Monday, October 6, 2014

RSN: The Incarceration of the American Consumer



Ralph Nader's article below raises significant issues and defines issues expressed in ROUTE 44 TOYOTA SOLD ME A LEMON.


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Steve Weissman | Berkeley 101: Breaking the Limits of Free Speech
Mario Savio at a victory rally at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. (photo: AP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Fifty years ago this coming December 2, a wonderfully charismatic Mario Savio made one of the most powerful speeches in the history of American protest."
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Ralph Nader | The Incarceration of the American Consumer
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "How do corporate attorneys sleep at night considering that with the power of their large corporate clients, they often crush the freedoms of workers, consumers and small communities who are trying to break out of a complex web of shackles?"
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Gredory Daddis | Why War? It's a Question Americans Should Be Asking
Gregory Daddis, The Los Angeles Times
Daddis writes: "As the United States charges once more into war, little debate has centered on the actual utility of war. Instead, policymakers and pundits have focused their comments on combating the latest danger to our nation and its interests as posed by Islamic State militants."
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The Church's Gay Obsession
Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Bruni writes: "Catholic officials here have elected to focus on this one issue and on a given group of people: gays and lesbians. Their moralizing is selective, bigoted and very sad."
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Mexico: The U.S. Border Patrol's Newest Hire
Todd Miller, Al Jazeera America
Miller writes: "What most coverage has ignored, though, is that only one part of the border battle with the refugee children is happening at the U.S. border. Thousands of miles to the south, the Mexican government is taking action to prevent migrants from moving north, essentially performing the tasks of the U.S. Border Patrol."
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Texas Court's Ominously Worded Abortion Ruling
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "While many women in Texas were sitting down to dinner, a federal appeals court in Texas drastically reduced their access to reproductive health. In the process, the Court practically begged the Supreme Court to take the case and to narrow abortion rights nationwide."
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The Meat Industry's Out-of-Control Antibiotic Use Just Keeps Getting Worse
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: "Remember how the federal government decided to finally take on the major threat that antibiotic resistance poses to human health, yet somehow failed to address the meat and poultry industries' routine overuse of antibiotics -- despite acknowledging that said overuse is definitely contributing to the problem? Well, new data out from the FDA shows just how big of an oversight this is."
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