Is Nanotechnology Safe?
Nanotechnology makes use of minuscule objects—whose width can be 10,000 times narrower than a human hair—known as nanoparticles. Upwards of 600 products on store shelves today contain them, including transparent sunscreen, lipsticks, anti-aging creams and even food products.
Podcast #99: Public Healthcare Option. Yes We Can.
On this episode, will meaningful health care reform with a public option pass? We talk with Flavio Casoy, a medical student and an activist for universal health care reform, about the particulars of the debate and the need to build broad unity in order to win.
International Online Forum on Cuban Five Held
NUEVA GERONA, May 16 (acn) An Internet Forum promoted by Cuban journalists on the cause of the five antiterrorist Cubans held in US jails received the solidarity and support of people in several nations of the world.
State Lawmakers Urge Comprehensive Healthcare Reform
In an open letter to President Obama circulated this week, more than 100 state lawmakers urged speedy passage this year of meaningful health care reform, according to a press statement from the Progressive States Network (PSN).
Putting a Smiley Face on the Job Picture Can't Evade the Growing Tragedy
Michael T. Darda, chief economist at the research and trading firm MKM Partners, probably summed up last week's message from Washington best, telling the New York Times, 'Less bad is always a prelude to good.'
Lawrence Wilkerson Drops an Iraq-Torture Bombshell
The 'smoking gun' of the Iraq-Torture Scandal will be proof that the CIA took Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi away from the FBI in February 2002 and sent him to Egypt for one specific reason: to use torture to extract a false confession of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties.
Stimulus Funds Beginning to Jump-start Economy
With about 12 percent of the President's economic recovery act funds distributed, some 150,000 jobs have been saved or created, according to a new report released this week by Vice President Biden, who heads the White House Task Force on Working Families.
Union Gains as Hyundai India Strike Ends
Indian autoworkers at Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) and members of the Hyundai Motor India Employees' Union (HMIEU) ended their work stoppage and hunger strike after management agreed to a number of worker demands, mediated by the Tamil Nadu District Commissioner of Labor.
Newly Declassified Documents Show USAID to Separatists in Bolivia
Recently declassified documents obtained by investigators Jeremy Bigwood and Eva Golinger reveal that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has invested more than $97 million in “decentralization” and “regional autonomy” projects and opposition political parties in Bolivia since 2002.
Detailed Look at Healthcare Reform in 2009
According to a survey conducted in March of this year by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Americans overwhelmingly (76 percent) believe that the health system is in need of fundamental change or should be completely rebuilt.
