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Quiet Voices from CGI: Those that Fight the Epic Battle in the Ecuador Rain Forest

Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


Michelle Kraus

As they marshal the forces of good at the Clinton Global Initiative to help alleviate the atrocities leveled against the people and lands of Ecuador, let the games begin.

For Your Health

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy


Jilly Gagnon

While hydration can have both short and long-term health benefits, scientists warn that "no beverages, regardless of what they actually are, should be consumed at either very warm or very cool temperatures."

Who Will Pay for America's Chernobyl

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

Nulear reactor backers got Congress to pass the 1957 Price-Anderson Act to protect utilities from all but a tiny portion of the potential damage. That all melt-down liability on the federal government, meaning you and me.

Cracking the Corporate Media's Iron Curtain Around Death at Three Mile Island

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.02.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

But people did die at Three Mile Island. And it's the "alternative" media that now brings reality to the mainstream.

McCain's Michigan Melt-Down Madness

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power.

McCain, Obama & the Trojan Horse of Nuclear Energy

Steven Crandell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green


Steven Crandell

Under the guise of concern over climate change, some ask us to re-consider our aversion to new nuclear power, ignoring the same old problems that have stopped any plants from being commissioned since 1979.

Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.