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THE DIRTY POLITICS OF FOOD – PART 3

Is a government agency in cahoots with the meat and dairy industries? Are corporate- financed propagandists churning out bogus assurances? Yes, warns our Science Editor-at-Large.

Profits are the unifying force behind our country's hazardous food. The famous food pyramid, devised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is one example of an outrageous conflict of interest. The pyramid affects school lunch programs, guidelines used by nutritionists and dietitians and recommendations for...

THE DIRTY POLITICS OF FOOD – PART 2

Genetically engineered foods, toxic additives, self-serving research and the monopolization of suppliers all spell disaster as consumers become test subjects in a vast (and incredibly profitable) mad-science project.

Blinding Us With Science: When President Ronald Reagan allowed genes to be patented, and thus profitable, he opened a Pandora's test tube. Our food is now part of a mad-science experiment, and we're the guinea pigs. The biotech company Senomyx genetically engineers compounds that ...

THE DIRTY POLITICS OF FOOD – PART 1

 In the first installment of a special exposé, HUSTLER's Science Editor-at-Large Debbie Epstein explains the stomach-turning truth about our food: Chemical companies are adding deadly toxins approved by the government's supposed safety net.

In the first installment of a special exposé, HUSTLER's Science Editor-at-Large Debbie Epstein explains the stomach-turning truth about our food: Chemical companies are adding deadly toxins approved by the government's supposed safety net. 

Our foods are...

AMERICA IS BANKRUPT

Reprinted from truthdig.com

THE WEEK OF JUNE 15, 2009, marked the end of the dollar's reign as the world's reserve currency. It marked the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States, and it signaled the last gasp of the American imperium. That's over. It is not coming back. What is to come will be very, very painful.

Barack Obama and the criminal class on Wall Street—aided by a corporate media that continues to peddle fatuous gossip and trash talk as news ...

WHAT'S OBAMA DOING

Given President Barack Obama's campaign promises, you'd think that, once in office, he'd have swiftly put an end to the warrantless spying on the American people. But, in fact, he has yet to halt this Bush-era policy of snooping into our private communications—our phones calls, e-mails and God knows what else—even though it's a clear violation of our civil liberties. What are we to make of this? It may well be that, despite Obama's best intentions, political realities have made it difficult t...

Farts In the Wind

As healthcare reform legislation works its way through Congress, the following lawmakers have appreciable financial interests in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries:

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nevada): invested to the tune of $50,000 in a major healthcare index;

family of Representative Jane Harman (DCalifornia): a $3.2-million stake in numerous healthcare entities;

Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and wife: $5.2 million in pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly and...

Carrie Prejean

If you could look inside Carrie Prejean's head, you'd probably find a black hole sucking out every intelligent thought she's ever had. That assumes the dethroned Miss California USA ever had an intelligent thought.

Prejean, an evangelical Christian, first came to the nation's attention during the 2009 Miss USA pageant, which is owned by Donald Trump. Asked by celebrity judge Perez Hilton for her views on gay marriage, Prejean torpedoed any chance she might have had of winning the competition b...

My Brother Mark

by Mancow Muller

Mark Muller is the red-blooded type of American male we don't see anymore. I blame the estrogen in the public water supply. My brother ain't some big-talking, noaction sissy-boy. He's the guy every male wants to be. Being a man used to mean something completely different.

"A man's bond is his word, son," my father would preach to us.We Muller brothers—Mark, John and I—paid attention to him. We could mess up, no problem…but if we lied? Dad's belt would do vicious laps across...

The Thieves at the Door

by Alex Bennett

I have been suffering from irritable bowel syndrome for years. While not a serious problem, it's annoying to me and—due to the flatulence it produces—those around me. This is what you get for becoming older. It's probably where the term "old fart" comes from.

My doctor prescribed Elavil, an old-line tranquilizer that, in small doses, can help with IBS. But it made me drowsy. If taken before bedtime, you sleep like a baby, but when you wake up the next day, you lack energy...

Lethal Chickens Coming Home to Roost

by Nat Hentoff

As of now, it's highly unlikely that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be punished, at least in U.S. courts, for the war crimes they ordered under our laws and international treaties— except by history. But some of their accomplices are becoming apprehensive. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report has disclosed that former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had authorized waterboarding (known to its victims as "controlled drowning") of suspected terrorists i...