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The Drug That Saves Addicts: FDA Will Discuss Making Naloxone Over-the-Counter

Maia Szalavitz, The Fix. March 31, 2012.

Naloxone is a cheap, safe drug that could save countless people from overdosing on heroin and other opiates. So why isn't it in every first-aid kit?

What Really Killed Andrew Breitbart? The Likely Cause of Death The Mainstream Media Ignored

Maer Roshan, Hunter R. Slayton, The Fix. March 8, 2012.

Not a single mainstream media outlet or website dared to publicly raise the question of substances. Instead, the media began giving airtime to right-wing conspiracy theories.

A Vast Right-Wing Digg Conspiracy Expose Shows JournoList Scandal to Be a Lot of Conservative Hot Air

Zach Carter, AlterNet. August 7, 2010.

Take note, right-wing scandalmongers, this is what a politically motivated media conspiracy looks like.

Right-Wing House Members Claim Vast Intern Islamo-Conspiracy?!

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. October 15, 2009.

The ugly intersection of paranoia, bigotry and McCarthyism.

Birther Insanity Continues to Spiral Out of Control

Tintin, Sadly, No!. August 4, 2009.

Check out the latest.

Why We Can't Ignore the Birthers

Gary Younge, Comment Is Free. August 3, 2009.

The "birthers" might be crazy, but so was Whitewater, which ended with impeachment, and the Swift Boaters, who helped torpedo John Kerry.

Somehow, Wingnuts Have Decided Swine Flu Vaccine Will Lead to Genocide

Steven D., Booman Tribune. July 30, 2009.

With Obama in charge, they "reason", the vast left wing one world government conspiracy can implement its plan for mass genocide.

Washington Post Defends Birther Coverage

BarbinMD, Daily Kos. July 29, 2009.

You really cannot make this crap up.

CNN's Howard Kurtz Criticizes CNN's Lou Dobbs For Giving Airtime To 'Birther' Conspiracies

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress. July 27, 2009.

Dobbs is now getting attacked on his own network.

Crazy "Birther" Conspiracy Theories Get Boost in Mainstream Media

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 24, 2009.

The movement is a sinister attempt to paint Obama as illegitimate, foreign, and suspect. Why are pundits like Lou Dobbs taking it seriously?

Why Does Our Government Still Spy On, Arrest and Persecute Dissidents?

Emily Spence, Consortium News. June 30, 2009.

One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions.

Palin's Political Payback To Her Black-Helicopter Buddies

David Neiwert, Firedoglake. September 23, 2008.

Sarah Palin has some far-right fringe friends back in Wasilla, Alaska.

Who Orchestrated the Fall of Bear Stearns?

Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. August 15, 2008.

Americans know all the sleazy details of the Edwards affair. But they remain in the dark about a scandal that affects the livelihoods of millions.

Christopher Hitchens' Holocaust Denying Buddy Speaks in NYC

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. July 26, 2008.

"I think the word 'Holocaust' is odious," he told me. "It's American commercialism at its worst." -David Irving

Questioning 9/11 ... With Caution

Robert Fisk, Truthdig. September 4, 2007.

Forget the conspiracy theories. Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk just wants a few questions answered.

New JFK footage excites conspiracy theorists [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, February 20, 2007.

Of bunching coats & exit wounds...

New 9/11 video released by FBI [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, December 4, 2006.

Surveillance video from nearby hotel doesn't show plane...

Was Robert F. Kennedy Killed by the CIA? Part II [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, November 22, 2006.

A short BBC documentary re-opens the files...

The 9/11 Conspiracy of Incompetence

Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. November 15, 2006.

A new book by an Emmy Award-winning journalist chronicles the exploits of the "triple-crossing" superspy who outwitted and outgunned our intelligence agencies, Ali Mohamed.

Before the 9/11 Conspiracies, There Was the Oklahoma Bombing

Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. October 24, 2006.

Much of the faulty logic and circumstancial evidence that justifies the 9/11 conspiracies are repeats of the theories that abounded in Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing.

9/11 Conspiracy Crossfire [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, October 23, 2006.

Penn & Teller and Press for Truth...