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Archives for October 2013

Are Voters In Washington State Losing Interest In Labeling GMOs?

Polls show waning support for a GMO-labeling ballot initiative amid claims that its passage could lead to higher costs.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

While consumer advocates are lobbying in Washington state for guidelines that would require labeling for foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), there’s a question over whether such measures would be effective in ridding the food supply of GMOs altogether. Currently, 64 countries around the world require GMO labeling, including

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White Supremacist Coup-Plotters Sentenced In South Africa

A group of South Africans has been found responsible for a series of bombings and a failed plot to murder Nelson Mandela.

Jo Erickson
By Jo Erickson

Tuesday’s sentencing of several White supremacists hopefully closes a brutal and bloody chapter of South Africa’s apartheid past. Mike du Toit, the mastermind behind a White supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive Blacks out of South Africa, has been jailed for 35 years after a decade-long trial. Mike du Toit, his brother Andre

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How Corporations Monopolize Public Services On The Taxpayer’s Dime

More and more, the free market is suspended for the contractors that never have to deal with the worry of competing bids.

Edward Rhymes
By Edward Rhymes

The combination of the privatization of crucial public services and the prominence of no-bid government contracts has produced an interesting result — a virtual end run around, at least, the spirit of anti-trust laws. In private political monopolies, the company or corporation really has one prevailing bottom line: please the politicians that are

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How Does The Global War On Terror Ever End?

It is the question all Americans must ask themselves, and it lingers painfully.

Barack Obama

  On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he had promised when he began his first campaign for president six years earlier, he pledged again to turn the page on history and take U.S. foreign policy in a different direction. “A decade of war is now ending,” Obama

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Scottish Nationalists Crank Up Independence Drive

But as the country prepares for a historic vote on whether to leave the UK next year, the numbers aren’t looking good.

Global Post
By Global Post

PERTH, Scotland — Alex Salmond isn’t subtle about getting his message across. Standing on stage in front of a Saltire, the Scottish flag, and a digital clock ticking down to September 18, 2014 — the date set for a referendum on his country’s leaving the United Kingdom — the Scottish first minister and leader of the ruling Scottish National Party

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Judge Strikes Down Key Provision Of Texas Anti-Choice Law

Ruling overturns sweeping cuts to abortion access but leaves restrictions on medical abortions in place.

Common Dreams
By Common Dreams

In what reproductive justice advocates are hailing as a partial victory, a federal court struck down Monday a provision of the controversial Texas HB 2 anti-choice law that would have made abortion inaccessible for a third of all Texas women. Yet the ruling upheld the bill's provision for reduced access to medical abortions. U.S. District

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