"Standing in the Slide Zone"

• You're not hearing about the lawsuit against Monsanto for Reasons.

  You would think that coverage of something the whole world wants to see – the first step toward the successful downfall of Monsanto –would be a hot news item; a newsworthy tidbit that every paper, radio station, and blog would want to spread across their pages with double bold headlines. But wait. . . just six corporations own ALL of the media in America, so there isn’t much luck there.
  
  That’s why you have to go to sites like Russia Insider or Al Jazeera to find real news outside of certain alternative news channels in the US, and even those are white-washed from Facebook pages, and given secondary ratings on Google pages.
  
  Matthew Phillips, the attorney suing Monsanto in California for false advertising on Roundup bottles, has asked the LA Times, New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN, and Reuters, one of the world’s largest news agencies to report on the lawsuit (Case No: BC 578 942), and most enforced a total media blackout.
  
  When I spoke with Phillips over the phone, he said that he has tried posting the suit in Wikipedia’s Monsanto litigation section, but it keeps ‘disappearing.’ He says that he has also noticed posts on Facebook about this lawsuit get removed.
  
  Phillips points out that as long as Monsanto can keep this lawsuit off of most of America’s radar, then his client base would be relegated to just the citizens of California.
  
  If other attorneys were to follow his template-style lawsuit, which he wrote in English, devoid of extraneous legal-speak to encourage others to also take action against Monsanto, then suddenly the plaintiff count could be closer to several million.

  We shall see. (via skippy)
• Why the Republicans are unfond of the Iran deal:

  The chain of events inside Fantasy Iran Deal is actually pretty simple: Brave Republicans talk enough Democrats into abandoning the deal, it goes under, and Iran shows its "true colors" and the American people demand war and regime change. And in 2017, under a Republican president and Congress, they get that war against God's enemies, because Onward Christian Soldiers. That war is magically won in six weeks and the US, having disposed of a terror state, suddenly has everyone falling in line to appease our might.
  
  It's total lunacy, of course. They can't say it because of precisely that reason. But we know exactly what will happen should Republicans win the White House and keep Congress: war, plain and simple.

  And a war they themselves won't be fighting.  And you know why.  (via Zandar)