Autumnwood: A Community Living in Toxic Fear and Uncertainty
Daniel Ross, Truthout: The Autumnwood community of Wildomar, California, is riven by competing fears of toxic contamination and falling property values, while the one agency that should have provided swift answers, California’s Department of Toxic Substance Control, provides slow, inconclusive and suspect findings.
Want to See Where Your Taxes Go?
Robin Claremont, OtherWords: The National Priorities Project has done the work for you. Using a customized tax receipt calculator, you can find out exactly how the federal government spent each penny of your 2013 taxes.
Why I Stand With Monica Jones: My Liberation Is Bound Up With Yours
Laura Campagna, Truthout: If black skin and gender non-conformity when walking in the neighborhood where you live are allowed as proof of manifestation of prostitution, no one’s identity is safe.
The Pay’s the Thing: How America’s CEOs Are Getting Rich Off Taxpayers
Susan Holmberg, Next New Deal: Income inequality will continue to rise unless we close the performance pay loophole and curb the growth of executive compensation. Nevertheless, there is potential for getting it done.
US Anti-Tank Rockets in Syria: Did Congress Approve?
Robert Naiman, Truthout: Tell Congress not to be a “potted plant” and weigh in on the US sending dangerous anti-tank weapons to Syrian rebels that could easily fall into the hands of anti-United States terrorists.
Paul Krugman | America’s Thin-Skinned Billionaires
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The United States’ embattled billionaires are demanding, as their birthright, freedom from criticism. But when people with fragile egos have great power, seriously bad things can happen.
Each One of Us Is a Toxic Superfund Site
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Thanks to weak regulations and safety standards, Big Chem has turned the United States into one giant science experiment, and we are all the lab rats, forced without our consent or knowledge to deal with the side effects.
Scott Walker Asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to Review John Doe Dark Money Probe
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign has asked the state Supreme Court to review the legal basis for the John Doe campaign finance probe looking at coordination between his campaign and third-party groups, but some members of the court have potential conflicts of interest in the case.
How US Wars Came Home With the Troops: Up Close, Personal and Bloody
Ann Jones, TomDispatch: Like their civilian counterparts, a significant number of veterans evidently have yet to come to grips with the wars they brought home in their baggage – and in too many grim cases, they, their loved ones, their fellow soldiers and sometimes random strangers are paying the price.
Monsanto and Big Food Losing the GMO and “Natural” Food Fight
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association: With the passage of the Vermont GMO labeling law, after 20 years of struggle, it’s time to celebrate our common victory. But as we all know, the battle for a new food and farming system, and a sustainable future, has just begun.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: A new reports finds the killings of environmental and land rights activists worldwide has tripled over the past decade. The death rate is now an average of two per week, and almost none of the killers have faced charges.
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Economic Update: “Tax Injustices”
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on how inequality persists across generations; the nonsense of “taxes are job killers”; governor uses tax revenues to prevent unionization in a private enterprise. Major discussion of state and local taxes in the US; the economics of paying executives very high incomes; and the privatization of public services. Response to listener’s question on recent Medicare report on oversized payouts to doctors.
BuzzFlash
Military-Industrial-Surveillance Industry Profits as the More Lethal Threat of Climate Change Is Ignored
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The military-industrial-surveillance complex is continuing to expand at great profit to many. However, it is hardly defending national security when it ignores global warming.
The Deepwater Horizon Threat
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Here’s What Drone Attacks in America Would Look Like
OK, Humanity, It’s Time to Grow Up
The Hottest Conservative Campaign Gimmick of 2014: Free Guns
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What’s Next in Gay Marriage’s Legal Odyssey?
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Sex Scandal Rocks the Duggars’ Christian Patriarchy Movement
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Harvey Wasserman | UN Report: Renewables, Not Nukes, Can Solve Climate Crisis
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