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The Dangers of Nuclear Energy and the Need to Close Vermont Yankee

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:50 Frank Joseph Smecker
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Photo: Andy Duback/Greenpeace
With nuclear energy, uranium atoms split inside a reactor, and radiation heats water to its boiling point creating steam to spin a giant turbine. It all seems like ingenious, efficient, and clean energy production. So where's the mess? Now consider plutonium, a horribly carcinogenic and highly fissionable substance, radioactive for more than half a million years. If exposed to air, it will ignite. Like little pieces of confetti, very fine plutonium particles will disperse after ignition.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:58
 

Gaza Taxi Drivers, Rumors and Egypt's Steel Wall

Monday, 04 January 2010 13:31 Ramzy Baroud
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Israeli Tanks on Gaza Border
Those pesky taxi drivers of Gaza are always circulating rumors. One story that made the rounds during the first Palestinian uprising in 1987 claimed that an Arab army crossed the Sinai desert to save Palestinians from the daily killings and protracted state of siege which caused untold suffering for civilians. The army in question would change from time to time, but the focus inevitably returned to Egypt.

Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 13:44
 

The Robber Barons of Social Change

Thursday, 25 February 2010 09:24 Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips
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ImageBen & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., the maker of "Vermont's Finest" super-premium ice cream, was one of the feel-good business success stories of the 1990s. In addition to introducing frozen dessert lovers to now-famous flavors such as Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey, the company trumpeted its ability to make money and do good in the world at the same time. It publicized its decisions to buy ingredients from local farms, its refusal to use milk produced with bovine growth hormone, and its commitment to contributing 7.5 percent of all pre-tax profits to an employee-led charitable foundation. As the founders wrote, "We wanted to create a company we could be proud of."

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 09:24
 

Following the Mineral Trail: Congo Resource Wars and Rwanda

Thursday, 18 February 2010 12:23 John Lasker
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Rwandan Soliders in Congo
The Rwandan government and its military have largely been suspected by a UN Panel of Experts, human rights organizations and independent journalists, of financially supporting a number of violent militias that have destabilized the eastern Congo region to illegally traffic millions-of-dollars worth of minerals such as coltan, gold, and cassiterite. These minerals are then brought from neighboring Congo into Rwanda for eventual sale on the international market.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:09
 

An Interview with Charlotte Dennett: Bringing G.W. Bush to Justice

Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:00 Toward Freedom and Charlotte Dennett
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In this interview, author and attorney Charlotte Dennett talks about her new book, The People V. Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way, what led her to run for Vermont state attorney general on a platform to prosecute George W. Bush, the current movement to bring Bush to justice, and connections between the US accountability movement and similar movements around the world.

Last Updated on Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:03
 
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