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News: Environment : Food : Globalization |
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PROFESSOR CANNED FOR RELEASING PAPER ON GE CONTAMINATION |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 29 Dec 2004
Publisher: Organic Consumers Association
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12/23/2004
A well-respected and popular professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper regarding the uncontrolled contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination article was published in the science journal "Nature," was denied his tenure due to pressure from the biotech company Monsanto on the University (the UC Berkeley tenure review panel had actually voted almost unanimously to approve his tenure). Professor Chapela has been told to have his office cleaned out by December 31. Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr. Chapela's tenure denial. SIGN PETITION |
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Announcement: Media : Peace : Protest, Resistance and Direct Action |
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The Ground Truth- The Human Cost of War |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 28 Dec 2004
Publisher: Operation Truth
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Military slogans and ideals encourage thousands to join our military, and millions more to give unconditional public support when soldiers go to war. Through intimate and candid interviews with returning soldiers of all ranks, veterans, military families, and independent footage and photographs not seen on the news, The Ground Truth looks at the long-term and often invisible effects this war is having on thousands and thousands of nameless, undecorated Americans.
"This war has destroyed me. I come home at night and breakdown. I see pictures of Iraqi children with their limbs gone and wonder, 'Did I have anything to do with this? Was my unit a part of this?"
Lt. Michael Hoffman
"Just to brush my teeth is a task. My post traumatic stress from two wars, coupled with my panic attacks and depression...feeling betrayed by the military just made it worse."
Sgt. Phillip Goodrum
"You hear in the news, ‘Seven Wounded’. You never hear their names or what unit they are in. I was in Mosul when our Humvee was hit. Unfortunately, it had no doors. I’m 24…I lost my left leg.”
Sgt. Melissa Stockwell |
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A 30% Rise in Campaign Costs to Achieve the Same Turnout Rates |
Submitted by: Yoshie Furuhashi / 27 Dec 2004
Publisher: Critical Montages
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60.5% of the eligible electorate -- which was 55.8% of the voting-age population -- voted in 2004; 59.5% of the eligible electorate -- which was 54.7% of the voting-age population -- did so in 2000. In short, it took a whopping 30% rise in campaign costs to achieve practically the same turnout rates as 2000. |
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Blunt and Republicans serve up 100 percent |
Submitted by: TK / 25 Dec 2004
Publisher: eKC
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A good look at Matt Blunt's and MO Republican's baloney on tort "reform"
"Matt Blunt, Missouri’s new governor, relied heavily on medical malpractice tort reform to get elected. He promised to accomplish the “reform” by hobbling citizens’ ability to bring malpractice suits and capping damages in such suits." |
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News: Civil & Human Rights : Imperialism : International Relations : Peace |
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War Crimes |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 23 Dec 2004
Publisher: Washington Post
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War Crimes
Thursday, December 23, 2004; Page A22
THANKS TO a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups, thousands of pages of government documents released this month have confirmed some of the painful truths about the abuse of foreign detainees by the U.S. military and the CIA -- truths the Bush administration implacably has refused to acknowledge. Since the publication of photographs of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the spring the administration's whitewashers -- led by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- have contended that the crimes were carried out by a few low-ranking reservists, that they were limited to the night shift during a few chaotic months at Abu Ghraib in 2003, that they were unrelated to the interrogation of prisoners and that no torture occurred at the Guantanamo Bay prison where hundreds of terrorism suspects are held. The new documents establish beyond any doubt that every part of this cover story is false. |
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: Civil & Human Rights : Democracy |
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Putting Corporations on the Couch |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 22 Dec 2004
Publisher: Ted Nace, Dragonfly Review, posted on Alternet
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An article posted last June on Alternet that I missed at the time. Good piece about corporate personhood and the book The Corporation.
"Like the classic psychopath, corporations are singularly self-interested, manipulative and shallow. A new book applies psychological tests to today's superhuman corporate behemoths." |
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News: Privatization : Right Wing |
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Saving Social Security: Where do your Legislators stand? |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 21 Dec 2004
Publisher: Save Social Security Blog -linked to on Alternet
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First step on Social Security
You can help document where the representatives and senators of the incoming 109th Congress stand on the "privatization" of Social Security. An enterprising group of individuals has put together a blog that will count each and every member of Congress. You can help by calling and writing your local politician to get a clear answer on whether they are for or against any tampering with Social Security. Send in the results, and then the politician is accounted for. It will be a lot harder for squirmy politicians to hide their true colors after they've made a public statement.
Posted by Jan on December 21, 2004 @ 9:52AM. |
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Kicking a Dead Man |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 18 Dec 2004
Publisher: By Marc Cooper, LA Weekly. Posted on Alternet
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First the L.A. Times helped kill off reporter Gary Webb's career. Then, eight years later, after Webb committed suicide, it publishes a scandalous and shameful obituary. |
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