Author: Dean Pajevic

Driving Hybrids Home in Congress

“With even neocon hawks pushing hybrids, it seems like everyone’s a booster for the greener car technology.”But how do House and Senate members’ own rides stack up?” asks Salon’s War Room...

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Bush Hooks One For the Fish Farm Lobby

“Calling fish farming a potential boon for consumers and the economy,” reports the Seattle PI, “the Bush administration yesterday proposed to massively expand the practice to waters as far as 200 miles...

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A Woman’s Modest Proposal

Recently, here at BooTrib, we covered what the U.N. deemed the 10 most under-reported stories. Let’s unofficially feature diaries on women’s issues for the next many days. Send me an e-mail if you’d like your...

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We May End Up With “An Army of One”

The U.S. Army is going all out with TV ads: “U.S. Army. Help Them Find Their Strength.” Then there’s the spiffy Web site that features drum beat audio that I swear mimics the human heartbeat. But, if I had a...

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Contractor Abuse in Iraq

The military has sure learned its lesson from Abu Ghraib! After being detained and jailed for three days in Fallujah, “19 employees of North Carolina-based Zapata Engineering, including 16 Americans,” were released...

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