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Panel Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal
New York Times - Jul. 3 (News Report)
Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran... More »
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The Island in the Wind
New Yorker - By Elizabeth Kolbert - Jul. 2 (Special Report)
For the past decade or so, Samso has been the site of an unlikely social movement. When it began, in the late nineteen-nineties, the island's forty-three hundred inhabitants had... More »
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Shedding Light on Solar
Wall Street Journal - By Yuliya Chernova - Jun. 30 (Special Report)
The idea of solar power sounds so simple. And it seems like it should be cheap compared to other sources of energy. After all, the sun is there, and it's free... More »
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Groundbreaking Lawsuit Accuses Big Oil of Conspiracy to Deceive Public About Climate Change
Democracy Now - By Stephen Susman, Amy Goodman - Jul. 3 (Interview)
Attorney Stephen Susman helped file a groundbreaking lawsuit earlier this year on behalf of 400 Inupiat villagers in the Alaskan town of Kivalina who are being forced to relocate... More »
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The Raw Story - Wall Street to begin July on shaky ground
Raw Story - By Associated Press - Jun. 30 (News Report)
EW YORK -- The year is nearly halfway over, and Wall Street appears to be on even shakier ground than when it began 2008. And this shortened week ahead of the Fourth of July... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Slowing down solar
Newsday - Jun. 28 (Opinion)
Solar energy developers and some environmentalists suggest the move smacks of heel dragging. They question the eagerness to slow down solar development while demand is... More »
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Fuels on the Hill
New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Jun. 27 (Opinion)
Regulating futures markets more tightly isn't a bad idea, but it won't bring back the days of cheap oil. Nothing will. Oil prices will fluctuate in the coming years -- I wouldn't... More »
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Disaster Capitalism, State of Extortion
The Nation - By Naomi Klein - Jul. 3 (Opinion)
...today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of fear and disorientation that accompanies... More »
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Labor Must Battle Racism to Elect Obama
TruthOut - By John Nichols - Jul. 3 (Opinion)
The United Steelworkers union is holding its annual convention this week. Union conventions in presidential election years invariably deal with presidential politics, and this one... More »
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The Oracle Collective - Yahoo Answers
New York Times - By Virginia Heffernan - Jun. 29 (News Report)
In the two years since it was introduced, Yahoo Answers has become second in popularity only to Wikipedia as a reference site. Unlike search engines, it doesn't direct seekers to... More »
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U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals
New York Times - By Andrew E. Kramer - Jun. 30 (News Report)
A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies... More »
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FCC Commissioners Call For National Broadband Strategy
Public Knowledge - By Mehan Jayasuriya - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
While there's little doubt about the benefits that such fast, cheap and widely available Internet would have--for education, employment and the economy--the million-dollar... More »
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Bank for International Settlements Sees Economy Near 'Tipping Point' - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal - Jun. 30 (News Report)
In its annual report, the central bank for central banks said the impact of rising food and energy prices on consumers' incomes, combined with heavy household debts and a pullback... More »
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Dirty engines from China pollute U.S. air
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jun. 30 (Special Report)
With costly new anti-pollution rules looming for lawn mowers, boat engines and many other small motorized devices, U.S. manufacturers are pressing the government to halt the... More »
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Iraq opens bidding on eight massive oil and gas fields
Associated Press - Jun. 30 (News Report)
the contracts won't be signed for a year, and if Western firms win a dominant role it could feed perceptions that U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein to get at Iraq's natural... More »
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Groundbreaking Lawsuit Accuses Big Oil of Conspiracy to Deceive Public About Climate Change
Democracy Now - Jul. 3 (Interview)
Attorney Stephen Susman helped file a groundbreaking lawsuit earlier this year on behalf of 400 Inupiat villagers in the Alaskan town of Kivalina who are being forced to relocate... More »
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The Raw Story - Wall Street to begin July on shaky ground
Raw Story - Jun. 30 (News Report)
EW YORK -- The year is nearly halfway over, and Wall Street appears to be on even shakier ground than when it began 2008. And this shortened week ahead of the Fourth of July... More »
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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers
New York Times - Jun. 30 (Blog Post)
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after... More »
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Slowing down solar
Newsday - Jun. 28 (Opinion)
Solar energy developers and some environmentalists suggest the move smacks of heel dragging. They question the eagerness to slow down solar development while demand is... More »
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Subprime Mess: Who pays? We do
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jun. 26 (Editorial)
It seems beyond wrong that the purchase of Countrywide -- at the expense of taxpayers, no less -- would bring profits to Bank of America even as so many of its mortgage holders... More »
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Labor Must Battle Racism to Elect Obama
TruthOut - Jul. 3 (Opinion)
The United Steelworkers union is holding its annual convention this week. Union conventions in presidential election years invariably deal with presidential politics, and this one... More »
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Former UBS executive sheds light on shady dealings with wealthy clients
Talking Points Memo - Jul. 1 (Blog Post)
As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the former UBS executive, Bradley Birkenfeld, has shed light on the shady dealings of UBS with its wealthiest clients... More »