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t r u t h o u t | For the past ten years, Truthout has been making an impact by covering stories that are ignored - or sometimes concealed - by the mainstream media. Our passion for getting the truth out has strengthened over the years, as we see our work spurring policy change and influencing the national dialogue. Can you join with us in blazing a path forward for the decade to come? Please help sustain Truthout by making a donation today.
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Robert Reich | A Good Fight
http://www.truth-out.org/good-fight/1316540233
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "So the really big fight - perhaps the defining battle of 2012 - won't be over Medicare. It won't even be over Obama's jobs program. It will be over whether the rich should pay more taxes. The President has vowed to veto any plan to tame the debt that doesn't increase taxes on the rich. The Republicans have vowed to oppose any tax increases on the rich. It's a good fight to have."
Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
http://www.truth-out.org/killing-cranes-reporters-journey-through-three-decades-war-afghanistan/1316528471
Edward Girardet, Chelsea Green Publishing: "For those familiar with Afghanistan, the killing of the IAM team underscored the brutal reality that much of this mountain and desert country at the cusp of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent had become a perilous, no-go zone. Whereas parts of the country, including Nuristan and the neighboring province of Badakshan where the murders took place, had been considered relatively safe for aid workers, the Afghan traditions of hospitality and protection of guests had finally and irretrievably been shattered. Decades of conflict, competing worldviews, and outside interests had turned Afghanistan into a land where neither the Western-backed Kabul government nor the insurgents are in control - and basic humanity seems to have vanished."
William Rivers Pitt | Truthout After Ten Years
http://www.truth-out.org/truthout-after-ten-years/1316533020
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "As one ten-year anniversary slowly recedes in our collective rear-view mirror, it behooves me to make strong note of another. I don't know what brought you to Truthout - 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, the WMD lies, the fake terror alerts, the exposure of Abu Ghraib and our profligate use of torture, the fact of our domestic surveillance of ourselves, the elections, the financial crisis, the lies compounded by lies, or the fact that the 'mainstream' media is so full of shit you can smell them around the corner - but here you are, and thank you for it."
Michael Moore: The Media Is Ignoring Wall Street and Environmental Protests (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/rachel-maddow-michael-moore-tougher-obama/1316525729
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show: Michael Moore, author of "Here Comes Trouble," talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's call for closing tax loopholes and higher tax rates for the extremely rich, and his tough stand against Republicans.
Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Inmate
http://www.truth-out.org/georgia-pardons-board-denies-clemency-death-row-inmate/1316526590
Kim Severson, The New York Times News Service: "Troy Davis, whose death row case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what appeared to be his last attempt to avoid death by lethal injection on Wednesday. Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis's lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday morning that Mr. Davis, 42, should die for killing Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer, in a Savannah parking lot in 1989."
Targeting Muslims
http://www.truth-out.org/targeting-muslims/1314397655
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "In August 2002, police were called to a home in Seminole, Florida, by a woman who said her husband had threatened to kill her. She invited them to conduct a search. They found a cache of weapons, including 20 live bombs, mines and more than 30 guns, among them semi-automatic weapons, 50-caliber machine guns and sniper rifles. There was also a list of targets - 50 worship centers across the state. Little attention outside of Florida was paid to the elaborate plan to bomb the Islamic Center of Pinellas County, target mosques and 'kill all rags' drawn up by Robert Jay Goldstein, a Tampa podiatrist. Goldstein was not referred to as a 'terrorist' in the limited national coverage and neither was there a mention of his religious background. Goldstein, who was not a Muslim, did not fit the frame."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Department of Justice Claims Gov. Rick Perry Is in Violation of the Voting Rights Act, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-department-justice-claims-governor-rick-perry-violation-voting-rights-act/1316537
In today's On the News segment: Davis denied clemency by a Georgia paroles board today; the post-Reagan generation now has 37 percent of young families living in poverty; Don't Ask, Don't Tell repealed after 18 long years; Department of Justice claims Gov. Rick Perry is in violation of the Voting Rights Act; a Tea Partier has stepped forward in Ohio's eighth district to take John Boehner's Congressional seat in 2012; Fox and Google to host GOP debate; and more.
Obama Proposes a Bailout of Postal Service, Cutting Deliveries
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-proposes-bailout-postal-service-cutting-deliveries/1316524843
Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers: "Warning of an imminent financial crisis, President Barack Obama on Monday proposed bailing out the United States Postal Service, urging that it be allowed to cut mail delivery to five days a week and raise the price of stamps. He also proposed allowing the service to get a $6.9 billion refund from an overfunded pension fund."
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Ends This Week With Celebrations, Revelations and Questions
http://www.truth-out.org/dont-ask-dont-tell-ends-week-celebrations-revelations-and-questions/1316524824
James Dao, The New York Times News Service: "The era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's ban on openly gay service members, will come to an end on Tuesday. And while supporters of the ban continue to warn of impending problems, advocates for open service are planning a host of celebratory events, ranging from book releases to film openings to gay service members going public with their identities."
Paul Krugman | Following a Disaster, Disastrous Suggestions
http://www.truth-out.org/following-disaster-disastrous-suggestions/1316533039
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Steve Landsburg, the author and economics professor at the University of Rochester, critiqued my recent critique of demands by Eric Cantor, a Republican congressman from Virginia and the House majority leader, that emergency relief in the United States in the wake of Hurricane Irene be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. But I think that he missed the point. On Aug. 31, Mr. Landsburg wrote on his blog: 'Krugman thinks this is silly, and proves his point with an appeal to the standard Ricardian theory of public finance.... if you've got to bear a cost, it's best to spread that cost out over as many activities as possible.'"
Thom Hartmann | Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons
http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-citizenship-and-access-commons/1316542409
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "There are resources and there are resources. For corporations, resources include raw materials, labor, the property and the equipment they use, the talents of the people they employ, and cash. For humans, resources include air, water, food, shelter, clothing, health care, and the means of exchange to ensure these. I remember growing up fifty-plus years ago in an America where an employer's responsibilities to their community were so well understood that bosses who laid off people were considered either evil or failures. There was a dramatic recalibration of this during the 1980s, as the word layoff was replaced with the more politically tolerable euphemism downsizing and then further euphemized to rightsizing. In England the same event is described much more directly: 'I was made redundant.'"
Rev. Jesse Jackson on Taxing the Rich, Occupy Wall Street Protest and Palestinian Statehood (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/rev-jesse-jackson-taxing-rich-occupy-wall-street-protest-and-palestinian-statehood/1316538996
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "On Monday, President Obama proposed a new tax on millionaires as part of his plan to close the deficit and responded to opponents who have labeled his plan 'class warfare.' Republicans have vowed to defeat the tax, even as one in six Americans live in poverty. We speak with Rev. Jesse Jackson about how Obama's plan also includes cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. 'I would think, before we end up at that conclusion, we must go after where the money - where is the money?' Jackson says."
Why Hunger Is Still With Us
http://www.truth-out.org/why-hunger-still-us/1316524658
Raj Patel, The Nation: "Amid the joy of local, seasonal ingredients and tides of young people with dirt freshly lodged under their fingernails, it feels unkind to point to the bigger problems within the food system. But it's worth tempering an optimism of the will with a pessimism of the intellect. Despite the food movement's gains over the past decade, it's hard not to feel the latter outweighing the former.... Harvests remain strong, and people still go hungry. This isn't because of population growth - there's enough produced to feed everyone on a Small Planet's diet. But the economics of crop production have increasingly left concerns about human eating in the dust."
The Keystone Pipeline: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?
http://www.truth-out.org/keystone-pipeline-too-dirty-george-w-bush/1316526141
Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability: "The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama's declaration that it is in the 'national interest,' will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy - under legislation signed by George W. Bush! In 2007, President Bush signed into law Section 526 of the Energy Independence and National Security Act of 2007. It prohibits the US government, which is the largest single fuel purchaser in the US, from using taxpayer dollars to purchase fuels that have a higher carbon footprint than conventional oil."
Thirty Days in Kabul
http://www.truth-out.org/thirty-days-kabul-or-afghanistan-seen-through-keyhole/1316023077
Ed Kinane, Truthout: "Kabul is a city of sandbags and nervous, armed men, both on foot and in big, shiny, urgently honking vehicles. In Kabul life is lived opaquely - behind thick metal doors and high walls topped with barbed wire. Approach the airport here and soldiers will have you out of your vehicle three times and patting you down before you even turn into the parking lot. Early on, we are told that, according to the Red Cross, the area is enduring the worse security situation in 30 years. Those with a stake in how things are dread the talked about departure of the US forces and their allies. (The US is quietly lobbying the Karzai government to agree to permanent US bases.) Some we meet prefer the devil they've come to know this past excruciating decade to other devils harder to predict, harder to identify."
The Big One Is Coming: Strikes Rattle California Hospitals
http://www.truth-out.org/big-one-coming-strikes-rattle-california-hospitals/1316439376
Carl Finamore, Talking Union: "The sudden release of stored energy could easily describe earthquakes, of which we are very familiar in California. But this week, tremors of a different sort will shake the state from north to south. The sudden release of pent up frustrations from more than 23,000 registered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals will explode to the surface in a one-day strike on Thursday, September 22. The work stoppage affects two of California's largest and most profitable hospital chains, Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente, as well as Children's Hospital Oakland."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Recently, the Benton Harbor City Council - governed under the authoritarian emergency financial manager appointed by Tea Party Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder - passed a resolution to honor the US Constitution the week of September 17. (http://www.wsjm.com/BH-Commissioners-Looking-To-Fight-Harris-On-Charte/10832948 )
The emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor declared, in the spring, that the Benton Harbor City Council could only do three things: call meetings to order, approve minutes and adjourn meetings. As a result, the state-appointed manager of Benton Harbor declared the city council resolution honoring the US Constitution as null and void.
As Rachel Maddow pointed out in a September 19 commentary, (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/44588010#44588010) there is a frightening irony in "elected officials not being allowed to honor the Constitution because they've been overruled by an appointed overseer who nobody voted for."
In April of 2011, BuzzFlash at Truthout wrote a commentary entitled "Tea Party Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Adopts Soviet-style Authoritarian Powers Over Michigan Cities." (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12610 )
Maybe the emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor will force the Benton Harbor City Council, chosen by the voters, to follow the Politburo books of rules and orders.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
International Monetary Fund Lowers Economic Outlook, Warns of Danger Ahead
Read the Article at CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/20/news/economy/imf_economic_outlook/
The Wealthy Have Waged Class Warfare on the Working Class for Decades
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13027
Gay Sailors Coming Forth in Wake of Official End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Read the Article at The Military Times
http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2011/09/20/gay-sailors-coming-forward-in-wake-of-dadt/
Obama's Plan May Deliver Help to the Postal Service
Read the Article at Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63878.html
Secret Weapons Used to Assault Our Environmental Protections
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13026
Perry Cut Funds for Women's Health in Texas
Read the Article at NPR
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140449957/gov-perry-cut-funds-for-womens-health-in-texas
Afghan Peace Council Head Killed in Kabul
Read the Article at Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-peace-council-head-killed-police-141251375.html
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<font><strong>Robert Reich | A Good Fight</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "So the really big fight - perhaps the d=
efining battle of 2012 - won't be over Medicare. It won't even be over Obam=
a's jobs program. It will be over whether the rich should pay more taxes. T=
he President has vowed to veto any plan to tame the debt that doesn't incre=
ase taxes on the rich. The Republicans have vowed to oppose any tax increas=
es on the rich. It's a good fight to have." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DYi55Fu=
6wSjORWqLMQ4YSdpHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
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<font><strong>Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decade=
s of War in Afghanistan</strong></font><br />
Edward Girardet, Chelsea Green Publishing: "For those familiar with Afghani=
stan, the killing of the IAM team underscored the brutal reality that much =
of this mountain and desert country at the cusp of Central Asia and the Ind=
ian subcontinent had become a perilous, no-go zone. Whereas parts of the co=
untry, including Nuristan and the neighboring province of Badakshan where t=
he murders took place, had been considered relatively safe for aid workers,=
the Afghan traditions of hospitality and protection of guests had finally =
and irretrievably been shattered. Decades of conflict, competing worldviews=
, and outside interests had turned Afghanistan into a land where neither th=
e Western-backed Kabul government nor the insurgents are in control - and b=
asic humanity seems to have vanished." <br />
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91wV4gScO0DoiH3wPZHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
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<font><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Truthout After Ten Years</strong></font=
><br />
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "As one ten-year anniversary slowly recedes =
in our collective rear-view mirror, it behooves me to make strong note of a=
nother. I don't know what brought you to Truthout - 9/11, the war in Afghan=
istan, the invasion of Iraq, the WMD lies, the fake terror alerts, the expo=
sure of Abu Ghraib and our profligate use of torture, the fact of our domes=
tic surveillance of ourselves, the elections, the financial crisis, the lie=
s compounded by lies, or the fact that the 'mainstream' media is so full of=
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u for it."<br />
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</a> <br />
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<font><strong>Michael Moore: The Media Is Ignoring Wall Street and Environm=
ental Protests (Video)</strong></font><br />
Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show: Michael Moore, author of "Here Comes=
Trouble," talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's call for closin=
g tax loopholes and higher tax rates for the extremely rich, and his tough =
stand against Republicans. <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DiYqoUl=
5VbKCqRGz%2FjK1t1pHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video</font=
></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Inmate</s=
trong></font><br />
Kim Severson, The New York Times News Service: "Troy Davis, whose death row=
case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what app=
eared to be his last attempt to avoid death by lethal injection on Wednesda=
y. Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis's lawyers that shaky witness testimony and =
a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare=
him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday=
morning that Mr. Davis, 42, should die for killing Mark MacPhail, an off-d=
uty police officer, in a Savannah parking lot in 1989." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dc99ZDs=
iVxNDiy6eqKSjDY5HnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
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<font><strong>Targeting Muslims</strong></font><br />
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "In Augus=
t 2002, police were called to a home in Seminole, Florida, by a woman who s=
aid her husband had threatened to kill her. She invited them to conduct a s=
earch. They found a cache of weapons, including 20 live bombs, mines and mo=
re than 30 guns, among them semi-automatic weapons, 50-caliber machine guns=
and sniper rifles. There was also a list of targets - 50 worship centers a=
cross the state. Little attention outside of Florida was paid to the elabor=
ate plan to bomb the Islamic Center of Pinellas County, target mosques and =
'kill all rags' drawn up by Robert Jay Goldstein, a Tampa podiatrist. Golds=
tein was not referred to as a 'terrorist' in the limited national coverage =
and neither was there a mention of his religious background. Goldstein, who=
was not a Muslim, did not fit the frame."<br />
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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Department of Justice Claims =
Gov. Rick Perry Is in Violation of the Voting Rights Act, and More</strong>=
</font><br />
In today's On the News segment: Davis denied clemency by a Georgia paroles =
board today; the post-Reagan generation now has 37 percent of young familie=
s living in poverty; Don't Ask, Don't Tell repealed after 18 long years; De=
partment of Justice claims Gov. Rick Perry is in violation of the Voting Ri=
ghts Act; a Tea Partier has stepped forward in Ohio's eighth district to ta=
ke John Boehner's Congressional seat in 2012; Fox and Google to host GOP de=
bate; and more. <br />
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<font><strong>Obama Proposes a Bailout of Postal Service, Cutting Deliverie=
s</strong></font><br />
Steven Thomma, McClatchy Newspapers: "Warning of an imminent financial cris=
is, President Barack Obama on Monday proposed bailing out the United States=
Postal Service, urging that it be allowed to cut mail delivery to five day=
s a week and raise the price of stamps. He also proposed allowing the servi=
ce to get a $6.9 billion refund from an overfunded pension fund." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D6Q8Jei=
KmvZX5SE32zMqTRJHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Don't Ask, Don't Tell Ends This Week With Celebrations, Revel=
ations and Questions</strong></font><br />
James Dao, The New York Times News Service: "The era of Don't Ask, Don't Te=
ll, the military's ban on openly gay service members, will come to an end o=
n Tuesday. And while supporters of the ban continue to warn of impending pr=
oblems, advocates for open service are planning a host of celebratory event=
s, ranging from book releases to film openings to gay service members going=
public with their identities."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DVNpuuk=
PMWlcWMolsKzd9fJHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | Following a Disaster, Disastrous Suggestions</=
strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Steve Landsburg, the author and economics=
professor at the University of Rochester, critiqued my recent critique of =
demands by Eric Cantor, a Republican congressman from Virginia and the Hous=
e majority leader, that emergency relief in the United States in the wake o=
f Hurricane Irene be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. But I think that he=
missed the point. On Aug. 31, Mr. Landsburg wrote on his blog: 'Krugman th=
inks this is silly, and proves his point with an appeal to the standard Ric=
ardian theory of public finance.... if you've got to bear a cost, it's best=
to spread that cost out over as many activities as possible.'"<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DLeRuwS=
IeXPFFqOoNhUE8hwPwbhWQCqdP"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Thom Hartmann | Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons=
</strong></font><br />
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "There are resources and there a=
re resources. For corporations, resources include raw materials, labor, the=
property and the equipment they use, the talents of the people they employ=
, and cash. For humans, resources include air, water, food, shelter, clothi=
ng, health care, and the means of exchange to ensure these. I remember grow=
ing up fifty-plus years ago in an America where an employer's responsibilit=
ies to their community were so well understood that bosses who laid off peo=
ple were considered either evil or failures. There was a dramatic recalibra=
tion of this during the 1980s, as the word layoff was replaced with the mor=
e politically tolerable euphemism downsizing and then further euphemized to=
rightsizing. In England the same event is described much more directly: 'I=
was made redundant.'"<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DAONAkv=
T45dfU7Ne6VWdW5JHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
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<font><strong>Rev. Jesse Jackson on Taxing the Rich, Occupy Wall Street Pro=
test and Palestinian Statehood (Video)</strong></font><br />
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "On Monday, President Obama proposed a new tax=
on millionaires as part of his plan to close the deficit and responded to =
opponents who have labeled his plan 'class warfare.' Republicans have vowed=
to defeat the tax, even as one in six Americans live in poverty. We speak =
with Rev. Jesse Jackson about how Obama's plan also includes cuts to Medica=
re and Medicaid. 'I would think, before we end up at that conclusion, we mu=
st go after where the money - where is the money?' Jackson says."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DITtwlc=
yekMD5Si8dd3lhwZHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video</font><=
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<font><strong>Why Hunger Is Still With Us</strong></font><br />
Raj Patel, The Nation: "Amid the joy of local, seasonal ingredients and tid=
es of young people with dirt freshly lodged under their fingernails, it fee=
ls unkind to point to the bigger problems within the food system. But it's =
worth tempering an optimism of the will with a pessimism of the intellect. =
Despite the food movement's gains over the past decade, it's hard not to fe=
el the latter outweighing the former.... Harvests remain strong, and people=
still go hungry. This isn't because of population growth - there's enough =
produced to feed everyone on a Small Planet's diet. But the economics of cr=
op production have increasingly left concerns about human eating in the dus=
t."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D6rePbi=
%2FV%2BEn9BrUUfN%2FeCAPwbhWQCqdP"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>The Keystone Pipeline: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?</strong>=
</font><br />
Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability: "The Ke=
ystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiti=
ng President Obama's declaration that it is in the 'national interest,' wil=
l carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy - under legislat=
ion signed by George W. Bush! In 2007, President Bush signed into law Secti=
on 526 of the Energy Independence and National Security Act of 2007. It pro=
hibits the US government, which is the largest single fuel purchaser in the=
US, from using taxpayer dollars to purchase fuels that have a higher carbo=
n footprint than conventional oil."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DJqcCpe=
5rARYThyVt0J7p7ZHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
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<font><strong>Thirty Days in Kabul</strong></font><br />
Ed Kinane, Truthout: "Kabul is a city of sandbags and nervous, armed men, b=
oth on foot and in big, shiny, urgently honking vehicles. In Kabul life is =
lived opaquely - behind thick metal doors and high walls topped with barbed=
wire. Approach the airport here and soldiers will have you out of your veh=
icle three times and patting you down before you even turn into the parking=
lot. Early on, we are told that, according to the Red Cross, the area is e=
nduring the worse security situation in 30 years. Those with a stake in how=
things are dread the talked about departure of the US forces and their all=
ies. (The US is quietly lobbying the Karzai government to agree to permanen=
t US bases.) Some we meet prefer the devil they've come to know this past e=
xcruciating decade to other devils harder to predict, harder to identify."<=
br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DS75ApP=
MXnXWQBx97voaGZpHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
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<font><strong>The Big One Is Coming: Strikes Rattle California Hospitals</s=
trong></font><br />
Carl Finamore, Talking Union: "The sudden release of stored energy could ea=
sily describe earthquakes, of which we are very familiar in California. But=
this week, tremors of a different sort will shake the state from north to =
south. The sudden release of pent up frustrations from more than 23,000 reg=
istered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals will explode=
to the surface in a one-day strike on Thursday, September 22. The work sto=
ppage affects two of California's largest and most profitable hospital chai=
ns, Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente, as well as Children's Hospital Oak=
land."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DH4MToX=
Z%2BhU8Pa6AJvp5bp5HnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> </p>
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<p>Recently, the Benton Harbor City Council - governed under the authoritar=
ian emergency financial manager appointed by Tea Party Michigan Gov. Rick S=
nyder - <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DwJebDay%2B7VSBW%2FqIvRO4PJHnCchqwZMi"><font color=3D"#cc0000">passed a r=
esolution to honor the US Constitution</font></a> the week of September 17.=
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<p>The emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor declared, in the sprin=
g, that the Benton Harbor City Council could only do three things: call mee=
tings to order, approve minutes and adjourn meetings. As a result, the stat=
e-appointed manager of Benton Harbor declared the city council resolution h=
onoring the US Constitution as null and void.</p>
<p>As Rachel Maddow pointed out in a <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinacti=
on.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DFYRLzBVIFl%2B0GH4jptt2JJHnCchqwZMi"><font co=
lor=3D"#cc0000">September 19 commentary</font></a>, there is a frightening =
irony in "elected officials not being allowed to honor the Constitution bec=
ause they've been overruled by an appointed overseer who nobody voted for."=
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<p>In April of 2011, BuzzFlash at Truthout <a href=3D"http://org2.democracy=
inaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D6SItk4baz4dFqOoNhUE8hwPwbhWQCqdP"><fon=
t color=3D"#cc0000">wrote a commentary</font></a> entitled "Tea Party Michi=
gan Governor Rick Snyder Adopts Soviet-style Authoritarian Powers Over Mich=
igan Cities."</p>
<p>Maybe the emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor will force the B=
enton Harbor City Council, chosen by the voters, to follow the Politburo bo=
oks of rules and orders.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>International Monetary Fund Lowers Economic Outlook, Warns of Da=
nger Ahead<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DwslI%2FP0JHwWBBc9Wv2hmuZHnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at CNN</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Wealthy Have Waged Class Warfare on the Working Class for De=
cades<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3Dz4vubiCTC7SpXVIw3b1rT5HnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Gay Sailors Coming Forth in Wake of Official End of Don't Ask, D=
on't Tell<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DPLNfO62YPOuoITZvZVDlK5HnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at The Military Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Obama's Plan May Deliver Help to the Postal Service<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DLJBisAv3u0TZdpa%2B0FwEX5HnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at Politico</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Secret Weapons Used to Assault Our Environmental Protections<br =
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</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DKC%2FMSj6NovTeQlkRNPEl3gPwbhWQCqdP" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Perry Cut Funds for Women's Health in Texas<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3Dq1qyrao94pcthAJgXX6xLpHnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at NPR</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Afghan Peace Council Head Killed in Kabul<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DVIvVbeGESCifzpWcwBaYRJHnCchqwZMi" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Article at Reuters</font></a></p>
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