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Archives for August 2013

Fracking Oil: Like Normal Oil, But Just A Bit More Highly Explosive?

Officials say chemicals from the fracking process may have led to last month’s deadly train explosion that vaporized dozens of Québecois.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

When a train carrying 72 cars of North Dakota oil derailed in Quebec July 6, killing 47 people and destroying a small community, the attention focussed on what went wrong on the rails. Yet a new railway-sponsored investigation is indicating the concern should have been directed at the substances found inside the oil tankers. Montreal, Maine and

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Gun-Toting Women Are On The Rise

New survey results indicate one in five shooters in the U.S. is now female.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

Young women are emerging as the new face of gun ownership in the U.S., with a new survey indicating young females are taking up arms now more than ever, comprising one out of every five shooters in the country. The National Shooting Sports Foundation report, released this month, indicates women between the ages of 18 and 34 are purchasing guns at

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Strange Bedfellows: Socialists And Libertarians

On foreign policy, immigration and civil liberties, the two have more in common than they think.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Pictured, a tax day protest in St. Paul, Minn. Libertarians and socialists make for strange bedfellows, but bedfellows nonetheless, argues the author. (Photo/Fibonacci Blue via Flickr)

The author Ayn Rand, who considered herself an adamant defender of capitalism, once described libertarians as the “hippies of the right.” “I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called ‘hippies of the right,’ who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers

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Is Lebanon On The Brink?

Syria-fueled internal divisions coupled with an increasingly tense border with Israel threaten Lebanon’s fragile peace.

Patrick O. Strickland
By Patrick O. Strickland

Following a sharp uptick in violence in Beirut and Tripoli in recent weeks, Lebanon threatens to descend into complete instability. Coupled with the country’s already fragile sectarian divides, the ongoing crisis in Syria is stoking tensions in Lebanon and recalling a violent past. Droves of Lebanese Sunnis have joined the Free Syrian Army and

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Landowners Shorted Billions In Fracking Revenue From Oil Companies

Pennsylvania residents leasing land the fracking companies report far less payment than they had been promised.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

“They said you’re going to be a millionaire in a couple of years, but none of that has happened,” said Don Feusner, an owner of a dairy cattle farm in Northern Pennsylvania. “I guess we’re expected to just take whatever they want to give us.” Like many landowners in Pennsylvania, Feusner was promised generous royalties from the natural gas wells

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Is A Hacker-Turned-Informant Helping The FBI Spy On Foreign Countries?

Another delay for the sentencing of former Anonymous hacker Sabu Monsegur is raising questions about his true role.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

At 10 a.m. August 23, sentencing for Anonymous hacker Hector “Sabu” Monsegur -- which was scheduled for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York -- was adjourned without explanation. Monsegur has become an old hand with these delays, as his sentencing has been delayed multiple times -- the previous delay was in

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