Open Letter to Sherrod Brown
by Bob Sheak, Athens Ohio
Concerning Fracking and other matters
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The Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize
by David Swanson
Alfred Nobel's will, written in 1895, left funding for a prize to be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
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A Banquet Feasts on Yingluck's Troubles in Thailand
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After guests toasted a princess during a royal banquet inside the Grand Palace, dinner talk turned to Thailand's troubled, five-month-old government, stumbling from crisis to crisis, including its newest decision which places one of its cabinet members in the cross-hairs of the U.S. Treasury Department.
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• Roe turns 30: Columbus protests
• "Snowed in in Seattle": A plea for peace to the White House
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