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The Lineup: Week of February 28-March 6, 2011
Tracy Fernandez Rysavy underscores concerns about radiation from cell phones, Donald Kaul weighs in on Wisconsin’s uprising, and Mary Anne Hitt puts the GOP attack on EPA funding in context.
Pay Up, Corporate Tax Dodgers
Instead of cutting state and federal budgets, the United States should crack down on the corporate tax dodgers thumbing their noses at us.
Reducing Cell-Phone Radiation Risks
Are cell phones having an impact on our brains?
More U.S. Aid Won’t End Mexico’s Drug War
With all the astoundingly grisly incidents involving Mexico’s armed forces these days, one thing is clear: the drug war is failing. The Mexican military shouldn’t get another penny of U.S. military aid. However, the White House’s new budget proposal calls for pumping another $282 million into Mexico’s drug war next year.
An Unprecedented Attack from Polluters
As a new mother, it breaks my heart when I hear stories from parents who are struggling with their kids’ health problems. I know parents who live in fear of their child’s next asthma attack. Some can’t even let their kids play outside when local air pollution hits dangerous levels. We do everything we can to protect our kids, even before they’re born.
What’s at Stake in Wisconsin
But when government workers and their supporters in Madison, Wisconsin protested and I ran out to yell, “We are all Madisonians,” some people began to boo and hiss, and that little old lady threw a dead rat at me.
Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers
Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation’s public programs in a political contest to show which of them is the scroogiest of all.
Scapegoating Social Spending
War Is Hell, Even if You Survive
When you’re back.
Forget for a moment the death, devastation, deprivation, disease, displacement, and despair visited upon civilians in war zones. Let’s briefly contemplate the fate of soldiers. Ours, anyway. We really don’t know (or care) much about theirs except for the reported killings of “suspected militants.” “Suspected militant” has come to mean anybody we happen to kill–man, woman, or child.
The Lineup: Week of February 21-27, 2011
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Jim Hightower salutes the Green Bay Packers and their 112,000 owners while Michael B. Keegan expresses concern that Rep. Peter King’s upcoming hearings on domestic terrorism will exploit widespread fears of Muslims in a newfangled version of McCarthyism. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
