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Egg Recall — “Consolidation Putting Consumers at Risk”
PATTY LOVERA Assistant director of Food & Water Watch, Lovera said today: “This egg recall is not a fluke. It’s just the latest example of how the consolidation of food production puts consumers at risk. This particular recall is about two production facilities responsible for over 550 million eggs under 30 different labels, but large…
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Assassination Squad in Afghanistan
PRATAP CHATTERJEE Chatterjee just wrote the piece “The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373,” which draws on the Afghanistan field reports recently exposed by WikiLeaks and now organized at DiaryDig.org. The piece states: “Task Force 373 may be a nightmare for Afghans. For the rest of us — now that WikiLeaks has…
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How Fox Used “Raw Corporate Power” to Crush a Critic
BARRY NOLAN The media watch group FAIR reports: “Boston TV newscaster Barry Nolan was outraged to learn back in 2008 that Fox host Bill O’Reilly was getting an award from the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. So Nolan made flyers documenting various O’Reilly outrages and distributed them at the…
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Islam — and War
DONNA MARSH O’CONNOR TALAT HAMDANI O’Connor and Hamdani are members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. O’Connor’s daughter was killed in the 9/11 attacks. Hamdani is a Pakistani-American living in New York. Her son, Salman, was a New York City police cadet who disappeared on 9/11 and was wrongfully accused of participating in the…
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Petraeus Media Blitz
NORMAN SOLOMON, http://www.normansolomon.com Solomon today wrote the piece “Gen. Petraeus Goes to Media War,” which states: “Let’s be clear about what’s happening here. The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, with the evident approval of the White House, has launched a fierce media blitz to cripple the policy option of any significant military withdrawal a…
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Big Polluters Funding Initiative to Gut California Environmental Law
AP reported earlier this week: “The Texas-based oil companies that are the primary backers of a November ballot effort to suspend California’s global warming law are among the state’s biggest polluters, according to a report issued Tuesday by two groups advocating for inner-city residents. “Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. have contributed more than $4.5…
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Iraq to Iran: Propaganda for War
RAY McGOVERN McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years and is on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He just wrote the piece “A Neocon Preps U.S. for War with Iran,” which states: “I guess I was naïve in thinking that The Atlantic and its American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg might shy…
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BP Oil: “Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even When It’s Not Out of Sight)”
DAHR JAMAIL Currently in Florida, independent journalist Jamail is on his way to New Orleans. He has written a string of investigative pieces on the effects of the oil leak in the Gulf. He recently co-wrote “Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even When It’s Not Out of Sight).” He also just wrote: “Gulf Coast…
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Would Google-Verizon Deal Hurt Innovation and Independent Voices?
SUSAN CRAWFORD Available for a limited number of interviews, Crawford is former special assistant to the president for science, technology, and innovation policy (2009). She now teaches at the Cardozo Law School and is a visiting researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. She is quoted in Time Magazine: “It’s the next Google…
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Pakistan: “Zardari’s Katrina”
FATIMA BHUTTO Bhutto just wrote the piece “Zardari’s Katrina: Why is Pakistan’s president junketing while his people drown?” — which states: “This week, Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, boarded a private Gulfstream jet along with his family and his hundreds-large entourage to visit the European countries included on the president’s grand tour. Yesterday, Zardari —…