WikiLeaks has circulated around a hundred documents from the US Department of Defense that discuss the procedures to follow with those people being held at the prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo.
Read MoreWe get an update from Arnie Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president who has coordinated projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the country, about safety conditions at Oyster Creek and Indian Point nuclear power plants.
Read MoreThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has acknowledged the massive Sandy storm could impact both coastal and inland nuclear power plants. At least 16 reactors are in the storm’s projected path, including North Anna and Surry in Virginia; Calvert Cliffs in Maryland; Oyster Creek, Hope Creek and Salem in New Jersey; Indian Point in New York; Millstone in Connecticut; and Vermont Yankee.
Read MoreMuch of the East Coast is shut down today as residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could impact up to 50 million people from the Carolinas to Boston. The storm has already killed 66 people in the Caribbean, where it battered Haiti and Cuba.
Read MoreAt least 12 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in series of Israeli air strikes against Palestinian communities in the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, Egypt is trying to mediate a truce between Israel and Hamas to stop the bloodshed, these stories and more, coming up.
Read MoreIn the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor, Noam Chomsky.
Read MoreIn the wake of a dramatic increase in deaths at the hands of U.S Border Patrol agents, the Department of Homeland Security has agreed to launch a long-awaited investigation into the agency’s use of force.
Read MoreOn Election Day November 4th, California voters will decide on Proposition 37, which would make their state the first in the nation to require the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Read MoreTropical Storm Sandy is gaining in strength and poses a direct hit threat to Jamaica and the eastern half of Cuba, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Tuesday morning.
Read MoreThe new documentary, “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal,” chronicles Abu-Jamal’s life and work as a journalist, writer and public intellectual, even as he spent some 30 years on death row in Pennsylvania.
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