Tag: Cold War
Wiretap: Greece in crisis
Greek history
The crisis in Greece is about much more than money, writes Robert Kaplan in The Wall Street Journal. It was in Europe's interest...
Wiretap: Obamacare signups exceed 6 million
"In the real world, what counts is how well the law performs, what its strengths and weaknesses prove to be, and what fixes would actually improve things."
Wiretap: Putin’s mad plan to end drone attacks and close Gitmo
How does the "war on terror" end? It could end with the crisis in Ukraine. To quote Secretary of State John Kerry, "what comes after the war on terror is the '19th century.'”
Boulder nuke worker widow scores new hope from Harkin
Boulder resident Bo Fellinger's husband Michael worked with nuclear material at the Ames Laboratory in Iowa during the cold war and died of...
Iowa’s Harkin spurring movement at last on Udall nuke worker bill
Michael Fellenger died in April 2008 of lung failure stemming from his work with nuclear material at the Ames Laboratory in Iowa. His wife...
Udall nuke-worker bill stalls; another widow denied compensation
Boulder resident Bo Fellinger is disgusted. She recently discovered that the Department of Labor yet again denied her husband Michael’s claim to compensation for chronic lung disease. Fellinger doesn't have a good word to say about the department or its Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA). Her husband, a grad student at the Ames Laboratory in Iowa, died of lung failure in 2008 at age 62, his claim shuttled back and forth among bureaucrats for nearly four years.