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Support for California GMO Labeling Proposal Drops Following Industry-Funded Ad Blitz
Dramatic shift in Prop 37 polls demonstrates the power of a Monsanto/Dupont-funded ad campaign against GMO food labels.
George Lakoff: Progressives Need to Use Language That Reflects Moral Values
George Lakoff: Everything you understand is a matter of framing. And what counts as a fact depends on the frame used in understanding.
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HOT Lanes Make My Blood Boil: Fast Tracks for the Rich on the Rise
For $2 or $4 - or, in Virginia, as much as $20 - a trip, you can commute to work in style.
Economic Update: Economic Myths in the News
Economic updates include: The real-wage decline 2010-2012, more on Walmart, Greece's bailout benefits only banks. Major discussions of small versus big business in US and of role of …
Why Republicans Are Turning Their Chainsaws on FEMA
Big storms are the new normal in a world with a changing climate, but instead of improving our emergency systems, the GOP wants to privatize disaster relief and put …
Pentagon Nixed 1998 US Nuclear Scientists’ Probe of Iranian Program
The veto eliminated the Khatami government's most promising initiative to promote a thaw in U.S.-Iran relations.
Hurricane Sandy Brings Wind, Rain and Irony to US Nuclear Plants
Twelve hours after NYC shut down its subways, at 7 AM Monday, with Hurricane Sandy lashing the Mid-Atlantic coast with heavy rain and 85 mph winds, at least a …
Axe FEMA, Romney Says – as Hurricane Sandy Looms
And it's just a small step from leaving disaster relief up to the states to privatizing it.
Is the Budget “Crisis” History?
In the absence of the downturn, there is no short-term deficit problem. There would be nothing for the deficit crisis industry to do.
Truthout Radio: Our Lead Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold Discusses His Latest Guantanamo Investigation, “Sold Into ‘a Piece of Hell”
Jason Leopold discusses his report, Sold Into a Piece of Hell, about the rendition and detention of Adnan Latif, a Yemeni man who went to Jordan to seek medical …