Naked Capitalism Links of the Day

Today's links: First-Farmers Sue USDA Over Monsanto Alfalfa, at TruthOut.  Roundup Ready alfalfa seems like overkill, especially considering the amount of Roundup resistance that is appearing.  Same goes for Roundup Ready wheat.


A flowering alfalfa plant. (Photo: Jenn Forman Orth / Flickr)



Second, The Biggest Threat Facing the Country Today is Fast Creeping Ignorance

, at Alternet:



The explanation for this embrace is simple as the minds of the infiltrators: science, and for that matter any other factual analysis, tends to flatly contradict many of the Right's most cherished fictions, such as:

• The more you cut taxes the more tax revenue flows into federal coffers.
• History proves America is a Christian nation.
• Climate change is either not happening at all or, if it is happening, it has nothing to do with our use of fossil fuels. ("I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do. ..." - Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin)
• Slashing regulation of business and high finance is good for business, good for the nation and good for the American public.
• If the rich are allowed to keep more of their earnings they will share it with everyone else, (trickle down.)
• School science classes should be "fair and balanced," like Fox News, when teaching the origins of life on earth by teaching the biblically-inspired "creationist" version alongside Darwin's scientific theory of evolution.
• President Obama "may not have been born in America" as he claims.
• President Obama is "a secret Muslim."

Finally, also at Alternet, Back to the Future, How the 1980's Explain the World We Live In Now.  It is an excerpt from a book by David Sirota about how culture and politics in the 1980's developed a nostalgia for the 1950's and a revulsion of the 1960's, either making or following the Baby Boomers drift in a more conservative direction and definitely making my generation more conservative at a very young age.