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By Vanessa Silverton-Peel

Today's show will feature a very special reading from Winnie the Pooh that relates to foreign policy (you'll have to listen to find out how) and the Rachel Maddow Show debut of a video made by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) that professes his, um, largeness.

Rachel's guests today are David Bender, host of Air America's Sunday show Politically Direct, and Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

MENTIONED ON TODAY'S SHOW

You can donate to the American Red Cross for flood relief here

John McCain's website now has a handy timeline of McCain's leadership on Iraq.  Strangely, it begins 5 months after the war began 

Commies are drilling for oil off the coast of Florida! Actually, they are not.  But that doesn't stop Mean Jean Schmidt 

Social responsibility by big pharma - rankings

Pharmaceutical companies are an easy target for slamming, and in a lot of cases, it is justified. I say this with the disclaimer that I am anti pharma management and pro pharma chemists on the bench (I have many friends and former students gainfully employed by them).

Anyhow, if you're interested in seeing how they compare in terms of global outreach, NYT published a link to the new Access to Medicine (ATM) Index:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/17glob.html

An unusual ranking of pharmaceutical companies is being unveiled this week. It evaluates them by how easy they make it for patients in poor countries to get drugs and vaccines.

The list, called the Access to Medicine Index, has been created for “social responsibility” funds and investors who want to know how companies whose shares they own or might buy are doing at helping people at risk of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other third world diseases. But it may also be useful to governments, medical charities and journalists, its founder said.

The direct link to ATM Index:

http://atmindex.org/

The stats are really quite interesting. They break it down according to pricing, drug donations, general philanthropy, etc.

By chemgirlJune 17, 2008 - 6:45pm