Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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Opinion Representative… of Big Industry
After 24 years as a prominent member of the House of Representatives, Billy Tauzin left for what was another and much more lucrative job. However, the underlying truth is that he did not change his true job at all. While in Congress, he represented the pharmaceutical industry sub rosa, and now he will represent the…
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Israel News Dare We Trust the FDA?
The Federal Drug Administration is now under fire. It has been accused of not doing a proper job in protecting the public against drugs that have been charged with bringing on dangerous side effects. One such medication is Vioxx. The dangers of this drug were brought to the attention of the FDA some four years…
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Israel News Elevating Greed Over Need
Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration, has now joined the growing list of Cabinet members who are “resigning” their posts as Bush’s first term makes way for his second term in office. Thompson’s farewell address was a scary script — not just about health and human services but also,…
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Israel News The Outsourcing of America
The latest development in the outsourcing of America is the startling and almost unimaginable news that American drug companies are “outsourcing” their R and D (Research and Development) to China. This was supposed to be impossible. But the impossible is now not only possible but, if one looks back on the evolution of outsourcing in…
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Israel News The Fear of Majority Rule
Is the fabled American democracy paving the way for an American tyranny? Simply to ask the question seems downright foolish. At least it does to most of us. But to the Founding Fathers, who composed the Constitution, it was a real question. They were concerned about what they called “the tyranny of the majority.” In…
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News When Religion, Politics Mix
While most of the country was heatedly engaged in the election clashes over Iraq and the economy, a movement of white Evangelicals or “Born Again Christians,” organized around “moral values” — namely, opposition to abortion and gay marriages — came to play a decisive role in the re-election of George Bush. When voters were asked…
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Israel News Bush’s Multiple Motives in Iraq
It is now official. Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction at the time when Bush invaded Iraq, although the invasion took place on the grounds that he did have such weapons. On October 6, Charles Duelfer, the top American inspector for Iraq, reported, to quote a Page 1 headline in The New…
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News Zell Miller’s Speech Marks Political Parties’ Evolution
Zell Miller, The Senator From Georgia, might have made history at the Republican Convention on several scores with his volley of vicious vituperation directed against his former party and its candidate for president. First, the simple nastiness of tone and content must earn him a place in the annals of those in prominent political life…
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