Exposing Monsanto: Herbicide Linked to Birth Defects - the Vitamin A Connection

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BuzzFlash Average US Household Now Worth a Third Less, While Assets of the 1% Soar Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: When it comes to economic inequality, it doesn't get any more telling than a study that proves that the typical US household has decreased in net worth by a third since 2003. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   How Capitalism Is Cheating Young Americans Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Companies Proclaim Water the Next Oil in a Rush to Turn Resources Into Profit Read the Article at The Guardian   Not in My Backyard: US Sending Dirty Coal Abroad Read the Article at The Associated Press   Gun Guys Are Into Racial Provocation Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Top Journalists and Lawyers: NSA Surveillance Threatens Press Freedom and Right to Counsel Read the Article at The Intercept   The Secret Report That Helps Israelis to Hide Facts Read the Article at The Independent   Leading Civil Rights Groups Just Sold Out on Net Neutrality Read the Article at Republic Report     Truthout's reporting is essential to countering the false narratives of the mainstream media and official government pronouncements. Without such journalism, we would live in a world in which doublespeak is the only language. However, we must have your support if we are to keep doing this work. It's crucial that we raise $25,000 by tomorrow. You can counter the misinformation by making a tax-deductible donation today. Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 Exposing Monsanto: Herbicide Linked to Birth Defects - the Vitamin A Connection Jeff Ritterman, M.D., Truthout: Monsanto claims that Roundup poses a low risk to human health because one enzyme it disrupts is not present in the animal kingdom. But the company doesn't mention the devastating effect that Roundup has on other enzyme systems present in humans. Read the Article  The Silent Anguish of Pregnant Women Who Struggle With Addiction Erika L. Sánchez, Truthout: Pregnant women who struggle with addiction face incredible obstacles, including difficulty in obtaining the health care they need. The criminalization of pregnancy and the lack of resources available to this vulnerable population exacerbate the problem by pushing these women into hiding. Read the Article  Ellen Brown | You Can't Taper a Ponzi Scheme: Time to Reboot Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog: All the king's horses and all the king's men could not rein in the growth of the shadow banking system, despite the 828-page Dodd-Frank Act. Instead, the derivatives pyramid has continued to explode under its watch, to a notional value now estimated to be as high as $2 quadrillion. Read the Article  Dean Baker | Finance in the United States: Promoting Inequality and Waste Dean Baker, Truthout: The bloated financial sector in the United States is a major engine of inequality, sucking money away from poor and middle-income households and making some people incredibly rich. The government should stop playing a role in creating that inequality when it supports the financial industry. Read the Article  Wishful Thinking About Natural Gas: Why Fossil Fuels Can't Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels Naomi Oreskes, TomDispatch: Insanity is sometimes defined as doing the same thing but expecting a different result. Whatever we call it, that seems to be what is happening. Natural gas is not the bridge to clean energy; it's the road to more climate change. Read the Article  Does the Powerful Paul Ryan Feel Empathy? The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: It shouldn't be a surprise that a man with as much wealth and power as Paul Ryan has would propose a poverty plan that does very little to fight poverty, misunderstands the root causes of poverty and totally fails to empathize with the millions of Americans suffering through poverty. Read the Article  Amy Goodman | Turning Point? Largest West Bank Protest in Decades Raises Specter of a Third Intifada Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip has triggered the largest West Bank protest in years, with more than 15,000 people marching Thursday from Ramallah toward Jerusalem. Two Palestinians were killed and more than 200 were wounded when Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  Afghans Don't Like Soybeans, Despite a Big US Push Alexander Cohen and James Arkin, The Center for Public Integrity: Afghanistan has a rich culinary tradition, but soybeans have not been a part of it. American agricultural experts who consider soybeans a superfood find this dismaying, and so over the past four years, they have invested tens of millions of US taxpayer dollars to try to change the way Afghans eat. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: Last Month Was the Hottest June on Record, and More In today's On the News segment: Last month was the hottest June on record; new research says that giving up your hamburger may have a bigger impact on reducing global emissions than giving up your car; adults often struggle trying to learn a new language, while children seem to pick it up without a hitch; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army "Defector" Robert Parry, Consortium News: US intelligence officials suggest that the person who fired the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been "a defector" from the Ukrainian army, in an apparent attempt to explain why some CIA analysts thought satellite images revealed men in Ukrainian army uniforms manning the missile battery. Read the Article  Under Water: The EPA's Struggle to Combat Pollution Naveena Sadasivam, ProPublica: For years, the US Environmental Protection Agency has been frustrated in its efforts to pursue hundreds of cases of water pollution - repeatedly tied up in legal fights about exactly what bodies of water it has the authority to monitor and protect. Read the Article  Seven Parenting Tips for a World That Harms Women Kim Simon, Yes! Magazine: Yes, all women experience harassment - and often violence. But parents can play a role in steering their sons away from those behaviors. How do you raise sons and daughters who respect their bodies and know how to respect others? Read the Article

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E This Week

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View it in your browser July 28, 2014 WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING EPA Helps Consumers Know What to Expect from Bug Repellents Last week the EPA unveiled a new graphic to appear on insect repellent product labels that shows consumers how many hours a product will repel mosquitoes and/or ticks when used as directed... U.S. EPA Bill to Protect Colorado's Browns Canyon Moving Through Senate Senator Mark Udall's efforts to permanently protect Colorado's Browns Canyon is one step closer to passage as the Senate National Parks Subcommittee held a hearing last week on a bill that would protect 22,000 acres there as wilderness... The Wilderness Society   Neonic Pesticides Affecting More Than Just Bee Populations A study published last week in Nature shows a strong correlation between so-called "neonic" insecticides and bird declines... The Ecologist EARTHTALK Q&A Ocean Debris The search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 highlights the growing problem of plastic and other debris across the world's oceans... EarthTalk         This content is brought to you free by E-The Environmental Magazine, which is published by Earth Action Network, Inc., a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. Our address is 28 Knight Street, Norwalk, CT 06851.   Forward email This email was sent to aquarianm@gmail.com by ethisweek@earthtalk.org |   Update Profile/Email Address | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. E - The Environmental Magazine | 28 Knight Street | Norwalk | CT | 06851

Netroots to Obama: Don't kill the Internet

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Dear MoveOn member,

When President Obama visited Silicon Valley and Los Angeles this week for fundraisers, our protests filled the news coverage from California to Washington—on ABC, NBC, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, and more.

It was awesome. Hundreds of activists with MoveOn.org, Free Press, CREDO, Color of Change, Demand Progress, and other grassroots, Internet-based groups came out to deliver a message to President Obama: fulfill your promise to protect Net Neutrality, and stop the FCC's proposal to turn the Internet into a pay-to-play scheme that favors wealthy corporations.

Have a look for yourself—and then share this short video of the big day with everyone you know, so that pressure mounts on President Obama to speak out to stop the FCC's plan to kill the Internet before it's too late:

We're being heard. The president's motorcade drove right by us—aides and reporters rolling down windows to get a glimpse of our signs and hear our chants: "Barack Obama, yes you can, stop Tom Wheeler's stupid plan!"

Since his first campaign for president, President Obama has promised to preserve the open Internet that helped him get elected and that every American relies on to access information, start a new business, and compete on a level playing field. But he has yet to address the issue this summer or push for the FCC to preserve true "Net Neutrality" by treating broadband Internet as a public utility.

Now, President Obama is sitting on the sidelines while Tom Wheeler, the FCC chair that he appointed, moves ahead with a plan that would kill the Internet as a level playing field for all.

The president has a choice—allow the FCC to do the bidding of Verizon and Comcast and oversee the death of the open Internet, or use his political megaphone to call for the real solution: treating the Internet as a public utility.

There's still time for the president to call for what's right. And there's time for us to demand that he take that stand.

Can you watch and share this video so that more people know that, yes, President Obama can take a stand to save the Internet?

Thanks for all you do.

–Maria, Rosy, Bobby, Victoria, and the rest of the team

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Borderland Deaths of Migrants Quietly Reach Crisis Numbers

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Yet when it comes to women in the military, people don't think twice about exclusion. Read the Article  Truthout Interviews Marjorie Cohn on Israel and Gaza Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Marjorie Cohn discusses the illegal conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza City and non-violent means to break the cycle of violence. Watch the Video  Reform Conservatives' New Ideas Are the Same Old Ideas Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The "reform conservatives" seem mainly to be offering supposedly new ideas for the sake of being seen to offer new ideas. Read the Article  Why Are Campus Administrators Making So Much Money? Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: College and university administrators, unlike their faculty who are being reduced to adjuncts and students who are being crushed by debt, are thriving. 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Barnett interviews John "Ahni" Schertow about indigenous struggles; Kristian Davis Bailey describes how the Palestinian struggle is representative of all of those who are colonized; David Krieger offers a poem about the bombardment of Gaza; David Swanson encourages the public to watch the movie DRONES; leading doctors and scientists in the Lancet sign an open letter condemning the Israeli military assault on Gaza; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation announces the US move to dismiss an anti-nuke lawsuit by the Marshall Islands; the Cornucopia Institute calls on the USDA to make public names of nominees to fill the leading position at the National Organic Standards Board; John LaForge criticizes Attorney General Eric Holder for implying US prisoners of war are not fully human; John Pedler argues that Russia isn't the only country deserving blame for the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet; Carolina Drake points out transgender people need broader inclusion in feminist discourse; Zulfiqar Shah describes how the Pakistani military and US side-step the true purveyors of danger in that country for their own agendas; Thea Paneth says the Earth faces two existential threats, which are nuclear power and climate change; Jim and Jean Anton criticize Georgia's "guns everywhere" laws; and more. 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How's He Doin'? Bill de Blasio After Six Months

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