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The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) bills itself as “a grassroots organization of individuals with brain disorders and their family members.” The alliance was a prominent participant in...
View ArticleThe Pentagon’s 300-Billion-Dollar Bomb
When the B-2 stealth bomber made its wartime debut last March 24 in the skies over Yugoslavia, the Pentagon’s hype machine went into overdrive. The traditional Big Three networks featured the B-2’s...
View ArticleCandidate Nader
On an unseasonably warm afternoon in March, Ralph Nader stands in the gold-domed statehouse in downtown Trenton, New Jersey, and declares his intention to run for president on the Green Party ticket....
View ArticleTrillion-Dollar Hideaway
“You’ve done just the right thing,” Colin Honess, a garrulous, pleasant man with a big white beard and matching hair, tells me. “If you’re going to put your money away, you want to make sure it’s in...
View ArticleFinance, Insurance & Real Estate
With 67 brokers and investment managers on the Mother Jones 400, privatizing Social Security looks like money in the bank.
View ArticleHuntsville’s Missile Payload
Like any great promoter, Joe Fitzgerald emanates unbridled enthusiasm. A congenial man with a neatly trimmed white beard, he’s a classic civic booster who loves to extol his hometown’s virtues....
View ArticlePolitical Intelligence
In 1989, an intelligence analyst working for then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney issued a startling report. After reviewing classified information from field agents, he had determined that Pakistan,...
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Unjust Rewards
In 1994, an explosion claimed the life of a worker at an Arizona air bag factory run by TRW, the huge Ohio-based manufacturing conglomerate. The company, which had a record of violating federal...
View ArticleBorn-Again Zionists
Nearly three decades after leaving his job as a marketing manager at Colgate-Palmolive, Ed McAteer, considered one of the godfathers of the modern Religious Right, still sounds like a salesman. In a...
View ArticleBush’s New Political Science
As the nation’s premier research center, the National Institutes of Health is supposed to be insulated from politics. The agency has long appointed respected health professionals — regardless of their...
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