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By Eric Talmadge / Associated Press Decades after it ended, the conflict is still giving up thousands of explosives, mortars and pieces of live ammunition—virtually all American.

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By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt The state is teetering on bankruptcy and others are not far behind, largely because of unfunded pension liabilities. But solutions exist.

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network As the heat rises, output flags. European scientists have measured every second of a working day as vineyard temperatures affect grape pickers.

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet Does anyone really think corporate profiteers are going to educate our children well?

By Chris Hedges The Christian right, which for decades has been laying the foundation for a fascism disguised as religious, is swiftly filling the president’s ideological vacuum. (Above, Trump with the Rev. Pat Robertson.)

A woman holds a sign supporting the Affordable Care Act at a February rally outside the White House in Washington, D.C. (Ted Eytan / Flickr)(CC-BY-SA) In their bids to pass health care legislation, or possibly to repeal the Affordable Care Act with the intention of replacing it later, Senate Republicans have apparently pulled off a stunt their Democratic counterparts couldn’t manage: They’ve made the legislation known as Obamacare popular among a majority of Americans. The New York Times reports... Читать дальше...

By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica The U.S. military burns millions of pounds of munitions in a tiny, African-American corner of Louisiana. The town’s residents, including Frankie McCray (pictured), say they’re forgotten in the toxic plume.

By David Daley / AlterNet The American Legislative Exchange Counsel has drafted “model legislation” that would empower gerrymandered legislatures to choose senators for us.