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Robert Scheer | Cheney's Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions
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Robert Scheer | Cheney's Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions
http://www.truth-out.org/cheneys-deceit-shakespearean-proportions/1314898152
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence."
It's Time to Take Sides: Why I'm Protesting the Tar Sands Pipeline
http://www.truth-out.org/why-im-protesting-tar-sands-pipeline-time-take-sides/1314814147
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The key political fact about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is this: at the end of the day, the decision of whether to approve the permit for the pipeline or not will be a political decision wholly owned by President Obama. The final determination on the permit will be based on whether approval would be in the 'national interest' of the United States. This is an inherently political determination. By denying the permit for the pipeline, President Obama can take a concrete action against climate chaos without securing one Republican vote, without spending one tax dollar, without getting approval from the Tea Party."
Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head, UN Says
http://www.truth-out.org/iraqi-children-us-raid-shot-head-un-says/1314883725
Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers: "A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred."
Truthout Interview With Bill McKibben
http://www.truth-out.org/truthout-interview-bill-mckibben/1314803404
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Bill McKibben is one of the most venerable writers on the growing peril of climate change. Not content to simply write warnings of environmental implosion, McKibben is an inveterate activist. Most recently, he has been working with others to halt the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Disaster is not inevitable, McKibben believes. But it is likely unless saving our environment becomes a moral imperative upon which we act with urgency. Below is an exclusive Truthout interview with McKibben about his recent book, and current political actions."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Boehner Rejects Obama's Request for a Joint Session of Congress, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-boehner-rejects-obamas-request-joint-session-congress-and-more/1314893982
In today's On the News segment: Speaker of the House John Boehner made history yesterday by rejecting a presidential request for a joint session of Congress, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is donning his reverse Robin Hood hat, census data shows that most Texas job creation between 2009 and 2010 was thanks to the government, and more.
Landmines and Cluster Bombs: "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion"
http://www.truth-out.org/landmines-and-cluster-bombs-weapons-mass-destruction-slow-motion/1314637186
H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: "Every 20 minutes, a landmine explodes and 50 to 100 grams of TNT blast into the victim's foot, leg and other parts of the body. One in 230 people have lost a leg, or more, to landmines in Cambodia, a country plagued with an estimated four million mines - one of the 20th century's worst human-induced environmental disasters. The United States devised a class of extremely lightweight antipersonnel (that is, intended to injure or kill persons) mines to block the flow of materials and soldiers from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Landmines were dropped so routinely and in such high numbers that the US pilots referred to the them as 'garbage.' With landmines supplied by China, the Khmer Rouge subsequently mined rice paddies and country paths used by Cambodian peasants to punish and starve them."
The Trials of Joe McGinniss
http://www.truth-out.org/trials-joe-mcginniss/1314731960
Matthew Harwood, Truthout: "The muckraking journalist is poised for a monster hit with his Sarah Palin tell-all, 'The Rogue,' but did the bestselling author try to sabotage the work of competing authors to ensure his book's success? Truthout investigates."
Robert Reich | Rick Perry's Secret Plan to Save Blue States From the Red States
http://www.truth-out.org/rick-perrys-secret-plan-save-blue-states-red-states/1314815153
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states' rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. 'We've got a great Union,' he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. 'There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.'"
Legislature in California Set to Pass a Dream Act
http://www.truth-out.org/legislature-california-set-pass-dream-act/1314885673
Jennifer Medina, The New York Times News Service: "The California Legislature is poised to pass a law that would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-financed aid for college. Known as the California Dream Act, the bill underscores the ways states are navigating their own way through controversial immigration issues, as the Obama administration has been unable to make headway on plans for an overhaul of immigration laws."
Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri
http://www.truth-out.org/tribunal-concealed-evidence-al-qaeda-cell-killed-hariri/1314882990
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon earlier this month has continued the practice of the UN investigation before it of refusing to acknowledge the much stronger evidence that an Al-Qaeda cell was responsible for the assassination."
Paul Krugman | The Great Experiment in Spending
http://www.truth-out.org/great-experiment-spending/1314884388
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "World War II was the great natural experiment in the effects of large increases in government spending, and as such has always served as an important positive example for those of us who favor an activist approach to a depressed economy. Christy Romer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the former chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, is very much on the same wavelength."
California Clinic Puts Smile on Community Care
http://www.truth-out.org/california-clinic-puts-smile-community-care/1314892683
Viji Sundaram and Ann Bassette, New America Media: "It is lunchtime, and Nunia Ikavuka, 14, waits with her mother in the shade of a tree outside the entrance to the Ravenswood Family Health Clinic here for a tuberculosis (TB) skin test. For a copayment of just $10, she can have the test done, plus have some other checkups on this visit, said her mother, Lin Ikavuka, who is herself uninsured and relying on her luck to avoid getting any major illness. On this day, patients pack the clinic's waiting room - a common enough scene every day, given that the ratio of primary care physicians to patients is 1 per 9,000 in South San Mateo County. The Ravenswood clinic also has a small satellite campus in the Menlo Park neighborhood of Bell Haven."
Worker Cooperatives Reduce "Hard-Core" Unemployment
http://www.truth-out.org/worker-cooperatives-reduce-hard-core-unemployment/1314896213
Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service: "During the social and economic collapse of 2002-2003, the Argentine state encouraged the formation of workers' cooperatives, which helped mitigate the worst effects of the crisis, reduced hard-core unemployment, and now as independent, democratic, worker-controlled organisations are providing services to the public and private sectors."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The right-wing conservatives are betting against America's future.
That's not a speculative observation; it's reality.
When a core part of your political ideology is the denial of science - and science has been at the center of technological and economic advancements that made the US into an innovative and financial power - then you are advocating that the nation move backward.
For those who thought that the Scopes trial settled the issue of evolution, it has been a period of frustrating historical backlash. Those who would cling to the stagnation of creationism are embarked upon a ferocious campaign to cloak the world again in darkness.
As other nations race ahead of America in alternative fuels, scientific research, transportation alternatives and medical advances, the forces of scientific denial in the US are on the march back to the pre-Enlightenment.
A web site devoted to science and its future impact observes (http://io9.com/5835970/will-the-anti+science-republicans-kill-conservatism-as-americans-know-it):
[indent]With a few notable exceptions, most of the contenders for the seat of Republican presidential candidate are outspoken critics of science. They and their supporters refuse to acknowledge the reality of climate change, want science teachers to tell students that human life was created by a spiritual force from beyond space, and suggest that the best way to get out of our debt hole is to cut government funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, which allocate money to cancer research and childhood autism treatments.
But based on recent demographics, these Republicans are out of touch with what Americans on both sides of the political spectrum want, which is more jobs in science, health care, engineering, and technology. Far from appealing to the average American, the Republican anti-science stance may alienate the party further from the mainstream. [/indent]
Faith can be an inspiring force or it can lead to an infatuation with profound ignorance.
For Martin Luther King, belief meant "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
For many of the Bible thumpers on the right, faith just means turning the lights out on progress.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Chant of "Tax the Rich"' Growing Louder in Nation
Read the Article at The San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/31/MNOB1KTSHP.DTL#ixzz1WikOL8cq
Two Frosh Conservative GOP Representatives: "We Need More Funeral Directors in Congress"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12977
Germany Leaving US in the Dust With Renewable Energy Development
Read the Article at Grist
http://www.grist.org/renewable-energy/2011-08-31-germany-sets-renewables-record
Babies in the United States Have a Higher Risk of Dying During Their First Month of Life Than Do Babies Born in 40 Other Countries
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44333054/ns/health-childrens_health/#
GOP Smear Machine Targets Elizabeth Warren
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/gop-smear-campaign-elizabeth-warren
Why the Department of Justice Might Prevail in Its Suit Against AT&T's Attempted Merger With T-Mobile
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/why-the-obama-administrations-antitrust-case-against-att-has-a-fighting-chance.php
Cheney Book: Photoshopping Plamegate
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/dick-cheney-in-my-time-plame-rove
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<font><strong>Robert Scheer | Cheney's Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions</strong></font><br />
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence."<br />
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<font><strong>It's Time to Take Sides: Why I'm Protesting the Tar Sands Pipeline</strong></font><br />
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "The key political fact about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is this: at the end of the day, the decision of whether to approve the permit for the pipeline or not will be a political decision wholly owned by President Obama. The final determination on the permit will be based on whether approval would be in the 'national interest' of the United States. This is an inherently political determination. By denying the permit for the pipeline, President Obama can take a concrete action against climate chaos without securing one Republican vote, without spending one tax dollar, without getting approval from the Tea Party."<br />
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<font><strong>Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head, UN Says</strong></font><br />
Matthew Schofield, McClatchy Newspapers: "A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi. The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred."<br />
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<font><strong>Truthout Interview With Bill McKibben</strong></font><br />
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Bill McKibben is one of the most venerable writers on the growing peril of climate change. Not content to simply write warnings of environmental implosion, McKibben is an inveterate activist. Most recently, he has been working with others to halt the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Disaster is not inevitable, McKibben believes. But it is likely unless saving our environment becomes a moral imperative upon which we act with urgency. Below is an exclusive Truthout interview with McKibben about his recent book, and current political actions." <br />
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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Boehner Rejects Obama's Request for a Joint Session of Congress, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: Speaker of the House John Boehner made history yesterday by rejecting a presidential request for a joint session of Congress, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is donning his reverse Robin Hood hat, census data shows that most Texas job creation between 2009 and 2010 was thanks to the government, and more. <br />
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<font><strong>Landmines and Cluster Bombs: "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion"</strong></font><br />
H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: "Every 20 minutes, a landmine explodes and 50 to 100 grams of TNT blast into the victim's foot, leg and other parts of the body. One in 230 people have lost a leg, or more, to landmines in Cambodia, a country plagued with an estimated four million mines - one of the 20th century's worst human-induced environmental disasters. The United States devised a class of extremely lightweight antipersonnel (that is, intended to injure or kill persons) mines to block the flow of materials and soldiers from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Landmines were dropped so routinely and in such high numbers that the US pilots referred to the them as 'garbage.' With landmines supplied by China, the Khmer Rouge subsequently mined rice paddies and country paths used by Cambodian peasants to punish and starve them."<br />
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<font><strong>The Trials of Joe McGinniss</strong></font><br />
Matthew Harwood, Truthout: "The muckraking journalist is poised for a monster hit with his Sarah Palin tell-all, 'The Rogue,' but did the bestselling author try to sabotage the work of competing authors to ensure his book's success? Truthout investigates."<br />
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<font><strong>Robert Reich | Rick Perry's Secret Plan to Save Blue States From the Red States</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Of all the nonsense Texas Governor Rick Perry spews about states' rights and the tenth amendment, his dumbest is the notion that states should go it alone. 'We've got a great Union,' he said at a Tea Party rally in Austin in April 2009. 'There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.'" <br />
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<font><strong>Legislature in California Set to Pass a Dream Act</strong></font><br />
Jennifer Medina, The New York Times News Service: "The California Legislature is poised to pass a law that would allow illegal immigrants to receive state-financed aid for college. Known as the California Dream Act, the bill underscores the ways states are navigating their own way through controversial immigration issues, as the Obama administration has been unable to make headway on plans for an overhaul of immigration laws."<br />
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<font><strong>Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri</strong></font><br />
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "In focusing entirely on the alleged links between four Hezbollah activists and the 2005 bombing that killed Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the indictment issued by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon earlier this month has continued the practice of the UN investigation before it of refusing to acknowledge the much stronger evidence that an Al-Qaeda cell was responsible for the assassination."<br />
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<font><strong>Paul Krugman | The Great Experiment in Spending</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "World War II was the great natural experiment in the effects of large increases in government spending, and as such has always served as an important positive example for those of us who favor an activist approach to a depressed economy. Christy Romer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the former chairwoman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, is very much on the same wavelength." <br />
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<font><strong>California Clinic Puts Smile on Community Care</strong></font><br />
Viji Sundaram and Ann Bassette, New America Media: "It is lunchtime, and Nunia Ikavuka, 14, waits with her mother in the shade of a tree outside the entrance to the Ravenswood Family Health Clinic here for a tuberculosis (TB) skin test. For a copayment of just $10, she can have the test done, plus have some other checkups on this visit, said her mother, Lin Ikavuka, who is herself uninsured and relying on her luck to avoid getting any major illness. On this day, patients pack the clinic's waiting room - a common enough scene every day, given that the ratio of primary care physicians to patients is 1 per 9,000 in South San Mateo County. The Ravenswood clinic also has a small satellite campus in the Menlo Park neighborhood of Bell Haven."<br />
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<font><strong>Worker Cooperatives Reduce "Hard-Core" Unemployment</strong></font><br />
Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service: "During the social and economic collapse of 2002-2003, the Argentine state encouraged the formation of workers' cooperatives, which helped mitigate the worst effects of the crisis, reduced hard-core unemployment, and now as independent, democratic, worker-controlled organisations are providing services to the public and private sectors."<br />
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<em><p>The right-wing conservatives are betting against America's future.</p>
<p>That's not a speculative observation; it's reality.</p>
<p>When a core part of your political ideology is the denial of science - and science has been at the center of technological and economic advancements that made the US into an innovative and financial power - then you are advocating that the nation move backward.</p>
<p>For those who thought that the Scopes trial settled the issue of evolution, it has been a period of frustrating historical backlash. Those who would cling to the stagnation of creationism are embarked upon a ferocious campaign to cloak the world again in darkness. </p>
<p>As other nations race ahead of America in alternative fuels, scientific research, transportation alternatives and medical advances, the forces of scientific denial in the US are on the march back to the pre-Enlightenment.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qmGi%2FWznslbkK%2FZwqQoysZ6p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">web site devoted to science and its future impact observes</font></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>With a few notable exceptions, most of the contenders for the seat of Republican presidential candidate are outspoken critics of science. They and their supporters refuse to acknowledge the reality of climate change, want science teachers to tell students that human life was created by a spiritual force from beyond space, and suggest that the best way to get out of our debt hole is to cut government funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, which allocate money to cancer research and childhood autism treatments.</p>
<p>But based on recent demographics, these Republicans are out of touch with what Americans on both sides of the political spectrum want, which is more jobs in science, health care, engineering, and technology. Far from appealing to the average American, the Republican anti-science stance may alienate the party further from the mainstream.</p></blockquote>
<p>Faith can be an inspiring force or it can lead to an infatuation with profound ignorance. </p>
<p>For Martin Luther King, belief meant "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."</p>
<p>For many of the Bible thumpers on the right, faith just means turning the lights out on progress.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p></em>
<p><strong>Chant of "Tax the Rich"' Growing Louder in Nation<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zlm6SLyD%2BxyZvUA2uw%2BKD56p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The San Francisco Chronicle</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Two Frosh Conservative GOP Representatives: "We Need More Funeral Directors in Congress"<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9XQ0mqJuhIfuUp5StsneI56p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Germany Leaving US in the Dust With Renewable Energy Development<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gcdGAJucMrEY3LV9lgIuQp6p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Grist</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Babies in the United States Have a Higher Risk of Dying During Their First Month of Life Than Do Babies Born in 40 Other Countries<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r%2BZ5MZcALoRN0ZBmENlMU56p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at MSNBC</font></a></p>
<p><strong>GOP Smear Machine Targets Elizabeth Warren<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Jn4n7HgauKqDyBG2fe88m56p2Rl99L46"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Mother Jones</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Why the Department of Justice Might Prevail in Its Suit Against AT&T's Attempted Merger With T-Mobile<br />
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