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The Pork Checkoff's Environmental Stewards subcommittee has selected an Iowa hog farming family as one of four U.S. winners of the 2013 Pork Industry Environmental Steward Award. Russell Brothers, LLC, from Monticello joins the other award winners, as well as pork operations across the country, in their commitment to protecting natural resources while minimizing the…

A new pilot study finds that an exercise intervention can lead to improvement in clinical, social, and cognitive domains for those deemed at risk for psychosis.

Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher charge that while British courts looked the other way, the U. S. has been distorting and withholding evidence to engineer his extradition, Cathy Vogan reports. By Cathy Vogan in London Special to Consortium News A clue to some of the legal arguments Jul

Now that the WikiLeaks publisher faces imminent extradition to the United States, another death risk arises, Kellie Tranter reports. By Kellie Tranter Declassified Australia Documents obtained under freedom-of-information applications have revealed a worrying side to official Australian ef

But cinema is not just an intellectual exercise. And what I found on this re-watch was the impressiveness of its hokey story. Verhoeven meant to take down Heinlein. He does.

As with previous judges who have ruled on the WikiLeaks publisher's case, Justice Jeremy Johnson raises concerns about institutional conflicts of interest, write Mark Curtis and John McEvoy. By  Mark Curtis and John McEvoy Declassified UK One of the two High Court judges who will rule on

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawaii.

Mural of Gaza journalist Motaz Azaiza. Photo from Flickr by Duncan Cummings from January 28, 2024. By Peoples Dispatch / Peoples Dispatch Nearly three fourths of all journalists and media workers killed in 2023 were Palestinians who were killed in the first three months of the Israeli war in Gaza, said the annual report of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released on Thursday, February 15. According to the CPJ, at least 99 journalists and media workers were killed in 2023. This is the

Mark Curtis provides an introduction to Dame Victoria Sharp, who will rule next week on the WikiLeaks publisher's bid to stop his extradition to the U.S. By Mark Curtis Declassified UK Dame Victoria Sharp has been announced as the High Court judge who will next week rule on Julian Assan

As we get over hump day and stagger desperately towards the weekend which shimmers in the distance like the promise of redemption, the international news comes faster and faster, as aides-de-camp (des-camps?) shove press release after press release under the noses of increasingly-distracted journalists, hoping for some favorable coverage. And then the White House goes…