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USDA Lifts Restrictions on Planting GMO Seeds

A MAPLight.org analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that two high-ranking officials on the House Agriculture Committee topped Syngenta's donor list.

(BERKLEY, Calif.) - The USDA has given corn growers the green light to plant Swiss-based Syngenta's genetically modified corn seeds for the 2011 spring season.

According to the St. Louis Business Journal, the announcement is a boon to midwest growers, but the product is under fire regarding concerns for crop contamination.

Salem-News.com History: Reasons to Support Our Mission

We exist on very little and yet constantly expose the truth to a sometimes hostile world; we are asking for your help, from those who can...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Many of you who follow our work understand that we have a tendency to turn remote informational trails into six lane freeways.

As we wallow through the mire of news, I wanted to share a few thoughts about why we cover certain topics.

Why are We Allowing Our Children to be Hurt Like Angellika?

OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR FOR A CHILD: BLOWING BUBBLES IN HER MILK

(SALEM, Ore.) - Tuesday there will be a press conference at the Oregon State Capitol announcing the publication of DRO's report on the restraint and seclusion of children with disabilities in Oregon schools and how House Bill 2939 aims to prevent and reduce these practices.

Included with this report is one strong reason why; her name was Angellika Arndt, she was seven years old when she was killed in a made act of restraint...

NPR and PBS Under Attack

Republicans are disingenuously claiming that they need to cut funding for public media because of budgetary constraints.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We're only a few weeks into the 112th Congress, and Republicans are already attempting to pull the plug on public media.

O`Grady`s Honduran Free Market Fantasies

Free market advocates fantasize about running away to desert islands of economic liberty might have already had their fantasies sufficiently fulfilled via sweatshop opportunities in Honduras.

(ISTANBUL) - The The Wall Street Journal's Mary O’Grady championed of the 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya “because he was trying to extend his presidency in violation of the nation’s constitution”

Perhaps it had more to do with his plan to rewrite a document produced at the height of Honduras’ cold war service as a U.S. military base...

Banking on the Harvest

In Niger, many women are taking local food security into their own hands.

(MARADI, Niger) - In the Maradi area in south central Niger, where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the months before the harvest are called “the hunger season.”

From mid-July to mid-September, food supplies are at their lowest and most families only eat one meal a day.

Bahrain Joins World Revolution

Police storm demonstrators marked a ‘Day of Wrath' inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Police in Bahrain have killed at least one demonstrator today, showing the world that this island nation in the Person Gulf which has a very poor human rights record, lacks the ability to exhibit restraint when dealing with protesters.

On this otherwise peaceful day, pro-democracy demonstrators were attacked in the town of Duraz in Bahrain today, as police attacked with no regard for injuries or deaths.

Seattle Hempfest Sues City of Seattle for Free Speech Rally

If the permit is not granted, Seattle will surely miss the money Hempfest brings to town.

(SALEM / SEATTLE) - In an odd commemoration of the Seattle Hempfest's upcoming twentieth anniversary, organizers of the "protestival" have filed a lawsuit in United States District Court against the City of Seattle.

Three Giant Asteroids Heading Towards Earth

What's really frightening is no one knows where they all are...

(CHICAGO) - Three huge asteroids are barreling through space on a rendezvous with Earth and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Motion pictures like Armageddon have depicted Earth threatened with annihilation by a giant asteroid traveling many thousands of miles per hour. Because of its speed and mass a large asteroid impact would release the energy of 100s or 1,000s of thermonuclear bombs.

Mubarak Regime Orchestrated the Church Blast to Please USA and Israel

This uprising in Egypt has exposed the fallacy of a lot of arguments and political convictions and at the same time revealed new surprising findings.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - As I was driving my car along the famed corniche of the historic city of Alexandria to join the march calling for Mubarak to step down last week I kept looking- or gazing if you like- at the nearly empty streets.

Except for scattered armed vehicles and tanks squatted beneath the silent buildings on the side of the road and it seemed as if I was driving across a deserted city and not the never go to sleep 5 millions dwellers-city I used to know.