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Gun 'Background Check' on Pentagon

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

Stringent "background checks" are central to many proposals for curbing gun violence. The following is a background check on the nation's largest buyer of firearms.

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Cruising The Off-Beat Caribbean

Bob Schulman | Posted 04.14.2013 | Travel

Read More: Grenada, St. Lucia, Bequia, St. Vincent, International Travel, Caribbean Cruising. Windstar Cruises, Barbados, Grenadines, Tobago Cays, Mayreau, Caribbean Cruise Activities, Travel News

Several passengers head off to the Cays' iconic Horseshoe Reef, a long, shallow strip of coral known as one of the best snorkeling spots in the Caribbean.

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It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's...Kirani James?

AP | Posted 08.11.2012 | World

Read More: Antiqua, Video, Kirani James, London Olympics, Grenada, Kirani James Name Plane, Kirani James Plane, London, London Olympics 2012, World News

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...Kirani James? The prime minister of Antigua says he wants Caribbean airline LIAT to name o...

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10 Sure Signs America Is in Decline

David Macaray | Posted 08.27.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Estonia, Grenada, Suicide Rates, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Obesity, Titanic, The Kardashians, Comedy News

Washington survived Valley Forge, Kennedy survived PT-109, Reagan survived a gun shot. And our commander-in-chief passes out from eating a pretzel. Who can deny that our best days are behind us?

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Grenada Gravedigging To Solve Cold War Mystery

AP | DAVID McFADDEN | Posted 08.08.2012 | World

Read More: Gravedigging, Maurice Bishop, Grenada Cold War, Grenada Murder, Grenada, Maurice Bishop Murder, US Grenada Invasion, Cold War, St-Georges-Grenada, Grenada Coup, World News

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — A haunting Cold War mystery is getting a fresh look on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials are trying to lo...

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PHOTOS: Grenada's Underwater Museum

Caribbean Travel + Life | Posted 11.14.2011 | Travel

Read More: Underwater Art, International Destinations, Slidepollajax, Snorkeling, Caribbean Travel, Grenada, Scuba, Gotta See This, Destinations, Travel News

It's common for a sunken ship or an assortment of discarded building materials to serve as the base for an artificial reef, but a sculpture garden? In...

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Tourist Carves Initials Into The Alhambra

AP | DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 10.31.2011 | Travel

Read More: Moor, Alhambra, Europe Travel, Moors, Grenada, Spain, Europe, Spain Travel, Tourist, Travel News

MADRID — An official at Spain's Alhambra palace says a Jordanian tourist was caught carving his initials with a coin into a wall of the complex ...

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BlackAtlas.com: 7 Winter Getaways To Book Now

Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 10.01.2011 | Black Voices

Read More: Lake Tahoe, Cancun, Montreal, Bv-Life, Rio De Janeiro, Slidepollajax, Grenada, Getaways, Disney World, Winter, Los Cabos Mexico, New York City, Black Voices News

Let's face it: We can be a hard bunch to please. Don't think so? Just take a look at your Facebook news feed and you're likely to encounter a bevy of ...

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The Reagan and Obama "Doctrines" vs. the State Department

Allan Gerson | Posted 06.06.2011 | World

Read More: Libya, Ronald Reagan, Military Intervention, Mek, United Nations Security Council, Humanitarian Crisis, Grenada, Iran, The State Department, Obama Doctrine, World News

In considering the response of President Obama and the State Department to the Libya crisis, immediate parallels to Ronald Reagan's Grenada experience come to mind.

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Reagan's Progressive Foreign Policy

Lawrence Korb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Communism, Lebanon, Ronald Reagan, National Security, Donald Rumsfeld, Grenada, Soviet Union, Iraq War, Reagan, George W. Bush, Reaganomics, Foreign Policy, Politics News

I received an email asking how someone who served in the Reagan administration could now work at a progressive think tank. The answer is pretty simple.

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A Ray of Light in China? EPA Administrator Attempts to Defuse Climate Standoff

Corbin Hiar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

The climate talks in Tianjin last week did very little to improve the prospects for a binding international treaty, which would reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming the globe.

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8 Secret Caribbean Hotels (PHOTOS)

Jetsetter.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel

Read More: Bahamas, Caribbean, Islands, Barbados, Grenada, British Virgin Islands, Celebrity, Turks and Caicos, Nevis, Slidepollajax, Travel News

Before you know it, it's going to be that time of year again -- when the novelty of chillier weather wears off and suddenly you find yourself cold, a ...

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Kids Reenact Grenada Invasion At Reagan Library

Wall Street Journal | TAMARA AUDI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Grenada, Reagan Library, Kids Grenada Invasion, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

Locked in a war room with military officials shouting at each other about the impending invasion of Grenada, Gen. John Vessey, President Ronald Reagan...

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WHILE I AM WAITING

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Haiti, Puerto Rico, Grenada, Home News

Room Eight New York Politics (www.r8ny.com) is the blog site where one of my Puerto-Rican brothers in activism (Manny Burgos) promised an early respon...

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Click and Its Relevance to Inter-Country Relations

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Friendship, Mexican-Americans, Proximity Talks, Panama, Mexico, War, Grenada, Canada, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Philippines, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Vietnam War, Korean War, Somalia, Politics News

Ori and Rom Brafman's new book Click: The Magic of Instant Connections raises a number of interesting observations concerning why some people are able...

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Grenada Man Hauls Bucket Of Human Heads To Police

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Grenada, Human Heads, Grenada News, World News

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — A Grenada man with two severed human heads in a bucket walked into a precinct station and presented his haul to horrifie...

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Tourists Stranded By Ash Cloud Give Caribbean Economic Boost

AP | DANICA COTO | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: UK, Ash Cloud, Trinidad Tobago, Caribbean, Grenada, Airports, Iceland, Volcano Ash Cloud, Flights, Puerto Rico, Tourism, Antigua, Eyjafjallajokull, Barbados, Europe, World News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An ash-spewing volcano in Iceland has given the Caribbean an unexpected economic boost, causing some hotels to fill up w...

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Will We Ever Learn? America's Invasion of Grenada

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Maurice Bishop, Obama Afghanistan, Eric Matthew Gairy, Grenada, Bernard Coard, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Mr. President, what catastrophes will you accept in Afghanistan? Huge numbers of deaths and injuries to our personnel and non-combatants? Perhaps leav...

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Island Nations Fight For Survival At Climate Talks

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Grenada, Copenhagen 2009, Islands Climate Change, Low Lying Islands, Tuvalu, Video, Gabriel London, Olivia Zaleski, Green News

COPENHAGEN — Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on globa...

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Around the World in 18 Days

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Maldives, Antigua, Tonga, Grenada, Seychelles, Home News

Worldfocus producer Megan Thompson is traveling the globe to report on the effects of climate change on small island nations. Megan will tak...

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Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done Campaign Spotlights China And Grenada (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Gabriel London, Video, Copenhagen 2009, Don't Tell US It Can't Be Done, Olivia Zaleski, Grenada, China Copenhagen, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Green News

There are so many pieces to the puzzle of what is happening at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. As countries come to the ta...

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President Obama and the Americas: Beyond the Trinidad Summit

Abraham Lowenthal | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Politics, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Summit of the Americas, Mexico, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Colombia, Grenada, Brazil, Panama, Haiti, Argentina, Bolivia, World News

Navigating the next stages in the U.S.-Cuba relationship will be complex, for both sides have to overcome years of distrust, mutual hostility and propaganda.

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Morgan Freeman on Disaster Preparedness

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Hurricanes, Fema, Natural Disasters, Morgan Freeman, Environment, Grenada, Coastal Flooding, Hurricane Katrina, Sierra Club, Batman, Green News

Sierra spoke with Freeman about PlanIt Now, a nonprofit he founded after Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada in 2004 that works to help people in the Gulf Coast and Caribbean ready their families and businesses for big storms.

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