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The Foods That Are Most Affected by Pesticides
By Sheryl Walters | By now most of us know that buying organic is absolutely essential if we want to put the best food possible into our bodies. It is just plain and simply
Read More »Spying on the Future: The U.S. Intelligence Community as Seers Without Sizzle
By Tom Engelhardt The year is 2010 and, yes, Saddam Hussein is gone and there are no American troops in Iraq, but, as the report suggests, “the challenge will be to see whether a
Read More »Bush To Provide $6.4 Billion In Arms To Taiwan
BigNewsNetwork | The U.S. government is to sell $6.4 billion of weapons to Taiwan, the State Department announced on Friday. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said Congressional approval was required, but believes this
Read More »Government spies could scan every call, text and email
Ministers are considering a £12 billion plan to monitor the e-mail, telephone and internet browsing records of every person in Britain. By Nick Allen | The huge eavesdropping programme would involve the creation of
Read More »42-day detention dropped as unworkable
Sean O’Neill | Gordon Brown is preparing for a humiliating climbdown over his proposal to hold terrorist suspects for 42 days after being told that it will be defeated in the House of Lords.
Read More »Govt. Uses Contractors to Probe Iraq Contractors
In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq. Earlier this year, the State Department’s Bureau
Read More »The establishment that destroyed America’s first republic
By Sam Smith | Of George Bush’s many sins, one has remained unnoted. He and his aides are so absurdly inept at most of what they do that they have diverted attention from the
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