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Nancy Altman, Op-Ed: "Because Social Security is so popular, the 2011 Ryan budget backed by almost all House Republicans tip-toes around planned changes in the program -- and simply includes procedural changes that would 'fast track' modifications and make it possible for legislators to accept them without full political accountability. When procedural tricks are put in place, we have to ask why. What changes do Representative Ryan and his colleagues have in mind?" 
News Report: In 2001, the California State Legislature mandated the agency adopt a standard by Jan. 1, 2004, giving it two years to do so. Eight years past its legal deadline, the agency still hasn't made any visible progress and says it could take several more years before a final standard is completed. Filed in the California Superior Court of Alameda, NRDC and EWG's suit contends the department's delay is unjustified and it must rapidly proceed to finalize the standard. "Communities all over California and the U.S. are being poisoned by this dangerous chemical," 
Greg Palast, Op-Ed: "On March 12 this year, as I watched Fukushima melt, I knew: the 'SQ' had been faked. Anderson Cooper said it would all be OK. He'd flown to Japan, to suck up the radiation and official company bullshit. The horror show was not the fault of Tokyo Electric, he said, because the plant was built to withstand only an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, and this was 9.0. Anderson must have been in the gym when they handed out the facts." 
Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "If Republicans really hated the idea of automated military spending cuts — and granted, this is no way to plan for our nation's defense — they would have shouted support for the deficit-reduction deal that House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama came close to agreeing on over a year ago. It would have eliminated roughly three dollars of spending for every dollar of new revenues." 
Dave Lindorff, Op-Ed: "People get to vote once every two and four years to chose from a narrow list of pre-selected candidates approved by the real rulers of the country, who are the wealthy owners of the large business interests, many of which prosper when there's a war on, and many more of which are happy to have periodic wars, or the threat of wars, to keep people in line and willing to tolerate the kind of abuse that is typically heaped on the average working person." 
Peter Rugh, News Analysis: "Texas Eastern has paid over $4 million in penalties for corrosion in its pipes over the years — chump change for Spectra, which has a $1.5 billion line of credit with several of the biggest too-big-to-fail banks, including Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Wells Fargo. The same banks that fracked the global economy are now bankrolling the delivery of fracked gas to Manhattan." 
Stephen Lacey, Video Report: "The whole issue here is about fairness and equity. The older, carbon-based forms of generation have enjoyed benefits and tax subsidies within the tax code for 90 years," says Harold Prior, Director of the Iowa Wind Energy Association. "While wind and solar and a lot of other renewables depend on highly visible, short-term tax subsidies that face expiration…and it really does not create a very predictable situation for the industry's growth." 
Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 332 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." 
Aviva Shen, News Report: "Besides the chemical industry, companies including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle USA, General Mills and ConAgra are pouring money into defeating the labeling requirement. If California passes the measure, these companies' profits could suffer from a warning label driving consumers away. Proposition 37 could also take the GMO-labeling movement national, which has so far stalled in 20 states in spite of support from 91 percent of Americans." 
Kassondra Cloos, News Report: "Three students from my apartment building — permanent residents from other North Carolina counties — went to vote and were told to return with proof of residency. They were never offered provisional ballots. Only one returned with proof in time to vote. Another was not told she needed to return during early voting, and had planned to go back on Election Day. By the time she realized this, it was too late for her to travel three hours to her hometown, where she was registered." 
Joe Conason, Op-Ed: "Let us turn now to the respected professionals at the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who are too polite to simply laugh at Ryan. They took him seriously enough to examine his assertions with care, only to find that the research he cites doesn't support his assumptions — and that most economists still don't buy his theories. They also noticed that Ryan never specifies which loopholes and expenditures he expects to end. That must be why Romney, who has offered similarly foggy plans for tax reform, feels Ryan is such a kindred spirit." --
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