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IG Report Provides Clue into why the FBI did not find Wrongdoing in Sec. Clinton’s Use of a Private Email Server

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As Social Critic readers know, there has been no blow-by-blow effort to dissect news of the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation. The reason? Doing so relies too heavily on speculation. Until special counsel Robert S. Mueller III weighs in, the jury remains out. Of course, that hasn't stopped a bifurcated mainstream media from leaving little doubt in …

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Thank the DOE: Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’t the only Recipient of Radioactive Products in US

On By The Social CriticIn Health & Environment, Politics & Public PolicyLeave a comment

In the scare-of-the-week news story we learn that Bed, Bath & Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissue holders across the country. It allegedly started when just four metal tissue box covers buried in a transport truck set off radiation detectors installed after 911 to protect us from a terrorist threat. Who knew truck-stop Geiger counters …

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What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order

On By The Social CriticIn Economics & Globalization, Politics & Public PolicyLeave a comment

We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.