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China Begins Enforcing Stricter GMO Regulations Than The U.S.
China Begins Enforcing Stricter GMO Regulations Than The U.S. By May 25, 2013
In a blow to the controversial genetically modified food manufacturers that contribute up to 80 percent of the U.S. processed food market, China’s government is cracking down on the product, outlawing shipments of genetically modified...
Report: Syrian Government Might Attend U.S./Russia-Brokered Talks With Opposition
Report: Syrian Government Might Attend U.S./Russia-Brokered Talks With Opposition By
BEIRUT — The Syrian government has agreed “in principle” to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country’s civil war, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first confirmation that President Bashar Assad’s...
Iraq Today: America’s Imperial Legacy
Iraq Today: America’s Imperial Legacy By
U.S. imperial wars reflect mass slaughter, widespread destruction, ecocide, resource theft, exploitation, unspeakable human pain, suffering and misery, as well as permanent occupation. Washington came to Iraq to stay. U.S. military and other security elements infest the...
Americans Increasingly Travel To Cuba As Tight Restrictions Begin To Loosen
Americans Increasingly Travel To Cuba As Tight Restrictions Begin To Loosen By
For more than 50 years, the U.S. has imposed a strict blockade against Cuba, a punitive measure implemented during the Cold War when Fidel Castro developed a close alliance with the Soviet Union. Long after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. continues to...
Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE
Short-Sighted: NCLB Taking Students In Wrong Direction By Cutting Recess, PE By
Fourth-grade student Kevin Killion listens attentively to his daily class lesson, all the while walking at a moderate pace on a classroom treadmill. “It gets oxygen in your brain,” the fourth grader told Mint Press News. “I feel like I get a lot of oxygen so I can...
Drone Schools Suggest Inevitability Of Drones In Everyday Life
Drone Schools Suggest Inevitability Of Drones In Everyday Life By
This week, the United States Navy launched its drone prototype, the X-47B, from the deck of the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of Maryland. The X-47B is the first drone that has proven successful in launching from and landing on an aircraft carrier, giving the military...
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares
Peace Activists Face Terrorism Charges For Trying To Turn Reactor Into Plowshares By
On June 28, 2012, three longtime peace activists — Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 and Michael Walli, 63 — cut through a chain-link fence surrounding a nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., which had signs saying “No Trespassing.”...
Wal-Mart Opts To Not Sign Garment Factory Safety Agreement, Creates Own Policy
Wal-Mart Opts To Not Sign Garment Factory Safety Agreement, Creates Own Policy By
After clothing brands for many Western-owned retailers were found in the rubble of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh last month, many fashion brands have announced plans to improve worker safety. The collapse killed more than 1,100 people...
Scandals With Traction?
Scandals With Traction? By
Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than Watergate. The noise machine is in full cry. The...
US, Canada To Boycott UN Disarmament Talks — After Iran Is Appointed Chair
US, Canada To Boycott UN Disarmament Talks — After Iran Is Appointed Chair By
MONTREAL — Canada and the United States are boycotting the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, which will be taken over by Iran later this month. The conference, which runs from May 27 until June 23, is the world’s most important forum for nuclear disarmament...