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Foreign infiltration of U.S. uranium industry?
Uranium Producers of America elect executive of Russian-government owned uranium company as President
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Insight New Mexico: Don Hancock
08. April 2013
This week Don Hancock, one of country's leading experts on nuclear waste, discusses the proposed transfer of high-level radioactive waste from the Hanford site in Washington state to the WIPP site in Southern New Mexico.
Continue reading...Brutal and subtle violence
03. April 2013
Vice President Biden was right when he said that the issue of violence against women transcends politics. It was Biden, himself the master politician, however,who authored the l994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and who spurred its reauthorization by Congress last month...
Continue reading...The real “Van”
02. April 2013
As the global capitalist system tumbled over a cliff in the late 1920s, French teenager Jean van Heijenoort took the first steps toward a two-decade career as a professional revolutionary, the crucial part of it at Leon Trotsky’s side. More than 100 years after van Heijenoort was born in 1912, capitalism is in crisis again. But people of his caliber aren’t dedicating their lives to overthrow it.
Continue reading...Insight New Mexico: Richard Fox
01. April 2013
V.B. Price talks with political scientist Richard Fox on Susana Martinez' performance as Governor.
Continue reading...Border workers rally
29. March 2013
Workers in the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso staged demonstrations last week on both sides of the Rio Grande...
Continue reading...Backtracking
28. March 2013
The Central New Mexico Community Collage (CNM) administration must have realized that its impulsive and, as its sister publication the Daily Lobo called it, “authoritarian” censorship and closure of its student newspaper, the Chronicle, had caused them a tsunami of negative PR. It backtracked and reversed itself in a day, returning the confiscated “Sex” edition, reopening the paper for business, and waxing on about how student journalists had to be better trained and overseen.
Continue reading...Social media: Evolving or devolving journalism?
28. March 2013
The orders already are issued: Every reporter henceforth will enlist Twitter, Facebook and other social media to gather and disseminate the news...
Continue reading...Greed and hypocrisy: Ingredients of a foolproof recipe for violence
26. March 2013
Here in the United States, I would argue that the single most influential idea fueling extreme violence is greed. The profit motive. It is every bottom line.
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10. April 2013
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