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As Newtown’s First Victims Are Buried, Washington Shows Signs of Life in Taking on Gun Lobby; New Town to Newtown: How ’96 Massacre Spurred Gun Laws in Australia — and No Mass Shootings Since; “Americans Kill People”: Michael Moore on Newtown, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Culture of Violence; As NRA Hides From Public After … Continued
“We Can’t Tolerate This Anymore”: Obama Vows Action After Worst Grade School Massacre in U.S. History; Debate: After Newtown, Will Nation’s Worst-Ever Grade School Shooting Spur Tougher Gun Control?; Egypt’s Referendum Clears 1st Round, But Critics Seek Revote After Charges of Rigged Polls. Headlines First Funerals Held for Victims of Newtown Massacre Obama Vows … Continued
Matt Taibbi: After Laundering $800 Million in Drug Money, How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?; Matt Taibbi on the Unfolding Libor Scandal and What Sen. DeMint’s Departure Means for Fractured GOP; Exclusive: Native American Activist Leonard Peltier’s Jailhouse Plea for Long-Denied Clemency; After Rebuff by Clinton, Actor Peter Coyote Joins New Push to Sway Obama … Continued
Michigan GOP Push Through Anti-Union, Elite-Backed “Right-to-Work” Law Before House Majority Shrinks; “Protest Here is Vigorous”: Unrest, Polarization Before Egypt’s Referendum; Charles Glass on Syria’s Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad’s Chemical Weapons. HeadlinesDecember 11, 2012 HSBC to Pay $1.9B in Money-Laundering Case Standard Chartered Bank Fined for Allegedly Flouting U.S. Sanctions … Continued
2012 Nobel Peace Prize Goes to the European Union amid Opposition from Three Former Laureates; Does the EU Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? Critics Condemn Role in Brutal Greek AusterityNorwegian Peace Activist: Top Role in Global Arms Trade Makes EU Unworthy of Nobel Prize; A “Radical Idea” Reversed: Author Says Nobel Committee Has Betrayed Founder’s … Continued
“If Not Now, Then When?”: Filipino Negotiator Pleads for Climate Deal After Typhoon Kills 500; Profiting From Pollution: Top Venezuelan Negotiator on the Economic Motives Behind the Climate Talks; “Your Governments Have Failed You”: Syrian-American Student Munira Sibai Calls For Climate Justice; “The Most Obdurate Bully in the Room”: U.S. Widely Criticized For Role At … Continued
After Deadly Clashes in Cairo, Egypt Faces One of Its Largest Political Crises Since Revolution Began; “We are Running Out of Time”: Obama Urged to Match Rhetoric to Action on Climate Deal; With Future Imperiled, Youth Activists Demand Urgent Action at U.N. Climate Summit in Doha. HeadlinesDecember 6, 2012 Egypt Deploys Tanks Outside Palace … Continued
Amy Goodman Questions Top U.S. Negotiator on Alleged Obstruction of U.N. Climate Talks in Doha; From Small Island States to Largest Polluters, “Everyone is Looking to the U.S.” on Global Warming; “Get It Done”: After Stirring Durban Speech, Student Anjali Appadurai Initially Banned by UN in Doha;From Fossil Fuels to Global Warming Denial, Koch Brothers … Continued
