Dahr Jamail | New Mexico: Where Polluting Groundwater Is Legal

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "t r u t h o u t" <messenger@truthout.org>
Date: Mar 10, 2014 3:18 PM
Subject: Dahr Jamail | New Mexico: Where Polluting Groundwater Is Legal
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Monday, 10 March 2014 View Recent Newsletters Tell a friend about Truthout! Donate Today!   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.

BuzzFlash Detroit Should Become Part of Ukraine to Get US Financial Aid It Needs to Survive Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The US policy of empire is forever eager to dole out money overseas to nations who extend US hegemony. However, US cities and needy citizens could use the money on the home front. Just ask Detroit. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   Four Frightening Ways Progressive Gains Are Being Stolen From Us Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Highest Minimum-Wage State, Washington Beats US in Job Creation Read the Article at Bloomberg   Obamacare Cited as US Uninsured Rate Drops Read the Article at The Associated Press   Workers: Disposable Assets in the Fracking Industry Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Leaked Emails Expose NRC's Cover-Up of Safety Concerns Days After Fukushima Disaster Read the Article at EcoWatch   US Plans to Scan Workers With Secret Clearances to Identify Rogue Agents and Leakers Read the Article at The Associated Press   Democrat Senators to Stage All-Night Session of Climate Change Speeches Read the Article at The Guardian     Dahr Jamail | New Mexico: Where Polluting Groundwater Is Legal Dahr Jamail, Truthout: New Mexicans get 90 percent of their drinking water from groundwater. Yet the governor of this drought-plagued Southwestern state has given the copper industry carte blanche to pollute what is left of that essential resource. Read the Article  Chris Hedges | Welcome to Satan's Ball Chris Hedges, Truthdig: Our elites have established the most efficient system of mass surveillance in history. They have abolished most of our civil liberties, trashed our economy for their own personal gain, looted state treasuries and thrown working men and women aside. Read the Article  A New Form of Homicide in Canada's Prisons: The Case of Ashley Smith Stuart J. Murray and Dave Holmes, Truthout: What could the verdict of "homicide" mean in the coroner's inquest into the death of Ashley Smith, a mentally-ill, 19-year-old inmate on suicide watch who strangled herself to death while in the custody of the Correctional Service of Canada. Is this a new form of anonymous killing in the name of the state? Read the Article  The Failed Libertarian Experiment in Chile The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The libertarian experiment failed, and now Chileans once-and-for-all, have said goodbye to the religion of Reaganomics. And it's time for us here in the US to do the same. Read the Article  Whistleblower Evan Voke's Evidence Against TransCanada Whitewashed By Regulators Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: Pipeline safety regulators in North America have done nothing but write warning letters to TransCanada in the two years since former employee Evan Vokes revealed evidence indicating the company had been breaking the rules. Read the Article  Dean Baker | The New York Times Budget Reporting Looks Like RT on Ukraine Dean Baker, Truthout: News organizations are supposed to inform readers about the world, not make stuff up. Unfortunately, much of the US media deserve comparable ridicule to RT when it comes to budget reporting. Read the Article  Welcome to Daylight Saving Time, a.k.a. Nighttime Stealing Time Karen Garcia, Sardonicky: The first Monday of DST has been scientifically proven to be the most dangerous day of the entire year. The Turn of the Clocks is tantamount to mandated sleep deprivation in an already sleep-deprived society. Read the Article  How Obama Became a Publicist for His Presidency (Rather Than the President) David Bromwich, TomDispatch: For some time now, observers have been saying that Barack Obama seems more like a king than a president. They say Obama takes himself to be something like a benevolent monarch, despite recent approval ratings. Read the Article  Major League Soccer to Start Season With Scab Refs Dave Zirin, The Nation: Lockouts should never be a part of union negotiations, but in sports and beyond, they have become just a part of the process. The Major League Soccer (MLS) refs lockout is devastating for MLS and terrible for all working people, whether you consider yourself a soccer fan or not. Read the Article  It's Time for Maryland's Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share Wenonah Hauter, OtherWords: When you have 305 million chickens on the Eastern Shore, that's a lot of poultry waste polluting the Chesapeake Bay. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Environmental Protection Agency Has Some New Standards for Vehicle Emissions, and More In today's On the News segment: The Environmental Protection Agency has some new standards for vehicle emissions, and they could save some serious cash; almost 80 percent of the antibiotics consumed every day in our nation is going straight into our food; the United Kingdom got soaked with catastrophic floods this winter; the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has two words for BP - "pay up"; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  Ecosocialism: Putting on the Brakes Before Going Over the Cliff Michael Löwy, New Politics: There is no reason for optimism: The entrenched ruling elites of the system are incredibly powerful, and the forces of radical opposition are still small. But they are the only hope that the catastrophic course of capitalist "growth" will be halted. Read the Article

Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation  Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 Subscribe | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy