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Why You Can Thank Dan Quayle for Twenty Years of Policy That Keeps Americans in the Dark About Their Food
“More than a million people have asked the FDA for mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food, yet we still don't have it.”
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Romney Plays His Trump Card
Mitt partners with Trump—a man
Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About The Other Abu Zubaidah
Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammed Husein, better known as Abu Zubaydah was the first high value Guantanamo detainee, and the first prisoner to be waterboarded, and the torture program was built, …
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Quebec’s Student Movement
The following is a list of ten points that everyone should know about the student movement in Quebec to help place their struggle in its proper global context.
What Fires Young Progressives’ Activism? A New Study Asks Them
While they have many critiques of themselves and others, our participants exhibited an optimism and steadfastness that made me feel the same.
Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising
Almost every nation needs a controlled mainstream media if it is to regulate and influence its citizenry. By way of the mainstream media, a controlling authority is able to …
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How the US Press Lost Its Way
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media …
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Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan to Avoid Taxes
The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes. But he isn’t the only one who’s …
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Bully Politics
You think Romney was a jerk in 1965? Look at the guy now. Romney’s days as a gay-bashing high school bully, back in 1965, have been making headlines this …
Public Art ATL: Elevate Underground Present “Harriet Rising”
On display on the Alabama Street above Underground Atlanta, is a public art installation by artists Lisa Tuttle and Alice Lovelace. It’s a three-dimensional, multifaceted grouping of polyptych towers …