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truthout\'s Art Levine on challenges facing Dems in November. Why Sister Sarah and Brother Glenn lead religious way
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Green Matter columnist Theodora Filis on how legal pesticides could be causing ADHD amongst US school children.
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Vote count systems in Maricopa & Pima Counties are so broken and corrupt even in slam-dunk primaries cause questions
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Green Matters: Q&A-Top 6 Environmental Issues Facing the Planet

Green Matters: Q&A-Top 6 Environmental Issues Facing the PlanetSeptember 2, 2010 at 8:46 am - No Comments

By Theodora Filis
In this week’s column Green Matters’ Theodora Filis tackles a reader’s e-mail question.
Q. Theodora, if you had to put together a list of your top 6 environmental issues of the 21st century, what would they be? (submitted by Bree.)
A. Depending on what part of the world you live in, each one of these [...]


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*Violators of the Clean Water Act Go Unpunished *

*Violators of the Clean Water Act Go Unpunished *

In the last five years, chemical factories, manufacturing plants and other workplaces have violated water pollution laws more than half a million times. Violations of the Clean Water Act have risen steadily across the nation. These violations range from failing to report emissions to dumping toxins at concentrations that might contribute to cancer...
August 30, 2010 at 5:52 am - No Comments


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Green Matters: Organophosphate - Insecticide and Nerve Gas: 2 for the Price of 1!

Green Matters: Organophosphate - Insecticide and Nerve Gas: 2 for the Price of 1!

A recent study, reported in the journal of Environmental Health Perspectives, examines the effects of both prenatal and childhood exposure to the pesticides which are widely used in the United States to control insects on food crops.  EPA documents show that babies and children under five can ingest levels of the insecticide through food and water...
August 26, 2010 at 8:38 am - No Comments


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Editorial: Cannibalism or Disinfectant? Missing the Plot in Arizona

Editorial: Cannibalism or Disinfectant? Missing the Plot in Arizona

Jim March, an election technology expert who has advised AUDIT AZ and worked with vote count activist groups across the USA, observed a spurious series of unconnected network cables and the lack of independent, outside observation of vote count central tabulation computers. This is a scenario primed for central computer misdeeds, is clearly against...
August 24, 2010 at 8:57 am - 5 Comments


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The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet Obama and the Dems Won’t Tell Theirs

The Two Stories of This Terrible Economy, Yet Obama and the Dems Won’t Tell Theirs

Twenty years ago, 42 percent of Americans said they trusted government to do what was right just about always or most of the time. Now, only 25 percent do. Twenty years ago 26 percent they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in big business; now, only 16 percent do. And almost no one trusts Wall Street. The drop in trust toward all major...
August 31, 2010 at 6:04 am - No Comments


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  • Iran Set to Launch First Nuclear Reactor Next Week.com - August 21 Deadline for Dropping One on Iran Without Radiation Release

Fox News' David Asman and for U.S. U.N. Ambassador John Bolton have a detailed conversation about Iran's announced launch of the first of ten nuclear reactors. The real news here is that a strike on Iran before August 21st can be done without releasing radiation into the atmosphere. According to Bolton, after August 21st radiation is an issue for the area. Bolton doesn't believe Israel or anyone will drop the big one on Iran's nuclear facilities. [Disclaimer: In my title, "Dropping One" does not refer to Dropping "The One".

News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton. 
Once the fuel rods are loaded, Bolton told Fox News on Friday afternoon, "it makes it essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf."
  • Mark McKinnon says GOP is reinforcing al Qaeda - ThinkProgress.org
  • Nadler debunks right-wing opposition - ThinkProgress.org
  • Countdown: Gingrich-rhetoric victim Mike Hatchell discusses unemployment - Countdown: Gingrich-rhetoric victim Mike Hatchell discusses unemployment
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Can the Democrats’ Ground Game Overcome GOP Fervor?

September 1, 2010 at 6:10 am - No Comments
Can the Democrats’ Ground Game Overcome GOP Fervor?

by: Art Levine, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to “restore honor” to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on [...]

The Anatomy of Intolerance

August 28, 2010 at 5:47 am - No Comments
The Anatomy of Intolerance

by Robert Reich
Connect the dots:
Many Americans (and politicians who the polls) don’t want a mosque at Manhattan’s Ground Zero.
An increasing percent believe the President is a Muslim.
Most Americans approve of Arizona’s new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship.
Most would deny citizenship to children born in the United [...]

Are Arizona’s Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency?

August 25, 2010 at 12:17 pm - No Comments
Are Arizona’s Political Leaders Deliberately Blocking Electronic Voting Machine Transparency?

As appeared 23-8-10 on the website t r u t h o u t.org
by Denis G. Campbell
Why did Arizona’s two main gubernatorial candidates, Governor Jan Brewer, former Secretary of State/Head of Elections who contracted for highly criticised and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems and Attorney General Terry Goddard with his 3-year “criminal investigation” [...]

The Monday Line: Gulf Spill Greenwashing, Bank Failures and Talking Tiger Trash

August 23, 2010 at 6:04 am - No Comments
The Monday Line: Gulf Spill Greenwashing, Bank Failures and Talking Tiger Trash

By Denis G. Campbell
My article on how Arizona elected officials continue to thumb their noses at ballot handling procedures lawsuit story will lead tomorrow morning on truthout.org.
It’s Monday morning though and this is The Line.
Real Editorial Cojones in Tough Economic Times
Kudos this morning to Think Progress editor Brad Johnson. He did not bow to [...]

Why The Unfolding Disaster in Pakistan Should Concern You

August 21, 2010 at 6:20 am - No Comments
Why The Unfolding Disaster in Pakistan Should Concern You

by Robert Reich
The human tragedy unfolding in Pakistan right now demands our full attention.
Flooding there has already stranded 20 million people, more than 10 percent of the population. A fifth of the nation is underwater. More than 3.5 million children are in imminent danger of contracting cholera and acute diarrhea; millions more are in danger [...]

Can Blacks Rid Themselves of Their Use of the N-Word?

August 20, 2010 at 8:12 am - No Comments
Can Blacks Rid Themselves of Their Use of the N-Word?

by Rev. Irene Monroe
In an attempt to dole out advice on the  n-word, popular talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger slipped into a rant using it.
When a caller - a distraught African American women who called in to be advised on how to handle racist jokes and comments hurled at her my her white in-laws [...]

Cloned Meats. To Debate or Not To Debate? Sorry, that question’s not allowed!

August 18, 2010 at 5:33 am - 7 Comments
Cloned Meats. To Debate or Not To Debate? Sorry, that question’s not allowed!

By Theodora Filis
UPDATED Research for this article began when I was asked to be a guest on China Radio’s Today on Beyond Beijing contributing to their panel discussion on cloned meats. I was honored, but cloned meats? What did I know about cloned meats? Nothing, and apparently, I wasn’t alone.
Kept in the dark would be [...]

The Monday Line: Make Stuff? Economy Grows. Shuffle/Sell Paper? Stagnation.

August 16, 2010 at 6:51 am - No Comments
The Monday Line: Make Stuff? Economy Grows. Shuffle/Sell Paper? Stagnation.

by Denis G. Campbell
The UK and USA talk a good game and respond to immediate job and economic needs by folding economic development into government, creating initiatives and studies and cutting back on direct investment that spurs growth. So busy planning to plan, they can’t see that they’re out of the game.
The UK Labour Party [...]

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States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror

August 19, 2010 at 5:38 am - No Comments
States of Paralysis: America’s Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas “marketplaced,” our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a [...]

Ground Zero Mosque, Death Panels and Freedom Fries Oh My!

August 17, 2010 at 12:14 pm - No Comments
Ground Zero Mosque, Death Panels and Freedom Fries Oh My!

by Denis G. Campbell
Apologies to Oz’ Dorothy, when sound bytes run amok, the USA is too often later shamed for divisive, bigoted, short sighted, xenophobic and racist political operative inspired talking points.
It must be summertime in the USA. Congress is on holiday so the lunatic fringe right wing is ginning up yet another election year [...]

Forget a Double Dip. We’re Still in One Long Big Dipper.

August 15, 2010 at 12:25 pm - No Comments
Forget a Double Dip. We’re Still in One Long Big Dipper.

by Robert Reich
It’s nonsense to think of the economy heading downward again into a double dip when most Americans never emerged from the first dip. We’re still in one long Big Dipper.
More people are out of work today than they were last year, counting everyone too discouraged even to look for work. The number of [...]


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