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Progress on Texas Wind Energy Jobs

By Natasha Chart
November 20, 2009

The dispute over whether or not a Texas wind farm receiving federal subsidies would source its components from a Chinese manufacturer has come to a more agreeable solution, with the partnering companies agreeing to open a 1,000 person turbine factory in the US more »

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Easy Choices

By Terrance Heath
November 20, 2009

Whether the Stupak amendment ends up in the final health care reform bill or is replaced by the more moderate compromises in the Senate bill, both the passage of the amendment and the almost immediate response that women and pro-choice progressives should "take one for the team" hold a lesson and a warning for both progressives and Democrats.

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Will Health Care Be Saved at the 11th Hour?

By Michael Tomasky
From guardian.co.uk
November 20th, 2009

guardian.co.uk — Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on health care reform, the Democrats who refuse to show their cards face a political paradox.

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Obama’s Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School

By Eric Lotke
November 19, 2009

President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we’re getting schooled. more »

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The GOP's No-Exit Strategy

By E.J. Dionne
From washingtonpost.com
November 19th, 2009

washingtonpost.com — Democrats in the Senate — the House is not the problem — need to have a long chat with themselves and decide whether they want to engage in an act of collective suicide. But it's also time to start paying attention to how Republicans, with Machiavellian brilliance, have hit upon what might be called the Beltway-at-Rush-Hour Strategy, aimed at snarling legislative traffic to a standstill so Democrats have no hope of reaching the next exit.

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California: A Civilisation In Decline

By Shane Goldmacher
From latimes.com
November 19th, 2009

latimes.com — "There is no more to cut from our schools," California Teachers Assn. President David Sanchez said Tuesday. "There is no more meat on this bone. . . . The next step is amputation."

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Dramatic Rise in Pesticide Use on GM Crops Due to the new Resistant Weeds

From truefoodnow.org
November 18th, 2009

truefoodnow.org — Geneticaly modified nightmare on its way.

Based upon data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), report author Dr. Charles Benbrook presents compelling evidence linking the increase in pesticide use on GE, “herbicide-tolerant” (HT) crops to the emergence and spread of herbicide-resistant weeds.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Finally

By Robert Borosage
November 18, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets it. No wonder she drives the wingnuts batty.

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Responding To Climate Change By Speeding Job Creation

By Natasha Chart
November 17, 2009

From Bloomberg, we learn how China is pushing an ambitious domestic clean economy agenda, planning large scale projects that will keep their citizens employed and civil unrest at bay. more »

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Welcome home, war

From atimes.com
November 17th, 2009

atimes.com — In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Barack Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W Bush.

This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could "reverberate for generations", warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. "...these (are) but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the "war on terror" has planted on American soil. Yet surprisingly few Americans seem aware of the toll that this already endless war has taken on our civil liberties... "

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