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2012/11/182012/11/18

SchwartzReport: Big Sugar Does a Big Tobacco — True Cost of Sugar to Society

Does Sugar Kill? How the Sugar Industry Hid the Toxic Truth For decades, the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? GARY TAUBES and CRISTIN KEARNS COUZENS – AlterNet (U.S.) November 15, 2012 | This article first appeared in Mother Jones Magazine. Get your magazine subscription here. ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair …

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2012/11/012012/11/02

Spanish Dancer: State-Sponsored Drug Crime Type A

The Drugs Don’t Work: a Modern Medical Scandal BEN GOLDACRE – The Guardian (U.K.) This is an excellent and very insightful account of what has happened in Big Pharma’s quest for profit above health. Although the physician author is based in the U.K., his comments apply to the U.S. as well. If it doesn’t scare …

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2012/10/292012/10/29

Marcus Aurelius: General Failure — Neil Sheehan Reviews Thomas Rick’s New Book Plus Chapter Extract

An adapted excerpt from this book, cued to me by a friend, can be found as indicated below, followed by Neil Sheehan’s review of the book. General Failure Looking back on the troubled wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many observers are content to lay blame on the Bush administration. But inept leadership by American generals …

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2012/10/282012/10/28

Marcus Aurelius: Advances in Corporate Espionage Neglect of Counterintelligence and Commercial Intelligence

Spies And Co. By Eamon Javers New York Times, October 25, 2012 Washington — SUDDENLY, Washington is extremely concerned about Chinese espionage. Last month, the White House blocked a Chinese company from operating a wind farm near a sensitive Navy base in Oregon. Next, the House Intelligence Committee said two Chinese telecommunications firms were manufacturing …

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2012/10/202012/10/21

Worth a Look: Books on Ethics and Democracy

Eric Beerbohm is assistant professor of government and social studies and director of graduate fellowships for the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. “Are citizens in a democracy complicit in the injustices perpetrated by a state that acts in their name? Yes they are, argues Eric Beerbohm. In Our Name is a major statement …

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2012/10/182012/10/18

David Isenberg: The True Cost (Locally) of Military Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Targets + Iran Nuclear Meta-RECAP

The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran By David Isenberg TIME Battleland | October 18, 2012 For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, …

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2012/10/162012/10/16

SmartPlanet: Corrupt Government Allows Corporate Socialism – Privatized Profits and Externalized Losses

How corporations are crippling U.S. prosperity By David Worthington | October 15, 2012 A dearth of competition in major U.S. industries and a government that’s policy making has been severely corrupted by moneyed interests has led to depressed wages and stifled innovation, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist says in a new book. In essence, you’re …

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