America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations

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Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery. Tuesday 10 July 2012 America the Beautiful: A Fire Sale for Foreign Corporations Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "This may be one of the most important stories ever ignored by the so-called 'lame-stream, liberal' media. It's unlikely you're losing sleep over US trade negotiations, but the unfolding business agreement among the US and eight Pacific nations - the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - should cause every US citizen, from the Sierra Club to the Tea Party to get their pitch forks and torches out of the closet and prepare to 'storm the Bastille.'" Read the Article Can a Financial Transactions Tax Work in America? An FTT FAQ Salvatore Babones, Truthout: "As the world struggles with economic challenges, governments everywhere are cutting back on services and seeking new forms of revenue. One of the most talked about new ideas for raising revenue is the financial transactions tax (FTT). Debate over a European FTT dominated June's European Union summit, while in the United States, civil society groups kicked off a major new FTT campaign." Read the Article Apologies to Mexico: The Drug Trade and Gross National Pain Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "I apologize. There are so many things I could apologize for, from the way the U.S. biotech corporation Monsanto has contaminated your corn to the way Arizona and Alabama are persecuting your citizens, but right now I'd like to apologize for the drug war, the 10,000 waking nightmares that make the news and the rest that don't." 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Though the fluids were natural and not the byproduct of drilling or hydraulic fracturing, the finding further stokes the red-hot controversy over fracking in the Marcellus Shale, suggesting that drilling waste and chemicals could migrate in ways previously thought to be impossible." Read the Article Why Are Women and Transgender Comic Creators Getting Less of the Pie? Nicole Boyett and Anne Elizabeth Moore, Truthout: "Two big charges follow all number-crunching on gender in media: that women don't make work as often as men, and that women don't submit work to publishers at the same rates as men. We kill both arguments dead in this strip ... which shows that men make up only 54 percent of comics creators, and submit work at approximately the same rates as women." Read the Comic Will World Population Day Open the Gates to Coercive Contraception? Betsy Hartmann, Truthout: "On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an ambitious $4 billion contraceptive program initiated by Melinda Gates. Its aim is to get 120 million poor women, mainly in Africa and South Asia, access to modern contraception as well as to stimulate research into new birth control methods." Read the Article Paul Krugman | For Europe's Leaders, the Solution Remains Elusive Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The European Union summit in June was clearly an upside surprise: in effect, the Latin bloc forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bend, at least slightly.... The main substantive thing was the agreement in principle to set up something more or less like a European version of the Troubled Asset Relief Program in the United States, in which funds for bank recapitalization will be supplied by a consortium rather than lent to governments already overburdened with debt." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Rick Perry Announces He Will Refuse to Expand Medicaid to Cover 1.2 Million More Low-Income Texans In today's On the News segment: The Libor rate-fixing scandal could grow, Rick Perry announces he will refuse to cover 1.2 million more low-income Texans, Democrats are fighting back against the avalanche of secret corporate cash being used against them this election cycle, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Inequality Rises as Union Numbers Decline Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Co.: "By now, we've all heard about the growing disparity between rich and poor - and most of us have felt the effects. 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