What We Read - A Week in Review: October 22-29th, 2012

Highlights from our week of internet reading. A new entry theme we'll try to do twice a month, of the things that influence us, in one way or another, and in many cases inspire further research and reading into the matter. Let's call it resources for learning.

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Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Colin Powell Aide, Blasts Sununu, GOP, As 'Full Of Racists'
Peter Finocchiaro, Huffington Post, October 27, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/lawrence-wilkerson-colin-powell-sununu_n_2027721.html

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books
Bill Mears, CNN, October 27, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/26/justice/court-student-copyright/index.html

America's CEOs Want the Rest of Us to Pay For Their Folly
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, October 25, 2012
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/americas-ceos-want-rest-us-pay-their-folly

Bain Capital and the Race to the Bottom in Manufacturing and Wages
Mary Bottari, Center for Media and Democracy, October 24

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11814/bain-capital-and-race-bottom-manufacturing-and-wages

Romney repeats false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China; Chrysler refutes story
Nathan Bomey and Brent Snavely, Detroit Free Press, October 25, 2012

http://www.freep.com/article/20121026/BUSINESS01/121026036/Obama-Chrysler-Romney-s-claim-of-Jeep-outsourcing-to-China-is-false?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

GOP's Benghazi Smoking Gun Goes Up in Smoke
Adam Serwer, Mother Jones, October 25, 2012

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/benghazi-libya-state-emails

Foreign policy: Is Mitt running as Dubya or Obama — or both?

Sally Kohn, Salon, October 22, 2012

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/foreign_policy_is_mitt_running_as_dubya_or_obama_or_both/singleton/

Romney Wants To Disband FEMA- Do You Think N.J. Governor Chris Christie Agrees With The GOP Today?

Rick Ungar, Forbes, October 29, 2012

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/29/romney-wants-to-disband-fema-do-you-think-n-j-governor-chris-christie-agrees-with-the-gop-today/

Seven Things to Tell Your Friends About GMOs
Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé, Huffington Post, October 25, 2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe-and-anna-lappe/gmos-facts_b_2009917.html?utm_hp_ref=food-safety

And our favourite video of the week:
Missouri Pastor's Fiery Speech Against Equal Rights for Homosexuals Has Stunning Twist Ending

(found via http://www.moveon.org/share/19c1ca/missouri-pastor-s-fiery-speech-against-equal?rc=coarsefilter)

Past "What We Read" Entries:

• What We Read - A Week in Review: October 8-15th, 2012