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 Richard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: The majority on this Supreme Court is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporate America. Call it SCOTUS™ Inc., and it's brought to you by the same fine folks that gave you Citizens United and Bush v. Gore. John Roberts is its CEO, not its Chief Justice. The point isn't to reinforce anybody's cynicism. But you can't be idealistic in an effective way until you see things as they really are. |
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 John Dunbar, News Report: The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) "elevates commercial gain for a few over the well-being of society's less fortunate," says a complaint penned by Marcus Owens, the former chief of the Internal Revenue Service's nonprofit corporations division, on behalf of Clergy VOICE, a group of ministers from progressive churches in Ohio. |
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 Dean Baker, Op-Ed: The economy generated more than 250,000 jobs a month in the period from November through February. While even this rate is not much cause for celebration in an economy that is down ten million jobs, it was the best three-month performance since the recovery began. Unfortunately, this pace did not reflect the underlying strength of the economy. |
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 Joe Smyth, News Analysis: While discussing the same issue with the Associated Press, Shell PR folks take another word out for a spin, and even try to blame "opposition groups" for this confusion: Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith said opposition groups are purposely mischaracterizing Shell's oil spill response plan. The plan does not claim Shell can clean up 90 percent of an oil spill, he said. |
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 Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Until this spring, when Beverly Hoskins raised a ruckus in the henhouse, figuratively speaking. As the owner of several rental houses along Farm Street, she wants the council to consider repealing the proclamation, complaining that "a lot of chicken waste" was being spread by the daily promenade. The denizens of Farm Street, however, flocked to defend the fowls, asserting that wild chickens are an integral part of "Bastrop culture." |
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 Elizabeth Renter, News Report: It's a hormone that forces cows to produce more milk. More milk = more money, but the hormone makes the cows sick. Among other things, it causes mastitis which is an infection of the udder. This infection causes pus to be released into the milk. Yes, pus is in your milk. In turn, large scale dairy operations that use rBST must use more antibiotics in the cows to counter the infection causing effects of the hormones. |
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 Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Video Report: "This is—this really is a huge victory for our side, in spite of all of my concerns with this law. It didn't go far enough. It doesn't cover all Americans. This is not true universal healthcare. Nonetheless, the right wing has been handed a serious defeat today. This is a real—a real smackdown of their—the way that they believe our country should be structured." |
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 Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed: Canada's Medicare-for-all program is not socialist in the way that the British National Health program is socialist--with UK hospitals owned by the government and UK doctors receiving state salaries. Doctors in Canada still are private entrepreneurs, but their fees for service are set by the provincial governments. Hospitals can also be private, but patients only pay a nominal charge for treatment in them. |
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![]( "New Documentary") Steve Horn, News Analysis: We realized that more often than not, people wanted to leave behind the noise and extremes to build an energy future that is environmentally sound, economically viable and ensures energy security. The 'Rational Middle' is the starting point for a movement welcoming open discussion where everyone is invited to the table to find solutions to the most important energy challenges. Taken at face value, the movie's description sounds fairly innocent. |
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 Paul Buchheit , Op-Ed: A quadrillion dollars is the entire world economy, 12 times over. It's enough to give 3 million dollars to every person in the United States. But in a sense it's not real money. Most of it is high-volume nanosecond computer trading, the type that almost crashed our economy. So it's a good candidate for a tiny sales tax. But there is no sales tax. But walk over to Wall Street and buy a million dollar high-risk credit default swap and pay 0%. |
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 Nathan Schneider, Op-Ed: Occupy Wall Street has made the masses of this country aware of the fact that individuals now have the power to express themselves to the masses without relying on traditional mainstream news networks. Most people continue to consume news information from increasingly obsolete conglomerates out of encrusted habits, more so than out of any rational consideration. The mainstream media has become the weak link in the chains of the state and system that bind us. |
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 Louis E.V. Nevaer, News Report: It is expected that a blitkreig-style military "surge" against the drug cartels could strike at the heart of these organizations, and debilitate them to such a degree that the new Mexican president can then begin to implement a different set of strategies. Calderon's six-year war against the drug cartels has already wreaked havoc, with hundreds of leaders and operatives from the major cartels and drug organizations killed, imprisoned or extradited to the United States. |
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