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Monsanto, Big Brother of the New World Agricultural Order: An Interview With Marie-Monique Robin
Award-winning French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin is the author of “The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption and the Control of Our Food Supply” (The New Press) and …
What to Expect at G20: Lots and Lots of Cops
Toronto, Canada - If you want to see more police officers than you’ve probably ever seen in your life, come to Toronto this weekend. Downtown, particularly in the area …
Big Banks Escape Toughest Limits in New Regulation Bill
Washington - Like a hard-fought draw in a World Cup soccer match, consumers won sweeping new protections under a revamp of financial regulation that lawmakers agreed to Friday but …
North Dakota Farm Becomes Lab for Growing Food in Dry Times
I learned the important lessons about water very early in my life. My father and mother began their life on our family farm in North Dakota in 1930. Their …
Maslow
What are the fundamental forces that drive human behavior? A group of evolutionary thinkers offer an answer by revising one of psychology’s most familiar images.
Hands Off Social Security: There Are Better Ways to Cut the National Debt
The Social Security Trustees' Annual Report on the program's finances comes out Wednesday, delayed from March by the health bill. It will be turned into a marketing tool by …
Guitars Not Wars (2)
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead only entertains? Is such a thing possible, and is it happening now? Social justice, politics and music have always …
Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism
America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …
Defector from the Green Berets: William T. Hathaway and RADICAL PEACE
Instilling the will to kill in Special Forces training is equally important as teaching the skills to kill. Commandos are heavily indoctrinated in the rightness of using violence to …
Speaker Pelosi, More War Funding Next Week Is No “Emergency“
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is committed to passing an emergency war supplemental before the July Fourth recess, Roll Call reports. Let us be perfectly clear, as President …