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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
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t r u t h o u t | 05.22
The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16516-the-growing-global-challenge-to-monsantos-monopolistic-greed
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: From its origins as the manufacturer of lethal poisons, Monsanto represented a challenge to human and environmental health. Today it threatens food supplies and democracy around the world.
Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16527-victims-of-foreclosure-arrested-tasered-protesting-wall-street-impunity-outside-doj
Rania Khalek and Craig O'Connor, Truthout: Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers responsible for the financial collapse and foreclosure crisis.
The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16535-the-dc-circuit-court-versus-workers-rights
John Logan, Truthout: While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land in the workplace further guts worker protections.
Austerity Comes to America
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16522-austerity-comes-to-america
Gerald Friedman, Center for Popular Economics: Even while scholarship has exposed the fallacy of austerity economics and this news has reached wide audiences, the US government is embracing austerity's policy prescriptions.
Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16520-workplace-democracy-equality-over-profit
David Morgan, Truthout: Operating a workplace as a democracy in the contemporary business world isn't easy, Morgan says, but worker cooperatives are showing the way while thriving and multiplying.
Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16512-teach-your-children-well-dont-play-monopoly
Mark Karlin, Truthout: You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner. The maker of the board game Co-opoly tells Truthout how the game encourages cooperation in a climate of cutthroat capitalism.
The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16538-the-corporate-dictatorship-of-pbs-and-npr
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Public broadcasting institutions now rely more and more on corporate and billionaire cash to operate, which is probably why PBS and NPR now filter what they play on their airwaves: so that they don't anger their wealthy backers.
Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16525-voter-vigilante-group-says-irs-targeted-its-verify-the-recall-effort-in-wisconsin
Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: The Texas-based Tea Party group True the Vote is claiming they were one of the groups inappropriately "targeted" by the IRS since their application for charitable status has been delayed for years.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Judiciary Committee Has Advanced a So-Called "Comprehensive" Immigration Plan, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16537-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the-senate-judiciary-committee-has-advanced-a-so-called-comprehensive-immigration-plan-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a so-called comprehensive immigration plan; Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted to provide support for veterans; Obama won't let the GOP fast-track the Keystone XL pipeline, and more.
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16530-wikileaks-cables-reveal-state-department-promoting-gmos-abroad
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: According to Darcy O'Callaghan, the international policy director at Food & Water Watch, US embassies are aggressively and systematically promoting biotechnology and GMO food abroad.
Economic Update: Measuring Capitalism's Results
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16519-economic-update-measuring-capitalisms-results
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout: Richard Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally, in relation to the economic crisis. Updates include news on Google caught evading taxes, the state of food stamps and the crisis in public higher education. The radio segment also includes a major discussion on the US medical-industrial complex and the meaning of Bangladesh's building collapse.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Keystone Pipeline Nears Completion This Summer as Carbon Dioxide Reaches Record Levels
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17984-keystone-pipeline-nears-completion-this-summer-as-carbon-dioxide-reaches-record-levels
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Like most Americans, you probably think the decision about tar sands oil flowing through the United States has been delayed. It hasn't really. The completion of the southern leg of the current Keystone Pipeline this summer will start the environmentally toxic petroleum sludge flowing to Texas.
VA Backs Off Promise to Fix Veterans' Claim Backlog
Read the Article at Center for Investigative Reporting
http://cironline.org/reports/va-backs-promise-fix-veterans-claim-backlog-4571
Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17983-tea-party-partying-and-martyring-like-it-s-2009
Hold Onto Your Cellphones: Anthony Weiner Announces New York City Mayoral Run
Read the Article at Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/anthony-weiner-nyc-mayor-run-91721.html
Apple Avoids $17 Million in Taxes Daily Through Ballsy but Genius Tax Avoidance Scheme
Read the Article at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-reduces-what-it-pays-in-taxes-2013-5#ixzz2U2qzakND
"Gasland 2" Grassroots Premiere in Illinois Highlights Industry PsyOps and Ongoing Fracking Fights
Read the Article at DeSmogBlog
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/05/21/gasland-2-grassroots-premiere-highlights-industry-psyops-fracking-fights
Connecticut Could Lead Way in Conversion to Peace Economy
Read the Article at War Is a Crime
http://warisacrime.org/content/urgent-connecticut-could-lead-way-conversion-peace-economy
Is Abortion About to Doom Republicans Again?
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/is_abortion_about_to_doom_republicans_again/
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<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>Like most Americans, you probably think the decision about tar sands oil flowing through the United States has been delayed. It hasn't really. The completion of the southern leg of the current Keystone Pipeline this summer will start the environmentally toxic petroleum sludge flowing to Texas.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZHJoMpfzapzEfrgCw%2BsZtL4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>VA Backs Off Promise to Fix Veterans' Claim Backlog</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gspYLBF7BIedWZ1iQNfMob4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Center for Investigative Reporting</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009</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>Hold Onto Your Cellphones: Anthony Weiner Announces New York City Mayoral Run</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>Apple Avoids $17 Million in Taxes Daily Through Ballsy but Genius Tax Avoidance Scheme </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>"Gasland 2" Grassroots Premiere in Illinois Highlights Industry PsyOps and Ongoing Fracking Fights</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HNX%2B0ATGdMuz9VU5WJBmO3Z%2FRCsZcmYV" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at DeSmogBlog</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Connecticut Could Lead Way in Conversion to Peace Economy</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>Is Abortion About to Doom Republicans Again? </strong></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>Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout:</strong> From its origins as the manufacturer of lethal poisons, Monsanto represented a challenge to human and environmental health. Today it threatens food supplies and democracy around the world.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ATX3v81DgDuEBo0lU1NFmL4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ut52Yrpue8yJvELF%2FK3HKL4%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered</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>Rania Khalek and Craig O'Connor, Truthout:</strong> Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers responsible for the financial collapse and foreclosure crisis.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=haH0l4fa6%2BbqwIcZpMYeR74%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>View the Photo Essay</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>John Logan, Truthout:</strong> While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land in the workplace further guts worker protections.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IGr8ewQPRYjYxcxfwzwv3L4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VIABBwneqx%2BCDtfC0nGVUr4%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Austerity Comes to America</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>Gerald Friedman, Center for Popular Economics:</strong> Even while scholarship has exposed the fallacy of austerity economics and this news has reached wide audiences, the US government is embracing austerity's policy prescriptions.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r%2B7%2FT0ZBeqhhcNebkE%2FEMb4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BRkX233IroHRii%2Feo7BGh74%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit</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>David Morgan, Truthout:</strong> Operating a workplace as a democracy in the contemporary business world isn't easy, Morgan says, but worker cooperatives are showing the way while thriving and multiplying.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4WbYH%2B3bRA75ML0bmH12Ub4%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PWIF2IoQA2SGfPTUREz8J74%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly</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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner. The maker of the board game Co-opoly tells Truthout how the game encourages cooperation in a climate of cutthroat capitalism.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2bVBUXiRgCa7g7IVmmb6g74%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Interview</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hvZUw6vvrsweS7imblL4GL4%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR</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> Public broadcasting institutions now rely more and more on corporate and billionaire cash to operate, which is probably why PBS and NPR now filter what they play on their airwaves: so that they don't anger their wealthy backers.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dJORM1L8TU2LFl9FGLcFQ74%2FIkarRhbJ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Brendan Fischer, PRWatch:</strong> The Texas-based Tea Party group True the Vote is claiming they were one of the groups inappropriately "targeted" by the IRS since their application for charitable status has been delayed for years.</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> The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a so-called comprehensive immigration plan; Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted to provide support for veterans; Obama won't let the GOP fast-track the Keystone XL pipeline, and more.</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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6UC5Vj4nPyKKZSKkGPBAO3Z%2FRCsZcmYV"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad</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> According to Darcy O'Callaghan, the international policy director at Food & Water Watch, US embassies are aggressively and systematically promoting biotechnology and GMO food abroad.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QJyM3dHOxSOjNR5rNpzMgnZ%2FRCsZcmYV" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2NblUoPDQoq6fQLs5dDn474%2FIkarRhbJ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Economic Update: Measuring Capitalism's Results</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>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout:</strong> Richard Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally, in relation to the economic crisis. Updates include news on Google caught evading taxes, the state of food stamps and the crisis in public higher education. The radio segment also includes a major discussion on the US medical-industrial complex and the meaning of Bangladesh's building collapse.</p>
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