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French elections increase European crisis drama
June 21, 2012The French elections June 17 produced a decisive victory for President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party.
Read moreCanada may fast-track Big Oil at expense of environment
June 20, 2012Activists and critics alike are outraged at the Canadian government's recent decision to drastically downsize its environmental assessment process.
Read moreAt G-20, union leaders make the case for jobs not austerity
June 20, 2012Union leaders, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, delivered the strong message that "austerity does not work," and only makes things worse for workers, to the G-20 leaders of the industrialized world, meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Read moreGreek left misses winning by a hair
June 20, 2012Greece held a new election to correct the fact that in the last one, voters split their votes in such a way as to make the formation of a governing majority impossible.
Read moreCanada, bowing to oil companies, fires ocean scientists
June 12, 2012After massive layoffs at Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, leading ocean scientists - and the environment itself - will suffer the consequences.
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