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Sudan Set to Split Despite Egyptian Moves
Cairo - The U.S. has rejected an Egyptian proposal for a “confederation” between northern and southern Sudan, insisting that a Jan. 9 referendum - which will determine the fate …
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding“
The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act …
Is There Hope for Passing Legislation Before the New Congress Sweeps in?
More GRITtv Democrats were trying to get the focus back on the parts of their agenda that could actually get through the lame duck Senate this week—that is, until …
Opposition to New START Pits Republicans Against Traditional Allies
It's not just the Obama administration against which Republican senators under the guidance of Jon Kyl pit themselves when they oppose New START. In fact, perhaps bewitched by Tea …
Confronting the Myths of Water Fluoridation Promoters
The following is an excerpt adapted from the recently-released book, The Case Against Fluoride by Paul Connett, PhD; James Beck, PhD; and H. S. Micklem, DPhil (Chelsea Green Publishing, …
Eleven Years After WTO: The Impact of Uprisings
Eleven years ago yesterday, on November 30, 1999, a public uprising shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) and occupied downtown Seattle. That same week in 1999, three thousand …
Bloomberg Shaking up Soda Pop with Politics
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would prevent his city's residents from buying sugar-sweetened soda with food stamps. Some …
WikiLeaks and Latin America: Same Old Imperious US Diplomats
As more and more documents become available from Wikileaks, the public has gotten a novel and close up view of U.S. diplomats and their operations abroad. I was particularly …
Supreme Court: Can Judges Tell California to Release 40,000 Prisoners?
Washington - A sharply divided US Supreme Court on Tuesday confronted the thorny issue of how best to improve the quality of medical and mental health care in California’s …