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Henry A. Giroux | Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing
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t r u t h o u t | 10.07
Murder, Incorporated: Guns and the Growing Culture of Violence in the US
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33127-murder-incorporated-guns-and-the-g=
rowing-culture-of-violence-in-the-us
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: The US government and gun lobby are indifferent =
to the welfare of the American people, as the drive for profits has replace=
d any vestige of social and moral responsibility. In the wake of the latest=
mass shooting, it is clear that our politicians have blood on their hands.
=20
Nonprofit Foundation Rakes in Cystic Fibrosis Drug Revenues
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33116-nonprofit-foundation-rakes-in-c=
ystic-fibrosis-drug-revenues
Chris Wegemer, Truthout: Skyrocketing prices for specialty medications have=
provided incentives for nonprofit organizations to partner with pharmaceut=
ical companies. Rather than push for lower medication costs for patients, h=
owever, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has an incentive to keep prices high=
.
A Reactionary World Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33125-a-reactionary-world-response-to-th=
e-syrian-refugee-crisis
Morgan Curtis, Truthout: The refugee crisis stemming from the Syrian confli=
ct is a human rights failure that most of the world seems to be missing. Th=
at failure did not start in Greece or at the borders of Hungary, but right =
across the Syrian border, in Turkey.
A Look at Mexico's Armed Conflict Through the Lens of Drug War Capitalism
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33134-a-look-at-mexico-s-armed-conflict-=
through-a-lens-of-drug-war-capitalism
Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News: Mexico's military, police forces and=
organized criminals have created one of the most deadly armed conflicts in=
the world, notes Dawn Paley, author of <i>Drug War Capitalism.</i> But des=
pite the heavy death toll, government interventions have not significantly =
reduced the volume of drugs entering the United States. =E2=80=A8
Winnemem Wintu Fight for Cultural Survival in Northern California
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33130-drowning-a-culture-twice-winnemem-=
wintu-fight-for-cultural-survival-in-northern-california
Rucha Chitnis, Indian Country Today Media Network: When Shasta Dam was buil=
t in 1945, the Winnemem people lost 90 percent of their sacred and ceremoni=
al sites. With a new dam proposal threatening to further damage their way o=
f life, the Winnemem are determined to prevent history from repeating itsel=
f.
Brazil to Auction Fracking Licenses in the Amazon
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33133-brazil-to-auction-fracking-license=
s-in-the-amazon
Staff, The Ecologist: Brazil is about to auction hundreds of fracking block=
s across the country, extending deep into the Amazon rain forest, including=
the territories of remote and vulnerable Indigenous peoples. Registered bi=
dders include BP, Shell and ExxonMobil.
=20
Battle Over FCC's Net Neutrality Rules May Redefine Free Speech
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33142-battle-over-fcc-s-net-neutrality-r=
ules-may-redefine-free-speech
Alisha Green, CQ Roll Call: The Federal Communications Commission's defense=
of its rules regulating broadband services in court incorporates a free sp=
eech element that could have wide implications for how the internet should =
function and how we are able to access it.
=20
US Attack on Doctors Without Borders Hospital Reveals Widespread Lack of Ac=
countability
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33135-afghan-doctor-slaughter-pulls-back=
-curtain
Nicolas Davies, Consortium News: The slaughter of at least 22 people at an =
Afghan hospital, including Doctors Without Borders medical staff, is part o=
f the grim reality of indiscriminate death when the US military tosses asid=
e the "rules of warfare."=20
Will California's Prison Policy Changes Spread to Other States?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33131-will-california-s-prison-policy-ch=
anges-spread-to-other-states
Nell Bernstein, Equal Voice News: By passing a measure that wipes an array =
of former felonies off the books and by making it retroactive, California h=
as not only pulled itself back from the fiscal brink. The state has offered=
a case study in redemption for a nation in the midst of a re-examination o=
f crime and justice issues.
The Billionaire Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33126-the-billionaire-hypocrisy-of-he=
lping-the-poor
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: If the richest Americans re=
ally want to help uplift the most impoverished regions around the country, =
the business magnates who have made billions from trade deals can stop outs=
ourcing jobs and start reopening factories right here in the United States.
Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Sal=
aita Speaks Out
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33143-does-free-speech-have-a-palestine-=
exception-dismissed-professor-steven-salaita-speaks-out
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonz=C3=A1lez, Democracy Now!: Activists in the United=
States are being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued, censored or threatene=
d for their advocacy around Palestine. We look at the case of Steven Salait=
a, who was fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after =
he posted tweets harshly critical of the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Living Without a Net: Nearly 50 Percent of Americans Don't Have Any Savings
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/living-without-a-net-nearly-5=
0-percent-of-americans-don-t-have-any-savings
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: A dismaying number of Americans - appro=
ximately 70 percent - have either no savings or less than around $1,500 set=
aside.
Justice Department Set to Free 6,000 Prisoners, Largest One-Time Release
Read the Article at The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-a=
bout-to-free-6000-prisoners-largest-one-time-release/2015/10/06/961f4c9a-6b=
a2-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html?postshare=3D4601444149297022
Jim Hightower: A Flagrant Liar for President?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/jim-hightower-a-flagrant-liar=
-for-president
The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama's National Securi=
ty Policy
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-us-massacre-in-kunduz-exposes-the-bank=
ruptcy-of-obamas-national-security-policy/
Eleven Trillion Gallons of Water Fell in the Carolinas in the Past Week
Read the Article at USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/06/11-trillion-gallons-water-=
fell-carolinas-past-week/73447754/
The Meat Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Obama's Massive Trade Deal
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/10/trans-pacific-partnership-t=
pp-meat-and-gmo-industries-shuanghui-china
The Cult of the Second Amendment
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cult-of-second-amendment
NBC to Meet With Keith Olbermann on Possible MSNBC Return
Read the Article at Mediaite
http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-nbcs-andy-lack-to-meet-with-keith-=
olbermann-on-possible-msnbc-return/
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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>A dismaying number of Americans - approximately 70 percent - have either no savings or less than around $1,500 set aside.</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=2hI2y4daTP1fbcO760lH0D6ly19bsiU%2B"><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>Justice Department Set to Free 6,000 Prisoners, Largest One-Time Release</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>Jim Hightower: A Flagrant Liar for President?</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>The US Massacre in Kunduz Exposes the Bankruptcy of Obama's National Security Policy</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>Eleven Trillion Gallons of Water Fell in the Carolinas in the Past Week</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=fLg48qy8IXblYG8o3bsOSj6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Read the Article at USA Today</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Meat Industry Is Licking Its Chops Over Obama's Massive Trade Deal</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>The Cult of the Second Amendment</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>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> The US government and gun lobby are indifferent to the welfare of the American people, as the drive for profits has replaced any vestige of social and moral responsibility. In the wake of the latest mass shooting, it is clear that our politicians have blood on their hands.</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=J3KNvZR%2FmMG7GwXDOcltrT6ly19bsiU%2B"><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=QvcAqu6cGI5j1dQDX2id2j6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Nonprofit Foundation Rakes in Cystic Fibrosis Drug Revenues</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>Chris Wegemer, Truthout:</strong> Skyrocketing prices for specialty medications have provided incentives for nonprofit organizations to partner with pharmaceutical companies. Rather than push for lower medication costs for patients, however, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has an incentive to keep prices high.</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=yxg5SSEoZdggNUnxK6VpVT6ly19bsiU%2B"><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=WvJ2R12k%2BXMvxhUtpr684T6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>A Reactionary World Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis</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>Morgan Curtis, Truthout:</strong> The refugee crisis stemming from the Syrian conflict is a human rights failure that most of the world seems to be missing. That failure did not start in Greece or at the borders of Hungary, but right across the Syrian border, in Turkey.</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=4sdsoWTR3X8i%2FyY1k0wurD6ly19bsiU%2B"><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=fFIRF4ZIHp46lbsXX84Y5T6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>A Look at Mexico's Armed Conflict Through the Lens of <i>Drug War Capitalism</i></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>Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:</strong> Mexico's military, police forces and organized criminals have created one of the most deadly armed conflicts in the world, notes Dawn Paley, author of <i>Drug War Capitalism.</i> But despite the heavy death toll, government interventions have not significantly reduced the volume of drugs entering the United States.</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=hvJeo89gU4cdB9DXc1S2qj6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Listen to the Interview and Read the Transcript</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=tHDfjaqtzh8NvLDaXrqDkT6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Winnemem Wintu Fight for Cultural Survival in Northern California</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>Rucha Chitnis, Indian Country Today Media Network:</strong> When Shasta Dam was built in 1945, the Winnemem people lost 90 percent of their sacred and ceremonial sites. With a new dam proposal threatening to further damage their way of life, the Winnemem are determined to prevent history from repeating itself.</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=FjZNCJ%2BwLP8NZdSMpW%2Bicz6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Read the Article and View the Photos</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=HRMUkPdcJzjUcjxzBYgS6j6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Brazil to Auction Fracking Licenses in the Amazon</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>Staff, The Ecologist:</strong> Brazil is about to auction hundreds of fracking blocks across the country, extending deep into the Amazon rain forest, including the territories of remote and vulnerable Indigenous peoples. Registered bidders include BP, Shell and ExxonMobil.</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>Alisha Green, CQ Roll Call:</strong> The Federal Communications Commission's defense of its rules regulating broadband services in court incorporates a free speech element that could have wide implications for how the internet should function and how we are able to access it.</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>Nicolas Davies, Consortium News:</strong> The slaughter of at least 22 people at an Afghan hospital, including Doctors Without Borders medical staff, is part of the grim reality of indiscriminate death when the US military tosses aside the "rules of warfare."</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>Nell Bernstein, Equal Voice News:</strong> By passing a measure that wipes an array of former felonies off the books and by making it retroactive, California has not only pulled itself back from the fiscal brink. The state has offered a case study in redemption for a nation in the midst of a re-examination of crime and justice issues.</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>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> If the richest Americans really want to help uplift the most impoverished regions around the country, the business magnates who have made billions from trade deals can stop outsourcing jobs and start reopening factories right here in the United States.</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=dmXcM%2FyyLuPBiQB9dw%2F5sT6ly19bsiU%2B"><strong>Does Free Speech Have a Palestine Exception? Dismissed Professor Steven Salaita Speaks Out</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 and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> Activists in the United States are being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued, censored or threatened for their advocacy around Palestine. We look at the case of Steven Salaita, who was fired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after he posted tweets harshly critical of the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza.</p>
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