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Breaking Up With ALEC Is Hard to Do for Johnson & Johnson
As Procter and Gamble became the 13th major American firm to announce that it was dropping its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a few corporations have …
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Islamophobic Group Clarion Fund Lends Film Footage for Viral Video Pushing Iran Attack
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported yesterday on a series of viral videos produced by a new organization TheLandOfIsrael.com offering justifications for an Israeli attack on Iran. JTA notes the …
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Common Ground on the Kill Floor: Organizing Smithfield
Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter are two slaughterhouse workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. A bruising 16-year battle, the …
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Wall Street-Inflated Student Debt Bubble Hits $1 Trillion; Debtors Rally for Relief
Occupy San Francisco protest, November 16, 2011. (Photo: ericwagner) The collective weight of American student debt is a drag not just on those paying the debt, but on our …
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Rupert Murdoch Testifies as Hacking Case Shifts Focus to a Minister
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation in his office in Manhattan in May 2007. (Photo: James Estrin / The New York Times)London - With a political firestorm …
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Brazilian Mining Giant under Fire for Deaths, Environmental Damage
Rio de Janeiro - Social movements from several countries accused Brazil's Vale, the world's second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the …
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More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance
In part two of our national broadcast exclusive on the growing domestic surveillance state, we speak with National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney and two targeted Americans: Oscar-nominated filmmaker …
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US Sets New Sanctions Against Technology for Syria and Iran
President Barack Obama embraces Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. Obama announced Monday a plan to impose sanctions against foreign …
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Political Push Continues on Student Loan Interest Rates
From a Stop the Machine protest in Washington, DC, October 6, 2011. (Photo: thisisbossi) Washington - Hoping for a federal student loan to help pay for college? Beware, because …
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As FDA Loosens Stranglehold on Research, Studies Use Hallucinogens to Treat Psychiatric Illness
More than 35 years ago, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with similar agencies around the world, imposed a crushing stranglehold on legitimate research with psychedelic …