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Agribusiness Genetically Tampering With Our Food
Jim Hightower: What are we to do about corporate powers that are so avaricious and arrogant that they're willing to tamper with our food supply, our kids' minds and …
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Howard Zinn Would Not Have Been Surprised by Occupy
Mathew Rothschild: And like John Lennon, Howard Zinn wasnu2019t afraid to call himself a dreamer.
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DoD Report Confirms Interrogators Pulled “Deliberate Ruse” on Jose Padilla; Convinced Him Flu Shot Was “Truth Serum“
In 2006, a lawyer for convicted terrorist Jose Padilla made an explosive claim in a federal court filing: the enemy combatant was given drugs against his will, believed to …
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Midwest Drought May Spark Food Inflation
Experts warn it could mean higher costs for everything from a hamburger to a gallon of milk in the months ahead.
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National Reconnaissance Office Accused of Illegally Collecting Personal Data
The office is so intent on extracting confessions that officials have rewarded polygraphers with cash bonuses.
After $9 Billion in Losses, JPMorgan Still Wins With Co-Opted Congress, Hobbled Volcker Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) current budget of $1.32 billion is dwarfed by the $4 billion to $9 billion JPMorgan Chase may ultimately lose through disastrous gambling on …
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EXCLUSIVE: DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others “Chemically Restrained“
Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that
Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception?
But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as …
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Suffocating Austerity: The West’s Folly in Greece Repeats Old Patterns
The troika's attack on Greek sovereignty recalls the devastation of the Fourth Crusade, but there is an honorable way to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …