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White Americans Are The Biggest Terror Threat In The United States

Archives for November 2015

Your Thanksgiving Leftovers Could Be Helping To Stop Antibiotic-Resistant Diseases

Labeling on turkeys can be confusing and misleading, but buying an organic, humanely-raised turkey offers clear benefits.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
In this Nov. 12, 2010 photograph, Narragansett, Bourbon Red, Chocolate, Standard Bronze and Black Spanish Heritage turkeys feed on organic grain at Stone Pony Farm in Westport, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

MINNEAPOLIS --- As shoppers consider their holiday poultry options, they’ll find a confusing array of labels on their potential turkeys. Rather than searching for keywords like “hormone-free” to “cage-free,” a leading consumer watchdog group is urging buyers to look for “organic” instead. According to Consumer Reports, a growing number of health

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Emails Reveal How Coca-Cola Controlled Anti-Obesity Group

“Akin to a political campaign, we will develop, deploy and evolve a powerful and multi-faceted strategy to counter radical organizations and their proponents.”

NZ Herald
By NZ Herald
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

A nonprofit founded to combat obesity says the $1.5 million it received from Coke has no influence on its work. But emails obtained by The Associated Press show the world's largest beverage maker was instrumental in shaping the Global Energy Balance Network, which is led by a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Coke

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Pressure Mounting On David Cameron To Investigate Saudi Support Of ISIS

Internal political pressure in mounting to rethink the UK’s relationship with the it’s gulf allies.

RT
By RT
Prime Minister David Cameron pictured in 2012 meeting former Saudi King Abdullah.

Prime Minister David Cameron must examine financial links between UK-allied Gulf regimes and terror groups, or risk facing awkward questions about Conservative Party links to “rich Arab Gulf individuals,” says former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown. Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine program on Tuesday, Ashdown – who is also a former soldier

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Why White Terrorists Aren’t Called “Terrorists”

The white supremacists who shot Black Lives Matter protestors qualify as terrorists—but we won’t call them that.

Salon
By Salon
Dylann Roof, responsible for a politically motivated killing rampage in a black church is rarely defined as a terrorist by most media.

The script has gotten familiar by now: Ideologically driven Muslim or foreigner does something violent and awful, and they are dubbed a terrorist. Ideologically driven white person does something violent and awful, and the term rarely comes up. That’s the way the latest act of public violence – the shooting, by white supremacists, of five Black

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Despite Efforts, Thousands Of Vets Across The Country Remain Homeless

Studies show that homeless veterans are disproportionately black or Hispanic, and overwhelmingly male, but some cities are already seeing positive results from recent campaigns to end homelessness among the country’s veterans.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Homeless veteran James Thomas, 62, who was sleeping along the Miami River, talks with officials from the Veteran's Administration during the Point In Time Homeless Census, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

MINNEAPOLIS --- Despite the success of some nationwide efforts at ending homelessness among veterans, as many as 50,000 remain homeless. Because of the transient nature of the homeless population, exact figures are hard to come by. But a January 2014 report from the Housing and Urban Development Department cited the annual Point-in-Time Count of

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The ‘Grinch’ That Stole Water: Nestlé Illegally Bottles 68,000 Gallons Of Water A Day In Drought-Stricken California

“In 2014 alone an estimated 28 million gallons were … sold under Nestlé’s Arrowhead brand,” noted one environmental group that’s suing the company for illegal bottling.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Nestle brand Arrowhead water bottlers. (Screenshot)

SACRAMENTO, California --- Activists are preparing to disrupt business at a Nestlé bottled water plant for a third time as the corporation continues to bottle millions of gallons of water in California amid an historic drought. Scheduled for Dec. 4, the protest marks the third time the “Crunch Nestlé Alliance” will target the corporation’s

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