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BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes
New data has been released showing that the massive BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is already contaminating one major protected North American Marine Ecoregion, containing more than 60-percent of America's... ...
Americans Have a Right to Know
By Ray McGovern, Daniel Ellsberg and Coleen Rowley It is a safe bet that NSA, CIA, FBI and other agencies have been instructed to do all possible to make an example of Wikileaks leader, Australian-born... ...
How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon
US Taxpayers: Pay for Nuclear Plants, Stuck with Nuclear Waste http://www.commondre ams.org/headline/2010/06/1 7-7 -------- How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP's Disaster Through the Pentagon Nick Turse,... ...
US has discovered $1 trillion in mineral deposits in Afghanistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a- world-news-mainmenu-35/973 0/ -------- What Could $1 Trillion in Mineral Wealth Mean for Afghanistan? Tom A. Peter, The Christian Science Monitor: "US and Afghan officials claim... ...
Greenwashing the Pentagon
Joseph Nevins, Truthout: "As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, just one of many manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across the planet, the need to challenge war and militarism... ...
US 'Desperately' Trying to Keep Wikileaks from Publishing US Communications About Arab States
By Philip Shenon Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache... ...
Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantanamo?
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "The recently released Final Report of President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining... ...
U.S. needs 60,000 occupation troops in Afghanistan for at Least Three to Four Years
"This is not a temporary force uplift," McKiernan said at a Pentagon news conference. - The bulk of the initial influx of U.S. troops will go to Taliban strongholds in the ethnic Pashtun heartland of southern... ...
Pentagon source: strike killed 30 Afghan civilians
The probe found that the strikes against a "suspected Taliban compound" in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians - not the five to seven the U.S. originally acknowledged, according to... ...
Does killing Afghan civilians keep us safe?
This week, as we remember the nearly 3,000 American citizens who died in the rubble of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or in a remote field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001, we also should think... ...