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New WikiLeaks Cables Show US Diplomats Push Genetically Engineered Crops Worldwide
Dozens of United States diplomatic cables released in the latest WikiLeaks dump on Wednesday reveal new details of the US effort to push foreign governments to approve genetically engineered (GE) crops and promote the worldwide interests of agribusiness ...[Read more]
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Leaked emails show US security firm arming Syrian rebels
Leaked emails show an American private security company, SCG International has been helping the Syrian opposition in its efforts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad at the request of US officials. The whistleblower website, Wikileaks, released the em ...[Read more]
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Arsenic in Our Chicken?
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Unmasking Faith-based Economics
From Ron Paul to Mitt Romney, politicians consistently employ their own framing of why the economy is performing poorly, and thus, promote a consistent remedy for how to improve it. Government doesn't need to do more, they contend, it needs to do less - l ...[Read more]
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n World’s Richest Country, the Uninsured Wait in Line Overnight for a Chance at Health Care
Stan Brock never expected to see adults and children shivering in line in the middle of the night, hoping to get free medical, dental and vision care in the wealthiest country on earth. Now that he's seen it for years, he's no longer surprised. "It's quit ...[Read more]
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The Assault on Public Education
Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan and elsewhere. California is also a battleground. The Los Angeles Times reports on another chapter in the campa ...[Read more]
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Rogers
anything, including spying on people, users, other companies, organizations, implementing blocking, takedowns, infiltrations, hacking - any spectrum of fields which is totally illegal for any normal citizen to undertake. Under the proposed legislation, a ...[Read more]
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The latest attempt by Congress to try to censor and control the Internet is no longer known as SOPA but CISPA: the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The SOPA-like bill would give companies the power to collect information on their subscribers ...[Read more]
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46 Rich persons can buy an election
Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle. It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors ...[Read more]
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A look at American Decline by Noam Chomsky
Article by Noam Chomsky looks at the decline of american power, from a historical perspective starting from the end of world war ii and loss of China. Not withholding any inconvenient and uncomfortable historical facts, article recounts the reasons for ...[Read more]
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How billionaires destroy democracy
The business elite is and always has been the most powerful force in U.S. politics, by virtue of its dominant role in the economy. But what is striking ...[Read more]
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