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- Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been "Woefully Insufficient for Decades." November 10, 2009The New York-based Toxics Targeting went through the Department of Environmental Conservation's own database of hazardous substances spills over the past thirty years. They found 270 cases documenting fires, explosions, wastewater spills, well contamination and ecological damage related to gas drilling. Many of the cases remain unresolved. The findings […]
- Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded -- and How to Remake Them November 10, 2009John Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today's financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate -- these are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring and helping create these very events that were once just confined […]
- Filmmaker Philippe Diaz on "The End of Poverty?" November 10, 2009Earlier this year, the IMF and the World Bank warned that the financial crisis posed a serious challenge to reducing poverty. The World Bank predicted that the economic crisis could push another 53 million people in the global South into poverty. Well, according to the latest numbers from the United Nations, we're now up to 2.7 billion people around the […]
- Headlines for November 10, 2009 November 10, 2009Iran Accuses Detained Americans of Espionage, CBS: Obama to Send Up to 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan, 40 Democrats Threaten to Reject Healthcare Bill over Abortion Restrictions, Fort Hood Shooter to Be Tried in Military Court, Survey Highlights Global Concerns over Free Market Capitalism, Palestinians Knock Down Part of West Bank Wall Again, EPA Attempts to S […]
- When the War Comes Home: Iraq Veteran at Fort Hood Speaks Out About Last Week's Mass Shooting November 9, 2009As families and friends mourn the thirteen individuals who were shot dead at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, questions continue to be raised about what might have motivated Thursday's rampage. The suspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist who had spent most of his career at Walter Reed Hospital before being transferred to […]
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