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Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year

Stan Cox
AlterNet
The debate over dropping junk food from the nation’s biggest nutrition program cuts across the political spectrum in unpredictable ways.

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Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer

Sean McElwee
AlterNet
Why “more guns, less crime?” is the wrong question to ask.

Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other

Robert Reich
Robert Reich's Blog
International corporations have no national allegiance, they care only for profit. Meanwhile, people all over the world are becoming increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic.

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12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebook by Alleged Attackers

Alex Kane
AlterNet
Three teenagers are accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and then posting the attack on Facebook.

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The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Paul Buchheit
AlterNet
Big business is making its way around the world like a modern-day Attila the Hun, pillaging and despoiling the planet.
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Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police -- Or Face 1 Year in Jail

Ian Millhiser / Think Progress  

Former "Hero" Cop Accused of Raping Women at Gun Point

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued

Bill Moyers: 12 Ways You Can Avoid Toxic Chemicals

Lauren Feeney / Bill Moyers

What is Paper Terrorism? Anti-Gov't Nuts File Tens of Thousands of False Docs as "Sovereign Citizens"

Jillian Rayfield / Salon

Traffic Ticket Camera Company Channels Kafka, Threatening Court Appearances, Even Though "No Such Court Exists"

Courthouse News

The Other IRS Scandal: Outright War Against Marijuana Dispensaries

Will Banksters at JPMorgan Chase Finally Pay for Their Misdeeds?

Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Colombian Union Leader?

Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

Towns' Latino Community Totally Unsurprised That Police Beat Man to Death for No Reason and Tried to Cover it Up

Sandy Close and Raj Jayadev / New America Media

How the US Turned Three Pacifists Into 'Multiple Felony Saboteurs'

Fran Quigley / AlterNet

Outrageous Attacks on Supporters of Church-State Separation: Death Threats, Murdered Pets, and Vandalized Property

Adam Lee / AlterNet

How a Well-Meaning Progressive Accidentally Launched Powerball Lottery Industry Across America

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Inside the Controversy Over Man Charged with Murder for Slipping an Abortion Pill to Pregnant Girlfriend

Can America Come to Terms with Boston Bombing Suspect's Stated Motives?

Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia

Joseph Bennington-Castro / io9

Only the Koch Brothers Could Make Rupert Murdoch Look Like Journalism’s Savior

Eric Alterman / The Nation

Elizabeth Warren Is Turning Out as Good as Promised

Robert Scheer / Truthdig

Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Alaska Must Be Stopped

Subhankar Banerjee / Seven Stories Press  

Fuel on a Mideast Fire: U.S. Intervention in Syria Would Make Catastrophic Situation Even Worse

Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection

Being a Democracy Hating, Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family

Yasha Levine / Not Safe for Work Corporation

6 Key Takeaways From the Stupidity and Reality of IRS 'Scandal'

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Punk at the Met: For People Who've Never Had to Safety-Pin Their Clothes

Ayesha Adamo / AlterNet

How America's Endless Civil War Between Protestant Sects Is at the Heart of American Identity

Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead

Synthetic Marijuana Turns People Into Zombies, Says Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda

My Friend, the Murderer

Will the West's Big Plans to Remake the Mideast Set the World Up for More Disaster?

Patrick Cockburn / CounterPunch

Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

7 Teenagers Arrested for End-Of-Year Water Balloon Prank

Cornel West Warns of Rising Authoritarianism: “You Can Get Killed Out Here Trying to Tell the Truth!”

The Surprising Reasons Why Women Cheat

10 Ridiculous Christian Right Prophesies

Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent

Jed Morey / AlterNet

NYPD Arrested and Committed Woman to Psychiatric Ward for Legally Baring Breasts

Courthouse News

Hospitals Should be Care Providers not Loan Sharks

Deborah Burger / AlterNet

Colbert Deconstructs 3D Printed Guns

Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself

Republican Congressman: 'Abortion on Demand' Causes School Shootings

Ian Millhiser / Think Progress  

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5 Worst Obama Assaults on Civil Liberties Besides the AP scandal

The Tragedy of Self Immolation - No One Cares Anymore

Andrew Lam / New America Media

Billionaires Now Own American Politics

Andy Kroll / TomDispatch

How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods

Ronnie Cummins / AlterNet

How the 1% Touches Everything We Own

Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours

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