Center for American Progress Hosts Netanyahu as Leaked Emails Show Group Censored Staff on Israel; Our Economy Is Not Working: Joseph Stiglitz on Widening Income Inequality & the Fight for $15; “A Very Big Mistake”: Joseph Stiglitz Slams Obama for Pushing the TPP; Stiglitz: Sanders is Right–Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare, Sick Days and … Continued
Center for American Progress Hosts Netanyahu as Leaked Emails Show Group Censored Staff on Israel; Our Economy Is Not Working: JCenter for American Progress on Widening Income Inequality & the Fight for $15; “A Very Big Mistake”: Joseph Stiglitz Slams Obama for Pushing the TPP; Stiglitz: Sanders is Right–Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare, Sick … Continued
This just in: President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. Activists say this is the start, not the end, of the battle. PLUS: the Obama administration released the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement this week—over 6000 pages, most of it bad news for consumers. AND: anti-fracking activists in California, with prayers. … Continued
Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: “This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives”; NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord; Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): “We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World.”
Breast Cancer Patient Arrested for Protesting TPP: “This is Price Gouging at the Cost of Lives”; NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord; Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): “We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World.”
To the dismay of activists, the House of Representatives by a narrow margin has approved fast track authority on a massive trade bill. Now what? Plus: it seems more and more certain that Greece will default on its bailout loans. Then what? And: a new film by Rick Goldsmith on Chamique Holdsclaw, basketball superstar. With … Continued
Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals Increased Corporate Control of Public Health; After Iraq-Syria Takeover, the Inside Story of How ISIL Destroyed Al-Qaida from Within; As Ruling Threatens to Gut Abortion Access in Texas, Providers Vow to Take Fight to Supreme Court.
Backlash Against TPP Grows as Leaked Text Reveals Increased Corporate Control of Public Health; After Iraq-Syria Takeover, the Inside Story of How ISIL Destroyed Al-Qaida from Within; As Ruling Threatens to Gut Abortion Access in Texas, Providers Vow to Take Fight to Supreme Court.
Wikileaks has posted a $100,000 bounty on the TPP, and has leaked more documents from the massive secret trade deal. PLUS: over 300 authors from around the world to attend the first annual Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. We speak with Elaine Elinson about her history of California civil liberties heroes. With host Kris … Continued
Wisconsin Activists to Continue Protests After Cop Avoids Charges in Killing of Tony Robinson; Revolt over TPP: Senate Dems Rebuke Obama by Blocking Debate on Secretive Trade Deal; As Internal Docs Show Major Overreach, Why Is FBI Spying on Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline? MOVE Bombing at 30: “Barbaric” 1985 Philadelphia Police Attack Killed 11 … Continued
