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Occupy Monsanto Protesters Push Labeling Resolution at Annual Shareholder Meeting
Protesters hoped to make a single powerful statement: Label it.
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State of the Union: Obama’s Underwhelming Plan to Tackle Inequality
Are we living in a land of small opportunity?
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Legal Experts Reject Food Industry Claims That GMO Labeling Laws Are Unconstitutional
Aside from being wrong on the constitutionality issue, the GMA talking points spin the usual industry lies about the health, safety and testing of GMOs.
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Why the Smartphone Became the Lightsaber of the Environmental Justice Movement
From West Virginia to the Gulf Coast, residents of communities facing environmental problems are discovering that visual storytelling brings results. Their number-one tool is the humble smartphone.
Hawaii’s GMO War Headed to Honolulu and Federal Court
The question facing Hawaiians: Do county governments have the power to regulate the pesticide-laden process of developing genetically engineered seeds?
Corners Cut in Outsourced Background Checks: A Case for the Public Sector
The charges highlight the problems that come with privatizing critical government functions.
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Obama’s NSA Speech Makes Orwellian Surveillance Patriotic
Michael Ratner: President Obama's assertion that our nation was formed as a result of a heroic history of surveillance is a misleading scare tactic.
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Urban Gynecology Delivered With Compassion: Ellen Cohen’s “Laboring“
Ellen Cohen's “Laboring: Stories of a New York City Hospital Midwife” is an insightful description of the conditions and clashes endemic to American health care.
Gar Alperovitz: “Understanding the Imperialist System Changed My Life”
Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay, that the Vietnam War made it clear there was no way to a more rational capitalism and there had to be fundamental change.
The ACA and America’s Health Care Mess
We can hope that the ACA's strengths and its failures will soon pave the way for a rational universal system such as single payer health care.