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Cheney | Linked to Conceiling Terror Program

Is anyone really surprised? The precedent already exists for Cheney's advocacy of torture, as well as the Bush administration's proclivity to concealing information on torture and counterterrorism techniques, one can only surmise what the actions of this concealed program may have been. If concealed, that suggests either torture techniques or a specialized covert military operation. [...]
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Robert Redford Speaks Out | University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher Disrupts an Oil and Gas Drilling Auction

This land is our land, this land is your land...and sometimes, creating a disruption is doing the right thing. Democracy Now! interviews:
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Biden | White House and US Hospitals Reach Deal

This announcement has no substance. Biden speaks about efficiencies and providing quality care, with few details and numerous vague references to healthcare reform. "Folks, it's coming [...] healthcare reform that is deficit neutral." Fantastic. But how about healthcare reform that works? How about healthcare reform that places health first foremost, and not Big Pharma profits? Because [...]
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Will Allen Grows on the Media

Will Allen runs Growing Power, Inc. in Milwaukee, WI, a nonprofit empowering people by teaching them to grow their own safe, healthy, sustainable foods. He recently garnered attention from FastCompany, making their 2009 list of the 100 most creative people for the work he's done to transform the relationship between lower-income people and local food. Now Mr. [...]
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Iran Says British Embassy Workers Will Go on Trial

Claiming Embassy workers incited Iranian citizens to violence, Ayatollah Jannati of Iran's Guardian Council says that British Embassy workers will be put on trial.
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North Korea test-fires 6 Ballistic Missiles

South Korean officials, France 24, and Reuters are reporting on North Korea, who fired 6 test missiles Saturday in what many believe is a sad attempt by North Korea to show its might in the face of the US Independence Day Holiday. North Korea fired six ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in [...]
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US Marines capture Afghan district in major anti-Taliban offensive | Marine Dies

Jerome Starkey, GRN Correspondent for France24, reports:
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