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Contra-Cocaine Was a Real Conspiracy
The New York Magazine's mocking the proven Contra-cocaine scandal as a u201cconspiracy theory
The American Heart Association—Protecting Industry Not Patients
The American Heart Association continues to take massive from donations from non government sources and let their research be swayed by their investors.
A Victory for Diplomacy
President Obamau2019s failure to follow this doctrine, at least in the case of Iran, has made him a target for these warmongers.
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” in the Minimum Wage Fight
“Think globally, act locally,” has been the philosophy that many minimum wage fighters have been adopting in their fight for a living wage.
ALEC’s Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014
The American Legislative Exchange Council meets in Washington, DC this week for its “States and Nation Policy Summit,” which is one of the ways ALEC crafts and pushes its …
The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Organizations that received u201csubstantialu201d funding from Google for the first time over the past year include Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union …
Gaza is Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, but something far more sinister is brewing.
Chris Hedges | The Saboteurs
Wiebo Ludwig, the first man to wage a significant war against fracking was also a fundamentalist Christian.
Dean Baker | Everyday Low Wages at Walmart: Brought to You by Government Policy
Forced to go on government assistance, Wal-Mart workers are not just pushing for higher wages, but a system that gives them the chance to survive in America.
The American Way of Manners, Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on the Etiquette of War, Nuclear Threats, and Surveillance
Many publications have advice columnists, but none has our old friend Colonel Manners. His assignment: to answer questions from Americans puzzled by the abstruse intricacies of the American way …