Terry J. Allen - In These Times

Terry J. Allen is a veteran investigative reporter/editor who has covered local and international politics and health and science issues. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Boston Globe, Times Argus, Harper’s, the Nation.com, Salon.com, and New Scientist . She has been an editor at Amnesty International, In These Times , and Corpwatch.com. She is also a photographer. Her portraits of people sitting in some of the 1900 cars lined up outside a Newport, Vt., food drop can be seen on www.flickr.com/photos/terryallen/albums. Terry can be contacted at tallen@igc.org or through www.terryjallen.com.

She was senior researcher for the book The Impeachment of George W. Bush (2007), and contributed to the Sundance prize-winning documentary film Trouble The Water (2008). Contact her at tallen@igc.org.

Restless Vagina Syndrome

Capitalist Health Insurance for All

Zicam: Homeopathy Fails the Sniff Test

More Drugs, Please

Confessions of a Terrorist

What Conflict of Interest?

All-Consuming Poverty

Forget MarriageCivil Unions For All

Cancer: Cause and Defects

Regulating Good Government

Paving the Road to Hell

High Court May Immunize Big Pharma

The FDA's new "preemption" doctrine jeopardizes consumers' right to sue for drug-caused injuries

Change We Can Reasonably Assess

McCain’s Aches and Pains

On AIDS, Wright Is Wrong

By the Sewers of Babylon

As Hunger Rises, Chew on This

Vermont Argues Iraq War is ‘Mission Expired’

Pig Intestines, Downer Cows

The Malign Magic of Misdirection

Nanotech: Tiny Particles, Big Risks

Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick

A $4.2 billion annual drug industry incessantly reinforces the medicalization of complaints through direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising

U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs

Why is the United States, which practically invented consumer protection, now lagging behind the E.U., and in some cases, trailing Japan, China and Mexico?

E-Wasting Away in China

While the media ride their new lead-painted hobbyhorse--the danger of Chinese wares--spare a thought for Chinese workers dying to dispose of millions of tons of our toxic crap

Burned by Flame Retardants

The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day

Climate Change Refugees

As large areas of the planet become unsuitable for human life, the sad stream of climate refugees will become a torrent

Sicko’s Critics and the Upside of Hitler

Critics of the movie are hooked on pharmaceutical company payouts and part of a system that is rotten to the marrow and should be put out of its misery

Food Poisoning for Thought

Food regulators in both China and the United States have a financial or career stake in the profitability of the industries they are supposed to oversee

America’s Child Soldier Problem

Poisoning Pets with Industrial Food

Lacking transparency, industry relies on alchemy of pet food to turn its waste into profits

GI Bill Fails Vets

Soldiers returning from Iraq aren't receiving their education stipends until it's too late

Gardasil, Iraqi Superbugs & Radiation

HPV Vaccine: Betting on a Mercky Record

Vermont Legislature: Bring Them Home Now

The state with the highest per capita deaths demands an end to the war in Iraq

Faith Healing with Homeopathy

The half billion people worldwide using homeopathic remedies are playing a dangerous game

Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War

CT Scans: A Radioactive Risk

Terry J. Allen argues that CT scans, while effective diagnostic tools, can be dangerous because of the high levels of radiation to which they expose patients.

Corporate Secrecy Spreads Pharmafakes

The pharmaceutical industry keeps health information confidential in order to sell pharmafakes for big profits.

Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed

Counterfit drugs are flooding hospitals and markets worldwide.

Sick to Death of Bush

Disease research at Fort Detrick, MD further undermines U.S. and international law.

Unexploded Ordnance: Our Legacy in Laos

unexploded bombs still killing people in Laos decades after Vietnam.

Thank You, Mr. Bush

Bush administration tries to render the media impotent

The 9/11 Truth Conspiracy Is a Distraction from the Real Crimes of Our Government

We should be sounding the alarm over endless war being waged in our name, not conspiracy theories.

The Iraq War—On Drugs

Reach Out and Track Someone

Cancer in a Can

Are Hospitals Hazardous to Your Health?

Information Is Power

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