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Noam Chomsky | The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden
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Noam Chomsky | The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden
http://www.truth-out.org/revenge-killing-osama-bin-laden/1306865820
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "The May 1 U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden's compound violated multiple elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion of Pakistani territory. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by the 79 commandos facing almost no opposition. President Obama announced that 'justice has been done.' Many did not agree - even close allies. British barrister Geoffrey Robertson, who generally supported the operation, nevertheless described Obama's claim as an 'absurdity' that should have been obvious to a former professor of constitutional law."
Chris Hedges | The Sky Really Is Falling
http://www.truthout.org/sky-really-falling/1306847032
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The Earth has already begun to react to our hubris. Freak weather unleashed deadly tornados in Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. It has triggered wildfires that have engulfed large tracts in California, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. It has brought severe droughts to the Southwest, parts of China and the Amazon. It has caused massive flooding along the Mississippi as well as in Australia, New Zealand, China and Pakistan. It is killing off the fish stocks in the oceans and obliterating the polar ice caps. Steadily rising sea levels will eventually submerge coastal cities, islands and some countries. These disturbing weather patterns presage a world where it will be harder and harder to sustain human life. Massive human migrations, which have already begun, will create chaos and violence. India is building a 4,000-kilometer fence along its border with Bangladesh to, in part, hold back the refugees who will flee if Bangladesh is submerged."
The Beatification of Senator Simpson
http://www.truthout.org/beatification-senator-simpson/1306849421
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson has been a holy terror ever since he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair his deficit commission last year. With equal fervor he has attacked both his opponents and the basic facts surrounding the budget in general and Social Security in particular. Ordinarily, either his rudeness or his lack of understanding of the facts on the issues where he is supposed to be an expert would be sufficient to have him exiled from the public limelight. Yet, because his views coincide with the editorial positions at elite news outlets like The Washington Post, his credibility as a spokesperson on the budget and Social Security is never tarnished."
Dumb Question of the 21st Century: Is It Legal?
http://www.truth-out.org/dumb-question-twenty-first-century-it-legal/1306847372
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden's killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those 'enhanced interrogation techniques' legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems to call out for debate, for answers. Or does it? Now, you couldn't call me a legal scholar. I've never set foot inside a law school, and in 66 years only made it onto a single jury (dismissed before trial when the civil suit was settled out of court). Still, I feel at least as capable as any constitutional law professor of answering such questions. My answer is this: they are irrelevant."
Germany to Shut Down Nuclear Plants
http://www.truth-out.org/germany-shut-down-nuclear-plants/1306872109
Sarah Turner, MarketWatch: "Germany will close down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to reports out Monday, as fallout from Japan's disaster continues more than two months after the event. The German government had been reviewing the role of nuclear power in the country's electricity needs after an earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in March."
Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
http://www.truthout.org/egypt-opens-rafah-crossing-what-democracy-looks/1306851653
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "On Saturday, at long last, the Egyptian government 'permanently opened' the Egypt-Gaza passenger crossing at Rafah. A big part of the credit for this long-awaited development belongs to Tahrir. It was the Tahrir uprising that brought about an Egyptian government more accountable to public opinion and it was inevitable that an Egyptian government more accountable to public opinion would open Rafah, because public opinion in Egypt bitterly opposed Egyptian participation in the blockade on Gaza. In addition, opening Rafah was a provision of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation accord brokered by the Egyptian government - an achievement facilitated by the fact that the post-Tahrir Egyptian government was more flexible in the negotiations with Hamas that led to the accord."
Cease-Fire in Yemen Capital Breaks Down
http://www.truthout.org/cease-fire-yemen-capital-breaks-down/1306852911
Nasser Arrabyee and J. David Goodman, The New York Times: "The field of battle expanded again in Yemen on Tuesday as a cease-fire between government forces and opposition tribesmen in the capital broke down, renewing fears that the country's continuing political stalemate could drag it into civil war. The fighting came a day after the government pounded a major coastal city with airstrikes to dislodge Islamic militants and, to the west, smashed the country's largest antigovernment demonstration in clashes that killed at least 20 protesters, according to witnesses reached by telephone."
Down With Coal! The Grassroots Anti-Coal Movement Goes Global
http://www.truthout.org/down-coal-grassroots-anti-coal-movement-goes-global/1306864631
Ted Nace, Grist: "In the United States and Europe, the triple whammy of recession, cheap alternatives, and aggressive anti-coal campaigning has helped halt the expansion of coal use. Since 2004, plans to build more than 150 coal plants in the U.S. have been abandoned. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a government agency that analyzes energy-related statistics, predicts continued stagnation or decline in coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S. and the European Union over the coming decades. Facing resistance to its longstanding rule in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, King Coal has redoubled ambitions elsewhere."
The Debt Ceiling as a Bargaining Chip
http://www.truthout.org/debt-ceiling-bargaining-chip/1306862238
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The direct effects of hitting the ceiling would be bad enough - sharp cutbacks in spending, which would undermine essential services, not to mention derail the economy. It's not clear to me whether there would be some wiggle room through the accumulation of arrears - say, not actually paying workers and contractors, but promising to make it up when sanity returns. But it would be ugly indeed. What might make it even worse would be indirect effects, of two kinds."
The Peace Process and the Arab Spring
http://www.truth-out.org/peace-process-and-arab-spring/1306860547
Christopher Hill, Project Syndicate: "President Barack Obama's speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Things are not turning out as planned. Instead, Netanyahu took the opportunity of Obama's address to emphasize his own well-documented opposition to a two-state solution based on a return to the pre-1967 borders."
Jarring Disconnect: If Joblessness and Hopelessness Undermine Democracy in the Middle East, What About Here at Home?
http://www.truthout.org/jarring-disconnect-if-joblessness-and-hopelessness-undermine-democracy-middle-east-what-about-here-h
Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Unemployment in Egypt among young men and women is about 30%. In Tunisia, it is over 40%. The White House claims that with figures like that, the future for democracy in those countries is tenuous. But wait a minute. What about the US? Unemployment and underemployment here is still up around 20% overall, and it is much higher among young people. Black youth unemployment fell so far in 2011 to an official rate of 44% from 50% last year (because so many young workers just gave up trying to find work!). Among Latino youth, the official unemployment rate is stuck at around 30%. Overall, youth unemployment, according to the official Labor Department figures, is 20%, but remember, the official rate does not count those who are working part time who want full-time work, and does not count those who have given up looking for work."
Wisconsin State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha County "Recount" Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results
http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsin-state-election-board-failed-review-minutes-waukesha-county-recount-certifying-supreme-cour
Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG: "Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court election and its subsequent 'recount.' However, as The BRAD BLOG has learned, the agency certified those results without reviewing hundreds of official exhibits documenting wholesale ballot irregularities, on-the-record objections from the attorneys of the candidate who filed for the 'recount,' and thousands of pages of official transcripts and minutes documenting the entire 'recount' process from the election's most controversial county."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The Main Streets of America represented in the fantasy world of Disneyland have long since become nearly dormant as US consumer commerce moved to malls and big-box stores.
The Republicans and Democrats love to talk about how small businesses are the backbone of America, even as a majority of the DC politicians take their marching orders and campaign contributions from global corporations that shut them down.
As BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed out yesterday (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12734), you can't recreate a dynamic economy when your game plan is simply mouthing jingoistic economic cliches from the past.
Perhaps it stretches an analogy to say that the battle between evolution and creationism also represents the two major divergent views of our economy. The latter implies a status quo of greatness that just needs a cross wrapped in a few flags - to paraphrase a deceased prescient thinker - to revive the American empire and standard of living. Evolution, on the other hand, promotes a view that, as times change, our vast pool of ingenuity and innovation must advance to compete and create jobs.
A fundamentalist Christian may feel reassured that, at the Creation Museum (http://creationmuseum.org/), in Kentucky, a dinosaur wears a saddle to show that all life began simultaneously with a divine spark.
But neither the dinosaur nor the saddle are going to ride America into a promising future that understands and rises to the challenge of this critical moment in history.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Unless We Stop Endlessly Repeating Cliches About America's Past, We Will Never Reach Its Future
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12734
Report: Cost of War in Afghanistan Will Be Major Factor in Troop-Reduction Talks
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-will-be-major-factor-in-troop-reduction-talks/2011/05/27/AGR8z2EH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
Pentagon: Computer Sabotage Coming From Another Nation Can Be an Act of War
Read the Article at The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter
GE Sees Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Power in Five Years
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/solar-may-be-cheaper-than-fossil-power-in-five-years-ge-says.html
Global Warming: Bleaker and Bleaker
Read the Article at The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/30/editorial-climate-change-iea-birol
Pennsylvania Radio Host Says Criticism of Fracking Led to His Firing
Read the Article at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11150/1150213-55-0.stm?cmpid=radiotv.xml
Pentagon Seeks Mini-Weapons for New Age of Warfare
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mini-drones-20110531,0,5569311.story
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Tuesday 31 May 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>Noam Chomsky | The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden</strong></font><br />
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "The May 1 U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden's compound violated multiple elementary norms of international law, beginning with the invasion of Pakistani territory. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by the 79 commandos facing almost no opposition. President Obama announced that 'justice has been done.' Many did not agree - even close allies. British barrister Geoffrey Robertson, who generally supported the operation, nevertheless described Obama's claim as an 'absurdity' that should have been obvious to a former professor of constitutional law." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y%2FelnUi1%2FgRAdO01nxPgUEpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Chris Hedges | The Sky Really Is Falling</strong></font><br />
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The Earth has already begun to react to our hubris. Freak weather unleashed deadly tornados in Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. It has triggered wildfires that have engulfed large tracts in California, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. It has brought severe droughts to the Southwest, parts of China and the Amazon. It has caused massive flooding along the Mississippi as well as in Australia, New Zealand, China and Pakistan. It is killing off the fish stocks in the oceans and obliterating the polar ice caps. Steadily rising sea levels will eventually submerge coastal cities, islands and some countries. These disturbing weather patterns presage a world where it will be harder and harder to sustain human life. Massive human migrations, which have already begun, will create chaos and violence. India is building a 4,000-kilometer fence along its border with Bangladesh to, in part, hold back the refugees who will flee if Bangladesh is submerged." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TcLgD6yeLeuEI%2Fac7XevQEpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Beatification of Senator Simpson</strong></font><br />
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson has been a holy terror ever since he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair his deficit commission last year. With equal fervor he has attacked both his opponents and the basic facts surrounding the budget in general and Social Security in particular. Ordinarily, either his rudeness or his lack of understanding of the facts on the issues where he is supposed to be an expert would be sufficient to have him exiled from the public limelight. Yet, because his views coincide with the editorial positions at elite news outlets like The Washington Post, his credibility as a spokesperson on the budget and Social Security is never tarnished." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QZbVNwrn8E%2FNcdpdgOBiAkpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Dumb Question of the 21st Century: Is It Legal?</strong></font><br />
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden's killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those 'enhanced interrogation techniques' legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems to call out for debate, for answers. Or does it? Now, you couldn't call me a legal scholar. I've never set foot inside a law school, and in 66 years only made it onto a single jury (dismissed before trial when the civil suit was settled out of court). Still, I feel at least as capable as any constitutional law professor of answering such questions. My answer is this: they are irrelevant." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GHrHbIR4MI8w7h228KoU7EpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Germany to Shut Down Nuclear Plants</strong></font><br />
Sarah Turner, MarketWatch: "Germany will close down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to reports out Monday, as fallout from Japan's disaster continues more than two months after the event. The German government had been reviewing the role of nuclear power in the country's electricity needs after an earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in March."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QBfgKz0kQ%2B6P9UQE4k8fiUpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Egypt Opens Rafah Crossing: This Is What Democracy Looks Like</strong></font><br />
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "On Saturday, at long last, the Egyptian government 'permanently opened' the Egypt-Gaza passenger crossing at Rafah. A big part of the credit for this long-awaited development belongs to Tahrir. It was the Tahrir uprising that brought about an Egyptian government more accountable to public opinion and it was inevitable that an Egyptian government more accountable to public opinion would open Rafah, because public opinion in Egypt bitterly opposed Egyptian participation in the blockade on Gaza. In addition, opening Rafah was a provision of the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation accord brokered by the Egyptian government - an achievement facilitated by the fact that the post-Tahrir Egyptian government was more flexible in the negotiations with Hamas that led to the accord." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D0TZqW39MuSim3LTcXtDX0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Cease-Fire in Yemen Capital Breaks Down</strong></font><br />
Nasser Arrabyee and J. David Goodman, The New York Times: "The field of battle expanded again in Yemen on Tuesday as a cease-fire between government forces and opposition tribesmen in the capital broke down, renewing fears that the country's continuing political stalemate could drag it into civil war. The fighting came a day after the government pounded a major coastal city with airstrikes to dislodge Islamic militants and, to the west, smashed the country's largest antigovernment demonstration in clashes that killed at least 20 protesters, according to witnesses reached by telephone." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=US0E6RNW7LnOfuYdCE9ua0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Down With Coal! The Grassroots Anti-Coal Movement Goes Global</strong></font><br />
Ted Nace, Grist: "In the United States and Europe, the triple whammy of recession, cheap alternatives, and aggressive anti-coal campaigning has helped halt the expansion of coal use. Since 2004, plans to build more than 150 coal plants in the U.S. have been abandoned. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a government agency that analyzes energy-related statistics, predicts continued stagnation or decline in coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S. and the European Union over the coming decades. Facing resistance to its longstanding rule in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, King Coal has redoubled ambitions elsewhere." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=alnN%2FsUWkn0ry5LB4D0vV0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Debt Ceiling as a Bargaining Chip</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The direct effects of hitting the ceiling would be bad enough - sharp cutbacks in spending, which would undermine essential services, not to mention derail the economy. It's not clear to me whether there would be some wiggle room through the accumulation of arrears - say, not actually paying workers and contractors, but promising to make it up when sanity returns. But it would be ugly indeed. What might make it even worse would be indirect effects, of two kinds."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dpI9tGoBdmGgMbbs%2BWIp1UpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Peace Process and the Arab Spring</strong></font><br />
Christopher Hill, Project Syndicate: "President Barack Obama's speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Things are not turning out as planned. Instead, Netanyahu took the opportunity of Obama's address to emphasize his own well-documented opposition to a two-state solution based on a return to the pre-1967 borders."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j4stvHW98MVFOAVjsmUtoUpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Jarring Disconnect: If Joblessness and Hopelessness Undermine Democracy in the Middle East, What About Here at Home?</strong></font><br />
Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening: "Unemployment in Egypt among young men and women is about 30%. In Tunisia, it is over 40%. The White House claims that with figures like that, the future for democracy in those countries is tenuous. But wait a minute. What about the US? Unemployment and underemployment here is still up around 20% overall, and it is much higher among young people. Black youth unemployment fell so far in 2011 to an official rate of 44% from 50% last year (because so many young workers just gave up trying to find work!). Among Latino youth, the official unemployment rate is stuck at around 30%. Overall, youth unemployment, according to the official Labor Department figures, is 20%, but remember, the official rate does not count those who are working part time who want full-time work, and does not count those who have given up looking for work." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6bb7QDur5nBUXBCiL9opV0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Wisconsin State Election Board Failed to Review Minutes From Waukesha County "Recount" Before Certifying Supreme Court Election Results</strong></font><br />
Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG: "Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme Court election and its subsequent 'recount.' However, as The BRAD BLOG has learned, the agency certified those results without reviewing hundreds of official exhibits documenting wholesale ballot irregularities, on-the-record objections from the attorneys of the candidate who filed for the 'recount,' and thousands of pages of official transcripts and minutes documenting the entire 'recount' process from the election's most controversial county." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TqEJ3esI2PDQ5zJ%2FZtx0nMLIQ9LXgt4U"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a></p>
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<p><em>The Main Streets of America represented in the fantasy world of Disneyland have long since become nearly dormant as US consumer commerce moved to malls and big-box stores.</em></p>
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<p>The Republicans and Democrats love to talk about how small businesses are the backbone of America, even as a majority of the DC politicians take their marching orders and campaign contributions from global corporations that shut them down.</p>
<p><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BSzdbyuLzvgv1uKBSzSsjEpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">As BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed out yesterday</font></a>, you can't recreate a dynamic economy when your game plan is simply mouthing jingoistic economic cliches from the past.</p>
<p>Perhaps it stretches an analogy to say that the battle between evolution and creationism also represents the two major divergent views of our economy. The latter implies a status quo of greatness that just needs a cross wrapped in a few flags - to paraphrase a deceased prescient thinker - to revive the American empire and standard of living. Evolution, on the other hand, promotes a view that, as times change, our vast pool of ingenuity and innovation must advance to compete and create jobs.</p>
<p>A fundamentalist Christian may feel reassured that, at the <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Mt2oSam49rIas0bJGfvC%2B0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Creation Museum</font></a>, in Kentucky, a dinosaur wears a saddle to show that all life began simultaneously with a divine spark.</p>
<p>But neither the dinosaur nor the saddle are going to ride America into a promising future that understands and rises to the challenge of this critical moment in history.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Unless We Stop Endlessly Repeating Cliches About America's Past, We Will Never Reach Its Future<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tGDoMOOhPolxeyvEHZpF6kpGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Report: Cost of War in Afghanistan Will Be Major Factor in Troop-Reduction Talks<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FEzzN33EOoioyFB7NJ5Dz0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Pentagon: Computer Sabotage Coming From Another Nation Can Be an Act of War<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iIXI%2FbS9L45gy2EUG2Oin0pGvbRk3Myo"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Wall Street Journal</font></a></p>
<p><strong>GE Sees Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Power in Five Years<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kP9syVllFGsuXm6pzanku8LIQ9LXgt4U"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Bloomberg</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Global Warming: Bleaker and Bleaker<br />
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