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Truthout: 21 February 2012

Truthout: 21 February 2012

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France
Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society: "In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer."
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A People's History of Robin Hood
Paul Buhle, YES! Magazine: "We live in something rapidly approaching a Robin Hood era. The rich and powerful now command almost every corner of the planet and, in order to maintain their control, threaten to despoil every natural resource to the point of exhaustion. Meanwhile, billions of people are impoverished below levels of decency maintained during centuries of subsistence living.... Yet resistance to authority, of one kind or another, continues, and, given worsening conditions, is likely to increase."
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We Are All Greeks Now
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "They chanted, 'We. Are. The 99 percent' with Greek accents in Zuccotti Park on Saturday. Greek-Americans, nationals and immigrants were joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters in a show of solidarity with the people of Greece, thousands of whom took to the streets to protest the latest round of International Monetary Fund-imposed austerity cuts."
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Richard D. Wolff and Gar Alperovitz Discuss Economic Alternatives to Capitalism
In partnership with Truthout, Professor Richard D. Wolff hosts a weekly radio show on WBAI 99.5 in New York called "Economic Update." In December, historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz met with Wolff to discuss an issue they both work on heavily: worker-managed and worker-owned companies.
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Ultrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote in Virginia
Sabrina Tavernise and Erik Eckholm, The New York Times News Service: "A bill requiring a woman to get an ultrasound before having an abortion is poised to pass Virginia's legislature this week, placing it on track to be signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell. The bill, which could pass the Republican-led House of Delegates as early as Tuesday, is one of the stronger ultrasound laws passed by states in recent years."
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White House Refuses to Release Email From Monsanto-Linked Lobbyist
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The White House is withholding documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by an environmental group that suspects the Obama administration of working with Monsanto-linked lobbyists to defend the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops in wildlife refuges across the country."
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Yemen Votes to Formally Remove President
Laura Kasinof, The New York Times News Service: "In a rare move for an Arab state where popular dissent worked to unseat a dictator, Yemenis went to polling stations on Tuesday to vote out President Ali Abdullah Saleh after more than a year of antigovernment protests and violent clashes in the street."
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Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "Surely the only possible answer to the tired question of where Occupy should go from here (as though a few public figures got to decide) is: everywhere. I keep being asked what Occupy should do next, but it's already doing it. It is everywhere.... Occupy is one catalyst or facet of the populist will you can see in a host of recent victories."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: SuperPACS to Blame for Increase in Dirty Campaigning, and More
In today's On the News segment: Euro zone finance ministers signed off on another bailout for Greece today, more than a 1,000 people took to the streets outside the Virginia state capital on Monday against anti-abortion legislation, another political consequence in the post-Citizens United era: dirty campaigning, the New York Police Department is spying on Muslim students, and more.
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How North Carolina's Shock Doctrine Artists Are Resegregating Higher Education
Danny Weil, Truthout: "In 2010, an alliance of conservative republicans took over the North Carolina legislature for the first time in 100 years and are now implementing legislation which can be traced back to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It is no coincidence this occurred in 2010, because this was the year the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, and the Republican takeover was financed by North Carolina multimillionaire Art Pope."
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Dark Knight: Former Vice President Cheney in the Global War on Terror
T.J. Buonomo, Truthout: "Of all the members of the Bush administration, none has generated as much controversy as Richard B. Cheney. In his memoir 'In My Time,' the former vice president defends his support for numerous controversial policy decisions, including the invasion of Iraq and the authorization of waterboarding, which numerous military, intelligence and political officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have denounced as torture."
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Paul Krugman | Conservatives Twist Economic Debate
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Recent facts have not been kind to the political right in the United States: a better-than-expected jobs report; a renewed focus on inequality, driven both by research from the Congressional Budget Office and by the gift of Mitt Romney's candidacy. What to do? The answer is to throw a bunch of bogus numbers at the issues, in the hope that something sticks, or at least that the discussion becomes confused."
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Dean Baker | What if the Next Steve Jobs Is Chinese?
Dean Baker, Truthout: "As Apple's stock continues to hit record highs and its sales and profit reports exceed all expectations, Steve Jobs' reputation as an entrepreneurial genius grows ever larger. He succeeded in developing products that people around the world very much want to buy. In this sense, Jobs stands out from the mediocrities that run most corporations, and collect huge paychecks in the process."
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