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Daphne Wysham Now that the hottest summer on record is drawing to a close, are we any closer to admitting that climate change is upon us? If not, why not? (photo: baldeaglebluff/Flickr) read more

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Dean Baker David Brooks tells us that Obama has three choices for “big ideas.” (Too bad he could only think of three, but that’s another matter.) Anyhow, his choice number 2, fixing a broken capitalism, sounds pretty good.

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This week, Food & Water Watch, along with pet food safety advocates Mollie Morrissette and Susan Thixton, delivered a letter to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to demand that the FDA take stronger actions to prevent further pet illnesses and to inform consumers of the safety issues related to these products. In addition, Food & Water Watch will drop off a petition signed by nearly 18,000 consumers to the FDA on Friday, Aug. read more

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If a proposal issued today by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is adopted, financial speculators looking to make a quick buck may soon be able to advertise high risk, shady deals to the public with the blessing of the federal government. In the agency’s first rulemaking effort following the April 5th passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the misnamed JOBS Act), the SEC is failing to propose concrete solutions that would prevent average investors from being duped by hedge funds managers and other issuers of private securities. read more

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Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 38 people still on death row in Gambia are at imminent risk of execution following official affirmation that nine other death row inmates were put to death last week.

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed President Barack Obama’s statement in support of a constitutional amendment to undo the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United that paved the way for a flood of campaign cash from corporations and wealthy special interests.

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A US consulate vehicle in Pakistan was the target of a suicide car bomb on Monday, killing at least four people in the deadliest attack targeting Americans for two years in the country’s ongoing entanglement with the US/NATO war in neighboring Afghanistan. Reports indicate that nearly 20 people were injured the attack, which took place in the city of Peshawar and nearby the office of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and residential quarters used by the US consulate. read more

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JERUSALEM – By mining natural resources from the occupied Palestinian territories for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage in the Dead Sea area, according to a report released Monday by Palestinian human rights group Al Haq. read more

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The father of 18-year-old Mohamed Abu Nada, who died on Sunday in the Gaza strip following sever injuries suffered after he set himself on fire late last week, said the young man did so to protest the deplorable conditions he and his family experienced living under economic and military blockade as Palestinians. “I asked my son to go and look for a job, because I don’t have a job and we don’t have any source for living,” Abu Mohamed Abu Nada told reports in Gaza

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On a day set aside to honor the sacrifices and accomplishments of organized labor in the US, this Labor Day, according to many observers, may well be noted as the one in modern history where labor unions looked around and found the fewest reasons to cheer. read more

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