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More Contractors than Troops Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan This Year

The biggest sacrifice the U.S. can make in Afghanistan is no longer being borne by the military. With contractors by the thousands operating in the war effort, private security are now dying in greater numbers than soldiers in the fight against ...   read more

Since Official End of Recession, U.S. Has Actually Lost Jobs

With a recovery like this, who needs a recession?   According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. economy has officially been out of the Great Recession for 15 months, since things bottomed out in June 2009. But regardless of...   read more

Trial Opens against Chemical Company Accused in Brain Cancer Cluster Case

Chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, has begun defending itself in a Philadelphia courtroom against claims that it is responsible for an outbreak of brain cancer cases in a small town in northern Illinois. The plain...   read more

FDA Says Consumers Have No Right to Know if Salmon are Genetically Modified

If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such.   FDA...   read more

Obama Extends Presidential Emergency Powers for Another Year

It’s been more than nine years since September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government continues to operate under the provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which President George W. Bush first implemented three days after the terrorist attacks o...   read more

Deformed Fish Found Downstream from Oil Sand Project; Next Stop…Utah

Efforts to extract oil from sand pits in Canada may be a harbinger of environmental troubles awaiting Utah if the state goes through with its own oilsands project, which would be the first of its kind in the United States.   In Canada’s Saskatch...   read more

Nuclear Detectors at the Border: Goodbye to $4 Billion

One would think when spending $4 billion to develop new technology that would prevent terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have at least made sure the equipment could fit at ...   read more

America Under Stress—Manhattan Mosque Rallies

With poverty spreading, foreclosures on the rise and unemployment still high, Americans gathered in New York City on September 11, 2010, to protest… the building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. (photos: Aaron Wallechinsky)        ...   read more

U.S. Attacks in Pakistan Reach Record Levels

The United States has stepped up its unmanned aerial assaults in Pakistan this month, launching more missile attacks in September than during any other month since the use of drone aircraft began in 2004.   The Associated Press estimates there...   read more

Obama Prepares Largest Arms Sale Ever…to Saudi Arabia

Selling $60 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia is a win-win deal, according to the Obama administration. The largest weapons deal ever by the U.S. would create more than 70,000 jobs for the stumbling U.S. economy, and it would strengthen ties with ...   read more

Big Winners in a Bad Economy…Military Recruiters

Business is booming for the military in these lean economic times. The four major branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) are “far exceeding their recruiting goals,” according to the Dallas Morning News, which reports ...   read more

Record Increase of Americans Living in Poverty

When income data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau is released for 2009, it’s likely to show the poverty rate jumped to 15% from 13.2% the year before—the single highest increase since the government began recording such information in 1959.  ...   read more

KBR/Halliburton Immune from Prosecution for Cancer Exposure in Iraq

Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR got quite the deal from the Bush administration when it agreed to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure following the 2003 invasion. Not only was it paid millions of dollars for the work, but it was also indemnifie...   read more

9/11 Memorial Photos

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9/11 Victim’s Family Refuses Settlement, Forces Trial on Corporate Responsibility

Unlike the thousands of other families whose loved ones were killed on September 11, 2001, who have settled out of court, the relatives of Mark Bavis are determined to go to trial in order to prove that the terrorist attacks were an avoidable tr...   read more

U.S. Coastal Dead Zones Grow

America’s coastal waters are increasingly becoming “dead zones” for marine life, posing both economic and environmental hazards for the country.   An assessment by federal, state and private scientists assembled by the White House found the nu...   read more
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Top Stories

2689 to 2704 of about 3314 News
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More Contractors than Troops Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan This Year

The biggest sacrifice the U.S. can make in Afghanistan is no longer being borne by the military. With contractors by the thousands operating in the war effort, private security are now dying in greater numbers than soldiers in the fight against ...   read more

Since Official End of Recession, U.S. Has Actually Lost Jobs

With a recovery like this, who needs a recession?   According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. economy has officially been out of the Great Recession for 15 months, since things bottomed out in June 2009. But regardless of...   read more

Trial Opens against Chemical Company Accused in Brain Cancer Cluster Case

Chemical manufacturer Rohm and Haas, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, has begun defending itself in a Philadelphia courtroom against claims that it is responsible for an outbreak of brain cancer cases in a small town in northern Illinois. The plain...   read more

FDA Says Consumers Have No Right to Know if Salmon are Genetically Modified

If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such.   FDA...   read more

Obama Extends Presidential Emergency Powers for Another Year

It’s been more than nine years since September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government continues to operate under the provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which President George W. Bush first implemented three days after the terrorist attacks o...   read more

Deformed Fish Found Downstream from Oil Sand Project; Next Stop…Utah

Efforts to extract oil from sand pits in Canada may be a harbinger of environmental troubles awaiting Utah if the state goes through with its own oilsands project, which would be the first of its kind in the United States.   In Canada’s Saskatch...   read more

Nuclear Detectors at the Border: Goodbye to $4 Billion

One would think when spending $4 billion to develop new technology that would prevent terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would have at least made sure the equipment could fit at ...   read more

America Under Stress—Manhattan Mosque Rallies

With poverty spreading, foreclosures on the rise and unemployment still high, Americans gathered in New York City on September 11, 2010, to protest… the building of an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan. (photos: Aaron Wallechinsky)        ...   read more

U.S. Attacks in Pakistan Reach Record Levels

The United States has stepped up its unmanned aerial assaults in Pakistan this month, launching more missile attacks in September than during any other month since the use of drone aircraft began in 2004.   The Associated Press estimates there...   read more

Obama Prepares Largest Arms Sale Ever…to Saudi Arabia

Selling $60 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia is a win-win deal, according to the Obama administration. The largest weapons deal ever by the U.S. would create more than 70,000 jobs for the stumbling U.S. economy, and it would strengthen ties with ...   read more

Big Winners in a Bad Economy…Military Recruiters

Business is booming for the military in these lean economic times. The four major branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) are “far exceeding their recruiting goals,” according to the Dallas Morning News, which reports ...   read more

Record Increase of Americans Living in Poverty

When income data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau is released for 2009, it’s likely to show the poverty rate jumped to 15% from 13.2% the year before—the single highest increase since the government began recording such information in 1959.  ...   read more

KBR/Halliburton Immune from Prosecution for Cancer Exposure in Iraq

Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR got quite the deal from the Bush administration when it agreed to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure following the 2003 invasion. Not only was it paid millions of dollars for the work, but it was also indemnifie...   read more

9/11 Memorial Photos

                    read more

9/11 Victim’s Family Refuses Settlement, Forces Trial on Corporate Responsibility

Unlike the thousands of other families whose loved ones were killed on September 11, 2001, who have settled out of court, the relatives of Mark Bavis are determined to go to trial in order to prove that the terrorist attacks were an avoidable tr...   read more

U.S. Coastal Dead Zones Grow

America’s coastal waters are increasingly becoming “dead zones” for marine life, posing both economic and environmental hazards for the country.   An assessment by federal, state and private scientists assembled by the White House found the nu...   read more
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