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A new study by the US Geological Survey of mercury levels in fish has revealed widespread contamination. Every single fish tested from nearly 300 water streams in the US was found to contain mercury. More than 2/3rds of the fish tested exceeded mercury standards of concern set by the Environmental Protection Agency for fish. Previous studies have focused …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Iraqi Vote on Early US Exit

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Huey Newton’s Support of Women and Gays

Back in the day on August 21st, 1970, Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party wrote an honest and powerful statement in favor of gay and women’s rights. Published in the pages of the party’s newspaper, “A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About the Women’s Liberation …

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The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. — Marya Mannes …

We’ll examine a recent spike in violence in Iraq: why it’s happening and who’s behind it. And we’ll learn about so-called Vulture Funds and a new bill in Congress designed to curb them. Plus, a new US Geological Survey study on mercury contamination in fish. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …

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Violence across Afghanistan has marked voting today with the Taliban setting off attacks across the country earlier this week through today. Bloomberg is reporting that “Taliban attacks forced as many as 11 percent of polling stations …to close.” Voter turnout was high in some parts of the north, controlled by militia commander Abdul Rashid Dostum, who just returned to …

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Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti on Tuesday ordered Argentine diplomats to leave the country within three days, citing that Argentine support for ousted President Manuel Zelaya constitutes unacceptable interference in Honduran internal affairs. Micheletti recently gave the same order to Venezuelan envoys, who have stayed, refusing to accept orders from a leader they consider illegitmate. Argentine envoys don’t …

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A new documentary by Robert Stone, traces the history of the modern environmental movement through the lives of nine pioneering Americans. Titled Earth Days, the film reaches as far back as the post-war America of the 1950s, the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal book Silent Spring, and the first ever Earth Day marked in 1970. With vintage …

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“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.” — Wendell Berry …

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Jonathan Myrick Daniels

Back in the day on August 20th, 1965, civil rights activist and seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels was gunned down in Alabama. The twenty-six year old student enrolled at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Massachusetts heeded the call of Dr. Martin Luther King to stand in direct solidarity with the oppressed blacks of Selma. Daniels took …

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