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“I Miss My Gynocologist“

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Documents Detail Widespread Confusion on DHS Involvement in Surveillance, Crackdown on Occupy
What kind of Occupy activity is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allowed to place surveillance on? Was the agency part of the November 2011 crackdown on Occupy movement? …

Up, Up and Away: How Money Power Works Down Under
One of my first jobs as a junior reporter was to meet flights bringing famous people to Australia. Growing up in a country far from everywhere (except, as my …

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New Toxic Sludge PR and Lobbying Effort Gets Underway
A trade association known for using the terms “compost,” "organic," and “biosolids” to describe sewage sludge is investing in a new public relations campaign to influence policymakers and the …

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Nine Strategies to End Corporate Rule
The last few years have seen a series of corporate catastrophes, for which the perpetrator companies have escaped any meaningful accountability. Big banks and giant Wall Street firms tricked …

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Reclaiming Our Rights From HR 347
With increasing velocity, since the advent of the post-Second World War national security state, then gaining speed with the incessant search and destroy mission waged on the U.S. Constitution …

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To Break the Bonds of Injustice
New York - Forty-six years ago, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on migratory labour, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy listened in disgust as California's Kern County Sheriff explained the arrests …

Can Europe’s Left Rebound?
Washington - A crisis of capitalism is supposed to create an opening for the political left. But in Europe, the place where the concept of left and right was …

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“Librotraficantes” Bring Banned Books into Arizona
Phoenix - Tony Diaz, aka “El Librotraficante” (or book smuggler) is arriving in Tucson on Friday with a truckload of Mexican-American books that were effectively banned from the Tucson …

Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …