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  • Undercover: Police Officer Connected to "NATO 5" Case Still Spying on Protest in Chicago

    By Steve Horn and Chris Geovanis, Truthout | Report

    The first time Danny officially ran as a CAM medic: March 18, 2012 at a protest to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war.The first time "Danny" (far right) officially ran as a CAM medic: March 18, 2012 at a protest to mark the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war.On March 27, Chicago teachers and their supporters - including parents, students and community residents - rallied against the largest mass public school closure in US history. News of the mobilization sparked huge public interest before the demonstration - including from an undercover police officer calling himself "Danny Edwards."

    The day before the big rally, "Danny" reached out in individual emails to fellow volunteer street medics he had met a year earlier after he took a 20-hour training with Chicago's local street medic collective, Chicago Action Medical (CAM). CAM's volunteer emergency medical technicians (EMTs), nurses, doctors and trained street medics provide emergency medical treatment at local protests.

    His aim in reaching out: to learn more about the next day's plans.

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  • "Freedom from Exploitation" and the American Dream: Interview with Jacobin Founder and Editor

    "Freedom from Exploitation" and the American Dream: Interview with Jacobin Founder and Editor

    By Laura Flanders, Truthout | Interview

    Three years ago, Bhaskar Sunkara was a frustrated 20-year-old, fed up with what he calls, "the bloodless wonkery of Beltway liberals." The economy was clearly in crisis, along with our system of government. Big questions needed to be asked, and yet most media outlets were still pumping out guff about recovery, and politicians were worse.

    To have a place to ask radical questions (questions that go to the root of things) and to suggest possible answers, Sunkara founded a magazine: Jacobin, of which he is now editor and publisher.

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  • The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science

    The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science

    By Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | Report

    Journal editors have a lot of power in science – power that provides opportunities for abuse. The life science industry knows this, and has increasingly moved to influence and control science publishing.

    Fast forward to September 2012, when the scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) published a study that caused an international storm (Séralini, et al. 2012). The study, led by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen, France, suggested a Monsanto genetically modified (GM) maize, and the Roundup herbicide it is grown with, pose serious health risks.

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