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Do the Democrats Offer a Progressive Choice for President?
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t r u t h o u t | 10.10
Do the Democrats Offer a Progressive Choice for President?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33139-do-the-democrats-offer-a-progressive-choice-for-president
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Even though Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has little to no chance of winning the election, her progressive positions on foreign policy matter. If she is allowed to participate in the national debates, the other candidates will be publicly challenged on critical foreign policy issues.
Whole Foods Co-opts Revolutionary Rhetoric but Mistreats Employees
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33150-whole-foods-co-opts-revolutionary-rhetoric-but-mistreats-employees
Alice Merrill, Truthout: The grocery giant Whole Foods uses protest language in its marketing schemes, and its cofounder preaches "socially conscious" capitalism, but the company opposes unionization and plans to lay off 1,500 employees. Workers aren't buying the brand of social change that Whole Foods is selling.
After the Frack: Hydraulic Fracturing's Intense Thirst
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33136-after-the-frack-hydraulic-fracturing-s-intense-thirst
Lana Straub, Earth Island Journal: While water contamination continues to be a serious concern when it comes to fracking, a slew of scientific and government reports published in recent years points to perhaps a more immediate environmental threat: unsustainable groundwater and surface water withdrawals.
Report Exposes For-Profit College Abuses in Converting to Nonprofits
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33140-report-exposes-for-profit-college-abuses-in-converting-to-non-profits
David Halperin, Republic Report: The struggle is far from over to make higher education a place where student and taxpayer interests are placed at the forefront, where honest and effective education enterprises reap the greatest rewards, and where greedy and duplicitous operators are shown the door.
How to Fix Environmental Woes in a Buenos Aires Shantytown
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33138-how-to-fix-environmental-woes-in-buenos-aires-shantytown
Fabiana Frayssinet, Inter Press Service: As soon as you enter Villa Inflamable, you taste and feel chemicals and dust particles in your throat, saliva and lungs. In this shantytown, where more than 1,500 families are exposed to industrial pollution, the children suffer the problem in their blood.
The Families of Missing Migrants and Refugees May Never Know Their Fates
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33144-the-families-of-missing-migrants-and-refugees-may-never-know-their-fates
Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins, The Conversation: For every body that is washed ashore in Italy or Greece, there is a family waiting for news from their missing loved one. Families want to know what has happened to those who left for Europe: Are they dead or alive?
These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33148-these-salvadoran-women-went-to-prison-for-suffering-miscarriages
Margaret Knapke, Foreign Policy in Focus: In El Salvador, a largely Catholic, Central American country, the linguistic distinction between "abortion" and "miscarriage" has been blurred. For many expectant mothers, spontaneous pregnancy losses - unexpected, frightening and tragic - have been declared intentional and criminal.
North Carolina Imposes New Taxes on Car and Appliance Repairs to Fund New Tax Cuts for the Rich
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33151-north-carolina-imposes-new-taxes-on-car-and-appliance-repairs-to-fund-new-tax-cuts-for-the-rich
C. Robert Gibson, Occupy.com: Policies like the most recent tax cut package in North Carolina have long since proven not to work to anyone's benefit except the rich. If conservative economics worked, there would be ample proof by now.
Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery and History of Revolt
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33119-inside-saudi-arabia-butchery-slavery-and-history-of-revolt
Abby Martin, teleSUR: Meet the new head of a United Nations panel on human rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This video report looks inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and reveals the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a catastrophic war in Yemen and looming executions of activists, "The Empire Files" exposes the true nature of the US-Saudi love affair.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Paul Ryan: Why He's Everything That's Wrong With the GOP
Read the Article at The Progressive
http://progressive.org/news/2015/10/188356/paul-ryan-why-hes-everything-that%E2%80%99s-wrong-gop?mc_cid=9eb37cbf8c&mc_eid=e7b6b2462d#sthash.s3Hpw58V.dpuf
House GOP Creates Benghazi-Like Committee to Target Planned Parenthood
Read the Article at RH Reality Check
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/10/08/house-gop-creates-benghazi-like-committee-target-planned-parenthood/?&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reality&utm_content=4+-+House+GOP+Creates+BenghaziLike+Committee&utm_campaign=daily-enews-10-9-2015&source=daily-enews-10-9-2015
After Boehner, House Hard-Liners Aim to Weaken Speaker's Clout
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/after-boehner-house-hard-liners-aim-to-weaken-speakers-clout.html?_r=1
Do You Live Near One of the 1,300 Most Toxic Sites in America?
Read the Article at onEarth
http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/toxic-sites-superfund-sites-us
NATO to Send More Troops to Eastern Europe, Citing Russian Strikes in Syria
Read the Article at Antiwar.com
http://news.antiwar.com/2015/10/08/nato-to-send-more-troops-to-eastern-europe-citing-russian-strikes-in-syria/
Cubans Risking Their Lives En Route to US as Thaw Triggers Immigration Policy Fears
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/cuban-migrant-fears-us-immigration-policy?CMP=ema_565a
Feeding a New Economy: Local Food Systems in the South
Read the Article at Facing South
http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/10/feeding-a-new-economy-local-food-systems-in-the-so.html
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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>Paul Ryan: Why He's Everything That's Wrong With the GOP</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kbKvG8dlUWnNIyVT2Onmyk4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Progressive</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>House GOP Creates Benghazi-Like Committee to Target Planned Parenthood</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mYU6I6jUBhVZWq87VLsqNk4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at RH Reality Check</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>After Boehner, House Hard-Liners Aim to Weaken Speaker's Clout</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VZPHNgC6fkQpkmoG6JOCZ04HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Do You Live Near One of the 1,300 Most Toxic Sites in America?</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>NATO to Send More Troops to Eastern Europe, Citing Russian Strikes in Syria</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OYpz8y8o0aDZWFswu2Vacj1IkrOwvcg4" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Antiwar.com</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cubans Risking Their Lives En Route to US as Thaw Triggers Immigration Policy Fears</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cvgE%2BhKTavkNbngHp%2FViNU4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian US</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Feeding a New Economy: Local Food Systems in the South</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RYOCxMX6j6KGqAajHgibdGuAQ%2BmDMss3" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Facing South</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>Marjorie Cohn, Truthout:</strong> Even though Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has little to no chance of winning the election, her progressive positions on foreign policy matter. If she is allowed to participate in the national debates, the other candidates will be publicly challenged on critical foreign policy issues.</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=rlmFtKrl9Ltx0tkP1Cq9j04HJ0CW7Luk" 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=nN%2FMvbicBbwCFFV9GdgLa04HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Whole Foods Co-opts Revolutionary Rhetoric but Mistreats Employees</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>Alice Merrill, Truthout:</strong> The grocery giant Whole Foods uses protest language in its marketing schemes, and its cofounder preaches "socially conscious" capitalism, but the company opposes unionization and plans to lay off 1,500 employees. Workers aren't buying the brand of social change that Whole Foods is selling.</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=nN%2FMvbicBbyJCZFljYDAik4HJ0CW7Luk" 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=TzhBnjwc3135cykLt41YZ04HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>After the Frack: Hydraulic Fracturing's Intense Thirst</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>Lana Straub, Earth Island Journal:</strong> While water contamination continues to be a serious concern when it comes to fracking, a slew of scientific and government reports published in recent years points to perhaps a more immediate environmental threat: unsustainable groundwater and surface water withdrawals.</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=Urvpcbl1rE%2F4B6nY6TE%2Bjk4HJ0CW7Luk" 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=bOP9Kc0sjd7%2Bm8aez0VdqE4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Report Exposes For-Profit College Abuses in Converting to Nonprofits</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 Halperin, Republic Report:</strong> The struggle is far from over to make higher education a place where student and taxpayer interests are placed at the forefront, where honest and effective education enterprises reap the greatest rewards, and where greedy and duplicitous operators are shown the door.</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=rNZSD2CeN27nSiQQMze2d04HJ0CW7Luk" 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=vc9acd6ATaYyhm1Ky46xz04HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>How to Fix Environmental Woes in a Buenos Aires Shantytown</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>Fabiana Frayssinet, Inter Press Service:</strong> As soon as you enter Villa Inflamable, you taste and feel chemicals and dust particles in your throat, saliva and lungs. In this shantytown, where more than 1,500 families are exposed to industrial pollution, the children suffer the problem in their blood.</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=l7hi22JmmZcCSq95DuZca04HJ0CW7Luk" 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=k15Ggz0okKMRwzXVbm6BRU4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Families of Missing Migrants and Refugees May Never Know Their Fates</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>Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins, The Conversation:</strong> For every body that is washed ashore in Italy or Greece, there is a family waiting for news from their missing loved one. Families want to know what has happened to those who left for Europe: Are they dead or alive?</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=70VrymXwjRTU1sVphElWEk4HJ0CW7Luk" 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=gQNFbJJShM7yuawhjoW1Nk4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>These Salvadoran Women Went to Prison for Suffering Miscarriages</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>Margaret Knapke, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> In El Salvador, a largely Catholic, Central American country, the linguistic distinction between "abortion" and "miscarriage" has been blurred. For many expectant mothers, spontaneous pregnancy losses - unexpected, frightening and tragic - have been declared intentional and criminal.</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=Numfzr1Lp5n%2BZb5t9Mlya04HJ0CW7Luk" 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=783lfDJrudaWH%2B8QeOlQv04HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>North Carolina Imposes New Taxes on Car and Appliance Repairs to Fund New Tax Cuts for the Rich</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>C. Robert Gibson, Occupy.com:</strong> Policies like the most recent tax cut package in North Carolina have long since proven not to work to anyone's benefit except the rich. If conservative economics worked, there would be ample proof by now.</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=0NyPB7dsucfHRttN2TDH0E4HJ0CW7Luk" 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=aJbg7mAQbYH5D%2FOF2yt2gk4HJ0CW7Luk" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Inside Saudi Arabia: Butchery, Slavery and History of Revolt</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>Abby Martin, teleSUR:</strong> Meet the new head of a United Nations panel on human rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This video report looks inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and reveals the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a catastrophic war in Yemen and looming executions of activists, "The Empire Files" exposes the true nature of the US-Saudi love affair.</p>
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