Grassroots campaigns can stop fracking one town at a time
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/13/fracking-new-york-grassroots-campaign-to-stop City councils and local activists have stymied shale gas mining in New York, and...
View ArticleWhen the IRS targeted liberals
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/14/when_the_irs_targeted_liberals/ Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a liberal church By Alex Seitz-Wald Tuesday, May 14, 2013...
View ArticleWhy Should Any of These Groups Have Tax-Exempt Status?
Including churches that serve as conduits for bigotry, racism and misogyny. From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/irs-tea-party_b_3274579.html Jared Bernstein 05/14/2013...
View ArticleFormer NAACP chairman defends IRS targeting of ‘the Taliban wing of American...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/14/former-naacp-chairman-defends-irs-targeting-of-the-taliban-wing-of-american-politics/ By Eric W. Dolan Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Former NAACP chairman...
View ArticleWe won’t stop until the morning-after pill is available to all, regardless of...
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/13/plan-b-ruling-available-over-the-counter For a decade, we have protested and battled in court for Plan B access. Enough with...
View ArticleMy Medical Choice
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?hp&_r=1& By ANGELINA JOLIE Published: May 14, 2013 LOS ANGELES MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a...
View ArticlePsychiatry’s New Diagnostic Manual: “Don’t Buy It. Don’t Use It. Don’t Teach...
From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/psychiatry-allen-frances-saving-normal-dsm-5-controversy That’s what psychiatrist Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force, has to...
View ArticleHow the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
In America right wing Nazis who threaten the life of the President and other elected officials as well as advocate the violent over throwing of the government aren’t terrorists. 8o year old...
View ArticleUS House set to approve cuts to food stamp programme with new farm bill
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/15/house-of-representatives-food-stamps-cuts Democrats to speak out against House bill would cut about $2.5bn a year from the food stamp...
View ArticleAusterity Is Dead, So Drop the Chained CPI and Increase Social Security
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/austerity-is-dead_b_3282634.html Richard (RJ) Eskow 05/15/2013 Deficit projections have already decreased by $200 billion for this year...
View ArticleCutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16372-cutting-social-security-and-not-taxing-wall-street By Dean Baker Wednesday, 15 May 2013 As we move towards the fifth anniversary of the great...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/05/elizabeth-warren-obama-put-bad-banks-trial By Erika Eichelberger Tue May. 14, 2013 On Tuesday, fierce consumer advocate and needler of banks...
View ArticleLiberal group Progress Texas also received extra IRS scrutiny
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/15/liberal-group-progress-texas-also-received-extra-irs-scrutiny/ By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, May 15, 2013 A liberal group on Wednesday said it had...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The ‘Terrifying’ State Assault on Press Freedom
From Truth Dig: http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_the_terrifying_state_assault_on_press_freedom_20130515/ Alexander Reed Kelly May 15, 2013 “We are now in the last moments of an effort...
View ArticleWill Climate Change Make You Homeless?
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/13-7 New report: disasters displaced 32.4 million people in 2012, with most due to weather- or climate-related disasters Andrea...
View ArticleAs new CO2 milestone is reached, climate science and action grow inseparable
From Waging Non-Violence: http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/as-new-co2-milestone-is-reached-climate-science-and-action-grow-inseperable/ Bryan Farrell May 16, 2013 Standing atop Mauna Loa in...
View ArticleIt’s Not Easy Being Green: Are Some of the Biggest Enviro Groups Giant...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/environment/its-not-easy-being-green-are-some-biggest-enviro-groups-giant-sell-outs As climate change worsens, the internal strains in the environmentalist...
View ArticleClimate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that...
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