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MJ Urine Detection Time Shorter Than Previously Assumed
Marijuana Detection Time Shorter Than Previously Assumed
Maternal Marijuana Use Not Associated With Childhood Leukemia, Study Says...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:30pm PST
Danny Schechter Calls For March 21 Protests Targeting Media's Complicity in the Iraq War
We are joined today in our Firehouse studio by Danny Schechter the News Dissector – veteran journalist, media critic and co-founder of mediachannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network. Schechter discusses the upcoming anti-war and media protest day, dangers journalists face in Iraq, coverage of the war, and more. And we play an excerpt of his documentary "Weapons of Mass Deception."...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 7:35am PST
Financial Times columnist warns about social inequality in US
The Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan, one of the first monetarist economists in Britain, has issued a warning that the United States cannot allow the gap between the pay of top executives and the rest of society to continue to grow on the present scale. He calls for redistributive taxation to redress the situation....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
Lawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president
The resignation this week of Lawrence Summers from the post he has held for the last five years as president of Harvard has provoked an extraordinary firestorm of political controversy far from the ivied halls of what has long been considered one of the premier US universities....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
U.S. occupation of Iraq assailed from all sides
As protest and opposition grow, war-makers step up air attacks...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 11:21pm PST
NSA Spy Scandal Enough to Bring Down the House (audio/mpeg 1.2MB)
This 1 minute audio clip is proof enough to warrant impeachment.
This is not new news, but it's been buried by the flood of scandals. There are so many scandals, the left is continually diverted by the next big scandal. Enough of that BUllSHit. This is undeniable evidence, using Bush's own words to prove that he is lying....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 5:12pm PST
Tell Senators to Oppose Patriot Act
PATRIOT Act Up for Senate Vote on Tuesday, Feb. 28...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 4:51pm PST
South Dakota Bans Abortion
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota (PPMNS) denounced the South Dakota Senate's vote to ban abortion today. PPFA and PPMNS announced they will fight the ban in court to protect Planned Parenthood patients....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 4:07pm PST
How the Feds make bad food cheaper than good food, Grist, 20060222
CORN SYRUP is deadly and subsidized...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:17pm PST
South Dakota bans all abortions. reject exceptions for Women' health
February 23, 2006
Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:01pm PST
Ecosystem and labor under attack in Florida
Florida's ecosystems, human and civil rights all coming under attack by corporate influenced development. Some ideas for local communities in FL to regain their health, land and dignity from profit hungry corporations....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:41am PST
Alistair Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush
We spend the hour with legendary South African editor and reporter Allister Sparks. Sparks gained fame as editor of South Africa's Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he helped bring down a South African Prime Minister. He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko at the hands of South Africa's security forces. In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Sparks discusses wiretapp...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:02am PST
Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students
Denying educational opportunities to children of undocumented immigrants is un-American and self-destructive. Congress must pass the DREAM Act for the country’s sake....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
Dubai's Port of No Return
Don't jump to conclusions, but there are ties between the UAE, bin Laden, and the Taliban...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 6:39am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed
nps.gov kills...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:56am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed
In the past two months, Yellowstone National Park rangers have captured and slaughtered nearly 900 wild buffalo....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:24pm PST
Populist #23
On the Executive Branch; Relating to War Powers, continued...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:34pm PST
Sacred Run from California to Washington, DC
All Life is Sacred Run...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:25am PST
10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North
A recently announced contract for a Halliburton subsidiary to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists." Scott is author of "Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). He is completing a book on "The Road to 9/11." Visit his Web site at http:/...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:26am PST
Right-wing posturing from Congress on Arab firm’s role at US ports
Congressional leaders of both parties are engaged in a cynical publicity stunt in their criticism of the Bush administration for approving the takeover of commercial operations at six Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports by a port management company owned by the government of Dubai, a Persian Gulf sheikdom that is part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:23am PST