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t r u t h o u t | 10.13
Beyond the Patriot Act: The Most Harmful State Policy Enacted in the Wake o=
f 9/11
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32931-beyond-the-patriot-act-the-most-ha=
rmful-state-policy-enacted-in-the-wake-of-9-11=20
Deepa Iyer, The New Press: Despite the vast architecture of detrimental pol=
icies enacted after 9/11, many flew under the radar of the media and the ge=
neral public. Perhaps the most harmful resulting policy implemented is the =
National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which allowed the ongoing=
, state-sanctioned persecution of a range of non-white Americans.
Fighting Racism From the USDA, Black Farmers Gain Power Through Co-ops
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33208-fighting-racism-from-the-usda-b=
lack-farmers-gain-power-through-co-ops=20
Andrianna Natsoulas and Beverly Bell, Truthout: The Federation of Southern =
Cooperatives, a network of co-ops, almost all of which are composed of Blac=
k family farmers across the Deep South, is fighting back against institutio=
nal racism in the agricultural policies of the US Department of Agriculture=
, utilizing organizing, political advocacy and legal strategies.=20
Ladydrawers: The Sixth Mass Extinction
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33173-the-sixth-mass-extinction=20
Anne Elizabeth Moore and Laura =C4=B6eni=C5=86=C5=A1, Truthout: The Ladydra=
wers' series "Growing Season" continues to explore the links between public=
health, race and food policy. Meet Claire Pentecost, an artist who works w=
ith food and soil and has watched as the drive to wipe out bacteria has tak=
en a toll on public health.
The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33204-the-color-of-debt-how-collection-s=
uits-squeeze-black-neighborhoods=20
Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman, ProPublica: Companies now routinely use the co=
urts to pursue millions of people over even small consumer debts, and a new=
analysis shows that even accounting for income, the rate of judgments was =
twice as high in mostly Black neighborhoods as it was in mostly white ones.
Premature Birth and Problem Pregnancies Near Fracking Wells
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33206-premature-birth-and-problem-pregna=
ncies-near-fracking-wells=20
Staff, The Ecologist: A new study in the United States' "fracking capital" =
Pennsylvania has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells=
are far more likely to give birth prematurely or develop problems during t=
heir pregnancies.
Outsourcing a Refugee Crisis: US Paid Mexico Millions to Target Central Ame=
ricans Fleeing Violence
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33217-outsourcing-a-refugee-crisis-us-pa=
id-mexico-millions-to-target-central-americans-fleeing-violence=20
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazari=
o describes how the Obama administration is paying the Mexican government t=
o keep people from reaching the US border - people who often have legitimat=
e asylum claims, and once deterred in their journey, are often left to die.
TPP Is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Bo=
rders
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33213-tpp-is-worst-trade-agreement-for-m=
edicine-access-says-doctors-without-borders=20
Tharanga Yakupitiyage, Inter Press Service: The Trans-Pacific Partnership's=
provisions on data protection for drugs restrict the creation of "biosimi=
lars" - cheaper, generic versions of the drugs. As a result, Doctors Withou=
t Borders predicts that at least half a billion people will be unable to ac=
cess medicines once the TPP takes effect.=20
The Democratic Debate: A Brief Field Guide
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33215-the-democratic-debate-a-brief-f=
ield-guide=20
Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future: Moderate policies - from Re=
publicans or Democrats - won't succeed in addressing the challenges we face=
; fundamental reforms are necessary. Tonight's debate isn't likely to ackno=
wledge this reality, but it would be wise not to scorn it.
No, the Kochs' Political Spending Is Not "Reported"
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33212-no-the-kochs-political-spending=
-is-not-reported=20
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: In addition to the hundreds of millions flowing =
into politics by way of the Kochs' network of foundations and funding vehic=
les, funds from the corporate treasury of Koch Industries flow into politic=
s, and Charles' brother David is known to have written millions of dollars =
in personal checks to political groups each year. None of this spending is =
publicly disclosed.
Nearly Half of Uninsured Are Eligible for Subsidized Health Coverage
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33205-nearly-half-of-uninsured-are-eligi=
ble-for-subsidized-health-coverage=20
Tony Pugh, McClatchy DC: With the 2016 marketplace enrollment period set to=
begin on November 1, it is worth noting that nearly half of the 32.3 milli=
on Americans without health insurance are eligible for Medicaid or federall=
y-subsidized marketplace coverage.=20
The New Battleground for Same-Sex Couples Is Equal Rights for Their Kids
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33210-the-new-battleground-for-same-sex-=
couples-is-equal-rights-for-their-kids=20
Tanya Washington, The Conversation: Had the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Co=
urt decision been more focused on the rights of children in families with s=
ame-sex parents, =E2=80=8Bthe=E2=80=8B ruling could have ensured that child=
ren's relationships with their non-biological parents were legally recogniz=
ed and protected. However, the opinion failed to reference children's right=
s explicitly.=20
Scientists Play Catch Up as New Chemicals Contaminate Great Lakes Birds
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33209-scientists-play-catch-up-as-new-ch=
emicals-contaminate-great-lakes-birds=20
Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News: Stain repellent and fire retar=
dant chemicals that scientists know little about are increasingly showing u=
p in herring gull eggs around the Great Lakes, spurring concern for potenti=
al health impacts.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 25 Percent of the World's Energy Will Be Ge=
nerated by Renewables by 2020, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33211-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-25-=
percent-of-the-world-s-energy-will-be-generated-by-renewable-sources-in-202=
0-and-more
In today's On the News segment: According to a new report from the Internat=
ional Energy Agency, within five years, one-quarter of all the world's ener=
gy will be generated by renewable sources; the Union of Concerned Scientist=
s is worried about the political pressure that is undermining scientific re=
search; a Scottish company has figured out how to transform waste from whis=
key-making into an energy source; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
In Appalling Statement, Chicago Mayor Blames City's Soaring Murder Toll on =
Police Not Being Aggressive Enough
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/in-horrifying-statement-chica=
go-mayor-blames-city-s-soaring-murder-toll-on
=E2=80=8BMark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: =E2=80=8BChicago Mayor Rahm Em=
anuel, the head of the nation's third-largest city, is standing by his dead=
ly pronouncement that police officers need to return to "pre-Ferguson" non-=
transparent and "aggressive" policing.=20
Paul Buchheit: Five Examples of Glaring United States Hypocrisies
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/paul-buchheit-five-examples-o=
f-glaring-united-states-hypocrisies
Former Prisoners Sue Architects of CIA's Brutal Interrogation Program
Read the Article at The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/former-prisoners-sue=
-two-architects-of-cias-brutal-interrogation-program/2015/10/12/e73e6da8-70=
e9-11e5-8248-98e0f5a2e830_story.html
What the Big GOP Meltdown Reveals From a Guy Who Saw It All Coming
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ornstein-gop-meltdown
The Right Thinks Paul Ryan Is Too Far Left
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/us/politics/latest-unease-on-right-ryan-i=
s-too-far-left.html
Pharma CEO Shkreli Failed to Respond to Sanders About His Drug Hike - and S=
anders Is Not Happy
Read the Article at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-never-responded-to-bernie-san=
ders-about-turing-2015-10
How School Shootings Spread
Read the Article at The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence
Canada's Liberal Party Within Reach of Election Win Going Into Final Stretc=
h
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/12/canada-liberal-party-gathers-s=
team-election
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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>Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the head of the nation's third-largest city, is standing by his deadly pronouncement that police officers need to return to "pre-Ferguson" non-transparent and "aggressive" policing.</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 the Big GOP Meltdown Reveals From a Guy Who Saw It All Coming</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 Right Thinks Paul Ryan Is Too Far Left</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>Pharma CEO Shkreli Failed to Respond to Sanders About His Drug Hike - and Sanders Is Not Happy</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>How School Shootings Spread</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>Deepa Iyer, The New Press:</strong> Despite the vast architecture of detrimental policies enacted after 9/11, many flew under the radar of the media and the general public. Perhaps the most harmful resulting policy implemented is the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, which allowed the ongoing, state-sanctioned persecution of a range of non-white Americans.</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=DnJtL2dgk2%2BHcq53diKVgLz%2BwPWJxGuC"><strong>Read the Excerpt</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=d4b%2BHVCylqyOOTyCBAh%2B6Lz%2BwPWJxGuC"><strong>Fighting Racism From the USDA, Black Farmers Gain Power Through Co-ops</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>Andrianna Natsoulas and Beverly Bell, Truthout:</strong> The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, a network of co-ops, almost all of which are composed of Black family farmers across the Deep South, is fighting back against institutional racism in the agricultural policies of the US Department of Agriculture, utilizing organizing, political advocacy and legal strategies.</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=KxttkwguPjo4d%2BjSvTQy4Lz%2BwPWJxGuC"><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=VRS%2BGG%2FzLsd5jTZUpaokmbWLKxjMPKrW"><strong>Ladydrawers: The Sixth Mass Extinction</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>Anne Elizabeth Moore and Laura Ķeniņš, Truthout:</strong> The Ladydrawers' series "Growing Season" continues to explore the links between public health, race and food policy. Meet Claire Pentecost, an artist who works with food and soil and has watched as the drive to wipe out bacteria has taken a toll on public health.</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=4LvD0BennGSNFDkI8iJOLbz%2BwPWJxGuC"><strong>Read the Comic</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=beJ80ZN49AMwd1hodF%2FWBLz%2BwPWJxGuC"><strong>The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods</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 Kiel and Annie Waldman, ProPublica:</strong> Companies now routinely use the courts to pursue millions of people over even small consumer debts, and a new analysis shows that even accounting for income, the rate of judgments was twice as high in mostly Black neighborhoods as it was in mostly white ones.</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=3tICFrTP7kqh6reJE9s4mbz%2BwPWJxGuC"><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=djqTOvhblbq9n0wJzIu61rz%2BwPWJxGuC"><strong>Premature Birth and Problem Pregnancies Near Fracking Wells</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> A new study in the United States' "fracking capital" Pennsylvania has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells are far more likely to give birth prematurely or develop problems during their pregnancies.</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario describes how the Obama administration is paying the Mexican government to keep people from reaching the US border - people who often have legitimate asylum claims, and once deterred in their journey, are often left to die.</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>Tharanga Yakupitiyage, Inter Press Service:</strong> The Trans-Pacific Partnership's provisions on data protection for drugs restrict the creation of "biosimilars" - cheaper, generic versions of the drugs. As a result, Doctors Without Borders predicts that at least half a billion people will be unable to access medicines once the TPP takes effect.</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>Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> Moderate policies - from Republicans or Democrats - won't succeed in addressing the challenges we face; fundamental reforms are necessary. Tonight's debate isn't likely to acknowledge this reality, but it would be wise not to scorn 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>Brendan Fischer, PR Watch:</strong> In addition to the hundreds of millions flowing into politics by way of the Kochs' network of foundations and funding vehicles, funds from the corporate treasury of Koch Industries flow into politics, and Charles' brother David is known to have written millions of dollars in personal checks to political groups each year. None of this spending is publicly disclosed.</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>Tony Pugh, McClatchy DC:</strong> With the 2016 marketplace enrollment period set to begin on November 1, it is worth noting that nearly half of the 32.3 million Americans without health insurance are eligible for Medicaid or federally-subsidized marketplace coverage.</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>Tanya Washington, The Conversation:</strong> Had the <em>Obergefell v. Hodges</em> Supreme Court decision been more focused on the rights of children in families with same-sex parents, ​the​ ruling could have ensured that children's relationships with their non-biological parents were legally recognized and protected. However, the opinion failed to reference children's rights explicitly.</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>Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News:</strong> Stain repellent and fire retardant chemicals that scientists know little about are increasingly showing up in herring gull eggs around the Great Lakes, spurring concern for potential health impacts.</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, within five years, one-quarter of all the world's energy will be generated by renewable sources; the Union of Concerned Scientists is worried about the political pressure that is undermining scientific research; a Scottish company has figured out how to transform waste from whiskey-making into an energy source; and more.</p>
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