COFFEE BREAK 363

+ updated at 5:05pm EST on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

+ Mother Jones offers "9 Surprising Facts About Junk Food" by Tom Philpott. Excerpt: "At least since 1999, the industry has known its products are contributing to a massive public-health crisis."
  
+ Truthout offers “The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power” by Henry A Giroux. Here is some scathing criticism of the state of our society here in the USA.  He deals with things like our growing greed, narcissism and fascination with violence. Excerpt:

How does one account for the lack of public outcry over millions of Americans losing their homes because of corrupt banking practices and millions more becoming unemployed because of the lack of an adequate jobs program in the United States, while at the same time stories abound of colossal greed and corruption on Wall Street? [11] For example, in 2009 alone, hedge fund manager David Tepper made approximately 4 billion dollars.[12] As Michael Yates points out: "This income, spent at a rate of $10,000 a day and exclusive of any interest, would last him and his heirs 1,096 years! If we were to suppose that Mr. Tepper worked 2,000 hours in 2009 (fifty weeks at forty hours per week), he took in $2,000,000 per hour and $30,000 a minute."[13] This juxtaposition of robber-baron power and greed is rarely mentioned in the mainstream media in conjunction with the deep suffering and misery now experienced by millions of families, workers, children, jobless public servants and young people. | Read it all