to avoid the risk ...
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BOOKS: A World Without Islam. By E. Fuller (Jim Miles)
A World Without Islam. Graham E. Fuller. Little, Brown, and Company, N.Y. 2010 Feb. 1, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- A title for a book is frequently the set of few words that creates a significant ...
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America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns (Nathan Diebenow)
Jan. 10, 2011 (RawStory) -- The Obama administration's $78 billion cut to US defense spending is a mere "pin-prick" to a behemoth military-industrial complex that must drastically shrink for the ...
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