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The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan
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t r u t h o u t | 07.06
The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan
http://www.truth-out.org/lies-sold-obamas-escalation-afghanistan/1309706361
Gareth Porter, Truthout: "A few days after Barack Obama's December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the official justification for escalation: the Afghan Taliban would not abandon its ties with al-Qaeda unless forced to do so by US military force and the realization that 'they're likely to lose.' Even in comparison with the usual lies that justify wars, this one was a whopper."
A New Dawn for the US Left
http://www.truth-out.org/new-dawn-us-left/1309898636
Richard D. Wolff, Richard D. Wolff's Blog: "The economic crisis has bitten hard and deep. Millions of people have been impacted by high unemployment and home foreclosures, by decreased job benefits and job security, and by the realization that none of these afflictions will end soon. A sense of betrayal is settling into the popular consciousness. People are coming to believe that despite their hard work and 'playing by the rules,' a long-term decline is placing the American Dream increasingly out of their reach."
Leon the Knife or Leon the Ladle: On "Reform," Will Secretary Leon Panetta Go the Way of Past DoD Secretaries?
http://www.truth-out.org/leon-knife-or-leon-ladle/1309890723
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "Leon Panetta, fresh from his stint as the head of the CIA, became the new secretary of defense as of July 1. Many defense secretaries have tried to make their mark on the Pentagon bureaucracy, but few have been there long enough to change it. With most secretaries serving fewer than five years, it is much easier to make your mark on current wars or other aspects of foreign policy than it is to get control of the bureaucracy in the world's most famous five-sided building."
Flotilla Passengers Are Today's Freedom Riders
http://www.truth-out.org/flotilla-passengers-are-todays-freedom-riders/1309974005
Truthout Staff Editorial: "It has been widely reported that 25 percent of the activists on the US boat that was to sail in the Gaza flotilla are Jewish. Six of those 35 activists are Truthout friends, many of long date: Chairman of the Truthout Board Robert Naiman and contributing authors Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, Ray McGovern, Gabriel Schivone and boat leader Ann Wright. Knowing that these friends are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in fills us with pride and anxiety: our hearts are locked-up with their boldly christened boat, The Audacity of Hope."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Pressing to Close Tax Loopholes for Corporations, Millionaires and Billionaires, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-obama-pressing-close-tax-loopholes-corporations-millionaires-and-billionaires-and
In today's On the News segment, Thom Hartmann discusses how President Obama is pushing to close tax loopholes on corporations, millionaires and billionaires; Ohio GOP proposes a bill to allow poll workers to refuse to help voters find their voting place; US corporations pay third-lowest taxes in the developed world; Congress proposing bill that would allow entertainment industry to shut down web sites at whim; and more.
Paul Krugman | For a Struggling Economy, Fatalism May Be Deadly
http://www.truth-out.org/struggling-economy-fatalism-may-be-deadly/1309898375
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Our current economic discourse in the United States is pervaded by fatalism. Leave aside the people who insist that somehow President Obama has destroyed capitalist incentives by passing Mitt Romney's health care plan and threatening to raise tax rates to Clinton-era levels. Even among people who should be sensible, you hear many assertions that run something like this: historically, recovery from financial crisis is usually slow, so we have to accept a slow recovery this time around too. Actually, that's more or less what Mr. Obama has been saying."
Closing the Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise Four Billion Annually From the 25 Richest Managers
http://www.truth-out.org/closing-hedge-fund-manager-tax-loophole-would-raise-four-billion-annually-25-richest-managers/130997
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "During the negotiations regarding raising the nation's debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies and corporate jet owners. Despite the drain on the Treasury caused by these tax breaks - and the negligible benefit they provide - Republicans have threatened to allow the nation to default on its obligations rather than abandon them. One of the tax breaks upon which President Obama has focused is a provision that allows hedge fund managers - who make billions annually - to receive a substantial tax break."
Obama Summons GOP and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-summons-gop-and-democratic-leaders-deficit-reduction-talks/1309959521
Mark Landler and Carl Hulse, The New York Times: "President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Republicans on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cutting deal, pledging to put popular entitlement programs like Medicare on the table in return for Republican acquiescence to some higher taxes."
Bachmann Flunks Canadian History, Too
http://www.truth-out.org/bachmann-flunks-canadian-history-too/1309959992
Michael Winship, Truthout: "Representative Bachmann misinterprets Canada's history as thoroughly as she mangles America's. In her capacity as a representative from Minnesota, one assumes that Representative Bachmann has traveled more than once to our northern neighbor. Still, a return visit might not only improve the mind, but also help her brush up on Canadian history. On the other hand, the shock of finding out that Canada has a single-payer, government-run health care program might cause her to implode."
Jim Hightower | Massey Energy's Man-Made Hellhole
http://www.truth-out.org/massey-energys-man-made-hellhole/1309968382
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "In March of last year, Massey Energy Corp.'s official record book for recording unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia said flatly: 'none observed.' It turns out that this was a flat-out lie. Just one month later, Upper Big Branch exploded, killing 29 miners and devastating their families. Massey's in-house 'observers' had indeed found safety problems - as they often did in this shoddily run, notoriously dangerous mine. But the corporation kept a dual set of books in order to mislead state and federal safety regulators."
The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story
http://www.truth-out.org/tea-party-and-goldman-sachs-love-story/1309960390
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "This week, the Los Angeles Times reported on Goldman's renewed lobbying efforts in Washington aimed at watering down what remains of the promise of Dodd-Frank. True to Washington tradition, Goldman has hired Michael Paese, a former top staffer for the 'liberal' Rep. Barney Frank to head its Washington operation, which last year spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the bill, a task now made far easier with Goldman's tea party allies in the new Republican-dominated House."
Rupert Murdoch's Tabloid Involved in British Phone Hacking Scandal
http://www.truth-out.org/rupert-murdocs-tabloid-involved-british-phone-hacking-scandal/1309963033
Henry Chu, The Los Angeles Times: "Revulsion swept the nation Tuesday amid allegations that a sensationalist tabloid owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch also intercepted and tampered with voicemails left for a kidnapped 13-year-old girl whose body was later found dumped in the woods. Britons from Prime Minister David Cameron on down declared their disgust over the accusations, the latest to hit Murdoch's weekly News of the World. The disturbing turn in a long-running scandal has raised troubling questions about the media magnate's relationship with the British political establishment and police."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
On July 4, BuzzFlash wrote a commentary on how US corporations stifle innovation and help reduce our competitiveness with fossilized thinking and deregulation. (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12828) "Grist" - an environmental and sustainable living web site - recently offered an article that dramatically proves this point. (http://www.grist.org/business-technology/2011-06-29-how-america-just-lost-one-million-greenish-jobs-to-europe)
The column detailed "How America Just Lost [Perhaps as Many as] One Million Green(ish) Jobs to Europe" because the European consortium, Airbus, is manufacturing more fuel-efficient airplanes than Boeing, with fewer emissions and other forward-looking innovations. The Grist article drew attention to the "Most underplayed economic story of the week: European aircraft manufacturer Airbus 'trounced' the traditional U.S. behemoth Boeing at the Paris Air Show, booking a record $50 billion more in orders for new planes."
And why? Because many global American corporations are living in a nostalgic dream world that denies reality and stifles change that looks to the future.
Europe is proceeding with the kind of blinder-free research and development, not blaming workers for corporate failures, according to Grist: "This is Europe's green dividend: the cash and jobs the continent is reaping from its strong climate law and a culture that's committed to planet-friendly innovation."
Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost to the US as they move to Airbus plants in Europe.
This is not American corporate innovation; this is American corporate negligence.
As the Grist article concludes:
"The bottom line is this: America will lose more and more jobs as long as American government responds to urgent economic and environmental wake-up calls as further excuses to coddle and comfort polluting industries as they fall further behind their global competitors. Unless we get government and business move quickly to green innovation, that sucking sound is just going to get louder."
We've deified corporate stupidity, greed and incompetence in America - as BuzzFlash noted on July 5 (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12830). For that, our able workforce is paying a steep personal economic price.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Even Conservative New York Times Columnist David Brooks Thinks the GOP Leadership in DC Has Gone Off the Psychiatric Deep End
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1&hp
How Did Corporations Become Deified in America?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12830
Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage From Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River
Read the Article at Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/7/5/montana_farmer_says_exxon_refuses_to_admit_extent_of_damage_from_oil_spill_into_yellowstone_river
House Republicans Have Backed Off Repealing and Replacing Health Care Reform Law
Read the Article at Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/58377.html
The Roberts 5-4 Supreme Court: Of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations
Read the Article at Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2298330/
The Final Nail in the Supply Side Coffin
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/07/06/the_final_nail_in_the_supply_side_coffin&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110
Koch Industries Subsidiary Cited for Illegal Donations
Read the Article at Roll Call
http://www.rollcall.com/news/koch_industries_subsidiary_cited_for_illegal_donations-207012-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10535:80095390a:&st=email&pos=epol
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Wednesday 6 July 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>The Lies That Sold Obama's Escalation in Afghanistan</strong></font><br />
Gareth Porter, Truthout: "A few days after Barack Obama's December 2009 announcement of 33,000 more troops being sent to Afghanistan, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Robert Gates advanced the official justification for escalation: the Afghan Taliban would not abandon its ties with al-Qaeda unless forced to do so by US military force and the realization that 'they're likely to lose.' Even in comparison with the usual lies that justify wars, this one was a whopper." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZXZXrWzsOhtG0CNkDoHVt1ttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>A New Dawn for the US Left</strong></font><br />
Richard D. Wolff, Richard D. Wolff's Blog: "The economic crisis has bitten hard and deep. Millions of people have been impacted by high unemployment and home foreclosures, by decreased job benefits and job security, and by the realization that none of these afflictions will end soon. A sense of betrayal is settling into the popular consciousness. People are coming to believe that despite their hard work and 'playing by the rules,' a long-term decline is placing the American Dream increasingly out of their reach." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NNYqGChPeZEpyy4e%2Bi1pzFttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Leon the Knife or Leon the Ladle: On "Reform," Will Secretary Leon Panetta Go the Way of Past DoD Secretaries?</strong></font><br />
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "Leon Panetta, fresh from his stint as the head of the CIA, became the new secretary of defense as of July 1. Many defense secretaries have tried to make their mark on the Pentagon bureaucracy, but few have been there long enough to change it. With most secretaries serving fewer than five years, it is much easier to make your mark on current wars or other aspects of foreign policy than it is to get control of the bureaucracy in the world's most famous five-sided building." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BrxH4VU38ry%2F6UqbCsbA6VttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Flotilla Passengers Are Today's Freedom Riders</strong></font><br />
Truthout Staff Editorial: "It has been widely reported that 25 percent of the activists on the US boat that was to sail in the Gaza flotilla are Jewish. Six of those 35 activists are Truthout friends, many of long date: Chairman of the Truthout Board Robert Naiman and contributing authors Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, Ray McGovern, Gabriel Schivone and boat leader Ann Wright. Knowing that these friends are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in fills us with pride and anxiety: our hearts are locked-up with their boldly christened boat, The Audacity of Hope." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i9leuRHFatAUD2ie5f2OwFttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Pressing to Close Tax Loopholes for Corporations, Millionaires and Billionaires, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment, Thom Hartmann discusses how President Obama is pushing to close tax loopholes on corporations, millionaires and billionaires; Ohio GOP proposes a bill to allow poll workers to refuse to help voters find their voting place; US corporations pay third-lowest taxes in the developed world; Congress proposing bill that would allow entertainment industry to shut down web sites at whim; and more. <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IksmFGy0HT32TS3NBauUMFttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | For a Struggling Economy, Fatalism May Be Deadly</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Our current economic discourse in the United States is pervaded by fatalism. Leave aside the people who insist that somehow President Obama has destroyed capitalist incentives by passing Mitt Romney's health care plan and threatening to raise tax rates to Clinton-era levels. Even among people who should be sensible, you hear many assertions that run something like this: historically, recovery from financial crisis is usually slow, so we have to accept a slow recovery this time around too. Actually, that's more or less what Mr. Obama has been saying." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uPF5GWcFf9RoorBUHfVsQlttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Closing the Hedge Fund Manager Tax Loophole Would Raise Four Billion Annually From the 25 Richest Managers</strong></font><br />
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "During the negotiations regarding raising the nation's debt ceiling, congressional Republicans have gone to the mat to defend all manner of unwarranted tax breaks, including those for oil companies and corporate jet owners. Despite the drain on the Treasury caused by these tax breaks - and the negligible benefit they provide - Republicans have threatened to allow the nation to default on its obligations rather than abandon them. One of the tax breaks upon which President Obama has focused is a provision that allows hedge fund managers - who make billions annually - to receive a substantial tax break." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JeUICJQx1owHjh7YFXOOw1ttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Obama Summons GOP and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks</strong></font><br />
Mark Landler and Carl Hulse, The New York Times: "President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Republicans on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cutting deal, pledging to put popular entitlement programs like Medicare on the table in return for Republican acquiescence to some higher taxes." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5QubfsqM6APyuDbIaXRQ3FttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Bachmann Flunks Canadian History, Too</strong></font><br />
Michael Winship, Truthout: "Representative Bachmann misinterprets Canada's history as thoroughly as she mangles America's. In her capacity as a representative from Minnesota, one assumes that Representative Bachmann has traveled more than once to our northern neighbor. Still, a return visit might not only improve the mind, but also help her brush up on Canadian history. On the other hand, the shock of finding out that Canada has a single-payer, government-run health care program might cause her to implode." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UkKi6WqJ1ArRukUw8obzwVttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Jim Hightower | Massey Energy's Man-Made Hellhole</strong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "In March of last year, Massey Energy Corp.'s official record book for recording unsafe conditions in its Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia said flatly: 'none observed.' It turns out that this was a flat-out lie. Just one month later, Upper Big Branch exploded, killing 29 miners and devastating their families. Massey's in-house 'observers' had indeed found safety problems - as they often did in this shoddily run, notoriously dangerous mine. But the corporation kept a dual set of books in order to mislead state and federal safety regulators." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fw7RzRpC7kX%2B5olh4qEl8QwA8rlvAphk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story</strong></font><br />
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "This week, the Los Angeles Times reported on Goldman's renewed lobbying efforts in Washington aimed at watering down what remains of the promise of Dodd-Frank. True to Washington tradition, Goldman has hired Michael Paese, a former top staffer for the 'liberal' Rep. Barney Frank to head its Washington operation, which last year spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the bill, a task now made far easier with Goldman's tea party allies in the new Republican-dominated House." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dlDnFGf8Hiy5pnHl%2FERscFttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Rupert Murdoch's Tabloid Involved in British Phone Hacking Scandal</strong></font><br />
Henry Chu, The Los Angeles Times: "Revulsion swept the nation Tuesday amid allegations that a sensationalist tabloid owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch also intercepted and tampered with voicemails left for a kidnapped 13-year-old girl whose body was later found dumped in the woods. Britons from Prime Minister David Cameron on down declared their disgust over the accusations, the latest to hit Murdoch's weekly News of the World. The disturbing turn in a long-running scandal has raised troubling questions about the media magnate's relationship with the British political establishment and police." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6RN9lJWJi5cWYyOo6%2BDJZQwA8rlvAphk"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> </p>
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<p>On July 4, <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BMKaLzuI40C38DFVueCER1ttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">BuzzFlash wrote a commentary</font></a> on how US corporations stifle innovation and help reduce our competitiveness with fossilized thinking and deregulation. "Grist" - an environmental and sustainable living web site - recently offered an article that <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YpL8L1POvE%2BQFrz3UC%2ByalttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">dramatically proves this point</font></a>.</p>
<p>The column detailed "How America Just Lost [Perhaps as Many as] One Million Green(ish) Jobs to Europe" because the European consortium, Airbus, is manufacturing more fuel-efficient airplanes than Boeing, with fewer emissions and other forward-looking innovations. The Grist article drew attention to the "Most underplayed economic story of the week: European aircraft manufacturer Airbus 'trounced' the traditional U.S. behemoth Boeing at the Paris Air Show, booking a record $50 billion more in orders for new planes."</p>
<p>And why? Because many global American corporations are living in a nostalgic dream world that denies reality and stifles change that looks to the future.</p>
<p>Europe is proceeding with the kind of blinder-free research and development, not blaming workers for corporate failures, according to Grist: "This is Europe's green dividend: the cash and jobs the continent is reaping from its strong climate law and a culture that's committed to planet-friendly innovation."</p>
<p>Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost to the US as they move to Airbus plants in Europe.</p>
<p>This is not American corporate innovation; this is American corporate negligence.</p>
<p>As the Grist article concludes:</p>
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<p>The bottom line is this: America will lose more and more jobs as long as American government responds to urgent economic and environmental wake-up calls as further excuses to coddle and comfort polluting industries as they fall further behind their global competitors. Unless we get government and business move quickly to green innovation, that sucking sound is just going to get louder.</p>
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<p>We've deified corporate stupidity, greed and incompetence in America - as <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AQKm3Yi526OOWkGJWscdq1ttB5aAt2tn"><font color="#cc0000">BuzzFlash noted on July 5</font></a>. For that, our able workforce is paying a steep personal economic price.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Even Conservative New York Times Columnist David Brooks Thinks the GOP Leadership in DC Has Gone Off the Psychiatric Deep End<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1mpaa2u0ZW28VAAYthWXLVttB5aAt2tn" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The New York Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>How Did Corporations Become Deified in America?<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KPeF4znVzFp1H1VDyc2yQlttB5aAt2tn" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage From Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VxZbJZkbQQsm2P0nFCdolVttB5aAt2tn" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Democracy Now!</font></a></p>
<p><strong>House Republicans Have Backed Off Repealing and Replacing Health Care Reform Law<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wd2q0dIaxf%2FpYx7yVAoH%2BlttB5aAt2tn" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Politico</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Roberts 5-4 Supreme Court: Of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iR8esdyCi%2FKsYZ83xRt8%2B1ttB5aAt2tn" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Slate</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Final Nail in the Supply Side Coffin<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GSEuf2strQEWYyOo6%2BDJZQwA8rlvAphk" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Salon</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Koch Industries Subsidiary Cited for Illegal Donations<br />
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