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By Brad Jacobson, AlterNet
More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japanese government, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) present similar assurances of the site's current state: challenges remain but everything is under control. The worst is over.Read more »
By Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.Read more »
By Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, Published: April 27Read more »
By Anthony Gucciardi, NaturalSociety
A bumblebee flies around the blossoms on an azalea. (photo: AP)Read more »
By Frank Rich.
The old, white, rich men who are buying this election.
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/11085-suga...
Click the following link to read the truth alert:
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/truth-alert-jim-national-r...
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TechnoratiBy Jonathan Weisman, The New York Times
Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a move to open debate on the so-called Buffett Rule, ensuring that a measure pressed for months by President Obama and Senate Democrats to ensure that the superrich pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent will not come to a decisive vote.
But the fierce debate preceding the 51-45 vote - the Democrats were nine votes short of the 60 they needed - set off a week of political wrangling over taxes that both parties insist they are already winning.Read more »
By Joe Hagan, Texas MonthlyRead more »
By The New York Times | Editorial
Taxes are never popular, especially in April of an election year. But the Republicans' latest effort to tilt the tax code in favor of the wealthy, and starve the government of needed revenue, is particularly cynical.Read more »
By Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet
If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994
"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA's job." -- Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications, quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1998Read more »
