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Clones, Supercomputers and Robots

As "nanotechnologists" strive to build self-replicating atomic-size machines, there are already numerous -- oft disturbing -- examples of the merging of technology and nature. One of these is a machine...

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Fireworks: Breathtaking ... and Deadly

This Fourth of July, ask yourself: Is 15 minutes of pyrotechnic entertainment worth poisoning the earth?In the final December of the 20th century, environmentalists in Sweden, Germany and Australia...

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The Silence of the Bombs

Despite nearly four years of punishing air attacks by U.S. and British bombers, Saddam Hussein has neither threatened to use nor used any weapons of mass destruction.George W. Bush repeatedly insists...

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A Nuclear Nightmare in Baghdad

The photographs of the cancer-blistered faces of dying Iraqi children serve as a gruesome testimony to the nuclear fallout of U.S. bombing in the Gulf War"The United States has conducted two nuclear...

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Shock and Awe: Guernica Revisited

If George W. Bush gets the war he wants, Baghdad could become the 21st century's Guernica.Forget Osama. Forget Saddam. The Pentagon's newest target is the city of Baghdad.U.S. military strategists have...

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The Noble American Traditon of Tax Resistance

You've heard about Thoreau, but there are plenty of other celebrity war tax resisters who have made America great.If you ask the average citizen to identify a famous American war-tax resister, most...

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Time for a Green Geneva Convention

The health and security of our environment should be a fundamental part of a long-lasting peace policy.War is humanity's deadliest pastime. From 500 BC to AD 2003 more than 1,000 major wars have burned...

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The Toilet That Can Help Solve Our Water and Energy Problems

There is a 'toilet revolution' taking shape -- and it may be coming just in time.Upwards of 3 million people die annually from diarrhea, dysentery, and parasitic diseases -- all for the want of clean...

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Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality

Not only is our economy out of balance with nature, our economy is also out of balance with the practical limits of physical and fiscal reality. America is currently engaged in the most expensive...

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Frankenstorms and the Fukushima Factor: More Than 20 Nuclear Power Plants Are...

Nuclear reactors are barely mentioned when disaster preparedness agencies begin issuing storm warnings. Here's why this is a big mistake.   As Hurricane Sandy barreled towards the Northeastern US, 60...

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How the Government Is Pinching Pennies and Cutting Corners When it Comes to...

It appears the lessons from Fukushima have not been learned.This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake and 45-foot-high tsunami...

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The Pentagon Is a Massive, Unacknowledged Threat to the Global Climate

One of the largest contributors to global warming has no intention of agreeing to reduce its pollution.During the November 15 Democratic Presidential Debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sounded an...

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