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Syngenta’s Paid Third Party Pundits Spin the “News” on Atrazine
Documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, recently unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta, reveal that the global chemical company's PR team had a …
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iEmpire: Apple’s Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think
Behind the sleek face of the iPad is an ugly backstory that has revealed once more the horrors of globalization. The buzz about Apple’s sordid business practices is courtesy …
Dissatisfaction With Komen Foundation Goes Beyond Planned Parenthood Break
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Like a number of people I have spoken to, Kate McNeely of New York City gave money to Planned Parenthood and sent …
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Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain
While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the …
The Next Marx
Lenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.” Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, …
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Former Guantánamo Prisoner Who Alleged US Torture, Drugging, Sentenced by Algerian Authorities
The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pictured on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys …
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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral …
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LA Police Department Conducts Joint Exercises with the Military
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: ax2groin, U.S. Army, iyoupapa) The LA Police Department, known for its brutality and corruption over the years, and the U.S. …
Activist Primer: The Nitty-Gritty on the Amendment Movement to Defeat Citizens United
Hundreds of protests across the country over the past weekend marked the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's controversial ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The protests …
A WPA for History: Occupy the American Historical Association
[Partly in response to my calls to the American Historical Association to deal with the jobs crisis in the field, AHA President Tony Grafton organized on short notice a …