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Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence (2)
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Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence
A Lasio hair treatment, which releases harmful fumes, is performed by Merita Selmani at Mark Garrison Salon in New York on October 29, 2010. At Garrison's, the procedure, called …
Javier Sicilia: “The United States Imposed This War on Us, It Should Change the Strategy“
Javier Sicilia. (Photo: David Leonardo Gonzalez / Flickr) In an interview with Americas Program director Laura Carlsen, Javier Sicilia called on the U.S. government to change its …
Broken, Not Broke: The Economy According to Richard Wolff
(Photo: Joseph Cote / Flickr) As the ‘great recession’ continues, Economist Richard Wolff says failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different name. Now …
Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: “Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power“
Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)
Hope in Afghanistan: An Interview With Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya. (Photo: AfghanKabul / Flickr) Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga …
“War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace” – an Interview With Zainab Salbi
A recent Women News Network – WNN interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder and President of Women for Women International, which held its annual fundraiser luncheon in New York City …
Dr. Gabor Maté: Obama Administration Should Heed Global Panel’s Call to End “Failed” US-Led Drug War
A high-level international panel has concluded the so-called “war on drugs” has failed and that governments should consider legalizing substances, including marijuana. The Global Commission on Drug Policy is …
Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, US Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux
Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility on April 8, 2008. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh recently published an article in The New Yorker that says …
How Peer Pressure Creates Social Change
People are rarely swayed by information alone. If they were, the cigarette industry would have collapsed when the first Surgeon General's report on smoking came out in 1964, and …