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Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections
Today’s Super Tuesday primary involves 10 states and 437 delegates at stake for the Republican Party’s presidential prospects. There are two states among that crop that are worth taking …
How the Right’s Smear Machine Started
Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so unspeakably nasty with vitriol pouring forth especially from right-wing voices like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, to …
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Undernutrition and Overnutrition: Who’s Feeding Whom?
We live in a world today where one billion people– that is one in every seven people on the planet – are undernourished. At the same time, more than …
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Financial Markets Are Not Faceless, Their Face Is That of the Oligarchy
L’Humanité interviews the author of la Finance imaginaire, anatomie du capitalisme: des “marchés financiers” à l’oligarchie, Arden publishers (Fantasizing about Finance - an Anatomy of Capitalism: “Financial Markets” or …
Dennis Kucinich: Conscience of the Congress
(Photo: SEIU / Flickr) “Dennis will be back, you can count on it; he’s on the right side of things.” I recall those words from a printer …
University of Arizona Must Live Up to Its Past Actions Against Discrimination
The University of Arizona Campus in Tucson. (Photo: JR P / Flickr) Arizona's premiere research institution in Tucson, the University of Arizona, today finds itself in an …
Physicians in Congress Committing Malpractice on Millions
The sun setting behind a thick layer of air polution. (Photo: D'Arcy Norman / Flickr) What would you think if your physician told you, "Keep smoking because …
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Monsanto’s Roundup Ravaging Butterfly Populations, Study Shows
(Photo: Arturo / Flickr) Monsanto’s Roundup, containing the active ingredient glyphosate, has been tied to more health and environmental problems than you could imagine. Similar to how …
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Big-Money Chamber of Commerce to Impact Elections, Mostly for GOP
(Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr) Washington - For the big-spending U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 2012 election season began extra early with a flurry of hard-hitting issue …
“Public Media” Joins “Gang Greens” in Colluding With Frackers
NPR's serenades to the "natural"(1) gas industry are getting more and more blatant. Let's pick apart some of these egregious transgressions from journalistic integrity. National Petroleum, er, National Public …