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CISPA Passes in the House after Surprise Vote
Washington - The plan was for the debate on the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Actto take place on Thursday, with the vote the next day. As it turns out, …
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Broadcasters, Citizens United and the Perfect Storm (Part I)
As broadcasters take in record amount of political advertising money and give little indication of where it came from while lobbying against rules that would require increased transparency of …
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Is US-Afghan Agreement a Prelude to Afghan Civil War?
As we come up on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration is poised to sign a US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement that could …
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New York Gives Romney Clean Sweep of Tuesday Primaries
Washington - Mitt Romney won all five Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, effectively ending the GOP nomination battle. The Associated Press called New York for the former Massachusetts governor not …
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Latinos for Romney
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Common Ground on the Kill Floor: Organizing Smithfield
Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter are two slaughterhouse workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. A bruising 16-year battle, the …
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As FDA Loosens Stranglehold on Research, Studies Use Hallucinogens to Treat Psychiatric Illness
More than 35 years ago, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with similar agencies around the world, imposed a crushing stranglehold on legitimate research with psychedelic …
BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the …
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Two Heads Aren’t Always Better Than One
The corporate propensity for rationalizing the irrational in the pursuit of profit appears to be boundless. Consider J.R. Simplot, a giant agribusiness conglomerate whose phosphate mining operations in Idaho …
25 Years Later, McCleskey Decision Still Fosters Racism by Ignoring It
Few cases involving the intersection of race, criminal law, and procedure have had the reach and impact of McCleskey v. Kemp, a United States Supreme Court decision decided 25 …