NEWS OF THE DAY

Mother’s Day Manifesto: 2010
Eileen Fleming, TruthOut
http://www.truthout.org/mothers-day-manifesto-201059302

A Mother’s Day Wish for a Nontoxic World
Elizabeth Arndorfer, RH Reality Check
http://www.truthout.org/a-mother%E2%80%99s-day-wish-a-non-toxic-world59309

How China Holds the American Economy by the Balls
Scott Thill, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/146702/how_china_holds_the_american_economy_by_the_balls

Look Out, Obama Seems to be Planning for a lot More War
Jack A. Smith, Asia Times
http://www.alternet.org/story/146787/look_out%2C_obama_seems_to_be_planning_for_a_lot_more_war

[Duchess Note – The Nobel Peace prize, early this year, went to a war-monger. Obomba is no man of peace. This Manchurian candidate will never embrace peace.]

Bill Moyers TV Farewell with Hightower – The Fight of Our Lives: The Populist Battle with Corporate Power
http://www.alternet.org/story/146698/bill_moyers_tv_farewell_with_hightower_--_the_fight_of_our_lives%3A_the_populist_battle_with_corporate_power

Over 10,000 Thousand Rally in New York for Showdown with Wall Street
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/146678/thousands_rally_in_new_york_for_showdown_with_wall_st.

Why the Enlightened Liberal Class is Complicit in the Country’s Downward Spiral
Chris Hedges, Truthdig
http://www.alternet.org/story/146711/why_the_enlightened_liberal_class_is_complicit_in_the_country_downward_spiral

Both Parties Deaf to This Call: 'Fix the Economy, Not Wall Street'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/410?akid=45.19616.eI-kca&t=11

5 Green Groups Declare Senate Climate Bill 'Unacceptable'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/411?akid=45.19616.eI-kca&t=13

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA): Citizens in 18 States Push for State-Level Single-Payer Healthcare
http://act.commondreams.org/go/420?akid=45.19616.eI-kca&t=32

Amy Goodman Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
http://act.commondreams.org/go/414?akid=45.19616.eI-kca&t=20

ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire World Is Not War Zone’
http://act.commondreams.org/go/388?akid=44.19616.5e--YA&t=2

Noam Chomsky A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
http://act.commondreams.org/go/398?akid=44.19616.5e--YA&t=24