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William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire
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William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19548-america-on-fire
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: In Australia, the fear is that the fires bei=
ng battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut initially we=
re started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are in Congress, on Wall=
Street and in the White House to no small degree.
Thank You Anarchy Author and Wall Street Occupier Nathan Schneider on the M=
ovement's True Power
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/19479-the-occupy-movement-contin=
ues-in-its-legacy-of-ongoing-resistance
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Nathan Schneider, author of Thank You Anarchy, Notes=
From the Occupy Apocalypse, tells Truthout he has been changed irrevocably=
by the movement, of which Zuccotti Park was only the beginning, and he cra=
ves the just, humane and free society the occupation modeled.
ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19556-alec-and-tiaa-cref-join-the-assault=
-on-public-pensions
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: The right-wing American Leg=
islative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to disman=
tle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legi=
slative priorities.
Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19552-plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanth=
ropy-undermines-democracy
Joanne Barkan, Dissent: Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived powe=
r in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligatio=
ns. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already t=
ranslates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency.
Are the Koch Brothers the New "Copper Kings"?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19569-are-the-koch-brothers-the-new-coppe=
r-kings
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The ghost of William A. Clark, t=
he corrupt "Copper King," is alive and well in the form of billionaires suc=
h as the Koch Brothers, who are corrupting our political process while dest=
roying the environment and poisoning us.
The Return of the Nicaraguan Revolution
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19543-the-return-of-the-nicaraguan-revolu=
tion
David L. Wilson, Truthout: In the 1980s, New York mayoral candidate Bill de=
Blasio traveled to Nicaragua. With the election looming, the media is reca=
lling his activism, which, like mine, was derided at the time as "idealisti=
c" and "more than a touch na=C3=AFve."
Paul Krugman | America's New Employment Reality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19565-americas-new-employment-reality
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "If certain skills are in short supply, show u=
s the workers with these skills who are being offered premium wages; show u=
s the employers laying out real dollars to train the workers they need."
Right-Wing Ideology Run Wild
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19557-right-wing-ideology-run-wild
Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News: The Radical Right - reflecting the over=
lapping ideologies of Ayn Rand capitalists, Christian fundamentalists and n=
eo-Confederate white supremacists - is set on crippling the federal governm=
ent and humiliating the first African-American president. But the extremism=
could shatter the Republican Party.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fracking Companies Want to Start Drilling a=
t the Source of Washington's Water Supply, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19570-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-frackin=
g-companies-want-to-start-drilling-at-the-source-of-washingtons-water-suppl=
y-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Fracking companies want to move in to the G=
eorge Washington National Forest, which supplies water to the DC metro area=
; lawmakers in red states are enacting as many discriminatory voting laws a=
s possible, and now they want to rig the Electoral College; Ohio will be th=
e next state to expand Medicaid; and more.
Why Washington Can't Stop: The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19566-why-washington-cant-stop-the-coming=
-era-of-tiny-wars-and-micro-conflicts
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: We're entering a new period in terms of Americ=
an war making. Call it the era of tiny wars, especially in the tribal backl=
ands of the planet. What's not changing is Washington's preference for war =
as the option of choice, often of first resort.
Zoos Get Pandas, China Gets Uranium: Is This a Fair Trade?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19549-zoos-get-pandas-china-gets-uranium-is-=
this-a-fair-trade
Kristina Chew, Care2: Lately, China's central government seems to be using =
its monopoly on pandas as a valuable bargaining chip to gain resources, inc=
luding uranium (to power nuclear plants) and access to renewable-energy tec=
hnology.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Social Security Pumps $2 Into US Economy for Every Benefit Dollar Spent
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18268-social-security-pu=
mps-$2-into-us-economy-for-every-benefit-dollar-spent
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Don't blame Social Security for any def=
icits, now or in the future. Not only did retirees pay into the fund, Socia=
l Security spending actually stimulates the economy.
AFL-CIO to Democrats: We'll Work to End Your Career if You Cut Social Secur=
ity or Medicare
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/social-security-cuts-afl-cio_n_413=
6470.html?ncid=3Dedlinkusaolp00000009
What Does the Rise of Super-Fortunes Mean for the Rest of Us
Read the Article at NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=3D235791324
Unemployment Falls to Lowest Rate Since 2008
Read the Article at CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/22/news/economy/september-jobs-report/index.ht=
ml?hpt=3Dpo_t1
US Drone Strikes Break International Law, Report Finds
Read the Article at the CBC News Network
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-drone-strikes-break-international-law-repo=
rt-finds-1.2129761
Poll Results Just Keep Getting Worse and Worse for Republicans
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/poll-results-just-keep-gettin=
g-worse-and-worse-republicans
One Year After Sandy: Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/176767/one-year-after-sandy-ignoring-climate-=
change-our-own-peril
Japan's Fukushima Cleanup Effort Is Turning Into Another Kind of Disaster
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/for-tepco-and-japans-fukushima-daiichi-=
nuclear-plant-toxic-water-stymies-cleanup/2013/10/21/406f4d78-2cba-11e3-b14=
1-298f46539716_story.html
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<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>Don't blame Social Security for any deficits, now or in the future. Not only did retirees pay into the fund, Social Security spending actually stimulates the economy.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=BL3aHtZAjLHWx1jx0kAKLk5yRmzz8MwJ"><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>AFL-CIO to Democrats: We'll Work to End Your Career if You Cut Social Security or Medicare</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>What Does the Rise of Super-Fortunes Mean for the Rest of Us</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>Unemployment Falls to Lowest Rate Since 2008</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>US Drone Strikes Break International Law, Report Finds</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=pO8jSBV2HbgfYizFZk%2BhVE5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Read the Article at the CBC News Network</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Poll Results Just Keep Getting Worse and Worse for Republicans</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=jGNJBhd7ZGU43VEyRoFndE5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>One Year After Sandy: Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril</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>Japan's Fukushima Cleanup Effort Is Turning Into Another Kind of Disaster</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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> In Australia, the fear is that the fires being battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut initially were started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are in Congress, on Wall Street and in the White House to no small degree.</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=TGG7YeNiW%2BYTW18yM50Vzk5yRmzz8MwJ"><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=JnplPS3sOTGgTZ96%2FNGzoE5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong><em>Thank You Anarchy</em> Author and Wall Street Occupier Nathan Schneider on the Movement's True Power</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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Nathan Schneider, author of <em>Thank You Anarchy, Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse</em>, tells Truthout he has been changed irrevocably by the movement, of which Zuccotti Park was only the beginning, and he craves the just, humane and free society the occupation modeled.</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=PJ%2ByuUJwCLUMm%2BEQm3q9905yRmzz8MwJ"><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=82kMeMsKBXlNxX%2FSaFYzFk5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions</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>Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legislative priorities.</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=SI7rbsPeBPaXKIh3rfwg9MULKDnnfz6T"><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=G%2FMsqcYjwmkEwvt%2BCn6nkU5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy</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>Joanne Barkan, Dissent:</strong> Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived power in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligations. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already translates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency.</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=ipi5qqpHCyEcMdDUQ9V%2FZE5yRmzz8MwJ"><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=3nZ%2F1j3hJlMmNYnk1%2B04l05yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Are the Koch Brothers the New "Copper Kings"?</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, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> The ghost of William A. Clark, the corrupt "Copper King," is alive and well in the form of billionaires such as the Koch Brothers, who are corrupting our political process while destroying the environment and poisoning us.</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=nKu0LhNAk9x%2BMvz2rf2vgk5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>The Return of the Nicaraguan Revolution</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 L. Wilson, Truthout:</strong> In the 1980s, New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio traveled to Nicaragua. With the election looming, the media is recalling his activism, which, like mine, was derided at the time as "idealistic" and "more than a touch naïve."</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=p4befG15fVw%2FEkzQ71QwqE5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Paul Krugman | America's New Employment Reality</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>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> "If certain skills are in short supply, show us the workers with these skills who are being offered premium wages; show us the employers laying out real dollars to train the workers they need."</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>Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News:</strong> The Radical Right - reflecting the overlapping ideologies of Ayn Rand capitalists, Christian fundamentalists and neo-Confederate white supremacists - is set on crippling the federal government and humiliating the first African-American president. But the extremism could shatter the Republican Party.</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=qoUrtxGLVL2iTuAQcNwWgk5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fracking Companies Want to Start Drilling at the Source of Washington's Water Supply, 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> Fracking companies want to move in to the George Washington National Forest, which supplies water to the DC metro area; lawmakers in red states are enacting as many discriminatory voting laws as possible, and now they want to rig the Electoral College; Ohio will be the next state to expand Medicaid; and more.</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=Qx7RlUL%2BPFDv8i0hTTjsHU5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Why Washington Can't Stop: The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts</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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> We're entering a new period in terms of American war making. Call it the era of tiny wars, especially in the tribal backlands of the planet. What's not changing is Washington's preference for war as the option of choice, often of first resort.</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=icKGf%2BglFhpxVd1AFD8I4U5yRmzz8MwJ"><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=w1F1qqccVbdGtyhZvAEBAE5yRmzz8MwJ"><strong>Zoos Get Pandas, China Gets Uranium: Is This a Fair Trade?</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>Kristina Chew, Care2:</strong> Lately, China's central government seems to be using its monopoly on pandas as a valuable bargaining chip to gain resources, including uranium (to power nuclear plants) and access to renewable-energy technology.</p>
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