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US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes
Has Iran decided to build a nuclear bomb? That would seem to be the central question in the current bellicose debate over whether the world should simply cripple Iran’s …
Sickened and Still Waiting for Justice: 9/11 First Responders and Cold War Nuclear Weapons Workers Battle for Fair Compensation
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (Zadroga Act) and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA) represent two federal reparatory and remedial compensation …
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: How a Prison Sentence Can Become a Death Sentence
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Imagine finding a lump in your breast. Imagine that your efforts to schedule a medical check-up are stymied and you have to …
Kaplan College Closes North Carolina Dental Program After Fraud Exposed
“This is not the program that I signed up for,” North Carolina Kaplan student Jaclin Mack told WSOC North Carolina Eyewitness News Channel 9 about the for-profit Kaplan College …
Pollyanna of Peace?
A man and his son are pushing a shopping cart with their belongings across a devastated American landscape. There has been a global catastrophe, and the few survivors cling …
As the “Jackals of Egypt” Heighten Attacks on Youth Activists, Others Must Join the Fight
At the end of 2011, the horrendous violence of the Egyptian military police, which is routinely carried out off camera in the privacy of dark, filthy cells in the …
Why Spend Billions on an Unnecessary Nuclear Weapons Facility?
The CMRR Facility plans, also on LANL web site. (Photo: LANL / LANS under US Department of Energy) By all accounts, the cold war came to an …
A Tale of Three Speeches About Separation of Church and State
Separation of church and state is a defining issue for Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
Patients May Die When Doctors Moonlight as Big Pharma’s “Key Opinion Leaders“
(Photo: yanivba) As the crimson sun slipped into the gray Pacific Ocean, a multibillion-dollar drug deal took shape. A group of board-certified doctors greeted each other in …
Pentagon’s New Strategic Guidance: Summary of Content and Implications
In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. Designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to …