Koch Operative Steered $55 Million to Front Groups Airing Ads Against Democrats; Ads Assailed Candidates Over Abortion, 9/11, Medicare
By Lee Fang / Republic Report
The Koch brothers are eager to present themselves as small-government libertarians, but their grants to front groups suggest a different set of priorities.
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The Enviro Disaster You Know Nothing About: The Eco-Devastating Quest for "Frac Sand" in Rural America
By Ellen Cantarow
TomDispatch.com
Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility
By Siddhartha Mahanta
American Independent News Network
ALEC and ExxonMobil Push Loopholes in Fracking Chemical Disclosure Rules
By Cora Currier
ProPublica
How Christian Groups Push Right-Wing Religion With the Help of Your Tax Dollars
By Sofia Resnick
American Independent News Network


Inside the Growing Prescription Pill Epidemic That's Ravaging Communities
By Evelyn Nieves / AlterNet and Salon
Workers Collapsing While Making Your H&M Clothes and Puma Shoes: Where's the Mass Outcry?
By Anne Elizabeth Moore / TruthOut.org
Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans
By Scott Keyes, Ian Millhiser, Tobin Van Ostern, Abraham White / Center for American Progress
Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track Your Emails and Phone Calls
By Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, James Bamford / Democracy Now!
The ALEC Connection to Trayvon Martin Slaying
By Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America
How an Anti-Democratic, Corporate-Friendly Pennsylvania Law Has Elevated the Battle Over Fracking to a Civil Rights Fight
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania's Act 13 May Be the Nation's Worst Corporate Giveaway
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What Are We Really Eating? Reporter Goes Undercover to Reveal the Real Story of Our Broken Food System
By Kerry Trueman / AlterNet
Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise Questions About Mayor's Control of Police
By Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet
Revealed: How Syngenta Investigated the Press and Shaped the News About its Controversial Weed-Killer Atrazine
By Beau Hodai, Lisa Graves / PR Watch
Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012 Elections
By Lee Fang / Republic Report
Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash
By Lee Fang / AlterNet
Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters: Cities Already Turning Into Mini-Police States for the Political Conventions
By Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes
By Scott Thill / AlterNet
Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'
By Karen McVeigh / The Guardian
Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle
By Michael Hudson / The Center for Public Integrity
7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
By Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan
By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News
Kids, Minivans, and Drug-Dealing: How the Recession Pulls Ordinary Families Into the Weed Game
By Tony D'Souza / Mother Jones
Are Crackpot Liars Being Used to Tie Iran to 9/11?
By Gareth Porter / TruthOut.org
We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
L.A.'s Dirty Coal Addiction Is Killing Arizona
By Joshua Frank / AlterNet

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