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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
http://www.truth-out.org/between-race-and-reason-anti-intellectualism-american-life/1314634662
Susan Searls Giroux, Stanford University Press: "The nation's third president understood all too well the necessity of an educated citizenry ... At no other time have we been more in need of a critically engaged, creative, and thoughtful citizenry who can face with courage and conviction the challenges - political, economic, ecological, spiritual - that we face both nationally and internationally."
US Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution to Duane Edward Buck
http://www.truth-out.org/us-supreme-court-grants-stay-execution-duane-edward-buck/1316178952
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: "The U.S. Supreme Court just issued a brief order granting a temporary stay of execution ... A 'petition for a writ of certiorari' is a request for the Supreme Court to hear a case, so this stay lasts until the Court either decides Buck's case on the merits or decides not to decide his case at all. As Marie Diamond reported earlier today, Buck, who is black, was sentenced to die after a psychologist testified that African-Americans are more likely to be violent."
Throw the Bums Out
http://www.truth-out.org/throw-bums-out/1316015802
William B. Daniels, Truthout: "With recent polls announcing the approval rating of Congress as a whole is below 20 percent, the implication is that the voters from each district and state should throw their bums out. It is the 276 members of the Norquist faction in the House and Senate who are committed by a private pledge to Grover Norquist to kill the president's American Jobs Act that should be shown to the door first."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican Jobs Bill Puts Forward More Tax Cuts for Millionaires, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-republicans-put-forward-more-tax-cuts-millionaires-and-more/1316190406
In today's On the News Segment: House Republicans continue to slam Obama's jobs bill while offering a "poor substitute" in its place, the Supreme Court denied another one of Rick Perry's executions, 50 economists say our economy has a good chance of slipping back into a recession, foreclosures jumped 33 percent in August, the IRS collected more than $2 billion after forcing people to disclose their offshore bank accounts, Palin says she didn't use cocaine, groin checks may be coming to a NFL stadium near you, and more.
The FOIA Wars: Just How Open Is Our "Open Government"?
http://www.truth-out.org/foia-wars-just-how-open-our-open-government/1316020186
Alissa Bohling, Truthout: "Even unclassified documents don't just magically make their way into the public domain. Much of the shocking (and sometimes, not so shocking) news we read wouldn't have come to light without the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, the open records law passed as an antidote to the secrecy disease in 1966.... Just where is the line between protecting a genuine national security concern, for example, and political playground wars? It turns out that line can be fine indeed."
Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?
http://www.truth-out.org/has-american-style-conservatism-become-religion/1316181257
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: "The time has come to ask whether modern 'backlash' conservatism has become a religious faith rather than a pedestrian political ideology.... Like religious faiths, the hard-right reveres an original text - the Constitution - and, like all religious fundamentalists, conservatives claim to adhere to a literalist interpretation of it while actually picking and choosing from among its tenets."
Honduras: Wealthy Landowners Attempt to Quash Farming Collectives
http://www.truth-out.org/honduras-wealthy-landowners-attempt-quash-farming-collectives/1316109207
Andrew Kennis, Truthout: "While 2011 has been a year filled with killings of activist farmers in the conflict-ridden region, August was an exceptionally violent month during what has been an exceptionally violent year.... Why is this violence occurring? What is the root of the conflict? Is the depiction of the situation in Aguan given by the Honduran government - only recently recognized internationally by the Organization of American States - an accurate reflection of what is going on? Bajo Aguan campesinos, as well as researchers and activists who have been visiting the region for decades worth of collective time, provided Truthout first-hand testimony in an effort to shed light on an otherwise largely overlooked, underreported and ongoing human and land rights catastrophe."
Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
http://www.truth-out.org/famine-ravages-somalia-world-less-likely-intervene/1316182711
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times News Service: "Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations' warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across Somalia and tens of thousands of people have already died.... In a way, this is all deja vu. In the early 1990s, Somalia was hit by famine, precipitated by drought and similarly callous thugs blocking food aid and producing similarly appalling images of skeletal children dying in the sand."
Former Sen. Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation Into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks
http://www.truth-out.org/former-senator-bob-graham-urges-obama-reopen-investigation-saudi-role-911-attacks/1316108462
Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham is calling on President Obama to reopen the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks after new information has emerged about the possible role of prominent Saudis in the 9/11 plot. According to recent news reports, a wealthy young Saudi couple fled their home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, just a week or so before Sept. 11, 2001, leaving behind three cars and nearly all of their possessions."
Abbas Says He Will Seek Palestinian State at the Security Council
http://www.truth-out.org/abbas-says-he-will-seek-palestinian-state-security-council/1316195301
Rick Gladstone, The New York Times News Service: "The Palestinian president announced Friday that he would seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the Security Council of the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States and adding significant tension to one of the most intractable conflicts in the Middle East."
Report: What Happens if the Tea Party Wins
http://www.truth-out.org/report-what-happens-if-tea-party-wins/1316196941
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: "The election of a center-left president eager to move the nation in a progressive direction, however, killed many conservatives' belief that democracy is a good thing. As an alternative, Tea Partiers embraced tentherism, the belief that everything from Social Security to Medicare to child labor laws to the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution. Watch a brief compilation of leading lawmakers declaring that virtually everything is unconstitutional."
How Are Genetically Engineered Crops Affecting Foods?
http://www.truth-out.org/how-are-genetically-engineered-crops-affecting-foods/1316184037
Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "If you shop in major grocery stores, chances are you're eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) with your breakfast, lunch, and dinner. An estimated 70 percent of processed foods, including soup and corn chips, contain genetically engineered ingredients, and over 90 percent of the world's GMOs are owned by the biotech goliath Monsanto. Listen to the Your Call show that explores the question: How are genetically engineered crops affecting foods?"
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
This wasn't just a lost decade economically for the middle class, working class and the poor; it has pretty much been a lost 30 years, according to a September 13 New York Times article. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/us/14census.html?_r=1)
Contrary to Republican talking point myths, the income of the working American has generally stagnated for at least 20 years, even though the productivity of US workers has generally increased.
As The New York Times reports:
"Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.
"And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996."
Minorities have been hardest hit by the growing income disparity and lack of livable-wage jobs. But even "the median, full-time male worker has made no progress on average" - and that's, based on inflationary adjustment, since 1973.
Not surprisingly, according to the Times, "the past decade was also marked by a growing gap between the very top and very bottom of the income ladder."
Pretty soon, there may be no more ladder to climb economically.
Maybe that is why Sen. Bernie Sanders recently held a hearing: "Is Poverty a Death Sentence?" (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13015)
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
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Wall Street Protesters Vow to Occupy Lower Manhattan for Months
Read the Article at Bloomberg Businessweek
http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LRKSYF0UQVIB01-234EN83UAAP6A4ES04AEP4PV9Q
Bernie Sanders: Is Poverty a Death Sentence?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13015
Heartbreaking Pictures From New Jersey's Homeless "Tent City"
Read the Article at The Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/lakewood-new-jersey-homeless-tent-city-2011-9?op=1#ixzz1Y8L4FQ2e
Republicans Keep Abusing the Shreds of Truth That Remain in Our Political Dialogue
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13011
What Wall Street Doesn't Want Us to Know About Oil Prices
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-wall-street-doesnt-want-us-to-know-about-oil-prices/2011/09/14/gIQAiOodVK_story.html
Texas Poverty Figures Challenge Rick Perry Jobs Record
Read the Article at The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/texas-poverty-rick-perry-jobs
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Friday 16 September 2011</p>
<font><strong>Between Race and Reason: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life</strong></font><br />
Susan Searls Giroux, Stanford University Press: "The nation's third president understood all too well the necessity of an educated citizenry ... At no other time have we been more in need of a critically engaged, creative, and thoughtful citizenry who can face with courage and conviction the challenges - political, economic, ecological, spiritual - that we face both nationally and internationally."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6oWxFiRBRsWdo2QVo1uDlCI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>US Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution to Duane Edward Buck</strong></font><br />
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: "The U.S. Supreme Court just issued a brief order granting a temporary stay of execution ... A 'petition for a writ of certiorari' is a request for the Supreme Court to hear a case, so this stay lasts until the Court either decides Buck's case on the merits or decides not to decide his case at all. As Marie Diamond reported earlier today, Buck, who is black, was sentenced to die after a psychologist testified that African-Americans are more likely to be violent."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n6Hf8ZozsBL5foMOPBX4PCI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Throw the Bums Out</strong></font><br />
William B. Daniels, Truthout: "With recent polls announcing the approval rating of Congress as a whole is below 20 percent, the implication is that the voters from each district and state should throw their bums out. It is the 276 members of the Norquist faction in the House and Senate who are committed by a private pledge to Grover Norquist to kill the president's American Jobs Act that should be shown to the door first."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=u8lCFqvzWwM9OFoNQPh34iI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican Jobs Bill Puts Forward More Tax Cuts for Millionaires, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News Segment: House Republicans continue to slam Obama's jobs bill while offering a "poor substitute" in its place, the Supreme Court denied another one of Rick Perry's executions, 50 economists say our economy has a good chance of slipping back into a recession, foreclosures jumped 33 percent in August, the IRS collected more than $2 billion after forcing people to disclose their offshore bank accounts, Palin says she didn't use cocaine, groin checks may be coming to a NFL stadium near you, and more.
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zq6Y38vP8Y2Gj91Qxx1fDSI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The FOIA Wars: Just How Open Is Our "Open Government"?</strong></font><br />
Alissa Bohling, Truthout: "Even unclassified documents don't just magically make their way into the public domain. Much of the shocking (and sometimes, not so shocking) news we read wouldn't have come to light without the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, the open records law passed as an antidote to the secrecy disease in 1966.... Just where is the line between protecting a genuine national security concern, for example, and political playground wars? It turns out that line can be fine indeed."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xFO2i1EbSj1p7%2F1V0%2BrpFyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Has American-Style Conservatism Become a Religion?</strong></font><br />
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: "The time has come to ask whether modern 'backlash' conservatism has become a religious faith rather than a pedestrian political ideology.... Like religious faiths, the hard-right reveres an original text - the Constitution - and, like all religious fundamentalists, conservatives claim to adhere to a literalist interpretation of it while actually picking and choosing from among its tenets."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t1m%2F45EZsOBCONT3hAuPMyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Honduras: Wealthy Landowners Attempt to Quash Farming Collectives</strong></font><br />
Andrew Kennis, Truthout: "While 2011 has been a year filled with killings of activist farmers in the conflict-ridden region, August was an exceptionally violent month during what has been an exceptionally violent year.... Why is this violence occurring? What is the root of the conflict? Is the depiction of the situation in Aguan given by the Honduran government - only recently recognized internationally by the Organization of American States - an accurate reflection of what is going on? Bajo Aguan campesinos, as well as researchers and activists who have been visiting the region for decades worth of collective time, provided Truthout first-hand testimony in an effort to shed light on an otherwise largely overlooked, underreported and ongoing human and land rights catastrophe."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FGoA4CRpmPcopSjP6swf8iI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene</strong></font><br />
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times News Service: "Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations' warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across Somalia and tens of thousands of people have already died.... In a way, this is all deja vu. In the early 1990s, Somalia was hit by famine, precipitated by drought and similarly callous thugs blocking food aid and producing similarly appalling images of skeletal children dying in the sand."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=swKsVvd11bwQdy0mPevbAyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Former Sen. Bob Graham Urges Obama to Reopen Investigation Into Saudi Role in 9/11 Attacks (Video)</strong></font><br />
Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Former Florida governor and senator Bob Graham is calling on President Obama to reopen the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks after new information has emerged about the possible role of prominent Saudis in the 9/11 plot. According to recent news reports, a wealthy young Saudi couple fled their home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, just a week or so before Sept. 11, 2001, leaving behind three cars and nearly all of their possessions."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iLfSV7yz7aiqXKDgi6jDKyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Abbas Says He Will Seek Palestinian State at the Security Council</strong></font><br />
Rick Gladstone, The New York Times News Service: "The Palestinian president announced Friday that he would seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the Security Council of the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States and adding significant tension to one of the most intractable conflicts in the Middle East."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rwqfJ0GpwszbJZIB8EBytyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Report: What Happens if the Tea Party Wins</strong></font><br />
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: "The election of a center-left president eager to move the nation in a progressive direction, however, killed many conservatives' belief that democracy is a good thing. As an alternative, Tea Partiers embraced tentherism, the belief that everything from Social Security to Medicare to child labor laws to the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution. Watch a brief compilation of leading lawmakers declaring that virtually everything is unconstitutional."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4%2F7BLYXcTZNqmEczn8T9AiI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>How Are Genetically Engineered Crops Affecting Foods?</strong></font><br />
Rose Aguilar, Your Call: "If you shop in major grocery stores, chances are you're eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) with your breakfast, lunch, and dinner. An estimated 70 percent of processed foods, including soup and corn chips, contain genetically engineered ingredients, and over 90 percent of the world's GMOs are owned by the biotech goliath Monsanto. Listen to the Your Call show that explores the question: How are genetically engineered crops affecting foods?"
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wcm4zrGK1hQMmuVTI0IvIyI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<i><p>This wasn't just a lost decade economically for the middle class, working class and the poor; it has pretty much been a lost 30 years, according to a September 13 <a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0thEVmMc0Rf49yLatsws4CI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">New York Times article</font></a>.</p>
<p>Contrary to Republican talking point myths, the income of the working American has generally stagnated for at least 20 years, even though the productivity of US workers has generally increased.</p>
<p>As The New York Times reports:</p>
<blockquote></p>Another 2.6 million people slipped into poverty in the United States last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.</p>
<p>And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1996.</p></blockquote>
<p>Minorities have been hardest hit by the growing income disparity and lack of livable-wage jobs. But even "the median, full-time male worker has made no progress on average" - and that's, based on inflationary adjustment, since 1973.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, according to the Times, "the past decade was also marked by a growing gap between the very top and very bottom of the income ladder."</p>
<p>Pretty soon, there may be no more ladder to climb economically.</p>
<p>Maybe that is why Sen. Bernie Sanders recently held a hearing: <a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4FtxykToQED1Kk4WrkNYKiI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">"Is Poverty a Death Sentence?"</font></a></p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</em></p></i>
<p><strong>Wall Street Protesters Vow to Occupy Lower Manhattan for Months<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NrhRxImg5iLffYn6G739uCI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Bloomberg Businessweek</font></a><br />
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<p><strong>Bernie Sanders: Is Poverty a Death Sentence?<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CPQzwi4as%2BIhzJHBV2BAaSI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a><br />
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<p><strong>Heartbreaking Pictures From New Jersey's Homeless "Tent City"<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J0wHhx7hIjKK2DuyeqJ9qCI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Business Insider</font></a><br />
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<p><strong>Republicans Keep Abusing the Shreds of Truth That Remain in Our Political Dialogue<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K7mdD9TwRv64b%2BiPiOyiFiI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a><br />
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<p><strong>What Wall Street Doesn't Want Us to Know About Oil Prices<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EELZ59dKSSPe70yl9037uiI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a><br />
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<p><strong>Texas Poverty Figures Challenge Rick Perry Jobs Record<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9h8d3EbTsGewaNnCPirzbCI5VRL%2BYEt3"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Guardian UK</font></a><br />
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