Another Anniversary Of The Little Boy And Fat Man... 14 Aug. 2008 We’ve just passed another anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hear, again and again, when these nearly inconceivable events are commemorated, that “We had to do it to stop the war – those bombs saved American lives!”
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Reasons For Impeaching President Bush Are Plentiful... 10 Jul. 2008We’re five years into an unnecessary (by any standard) battle, led there by a disturbing President and his associates. How much damage has been done the republic?
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Imagining Diplomacy And Peace In The Middle East... 12 Jun. 2008
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Mucking It Up; Bush Administration Good At Ignoring... 10 Apr. 2008All’s not wholly “clean and renewable” in the biodiesel industry. The number of vegetation-based fuel refineries in the U.S. has risen from 90 to 160 in the past year.
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Making The Military Quotas; Have A Green Valentine’s... 14 Feb. 2008Colorado’s Fort Carson was at the center of a firestorm of congressional hearings last year concerning alleged shoddy medical treatment for soldiers returned from Iraq.
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Sandinistas Ride Again — Will Wonders Never Cease?... 10 Jan. 2008Former Sandinista president Daniel Ortega regained the presidency last January, after 16 years of global capitalist dominance of Nicaragua.
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Glad Tidings Of Great Goodness Abound In 2007... 13 Dec. 2007‘Tis the season to share comfort and joy, and I do have plenty of each to report to you at year’s end.
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Ships Decimating Right Whales; Iran Getting The Shaft... 08 Nov. 2007Only 350 North American right whales remain, migrating between calving grounds off Florida and Georgia, up through U.S. shipping lanes to Canada’s maritime provinces — with luck. In the past three years, 17 right whales have been killed by propeller blades or drowned in commercial fishing gear.
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A-Bomb Tests In Pacific Meant To Test Human Exposure... 11 Oct. 2007After the bomb named Trinity thrilled its creators, neither the military nor its scientists came back to inquire how nearby folks had fared. Instead, the A-bomb guys high-tailed it to Nevada, where considerably fewer neighbors would watch.
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Quagmire Iraq: A Costly Mistake... 20 Sep. 2007Late September and the war drones on. We grow numb, then jerk awake. Is an end in sight?
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