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12 Days of Open Data to Get You Through the New Year
In the weeks since Nov. 30, when federal agencies were supposed to comply with President Barack Obama’s open data executive order by providing a list of all the data they are holding, it has already become clear that the executive order is unearthing treasure troves of information that previously haven't been available or accessible. Read More »
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CDC Director On Ebola: ‘The Window Of Opportunity Really Is Closing’
...Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave a lengthy press conference immediately after returning to the US from a visit to the Ebola zone. Frieden has shown in the past that he knows how to be outspoken in a very strategic way; yet even so, the urgency of his language, and his call for an immediate, comprehensive global response, was striking...
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Documents Reveal How Poultry Firms Systematically Feed Antibiotics To Flocks
Major U.S. poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realize, posing a potential risk to human health. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that some of the nation’s largest poultry producers routinely feed chickens an array of antibiotics – not just when sickness strikes, but as a standard practice over most of the birds’ lives...
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No Place To Hide: A Conservative Critique Of A Radical NSA
Glenn Greenwald's new book is far more grounded in traditional American norms, laws, and values than the surveillance programs it is critiquing...
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Salvadoran Farmers Successfully Oppose The Use Of Monsanto Seeds
Farmers across El Salvador united to block a stipulation in a US aid package to their country that would have indirectly required the purchase of Monsanto genetically modified (GM) seeds. Thousands of farmers, like 45-year-old farmer Juan Joaquin Luna Vides, prefer to source their seeds locally, and not to use Monsanto's GM seeds...
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The Brutal Bust In Next-Generation Biofuels In One Chart
The U.S. government finally faces the fact that we won't be powering our cars with corncobs any time soon.
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Vote All You Want. The Secret Government Won’t Change.
The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon...
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Why The NSA Keeps Tracking People Even After They're Dead
You may be dead, but the U.S. government won't take you off its terrorist roster.
That's according to newly leaked internal guidelines from last year that reveal intimate details regarding the government's process for determining whether an individual should be designated as a possible terrorist suspect...
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