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If you’re wondering why LA mayor Eric Garcetti has refused to speak out against looming water rate and tax hikes on Los Angeles ratepayers to fund Governor Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels, it may have something to do with the fact that he’s receiving...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Oct 09, 2017 at 01:03 PM PDT
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How would you like to go to a rigged water conference sponsored by big water agencies and corporate interests for the benefit of big water agencies and corporate interests?
If that’s what you crave, you’ll have your chance when the Public Policy...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Sep 07, 2017 at 04:04 PM PDT
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This is going to be a short diary because the story Im trying to pass on speaks for itself, please goto The Nation. com and read the following The case that blew the lid off the World Banks secret ...
by prwsag52
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on Wed May 06, 2015 at 05:04 PM PDT
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No amount of protest is going to stop the USA from joining in on the Trans-Pacific Parnership. It's a done deal, with a few details to work out. Here's what I found today.
Today I found reference ...
by War on Error
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on Wed Oct 09, 2013 at 09:25 AM PDT
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Hanford's Radwaste Tanks Leaking & Explosive, Waste Treament Plant Unsafe: Whistleblowers Vindicated The Hanford, Washington High-Level Waste Facility viewed from the Pretreatment Facility.
The highly radioactive dregs of WWII and cold war bomb-making continue to ...
by FishOutofWater
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on Fri Apr 05, 2013 at 10:03 AM PDT
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By Beverly Bell
May 14, 2012
Welcome to Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives. The series features twelve alternative social and economic models which expand the ...
by Bev Bell
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on Mon May 14, 2012 at 02:40 PM PDT
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Tomorrow, January 20th, Occupy Wall Street West , a production of Occupy San Francisco and fifty plus associated groups, does what lots of ...
by jpmassar
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on Thu Jan 19, 2012 at 10:04 AM PST
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Of all the Orwellian inside-out euphemisms of the Conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Republicans, perhaps none of them can match -- for sheer audacity or sheer perversion of meaning -- the GOP’s ...
by Keith Olbermann
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on Thu Sep 23, 2010 at 12:16 AM PDT
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by CityLightsLover
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on Wed Sep 22, 2010 at 06:43 PM PDT
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In the third installment of the series, FC&B compares the precarious situations of the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia to a global Mexican Standoff due to late 20th century US foreign policy. ...
by Free Chicken and Beer
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on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 04:03 PM PDT
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The right wing financial and political masterminds behind the 1989 US invasion of Panama are exposed in this commentary. FC&B analyzes the Corporatocracy's direct involvement in 20th century Latin ...
by Free Chicken and Beer
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on Sat Sep 05, 2009 at 02:33 PM PDT
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We can be excused our happiness for so many reasons, not the least being that just in his first week President Obama is proving to be just the leader we've expected. Jubilation's easy to come by ...
by DeppityBob
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on Tue Jan 27, 2009 at 08:44 AM PST
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As the Iraq war winds down, republican insiders have one question that has been driving them.
"How do we keep the gravy train going?"
by fractal
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on Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 10:50 AM PDT
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John McCain has declared war on "earmarks." The bombing will start in five minutes. Following that, there will be a surge of enormous proportions. General Petraeus will lead the charge. It will ...
by mojave mike
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on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 06:37 AM PDT
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Good on you son, get that bad man and fix all your sins before you waltz into that sunset. Everything will be peaches and cream if you can just get that one bad man, your legacy assured.
All the ...
by Strephon
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on Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 09:17 PM PDT
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On August 28th, Bill Tchakirides wrote a diary recommending everyone take the time to read a Rolling Stones article by Matt Taibi, "
by PoliticAl2008
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on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 11:13 AM PDT
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Matt Taibi in Rolling Stone has written a thorough and maddening article on the billions of dollars that OUR OWN FELLOW CITIZENS have stolen from us as contractors in Iraq. And the government has ...
by Bill Tchakirides
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on Tue Aug 28, 2007 at 10:20 AM PDT
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I have long believed that the invasion and occupation of Iraq represented, not the signal failure of the BushCheney administration, but rather the successful realization of the right wing ...
by occams hatchet
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on Sat Aug 25, 2007 at 01:38 PM PDT
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It is time to withdraw...the contractors and mercenaries.
There are hundreds of thousands of them. ...
by RedDan
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on Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 10:14 PM PDT
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Tonight my daughter and I drove down a street in our town where a small bog has developed on a rare patch of spare land. The weather is warm -- the first warm day in two weeks -- and the bog is ...
by JuliaAnn
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on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 05:25 AM PDT
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