Paul Craig Roberts: How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony

For more than a decade, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has been sounding the alarm about the neoconservative power grab that is destroying everything in its path, ensuring that there will soon be no justice, no civil liberties, no accountability -- no Constitution. In early March 2008, Roberts wrote that regardless of the outcome of future elections, the power the Republicans accumulated in the executive branch, making it for all practical purposes a dictatorship, will remain.

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James Howard Kunstler: The Delusional People Who Want to Frack This Country Up

On Sunday night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America's ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the "go-to" patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public.

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On Sunday night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America's ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the "go-to" patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public.

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Henry Giroux: There's No Democratic Culture in America -- We Live in an Era of Imposed Amnesia

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and social amnesia. How else to explain the electoral sweep that just put the most egregious Republican Party candidates back in power?

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Myth of a germ-free world: a closer look at antimicrobial products

Killing microorganisms has become a national obsession. A pair of antimicrobial compounds known as triclosan and triclocarban are lately the weapons of choice in our war of attrition against the microbial world. Both chemicals are found in an array of personal care products like antimicrobial soaps, and triclosan also is formulated into everyday items ranging from plastics and toys to articles of clothing.

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Summer babies 'more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD'

The youngest children in each class those born just before the admissions cut-off date are disproportionately likely to be treated for ADHD on starting Kindergarten. Children born just a few days later, who join the subsequent academic year as the eldest in their class, show significantly lower levels of diagnosis.

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Robert Scheer: The Man Who Shattered Our Economy

Rejoice, the housing market is back. Sandy Weill just picked up a humdinger of a wine vineyard estate in Sonoma, Calif., for a record $31 million, so the foreclosure crisiswhich the former CEO of Citigroup did so much to create when he successfully lobbied then-President Bill Clinton to sign off on radical deregulation of the banking industrymust be over.

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Obsession with killing microorganisms is dangerous for humans and planet, scientist warns

(NaturalNews) Using products with antimicrobial chemicals must be a great way to protect your health. After all, you're killing loads of germs while you wash your body and clean your house -- and that's a good thing, right? Not according to biologist and engineer Rolf Halden of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. In fact, he's sounding the alarm these commonly used chemicals aren't safe for human health and the environment. What's more, they don't even work better than plain soap and water.

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David DeGraw: The People against Wall Street: The Fed`s Quantitative Easing Violates the Rule of Law

The Federal Reserve represents global banking interests who have overstepped their legal authority. Their Quantitative Easing program is an explicit violation of the Constitution. By deliberately devaluing the dollar and causing the price of basic necessities to rise, the Federal Reserve is, as a matter of strategic policy, sacrificing a significant percentage of the US population for the benefit of a few global bankers. In the process, they are also igniting a global currency war that threatens the security of the American people. In clear terms, the Federal Reserves actions represent a declaration of war against the people of the United States.

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US Scientists Significantly More Likely to Publish Fake Research, Study Finds

US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Fraudsters are also more likely to be "repeat offenders," the study shows. The study author searched the PubMed database for every scientific research paper that had been withdrawn -- and therefore officially expunged from the public record -- between 2000 and 2010.

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