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Ed Dickau
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Igor
Volsky, News Report: Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
struggled to articulate a credible GOP alternative to
the Affordable Care Act during an appearance on Fox News
Monday morning, promising only to replace President
Obama’s health care reform with “legislation that does
give people more opportunities” and “better ideas.” But
pressed by host Bill Hemmer about how Obamacare would
“change” should Republicans reclaim the Senate majority
after the midterm elections, Portman could only offer a
critique of the existing law.
Steve
Horn, News Report: In March of last year,
ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured in
Mayflower, Arkansas, sending hundreds of thousands of
gallons of diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) pouring down the
town’s streets. Now, just over a year after the massive
spill, devastation has come to Mayflower and neighboring
towns again, this time in the form of a lethal tornado.
On the evening of April 27, the twister destroyed huge
pockets of the town of just over two thousand three
hundred citizens in a wholesale manner, with fourteen
confirmed dead and likely many more still not counted.
Kevin
Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Op-Ed: The findings
of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have
fifteen years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to
us to make a major transition to a carbon-free,
nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big
Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to
do it without effective pressure from a people-powered
movement. Earth Day is no longer about celebration. We
are making Mother Earth sick by using extreme methods to
extract fuels from her mountains and from beneath her
surface and by massive spills of oil, chemicals and
radiation.
Robert
Borosage, Op-Ed: This week, the House Ways and
Means Committee is poised to demonstrate exactly how the
rules are rigged. On Tuesday, the committee will begin
to mark up a series of corporate tax breaks – known as
“extenders” because they have been extended regularly
every year or two for over a decade. Only now the
committee plans to make many of them permanent, at the
cost of an estimated three hundred billion dollars over
ten years. And it does not plan to pay for them by
closing other corporate loopholes or raising rates.
Jim
Hightower, Op-Ed: Rick “Oops” Perry is back,
pitching himself for another presidential run. This
time, he’s sporting eyeglasses. What fun. Who can forget
the Texas governor’s nationally televised pratfall
during a 2011 presidential debate, when he couldn’t
remember the third federal agency he intended to ax?
Well, he later sniffed, “If anybody’s looking for…the
smoothest debater, I readily admit I’m not that person.”
But Rick, you weren’t “debating.” You were simply trying
to recite your own three talking points. One, two…oops.
And the issue isn’t whether you’re smooth, but whether
you’re stupid — way too stupid to be president of the
United States of America.
Value
Walk Staff, News Report: In a groundbreaking
move, three major corporations have announced the
divestment of a combined total of nearly sixty million
dollars from Corrections Corp Of America and The Geo
Group, Inc., confirmed after ColorOfChange.org urged
company executives to reconsider the financial, moral,
and political implications of private prisons and
divest. In the past few months, ColorOfChange has
reached out to more than one hundred and fifty companies
urging divestment, and remain in conversations with
dozens of company executives about ending support for
the industry.
Christina
Sarich, News Report: Will Vermont be the first
state to pass an active mandatory GMO labeling bill? The
House of Representatives decided to let its original GMO
labeling bill stand, and instead of nitpicking its
details in a Vermont Senate conference, sent Bill 112
straight to Governor Peter Shumlin’s desk this past week
with a one hundred and fourteen-thirty vote. If Shumlin
follows through with his promise to sign the bill,
Vermont will make history by becoming the first state to
successfully stand up to Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta,
and the biotech corporations who have pumped millions
into the anti-labeling campaign.
Chris
Hedges, Op-Ed: The trial of McMillan is one of
the last criminal cases originating from the Occupy
protest movement. It is also one of the most emblematic.
The state, after the coordinated nationwide eradication
of Occupy encampments, has relentlessly used the courts
to harass and neutralize Occupy activists, often handing
out long probation terms that come with activists’
forced acceptance of felony charges. A felony charge
makes it harder to find employment and bars those with
such convictions from serving on juries or working for
law enforcement.
Rebekah
Wilce, News Report: A new report commissioned
by Prime Minister David Cameron suggests that GMOs have
now been shown to be safe and that the United Kingdom
may need to grow them in order to rely less on imports.
Since consumer campaigning got GMOs labeled and crop
restricting implemented in the United Kingdom, Cameron
will likely have a hard time convincing UK consumers
that all is well. However, Cameron is getting help in
that quest from a little known group called the Science
Media Center (SMC), which helped release the report to
great fanfare.
Amy
Goodman, Video Report: The United States and
the European Union have imposed new sanctions on Russia
that target individuals and companies linked to Russian
President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. The moves come
as the crisis in eastern Ukraine faces continued chaos.
On Monday, pro-Russian separatists seized a new town and
continued to detain seven European monitors. The mayor
of the Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, was shot
in the back and is now in critical condition.
Ricardo
Hausmann, Op-Ed: There is nothing better than
fuzzy language to wreak havoc – or facilitate consensus.
Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that philosophical puzzles
are really just a consequence of the misuse of language.
By contrast, the art of diplomacy is to find language
that can hide disagreement. One idea about which
economists agree almost unanimously is that, beyond
mineral wealth, the bulk of the huge income difference
between rich and poor countries is attributable to
neither capital nor education, but rather to
“technology.”
Ed. Dickau
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