www.democracynow.org Describing the United States as an "advanced Third World country," longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. Democracy...

mondoweiss.net Why is 97 percent of Homeland Security grant money going to Jewish organizations?

ow.ly Homes in struggling markets are being snapped up by big investment companies, shutting out regular buyers and creating concern about soaring prices.

www.wbur.org Former U.S. Attorney Don Stern says the "Whitey" Bulger trial will "pierce the boil" that still festers among law enforcement agencies over the FBI's relationship with the alleged mobster.

thechart.blogs.cnn.com The "Just Say No" generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs.   Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.

boingboing.net The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a...

www.dailymail.co.uk Food producers are investigating building ‘plantscrapers’, which could accommodate hundreds of storeys worth of crops, in a bid to make farming more economical, sustainable and meet increasing demand.

www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed...

www.latimes.com Bob Fletcher, who quit his job as a state agricultural inspector during World War II to save the Sacramento farms of interned Japanese American families, died May 23 in Sacramento, his family announced. He was 101.