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The US Government Never Understood Afghanistan and Still Doesn't
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t r u t h o u t | 09.18
The US Government Never Understood Afghanistan and Still Doesn't
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/26245-the-us-government-neve=
r-understood-afghanistan-and-still-doesnt
Anand Gopal, Metropolitan Books: "No Good Men Among the Living" is a compel=
lingly intimate portrait of how the war in Afghanistan impacted citizens of=
that nation. The author walks readers through the looking glass lens of US=
empire into the complex and personal history and impact of the conflict.
=20
Children's Rights Groups Urge Defense Program to Stop Giving School Cops Mi=
litary Hardware
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26271-childrens-rights-groups-urge-defense-p=
rogram-to-stop-giving-school-cops-military-hardware
Susan Ferriss, Center for Public Integrity: More than 20 national education=
and civil rights advocates sent a letter to Department of Defense official=
s, urging them to stop giving US school police departments surplus military=
hardware, including assault-style rifles and armored vehicles.
=20
Build the Green Economy
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26250-build-the-green-economy
Robert Pollin, Boston Review: Meeting carbon emission reduction targets wil=
l be challenging, but the goal is not out of reach. Here is a proposal for =
a transformative US clean energy investment program that can meet the 40 pe=
rcent reduction target over the next 20 years.
=20
Sea Change: The Ecological Disaster That Nobody Sees
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26202-sea-change-the-ecological-disaster=
-that-nobody-sees
Richard Schiffman, Truthout: As public attention focuses on climate change,=
many ocean species are being pushed to the edge of collapse by pollution, =
acidification and overfishing. A Global Ocean Commission report says that w=
e must act now to save the earth's wildest and most productive ecosystem.
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Supervision and Discipline of Corrections Officers Are Key to Stopping Viol=
ence on Rikers Island
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-discipline-of-corrections-officers-are-key-to-stopping-an-explosion-of-vio=
lence-on-rikers-island
David Anthony Fullard, Truthout: Although the standard response to police a=
nd corrections staff violence is calls for improved training, violent behav=
ior by uni=C2=ADformed officers is often deeply tied to a lack of monitorin=
g and consequences for misbehavior.
Beyond Divestment: Climate-Concerned Philanthropists Pledge to Move Billion=
s to Wind and Solar
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26287-beyond-divestment-climate-concerne=
d-philanthropists-pledge-to-move-billions-to-wind-and-solar
Chuck Collins, YES! Magazine: Efforts to address climate change through mon=
ey-moving campaigns are growing. Groups rallying around the idea of divest-=
invest are urging policy makers, businesses and investors to accelerate the=
transition to a low-carbon economy and invest in renewable energy.
Colombia Took On Its Drug Lords; Now It's Taking On Its Billionaires - Why =
Can't We?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26293-colombia-took-on-its-drug-lords=
-now-its-taking-on-its-billionaires-why-cant-we
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Like the United States, Col=
ombia is struggling with an inequality epidemic. But more and more Colombia=
ns are being lifted out of poverty each year because the Colombian governme=
nt isn't afraid to ask the wealthy elite to do its fair share to help the e=
conomy.
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Senate GOP Blocks Fair Pay, Continues War on Women
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es-war-on-women
Robin Marty, Care2: We may be less than two months away from Election Day, =
but that whole "trying to appeal to women voters" plan of the GOP is alread=
y falling to shambles. The latest? Senate Republicans have blocked the Payc=
heck Fairness Act. Again.
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The Next Round of an Unwinnable War Beckons
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26282-the-next-round-of-an-unwinnable=
-war-beckons
Amanda Ufheil-Somers, OtherWords: Obama promises that his plan to combat an=
d destroy Islamic State forces will also address the underlying political p=
roblems in Iraq and Syria. What's far more certain is that all military cam=
paigns have unintended consequences, some of which don't appear for many ye=
ars afterward.
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Rebecca Solnit | The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises: Change in =
a Time of Climate Change
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26276-the-wheel-turns-the-boat-rocks-=
the-sea-rises-change-in-a-time-of-climate-change
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: The world is not going to be saved by individu=
al acts of virtue; it's going to be saved, if it is to be saved, by collect=
ive acts of social and political change. When we come together as civil soc=
iety, we have the capacity to transform policies and change old ways of doi=
ng things.
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Dean Baker | The Myth That Sold the Financial Bailout
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26275-the-myth-that-sold-the-financia=
l-bailout
Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future: As a result of the hysteria surr=
ounding the 2008 financial bailout, the second Great Depression mythologers=
prevented the market from correcting a horrible source of waste and the up=
ward redistribution of income that continues to act as an enormous drag on =
the economy.
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Lessons Learned in the Bucca Camp
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26280-lessons-learned-in-the-bucca-ca=
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Kathy Kelly, teleSur English: This will not be our third Iraq invasion. US =
assaults have been achieved with munitions, children's forced starvation, w=
hite phosphorous, bullet fire, blockaded medicines, emptied reservoirs and =
downed power lines - it is all one continuous war.
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Anti-Coal Campaigners Continue to Win in the Northwest
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Mara Kardas-Nelson, Waging Nonviolence: Several communities across the Nort=
hwest, linked together in their opposition to coal transports by concern fo=
r the health of their communities and of the planet, are winning victories =
by blocking coal shipments.
Economic Update: Big Economic Changes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26294-economic-update-big-economic-changes
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: This episode covers the new c=
ensus data, a Kentucky town going "socialist," a workers' co-op in Maine, b=
ig wage theft and economic insecurity. We also discuss gentrification, the =
tax consequences of inequality and the global beer economy, and respond to =
listeners' questions on minimum wage struggles, corporate "persons" and the=
BRICS bank.
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he top 1 percent or 10 percent to save money that's been taken from them in=
the greatest redistribution of money to the wealthy that the world has eve=
r known.
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Corporate Personhood Is the Ebola Virus of Climate Chaos
Read the Article at EcoWatch
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Al Gore Is Still Trying to Save Us, One Graph at a Time
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Anand Gopal, Metropolitan Books:</strong> <i>No Good Men Among the Living</i> is a compellingly intimate portrait of how the war in Afghanistan impacted citizens of that nation. The author walks readers through the looking glass lens of US empire into the complex and personal history and impact of the conflict.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L8gwLwAX6Po6ohcnhbUndtLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Supervision and Discipline of Corrections Officers Are Key to Stopping Violence on Rikers Island</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>David Anthony Fullard, Truthout:</strong> Although the standard response to police and corrections staff violence is calls for improved training, violent behavior by uniformed officers is often deeply tied to a lack of monitoring and consequences for misbehavior.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gdyorFjXAMG4gv%2FANyXcfNLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xVrOgwfF6vBt6tD%2FmseWaj%2BvEq%2B%2B6ix8" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Beyond Divestment: Climate-Concerned Philanthropists Pledge to Move Billions to Wind and Solar</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Chuck Collins, YES! Magazine:</strong> Efforts to address climate change through money-moving campaigns are growing. Groups rallying around the idea of divest-invest are urging policy makers, businesses and investors to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and invest in renewable energy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8LRoiFuyla5%2BN8VqnzNCN9LAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XAkZWPX2tQYcOSOonEu1INLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Colombia Took On Its Drug Lords; Now It's Taking On Its Billionaires - Why Can't We?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> Like the United States, Colombia is struggling with an inequality epidemic. But more and more Colombians are being lifted out of poverty each year because the Colombian government isn't afraid to ask the wealthy elite to do its fair share to help the economy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=G%2BrmJ6VPqJTLAeI%2BjfwtsdLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=in2mnvEYt2XCh92djQpZIdLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Senate GOP Blocks Fair Pay, Continues War on Women</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robin Marty, Care2:</strong> We may be less than two months away from Election Day, but that whole "trying to appeal to women voters" plan of the GOP is already falling to shambles. The latest? Senate Republicans have blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act. Again.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yuGRWd1gpVXRqd%2BJWIfeZNLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Next Round of an Unwinnable War Beckons</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amanda Ufheil-Somers, OtherWords:</strong> Obama promises that his plan to combat and destroy Islamic State forces will also address the underlying political problems in Iraq and Syria. What's far more certain is that all military campaigns have unintended consequences, some of which don't appear for many years afterward.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Gf7xhw0HAvxFQAm%2BQaM3%2B9LAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Rebecca Solnit | The Wheel Turns, the Boat Rocks, the Sea Rises: Change in a Time of Climate Change</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch:</strong> The world is not going to be saved by individual acts of virtue; it's going to be saved, if it is to be saved, by collective acts of social and political change. When we come together as civil society, we have the capacity to transform policies and change old ways of doing things.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jnAmtvlD41SOssIR1vAhd9LAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0vh3CPaJjX4X5Z7hs0hyW9LAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Dean Baker | The Myth That Sold the Financial Bailout</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> As a result of the hysteria surrounding the 2008 financial bailout, the second Great Depression mythologers prevented the market from correcting a horrible source of waste and the upward redistribution of income that continues to act as an enormous drag on the economy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3mGjo2cAnhAZFaN1VmUlCNLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=58sX8SV20X0ijpawEYNn4tLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Lessons Learned in the Bucca Camp</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kathy Kelly, teleSur English:</strong> This will not be our third Iraq invasion. US assaults have been achieved with munitions, children's forced starvation, white phosphorous, bullet fire, blockaded medicines, emptied reservoirs and downed power lines - it is all one continuous war.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L25fSrbGEyHXOB349vs6FtLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tnGRn3m5HddMHVRydST%2B6NLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Anti-Coal Campaigners Continue to Win in the Northwest</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mara Kardas-Nelson, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> Several communities across the Northwest, linked together in their opposition to coal transports by concern for the health of their communities and of the planet, are winning victories by blocking coal shipments.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wVYAetYK4yNAakp%2FHdr2pdLAinNGcBah" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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