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Trump's Attack on Bears Ears Could Alter the Course of American Land Conservation Wednesday, December 06, 2017By Kristin Miller, Moyers & Company | News Analysis In July, Interior Secretary …
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US Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring
Washington — American drug enforcement agents posing as money launderers secretly helped a powerful Mexican drug trafficker and his principal Colombian cocaine supplier move millions in drug proceeds around …
America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals? The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals …
Debacle! How Two Wars in the Greater Middle East Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower
It was to be the war that would establish empire as an American fact. It would result in a thousand-year Pax Americana. It was to be “mission …
ALEC – America’s Secret Political Power
A participant in a protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) holds a sign in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29, 2011. (Photo: Mentatmark) Scottsdale, AZ - …
The Year Dissent Came Back
A group of Occupy Wall Street protesters evicted from Zuccotti Park reconvene in Foley Square at dawn, in New York, November 15, 2011. (Photo: Marcus Yam / The New …
Why “Evidence-Based” Education Fails
How did the largest and most aggressive federal education initiative, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), garner bipartisan support under George W. Bush, and how have the central tenets of …
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The Return of Debtor’s Prisons: Thousands of Americans Jailed for Not Paying Their Bills
Federal imprisonment for unpaid debt has been illegal in the U.S. since 1833. It’s a practice people associate more with the age of Dickens than modern-day America. But as …
How Credit Collectors Have Reinvented the Debtors’ Prison
NPR just ran a story called “Unpaid Bills Land Some Debtors Behind Bars.” As they report, ”Here’s how it happens: A company will often sell off its debt to …
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EXCLUSIVE: Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed Approval of Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Crops
Monsanto researchers in Stonington, Illinois, working to develop new soybean varieties that will be tolerant to agricultural herbicide and have greater yields in July 2006. (Photo: Monsanto via The …