Friday, June 27, 2014

New Earthly Species, Crashing Koch Party & Big Tobacco’s E-Cig Takeover

Staff Writer, DB Holmes
News / Government
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Abby Martin on the discovery of 367 new species in Southeast Asia and the importance of calling attention to these finds. The US Supreme Court ruling that police officers need a warrant to search your phone, and the federal court judge saying the ‘No-Fly List’ is unconstitutional in its current form. Lauren Windsor, executive producer of ‘The Undercurrent’, talks about her exposé on the efforts of right-wing billionaires the Koch brothers to influence government on massive financial deregulation in the US. Finally, John Stewart, director of the ‘Challenge Big Tobacco Campaign’ at Corporate Accountability International, about how cigarettes today have become even more addictive than 50 years ago.

Source: Breaking the Set