Women’s health care providers are being harassed and intimidated until they are forced to close their doors and end their practices. Safe and affordable reproductive health care, such as access to birth control, maternal health care, and abortion services, is increasingly difficult to find if you are poor or living somewhere outside a metropolitan area.
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Patients, researchers and industry all claimed victory Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that human DNA cannot be patented, opening the door for dozens of scientists and others trying to market newer and better tests to tell people about their risks for a range of illnesses from cancer to heart disease.
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The United States and Israel are trying to delegitimize Iran presidential election in order to destabilizing the country as part of their ‘regime change’ agenda, a political analyst says.
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Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey called it the perfect storm. In early May, the world’s largest nitrate-removal facility at the Des Moines (Iowa) Water Works was turned on for the first time in six years after nitrate levels set records in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, two of the city’s main sources of drinking water.
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Republican Congressman Jeff Duncan has raised questions about the reasons for Internal Revenue Service law enforcement agents’ training with AR-15 rifles after he spotted such practice at a federal law enforcement facility.
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Vocal opposition to state power--not silence--is what will make the world a safer place.Protesters gathered in New York City to show support for Edward Snowden (Michael Fleshman) Its the only thing standing between us and the tyranny of terrorism, they say.
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NSA whistleblower who leaked major US electronic spying operations within and outside the country has further exposed US the spy agency’s involvement in massive hacking against China and Hong Kong.
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A day after President Obama ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to review the Justice Department’s guidelines regarding interactions with the press, Free Press and a diverse coalition of civil liberties, digital rights and open government groups weighed in on the agency’s treatment of journalists’ sources and information.
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The British government has alerted air carriers around the world not to allow the American NSA whistleblower who exposed top-secret US electronic spying operations to board a flight to the UK.
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Negotiations between Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the representatives of anti-government protesters have ended without a clear result.
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The fact of the matter is that the United States like the other imperial powers, particularly its partner in Israel, the United States is attempting to destabilize Iran and delegitimize the elections.
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has cast his ballots in Iran’s 11th presidential and 4th city and rural council elections as the polls officially opened across the country.
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When the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum opens next week, a traditional fixture of the event will be conspicuously absent: renowned economist Sergei Guriev.
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Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing is a much more significant act of bravery than Pentagon papers leak Edward Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing is a much more significant act of bravery than mine over the Pentagon papers In my estimation there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of National Security Agency material - and that includes the Pentagon papers, for which I was responsible 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back what has amounted to an executive coup against the American constitution.
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This principle has been reinforced by the country’s support to Malala Knowledge is power and through education knowledge is gained. Education is a basic human right. It is essential as it promotes the development and empowerment of individuals around the world.
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Millions of Iranian will head into polling stations in less than a day to determine the president of the Islamic Republic for the next four years.
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The Obama administration has indicated no signs of scaling back its massive domestic surveillance operations despite the public exposure of the secret bid by a former employee of the NSA spy agency.
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A former US lawmaker has expressed concerns that the Obama administration might resort to assassinating NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with a cruise or a “drone missile.”
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American whistleblower Edward Snowden, who left the U.S. before disclosing top-secret information about the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program, says he is in constant fear for the safety of his family.
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The Senate has voted to officially move to debate on immigration reform, but that’s no guarantee of success. There’s still a real chance the bill will die in the Upper Chamber, and that’s before it would go before the House of Representatives and a Republican caucus that’s deeply hostile to either reform, President Obama, or both.
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