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If Frances Kelsey Protected Us From Big Pharma in '62, Congress Can
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t r u t h o u t | 05.15
If Frances Kelsey Could Protect America From the Pharmaceutical Industry in 1962, Congress Can Today
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16349-if-frances-kelsey-could-protect-america-from-the-pharmaceutical-industry-in-1962-congress-can-today
Peter Dreier, Truthout: If you are in your 40s or 50s today, Frances Kelsey may have saved your life by standing up to Big Pharma.
Dean Baker | Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16372-cutting-social-security-and-not-taxing-wall-street
Dean Baker, Truthout: The fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008 brings with it an outrageous reminder of how little the US government cares about its people and instead continues to bow to Wall Street bankers.
Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16389-racism-and-classism-are-alive-and-killing-us-public-policies-create-environmental-injustice
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported agricultural policy goals.
Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16377-food-farms-forests-and-fracking-connecting-the-dots
Ronnie Cummins and Zack Kaldveer, Organic Consumers Association: Corporate control over the marketplace and elections plays a major role in preventing real environmental solutions from happening.
Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That's Slowing the Economy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16387-lift-the-millstone-of-student-debt-thats-slowing-the-economy
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: The escalation of student loan debt is having a major impact on our entire economy. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to lower student interest rates to the same rate that the big banks pay to borrow money from the government.
The Fate of the Middle East in the Balance: Syria Endgame Approaching Fast
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16375-the-fate-of-the-middle-east-in-the-balance-syria-endgame-approaching-fast
Shamus Cooke, CounterPunch: As events escalate in Syria, further US involvement threatens to encourage a regional war.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Committee Agrees to Cut Over $4 Billion of Food Aid from the Farm Bill, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16395-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the-european-union-is-going-after-big-oil-and-more
In today's On the News segment: In response to recent IRS admissions, President Obama called the enhanced investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status "intolerable and inexcusable"; The Senate Agricultural Committee agreed to cut over $4 billion of food aid from the farm bill yesterday; The European Union is going after Big Oil, and more.
Two Weeks, Three States: Minnesota Becomes the 12th State to Legalize Marriage Equality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16378-two-weeks-three-states-minnesota-becomes-the-12th-state-to-legalize-marriage-equality
Jeff Fecke, Care2: Change has moved quickly in Minnesota, which only six months ago was the first state to reject a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but is now poised to be the twelfth state to legalize it.
Memo to Bush Administration Leftovers on FOX: Shut Up
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16393-memo-to-bush-administration-leftovers-on-fox-shut-up
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: It's a bit hypocritical for Bush administration officials to go on FOX News and yell about how terrible the Obama administration is.
New Shell Oil Laboratory at Oxford Meets Organized Resistance
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16388-new-shell-oil-laboratory-at-oxford-meets-organized-resistance
Steve Rushton, Occupy.com: Following the opening of the Shell Geo-Science Laboratory at Oxford University, a coalition of protesters highlighted the scientific integrity that is now at risk due to this partnership.
From Capital Punishment to Guns, Old Fears Weigh Like a Nightmare on Today's Debate
http://truth-out.org/video/item/16385-from-capital-punishment-to-guns-old-fears-weigh-like-a-nightmare-on-todays-debate
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Author Stephen John Hartnett makes the argument that current debates in American culture regarding gun control and the war on drugs have their roots in pre-Civil War arguments on execution.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Vermont May Be First State to Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17965-vermont-may-be-first-state-to-require-labeling-of-genetically-modified-food
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Monsanto and other corporations working to patent and control genetically modified food are threatening big lawsuits if transparent labeling is enacted. But Vermont may be the first state to take a stand for consumers and require disclosures on GMO food.
Elizabeth Warren: A Great Investment
Read the Article at Truthdig
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/elizabeth_warren_a_great_investment_20130514/
Julian Bond, Former NAACP Chair: Tea Party Is "Taliban Wing of American Politics"
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/julian-bond-tea-party_n_3274583.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
The Batty Battalion
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17967-the-batty-brigade
EU Probes Global Oil Price Rigging
Read the Article at CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/14/news/oil-prices-rigging/
US Stands Idle as Oil Exploration Threatens Rain Forests With Obliteration
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17966-us-stands-idle-as-oil-exploration-threatens-rainforests-with-obliteration
New Drone Launched From Carrier, US Now Capable of Flying Unmanned Aircraft Everywhere
Read the Article at the Associated Press
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2013/05/15/drone-launch-breaks-barrier.html
Tax Havens Are Entrenching Poverty in Developing Countries
Read the Article at the Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/14/tax-havens-entrenching-poverty-developing-countries
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Vermont May Be First State to Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Food </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Monsanto and other corporations working to patent and control genetically modified food are threatening big lawsuits if transparent labeling is enacted. But Vermont may be the first state to take a stand for consumers and require disclosures on GMO food.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=HBYd3KuP22kCldk8RDVvAUuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Elizabeth Warren: A Great Investment</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Julian Bond, Former NAACP Chair: Tea Party Is "Taliban Wing of American Politics"</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Batty Battalion</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>EU Probes Global Oil Price Rigging</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>US Stands Idle as Oil Exploration Threatens Rain Forests With Obliteration</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=rXNVQzoIwMh7mZBVll7zP0uFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>New Drone Launched From Carrier, US Now Capable of Flying Unmanned Aircraft Everywhere</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=Cdw0cj%2BZ3BfI1iNhlI%2BJQkuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Read the Article at the Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Tax Havens Are Entrenching Poverty in Developing Countries</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=xO6%2FhuvF68nmBT4x2Dpa8UuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian UK</strong></a></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=THCj3CPh6OezRV4xoSCmn0uFGQYXRp1d"><strong>If Frances Kelsey Could Protect America From the Pharmaceutical Industry in 1962, Congress Can Today</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>Peter Dreier, Truthout:</strong> If you are in your 40s or 50s today, Frances Kelsey may have saved your life by standing up to Big Pharma.</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=Y1oKE3kxO08Ot62edB9o%2BkuFGQYXRp1d"><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=y05BtJh1vn%2BP%2B4tYd%2BTJ2EuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Dean Baker | Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> The fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008 brings with it an outrageous reminder of how little the US government cares about its people and instead continues to bow to Wall Street bankers.</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=k4wK0ER4Tuz0M6sf8ULIJkuFGQYXRp1d"><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=CVNozkRev7mPmeZfpmmCIEuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Racism and Classism Are Alive and Deadly: US Public Policies Create Environmental Injustice</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>Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout:</strong> Racism and classism still permeate the environmental movement and US agricultural policy, fomenting environmental injustice and often defeating the ultimate purposes of the environmental movement, as well as purported agricultural policy goals.</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=BMpmCLu%2Fq7Yxw2fiCL3aBEuFGQYXRp1d"><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=IV83%2BnCweXai9z9r0osDcUuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Food, Farms, Forests and Fracking: Connecting the Dots</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>Ronnie Cummins and Zack Kaldveer, Organic Consumers Association:</strong> Corporate control over the marketplace and elections plays a major role in preventing real environmental solutions from happening.</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=9TVy2Qwq2xLAJGujloWZBUuFGQYXRp1d"><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=uku50tN4lb49z9v81krjoEuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That's Slowing the Economy</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>Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> The escalation of student loan debt is having a major impact on our entire economy. Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to lower student interest rates to the same rate that the big banks pay to borrow money from the government.</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=pOJ51JJgXT0rtvCDFko%2FmUuFGQYXRp1d"><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=vrqPyCsnsXfb%2B5lAbKEGFUuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>The Fate of the Middle East in the Balance: Syria Endgame Approaching Fast</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>Shamus Cooke, CounterPunch:</strong> As events escalate in Syria, further US involvement threatens to encourage a regional war.</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=NEMupma1f757syVlr%2FeXTEuFGQYXRp1d"><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=oeC2wH%2BbllRYK3Uij99CBVe6v9YjtPhH"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Committee Agrees to Cut Over $4 Billion of Food Aid from the Farm Bill, and More</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> In response to recent IRS admissions, President Obama called the enhanced investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status "intolerable and inexcusable"; The Senate Agricultural Committee agreed to cut over $4 billion of food aid from the farm bill yesterday; The European Union is going after Big Oil, 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=xDNOLP22nYvekFc8Np3nG0uFGQYXRp1d"><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=AQD4sgBEM48sOUMKITnVe0uFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Two Weeks, Three States: Minnesota Becomes the 12th State to Legalize Marriage Equality</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>Jeff Fecke, Care2:</strong> Change has moved quickly in Minnesota, which only six months ago was the first state to reject a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but is now poised to be the twelfth state to legalize it.</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=X0q7G1f96I4nLxzOCohIgEuFGQYXRp1d"><strong>Memo to Bush Administration Leftovers on FOX: Shut Up</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>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> It's a bit hypocritical for Bush administration officials to go on FOX News and yell about how terrible the Obama administration is.</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=H5i6e0QTekd%2B8MrX0ay8Nle6v9YjtPhH"><strong>New Shell Oil Laboratory at Oxford Meets Organized Resistance</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>Steve Rushton, Occupy.com:</strong> Following the opening of the Shell Geo-Science Laboratory at Oxford University, a coalition of protesters highlighted the scientific integrity that is now at risk due to this partnership.</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=8fKaBH3gYxDVcgxxyxopCkuFGQYXRp1d"><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=6gddYhf5sqVMIzD5IcSh00uFGQYXRp1d"><strong>From Capital Punishment to Guns, Old Fears Weigh Like a Nightmare on Today's Debate</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>Paul Jay, The Real News Network:</strong> Author Stephen John Hartnett makes the argument that current debates in American culture regarding gun control and the war on drugs have their roots in pre-Civil War arguments on execution.</p>
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