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Green Power And Wellness – More Election Theft? – 04/01/13

ELECTION THEFT AND THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY are center stage as BOB FITRAKIS joins the Green Power & Wellness Show to talk about the litany of ways we are denied our voice.   A new generation of Jim Crow laws deny people of color, elders, young people, poor people and …

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Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water Supply

Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions …

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From Texas to Quatar, U.S. does Nothing to Protect the Planet

In East Texas, members of the Tar Sands Blockade started their eleventh week of opposition to construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline with a new act of civil disobedience against the onrush of global warming, sealing themselves inside a mile-long segment of the pipeline itself. In Doha, Qatar, other protestors at the U.N. World Climate Conference found themselves in just as dark and …

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Stephen Lendman — World Social Forum Free Palestine

The World Social Forum calls itself “an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neoliberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely …

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Green Power And Wellness – Legalized – 11/26/12

  LEGAL MARIJUANA, NO MORE DRUG WAR & GETTING TO PAPER BALLOTS are at this greatly liberated GREEN POWER & WELLNESS SHOW. HarveyW is joined by election rights pioneers Sheila Parks, Bob Fitrakis & Cliff Arnebeck as we celebrate the legalization of pot in Colorado and Washington State and explore …

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Salmon on the Brink

On one historic day in 1992, I marched through the State Capitol Building and adjoining Senate Offices with hundreds of recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen and environmentalists working for the passage of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA). Arrayed in yellow and green commercial fishing slickers and colorful recreational fishing …

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Washington’s Brand of Crony Capitalist Medicine

Does AARP really speak for the elderly? Or the AMA for doctors? In Washington, AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons) is said to represent the interests of retirees in arguments about medicine. Their endorsement of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was mentioned reverently during the October …

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World Bank Rejects Oxfam Call to Freeze Land Investment

The World Bank rejected a call by aid group Oxfam International to freeze the lender’s investment in land-intensive agricultural projects, saying such a move would not help prevent abusive practices in the purchase of acreage. Oxfam, in a report released yesterday, urged the Washington-based bank to declare a moratorium on its agricultural …

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Stephen Lendman — Syria on the Boil

What’s been ongoing for over 18 months looks all too familiar. It could continue for some time. It took most of the 1990s to fully balkanize Yugoslavia. America was the lead belligerent.   Whether or not Washington plans the same for Syria remains to be seen. Only the fullness of …

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Vaccines: NJ Joins Natn’l Trend, Seeks Exemption Restriction

  Health freedom-loving New Jerseyans are concerned by State Senator Loretta Weinberg’s Senate Bill No. 1759. Introduced this past March, Senator Weinberg’s bill is a bid to make the exercise of a vaccine religious exemption more difficult for New Jersey parents. If passed, this bill would require parents to state their religious beliefs …