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Whole Foods : Investment Group Calls for John Mackey’s Head
Investment group calls for Mackey’s head; Whole Foods tries damage control CtW Investment Group calls on Whole Foods board to remove Chair and CEO John Mackey; Says damage caused by WSJ op-ed shows Mackey is a ‘liability’ See full text … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Business, Health Care Reform, Investments, Social Action, Whole Foods
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Backlash : Whole Foods Rep Takes Serious Dip
Whole Foods Buzz As the Whole Foods Boycott grows on Facebook, brand perception is dropping By Jennifer Van Grove / August 25, 2009 As the Whole Foods Boycott on Facebook continues to swell — the group now has over 27,000 … Continue reading
Pirate Radio and the FCC : Blue Meanies in Austin
Blue Meanie (with antennas at alert) / Yellow Submarine.TAB conference in Austin:Keeping it legal By Jim Radio / The Rag Blog / August 25, 2009 AUSTIN — The Texas Associaton of Broadcasting (TAB) annual conference was held here in Austin … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, FCC, Freedom of Expression, Internet Radio, Pirate Radio, Texas
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Austin Buses : Fare Hike Means More Traffic, Pollution
Waiting for a bus on the Rio Grande campus of Austin Community College. Photo by Alberto Martinez / Austin American-Statesman. Transit officials in Austin refuse to even acknowledge the relationship between fare hikes and ridership loss. Their estimates for the … Continue reading
Extraordinary Rendition: Not Yet Obsolete
Lebanese man is target of first rendition under Obama Contractor Raymond Azar is arrested in Afghanistan, hooded, stripped and flown to the U.S. His alleged crime? Bribery. A human rights activist calls the case ‘bizarre.’ By Bob Drogin / August … Continue reading
BushCo: It Was Worse Than We Thought
Bush Admin. Worse Than Our NightmaresBy Juan Cole / August 21, 2009 It was worse. Back in the bad old days of Bush’s corrupt gang, we on the left were pilloried for suggesting that the administration was manipulating terrorism-related news … Continue reading
A Letter from Dick Motherfucker
Photo of the author by Alan Pogue.A LETTER: 211 DAYS and countingBy Dick Motherfucker / August 18, 2009 To my Compatriots, comrades, partners, friends and lovers, Some Q’s: Ain’t it about time yet? Snap out of it! How long are … Continue reading
Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
Graphic by R.S. Janes / LT SaloonShrill, baby, shrill:How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality? By Johann Hari / August 21, 2009 Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Right Wing Extremists, Tea Baggers
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Bipartisan Deadlock : How Best NOT to Reform Health Care
Bypartisanship at its best: hammering out a plan that will deny health care to U.S. citizens.Congress deadlocked over how to not provide health care to American citizens Senate leaders Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) point to Congress’ failure … Continue reading
Did Obama Make a Deal with Big Pharma?
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big PharmaBy Ryan Grim / August 16, 2009 A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Pharmaceutical Companies
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Algae: A New Source of Alternative Energy
The Solix Biofuels plant on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwest Colorado. The area averages 300 sunny days a year. Photo: Eric Draper/New York Times.A New Test for Business and BiofuelBy Kirk Johnson / August 16, 2009 IGNACIO, Colo. … Continue reading
American Ignorance or American Arrogance?
Anatomy of American IgnoranceBy Bill Noxid / August 18, 2009 It’s a full time occupation trying to unravel the reasons Americans remain in the dark. What seems (to any intelligent outside observer) like sheer stupidity and arrogance is in reality … Continue reading
