LOCAL News :: Environment
Another DC Area Stand Down - As Radioactive Groundwater Due to Hit Chesapeake Bay
07 Jan 2010
by
Cathy Garger
Not one, not two, but ALL nuclear power plants in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed are emitting radioactive chemicals into the Groundwater, which flows into the already-imperiled, dead-and-dying Chesapeake and its tributaries. The cover up outside DC is stunning, complete, comprehensive. What will we do?
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All Cards on the Table. For a Social Ecological New Deal
06 Jan 2010
by
Chris Methmann
The neoliberal and fossilist finance market capitalism has become a discontinued model. With his New Deal, Roosevelt introduced state pensions, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, reduced working hours and strengthened unions.
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LOCAL News :: Activism
Code pink/ Free gaza Movement/BDS : Screwing your allies
05 Jan 2010
by
divest this!
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Israeli Use of Painful Shackling As A Form of Torture
05 Jan 2010
by
Stephen Lendman
torture as official Israeli policy
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Lessons from the Crisis
05 Jan 2010
by
Detlev von Larcher
Governments are extorted by multinationalo corporations. Those who made massive profits with bank business must now answer for the losses. The taxpayer may not pay for their crises. If control is not exercised by politics, banks will become absolute rulers with a state guarantee.
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Obama's War on Yemen
04 Jan 2010
by
Stephen Lendman
Obama's expanded war agenda
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System Change instead of Climate Change
04 Jan 2010
by
Harald Neuber
Capitalism and the resource policy of industrial states are responsible for the increasing destruction of the environment and the dangerous warming of the global climate. The members of ALBA set a fixed date for their new regional currency (January 2010).
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News :: Activism
Attempted murder of kurt Westergaard
We reprint the mohammed cartoons here in a salut to free speech!
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The Avatar manifesto
04 Jan 2010
by
Luke from DC
The manifesto below was written in response to the millions who will see the movie "Avatar" and cheer for insurgents defending their homes, yet go home and support war, occupation, "development" and gentrification by their votes,their actions, and their shopping afterwards
www.youtube.com/watch
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