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The Ivory Cage and the Ghosts of Academe: Labor and Struggle in the Edu-Fac=
tory
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23391-the-ivory-cage-and-the-ghosts-of-a=
cademe-labor-and-struggle-in-the-edu-factory
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bor in universities on both sides of the Atlantic is at an all-time high, t=
hanks to the tireless work of precarious university employees and their rep=
resentative organizations.
Phony Justice in a Phony War
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23399-phony-justice-in-a-phony-war
L. Michael Hager, Truthout: FBI interrogation of a member of the defense te=
am for one of the accused at Guantanamo is another blow to the integrity of=
a military commission process that owes its existence to an illegitimate "=
war."
Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and the Reality of Racism
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23403-cliven-bundy-donald-sterling-an=
d-the-reality-of-racism
Chris Williams, Truthout: It would be easy to attack the offensive comments=
made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling over the past few days, but their=
comments reflect a dominant train of thought among those with systemic ins=
titutional power. The reality of racism is stronger than ever.
Narrative Medicine Isn't the Same Old Story
http://truth-out.org/news/item/23398-narrative-medicine-isnt-the-same-old-s=
tory
Hannah K. Gold, Truthout: Narrative medicine - with its focus on the indivi=
dual patient as a person with specific pains, pasts and agency - has become=
increasingly popular as a pedagogical tool and theory of medical practice =
as well as a possible avenue towards a more compassionate and effective hea=
lth care system.
Bundy's Friends Have Become the Kochs' Useful Idiots
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23418-bundys-friends-have-become-the-koc=
hs-useful-idiots
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The ironic thing about the milit=
ia members at Cliven Bundy's ranch is that the only people who benefit from=
their fight against "big government" are the same people who are already d=
estroying our country - the billionaires and the oligarchs.
Koch Brothers, Major Corporations Sponsor Pension Reform Seminar for Judges
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or-pension-reform-seminar-for-judges
Chris Young, Center for Public Integrity: As state courts across the nation=
prepare to referee numerous public pension reform disputes, a gaggle of in=
terested parties, from major corporations to the Koch brothers, will next w=
eek sponsor an expenses-paid conference on public pension reform for judges=
who may decide the cases' fates.
Sweden Championed Gender Equality to Raise Birth Rates - and It Worked
http://truth-out.org/news/item/23409-sweden-championed-gender-equality-to-r=
aise-birth-rates-and-it-worked
Ashley Lauren Samsa, Care2: In industrialized countries, especially the Uni=
ted States and countries in Europe, the birth rate has been consistently de=
clining. Sweden has successfully turned this around by focusing on gender e=
quality.
Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23410-senate-to-obama-drone-baby-dron=
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Karen Garcia, Sardonicky: Five years of Obama drone strikes, at least 2,500=
people in their graves, but still no sign of promised transparency around =
the program.
"As Consumers, We Are Guinea Pigs": Vermont Set to Become First State to Re=
quire GMO Food Labeling
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rmont-set-to-become-first-state-to-require-gmo-food-labeling
Amy Goodman and Aaron Mat=C3=A9, Democracy Now!: Vermont is poised to becom=
e the first state to require the labeling of genetically modified organisms=
in food products, with the governor saying he will sign the pro-GMO-labeli=
ng bill as early as this week.
Crain's Detroit Business Editor Channels Slave Imagery, Says Detroit Needs =
"Permanent Overseer"
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23413-crains-detroit-business-editor-cha=
nnels-slave-imagery-says-detroit-needs-permanent-overseer
Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet: Between the rampant legalized looting, an =
emergency manager thrust upon them, water turn-offs, threatened pensions, a=
nd darkened streets, the people of Detroit have been to hell and back. Now =
they can add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their =
list.
Six Reasons Why Obama's Clemency Program Doesn't Change Mass Incarceration =
One Bit
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23411-six-reasons-why-obamas-clemency=
-program-for-drug-offenders-doesnt-change-mass-incarceration-one-bit
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the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release hundreds =
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ent change to the nation's universal policy of mass incarceration.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Delays Decision on Keystone Pipeline,=
and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23417-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-oba=
ma-delays-decision-on-keystone-pipeline-and-more
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ly Hills bans fracking; and more.
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With Unlimited Financial Campaign Contributions, One Robber Baron Can Contr=
ol a State
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Can unrestricted campaign contributions=
by millionaires and billionaires buy a state legislature? Just look at wha=
t one man has politically purchased in Missouri.
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http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/with-unlimited-financial-campaign=
-contributions-one-robber-baron-can-control-a-state
GOP Blocks $10.10 Minimum Wage Hike in Senate
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Supreme Court Backs EPA Crackdown on Cross-State Coal Pollution
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Tennessee Governor Signs Bill Criminalizing Pregnant Women
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criminalizing-pregnant-women/
Lethal Injections: A History of Bungled Executions
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/30/lethal-injecti=
ons-a-history-of-bungled-executions/?wpisrc=3Dnl_headlines
Report: Nukes Were Almost Used 13 Times Since 1962 - and the Risk of Nuclea=
r Accidents Is Rising
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/nuclear-accident-near-misses-r=
eport
Two Giant Banks, Seen as "Too Big to Fail," Become Federal Targets
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es-against-big-banks/?_php=3Dtrue&_type=3Dblogs&hp&_r=3D0=20
Jim Hightower | Rick Perry's Bespectacled Mess
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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>Report: Nukes Were Almost Used 13 Times Since 1962 - and the Risk of Nuclear Accidents Is Rising</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>Two Giant Banks, Seen as "Too Big to Fail," Become Federal Targets</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>L. Michael Hager, Truthout:</strong> FBI interrogation of a member of the defense team for one of the accused at Guantanamo is another blow to the integrity of a military commission process that owes its existence to an illegitimate "war."</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=k2acGEGP5lY3WXssXx3DqUFjKWZJ6MxF" 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>Chris Williams, Truthout:</strong> It would be easy to attack the offensive comments made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling over the past few days, but their comments reflect a dominant train of thought among those with systemic institutional power. The reality of racism is stronger than ever.</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=%2BfsgsM7c%2BYvmSq4k2kZHbkFjKWZJ6MxF" 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>Hannah K. Gold, Truthout:</strong> Narrative medicine - with its focus on the individual patient as a person with specific pains, pasts and agency - has become increasingly popular as a pedagogical tool and theory of medical practice as well as a possible avenue towards a more compassionate and effective health care system.</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=JEJN7uHVgHyOPaLMnoJRDUFjKWZJ6MxF" 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=t5EZ4huYVjqs6QXpqvbSkEFjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Bundy's Friends Have Become the Kochs' Useful Idiots</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> The ironic thing about the militia members at Cliven Bundy's ranch is that the only people who benefit from their fight against "big government" are the same people who are already destroying our country - the billionaires and the oligarchs.</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=V77HcFM7xiZS8slAny8L7kFjKWZJ6MxF" 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=7ufd8APimXleoFD3tUzMK0FjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Koch Brothers, Major Corporations Sponsor Pension Reform Seminar for Judges</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>Chris Young, Center for Public Integrity:</strong> As state courts across the nation prepare to referee numerous public pension reform disputes, a gaggle of interested parties, from major corporations to the Koch brothers, will next week sponsor an expenses-paid conference on public pension reform for judges who may decide the cases' fates.</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=fXZvqv10Kj8MoRs1A472tkFjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Sweden Championed Gender Equality to Raise Birth Rates - and It Worked</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>Ashley Lauren Samsa, Care2:</strong> In industrialized countries, especially the United States and countries in Europe, the birth rate has been consistently declining. Sweden has successfully turned this around by focusing on gender equality.</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=IL1e2amX2qjWyOg55IYvuTYa3dxjc253" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Senate to Obama: Drone, Baby, Drone</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>Karen Garcia, Sardonicky:</strong> Five years of Obama drone strikes, at least 2,500 people in their graves, but still no sign of promised transparency around the program.</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=UjvEgnqLH1nwvLvAFirqREFjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>"As Consumers, We Are Guinea Pigs": Vermont Set to Become First State to Require GMO Food Labeling</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 and Aaron Maté, Democracy Now!:</strong> Vermont is poised to become the first state to require the labeling of genetically modified organisms in food products, with the governor saying he will sign the pro-GMO-labeling bill as early as this week.</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=6lWHoX0saIKN8IVUal1IY0FjKWZJ6MxF" 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=Io%2BVSrNLYcA5xzYilHkI8EFjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong><em>Crain's Detroit Business</em> Editor Channels Slave Imagery, Says Detroit Needs "Permanent Overseer"</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>Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet:</strong> Between the rampant legalized looting, an emergency manager thrust upon them, water turn-offs, threatened pensions, and darkened streets, the people of Detroit have been to hell and back. Now they can add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their list.</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=HyydCYGS6E7in9TRifbpzTYa3dxjc253" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Six Reasons Why Obama's Clemency Program Doesn't Change Mass Incarceration One Bit</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>Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report:</strong> The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release hundreds of prisoners. But the releases will not represent any significant or permanent change to the nation's universal policy of mass incarceration.</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=obFnVqBaRXZVJGiEYAeumEFjKWZJ6MxF" 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=vD%2BfLVsbmCnIwA5%2BkSNjzEFjKWZJ6MxF" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Delays Decision on Keystone Pipeline, 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> Obama delays a key decision on the Keystone XL pipeline; Connecticut moves toward banning wastewater from fracking; a scientist describes how close the earth can be to an asteroid strike; Beverly Hills bans fracking; and more.</p>
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