Monday, March 14, 2011

News & Analysis III, March 14, 2011

Chris Hedges
http://www.truth-out.org/power-concedes-nothing-without-a-demand68454

Krugman on Inside Job and ongoing frauds
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14krugman.html?ref=opinion

Anonymous releases damaging Bank of America emails detailing insurance fraud in loans
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/anonymous-releases-damning-bank-of-america-emails/

How Anonymous retaliated against security firm threats by penetrating their network and releasing documents 
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/anonymous-releases-71800-hbgary-e-mails-through-new-site/

US Public Opinion Shift Toward Israel?
http://www.alternet.org/world/150210/how_us_public_opinion_has_shifted_on_israel%2C_five_years_after_the_publishing_of_%27the_israel_lobby%27_

Al Franken on Net Neutrality
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/14/techcrunch-interview-senator-al-franken-talks-net-neutrality-and-his-morning-workout-routine/

Michigan legislation to impose marshall law in municipalities
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/michigan-set-to-enact-sweeping-financial-martial-law_n_835526.html

Deceptive Editing Found in NPR Sting Tape
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/npr-sting-tape-analysis-editing_n_835384.html

NYT criticism
http://gawker.com/#!5781806/the-new-york-times-columnist-problem

Greg Pallast details Tokyo Electric Company (TEP) involvement in planned US nuclear projects
http://www.truth-out.org/tokyo-electric-build-us-nuclear-plants-the-no-bs-info-japans-disastrous-nuclear-operators68457

American Lung Assoc Study on toxic effects and costs of US coal-burning power plants
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/power-plant-air-pollution-coal-kills_n_833385.html

Obama, torture and WikiLeaks
http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/03/14/manning

Circumstances of initial charges against Julian Assange in Sweden
http://open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2010/08/21/swedes_question_rape_accusations_against_wikileaks_founder

News & Analysis II, March 14, 2011


Obama DOJ prosecutes the whistleblower Thomas Drake 
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/15/prosecutions

A dispassionate and insightful analysis of likely GOP strategies in 2012
http://www.salon.com/news/2012_elections/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/13/schaller_2012_gop

Perspective on the firing of Dept of State spokesman Crowley
http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/03/13/crowley

This is unbelievable footage of the tsunami arriving in Japan
http://gawker.com/#!5781528/street+level-footage-of-a-japanese-town-washing-away

Stripping Collective Bargaining in Wisconsin was illegal
http://www.truth-out.org/assault-collective-bargaining-illegal-says-international-labor-rights-group68423

Main, New Hampshire and Missouri jump on the anti-labor kick, Koch brothers hands seen
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/12/identical-rightwing-antiworker-bills/

Food processing idiocy in peanut butter
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-08-real-scandal-of-reduced-fat-skippy-peanut-butter-isnt-salmonella

Obama's Ag Hypocrisy - Wendell Berry
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-07-usda-chief-flatters-industrial-agriculture-obama-wendell-berry

Eduardo Porter Interview on problems with extreme income disparities
http://www.alternet.org/economy/150072/the_cost_of_overpaying%3A_how_high_ceo_salaries_and_income_disparity_affect_our_wealth%2C_health_and_happiness/?page=1

News & Analysis I, March 14, 2011


Rachel Maddow comprehensive explanation of nuclear power plants
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/12/rachel_maddow_japan_nuclear_emergency/index.html

Broad-based demonstrations in Wisconsin
http://www.thenation.com/blog/159209/tractors-roll-madison-wisconsin-readies-biggest-protest-yet

Koch Industries 
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-12-why-doesnt-congress-give-a-damn-about-climate-hint-not-messaging


It's The Suburbs, Stupidhttp://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-11-its-the-suburbs-stupid-on-the-ezra-klein-tom-vilsack-dustup

Ed Schultz on Wisconsin
http://www.bigeddieradio.com/

Julian Assange and extradition risks
http://www.truth-out.org/how-so-called-guardians-free-speech-are-silencing-messenger68353

Bill Moyer and NPR's value as an institution
http://www.truth-out.org/in-defense-npr68389

Working class Republican support in Wisconsin, ramifications for GOP
http://www.truth-out.org/ej-dionne-jr-what-wisconsin-can-teach-washington68374

Then They Came For The Trade Unionists
http://www.truth-out.org/then-they-came-trade-unionists68363

O'Donnell parodies Gingrich apology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/lawrence-odonnell-newt-gingrich-parody-affairs_n_834417.html

Contamination from abandoned Mercury mines in the west
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/03/mercury-california-fish-san-francisco-bay.html?utm_