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December 7, 2009
The Missouri Dept. of Health and the state Attorney General have decided to prosecute a farm family for illegally "trafficking" raw milk. Read more
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October 23, 2009
The country's first NAIS conviction: A Polk County judge has ruled in favor of the state of Wisconsin in the state's second case of a farmer refusing to register a livestock premises. Read more
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October 22, 2009
In working to protect the business interests of vaccine manufactures, both the FDA and FTC have declared all-out war against any products that might offer consumers options other than vaccines. This week, that war against natural remedies reached... Read more
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October 23, 2009
Hundreds of activist organizations had their internet service turned off last night after the US Chamber of Commerce strong-armed an upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, to pull the plug on The Yes Men and May First / People Link, a 400-member... Read more
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September 22, 2009
The long awaited trial on the lawsuit filed by Manna Storehouse, John and Jackie Stower against Lorain County and the Ohio Department of Agriculture will open October 8 and 9 at 8:30 am.... Read more
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September 12, 2009
Adam Eidinger was one of around 1000 protesters who staged a protest near the White House in 2002 to protest against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The protest was crushed by the police and over 400 were arrested. They were... Read more
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April 16, 2009
The White House has announced that CIA operatives, including contractors, who followed Bush guidelines for torturing prisoners will not be prosecuted for these actions, regardless of the Obama administration's position on the legality of the techniques they used. "[I]t is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution," President Obama said in a statement released today. This seems to be part of a deal struck with the CIA over the release of several torture memos Read more
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April 13, 2009
Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo, several reliable sources close to the investigation have told The Daily Beast. Their decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday before the Spanish central criminal court, the Audencia Nacional, in Madrid. But the decision is likely to raise concerns with the human-rights community on other points: They will seek to have the case referred to a different Read more
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March 5, 2009
Senate Judiciary Committee chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, deserves credit for pressing ahead with his modest proposal to establish a truth and reconciliation commission to review the assaults on the Constitution and general lawlessness of the Bush-Cheney administration.
As Leahy said at the opening of Wednesday's Judiciary Committee hearing on "Getting To The Truth Through A Nonpartisan Commission Of Inquiry":
Nothing has done more to damage America's place in the world than the revelation
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