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Weekly Pulse: GOP Would Privatize Medicare, Gut Medicaid

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.06.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled a draft budget resolution for 2012. Ryan's program would pr...

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Pig Business or Business Pigs?

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kurt Michael Friese

Ever feel like you were playing checkers and the other guy was playing chess? That's the sort of feeling I get often when I watch many of the recent ...

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Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simran Sethi

Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.

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