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Will Voter Anger About High Drug Prices Overcome Big Pharma?
Skyrocketing drug prices are forcing millions of Americans to make tough choices. Will they spend their money on groceries or prescription drugs? Will they be able to afford the prescribed dose of...
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China Monopolizes Crucial Rare Earth Minerals
Crucial technologies developed in the United States, from smart phones to advanced weapon systems, can only be produced with rare earth minerals from China. How did the US get to a point where it has...
View ArticleDNC Leaked Not Hacked?
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The average American consumer probably has never heard of neodymium. But that substance — along with other so-called rare earth elements — is essential to the functioning of technologies we take for...
View ArticleCan Trump Steer the Country When Things Go Wrong?
When President Donald Trump proclaims that his White House is “functioning perfectly” or running like a “fine-tuned machine,” it sounds as ridiculous as if the captain of the Titanic had said the same...
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Exclusive to WhoWhatWhy: The Barrett Brown Podcast
Back in February of this year, WhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman spoke with Barrett Brown in one of his first interviews since being released from federal prison. Brown was incarcerated for four years for...
View ArticleTime to Talk with North Korea
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View ArticleCharlottesville Police Inaction: Part of a Nationwide Development
In the major moral crisis growing out of Charlottesville, a lot of attention has been paid to Trump’s lack of leadership.But the whole nation has a stake in a related matter, the inaction of the local...
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What CIA Hid from the Rockefeller Committee
“JUSTIFICATION: Murder is not morally justifiable. Self-defense may be argued if the victim has knowledge which may destroy the resistance organization if divulged. Assassination of persons responsible...
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View ArticleTrump DOJ Wants 1.3M IP Addresses, Personal Info from Anti-Trump Website
The Trump White House, which had such a hard time castigating Nazis and the Klu Klux Klan protesters in Charlottesville, VA, seems to be moving swiftly to identify — and perhaps harass — the more than...
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The Astonishing Security State Travails of Our New Podcaster Barrett Brown
Day after day headlines blare throughout the world about the attempts of governments to stifle freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom of people to associate online and off with...
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View ArticleWhat Really Happened in Durham, NC? A Nasty Thought
On August 14, in Durham NC, something strange happened that does not make sense to me. A demonstrator protester climbed up on the statue of a Confederate soldier, tied a rope around his neck, gave a...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t the Mainstream Media Honest about US Torture?
On Monday, August 7, The Washington Post ran a story with the headline Judge orders CIA interrogation lawsuit to trial. It details the upcoming civil trial of two CIA-contract psychologists who were...
View ArticleTrump Continues Pro Goldman Sachs Administration
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View ArticleMedia Slow to Expose Trump Contribution to Fake News
The media went hard after President Donald Trump about his moral stance (or lack thereof) on Charlottesville. But they missed a chance to take him to task for disseminating his own “fake news.”After...
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Too Big to Prosecute — DOJ Gives Giant Corporations a Pass
The Justice Department is often zealous, sometimes to the point of recklessness, in prosecuting street crime and drug offenses. But it has been dilatory and feckless — our podcast guest this week calls...
View ArticleEurope’s Statue Wars
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