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International trade agreements force the U.S. and other participting countries to "harmonize" food and envrironmental safety standards to the lowest common denominator. Often these agreements are negotiated behind closed doors, shutting out Congress and the public, while granting corporations and trade associations a seat at the table. It's no surprise that these agreements give transnational corporations "special rights", allowing companies to challenge individual countries' environmental, worker and food safety laws and regulations.
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September 8, 2006
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August 12, 2002
Web Note: This article was published in 2002, but is still extremely relevant.
While the Bush Administration prepares for war on Iraq with full-scale weapons production and troop deployments, more insidious conditioning for the public acceptance of war continues. In the face of repeated statements by Bush and the hawkish members of his ruling clique of the need for "regime change" in Iraq, international opinion has been forthright in its condemnation of such proposed aggression. However, in the absence of the mobilized outrage of the American people, the Read more
While the Bush Administration prepares for war on Iraq with full-scale weapons production and troop deployments, more insidious conditioning for the public acceptance of war continues. In the face of repeated statements by Bush and the hawkish members of his ruling clique of the need for "regime change" in Iraq, international opinion has been forthright in its condemnation of such proposed aggression. However, in the absence of the mobilized outrage of the American people, the Read more
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September 7, 2006
It's astonishing to see how desperate our homegrown fascists have become. The entire cabal is in full-on media blitz mode with Rummy, Dick and Theodosius, er, Bush slamming their foreign opponents with the latest absurd tag "Islamic Fascists;" and, their domestic ones as "Nazi appeasers." Or, in the deranged mind of Condi Rice; domestic opponents are tantamount to folks who would have stopped the Civil War and allowed slavery to continue in the South.
It's not just desperate; it's monumentally moronic, given the real history. This bizarre trip on the Wayback Machine demands a Read more
It's not just desperate; it's monumentally moronic, given the real history. This bizarre trip on the Wayback Machine demands a Read more
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September 7, 2006
HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN SYNTHETIC TURF
[Rachel's introduction: New York City is installing the latest "synthetic turf" in 79 city parks, often replacing natural soil and grass. Other cities and towns may be considering a similar move for playgrounds, ball fields, and parks. Unfortunately, tests of the new synthetic turf have Read more
[Rachel's introduction: New York City is installing the latest "synthetic turf" in 79 city parks, often replacing natural soil and grass. Other cities and towns may be considering a similar move for playgrounds, ball fields, and parks. Unfortunately, tests of the new synthetic turf have Read more
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September 6, 2006
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September 3, 2006
Web Note: For a rebuttal of the San Francisco Chronicle & Time's defense of the 9/11 Official Story see: http://www.911truth.org and http://www.st911.org/ or see the book: The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin
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[The SF Chronicle offers a] Reasonably "fair and balanced" examination of the truth movement's growth and tenacity. It's curious, however, that such pieces so often cite psychological profiles of "conspiracy theorists", but never question the Read more
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August 31, 2006
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Taking on the Pentagon
Fifteen years into their fight against the Army's plan to incinerate leftover chemical weapons, citizens are proposing safer alternatives for getting the job done.
Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Human Disease
The biotech food industry denies the possibility that genetically engineered crops may cause human disease, but a former Monsanto scientist tells a distinctly different story.
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Taking on the Pentagon
Fifteen years into their fight against the Army's plan to incinerate leftover chemical weapons, citizens are proposing safer alternatives for getting the job done.
Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Human Disease
The biotech food industry denies the possibility that genetically engineered crops may cause human disease, but a former Monsanto scientist tells a distinctly different story.
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September 1, 2006
Over the last month I have tried to describe conservative power in Washington, but with a small change of emphasis I could just as well have been describing the failure of liberalism: the center-left's inability to comprehend the current political situation or to draw upon what is most vital in its own history.
What we have watched unfold for a few decades, I have argued, is a broad reversion to 19th-century political form, with free-market economics understood as the state of nature, plutocracy as the default social condition, and, enthroned as the nation's necessary vice, an Read more
What we have watched unfold for a few decades, I have argued, is a broad reversion to 19th-century political form, with free-market economics understood as the state of nature, plutocracy as the default social condition, and, enthroned as the nation's necessary vice, an Read more
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August 30, 2006
Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in natural resources, lie along the Pacific coastline in southeastern Mexico. Oaxaca is flanked to its east by Chiapas and to its west by Guerrero. Its population, about 3.5 million (2003 estimate), is unique among Mexican states in containing the largest fraction, 2/3, and the largest absolute number of people with indigenous ancestry.
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