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Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House : No More Power Bills–Ever

Power Plant: Computers, inverters and other controls help Strizki harvest as much as 90 kilowatt-hours of electricity on a sunny June day. Photo by David Biello / Scientific American.A New Jersey resident generates and stores allthe power he needs with … Continue reading

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The Return of the Neocons

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, an architect of the neocon philosophy. Illustration by Paul Giambarba / Courtesy truthout. Bush Hawks Aggressively Working to Rewrite Accepted Iraq War History By James Risen / June 19, 2008 Ever since … Continue reading

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More to This Spying Business Than Meets the Eye

NSA’s Domestic Spying GrowsAs Agency Sweeps Up DataBy Siobhan Gorman Mike Hanks called our attention to the following article from the March 10, 2008, Wall Street Journal. Read it! All our attention may be focused on the Congressional vote on … Continue reading

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Washington Beheading

Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog

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Iraq: The Never-Ending (Dismal) Story

Witnesses Link Chemical to Ill US Soldiers: Highly toxic substance used at Iraq plantBy Farah Stockman / June 21, 2008 WASHINGTON – US soldiers assigned to guard a crucial part of Iraq’s oil infrastructure became ill after exposure to a … Continue reading

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Jazz : The Colossus

Sonny Rollins, Take OneBy Ishmael Reed Bebop was my generation’s hip-hop. It was more than a pastime; it was an obsession. I used to play trombone with bebop groups. When I turned sixty, I enrolled in Berkeley’s Jazz School, where … Continue reading

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Journalism : OUT OF PRINT!

Arianna Huffington questions newspapers’“veneer of unassailable trustworthiness.” Drawing courtesy of New Yorker.The death and life of the American newspaperBy Eric Alterman The following article on the state of the newspaper in America today first appeared in the March 31, 2008 … Continue reading

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Home of the Brave: We Should All Be Ashamed

Omar KhadrProsecuting Children as Terrorists: Keeping America SafeBy Dave Lindorff President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is … Continue reading

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Louisiana – Stepping Back into the Middle Ages

Louisiana’s Latest Assault on DarwinJune 21, 2008 It comes as no surprise that the Louisiana State Legislature has overwhelmingly approved a bill that seeks to undercut the teaching of evolution in the public schools. The state, after all, has a … Continue reading

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Suppressing the Research That Matters

Here you can see the effect of the treatment on the two patients with brain cancers. VEGFR-2 activation is shown in green and its expression in red. Cell nuclei are stained in blue. Relative values of activated-VEGFR-2 pixels are displayed … Continue reading

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It Would Turn the Middle East Into a Fireball

U.N atom watchdog chief says to quit if Iran attackedJune 29, 2008 DUBAI — The chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said in remarks aired on Friday that he would resign if there was a military strike on Iran, … Continue reading

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The "SuperCorridor" – Likely Still Alive and Kickin’

SuperCorridor Defeat? Don’t Bet On Itby Stephen Lendman / June 20, 2008 The title refers to the I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) portion of the North American SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) project. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced that, for now at … Continue reading

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