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Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food
Every year food companies convince most of us to ingest about twice the recommended amount of salt, plus loads of sugar and fat.
GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food – and Everything Else
Indian physicist and philosopher, activist and ecofeminist pioneer Vandana Shiva talks with Truthout in Hawaii about GMO, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation and the primacy of …
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EU Steers Adult Ed Toward Training, Away From Learning
The EU Agenda for Adult Learning, conceived within the context of its master concept of Lifelong Learning, is all about employability and not much about
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I Am Not a Camel … but I Do Have Epilepsy
A true global epilepsy campaign must start with each of us making our worlds more friendly to disclosure.
Move to National Electronic Health Records Potentially Risky for LGBT Patients
Digitized health records may be a step forward for improving overall health care, but how will they safely and competently account for the medically and socially marginalized LGBT community?
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Colonialism and the Green Economy: Environmental Justice, Refineries and California’s Cap-and-Trade Program
Fossil fuels will not be phased out, but propped up to maintain their domination.
The Terrorism of Stealth Petrochemicals
Chemistry developed thousands of deleterious substances that now threaten the entire life of the world with deforms, extinction and death.
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Beyond the Chart: Sure, Health Care Deduction Is Huge, but What’s the Return?
Tax expert Ellen Dannin provides an example of how we can look at employer-provided health insurance.
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Sustainable Food Is a Full-Time Job, Campus Cooks Say
A job is not sustainable if it can't provide a healthy future and a living wage.
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What Happened After a Nation Methodically Murdered Its Schizophrenics? Rethinking Mental Illness and Genetics
If serious mental illnesses are highly heritable, wouldn't the sterilization and murder of such people diminish their prevalence?