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UN votes to continue Afghan aid mission
March 26, 2009Original source: The UN security council has voted unanimously to extend a mission in Afghanistan for a year to lead international civilian efforts to provide aid, promote reconstruction, combat corruption and help improve civilian-military co-operation. The...
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Solitary confinement in US prisons making thousands psychotic
March 26, 2009The United States today is housing tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement, a form of numbing mental torture that drives about one-third of them psychotic, induces irrational anger in 90 percent, and ups...
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Hero pilot tells Congress how airline cut pay, axed pension
March 25, 2009The veteran pilot who saved everyone on board when he glided his crippled plane to a splash landing in the Hudson River last year told Congress, March 24, severe pay cuts are forcing experienced pilots and...
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Obama admin. moves to curb mountaintop mining impacts
March 25, 2009With massive water pollution from coal mining practices much in the news in recent months, the Obama administration this week asked the US Army Corps of Engineers to scrutinize coal mining practices such as mountaintop mining....
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Veils of secrecy lifting in Washington
March 25, 2009NEW YORK, Mar 23 (IPS) - As President Barack Obama’s Justice Department issued sweeping new guidelines to reverse the secrecy policies of former president George W. Bush, a federal judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to...
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