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The Monsanto Revolution
By Timothy V. Gatto
The protests against the Monsanto Protection Act were not covered by the corporately run news media in the United States. This treacherous act itself has not been discussed by the majority of people and the information about what it really means to us is being hidden by those charged to provide this information.
The very fact that the corporate media has tried to minimize the coverage of the protests, and the fact that they hid the role of Congress in protecting a company that has the potential to damage our lives is something that is actually criminal. The fact that most Americans still don’t know about the potential effects of GMO seeds to the American people cannot be defended.
Radical Remaking of the Economy is Taking Root
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
It is time for the economy to work for the people, not the elites; it is time for economic democracy.
As the school year ends, college students are coming home to a paucity of summer jobs and young adults are graduating into an economy with 27% underemployment and unemployment for them.This generation has inherited a failed economy. Not only do they graduate to lousy job prospects, but they also graduate with record high debts .
Lifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo
by Stephen Lendman
On May 27, the so-called one-year EU arms embargo on Syria's opposition ended. Officially it does so on June 1. EU nations agreed to end what never existed.
Since Washington's war on Syria began in early 2011, arms flowed freely. Western-enlisted death squads get them. At issue is replacing Assad with a subservient pro-Western puppet.
Syria's being ravaged in the process. Washington, key NATO partners, Israel and rogue Arab state allies bear full responsibility.
War rages ahead of Geneva II. Planned peace talks are pretense. Syrians genuinely want it. So does Russia going all out to achieve it. Other nations urge peace.
Obama: America's Second Teflon President?
by Stephen Lendman
New poll numbers show recent scandals haven't hurt his approval rating.
According to a CNN/ORC International survey, 53% of Americans approve his job as president. Another 45% disapprove.
Throughout much of his tenure, he hovered around 50%. According to Gallup, he scored highest from January 22 - 24, 2009 at 69%.
At 38%, he scored lowest from October 15 - 17, 2011. His average approval from January 20, 2009 to the present is 49%.
From 1938 - 2013, the average for US presidents is 54%. After his November 2012 reelection, Obama's approval rating was 52%.
Milliman Medical Index on Obamacare
by Stephen Lendman
Milliman calls itself one of "the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services."
It provides independent consulting services. It does so in areas including healthcare among others. It says it maintains "rigorous standards of professional excellence, peer review and objectivity."
It publishes a Milliman Medical Index (MMI). It represents the projected cost for employer-sponsored managed care preferred provider organization (PPO) healthcare coverage. It does so for a family of four comprised of two adults and two children.
On May 23, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) featured its latest MMI.
It reveals America's deplorable state of healthcare coverage. Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) made things worse.
Peace Process Pretense
by Stephen Lendman
Peace process initiatives were stillborn from inception. Decades of futility define them. Palestinians genuinely want peace. They deserve it and much more.
Israeli leaders pretend they care. Doing so conceals their dark agenda. They deplore peaceful conflict resolution. They prioritize violence and instability.
They want all valued parts of Judea and Samaria exclusively for Jews. They want Palestinians occupied, exploited, abused and denied. They don't negotiate. They demand.
On February 1, Hillary Clinton stepped down as Secretary of State. John Kerry replaced her. He's made four Middle East trips so far. He's up to no good.
America's Greatest Challenge
by Timothy Gatto
I’ve been reading a few articles on the “alternative” media which really have me thinking. One, by Chris Hedges entitled “Rise Up or Die” made me think about just how bad things really are nowadays here in the USA. The other article by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, “You are The Hope” was also a particularly dark piece.
It’s not that I don’t agree with what the two have said…I do; still, I don’t think they quite accurately reflect the growing dis-connects between what many Americans and the mainstream media, along with the Powers That Be would have us believe.
At this moment in time (I reserve the right to change my mind at a moment’s notice), from talking to people I have been meeting in my travels, there really isn’t much support for the President or the Congress. People don’t seem to be buying what they are selling on the corporate media. I heard today (mostly from the Democrat megaphone on MSNBC) that the President’s approval rating is actually up this week. I’m starting to wonder who exactly was really polled.
From Iraq, a tragic reminder to prosecute the war criminals
John Pilger
The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert's fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, "the seeds of our death". An internationally respected cancer specialist at the Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra, Dr. Ali told me that in 1999, and today his warning is irrefutable. "Before the Gulf war," he said, "we had two or three cancer patients a month. Now we have 30 to 35 dying every month. Our studies indicate that 40 to 48 per cent of the population in this area will get cancer: in five years' time to begin with, then long after. That's almost half the population. Most of my own family have it, and we have no history of the disease. It is like Chernobyl here; the genetic effects are new to us; the mushrooms grow huge; even the grapes in my garden have mutated and can't be eaten."
Along the corridor, Dr. Ginan Ghalib Hassen, a paediatrician, kept a photo album of the children she was trying to save. Many had neuroplastoma. "Before the war, we saw only one case of this unusual tumour in two years," she said. "Now we have many cases, mostly with no family history. I have studied what happened in Hiroshima. The sudden increase of such congenital malformations is the same."
Hezbollah's Nasrallah: Syria's the "Linchpin of Resistance"
by Stephen Lendman
Speaking on the 13th anniversary of Lebanon's Resistance and Liberation Day, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressed grave regional dangers.
America, Israel, and takfiris (extremist Muslims, infidels, apostates) pose it. Syria's the "linchpin of resistance," he stressed.
"It (it) falls in the hands of the US, Israel and the takfiris, the Lebanese resistance will be beleaguered and Israel will enter Lebanon."
"If Syria falls, this means that Palestine will be lost, and a bleak future awaits the peoples of the region."
America’s Time Capsule: How Animosity and Wickedness Degenerates its Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD
Leaders create new leaders with vision and integrity to imagine the universal phenomenon of change and futuristic developments. Human happiness and progress move horizontally in peace-time, not in continuing warmongering and irrational threats to other people and nations. America used to be a leader of change and new strategies to envisage global friendship, co-existence and harmony of the mankind. This week, President Obama morally stressful and intellectually exhausted in his final White House term of office, spoke on the American priorities on the War on Terrorism, global affairs and the overwhelming sexual assaults across the US armed forces.
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