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Environment
Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production
Mainstream media outlets and consumers have been understandably quick to take note of the benefits chocolate and coffee offer. Yet most American consumers are ignorant to the mounting evidence …
How Did 15-Year-Old Jakadrien Turner, a US Citizen, Get Deported?
The troubling case of a 15-year-old U.S. citizen’s wrongful deportation has raised alarm about what immigration agents have long known is a serious problem: increased enforcement has led to …
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Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric’s Subprime Debacle
For General Electric Co., hawking subprime mortgages was a long way from making light bulbs and jet engines. That didn't stop the industrial giant from jumping into …
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Israeli Source: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation (2)
An Iranian news agency reports that a fourth Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated along with his driver. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a professor specializing in petroleum engineering at a technical …
Calling Out Telecom USA
(Photo: CrazySphinx) My father got a bill Saturday from Telecom USA for $68.65 for three collect calls - 3 minutes, 2 minutes and 2 minutes - on …
Bill Moyers: Lessons on Democracy From Woody Guthrie
With a center being built in Tulsa devoted to the work of Woody Guthrie, Bill looks back at the singer-songwriter’s life and work, finding many points of irony and …
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Ex-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Media Consolidation, Broadband Expansion, Threats to Journalism
Juan Gonzalez: The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday testing the constitutionality of a Bush-era regulation that allows the Federal Communications Commission to levy stiff fines on broadcasters for the …
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Letter to New York State Senator Thomas Libous
Dear Senator Libous: I am writing today, and sending a copy of this letter to both the Albany and Binghamton offices, because I have called and left messages …
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Letter to Friends and Neighbors
“With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene, and radioactive elements like radium, all …