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t r u t h o u t | Friday, 18 October 2013
Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19481-food-stamp-outage-highlights-problems-=
with-privatization-of-public-services
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The government shutdown was not to blame for the cra=
shing of the food stamp program for poor families in 17 states over the wee=
kend, just the latest in a long line of snafus by private contractors hired=
by government.
Capitalism Works (or Not) for Me
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19361-capitalism-works-or-not-for-me
Harriet Fraad and Richard Wolff, Truthout: Does capitalism work? Artist Ste=
ve Lambert found a new way to project that "obviousness" question so that h=
is audience might grasp how it touches our intimate, personal, political an=
d social lives
Amid Shutdown, "New Economy" Events Draw Enthusiasts for Sustainable Altern=
atives
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19486-new-economy-week-shines-light-on-local=
-sustainable-economic-alternatives-during-government-shutdown
Candice Bernd, Truthout: Disillusioned by a $24 billion government shutdown=
, participants were enthusiastic this past week for coincidentally schedule=
d New Economy Coalition events across the country building sustainable solu=
tions to inequality, political gridlock and climate change.
Kieron Bryan and the Arctic 30
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19440-kieron-bryan-and-the-arctic-thirty
Andrew Wallace Chamings, Truthout: Kieron Bryan, a British video journalist=
, is being held in a Russian prison along with another journalist and 28 ac=
tivists from the captured Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise. This interview is=
with Bryan's brother on what the future holds for Kieron and the Arctic 30=
.
Washington Attorney General Sues GMO Labeling Opponents for Hiding Corporat=
e Donors
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19489-washington-attorney-general-sues-gmo-l=
abeling-opponents-for-hiding-corporate-donors
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The state of Washington has filed a lawsuit, claimin=
g opponents of a ballot initiative that would label groceries containing ge=
netically engineered ingredients are hiding their donors in a campaign that=
has seen a flood of out-of-state money from big corporations such as Monsa=
nto.
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus =E2=80=93 Campaign Cash
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19497-yes-virginia-there-is-a-santa-claus=
-campaign-cash
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: If you want to see how g=
rossly money can distort democracy, just go to the state of Virginia, where=
there are no limits on how big a check can be written for statewide candid=
ate.
Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19488-reclaiming-the-roadblock-uk-uncut-take=
s-direct-action-against-austerity
Steve Rushton, Occupy.com: The anti-cuts group recently mobilized a nationw=
ide action called "Roadblocks for Justice" that focused specifically on cut=
s to legal aid, which is the state support for legal services ensuring citi=
zens are provided equality before the law.
Republicans Have Done Real Damage to the Economy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19490-republicans-have-done-real-damage-t=
o-the-economy
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: This hostage-taking episode ha=
s done real, serious, lasting damage to the economy on top of the ongoing d=
amage Republicans have been doing. Will the public still blame Democrats, o=
r will they finally see what is going on here?
Acting With Impunity: The Case of General Electric
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19491-acting-with-impunity-the-case-of-gener=
al-electric
Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: Can the world's biggest corporat=
ions act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric - the eighth-larg=
est US corporation, with $146.9 billion in sales and $13.6 billion in profi=
ts in 2012 - the answer appears to be "yes."
Why the Corporate Media's Climate Change Censorship Is Only Half the Story
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19493-why-the-corporate-medias-climate-chang=
e-censorship-is-only-half-the-story
Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine: Of course the media needs to start talking=
honestly about climate change. But there's more to the issue than just glo=
om and doom.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Despite President Obama Beating Back Barbarians at the Gate, Sequestration =
Is Still Harming Many Americans
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18264-despite-president-=
obama-beating-back-barbarians-at-the-gate-sequestration-is-still-harming-ma=
ny-americans
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: You wouldn't know it from the whining, =
but the Tea Party Republicans had won the battle of the budget weeks back. =
The Democrats had agreed to use sequestration budget figures in the extensi=
on, which was the GOP preference.
Eugene Robinson | GOP's Defeat as Devastating as Sherman's March to the Sea
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18262-gop-defeat-devasta=
ting-as-sherman
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Paul Krugman | The Damage Done
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/opinion/krugman-the-damage-done.html?hp
Read the Article at The New York Times
Jim Hightower | J.P. Morgan: The Man and the Bank
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18263-morgan-the-man-and=
-the-bank
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Ex-Blackwater Contractors Face Fresh Charges in Iraq Attack
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/17/blackwater/3004319/
Read the Article at The Associated Press
Conservatives Misunderstand What Went Wrong Under Bush
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/conservatives-misunders=
tand-what-went-wrong-under-bush/280659/
Read the Article at The Atlantic
Harry Reid: Hiking Defense Spending for Social Security Cuts Is a "Stupid T=
rade"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/harry-reid-social-security_n_41173=
25.html
Read the Article at The Huffington Post=20
Tea Partiers' Grave Fear: Why They Disdain Young People - Even Their Own
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/17/tea_partiers_grave_fear_why_they_disdain_yo=
ung_people_even_their_own/
Read the Article at Salon
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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>Despite President Obama Beating Back Barbarians at the Gate, Sequestration Is Still Harming Many Americans
</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>You wouldn't know it from the whining, but the Tea Party Republicans had won the battle of the budget weeks back. The Democrats had agreed to use sequestration budget figures in the extension, which was the GOP preference.</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=L6p1uXgOUibWoiTJMAe8vL9%2B1pW95Qww" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></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>Eugene Robinson | GOP's Defeat as Devastating as Sherman's March to the Sea
</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=3I6Yjm8bF22uJgM6gm50I79%2B1pW95Qww" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Paul Krugman | The Damage Done</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=qf75KKYwy4wAKpfp2BlHLr9%2B1pW95Qww" 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>Jim Hightower | J.P. Morgan: The Man and the Bank</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>Ex-Blackwater Contractors Face Fresh Charges in Iraq Attack</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=NIQzIui8KgWuns1XAzSnRK1wM6TNepY3" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Conservatives Misunderstand What Went Wrong Under Bush</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>Harry Reid: Hiking Defense Spending for Social Security Cuts Is a "Stupid Trade"</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=h255YOhT94iNJTjXzxUkAL9%2B1pW95Qww" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Huffington Post</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Tea Partiers' Grave Fear: Why They Disdain Young People - Even Their Own</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=RvjVdalTi32JAebWKqRi8q1wM6TNepY3" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> The government shutdown was not to blame for the crashing of the food stamp program for poor families in 17 states over the weekend, just the latest in a long line of snafus by private contractors hired by government.</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=iVyDNvbwvuauAH%2BAhUHNNL9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=HiAFprNDXNZ8w%2BmvE7jepr9%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Capitalism Works (or Not) for Me</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>Harriet Fraad and Richard Wolff, Truthout:</strong> Does capitalism work? Artist Steve Lambert found a new way to project that "obviousness" question so that his audience might grasp how it touches our intimate, personal, political and social lives</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=96W8A1n%2BCzQ9YQxq2BmaPL9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=2F4uHU%2FIY9KBfkunEoptpr9%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Amid Shutdown, "New Economy" Events Draw Enthusiasts for Sustainable Alternatives</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>Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> Disillusioned by a $24 billion government shutdown, participants were enthusiastic this past week for coincidentally scheduled New Economy Coalition events across the country building sustainable solutions to inequality, political gridlock and climate change.</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=78K5zYGBKvzaUDi4%2BprjEb9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=gGFxU7AUyeyZAU0ZmNPGEL9%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Kieron Bryan and the Arctic 30</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>Andrew Wallace Chamings, Truthout:</strong> Kieron Bryan, a British video journalist, is being held in a Russian prison along with another journalist and 28 activists from the captured Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise. This interview is with Bryan's brother on what the future holds for Kieron and the Arctic 30.</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=afAZ9bL04AtbLKOvcU9fWr9%2B1pW95Qww" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0LS6fsbQ0xQe9zaH5EnJm79%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Washington Attorney General Sues GMO Labeling Opponents for Hiding Corporate Donors</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> The state of Washington has filed a lawsuit, claiming opponents of a ballot initiative that would label groceries containing genetically engineered ingredients are hiding their donors in a campaign that has seen a flood of out-of-state money from big corporations such as Monsanto.</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=1H8Ap720Eok9p2CzUsQFrL9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=Vq77NZAseDbCT0LUar6q%2FL9%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus – Campaign Cash</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>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company:</strong> If you want to see how grossly money can distort democracy, just go to the state of Virginia, where there are no limits on how big a check can be written for statewide candidate.</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=qItdjH9g%2BskDM3c%2BrmVWFr9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=OPf3%2B5BLLCxyE07HLkDrka1wM6TNepY3"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity</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>Steve Rushton, Occupy.com:</strong> The anti-cuts group recently mobilized a nationwide action called "Roadblocks for Justice" that focused specifically on cuts to legal aid, which is the state support for legal services ensuring citizens are provided equality before the law.</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>Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> This hostage-taking episode has done real, serious, lasting damage to the economy on top of the ongoing damage Republicans have been doing. Will the public still blame Democrats, or will they finally see what is going on here?</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=Uji3v39pDFWPjpjS8ECWjL9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=%2FI7L4djAp0D6ervF4sRP%2F79%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Acting With Impunity: The Case of General Electric</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>Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network:</strong> Can the world's biggest corporations act with impunity? When it comes to General Electric - the eighth-largest US corporation, with $146.9 billion in sales and $13.6 billion in profits in 2012 - the answer appears to be "yes."</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=qqOGPV5P8mrWBB3PYMvjEL9%2B1pW95Qww" 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=2NZaK%2BXfTeN%2Bmq%2FEDswg9b9%2B1pW95Qww"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Why the Corporate Media's Climate Change Censorship Is Only Half the Story</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 van Gelder, YES! Magazine:</strong> Of course the media needs to start talking honestly about climate change. But there's more to the issue than just gloom and doom.</p>
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