Section: AlterNet (USA)
We’ve Been Sold a Lie for Two Decades About Genetically Engineered Foods
Click here for reuse options! GE food has failed to achieve two of its primary objectives: higher crop yields and reduced pesticide use. Meanwhile, corporate profits have surged. [Editor’s note: The terms GE (genetic engineering) and GMO (genetically modified organism) are often used interchangeably, but their meanings are different. GMOs,...
What 6 Top Election Experts Are Saying About the Next Big Step for the 2016 Recount
Click here for reuse options! Wisconsin judge likes hand counts, but won’t order it under state law. A half-dozen of the nation’s top computer scientists who have spent years analyzing how electronic voting machines can malfunction or be hacked to alter vote counts have filed affidavits in the Wisconsin presidential recount in support...
Green Recount Effort Poised To Explore Whether Russia Hacked The Vote For Trump
Click here for reuse options! The stakes and lines of inquiry became clearer on Friday and Saturday, as Clinton campaign joined effort. Investigating Russia’s role in interfering and possibly hacking the 2016 presidential election vote is at the center of the Green Party-led recount effort. The recount entered a new phase on Saturday, when...
After Trump’s Win, Putin Adviser Reveals: ‘Maybe We Helped a Bit With WikiLeaks’
Click here for reuse options! Our allies fear for the safety of NATO. One of Vladimir Putin’s advisers boasted that Russian hackers might have helped Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.Putin has dismissed claims by U.S. authorities that Russia had interfered with the American election by hacking Clinton and the Democratic National...
Bombshell Report: Why Russia Is Backing Trump
Click here for reuse options! Although there have been times when Putin too has considered Trump too unstable to be president. In phone calls, meetings and cables, America’s European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump’s public statements denying Moscow’s role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with...
Outrageous False Trump-Clinton Equivalencies Dominate Corporate Media and Are Distorting the Election
Click here for reuse options! Trump’s ties to Russia are under FBI investigation—yet Clinton’s “unknown” emails get revealed by FBI head Comey and suck up the attention. As national polls released Tuesday show a tightening or virtually tied presidential race, voters are being deluged with new revelations about Hillary...
Is Donald Trump a Russian Agent? A Nonpartisan Guide to National Security and Foreign Policy Issues in the Presidential Election
Click here for reuse options! Will we be less safe during the next administration? According to Hillary Clinton and her supporters, Donald Trump is crazy friendly with Russian president Vladimir Putin, a bad man who hates America and threatens its interests, and therefore Trump cannot be trusted even with U.S. intelligence secrets, much less the...
Donald Trump’s Very Weird Russia Thing
Click here for reuse options! There’s a toxic brew of archetypes served up in the Russia election drama, starting with Putin as the daddy Trump aims to please. Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential nominee, has a Putin thing. The Trump campaign has a Russia thing. And Trump Tower has a Russian...
Why Trump Terrifies the Republicans Who Created Him and His Movement
Click here for reuse options! Some of Trump’s debate responses just proved how dangerous he really is. In the aftermath of the final presidential debate, Republican leaders and elected officials will no longer be able to shirk their responsibility to curb Donald Trump — who has become a clear and present danger not only to their party but...
Can the 2016 Election Be Hacked or Disrupted? Congress Listens to Tech Experts
Click here for reuse options! Election officials say not to worry. But computer scientists do. The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology was briefed Tuesday on 2016’s doomsday election scenario: what would happen if Russians, or another army of cyber hackers, attempted to infiltrate and corrupt the presidential election voting...
