Investigations

Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'

By Karen McVeigh / The Guardian

A former technician responsible for investigating and managing groundwater contamination for New York State opens up about risks from fracking.

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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

“Free Pancho!”: the Occupy Movement Steps Up for Immigrant Rights

By Cloee Cooper / Imagine 2050

Haiti: Where the Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go

By Bill Quigley, Anna Ramanauskas / AlterNet

'Spontaneous' Combustion: Can Bodies Burn From the Inside Out?

Petraeus' Love Affair Becomes Tangled, Shakespearean Web

Sick: Government Sprayed Radioactive Chemicals on Poor People in Science Experiment, Study Claims

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Investigations

Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan

Brett Israel / Environmental Health News

Kids, Minivans, and Drug-Dealing: How the Recession Pulls Ordinary Families Into the Weed Game

Tony D'Souza / Mother Jones

Are Crackpot Liars Being Used to Tie Iran to 9/11?

Gareth Porter / TruthOut.org

We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?

Jill Richardson / AlterNet

L.A.'s Dirty Coal Addiction Is Killing Arizona

Joshua Frank / AlterNet

Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery

Peter Birkenhead / Salon

Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities?

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off

David Rosen / AlterNet

The 10 Most Dangerous Meds Driving America's Pill Crisis

Kevin Gray / The Fix

Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

GOP Voter Suppression Plan: Seven Tactics To Block Your Vote in 2012

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Study: Why Teen Pot Smoking Could be a Good Thing (And What We Can Learn From Teens Who Choose Weed Over Beer)

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices

Simon Waxman / AlterNet

The Little-Known, Inside Story About How Newt Became the Man He Is

Max Blumenthal / Nation Books

Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

How Finance Vultures Feed off the Poor As They Fight to Climb Out of Poverty

Kai Wright / The Nation

8 Stories Buried By the Corporate Media That You Need to Know About

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Christian Fundamentalists and Private Military Contractors? The Strange Bedfellows of the Sex Slavery Anti-Trafficking Movement

Emi Koyama / Bitch Magazine

The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?

Adam Federman / Earth Island Journal

Explosive New Report: CEO Pay Skyrocketed 27% Last Year, Top 10 Earners Pocket More Than $770 Million Between Then

Dominic Rushe / The Guardian

$806 Billion Spent for Hundreds of Thousands to Be Killed and Wounded: The Staggering, True Costs of the Iraq War

Matthew Duss, Peter Juul / Center for American Progress

'Global Battlefield' Provision Allowing Indefinite Detention of Citizens Accused of Terror Could Pass This Week

Rania Khalek / AlterNet

Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]

Nina Berman / AlterNet

Startling New Evidence Shows US Troops Helped Despotic Regimes Battle the Arab Spring Uprisings

Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com

The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

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