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Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanner Boom? By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the "digital strip search" device just bring more of the same? Read more » Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause a Pandemic By Kathy Freston, AlterNet The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a new flu pandemic. more » Conservative Mogul Buying Up Reporters to Promote His Regressive Agenda By William Greider, The Nation Pete Peterson, the Wall Street billionaire who wants to loot Social Security, has created a "news network" hooked up to the Washington Post. more » 2020: China Rises, the U.S. Declines and the Planet Strikes Back By Michael T. Klare, Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Much will change in 10 years. China will rise, the global South will gain importance, the U.S. will decline. But these phenomena will be eclipsed by devastating planetary changes. more » Taco Bell Promotes Weight-Loss Benefits of "Drive Thru Diet" By Sara Novak, Planet Green Christine Dougherty claims that she lost 54 pounds on Taco Bell's new Drive Thru Diet. A closer look reveals this "diet" is an environmental and health abomination. more » Jobs: The One Issue That Can Sink Democrats in November By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog If unemployment is 10 percent or more next November, the Dems are in danger of losing the House and will almost certainly be short of the 60 votes they need in the Senate. more » Are U.S. Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? By Dave Lindorff, OpEdNews.com The apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by a US-led group of troops, was pretty much blacked out in the American media more » PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web Video: Mainstream Media Unwittingly Collude in Republican Lies About Obama By Adele Stan, AlterNet On the "Today" Show and in Politico, DeMint and Cheney's lies about Obama go either unchallenged, or weakly corrected. more » Despite the Facts, the ACORN Witch Hunt Continues By Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com "This story is bigger than ACORN. And that's what we're going to try to get folks to continue to focus on." more » Oops! Michelle Bachmann's Anti-Census Hysteria Might Backfire By Jed Lewison, Daily Kos The Minnesota Representative just keeps the hits coming. This one might cost her her job, though. more »

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