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A Deeper Look At Drugs In Our Tap Water
Cathy Sherman Picture this: Three guys go into a bar. The batender asks, “What’ll you have?” “A beer”, says the first guy. Second one says, “Whiskey” and turning to the third guy asks, “what
Read More »Media Tells People To Drink Soda Not Water
As proof that mainstream health information continutes to become increasingly detached from reality, the mainstream media (MSM) has launched a new wave of misinformation designed to discredit the health benefits of drinking water! Just
Read More »Chinese police shoot dead eight Tibet protesters
Jane Macartney in Beijing Chinese paramilitary police have killed eight people after opening fire on several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers in bloody violence that will fuel human rights protests as London prepares to
Read More »Bush promises more troops for Afghanistan
Suzanne Goldenberg | guardian.co.uk, George Bush today promised to send more troops to Afghanistan after his departure from the White House next year, whatever the status of troop withdrawals from Iraq. The pledge, delivered
Read More »Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
I’ll admit it: I used to admire John McCain. To paraphrase the UFO poster from “The X Files,” I wanted to believe. Specifically, I wanted to believe the guy talking tough about campaign finance
Read More »U.S., Europe voice criticism over Chinese activist
By Jim Yardley BEIJING – A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced an outspoken human rights advocate to 3 1/2 years in prison after ruling that his critical essays and comments about Communist Party rule
Read More »Adbusters’ Ads Busted
By James H. Ewert Jr. Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes one step farther than the freedom of speech. “You
Read More »America leads tributes to Martin Luther King
Evening Echo Americans remembered Martin Luther King’s dream of social justice on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s assassination today. The 39-year-old civil rights leader was gunned down at around 6pm local
Read More »Ex-Kosovo rebel commander acquitted
By MARLISE SIMONS New York Times PARIS — The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Thursday acquitted a former commander of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army of all charges of war crimes
Read More »Defense lawyers fight DNA sampling on the sly
By Amy Harmon The two Sacramento, California, sheriff detectives tailed their suspect, Rolando Gallego, at a distance. They did not have a court order to compel him to give a DNA sample, but their
Read More »Johnson to take control of England
Martin Johnson has agreed in principle to take over as England team manager, The Times has learnt. Subject to finalising terms with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), his appointment should be ratified next week.
Read More »US Lawmakers Have $196 Million In “Defense”
WASHINGTON: Members of the U.S.Congress have as much as $196 million (126.2 million) collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war, according to
Read More »Cameron, Brown and Blair expenses revealed
Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, the Tory leader, David Cameron, and 16 other MPs are to have their parliamentary expenses published today, after the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, abandoned a fight to keep them secret.
Read More »Footballer ‘fixed match to pay off gambling debt’
How an ‘epidemic’ of addiction is destroying the careers and lives of some of the game’s top players. A footballer with a serious gambling problem has admitted accepting a £50,000 bribe to help throw
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