Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012 Elections
By Lee Fang / Republic Report
Some of America's wealthiest Republicans flew into Palm Springs last weekend to update their stealthy political strategy for 2012.
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Thanks to Citizens United, Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign Cash
By Lee Fang
AlterNet
Tanks, SWAT Teams, Surveillance Helicopters: Cities Already Turning Into Mini-Police States for the Political Conventions
By Rania Khalek
AlterNet
Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes
By Scott Thill
AlterNet
Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers'
By Karen McVeigh / The Guardian
Fraud and Folly: The Untold Story of General Electric's Subprime Debacle
By Michael Hudson / The Center for Public Integrity
Why You May Be Drinking Soda That Contains a Dangerous Flame Retardant Banned in Europe and Japan
By Brett Israel / Environmental Health News
Kids, Minivans, and Drug-Dealing: How the Recession Pulls Ordinary Families Into the Weed Game
By Tony D'Souza / Mother Jones
We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing?
By Jill Richardson / AlterNet
Why Are American Citizens Getting Locked Up and Even Deported By Immigration Authorities?
By Rania Khalek / AlterNet
Not Sexy: Victoria’s Secret 'Fair-Trade' Cotton Harvested by Child Slaves
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
Study: Why Teen Pot Smoking Could be a Good Thing (And What We Can Learn From Teens Who Choose Weed Over Beer)
By Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet
How Pay-Pal Squeezes Merchants with Unfair and Likely Illegal Business Practices
By Simon Waxman / AlterNet
Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
By Brad Jacobson / AlterNet
How Finance Vultures Feed off the Poor As They Fight to Climb Out of Poverty
By Kai Wright / The Nation
The Mysterious Death of Dunkard Creek: Is Fracking to Blame for One of the Worst Ecological Disasters in the East?
By Adam Federman / Earth Island Journal
Explosive New Report: CEO Pay Skyrocketed 27% Last Year, Top 10 Earners Pocket More Than $770 Million Between Then
By Dominic Rushe / The Guardian
$806 Billion Spent for Hundreds of Thousands to Be Killed and Wounded: The Staggering, True Costs of the Iraq War
By Matthew Duss, Peter Juul / Center for American Progress
Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos]
By Nina Berman / AlterNet
'Global Battlefield' Provision Allowing Indefinite Detention of Citizens Accused of Terror Could Pass This Week
By Rania Khalek / AlterNet
Startling New Evidence Shows US Troops Helped Despotic Regimes Battle the Arab Spring Uprisings
By Nick Turse / TomDispatch.com
The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
Secretive Millionaires Funding Online Primary For 'Independent' White House Run
By Justin Elliott / Salon
Child Labor, Torture and Rape: Attempts to Regulate the Brutal Diamond Industry Failing
By Michelle Chen / In These Times
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