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Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger | Congress's Cat Burglars Are Pulling a Fast One on TPP
Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger, Moyers and Company
Excerpt: "It's hardly a surprise that Republican congressional leaders and their cadre of Democratic allies spurred on by Barack Obama are resorting to a bagful of parliamentary tricks to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a 'take it or leave it but you can't change it' fast-track to enactment by Tuesday."
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Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger, Moyers and Company
Excerpt: "It's hardly a surprise that Republican congressional leaders and their cadre of Democratic allies spurred on by Barack Obama are resorting to a bagful of parliamentary tricks to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a 'take it or leave it but you can't change it' fast-track to enactment by Tuesday."
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley: "It's Time to Move the Flag"
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate
Mathis-Lilley writes: "As expected, Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies outside South Carolina's statehouse at a Monday press conference in Columbia, the state's capital."
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Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate
Mathis-Lilley writes: "As expected, Gov. Nikki Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies outside South Carolina's statehouse at a Monday press conference in Columbia, the state's capital."
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Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Goodman writes: "'I have a people-powered campaign,' Stein notes. 'I am running with the only national party that does not take corporate funding.'"
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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Goodman writes: "'I have a people-powered campaign,' Stein notes. 'I am running with the only national party that does not take corporate funding.'"
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Secret World War II Chemical Experiments Tested Troops by Race
Caitlin Dickerson, NPR
Dickerson writes: "While the Pentagon admitted decades ago that it used American troops as test subjects in experiments with mustard gas, until now, officials have never spoken about the tests that grouped subjects by race."
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Caitlin Dickerson, NPR
Dickerson writes: "While the Pentagon admitted decades ago that it used American troops as test subjects in experiments with mustard gas, until now, officials have never spoken about the tests that grouped subjects by race."
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Are We on the Verge of a Nuclear Breakdown?
Nina Burleigh, Rolling Stone
Burleigh writes: "The route down America's underground WMD silos begins with five months of training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. There, the first requirement is signing a document committing to end the world if so ordered by the president."
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Nina Burleigh, Rolling Stone
Burleigh writes: "The route down America's underground WMD silos begins with five months of training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. There, the first requirement is signing a document committing to end the world if so ordered by the president."
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Taliban Attacks Afghan Parliament
Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni, Reuters
Excerpt: "A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive."
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Hamid Shalizi and Mirwais Harooni, Reuters
Excerpt: "A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive."
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Study Links Global Warming to Hurricane Sandy and Other Extreme Weather Events
John Abraham, Guardian UK
Abraham writes: "Human warming affects weather in two ways. It changes the odds that any given extreme event will occur. But more importantly it makes the events more severe."
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John Abraham, Guardian UK
Abraham writes: "Human warming affects weather in two ways. It changes the odds that any given extreme event will occur. But more importantly it makes the events more severe."
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