LSO representatives determined for maintaining exemplary peace of Chitral at each cost. One day LSO convention concluded. CHITRAL: A one-day LSO convention was held here in a local hotel organized by Aga Khan rural Support Program (AKRSP) supported by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Farid Ahmad Manager institutional development explained aim and objectives of […]
Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake
Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies. Today, at least 25 of those key players are back, but this time they’re lobbyists, trying to persuade their former colleagues to protect the lucrative […]
Obama Meets With Iraq’s al Maliki: Restates Bush’s 2010-2011 Timetable For Troop Withdrawals
The AP reported today that in a meeting with Iraq’s president, Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Obama reiterated the terms of the agreement reached in the last 100 days of the Bush Administration for American troop withdrawals beginning in August of next year. Although this agreement got little press with Americans diverted by the U.S. elections and […]
Why Many Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Released Are Still Stuck There
This story was co-published with Slate [1]. Read our summary of the judge’s remarkable ruling [2], which we’ve also posted in full [3]. When President Obama took office and ordered [4] the detention center at Guantanamo closed by next January, the biggest challenge was supposed to be the hard cases [5]. Those were the ones […]
Gas Execs Call for Disclosure of Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
Figure 5-3, ‘Sample Fracture Fluid Composition by Weight’, as seen in the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on natural gas drilling by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Mineral Resources Two prominent gas industry executives have directly addressed one of the key environmental concerns surrounding the expansion of natural gas […]
America in Collapse, Mile Marker 1: Anarchy Is Here
I am Anarchy. I speak not my truth, only yours. My name is Liar. And with that introduction — with its in-your-face immediacy — we find our feet firmly implanted at Mile Marker 1 on the first leg of our enjoined journey along America in Collapse. We sought all of this out, however unconscious that […]
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