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Flawed FDA Risk Assessments Strengthen Arguments for Labeling GMOs
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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=DtW8WS0Oxch2Ex0cWir0rwAj%2B%2Fj9%2BQLl"><strong>The United States' Leading Export: Inequality</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>Salvatore Babones, Inequality.org:</strong> You don't have to buy the theories in Thomas Piketty's <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> to use his data. And those data show that the United States has become a global model for maldistribution.</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>Emily Johnston, Truthout:</strong> A fight between activists and commissioners of the Port of Seattle over hosting Shell Arctic drilling rigs is representative of many environmental battles. Symbolic actions, like blocking the rigs, have real-world impacts, and to save the planet, we must act now.</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>Gar Alperovitz and Thomas Hanna, YES! Magazine:</strong> Publicly owned broadband lets local communities from Iowa to Louisiana control a vital economic resource, rather than leaving it in the hands of a few monopolistic corporations. The outcome of this week's FCC vote could either help or hinder the path forward.</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> Walmart's announcement of a pay increase for 500,000 employees and more predictable scheduling for some workers comes after three years of sustained actions by the employee group OUR Walmart and its community allies, as well as growing criticism of the company's poverty wages.</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>Zoë Carpenter, The Nation:</strong> The uprising at Willacy County Correctional Center put a spotlight on a shadowed corner of overlap between the federal prison system, private prison companies and the nation's immigration enforcement machinery.</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=oyW%2BwbU1EwEZnywlg%2FhVBQAj%2B%2Fj9%2BQLl"><strong>Report Cries Out on Behalf of Iraqi Women</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>Leila Lemghalef, Inter Press Service:</strong> A new report by Minority Rights Group International and Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights concludes that attacks on women are a war tactic in Iraq, and emphasizes that while women are punished for the aggressions they have endured, their perpetrators are absolved from punishment under the Iraqi penal code.</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 Allam, McClatchy DC:</strong> Former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford was always one of the Syrian rebels' loudest cheerleaders, but has dropped his call to provide them weapons. Instead, he's become increasingly critical that they are disjointed and untrustworthy because they collaborate with jihadists.</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>Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:</strong> Some Republican senators are having a field day, and rightly so, over the fact that President Obama's attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, looks to have let bank giant HSBC, and more importantly, its executives and officers, off way too easy in a massive money laundering and tax evasion scheme.</p>
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