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t r u t h o u t | 06.01
Zombie Politics, Democracy and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part I
http://www.truthout.org/zombie-politics-democracy-and-threat-authoritariani=
sm-part-i/1306932037
Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group Book Excerpt: "The twenty-firs=
t-century zombies no longer emerge from the grave; they now inhabit the ric=
h environs of Wall Street and roam the halls of the gilded monuments of gre=
ed such as Goldman Sachs. As an editorial in The New York Times points out,=
the new zombies of free-market fundamentalism turned 'the financial system=
into a casino. Like gambling, the transactions mostly just shifted paper m=
oney around the globe. Unlike gambling, they packed an enormous capacity fo=
r collective and economic destruction - hobbling banks that made bad bets, =
freezing credit and economic activity. Society - not the bankers - bore the=
cost.'"
Robert Reich | The Truth About the American Economy
http://www.truthout.org/truth-about-american-economy/1306953884
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The U.S. economy continues to stagnate.=
It's growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. C=
onsumer spending is down. Home prices are down. Jobs and wages are going no=
where. It's vital that we understand the truth about the American economy. =
How did we go from the Great Depression to 30 years of Great Prosperity? An=
d from there, to 30 years of stagnant incomes and widening inequality, culm=
inating in the Great Recession? And from the Great Recession into such an a=
nemic recovery?"
Deconstructing the Campaign to Malign Award-Winning Article on Guantanamo "=
Suicides"
http://www.truthout.org/deconstructing-campaign-malign-award-winning-articl=
e-guantanamo-suicides/1306933865
Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "While not the first article attacking Scott Horton=
's controversial Harpers' article, 'The Guantanamo Suicides,' Alex Koppelma=
n's critique in Adweek on May 23 capped a long campaign by some media figur=
es to impugn the veracity of Horton's investigation, if not the integrity o=
f both Horton and Harper's Magazine."
Whistleblowers Unleashed: Will the New SEC Whistleblower Law Rules Really W=
ork?
http://www.truthout.org/sec-whistleblowers-unleashed-will-new-sec-whistlebl=
ower-law-rules-really-work/1306860645
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This week, I will take a break from my Solutions col=
umn series on the Department of Defense (DoD) to report on some breakthroug=
hs on the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attempt to strengthe=
n the laws for SEC whistleblowers. There are plenty more columns to write a=
bout the DoD and more of them will be published in the weeks to come."
Sprint, Free Press File Papers to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
http://www.truthout.org/sprint-free-press-file-papers-block-attt-mobile-mer=
ger/1306953802
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Mobile company Sprint on Tuesday formally requeste=
d the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed merg=
er with T-Mobile. Sprint said the $39 billion deal could harm consumers and=
give AT&T anti-competitive control over the wireless market, even with add=
ed regulations and conditions, and could lead to a duopoly that prevents in=
novation and economic growth."
"Young, Angry and Really Smart" Activists Challenge Rape Acquittal
http://www.truthout.org/young-angry-and-really-smart-activists-challenge-ra=
pe-acquittal/1306955143
James Russell, Truthout: "Activists Savitri D. and the Rev. Billy Talen sho=
wed up, child in hand, to Friday's protest against the acquittal of two New=
York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, ready for action. The long-ti=
me activists had, until recent weeks, been disappointed by what they say wa=
s a lack of protests in the nation's largest city."
The Biggest Low-Carbon Resource by Far
http://www.truthout.org/biggest-low-carbon-resource-far/1306948766
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress: "In the past three decades, electricity per capita=
has stayed flat in Californian while it has risen 60% in the rest of the c=
ountry. If all Americans had the same per capita electricity demand as Cali=
fornians, we would cut electricity consumption 40%. And if all of America a=
dopted the same energy efficiency policies that California is now putting i=
n place, the country would never have to build another power plant. How big=
is the efficiency potential in this country?"
News in Brief: House Plans to Increase Military Spending Despite Calls for =
Cuts, and More ...
http://www.truthout.org/news-brief-house-plans-increase-military-spending-d=
espite-calls-cuts-and-more-%E2%80%A6/1306952692
The Hill reports that the House Appropriations Committee created a Pentagon=
spending measure that would significantly increase military spending; new =
report by the Citizens for Tax Justice revealed that 12 major US companies =
earned a total of $173 billion in profits between 2008 and 2010; military p=
rosecutors at Guantanamo Bay have filed new terrorism and murder charges ag=
ainst five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, the Syrian government =
has freed more than 500 political prisoners by issuing an amnesty; and more=
...
Zelaya to Honduras; Honduras to the OAS
http://www.truthout.org/zelaya-honduras-honduras-oas/1306949083
Naomi Glassman, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "On May 22nd, Honduran Pres=
ident Porfirio Lobo and former President Manuel Zelaya signed an accord in =
Cartagena, Colombia providing a path for Zelaya's return to Honduras from e=
xile, as well as the readmission of Honduras to the Organization of America=
n States (OAS). A May 2nd ruling by the Honduran Supreme Court annulled the=
criminal charges against Zelaya, thus permitting him to safely return to h=
is country. His main advisor, Rasel Tome, announced that Zelaya is likely t=
o arrive on the weekend of May 28th. Zelaya's return to Honduras is the pri=
ncipal requirement for Honduras' readmission to the OAS. Accordingly, OAS S=
ecretary General Jos=C3=A9 Miguel Insulza has announced that Honduras has a=
lready met the necessary conditions for its reentry into the organization."
Pakistan's Road to China
http://www.truthout.org/pakistans-road-china/1306938938
Shahid Javed Burki, Project Syndicate: "Large events sometimes have uninten=
ded strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following th=
e killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a military-domina=
ted town near Islamabad, Pakistan's capital."
Yemen's Saleh Losing Grip as Fighting Rages
http://www.truthout.org/yemens-saleh-losing-grip-fighting-rages/1306934626
Adam Baron, McClatchy Newspapers: "After four months of widespread anti-gov=
ernment demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and m=
ounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh =
appears to be losing his increasingly fragile grip on the southern Arabian =
nation."
Cellphones May Increase Risk of Two Types of Cancers
http://www.truthout.org/cellphones-may-increase-risk-two-types-cancers/1306=
936610
Shari Roan and Ellen Gabler, The Los Angeles Times: "Cellphone users may be=
at increased risk for two types of rare cancers and should try to reduce t=
heir exposure to the energy emitted by the phones, according to a panel of =
31 international scientists convened by an agency within the World Health O=
rganization."
The Basic Economics of National Health Insurance (Video)
http://www.truthout.org/basic-economics-national-health-insurance/130693590=
0
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Economist Wolff discusses the basics of a natio=
nal health insurance program.
Crazy Liberals!
http://www.truthout.org/crazy-liberals/1306933427
Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow looks at arguments over the=
issue of global warming.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Here's the conundrum: polls show Americans favor reducing the deficit (http=
://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/06/01/is_a_deal_on_the_debt_limit_even_p=
ossible.html), but also show that they don't want cuts in services or most =
safety net programs, including, of course, Medicare - and even Medicaid.
This paradox is, in large part, due to the successful billionaire-funded "m=
essage framing" drive about deficit reduction being essential to a sound ec=
onomy, even though large corporations - which help to fund that message - m=
ost often begin with massive amounts of loans in the form of large debt.=20
One reader sent a commentary to Truthout the other day advocating that our =
political discussion should be about service cuts, not deficit reduction. T=
hen, Americans will have to choose which services to cut, or force the poli=
ticians in DC to look to revenue enhancement strategies, such as raising ta=
xes on the very wealthy. Accompanying this approach, as now seems part of t=
he equation in deciding whether to wind down the war in Afghanistan (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.htm=
l?wpisrc=3Dnl_politics), is a reduction in the US military and war budget.
By all means, let the national media and political conversation shift from =
deficit reduction to what services would be cut in a plan like Paul Ryan's.
The first test of that has been the implication of deficit reduction on Med=
icare - and the polls show that Ryan and his supporters are getting clobber=
ed on that service cut.
Let the discussion begin. What services do you want cut?
That's the question that needs to be asked.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Political Creationism: Republicans Want to Lead America Back to the Age of =
the Dinosaur
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12737
Does Michele Bachmann Think the Apocalypse Is Imminent?
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/does-michele-bachmann-think-world-e=
nding
How the Republicans Repackage Repeated Failures as Success - and the Media =
Buys the Scam
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12735
Projection: Paul Ryan's Budget Would Add Up to $6 Trillion to Debt Over Ten=
Years
Read the Article at The Pensito Review
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2011/06/01/gops-ryan-budget-would-add-6-trilli=
on-to-debt/
Becoming a Country Without Libraries
Read the Article at The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/may/18/country-without-libraries/
=20
Poll: GOP Medicare-Ending Budget Bigger Political Fail Than First Thought
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/poll-gop-medicare-ending-budget-=
bigger-political-fail-than-first-thought.php
Ashcroft Not Liable in American Muslim's Detention, Supreme Court Rules
Read the Article at The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/06/01/ashcroft_n=
ot_liable_in_muslims_detention_supreme_court_rules/
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Wednesday 1 June 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>Zombie Politics, Democracy and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part I</strong></font><br />
Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group Book Excerpt: "The twenty-first-century zombies no longer emerge from the grave; they now inhabit the rich environs of Wall Street and roam the halls of the gilded monuments of greed such as Goldman Sachs. As an editorial in The New York Times points out, the new zombies of free-market fundamentalism turned 'the financial system into a casino. Like gambling, the transactions mostly just shifted paper money around the globe. Unlike gambling, they packed an enormous capacity for collective and economic destruction - hobbling banks that made bad bets, freezing credit and economic activity. Society - not the bankers - bore the cost.'" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wbNyk5FkgVSWDhfeGoU6zvQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Robert Reich | The Truth About the American Economy</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It's growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. Jobs and wages are going nowhere. It's vital that we understand the truth about the American economy. How did we go from the Great Depression to 30 years of Great Prosperity? And from there, to 30 years of stagnant incomes and widening inequality, culminating in the Great Recession? And from the Great Recession into such an anemic recovery?" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=poTkW6u3DgyL3q1gcMeUL%2FQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Deconstructing the Campaign to Malign Award-Winning Article on Guantanamo "Suicides"</strong></font><br />
Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "While not the first article attacking Scott Horton's controversial Harpers' article, 'The Guantanamo Suicides,' Alex Koppelman's critique in Adweek on May 23 capped a long campaign by some media figures to impugn the veracity of Horton's investigation, if not the integrity of both Horton and Harper's Magazine." <br />
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<font><strong>Whistleblowers Unleashed: Will the New SEC Whistleblower Law Rules Really Work?</strong></font><br />
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This week, I will take a break from my Solutions column series on the Department of Defense (DoD) to report on some breakthroughs on the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) attempt to strengthen the laws for SEC whistleblowers. There are plenty more columns to write about the DoD and more of them will be published in the weeks to come."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OaYgMdHnJh%2FOEjxioq9a3w%2BgvFmyhGRB"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Sprint, Free Press File Papers to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger</strong></font><br />
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Mobile company Sprint on Tuesday formally requested the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block AT&T's proposed merger with T-Mobile. Sprint said the $39 billion deal could harm consumers and give AT&T anti-competitive control over the wireless market, even with added regulations and conditions, and could lead to a duopoly that prevents innovation and economic growth."<br />
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<font><strong>"Young, Angry and Really Smart" Activists Challenge Rape Acquittal</strong></font><br />
James Russell, Truthout: "Activists Savitri D. and the Rev. Billy Talen showed up, child in hand, to Friday's protest against the acquittal of two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, ready for action. The long-time activists had, until recent weeks, been disappointed by what they say was a lack of protests in the nation's largest city."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>The Biggest Low-Carbon Resource by Far</strong></font><br />
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress: "In the past three decades, electricity per capita has stayed flat in Californian while it has risen 60% in the rest of the country. If all Americans had the same per capita electricity demand as Californians, we would cut electricity consumption 40%. And if all of America adopted the same energy efficiency policies that California is now putting in place, the country would never have to build another power plant. How big is the efficiency potential in this country?" <br />
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<font><strong>News in Brief: House Plans to Increase Military Spending Despite Calls for Cuts, and More ...</strong></font><br />
The Hill reports that the House Appropriations Committee created a Pentagon spending measure that would significantly increase military spending; new report by the Citizens for Tax Justice revealed that 12 major US companies earned a total of $173 billion in profits between 2008 and 2010; military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay have filed new terrorism and murder charges against five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, the Syrian government has freed more than 500 political prisoners by issuing an amnesty; and more ... <br />
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<br />
<font><strong>Zelaya to Honduras; Honduras to the OAS</strong></font><br />
Naomi Glassman, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "On May 22nd, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and former President Manuel Zelaya signed an accord in Cartagena, Colombia providing a path for Zelaya's return to Honduras from exile, as well as the readmission of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS). A May 2nd ruling by the Honduran Supreme Court annulled the criminal charges against Zelaya, thus permitting him to safely return to his country. His main advisor, Rasel Tome, announced that Zelaya is likely to arrive on the weekend of May 28th. Zelaya's return to Honduras is the principal requirement for Honduras' readmission to the OAS. Accordingly, OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza has announced that Honduras has already met the necessary conditions for its reentry into the organization." <br />
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<font><strong>Pakistan's Road to China</strong></font><br />
Shahid Javed Burki, Project Syndicate: "Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, a military-dominated town near Islamabad, Pakistan's capital."<br />
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<font><strong>Yemen's Saleh Losing Grip as Fighting Rages</strong></font><br />
Adam Baron, McClatchy Newspapers: "After four months of widespread anti-government demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and mounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be losing his increasingly fragile grip on the southern Arabian nation."<br />
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<font><strong>Cellphones May Increase Risk of Two Types of Cancers</strong></font><br />
Shari Roan and Ellen Gabler, The Los Angeles Times: "Cellphone users may be at increased risk for two types of rare cancers and should try to reduce their exposure to the energy emitted by the phones, according to a panel of 31 international scientists convened by an agency within the World Health Organization." <br />
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<font><strong>The Basic Economics of National Health Insurance (Video)</strong></font><br />
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<font><strong>Crazy Liberals!</strong></font><br />
Award-winning political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow looks at arguments over the issue of global warming.<br />
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<p><em>Here's the conundrum: <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZosItc1Xc7cs1R%2FUaeh99PQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">polls show</font></a> Americans favor reducing the deficit, but also show that they don't want cuts in services or most safety net programs, including, of course, Medicare - and even Medicaid.</em></p>
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<p>This paradox is, in large part, due to the successful billionaire-funded "message framing" drive about deficit reduction being essential to a sound economy, even though large corporations - which help to fund that message - most often begin with massive amounts of loans in the form of large debt.</p>
<p>One reader sent a commentary to Truthout the other day advocating that our political discussion should be about service cuts, not deficit reduction. Then, Americans will have to choose which services to cut, or force the politicians in DC to look to revenue enhancement strategies, such as raising taxes on the very wealthy. Accompanying this approach, as now seems part of the equation in deciding whether to <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jytsghEBRjVq8DqOvOmrkfQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">wind down the war in Afghanistan</font></a>, is a reduction in the US military and war budget.</p>
By all means, let the national media and political conversation shift from deficit reduction to what services would be cut in a plan like Paul Ryan's.
<p></p>
<p>The first test of that has been the implication of deficit reduction on Medicare - and the polls show that Ryan and his supporters are getting clobbered on that service cut.</p>
<p>Let the discussion begin. What services do you want cut?</p>
<p>That's the question that needs to be asked.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p></p>
<p><strong>Political Creationism: Republicans Want to Lead America Back to the Age of the Dinosaur<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Vb90%2BmOAjfuE7CqAq9yZl%2FQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Does Michele Bachmann Think the Apocalypse Is Imminent?<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UtJhNAMyerKWgyvHBNW7IPQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Mother Jones</font></a></p>
<p><strong>How the Republicans Repackage Repeated Failures as Success - and the Media Buys the Scam<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7bKtY1uENkqDoRGNDB5JZvQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Projection: Paul Ryan's Budget Would Add Up to $6 Trillion to Debt Over Ten Years<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vnajJcPSC%2FV6UJZVEVXbtfQV0MB%2BY2jk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Pensito Review</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Becoming a Country Without Libraries<br />
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