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US Senate Cuts $4.5B From Food Stamps Program, Potentially Leaving Millions Hungry

Archives for June 2012

Lawsuits Plague Monsanto, Giving Hope To Farmers Worldwide

(MintPress) – In April, it was reported that multinational agricultural corporation, Monsanto, is likely playing a hand in what is possibly the largest wave of recorded suicides in history as Indian farmers were taking their own lives at a rate of one suicide every 30 minutes. Now, five million Brazilian farmers are banding together to file […]

Joey LeMay
By Joey LeMay
A farmer harvests wheat during harvest season, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

(MintPress) – In April, it was reported that multinational agricultural corporation, Monsanto, is likely playing a hand in what is possibly the largest wave of recorded suicides in history as Indian farmers were taking their own lives at a rate of one suicide every 30 minutes. Now, five million Brazilian farmers are banding together to file a

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More Than Half Of NYC’s African American Population Is Jobless

(NEW YORK) MintPress – Another day,  another disappointment on the unemployment front. The Labor Department reported Thursday that although new jobless claims dropped to 387,000 from 389,000 the previous week, the four-week moving average — considered a more accurate indication of the state of the jobs market — surged 3,500 to 386,250, which is a six-month […]

Lisa Barron
By Lisa Barron
Lacqrecia Verley, center, Daniqua Williams, second from right, and Seiella Springer, right, join a line of hundreds of people seeking to apply for employment in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(NEW YORK) MintPress – Another day,  another disappointment on the unemployment front. The Labor Department reported Thursday that although new jobless claims dropped to 387,000 from 389,000 the previous week, the four-week moving average — considered a more accurate indication of the state of the jobs market — surged 3,500 to 386,250, which is

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33 Convicted Of Sex Crimes Could Be Exonerated By Virginia DNA Project

(MintPress) – As many as 33 Virginia residents convicted of sexual assaults could be exonerated based upon a new DNA project. After conducting an exhaustive study, the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social research center, found 33 among the ranks of Virginia’s prison population who are innocent of crimes they could not have committed. Those […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
Thomas Hanesworth, who spent 27 years behind bars, center, gestures during a press conference with Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, left, and Shawn Armbrust, of the Mid Atlantic Innocence Project, right, in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Haynesworth was exonerated of two 1984 sexual assault convictions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

(MintPress) – As many as 33 Virginia residents convicted of sexual assaults could be exonerated based upon a new DNA project. After conducting an exhaustive study, the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social research center, found 33 among the ranks of Virginia’s prison population who are innocent of crimes they could not have committed.

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North Carolina Senate Says ‘No’ To Payouts For Victims Secretly Sterilized By Government

(MintPress) – Thousands of women who fell victim to forced sterilization by the government are losing their fight for reparations in North Carolina, where the Senate recently voted against a measure that would have awarded such women $50,000 for the loss of a portion of their body and any hope of having children. Those who opposed […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
Elaine Riddick, right, is comforted by her son Tony Riddick as she testifies before the Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation task force compensation hearing in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

(MintPress) – Thousands of women who fell victim to forced sterilization by the government are losing their fight for reparations in North Carolina, where the Senate recently voted against a measure that would have awarded such women $50,000 for the loss of a portion of their body and any hope of having children. Those who opposed the measure

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What You Need To Know About The New Greek Government

(GREECE) – So Greece has a government. A three-party, left-right coalition with a commitment to change agreements European leaders claim can’t be changed, reform an economy that no one has been able to budge for decades and find a pathway to growth that no political leadership in Europe or the United States has been able […]

John Nordin
By John Nordin
New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, center, and the ministers of a new cabinet , leave the Presidential palace after the Cabinet swearing in ceremony in Athens, Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

(GREECE) - So Greece has a government. A three-party, left-right coalition with a commitment to change agreements European leaders claim can’t be changed, reform an economy that no one has been able to budge for decades and find a pathway to growth that no political leadership in Europe or the United States has been able to articulate, let alone

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Israel Declared An Apartheid State

(CHICAGO) – Colonialism and apartheid breach international law. The 1973 International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) called it state-sanctioned discriminatory “inhuman” racism “committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
israel breaking international law

(CHICAGO) - Colonialism and apartheid breach international law. The 1973 International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) called it state-sanctioned discriminatory "inhuman" racism "committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons

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