Slashing at Food safety
On the heels of 2011, a year packed with foodborne illness outbreaks, you might expect the federal government to beef up its inspections and consumer protection. Instead, yesterday the U.S.…
A Guantanamo Prisoner Has His Day in Court
Written by Frida Berrigan --- from Waging Nonviolence The defendants file in---some looking neat and upstanding, some in their best approximation of the same. They all look tired. Sleeping on…
Notes From a Guantanamo Survivor
Written by Murat Kurnaz for The New York Times I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier - shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on…
Rick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Fraud, Assault And Alleged ‘Exorcism’
Written by Jason Cherkis WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has become a top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in recent weeks by appealing to evangelical…