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Election Countdown 2012: In Quebec, It’s Not the Fees, It’s the Debt
With only 94 days left until the election, keep abreast of issues that matter!
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Meat Glue for Dinner?
“Transglutaminase is an enzyme made by the fermentation of bacteria and added to meat pieces to make them stick together. Yes, "meat glue” — it's what's for dinner!"
Mark Karlin | Walker Wins in Wisconsin
Mark Karlin: Right wing money and Democratic Party establishment created conditions for GOP victory.
Newly Released FBI “Domestic Terrorism” Training on Anarchists, Environmentalists, Show COINTELPRO Tactics
The FBI trains new recruits to target
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Before It’s Too Late in the Arctic
What do Arctic drilling and drone killing have in common? They are both being decided by Barack Obama without public debate. Also oil is a common ground—drilling will produce …
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Fracking Fatalities: Organized Labor Implores Federal Agencies to Stop the Killings
In a letter sent last week, the AFL-CIO, the United Steelworkers union and the United Mine Workers complain that the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and the Mine …
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A Mexican Spring Begins to Blossom
The Mexican youth and university students have altered the political agenda in the country to prove that no one wins an election until the election itself.
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U.S. Jobs, GDP, and the Eurozone
What was touted for months over the past winter as a rebound taking hold in the US economy and the assertions that the US economy was u2018exceptionalu2019 and would …
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The Maple Spring and the Mafiocracy: Struggling Students Versus “Entitled Elites”
First, we were told for years that we were u201clazyu201d and u201capatheticu201d: Generation MTV, Generation iPod, a techno-savvy but reality-detached deluge of pseudo-humanoids. We were set up to be …
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On Climate Change, Money Trumps Common Sense
In the Arctic, levels of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, a key factor in global warming, have hit 400 parts per million, a level scientists believe has not been …