Dahr Jamail | Atmospheric CO2 Crosses "Ominous Threshold" Dahr Jamail, Truthout: Despite the widespread governmental denial of anthropogenic climate disruption, many signs indicate we are already past the point of no return, headed toward a "dead planet." Read the Article LA Judge Objects to School Police Getting Millions Reserved for Struggling Students Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity: Los Angeles' top juvenile court judge, Michael Nash, objects to a plan to divert $13 million - originally intended to go to disadvantaged kids - to school police. Read the Article Dean Baker | Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor Dean Baker, Truthout: The government continues to pursue policies that continue high levels of unemployment. Instead of making policies that create more jobs, it has focused on reducing the deficit on the backs of the poor. Read the Article Recipe for Ripoffs Emily Schwartz Greco and William A. Collins, OtherWords: Deals that amount to NAFTA on steroids benefit corporations and hurt the rest of us. With people taking a back seat to profits, it's no wonder our leaders are negotiating pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership behind closed doors. Read the Article The Kauai Cocktail Paul Koberstein, Cascadia Times: An analysis of new data reveals that highly toxic pesticides are being applied to GMO test fields on the Hawaiian island of Kauai at a much higher rate than on most US farms. Read the Article Bill Moyers | Wall Street's Secret Weapon: Congress Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Why haven't any big bankers been prosecuted for their role in the housing crisis that led to the Great Recession? Wall Street's secret weapon is a handful of Congressional lapdogs at the beck and call of the banks, eager to do their bidding. Watch the Video The White Family: A Case for National Action Sikivu Hutchinson, The Feminist Wire: Although many white people have been negatively affected by the recession, the intense criminal policing of communities of color has buttressed white upward mobility. Read the Article Anti-Apartheid Archbishop Tutu Calls Presbyterians to Back Divestment From Israeli Occupation Robert Naiman, Truthout: Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Presbyterians, meeting in Detroit, to name Israel as an apartheid state and divest monies from certain companies that contribute to the occupation of the Palestinian people. Read the Article Health Care: Let's Have People Over Profits Once and for All The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: If we truly want to have a health care system that works for all, than we need to go back to the days before Reagan, when the medical industry wasn't a cash cow for Wall Street bankers. Read the Article What We've Lost Since 9/11: Taking Down the First Amendment in the Post-Constitutional US Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: "Law" made in secret, including pretzeled legal interpretations by the Justice Department for the White House, opened the way to the use of torture on prisoners, and, in the Obama years, to the drone assassination of Americans. Read the Article How the NSA Criminally Aids Criminal Cases Ray McGovern, Consortium News: Though the NSA says its mass surveillance of Americans targets only "terrorists," the spying may turn up evidence of other illegal acts that can get passed on to law enforcement, which hides the secret source through a ruse called "parallel construction." Read the Article Hawks Push for Iraq War; the Rule of Law Prevents It Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance: It is evident to all, except those who want to go to war and refuse to follow domestic and international law, that no military intervention should be permitted without the approval of Congress and the United Nations. Read the Article |
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