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Will Colorado Become the First State to Implement Single-Payer
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Will Colorado Become the First State to Implement Single-Payer Health Care?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33302-rocky-mountain-referendum-will-col=
orado-become-the-first-state-to-implement-single-payer-health-care
Michael Corcoran, Truthout: Colorado citizens are about to put single-payer=
health care up to a vote on a 2016 statewide ballot referendum. If voters =
approve, Colorado's constitution will be amended to create a statewide, pub=
licly financed, universal health system for the first time in US history.
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anies-of-shady-tactics-in-chiapas
Renata Bessi and Santiago Navarro F., Truthout: For each ton of titanium re=
moved from their land, collective farming communities in Mexico receive $2.=
The mining process to extract the metal, which is used in mobile phones an=
d firearms, is threatening the communities' ecological stability and disrup=
ting collective decision-making practices in Chiapas.
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Katherine Paul, AlterNet:</strong> Thousands of emails reveal that a Monsanto executive solicited pro-GMO articles from university researchers, and passed the "research" off as independent science, which the biotech giant then used to prop up its image and further its agenda.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2B2nAj6WB9rsIkq3dDTaH7yQtquq2BH4"><strong>Clinton Syria Fact Check: "Safe Zones" = "Ground Troops"</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robert Naiman, Truthout:</strong> Hillary Clinton's claim during the first Democratic presidential debate that "nobody" supports sending US ground troops to Syria was fundamentally misleading, because whoever calls for the United States to establish a "safe zone" in Syria - as Clinton did - is calling for "ground troops."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zb7INQHqJhlPAJ0AsZtKHryQtquq2BH4"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tcFakZnTvOA2dmnt9yDaxfLI0k8Pp%2B1f"><strong>Joe Biden for President? Media Buzz Ignores How Vice President Worsened Student Debt on Big Banks' Behalf</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> "Which Joe Biden will show up if he runs [for president] in 2016?" asks writer David Sirota. "The guy in the [Obama] administration, or the guy who spent 30 years in the Senate working, in many cases, with some of the most powerful political forces in corporate America that there are?"</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yr29keku2zYy4KCyHRx9c7yQtquq2BH4"><strong>Texas Excludes Planned Parenthood From Medicaid Program</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brittney Martin, The Dallas Morning News:</strong> Over the last three years, Texas has cut off Planned Parenthood from most state funding sources. Affiliates could, until now, receive Medicaid reimbursements for birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and treatment and prevention of HIV and STDs.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brendan Fischer, PR Watch:</strong> This week, the Wisconsin Legislature will take up a trifecta of bills that will undermine the state's long traditions of clean and transparent government. Taken together, the bills - supported by the Koch brothers - would eliminate most limits on money in elections, and render it nearly impossible to enforce the anti-corruption laws that remain.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NvFM8zGhfOWjfjjgxnN3W7yQtquq2BH4"><strong>The Secret to Winning the Nobel Peace Prize: Keep the US Military Out</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch:</strong> Of all the countries touched by Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia is the only one that has neither devolved into vicious internal warfare nor reverted to authoritarian rule. What makes Tunisia different? Since the revolution, the United States has largely stayed out of ​the country's​ affairs.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Our oceans are in serious trouble because a major bleaching event is wiping out coral reefs and threatening marine ecosystems; the International Monetary Fund says that now is the time to put a price on carbon; Bhutan's agriculture will soon be 100 percent organic; and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IVH%2BYtcfZyXC7zoAuT4K37yQtquq2BH4"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Z%2FkVAI5BXAxTXK4S1D4Pp7yQtquq2BH4"><strong>Human Rights Work: From Uzbekistan to Anti-TTIP Organizing</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Preeti Kaur, teleSUR:</strong> While human rights frameworks remain under-resourced, disempowered and flailing, trade-related agreements that threaten our democracies - like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - are being negotiated in secret.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dQLYogQkKV9dnCgb0Ww0ALyQtquq2BH4"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Staff, The Ecologist:</strong> The might of the Polish state is turning against the country's small farmers following a series of effective protests against the sale of land in the country to foreign investors. The farmers are also campaigning against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in order to maintain the "sovereign protection of internal food chains."</p>
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