Midwives Say Limiting Their Freedom to Practice Hurts Mothers, Children, Low-Income Families
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: "More than 50 studies conducted since the mid-1980s have concluded that home births involving low-risk women are as safe or safer for mother and child as hospital deliveries…. Fear-mongering, of course, can be potent and make even the most resolute parent to be questions their decision to give birth at home."
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Russian Punk Band Sentenced to Two Years in Jail for Anti-Putin Stunt
David M. Herszenhorn, The New York Times News Service: "Three young women who staged an anti-Putin stunt in Moscow were convicted of hooliganism on Friday and sentenced to two years in a penal colony…. Human rights groups and Western governments, including the United States, immediately criticized the verdict as unjust and the sentence as unduly severe."
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Amidst Protest, Construction Begins on Keystone XL Pipeline in Texas
Candice Bernd, Occupy.com: "TransCanada broke ground last week on the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, bucking more than four years of intense opposition to the project from farmers, ranchers and local communities representing thousands of people affected across Texas and Oklahoma."
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Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift
Al Baker, The New York Times News Service: "Nearly half of New York City teachers reaching the end of their probations were denied tenure this year … The totals reflect a reversal in the way tenure is granted not only in New York City but around the country."
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The Rising Tide - Environmental Refugees
Andrew Lam, New America Media: "The modern world has long thought of refugees in strictly political terms … But as climate change continues unabated, there is a growing population of displaced men, women and children whose homes have been rendered unlivable thanks to a wide spectrum of environmental disasters."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: South Africa Is Reeling After Police Kill 34 Striking Miners, and More
In today's On the News segment: South Africa is reeling after police opened fire on striking miners Thursday, killing 34 people and wounding 78; suicides among active duty US Army soldiers doubled in July compared to the month of June; the Obama Campaign offered to drop the tax scandal issue if Mitt Romney would just release five years of tax returns, but Romney declined; and more.
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Robert Reich: Mitt's 13 Percent Tax
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Romney admits to an income of over $20 million a year for the last several decades. Which makes his 13 percent - or even 20 percent [in taxes] - violate the principle of equal sacrifice that lies at the core of our notion of tax fairness."
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VP Role for Paul Ryan Has His Former Parish Priest Worried
Jonathan Rosenblum, PRWatch: "Ryan's leadership as chair of the House Budget Committee and author of the ‘Path to Prosperity’ Republican budget blueprint and the FY 2013 House Budget Resolution has become a lightning rod for criticism by other Catholic bishops, ecumenical groups, and lay leaders."
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Eight Problems With Common Core State Standards
Marion Brady, The Washington Post: "In education, what it’s assumed that everybody should be required to know is called ‘the core’ … Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it."
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Prop 37 Solution to Walmart's Untested, Unlabeled, Toxin Spliced Corn
Zack Kaldveer, California Progress Report: "We have a right to know if our food has been genetically engineered, and we have a right to choose for ourselves whether to eat this food and feed it to our families."
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