William Rivers Pitt | Obama Joins the Club William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Every Democrat running for re-election in 2014 will have the stinking dead albatross of their president's proposed cut to Social Security hanging around their neck. Read the Article Ethics Breaches Called Possible Obama Plan to Close Gitmo Jason Leopold, Truthout: Legal observer calls breaches "too many fiascos in too short an order to be the result of random chance." Read the Article Chris Hedges | Our Public Transportation System Is a Sweatshop on Wheels Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The battles in towns and cities across the country usually pit 100 or 200 beleaguered union workers in a local bus system against a powerful multinational and its lobbyists. Read the Article Nicolas Maduro Is Venezuela's Vote for Chavismo Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian: Hugo Chavez's economic policies were successful, but a close vote means the new president cannot become complacent. Read the Article In Obama's Budget, Poverty Initiatives Face an Uphill Battle Deborah Weinstein, Moyers & Company: There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard-to-get category. Read the Article "Wisconsin Idea" Gone Bad at Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University Allen Ruff and Steve Horn, Truthout: The story of UW Madison's ongoing Kazakhstan involvement stands as a case study of the contradictions inherent in today's "global universities." Read the Article Global Warming: Why Aren't We Using More Alternative Energy? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: In Germany, Portugal, and India, among others, innovators are already surpassing the lagging US. Read the Article "ALEC Who?" ALEC Has an Identity Crisis Nick Surgey, PR Watch: The corporate bill mill hired the world's largest PR firm and has been struggling to repair its image in the past year. Read the Article Monsanto Wins Patent Battle With Dupont to Seize Full Rights of GMO Seed Patents Ethan A. Huff, Natural News.com: Apparently discontent with billions in annual sales, Monsanto has been trying for the past four years to extract billions more from rival DuPont for alleged patent infringements involving its Roundup-Ready soybean technology. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Michigan Dems Bring Bill to Up Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour, and More In todays On the News segment: The Supreme Court today heard arguments about whether human DNA can be patented, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript How to Turn a World Short on Enemies Into a Very Threatening Place Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: An essay inspired in part by Jeremy Scahill's soon-to-be-released book The Dirty Wars. Read the Article 401(k) and the Financialization of Retirement Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci tells TRNN that the whole 401(k) structure has a fatal flaw and older workers are going into retirement with not enough money to maintain their living standards. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript |
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