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Report Says Pentagon Pressured, Intimidated Auditors
Auditors at an oversight agency of the Pentagon were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on a major defense contractor's work. - Truthout
Posted 7/23/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Health
Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market
While the the American Medical Association claims pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is busy getting patents for marijuana products. - AlterNet
Posted 7/7/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Lifestyles
The car becomes burden of suburbia
The nation of road movies, freeway freedom and dreams of endless horizons is waking up to the reality of soaring fuel prices. - Guardian Unlimited
Posted 7/7/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
Senator Backs New Solar Power Initiative
A proposal by Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-VT, encourages the installation of 10 million rooftop solar units on homes and businesses over the course of 10 years. - Common Dreams
Posted 7/4/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Science & Technology
Laugh at High Gas Prices With a 282-MPG VW
Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term 'fuel efficiency' with a bullet-shaped microcar. - Wired News
Posted 7/4/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
How Long Does Drug Prohibition Need to Continue?
The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created. - AlterNet
Posted 6/30/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Health
Slow Food Nation Comes to San Francisco
Pick up your forks and knives, and let the revolution start now. - Common Dreams
Posted 6/30/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Science & Technology
Toyota Jumps in the Fuel Cell Race
Not to be outdone by rival Honda, Toyota last week announced it, too, will begin leasing a new hydrogen-powered, emissions-free fuel cell car. - E Magazine
Posted 6/18/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
Flunk the Electoral College
The Electoral College is an affront to basic democracy, warping competition and subverting political equality -- even when it works. - AlterNet
Posted 6/12/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
Activists Forced Out of ‘Peaceland’
Greenpeace activists who declared an independent state called Peaceland were detained June 9 when military police cleared the area of their encampment. - Common Dreams
Posted 6/12/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
US Accused of Holding Terror Suspects on Prison Ships
The United States is operating “floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers. - Common Dreams
Posted 6/3/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Environment
Raising the New Roof
From Plants to Polymers, It’s All Going Green - E Magazine
Posted 6/3/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Health
Can Pot Extend Ted Kennedy's Life? Too Bad It's Illegal
Scientific studies indicate that marijuana can halt the spread of numerous cancer cells, including the type that Kennedy suffers from. - AlterNet
Posted 5/23/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Lifestyles
San Francisco Mayor Condemns Refusal to Marry Gays
On Wednesday, San Diego County Clerk Gregory Smith said he would consider allowing clerks to bow out of processing gay marriages. - Common Dreams
Posted 5/23/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Environment
N. Pacific humpback whale population rises
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades - Wired Magazine
Posted 5/23/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Arts & Entertainment
Steam Dream
Steampunk bursts through its subculture roots to challenge our musical, fashion, design, and even political sensibilities. - The Phoenix
Posted 5/17/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Environment
It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth
If we want to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, we've got to cut CO2 emissions. - AlterNet
Posted 5/12/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Business & Economy
Green Rankings for Big Business
The ranking show how some of the world’s most visible companies stack up in terms of their commitment to reducing emissions and staving off climate change. - E Magazine
Posted 5/12/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Science & Technology
Wind Could Power 20 Percent of US Grid by 2030
A new report from the Department of Energy claims that wind turbines could generate 300 gigawatts by 2030. - Wired News
Posted 5/12/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Science & Technology
Thinking Electric
Make way for a new entrant in the greenest car on the road contest. The two-seater revs up to about 65 miles per hour and is 95 percent recyclable. - E Magazine
Posted 4/30/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Health
LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102
Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died Tuesday. - Wired News
Posted 4/30/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Politics
Pentagon Institute Calls Iraq War ‘a Major Debacle’
“Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle,” says the report’s opening line. - Common Dreams
Posted 4/19/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Environment
Biofuels vs. Food
It seems obvious that using food crops to create energy would force food prices up. Is ethanol a solution? - Zenzibar Alternative Culture
Posted 4/18/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

Health
How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation
Author Charles Barber discusses Americans' unrealistic notions about happiness. We've medicalized a lot of life issues that aren't mental illnesses. - AlterNet
Posted 4/17/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture

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Arts & Entertainment
Police Intimidation
Poilce intimidation
Posted 4/25/2008 by johnny chesney.
Politics
Ten Flaws in America's Election System
For a country that claims to be the world's greatest democracy, the election process of the United States of America is deeply flawed.
Posted 1/7/2008 by Zenzibar Alternative Culture.
Politics
P3s, Nazis and Polite Canadian Fascism
Once in power, the Nazis shifted a lot of the once fully public assets into joint public-private control to their supporters. Does this sound familiar?
Posted 12/6/2006 by Brent.
Health
Alternative medicine must face scientific scrutiny
600 practitioners and scientists from 19 countries are meeting in Edmonton to talk about how to assess the benefits and risks of alternative therapies.
Posted 5/27/2006 by Brent.
Politics
Free Speech Australia site launched
Aussies are finding their civil liberties undermined at an alarming rate, with the excuse being the 'war on terror'. Non-Aussies are welcome to register too.
Posted 5/13/2006 by Pip Wilson.
Politics
Canada's Census outsourced to Lockheed Martin
Canadian census is contracted to the Canadian subsidiary of the US armament company Lockheed Martin and can be passed to the US gov VIA the Patriot Act.
Posted 4/17/2006 by Brent.
Business & Economy
Red Cross, Humane Society Under Investigation
The Louisiana attorney general has launched inquiries into two of the country's best-known charities - American Red Cross and Humane Society
Posted 4/7/2006 by Brent.
Politics
'The war is illegal. I can't pay for a government killing machine'
A man has vowed to go to prison rather than pay taxes which he believes would fund a 'blatantly illegal war' in Iraq.
Posted 4/7/2006 by Brent.
Health
New study links mercury to autism
A new study shows a direct relationship between mercury in children's vaccines and autism, contradicting government claims.
Posted 3/7/2006 by Brent.
Politics
China: Torture leaves freed Tiananmen dissident mentally ill
After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired.
Posted 2/24/2006 by Brent.
Politics
Twenty-Three Intel Experts Say LA Terror Plot a Sham
After a suspiciously timed revelation that the US had foiled a 2002 terror plot against the LA Library Tower, intel experts and reporters debunked the claim.
Posted 2/13/2006 by Brent.
Politics
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Feel Bush Deliberately Misled Country on Iraq WMD
Over half (53%) now say the administration 'deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction'
Posted 2/6/2006 by Brent.
Environment
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
The link between Mind and Social/ Environmental Issues.
Posted 2/3/2006 by sushil_yadav.
Politics
WSF Caracas: Distinctive Exchanges, Familiar Challenges
In WSF 2006 in Caracas, over 100,000 participants traversed within worlds of differences amidst whirlwinds of spontaneity
Posted 2/3/2006 by Ryan.
Politics
New Saddam Trial Judge Tries to Impose Order, Gets Chaos
Two of the original five judge panel missing from the court casts serious doubts on the fairness of the trial. Two defense lawyers have also been murdered.
Posted 2/2/2006 by Brent.
Politics
Officer 'docked pay' for torturing Iraqi to death
He tortured an Iraqi by covering his mouth and placing him head first into a sleeping bag then sitting on his chest during an interrogation. The man died.
Posted 1/27/2006 by Brent.
Health
If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can do it to you?
The male hornyhead turbot. Despite its name, it is changing gender. And the sunscreens that symbolise bronzed sex appeal may be partly to blame.
Posted 1/27/2006 by Brent.
Arts & Entertainment
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Critical examination of the Fourth Estate- explores what the media doesn’t talk about: itself. http://www.coanews.org/lists/index.php?p=subscribe&id=1
Posted 1/27/2006 by Ryan.
Politics
Microsoft blocks Chinese dissident's blog
Microsoft admits it removed the weblog of a dissident Chinese journalist, citing the company's policy of abiding by local laws.
Posted 1/6/2006 by Brent.
Health
Parts from a single body could fetch up to $150,000
Heart valves are said to fetch up to $7,000 each in the US, and skin $1,000 per square foot. A body could be worth about $150,000.
Posted 12/26/2005 by Brent.
Politics
Bush didn't start the war on the Bill of Rights
So when did the assault on Americans' civil liberties get kick-started? The current liberal establishment seems to deem 9/11 the chief catalyst.
Posted 12/26/2005 by Brent.
Politics
U.S. Warns Turkey Of Air Strike On Iran And Syria
Turkish press: CIA Director Porter Goss informed the Turkish government that they should be ready for 'a possible US air operation against Iran and Syria'
Posted 12/22/2005 by Brent.
Health
Australians get Chinese inmate organs
They are among dozens of Australians who have travelled overseas to buy organs in India and Asia, paying between $15,000 and $50,000 for the transplants.
Posted 12/21/2005 by Brent.
Business & Economy
The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers
On issues like war crimes, torture, toxic dumping and stifling freedom of speech, corporations like Coca Cola, Chevron and Philip Morris ahead of the rest.
Posted 12/15/2005 by Brent.

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