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The Health Care Racket – Ralph Nader
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012As the Plutonomy Powers Ahead, the “Realonomy” Remains in Recession
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012The Apple Connection | Common Dreams
Why target just Apple? They are only one of many. They are more concerned than many.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012
Obama’s Support for Natural Gas Drilling “A Painful Moment” for Communities Subjected to Fracking
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012Clearing Up the Confusion Over “Made in China”
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012Susan G. Komen and the Planned Parenthood Jihad
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012Scientist Barred From Revealing ‘Significant Information’ About Dolphin Deaths
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 4, 2012NYT Op-Eds (2)
"Mitt Romney said that he was concerned about 'middle-income Americans.' He certainly has a funny way of showing it" (Blow); "With that big political dust-up about breast cancer this week, we’ve clearly hit the point where there’s nothing that can’t be divided into red state/blue state" (Collins)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 4, 2012
NYT (4): National News
Fall in jobless rate plays into Obama's hands; Increasingly paranoid Tea Party finds new bogeyman: U.N. "green" plan; NYPD Commish Kelly in hottest water yet; Amid growing opposition, Florida scraps casino bill.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 4, 2012
NYT (6): Int’l Affairs
Post-soccer violence continues in Egypt for third day; Russia and China veto U.N. bill re Syria, right after attack that kills 200; Hacker group "Anonymous" hacks an FBI-Scotland Yard phone call about... "Anonymous"; E.U. looks to create roadblock re Google's new privacy rule; Putin aide says roots of protests are "foreign"; U.N. says Somali famine is over, though violence continues.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, February 4, 2012
Marcy Wheeler: I Always Hated Pink, Anyway
Wheeler ..Komen just pretended to reverse its decision defund Planned Parenthood’s cancer screening services (it promises only to consider Planned Parenthood applications in the future, not to fund them) .. But now that everyone has become aware of Komen’s sleaziness, it’s time to look at what they – and the cancer industry – do more generally. They fund efforts to diagnose and find a cure but they work against things like prevention. They also tend to push back against research that shows we’ve been over-diagnosing and over-treating breast cancer .. We ought to use this scandal to examine more closely where cancer money gets spent – on treatment, turning cancer patients into customers – and rarely on prevention. While I appreciate the gesture, pink ribbons to me have come to symbolize cancer patients as profit centers, both for consumer goods capitalizing on an association with the goodwill (and Komen), as well as for ungodly expensive drugs that don’t always provide better outcomes.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, February 4, 2012
Atheism in the US. The last big taboo. FT, Julian Maggiani
Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, February 3, 2012Truthdig – The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012One Town’s War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012Crossing the Rubicon: Obama’s Endless Global Warfare
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012Truthdig – Focus on Iran and China Could Hasten American Decline
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012Six Films on the Financial Crisis – Bill Moyers
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012Truthdig – Dispatches From Cairo: Revolution One Year Later
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012The Christian right, alive and powerful – AlterNet – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012In the Assange Case We Are All Suspects Now
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 3, 2012NYT Op-Eds (3)
"Mitt Romney has said that his comments about not caring about the very poor were taken out of context. But the more context you give them, the worse it gets" (Krugman); "At a time when political leaders never admit fault and rarely accept responsibility, Komen did both, and that's worth celebrating" (Rosenthal); "The viral phenomenon of 'Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus' and the debate that it prompted have a fogy offering advice on how to beat the fogies" (Brooks)Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 3, 2012
NYT (3): National News
In wake of growing outrage, Komen Foundation reverses itself, restores funding to Planned Parenthood; Why is SEC still giving banks a pass?; Senate overwhelmingly passes ethics bill re insider trading.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 3, 2012
NYT (3): Foreign Affairs
Deaths at Egyptian soccer game spill over into continued protests and violence in the streets; U.N. Sec'y Gen'l not exactly welcome in Gaza; Apparent Iranian effort to "rebrand" Arab Spring backfires.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 3, 2012
