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Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic That Wipes Out Sixty Percent of Those Infected
The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never …
Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us (2)
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence …
Study: More Families Using Food Stamps to Feed Kids
The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As recession-hammered families increase, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to …
California, Here We Come
A number of years ago, when I would travel to California on business with my friend, the late journalist and comedy writer Eliot Wald, we always carved out time …
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I've been writing about unbelievably bad news for more than a decade now, so when the New Year came around this time, I made up my mind to try …
Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence …
Whale Wars: Sea Shepherd Lodges Piracy Charge Against Japanese Whalers
Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society allege piracy following the collision between the antiwhaling ship Ady Gil and Japan's Shonan Maru Number 2 earlier this week. Boston …
Senate’s Tax on High-Cost Health Plans: Democratic Suicide Pact?
A much-vaunted Senate proposal to tax high-cost health plans, once seen as all but inevitable, came under new attacks Wednesday from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, members of the Democratic …
Three Approved GMO’s Linked to Organ Damage
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with …
Army Imprisons Soldier for Singing Against Stop-Loss Policy
Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses …