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Week ending Friday February 10, 2012   Do you want to share the news with a friend? Click here to tell your friends about Common Dreams. Readers' Choice / Most Read Views... Bill McKibben: The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard Chris Hedges: The Cancer in Occupy Ira Chernus: Israel vs. Iran: The Truth Slips Out Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: Saul Alinsky, Who? George Monbiot: The Right's Stupidity Spreads, Enabled by a Too-Polite Left Ralph Nader: Can Democrats Landslide Republicans? Mike Prokosch: 'Starve the Beast' -- The Pentagon Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: If You Want to Fight Cancer, Turn Those Pink Ribbons Green Bill Quigley: Occupying Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power Harvey Wasserman: We May Yet Lose Tokyo… Not to Mention Alaska… and Now Georgia, Too Readers' Choice / Most Read News... Monsanto, Agent Orange Creator, Returns To Vietnam Monsanto ready to sell GM crops and weed-killing chemicals in Vietnam; Many outraged. 30,000 Domestic Drones to Fill Our Skies, Civil Liberties at Risk FAA Act would raise 'very serious privacy issues'. Scientists: Arctic Melting Contributing to European Freeze Is Climate Change Bringing the Arctic to Europe? Manipulating the Planet: Bill Gates' $$$ Behind Geoengineering Bill Gates among wealthy funding large-scale geoengineering. US Paints False Picture of Afghan War: US Army Officer “I’m going to get nuked,” Officer said in an interview last month. Temperature Soars Inside Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Also: Japan's Nuclear Exclusion Zone Shows Few Signs of Life. Bank Bailout 2: Obama Lets Mortgage Abusers Off the Hook The Obama Administration has followed a predictable pattern: Leave No One Accountable. President Obama Makes 'Accommodation' on Birth Control Policy Women who work for religious institutions that object to offering birth control coverage will get contraception for free, directly from their insurers. 'Hose Streets? Our Streets!' Belgian Firefighters Turn Their Ire (and Hoses) on Austerity Several hundred Belgian firefighters broke through police linesto hose down the prime minister's office in protest at the government's tougher retirement plans. 'Tango Down': CIA Website Hit The hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have taken the CIA's website Friday afternoon. Home About Us Donate Subscribe Archives Common Dreams Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. www.commondreams.org You are subscribed to the Common Dreams Weekly Newsletter as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe.