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The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created
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t r u t h o u t | 04.28
The Rise of Privatized Policing: How Crisis Capitalism Created Crisis Cops
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30467-the-rise-of-privatized-policing-in-the-us-how-crisis-capitalism-created-crisis-cops
Candice Bernd, Truthout: The ranks of privatized police forces in the United States have swelled since the September 11, 2001, attacks, now dwarfing the public sector. With more private security guards than public police officers, what are the consequences for safety and accountability?
On the Baltimore Uprising: Toward a New "Broken Windows" Theory
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30490-toward-a-new-broken-windows-theory
Mychal Denzel Smith, The Nation: Whenever there is an uprising, as we've seen in Baltimore over the past few days in response to the death of Freddie Gray, there always emerges a chorus of public figures that forcefully condemn "violent protests." However, condemnation without understanding will only feed the current rage.
Is Queer Sex Legal? How Sex Laws Have Changed (or Not) Since 1964
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30248-is-queer-sex-legal-how-sex-laws-have-changed-or-not-since-1964
Andrew Extein and David Booth, Truthout: Gay rights groups have made great strides in repealing anti-sodomy laws on federal and state levels, and these efforts should be commended. And yet, prosecutions for sex crimes are growing faster than any other type of crime, with an exponentially rising rate of arrests and convictions.
Western PR Firms Benefited From Sri Lanka's Overseas Propaganda Campaign
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30470-western-pr-firms-benefited-from-sri-lanka-s-overseas-propaganda-campaign
Derek Monroe, Truthout: A recent investigation by the Sri Lankan parliament reveals US public relations firms' role in managing the previous Rajapaksa regime's positive image propaganda. Sri Lankan taxpayers spent $1.3 million on politically connected Washington firms.
We Can't Afford Immigrants Not Being Insured
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30475-we-can-t-afford-immigrants-not-being-insured
Frank Seo, Truthout: If the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to provide affordable health care, it must be expanded to cover everyone, regardless of immigration status. The state-level approach to expand health-care access is inadequate to address this national issue.
Marjorie Cohn | Challenging American Exceptionalism
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30468-challenging-american-exceptionalism
Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn's Blog: Until we stop invading other countries, changing their regimes, torturing and indefinitely detaining their people and supporting other countries that illegally occupy other peoples' lands, we will never be safe from terrorism.
House Gives $334 Billion Tax Break to 25 Richest Americans
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30463-house-gives-334-billion-tax-break-to-25-richest-americans
Scott Klinger, Center for Effective Government: The House of Representatives gave 25 of the nation's billionaires a $334 billion tax break on April 16 when it voted 240-179 to repeal the estate tax. The repeal would allow the nation's wealthiest citizens to pass on all of their enormous wealth to their heirs with no taxes paid.
National Guard Deployed as Baltimore Erupts After Years of Police Violence, Economic Neglect
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30472-national-guard-deployed-as-baltimore-erupts-after-years-of-police-violence-economic-neglect
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: For the second time in six months, National Guard troops have been deployed in response to police brutality protests. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency, Baltimore's public schools are closed and a week-long curfew is in effect.
"Fast Track" Flouts the US Constitution
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30462-fast-track-flouts-the-constitution
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: "Fast track" would prevent the Senate from performing one of its most important Constitutional obligations. The Senate has its advice and consent powers for a reason, and there's no reason to throw those powers out the window just to make a few corporate lobbyists happy.
Deaths at Sea: Scant Hope for the Future From Europe's History of Failure on Migrants
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30474-deaths-at-sea-scant-hope-for-the-future-from-europe-s-history-of-failure-on-migrants
Sarah Wolff, The Conversation: Migrants have long tried to escape both poverty and violent conflict by crossing into Europe, but the building of a restrictive, common EU migration policy and more sophisticated surveillance to enforce this policy have contributed to a stark increase in the number of migrant deaths.
The Case That Blew the Lid Off the World Bank's Secret Courts
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30464-the-case-that-blew-the-lid-off-the-world-bank-s-secret-courts
Jim Shultz, Foreign Policy in Focus: Bolivian protesters and global activists exposed the dark side of trade pacts and paved the way for the battles to come. Bechtel was defeated by a narrative about people fighting for their water, and of a corporation content to see them killed in order to squeeze the poor for profits it never earned.
Iraq's Female Citizens: Prisoners of War
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30466-iraq-s-female-citizens-prisoners-of-war
Jennifer Allsopp, openDemocracy 50.50: Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed speaks about grassroots responses to the atrocities women are facing under ISIS and the role the United States played in fomenting the violence.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Hawaii Is the Latest Battleground in the Fight for Solar Energy, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30480-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-hawaii-is-the-latest-battleground-in-the-fight-for-solar-energy-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The Hawaiian Electric Company has been blocking thousands of residents from generating their own electricity; the loss of sea ice in the Arctic is creating a feedback loop that could spell disaster for the ice caps; a coalition of organizations is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of Dow Chemical's Enlist Duo herbicide; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
There's Nothing Funny About Adam Sandler's Demeaning Portrayals of Indigenous People
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/there-s-nothing-funny-about-adam-sandler-s-negative-stereotypes-of-native-americans
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The debasing of Indigenous people goes back to the myth that "America" was "discovered" by Europeans, a false narrative used to justify atrocities and land theft.
Eleven Stunning Images Highlight Double Standard of Reaction to Uprisings Like Baltimore
Read the Article at Mic
http://mic.com/articles/116680/11-stunning-images-highlight-the-double-standard-of-reactions-to-riots-like-baltimore
Jon Stewart Dismantles "Incestuous" Correspondents' Dinner
Watch the Video at Comedy Central
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/videos/video/jon-stewart-dismantles-quot-incestuous-quot-correspondents-dinner
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Nonviolence as Compliance
Read the Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/
George W. Bush Unironically Warns of Middle East "Chaos"
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/george-w-bush-unironically-warns-middle-east-chaos?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Prison for South Carolina Cops Who Tasered Mentally Disabled Woman Eight Times
Read the Article at the Associated Press
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/eric-walters-and-franklin-brown-cops-prison_n_7156068.html
Gay Marriage Arguments Divide Supreme Court Justices
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html
Orioles Executive on Baltimore Unrest: It's Inequality, Stupid
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/04/baltimore-orioles-freddie-gray
Tomorrow, Truthout editor-in-chief Maya Schenwar will be honored with the Sarah Powell Huntington Award from the Women's Prison Association. [embed: http://www.wpaonline.org/events/cocktails-for-a-cause] This award is given annually to an outstanding female leader in recognition of her vision, compassion, and deep commitment to public welfare and social justice. The award honors Schenwar for her book, Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better, as well as for her work at Truthout over the past eight years, bringing attention to the issues of mass incarceration and criminalization.
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Nonviolence as Compliance</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>George W. Bush Unironically Warns of Middle East "Chaos"</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Prison for South Carolina Cops Who Tasered Mentally Disabled Woman Eight Times</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Orioles Executive on Baltimore Unrest: It's Inequality, Stupid</strong></p>
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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>Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> The ranks of privatized police forces in the United States have swelled since the September 11, 2001, attacks, now dwarfing the public sector. With more private security guards than public police officers, what are the consequences for safety and accountability?</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Cfo6sPmluFJg9ByndJA%2BXiU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>On the Baltimore Uprising: Toward a New "Broken Windows" Theory</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>Mychal Denzel Smith, The Nation:</strong> Whenever there is an uprising, as we've seen in Baltimore over the past few days in response to the death of Freddie Gray, there always emerges a chorus of public figures that forcefully condemn "violent protests." However, condemnation without understanding will only feed the current rage.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jDLpnApd5PpGSDOkYSNkLqV%2BghKqLILe"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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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>Andrew Extein and David Booth, Truthout:</strong> Gay rights groups have made great strides in repealing anti-sodomy laws on federal and state levels, and these efforts should be commended. And yet, prosecutions for sex crimes are growing faster than any other type of crime, with an exponentially rising rate of arrests and convictions.</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JsYDfnvJ0AR%2B%2FtBuRNEAgSU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>Western PR Firms Benefited From Sri Lanka's Overseas Propaganda Campaign</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>Derek Monroe, Truthout:</strong> A recent investigation by the Sri Lankan parliament reveals US public relations firms' role in managing the previous Rajapaksa regime's positive image propaganda. Sri Lankan taxpayers spent $1.3 million on politically connected Washington firms.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4yV3V%2F%2Fa5nvOZqAaRTHVAiU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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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>Frank Seo, Truthout:</strong> If the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to provide affordable health care, it must be expanded to cover everyone, regardless of immigration status. The state-level approach to expand health-care access is inadequate to address this national issue.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5bJubdxdmEzHv5LqkZdpWiU5CyOBWsFZ"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wvIQAWGPh9bVcv8iAJS%2F%2BiU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>Marjorie Cohn | Challenging American Exceptionalism</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>Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn's Blog:</strong> Until we stop invading other countries, changing their regimes, torturing and indefinitely detaining their people and supporting other countries that illegally occupy other peoples' lands, we will never be safe from terrorism.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nYahhC83C4zJ0zYiPVH9kyU5CyOBWsFZ"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=642Q9ZAMO1P6aKx7i7jL1iU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>House Gives $334 Billion Tax Break to 25 Richest Americans</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>Scott Klinger, Center for Effective Government:</strong> The House of Representatives gave 25 of the nation's billionaires a $334 billion tax break on April 16 when it voted 240-179 to repeal the estate tax. The repeal would allow the nation's wealthiest citizens to pass on all of their enormous wealth to their heirs with no taxes paid.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gTTEcnx7BByf5M1QaxRHwyU5CyOBWsFZ"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PRDSAvkW9JuL34LVNtvaxKV%2BghKqLILe"><strong>National Guard Deployed as Baltimore Erupts After Years of Police Violence, Economic Neglect</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> For the second time in six months, National Guard troops have been deployed in response to police brutality protests. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency, Baltimore's public schools are closed and a week-long curfew is in effect.</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QbsucowOpv1ZHFf9gpGjzubVscUbXn10"><strong>"Fast Track" Flouts the US Constitution</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>Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> "Fast track" would prevent the Senate from performing one of its most important Constitutional obligations. The Senate has its advice and consent powers for a reason, and there's no reason to throw those powers out the window just to make a few corporate lobbyists happy.</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cQeOxV8e6tbuzPJU71Fw5SU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>Deaths at Sea: Scant Hope for the Future From Europe's History of Failure on Migrants</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>Sarah Wolff, The Conversation:</strong> Migrants have long tried to escape both poverty and violent conflict by crossing into Europe, but the building of a restrictive, common EU migration policy and more sophisticated surveillance to enforce this policy have contributed to a stark increase in the number of migrant deaths.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2F5XpoH3fY80HLwE1tHo0riU5CyOBWsFZ"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iyIeYV6fg%2FiWFexTjkF8rCU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>The Case That Blew the Lid Off the World Bank's Secret Courts</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>Jim Shultz, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> Bolivian protesters and global activists exposed the dark side of trade pacts and paved the way for the battles to come. Bechtel was defeated by a narrative about people fighting for their water, and of a corporation content to see them killed in order to squeeze the poor for profits it never earned.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ACKTyfbSHNF7GfGre0J76aV%2BghKqLILe"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wlPgBz%2BYIGZeTZ5pmQmOuaV%2BghKqLILe"><strong>Iraq's Female Citizens: Prisoners of War</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>Jennifer Allsopp, openDemocracy 50.50:</strong> Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed speaks about grassroots responses to the atrocities women are facing under ISIS and the role the United States played in fomenting the violence.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yuVrjXXcU08JR8nNplI3CiU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>Read the Interview</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CgRgnYn7n2vu%2BwvUMWgz5SU5CyOBWsFZ"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Hawaii Is the Latest Battleground in the Fight for Solar Energy, and More</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> The Hawaiian Electric Company has been blocking thousands of residents from generating their own electricity; the loss of sea ice in the Arctic is creating a feedback loop that could spell disaster for the ice caps; a coalition of organizations is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of Dow Chemical's Enlist Duo herbicide; and more.</p>
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