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t r u t h o u t | 02.17
How Scalia's Absence Will Affect Pending Supreme Court Cases
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34865-how-scalia-s-absence-will-affect-p=
ending-supreme-court-cases
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Following the death of Associate Justice Antonin S=
calia, a number of pending Supreme Court cases may have more progressive ou=
tcomes due to tie votes and cases being decided by lower courts. The ruling=
s, however, will create no binding Supreme Court precedent.
US Farmers Allege Deception by Agrochemical Giant: The Case Against Syngent=
a
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34855-us-farmers-allege-deception-by-=
agrochemical-giant-the-case-against-syngenta
Clara Herzberg, Truthout: Tens of thousands of US farmers have filed claims=
against agribusiness giant Syngenta, alleging the company willfully deceiv=
ed them into thinking they'd be able to sell Syngenta-manufactured GMO corn=
to China. The corporation has a record of deception and suppression of cri=
tics.
Why Greece Must Ditch the Euro: An Interview With Economist Dimitris Karous=
os
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34878-why-greece-must-ditch-the-euro-an-=
interview-with-economist-dimitris-karousos
Michael Nevradakis, Truthout: Greek economist and United Popular Front memb=
er Dimitris Karousos discusses the harsh realities of austerity and explain=
s why the euro is a debt instrument, not a wealth instrument. Greece, he ar=
gues, should leave the eurozone altogether.
Meet the "Rented White Coats" Who Defend Toxic Chemicals
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34857-meet-the-rented-white-coats-who-de=
fend-toxic-chemicals
David Heath, The Center for Public Integrity: Corporate interests can dicta=
te their own science, and scientists for hire willingly oblige. It's a phen=
omenon that's grown in recent decades as government-funded science dwindles=
. Its effects are felt not only in courtrooms, but also in regulatory agenc=
ies that issue rules to try to prevent disease.
TTIP of the Iceberg: Consumer Concerns Could Sink the US-EU Trade Agreement
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34863-ttip-of-the-iceberg-consumer-conce=
rns-could-sink-the-us-eu-trade-agreement
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: Although negotiators tout the Transatlantic Trade a=
nd Investment Partnership as the vanguard of a "new generation" of trade ag=
reements with the potential to raise standards and advance sustainable deve=
lopment, in reality it is built upon old trade rules demanded by industry t=
o ensure just the opposite.
GM Stopped Using Flint Water More Than a Year Before Emergency Declared
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34873-gm-stopped-using-flint-water-more-=
than-a-year-before-emergency-declared
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: In October 2014, General Motors recognized Fli=
nt, Michigan, water was corroding its engines. The auto company got permiss=
ion from the city's unelected emergency manager - who was appointed by Repu=
blican Gov. Rick Snyder - to disconnect from Flint's water and go back to D=
etroit water.
Bailout Architect: Dodd-Frank Won't Stop Another "Reactor Meltdown"
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34867-bailout-architect-dodd-frank-won-t=
-stop-another-reactor-melt-down
Sam Knight, The District Sentinel: The president of the Minneapolis Federal=
Reserve and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the 200=
8 Wall Street bailout warned that Dodd-Frank financial reforms won't stop t=
he US government from rescuing "too-big-to-fail" banks.
Does Baltimore Black Lives Matter Activist Have a Shot at Becoming Mayor?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34868-does-baltimore-black-lives-matt=
er-activist-have-a-shot-at-becoming-mayor
Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine: When Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckes=
son announced he was running for mayor of Baltimore in early February, he g=
ot mixed reactions. The public, it turns out, is polarized on the fusion of=
activism and politics. But activists turned politicians are nothing new.
Billionaire-Funded Charter School Juggernaut Hits Roadblock in Los Angeles
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34864-billionaire-funded-charter-school-=
juggernaut-hits-roadblock-in-los-angeles
Don Hazen, AlterNet: A plan by the billionaire Eli Broad, the Walton Family=
Foundation and others to double the number of charter schools in Los Angle=
s over the next eight years was unanimously rejected by the board of the Lo=
s Angeles Unified School District. But the fight over charter expansion con=
tinues.
Four Steps to Appointing a Supreme Court Justice
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34862-four-steps-to-appointing-a-supreme=
-court-justice
Caren Morrison, The Conversation: With the death of US Supreme Court Justic=
e Antonin Scalia this weekend, the political battle lines have been drawn. =
President Obama plans to nominate a successor. His opposition is adamant th=
at he shouldn't do so. So what will it take to get a new justice named?
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti: An Interview With Iderle Br=C3=A9nus
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34858-women-farmers-and-land-grabs-in-ha=
iti-an-interview-with-iderle-brenus
Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: When a family is dispossessed of its land, wome=
n are victims. Rural women are the first to feel the pain. The ways in whic=
h land theft and expulsions are affecting them need to be discussed so the =
impacted women can be made a priority.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
You Can Taste the Need for Regulating Corporations When Parmesan Cheese Is =
Fake
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/you-can-taste-the-need-for-re=
gulating-corporations-when-parmesan-cheese-has-no-parmesan-in-it
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Where does a sprinkle of ersatz Parmesa=
n cheese enter into the Koch brothers' disingenuous meme of businesses alwa=
ys being honest?
Ted Cruz Embraces Armageddon Pastor Who Denounces Gay and Jewish People
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/ted-cruz-embraces-armageddon-=
pastor-who-denounces-gays-and-jews
Oregon Militia Left Firearms, Bombs and a Lot of Poop at Wildlife Refuge
Read the Article at CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-militia-occupiers-left-firearms-bombs-a-=
lot-of-poop/
French Ecology Minister Calls for Ban on Glyphosate Formulations in Herbici=
des
Read the EcoWatch Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/french-ecology-minister-calls=
-for-ban-on-glyphosate-formulations
The Biggest Iraq War Scandal That Nobody's Talking About=20
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/burn_pits/
Obama Rejects GOP Calls to Let Next President Choose Scalia's Successor
Read the Article at The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-rejects-gop-calls-to-let-next=
-president-choose-scalias-successor/2016/02/16/30a8a48a-d4f5-11e5-b195-2e29=
a4e13425_story.html
Study: Lead-Poisoned Flint Paid Highest Rate in US for Water
Read the Article at the Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/1=
6/study-flint-paid-highest-rate-us-water/80461288/
Jeb Bush's Gun Tweet Is a Portrait of the US Nightmare
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/17/jeb-bush-gun-tweet-ame=
rican-nightmare-gun-republican-trump
Read the Article at the Guardian US
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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>You Can Taste the Need for Regulating Corporations When Parmesan Cheese Is Fake </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>Where does a sprinkle of ersatz Parmesan cheese enter into the Koch brothers' disingenuous meme of businesses always being honest?</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=MXyB0mi5MPaVHJ42dApFHheOJnVRByf6"><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>Ted Cruz Embraces Armageddon Pastor Who Denounces Gay and Jewish People</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>Oregon Militia Left Firearms, Bombs and a Lot of Poop at Wildlife Refuge</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>French Ecology Minister Calls for Ban on Glyphosate Formulations in Herbicides</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 Biggest Iraq War Scandal That Nobody's Talking About </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>Obama Rejects GOP Calls to Let Next President Choose Scalia's Successor</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=hvwi5tvbLb2BISdoJNNggheOJnVRByf6"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Study: Lead-Poisoned Flint Paid Highest Rate in US for Water</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=6IDbhuKflvwWDrbJCdykpReOJnVRByf6"><strong>Read the Article at the Detroit Free 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>Jeb Bush's Gun Tweet Is a Portrait of the US Nightmare</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=78jWVLON0D5deMG9ybMOR7s8k866Wezs"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian US</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>Marjorie Cohn, Truthout:</strong> Following the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, a number of pending Supreme Court cases may have more progressive outcomes due to tie votes and cases being decided by lower courts. The rulings, however, will create no binding Supreme Court precedent.</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=o%2FpXwRWGiignAyckH9APuBeOJnVRByf6"><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=17TgyAyMNs0QMKJr%2BTRGWQ1W2cjDp7E6"><strong>US Farmers Allege Deception by Agrochemical Giant: The Case Against Syngenta</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>Clara Herzberg, Truthout:</strong> Tens of thousands of US farmers have filed claims against agribusiness giant Syngenta, alleging the company willfully deceived them into thinking they'd be able to sell Syngenta-manufactured GMO corn to China. The corporation has a record of deception and suppression of critics.</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=sKwG3%2BObIf8tA%2FVkcJfSVReOJnVRByf6"><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=TKLRJjRVF4ZbdJ9G3%2Bd6HheOJnVRByf6"><strong>Why Greece Must Ditch the Euro: An Interview With Economist Dimitris Karousos</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>Michael Nevradakis, Truthout:</strong> Greek economist and United Popular Front member Dimitris Karousos discusses the harsh realities of austerity and explains why the euro is a debt instrument, not a wealth instrument. Greece, he argues, should leave the eurozone altogether.</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=UwMLzTKokiNtx4QJ5aK0gBeOJnVRByf6"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gLuEVrmuTIA8djFxToIqGReOJnVRByf6"><strong>Meet the "Rented White Coats" Who Defend Toxic Chemicals</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 Heath, The Center for Public Integrity:</strong> Corporate interests can dictate their own science, and scientists for hire willingly oblige. It's a phenomenon that's grown in recent decades as government-funded science dwindles. Its effects are felt not only in courtrooms, but also in regulatory agencies that issue rules to try to prevent disease.</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=pN8%2FlrPql0GywitfE9YcyheOJnVRByf6"><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=A%2F3tDC%2BsvLC1yxqb8R4upBeOJnVRByf6"><strong>TTIP of the Iceberg: Consumer Concerns Could Sink the US-EU Trade Agreement</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>Mary Bottari, PR Watch:</strong> Although negotiators tout the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as the vanguard of a "new generation" of trade agreements with the potential to raise standards and advance sustainable development, in reality it is built upon old trade rules demanded by industry to ensure just the opposite.</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=hVaHfVOe4lLry91vOrI1w7s8k866Wezs"><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=A8SSsPfverAgXa2HTNBz%2FheOJnVRByf6"><strong>GM Stopped Using Flint Water More Than a Year Before Emergency Declared</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> In October 2014, General Motors recognized Flint, Michigan, water was corroding its engines. The auto company got permission from the city's unelected emergency manager - who was appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder - to disconnect from Flint's water and go back to Detroit water.</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>Sam Knight, The District Sentinel:</strong> The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the 2008 Wall Street bailout warned that Dodd-Frank financial reforms won't stop the US government from rescuing "too-big-to-fail" banks.</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>Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine:</strong> When Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson announced he was running for mayor of Baltimore in early February, he got mixed reactions. The public, it turns out, is polarized on the fusion of activism and politics. But activists turned politicians are nothing new.</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=fmCP6i8SJwlArRnhdDnioxeOJnVRByf6"><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=2yLKL4VARDWhJoCUAHsWJBeOJnVRByf6"><strong>Billionaire-Funded Charter School Juggernaut Hits Roadblock in Los Angeles</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>Don Hazen, AlterNet:</strong> A plan by the billionaire Eli Broad, the Walton Family Foundation and others to double the number of charter schools in Los Angles over the next eight years was unanimously rejected by the board of the Los Angeles Unified School District. But the fight over charter expansion continues.</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=X5Bv6ouVNGOgjOnemiPp7Q1W2cjDp7E6"><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>Caren Morrison, The Conversation:</strong> With the death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia this weekend, the political battle lines have been drawn. President Obama plans to nominate a successor. His opposition is adamant that he shouldn't do so. So what will it take to get a new justice named?</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=O7q%2FbQ9sMzOleIDHG0XdSxeOJnVRByf6"><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>Beverly Bell, Other Worlds:</strong> When a family is dispossessed of its land, women are victims. Rural women are the first to feel the pain. The ways in which land theft and expulsions are affecting them need to be discussed so the impacted women can be made a priority.</p>
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