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Talk Nation Radio: Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Judith Newman discusses the background for and the extent of non-consentual experimentation on human beings, in particular underprivileged children, in the United States through the twentieth century.
Eric Holder: DoJ Will Challenge Voter Suppression Laws Using “Every Tool” at Its Disposal
The Department of Justice will not remain on the sidelines as the GOP seeks to illegally game the electoral system.
The Chemical Industry Divides an Environmental Coalition into Disarray
The bill presently before Congress to modernize the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act would provide virtual carte blanche to the chemical industry. And thanks to some classic
John Kerry’s Doomed Peace Process
Until negotiations are based not on U.S. support for Israeli power but on international law, the u201cpeace processu201d will continue to fail.
This American Life Whitewashes US Crimes in Central America, Wins Peabody Award
One would be hard-pressed to encounter another contemporary mainstream account of that period so thoroughly sanitized of Washington's involvement in crimes against humanity.
Rolling Stone Blows the Cover Off the War on Terror
In the case of the Boston Bombing, the editors at Rolling Stone have asked u201cwhyu201d and set off a fascinating and all-too telling response.
The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
Small groups of community organizers are shouldering the Herculean task of protecting such neighborhoods abandoned by the federal government.
Has the British Government Understood Radicalization?
The seventh of July 2013 was the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack in London.
Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
Only a tiny proportion of research in biology gets done outside of straightjackets imposed by funding agencies.
The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement directed toward Israel is eight years old. It was started back in 2005, when a coalition of Palestine-based social and economic organizations …