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Taking Back Labor Day
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t r u t h o u t | 09.05
Taking Back Labor Day
http://www.truth-out.org/taking-back-labor-day/1314996120
Amy Dean, Truthout: "While many would say there is little for working people to celebrate as we approach this Labor Day, I see new hope in the rising number of working people standing up to fight back for themselves and all working-class families. Despite an unprecedented wave of attacks on our country's workers, or maybe because of them, working people across the country have begun to come together and fight back to reclaim their rights and voice in our economic and political debates. If given the chance to truly flourish, this rising fight for true independent political power for working people, whether you are in a union or not, has the potential to repaint the landscape of our economy for the good."
Chris Hedges | Libya: Here We Go Again
http://www.truth-out.org/libya-here-we-go-again/1315225388
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "Here we go again. The cheering crowds. The deposed dictator. The encomiums to freedom and liberty. The American military as savior. You would think we would have learned in Afghanistan or Iraq. But I guess not. I am waiting for a trucked-in crowd to rejoice as a Gadhafi statue is toppled and Barack Obama lands on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit to announce 'Mission Accomplished.' War, as long as you view it through the distorted lens of the corporate media, is not only entertaining, but allows us to confuse state power with personal power. It permits us to wallow in unchecked self-exaltation. We are a nation that loves to love itself."
The Rich Are Raking It in, So Where Are the Jobs?
http://www.truth-out.org/rich-are-raking-it-so-where-are-jobs/1315227397
Donald Kaul, OtherWords.org: "Ah, Labor Day, the holiday when we honor Organized Labor. You know, unions and stuff like that. Yes, there'll be picnics and speeches detailing the enormous contribution unions make to our nation's prosperity. Political candidates will extol the virtues of the American worker and..."
Eric Cantor - Mean, Ornery and Just Plain Wrong
http://www.truth-out.org/eric-cantor-mean-ornery-and-just-plain-wrong/1315226334
Michael Winship, Truthout: "Eric Cantor's ideological purity overrules common sense and heart. For Manhattan at least, last week was the weather week that wasn't. But the minor earthquake and weakened Hurricane Irene served as reminders of the caprice of nature... But even though his own Seventh Congressional District was damaged by Irene, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, our national scold, says no, not unless spending cuts are made elsewhere to offset the cost, dollar for dollar."
Labor Day, Workhorses and Revolutions
http://www.truth-out.org/labor-day-workhorses-and-revolutions/1314200853
Dallas Darling, Truthout: "'Standing at the fringe of a crowd watching the men from the slaughterhouse, in blood-stained aprons, struggling to cut away a horse that had collapsed in its tracks while pulling a wagonload of coal,' writes Robert Littell in 'The Revolutionist,' Zander thought about companions and relatives who had died in horrific workplace tragedies."
Jim Hightower | Michigan Locals Fight for Democracy
http://www.truth-out.org/michigan-locals-fight-democracy/1315225775
Jim Hightower, OtherWords.org: "If Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is the right-wing, corporation-hugging governor of Michigan. The Mackinac Center, a front group bankrolled by the radical Koch Brothers, handed him an extremist anti-worker, anti-government agenda when he took office. The package included a doozie of autocratic mischief-making called The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act."
Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist
http://www.truth-out.org/discharged-being-gay-veterans-seek-re-enlist/1315236690
James Dao, New York Times News Service: "They lived shadow lives in the military, afraid that disclosure of their sexuality would ruin carefully plotted careers. Many were deeply humiliated by drawn-out investigations and unceremonious discharges."
WikiLeaks: China Wanted to Invest in U.S. Banks During '08 Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/wikileaks-china-wanted-invest-us-banks-during-08-crisis/1315237210
Rick Rothacker, McClatchy Newspapers: "During the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, a top Chinese banker told U.S. officials that his company and others in China were interested in taking significant stakes in U.S. banks but expected a backlash from regulators and the American public, according to U.S. diplomatic memos."
The Jobs Mirage: How Much More Work Do Humans Really Need?
http://www.truth-out.org/jobs-mirage-how-much-more-work-do-humans-really-need/1314284068
Jeffery J. Smith, Truthout: "While honest toil is honorable, a day to honor labor does make it easy to overlook certain realities, such as: Why do both left and right clamor for more jobs? Would those who get to opine for a living be willing to perform the jobs they'd impose upon others? And why jobs? If work is the only way one can be worthy of an income, why not also clamor for self-employment and start-ups? Must the jobless look forward to having a boss their entire lives? And are more jobs needed, or even possible?"
Mubarak Faces Court Without the Circus
http://www.truth-out.org/mubarak-faces-court-without-circus/1315237705
Cam McGrath, Inter Press Service: "Prominent lawyers and rights groups concerned with the direction the landmark case is taking have volunteered their services to assist the families of protesters killed in the 18-day uprising. The Defense for the Families of the Martyrs (DFM) has offered free counsel and a pool of veteran lawyers ready to take over cases from their poorly performing colleagues."
Busting the Union Busters
http://www.truth-out.org/busting-union-busters/1314710822
Dick Meister, Truthout: "Probably nothing could be more damaging to the labor movement in general than the attempts by anti-union forces to weaken unions at all levels of government by trying to limit - if not withdraw - their collective bargaining rights and right to strike, in addition to unilaterally cutting the pay and pensions, health care, and other benefits their unions have won in bargaining."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
As President Obama puts the finishing touches on his much anticipated "jobs speech," The Washington Post is featuring a story, "A Decade After the 9/11 Attacks, Americans Live in an Era of Endless War." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-decade-after-the-911-attacks-americans-live-in-an-era-of-endless-war/2011/09/01/gIQARUXD2J_story_2.html )
More than 65 years ago, the US celebrated a post-World War II victory Labor Day that marked the rise of the great era of the American middle class, and the hope of an end to armed conflict. But that was not to be, as the Post notes: in World War II, "the players are unquestionably good and the war's ends are noble.... In the modern warfare battles, the conflicts are unending."
This Labor Day, in 2011, the middle class is incrementally disappearing and we are fighting wars that we no longer have a coherent rationale for fighting. But these unending Pentagon battles are a growth industry in a declining job market. They are one of our few "successful" jobs programs, employing everyone from GIs to weapons assemblers to "security" contracting firms to our extensive intelligence network.
No politician, including President Obama, will seriously challenge the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us to be wary of. It - through the lobbying influence of weapons makers and the mythic power of the Pentagon - continues to wage war because it needs "enemies" to justify its existence, profit and expansion.
This is where we have ended up: a broken American dream of a ghoulish growth industry, according to the Post:
"This is the American era of endless war.
To grasp its sweep, it helps to visit Fort Campbell, Ky., where the Army will soon open a $31 million complex for wounded troops and those whose bodies are breaking down after a decade of deployments.
The Warrior Transition Battalion complex boasts the only four-story structure on the base, which at 105,000 acres is more than twice the size of Washington, D.C. The imposing brick-and-glass building towers over architecture from earlier wars.
'This unit will be around as long as the Army is around,' said Lt. Col. Bill Howard, the battalion commander.
As the new complex rises, bulldozers are taking down the last of Fort Campbell's World War II-era buildings. The white clapboard structures were hastily thrown up in the early 1940s as the country girded to battle Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Each was labeled with a large letter "T." The buildings, like the war the country was entering, were supposed to be temporary.
The two sets of buildings tell the story of America's embrace of endless war in the 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001. In previous decades, the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm."
But in place of the dream is a nightmare, wars that are almost forgotten but drain our economy and kill and maim young Americans who could be helping our nation grow into a brighter future.
These wars without end last so long that most Americans have basically forgotten that they are still being waged.
Tell that to the wounded GIs who will be filling up the "Warrior Transition Battalion." The elitists in DC have given up on offering them dignified work at home and a nation at peace. That is something to deplore, not celebrate, this Labor Day.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Paul Krugman: Fatal Distraction
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/opinion/the-fatal-distraction.html?_r=1&hp
America's Intellectual Deficit Is More Dangerous Than Its Financial One
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12985
15 Mind-blowing Facts About Wealth and Inequality In America
Read the Article at The Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4#the-gap-between-the-top-1-and-everyone-else-hasnt-been-this-bad-since-the-roaring-twenties-1
Why Destroying Unions Destroys the Middle Class
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-labor-union-decline
Obama Strongly Leads GOP Candidates in California Poll
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0905-poll-presidential-20110905,0,6048766.story
The Fallacy of Post-industrial Prosperity
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fallacy-of-post-industrial-prosperity/2011/09/04/gIQAk4Ob2J_story.html?hpid=z3
Analysis: Republicans Setting Filibuster Record
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35643530/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/analysis-republicans-setting-filibuster-record/
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<font><strong>Taking Back Labor Day</strong></font><br />
Amy Dean, Truthout: "While many would say there is little for working people to celebrate as we approach this Labor Day, I see new hope in the rising number of working people standing up to fight back for themselves and all working-class families. Despite an unprecedented wave of attacks on our country's workers, or maybe because of them, working people across the country have begun to come together and fight back to reclaim their rights and voice in our economic and political debates. If given the chance to truly flourish, this rising fight for true independent political power for working people, whether you are in a union or not, has the potential to repaint the landscape of our economy for the good."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tm%2BGZDCs9ppFpUzje9v68tceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Chris Hedges | Libya: Here We Go Again</strong></font><br />
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "Here we go again. The cheering crowds. The deposed dictator. The encomiums to freedom and liberty. The American military as savior. You would think we would have learned in Afghanistan or Iraq. But I guess not. I am waiting for a trucked-in crowd to rejoice as a Gadhafi statue is toppled and Barack Obama lands on an aircraft carrier in a flight suit to announce 'Mission Accomplished.' War, as long as you view it through the distorted lens of the corporate media, is not only entertaining, but allows us to confuse state power with personal power. It permits us to wallow in unchecked self-exaltation. We are a nation that loves to love itself."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4X0HGOHQsLCbQT068kdNg9ceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>The Rich Are Raking It in, So Where Are the Jobs?</strong></font><br />
Donald Kaul, OtherWords.org: "Ah, Labor Day, the holiday when we honor Organized Labor. You know, unions and stuff like that. Yes, there'll be picnics and speeches detailing the enormous contribution unions make to our nation's prosperity. Political candidates will extol the virtues of the American worker and..."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WoxBVxMplKjqLVeLaxWhetceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Eric Cantor - Mean, Ornery and Just Plain Wrong</strong></font><br />
Michael Winship, Truthout: "Eric Cantor's ideological purity overrules common sense and heart. For Manhattan at least, last week was the weather week that wasn't. But the minor earthquake and weakened Hurricane Irene served as reminders of the caprice of nature... But even though his own Seventh Congressional District was damaged by Irene, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, our national scold, says no, not unless spending cuts are made elsewhere to offset the cost, dollar for dollar." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=81ocAqy9VWGk4gtSA1fg9dceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Labor Day, Workhorses and Revolutions</strong></font><br />
Dallas Darling, Truthout: "'Standing at the fringe of a crowd watching the men from the slaughterhouse, in blood-stained aprons, struggling to cut away a horse that had collapsed in its tracks while pulling a wagonload of coal,' writes Robert Littell in 'The Revolutionist,' Zander thought about companions and relatives who had died in horrific workplace tragedies."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tm%2BGZDCs9pqiWe4GjOXZStceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Jim Hightower | Michigan Locals Fight for Democracy</strong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, OtherWords.org: "If Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is the right-wing, corporation-hugging governor of Michigan. The Mackinac Center, a front group bankrolled by the radical Koch Brothers, handed him an extremist anti-worker, anti-government agenda when he took office. The package included a doozie of autocratic mischief-making called The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XldQmdn8n7hvBOJBaJNMU9ceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist</strong></font><br />
James Dao, New York Times News Service: "They lived shadow lives in the military, afraid that disclosure of their sexuality would ruin carefully plotted careers. Many were deeply humiliated by drawn-out investigations and unceremonious discharges." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eVlJ3D7Jc1l%2BfcCH6xjilNceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>WikiLeaks: China Wanted to Invest in U.S. Banks During '08 Crisis</strong></font><br />
Rick Rothacker, McClatchy Newspapers: "During the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, a top Chinese banker told U.S. officials that his company and others in China were interested in taking significant stakes in U.S. banks but expected a backlash from regulators and the American public, according to U.S. diplomatic memos."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>The Jobs Mirage: How Much More Work Do Humans Really Need?</strong></font><br />
Jeffery J. Smith, Truthout: "While honest toil is honorable, a day to honor labor does make it easy to overlook certain realities, such as: Why do both left and right clamor for more jobs? Would those who get to opine for a living be willing to perform the jobs they'd impose upon others? And why jobs? If work is the only way one can be worthy of an income, why not also clamor for self-employment and start-ups? Must the jobless look forward to having a boss their entire lives? And are more jobs needed, or even possible?"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lZv39K7IwlMtxiCTxPz%2B%2BNceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Mubarak Faces Court Without the Circus</strong></font><br />
Cam McGrath, Inter Press Service: "Prominent lawyers and rights groups concerned with the direction the landmark case is taking have volunteered their services to assist the families of protesters killed in the 18-day uprising. The Defense for the Families of the Martyrs (DFM) has offered free counsel and a pool of veteran lawyers ready to take over cases from their poorly performing colleagues."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>Busting the Union Busters</strong></font><br />
Dick Meister, Truthout: "Probably nothing could be more damaging to the labor movement in general than the attempts by anti-union forces to weaken unions at all levels of government by trying to limit - if not withdraw - their collective bargaining rights and right to strike, in addition to unilaterally cutting the pay and pensions, health care, and other benefits their unions have won in bargaining."<br />
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<p>As President Obama puts the finishing touches on his much anticipated "jobs speech," The Washington Post is featuring a story, <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Uf%2B0EfLLwX5Rq6HppRXGQdceX2B4M5b8"><font color="#cc0000">"A Decade After the 9/11 Attacks, Americans Live in an Era of Endless War."</font></a></p>
<p>More than 65 years ago, the US celebrated a post-World War II victory Labor Day that marked the rise of the great era of the American middle class, and the hope of an end to armed conflict. But that was not to be, as the Post notes: in World War II, "the players are unquestionably good and the war's ends are noble.... In the modern warfare battles, the conflicts are unending."</p>
<p>This Labor Day, in 2011, the middle class is incrementally disappearing and we are fighting wars that we no longer have a coherent rationale for fighting. But these unending Pentagon battles are a growth industry in a declining job market. They are one of our few "successful" jobs programs, employing everyone from GIs to weapons assemblers to "security" contracting firms to our extensive intelligence network.</p>
<p>No politician, including President Obama, will seriously challenge the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us to be wary of. It - through the lobbying influence of weapons makers and the mythic power of the Pentagon - continues to wage war because it needs "enemies" to justify its existence, profit and expansion.</p>
<p>This is where we have ended up: a broken American dream of a ghoulish growth industry, according to the Post:</p>
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<p>This is the American era of endless war.</p>
<p>To grasp its sweep, it helps to visit Fort Campbell, Ky., where the Army will soon open a $31 million complex for wounded troops and those whose bodies are breaking down after a decade of deployments.</p>
<p>The Warrior Transition Battalion complex boasts the only four-story structure on the base, which at 105,000 acres is more than twice the size of Washington, D.C. The imposing brick-and-glass building towers over architecture from earlier wars.</p>
<p>"This unit will be around as long as the Army is around," said Lt. Col. Bill Howard, the battalion commander.</p>
<p>As the new complex rises, bulldozers are taking down the last of Fort Campbell's World War II-era buildings. The white clapboard structures were hastily thrown up in the early 1940s as the country girded to battle Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Each was labeled with a large letter "T." The buildings, like the war the country was entering, were supposed to be temporary.</p>
<p>The two sets of buildings tell the story of America's embrace of endless war in the 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001. In previous decades, the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm.</p>
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<p>But in place of the dream is a nightmare, wars that are almost forgotten but drain our economy and kill and maim young Americans who could be helping our nation grow into a brighter future.</p>
<p>These wars without end last so long that most Americans have basically forgotten that they are still being waged.</p>
<p>Tell that to the wounded GIs who will be filling up the "Warrior Transition Battalion." The elitists in DC have given up on offering them dignified work at home and a nation at peace. That is something to deplore, not celebrate, this Labor Day.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Paul Krugman: Fatal Distraction<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jkwcQbkgcsyTT1t3bOMcQ5azXFxHDkLM" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The New York Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>America's Intellectual Deficit Is More Dangerous Than Its Financial One<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9Ei%2F2%2FTz2Q1anNwBCwkwzdceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>15 Mind-blowing Facts About Wealth and Inequality In America<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CVlLzb1aLV21YcoJg%2BBEGNceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Business Insider</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Why Destroying Unions Destroys the Middle Class<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LVUy0JBMzLDqVZm7%2BH5zo9ceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Mother Jones</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Obama Strongly Leads GOP Candidates in California Poll<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6kT%2FsVPIZJ%2FtDXCL%2F7vb2NceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Fallacy of Post-industrial Prosperity<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xSRDBhFjn96OhI9DRKdLYNceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Analysis: Republicans Setting Filibuster Record<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8LjPcp2CuDVAufeWubjIKNceX2B4M5b8" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Associated Press</font></a></p>
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