News & Analysis of Current Events, March 20, 2011

There's an awful lot to think about these days... 

Lobbyists return to Congress in droves
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/former-lobbyists-return-t_n_837586.html

80% of antibiotics go to farm animals in US - FDA reveals
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-18-think-chinese-pork-is-scary-check-out-the-nearest-supermarket-me

US Media ignores brutal crackdowns in Bahrain and Yemen

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/19/no-coverage-yemen-bahrain/

Even in worst case scenario Fukushima radiation threat said to have limited reach - survey of experts from Propublica

http://www.propublica.org/article/even-in-worst-case-japans-nuclear-disaster-will-have-limited-reach

Some good news from Costco on seafood sustainability 

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/Costco-marches-forward-on-seafood-sustainability-Greenpeace-suspends-campaign-celebrates-retail-giants-progress/

Greenpeace airship protest, Koch Brothers: Dirty Money
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/Greenpeace-airship-sends-message-to-secretive-oil-billionaires-strategy-meeting-Koch-Brothers-Dirty-Money/

Eleven states have laws making it illegal to criticize factory farming - Pig Business http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/pig-business/blog/33825

WSJ badly misrepresents EPA efforts to curb greenhouse gases
http://mediamatters.org/research/201103160030?utm

Fox News' Union-busting Crusade
http://mediamatters.org/research/201103150008?utm

NPR is fair - conservatives and media critics defend NPR's reporting
http://mediamatters.org/research/201103110037?utm

Six sadistic proposals from state governments
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/six_sadistic_proposals_from_state_government_20110318/?utm

Beyond Austerity - The Myth of Self-Regulating Markets and Neo-Liberalism 
http://www.thenation.com/article/159288/beyond-austerity