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5 Things the Corporate Media and Government Don't Want You to Know About Marijuana
1. Long-term marijuana use is associated with lower risks of certain cancers, including head and neck cancer. 2. Most Americans acknowledge that pot is safer than booze. 3. The enforcement of marijuana laws is racially discriminatory. 4. Marijuana may be helpful, not harmful, to people with schizophrenia. 5. Workplace drug testing programs don't identify impaired employees or reduce on-the-job accidents.
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Aug 30, 2010, 10:20am
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Noam Chomsky On Israel
Interview by Kathleen Wells, Race-Talk: "Where are the strongest sources of support for Israeli actions? Well, pick the newspapers. By far the most rabid pro-Israel newspaper in the country is the Wall Street Journal. That's the journal of the business community, and it reflects the support of the business world for Israel, which is quite strong. There's a lot of high-tech investment in Israel. [Our] military industry is very close to Israeli military industry. There's a whole network of interactions. Intel, for example...
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Aug 17, 2010, 2:44pm
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The Case for Homeopathic Medicine: Consider the Historical & Scientific Evidence
The Evidence IS There: "The fact that homeopathy became extremely popular during the 19th century primarily because of its impressive successes in treating the infectious disease epidemics that raged during that time is a fact that is totally ignored by skeptics. It is highly unlikely that a placebo response is the explanation for homeopathy`s notable successes in treating epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, scarlet fever, typhoid, pneumonia, or influenza.
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Aug 11, 2010, 10:28am
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Hiroshima Pictures - They Didnt Want Us To See
"The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250,000 people and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history. However, for many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records. The American occupation forces imposed strict censorship...(Previously Published)
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Aug 6, 2010, 4:18pm
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How Our Decider-in-Chief Decides: Decisionmaking and the Obama Presidency
JOHN W. DEAN: "I believe that it is the way a president makes major decisions that is of importance. Not even a president's top staff will agree with all his actions. But a president's ability to engage in intelligent decision-making to deal with the countless matters that arrive on his desk is vital to the well-being of the nation.
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Aug 6, 2010, 4:03pm
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What the Zapatistas Can Teach Us About the Climate Crisis
With their 1994 battle cry, "Ya basta!" ("Enough already!") Mexico's Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico's movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization...Subcomandante Marcos wrote over a decade ago, "The powerful with all their money don't understand our struggle. The power of money and pride cannot understand, because there is a word which does not walk in the understanding of the great sages who sell their intelligence to the rich and the powerful. This word is dignity."
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Aug 4, 2010, 3:29pm
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Washington's Ethical Double Standard
Two standards of ethics apply in Washington, one for the well-connected and another for those less fortunate, says Robert Parry...As two longtime members of the Congressional Black Caucus – Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters – are dragged into the public square to be punished for alleged ethical indiscretions, it may be worth remembering how Official Washington responded to evidence that President George W. Bush aided and abetted his corrupt benefactors at Enron.
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Aug 3, 2010, 12:19pm
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COINTELPRO and the Omaha Two
"In 2007, veteran journalist, Michael Richardson, began writing a series of articles for OpEdNews.com about Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, who are two Black Panther political prisoners known as the Omaha Two. Richardson argues that they were framed for the 1970 murder of a policeman as part of the FBI’s notorious counterintelligence program, dubbed "COINTELPRO."
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Jul 20, 2010, 3:39pm
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Shame on The Game - EWOK - mp3
FIFA World Cup Protest: The Khulumani Support group is currently undertaking the prosecution of 5 major corporations complicit in supporting the Apartheid Government of South Africa during the struggle. These same companies are current investors in the FIFA World Cup. This track is part of a Hip Hop compilation being released in June 2010 to create awareness around this apparent lack of justice.
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Jun 14, 2010, 11:30am
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George Carlin Talks War And American Politics (Video You Tube)
"We like war. We like war. We're a war like people. We like war because we're good at it. You know why we're good at it - because we get a lot of practice. This countries' only 200 years old and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country so we're good at it. And it's a good thing we're good at it because we're not good at anything else anymore...
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Jun 5, 2010, 4:28pm
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Messing With Miranda To Fight Terrorism: Obama's Playing Politics With Limited Options
JOHN W. DEAN: "Balancing the "rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" against one another has never been easy, nor simple, for each has inherent conflicts with the others. To protect life, history tells us, it may be necessary to sacrifice liberty and happiness. But without liberty and happiness, life itself has less value.
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Jun 4, 2010, 12:17pm
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Key October Surprise Evidence Hidden
Robert Parry: "A Russian government report, which corroborated allegations that Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign interfered with President Jimmy Carter's Iran-hostage negotiations in 1980, was apparently kept from the Democratic chairman of a congressional task force that investigated the charges a dozen years later...At the Paris meeting in October 1980, “Robert Gates, at that time a staffer of the National Security Council in the administration of Jimmy Carter, and former CIA Director George Bush also took part,” the Russian report said.
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May 8, 2010, 5:37pm
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The Gross Negligence of BP -- Oil Giant's Trying to Slick Its Way Out of Controversy
Greg Palast: As a fraud investigator hired to dig into Exxon Valdez, I can see that BP's role in the devastation in Alaska is exactly the way BP is now sliming the entire Gulf Coast...In the end, this is bigger than BP and its policy of cheaping-out and skiving the rules. This is about the anti-regulatory mania...
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May 7, 2010, 12:14pm
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BOLIVIA: PEOPLES AGREEMENT
World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger...
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Apr 26, 2010, 5:36pm
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Food, Energy and Sustainability (YouTube Video: 1:11:46)
Winona La Duke speaking in Vancouver Washington in February 2010. Winona speaks at length about the work she and her people are doing in the areas of food and sustainable energy production.
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Apr 21, 2010, 12:52pm
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