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Despite years of evidence that feeding antibiotics to farm animals can be dangerous to human health, the FDA has taken few steps to regulate the drugs. Last month, a federal judge ordered them to finally take some action. Here we trace the history.
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OpenSecrets Blog Apr 27 - In an era when Republicans and Democrats can agree on almost nothing, one issue in the last three months has been providing common ground: rewriting the rules of the Internet. Privacy and free speech advocates have unleashed a groundswell of outrage as they've rushed to rally the public against the measures.
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Wild-eyed opponents of marriage equality in North Carolina are proposing a measure that would declare marriage between a man and woman "the only domestic legal union," thereby banning not just same-sex marriage but all unmarried couples. To show that a. marriage equality is a basic civil rights issue and b. the bill would "(write) discrimination, prejudice and injustice into our constitution," opponents have come up with striking images - and the slogan, "Make history, don't repeat it."
The brutal rape and murder of Oksana Makar, apparently committed by well-connected children, has forced Ukrainians to reflect on power, elite privilege and impunity, writes Mykola Riabchuk
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Serco, a UK company, has a contract to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre some 1,600 miles off the West Coast of Australia, which houses thousands of asylum seekers. The detainees at the overcrowded facility are experiencing serious mental health problems that union organizers say are a result of poor training and understaffing.A federal jury has acquitted former Guantánamo prisoner Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one charge in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. After five days of deliberations, the jury found Ghailani not guilty on 284 of 285 counts. Although the lone guilty verdict came on a minor conspiracy charge, he still faces a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a maximum of life. Ghailani was the first former Guantánamo prisoner tried in a U.S. civilian court.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada.
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Recent raids on two wildlife charities in Thailand have caused outrage in wildlife protection circles. These incidents have been interpreted as an attempt to intimidate and silence wildlife conservationists speaking out about illegal elephant trading within the country. Suspicions as to the complicity of Thai authorities in the trade of elephants are well-founded, and are likely to be behind efforts to muzzle campaigners, writes Susannah Waters . Read more...
by William Kaufman / April 23rd, 2012 On Tuesday, April 10, Ralph Nader announced his support for the presidential candidacy of Rocky Anderson, former Democrat, former mayor of Salt Lake City, and standard bearer of the fledgling Justice Party. On that day Nader spoke at a press conference alongside Anderson in Portland, Oregon, where Anderson had just gained ballot status by receiving the nod from that state’s Progressive Party.