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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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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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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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As President Obama spoke before veterans at a convention center in Phoenix on Monday, a number of people were seen brandishing weapons outside in protest. As Arizona is an “open carry” state, police monitored the dozen or so demonstrators, including a man with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, without taking any action against them. Seen as a highly …

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Many supporters of progressive healthcare reform were shocked recently to read an Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, which slammed government funded healthcare. Liberal activists who form a substantial chunk of the Whole Foods clientele responded with anger, overwhelming the company’s online comments page. Mackey titled his piece, “The Whole Foods Alternative …

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During the 2007 Primary elections for the Presidential nomination, a conservative group called Citizens United attempted to air a documentary critical of then Senator Hillary Clinton on a cable TV channel. The film was highly critical of Clinton in light of her candidacy for the Democratic nomination. But the 2002 McCain-Feingold law banning corporations and groups from …

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