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If Frances Kelsey Could Protect America from the Pharmaceutical Industry in 1962, Congress Can Today
If you are in your 40s or 50s today, Frances Kelsey may have saved your life by standing up to big pharma.
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Not Good Enough for Pet Food: Chinese Organic Food Scrutinized at Congressional Hearing
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats gathered information today regarding concerns being raised about imports of food from China that are entering …
Obama Says Economy Poised for Progress – Is It?
Paul  Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. On Thursday, President Obama was in Austin, Texas, saying that the economy is …
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Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies
The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that …
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Boston Marathon, This Thing Called Terrorism, and the United States
What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers …
The Unhappy Marriage of Economics and Health Care
Conservative economic approaches to healthcare have crippled the system and we can blame economists for the failure.
Truthout’s Fracking Road Trip
The impacts of the fracking industry stretch far beyond the oil and gas drilling fields that have dominated the headlines in recent years and become one of the nation's …
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Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy “Breakthrough“
Maryland inventor claims that his new patent will finally reduce America's dependency on fossil fuels.
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New York’s Zoning Ban Movement Fracks Big Gas
Frackivists won victories when an appellate court upheld the right to use zoning laws to ban gas drilling.
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One Hospital Charges $8,000 … Another Charges $38,000?
In major cities across our nation, the range of prices for similar or the same medical procedures looks more like the ups and downs in the wildly volatile stock …