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US Pharmaceutical Companies Testing Drugs on India’s Poor
(Photo: sacks08; Edited: JR / Truthout) U.S. pharmaceutical companies have moved their operations overseas in the past decade, testing their drugs on poor people in such lands …
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Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the US
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: daliborlev, willc2, _Davo_) Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be …
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Riots Flare in London Against Police Violence
Photo taken around 1 AM in the aftermath of Saturday's riots in the Tottenham area of London. (Photo: Nicobobinus) Anarchy gripped parts of London on Saturday night …
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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists
On a tour led by Libyan government officials, two men survey the damage of building said to be a law school following an alleged air strike by NATO two …
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The People’s Rogue: FDR vs. the Nine Old Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo: Wikimedia) The president must have been savoring that afternoon of December 26, 1936. Tea was served, and the president entertained his attorney general …
A Historic Opportunity to Cut Military Spending
(Photo: The Department of Defense) The agreement in Washington to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for spending cuts has made a lot of people very unhappy. …
UN Challenges Slavery Conditions for Domestic Workers
Andreia Soares, a nanny, plays with the 10-month-old toddler she looks after in her boss's apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 17, 2011. (Lalo de Almeida / The New …
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Spain’s “Indignados” at the Vanguard of a Global Nonviolent Revolt
Thursday night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these …
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Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack on Republicans
(Photo: SpeakerBoehner / Flickr) Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption …
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The Sustainable Seafood Myth
(Photo: Jameel Winter / Flickr) Stroll by any Whole Foods seafood counter and you will see color-coded fish: Green for fully sustainable, yellow for partially sustainable, and red …