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Justice Roberts Fixes Supreme Court Schedule; Will Help Romney, Big Business Dominate Election
Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped bring even more corporate money into politics, has already made history. Outside groups have spent record amounts influencing the 2012 …
Nuclear Disarmament at an Impasse
In Vienna, countries armed with nuclear weapons clearly expressed their refusal to commit themselves in a process of nuclear disarmament
Noam Chomsky | Somebody Else’s Atrocities
In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us - whoever us is. Almost any moment in history yields innumerable illustrations. …
America’s Opiate War: The Medical Luddites vs. People in Pain
With frightening hubris, narcs from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are now muscling into the practice of medicine.
How Our Government Incentivizes the Overproduction of Junk Food
Americans need their tax dollars spent on providing food that will make us healthy, not food that's tied to the obesity epidemic.
Will Brewing Corruption Scandals in Ohio Have an Impact on November’s Election?
Investigations by the FBI into campaign donations and strong-arm tactics in Ohio's Republican Party implicate Gov. Kaisch.
California Prison Throws 78 Prisoners in Solitary for More Than 20 Years
California's prison system being sued, as claimants call long-term solitary confinement torture.
Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti
What factors are guiding humanitarian agenciesu2019 decisions to provide or withhold them?
Unemployment Rate Edges Up to 8.2 Percent
Revisions of March and April numbers show much slower pace of job creation than originally reported. The economy added 69,000 jobs in May—short of the 90,000 jobs needed to …
Oklahoma Doctor Refuses to Provide Rape Victim With Emergency Contraception
“An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim.”