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Elizabeth Williamson, Washington Post Under pressure from agriculture industry lobbyists and lawmakers from agricultural states, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to drop requirements that factory farms report their emissions of toxic gases, despite findings by the agency’s scientists that the gases pose a health threat. The EPA acknowledges that the emissions can pose a threat…

~ Ray McGovern with IFP Co-Founder Mikael Rudolph therawstory David Edwards A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney. Appearing on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson Show, Ray McGovern…

The Daily Scare Kevin Martin: Trolls of the Bush Administration – Making money by chopping you up for sale Melinda Pillsbury-Foster Kevin Martin is a name you should get to know. He looks harmless, even as a troll. But he isn’t. He is going to cost you huge chunks of money and significant portions of…

By Jean Casella and James Ridgeway, Mother Jones In those first emotional days after Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast, widespread predictions of a political sea change arrived from liberal and even some conservative commentators. “Americans are ready to fix their restless gaze on enduring problems of poverty, race, and class that have escaped…