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Solar Industry Gains Fuel Globally While US Invests in Nuclear Power After Fukushima

A visitor takes photographs of solar moduls in the new solar power park in Lieberose, near Cottbus, eastern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The solar modules were installed on a former military training area. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)? (MintPress) — Solar power is gaining popularity in many nations across the globe, with some countries aiming to […]

Carissa Wyant
Por Carissa Wyant
A visitor takes photographs of solar moduls in the new solar power park in Lieberose, near Cottbus, eastern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. The solar modules were installed on a former military training area. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz)?

(MintPress) — Solar power is gaining popularity in many nations across the globe, with some countries aiming to become completely carbon neutral in the near future. However, the U.S., one of the world’s largest energy consumers, is pumping more money into nuclear power, despite protests that it’s unsafe and does not address environmental

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What Leaving The Euro Really Means For Greece

New Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, right, shakes hands with leader of the Radical Left party Alexis Tsipras during the swearing in ceremony at the Greek parliament in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (GREECE) – A 60-year-old man and his 90-year-old mother jumped together off the roof of their apartment building in central Athens. […]

John Nordin
Por John Nordin
New Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, right, shakes hands with leader of the Radical Left party Alexis Tsipras during the swearing in ceremony at the Greek parliament in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

(GREECE) - A 60-year-old man and his 90-year-old mother jumped together off the roof of their apartment building in central Athens. In what appeared to be a suicide note, the man referenced the financial crisis, and his own illness, as reasons for their decision. (Kathimerini English edition, May 25, 2012). Earlier, reports circulated of two

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New Disclosure Rules For Political Ads Could Take Months

This is a frame grab from a Rick Perry presidential campaign advertisement. Under a proposed FCC rule, media outlets would be required to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. (AP Photo/Perry Presidential Campaign) After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month to require broadcasters to post […]

Justin Elliot
Por Justin Elliot
This is a frame grab from a Rick Perry presidential campaign advertisement. Under a proposed FCC rule, media outlets would be required to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. (AP Photo/Perry Presidential Campaign)

After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month to require broadcasters to post online political ad data currently kept only on paper at the stations. Yet it’s unclear when the data — which will provide a detailed picture of campaign and super PAC ad spending — will actually begin to be posted. The

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Analysis: How Obama Changed Definition Of ‘Civilian’ In Secret Drone Wars

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Listening in back are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, right. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool) Two US reports published today provide significant insights into President Obama’s personal and controversial role in the escalating […]

Chris Woods
Por Chris Woods
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Listening in back are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, right. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Two US reports published today provide significant insights into President Obama’s personal and controversial role in the escalating covert US drone war in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. In a major extract from Daniel Klaidman’s forthcoming book Kill Or Capture, the author reveals extensive details of how secret US drone strikes have evolved under

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Police Look For Witnesses Of Face-Chewing Attack

A City of Miami police officer stands watch near the scene where a naked man, far right, was shot dead on the MacArthur Causeway ramp onto Northeast 13th Street in Miami on Saturday, May 26, 2012. A witness said the naked man continued to chew on the face of another naked man on a Miami […]

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A City of Miami police officer stands watch near the scene where a naked man, far right, was shot dead on the MacArthur Causeway ramp onto Northeast 13th Street in Miami on Saturday, May 26, 2012. A witness said the naked man continued to chew on the face of another naked man on a Miami highway ramp and growled when a police officer tried to stop him. The victim remained hospitalized Monday. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Marsha Halper)

Authorities in Miami are looking for more witnesses after a police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man — even after being shot once by the officer — on a busy downtown highway ramp. Detective William Moreno said police are looking for people to fill in the blanks on what led to the grisly

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Analysis: Europe Takes A Step Into The Abyss

A woman walks past a destroyed building in central Athens on Monday Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis) The markets are expecting a politically rudderless Greece to exit from the euro within weeks, if not days. An economic storm to make 2008’s bank collapse feel like a mild shower is now increasingly likely. For four […]

Nick Mathiason
Por Nick Mathiason
A woman walks past a destroyed building in central Athens on Monday Feb. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

The markets are expecting a politically rudderless Greece to exit from the euro within weeks, if not days. An economic storm to make 2008’s bank collapse feel like a mild shower is now increasingly likely. For four years, European leaders have been staring into the abyss. Co-ordinated European spending cuts triggered rampant unemployment in

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