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By Lee Stanish, Stephen Osborn Can microorganisms help protect our groundwater from contamination by hydraulic fracturing? There is growing concern over the safety of hydraulic

Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a

By Matt Taibi Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America

By Pension Dialog As anticipation mounts that Detroit will file a plan to adjust its debt with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court next week and with

By David Sirota When historians one day sit down to solve the Great American Pension Heist, they will likely focus much of their attention on

Chart Source: Zero Hedge

By Catherine Austin Fitts The Church of England has now announced that they are pulling their endowment investments from companies that do not “play ball”

‘Cos its true what they say It’s better the devil you know” ~ Kylie Minogue By Catherine Austin Fitts As you can see from the

**Note: We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!**

By Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman On an overcast Tuesday morning in dusty North Platte, Nebr., Tony Orr stands at the center