What Have They Been Smoking?
Jeffrey Wigand became one of the most famous whistleblowers of all time after he revealed the tobacco industry's darkest secrets starting in 1994.
Secrecy
Perfumes' Un-Sexy Side
Submitted by Anne Landman on
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics commissioned laboratory analyses (pdf) of 17 men's and women's name-brand perfumes to determine their chemical content, and found 38 secret chemicals present in all 17 products.
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U.S. Military Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Questions About Its Legality
Submitted by Anne Landman on
The U.S. military is continuing to operate a secret network of private spies deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, even though the military is largely prohibited from operating inside Pakistan, and is not permitted to hire contractors for spying.
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Rhetoric v. Reality and the Political Spying at the RNC Convention in Minneapolis
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Leaked CIA Memo Suggests Spinning War Messaging
Submitted by Anne Landman on
A classified CIA memo (pdf) obtained by Wikileaks.org outlines public relations strategies that could be used to shore up French and German support for continuing the war in Afghanista
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The Chamber Bulks Up, Takes Aim
Submitted by Anne Landman on
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Corporations Hide Flight Records From Public View
Submitted by Anne Landman on
A federal district court ruled that the public interest journalism group ProPublica can obtain a list of corporate-owned airplanes whose flight information was blocked from public view.
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Here's Looking at You, Kids
Submitted by Anne Landman on
Few cell phone users know that mobile phone companies like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint can track the locations of cell phones in real time, thanks to small global positioning sensors (GPS) placed inside phones. They can also analyze how a call is routed through towers, to pinpoint a phone's location to an area the size of a city block.
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Lessons in Legislative Manipulation From the Tobacco Industry
The article in the November 14 issue of the New York Times about the extent to which the biotech firm Genetech was able to put their own words into legislators' mouths raises the next logical question: To what extent are corporations in the U.S. actually drafting laws and getting them passed?
Knock Knock, Who Was There?
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The Obama administration has denied a request made under the Freedom of Information Act for the names of all visitors to the White House visitors between January 20 and May.
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