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Understanding Iran's Diplomatic Strategy
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t r u t h o u t | 04.29
Understanding Iran's Diplomatic Strategy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8800-understanding-irans-diplomatic-strategy
Gareth Porter, Al Jazeera English: "For Obama's advisers, assuming Iran was simply 'playing for time' justifies a heavy reliance on 'coercive diplomacy'... But that conventional wisdom, which the Obama administration inherited from the Bush administration, ignores the accumulated evidence that Iran's diplomacy strategy is to accumulate centrifuges, not in order to support a weapons program, but rather to negotiate a larger bargain with the United States."
How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8806-how-apple-sidesteps-billions-in-taxes
Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski, The New York Times News Service: "With a handful of employees in a small office in Reno, [Nevada], Apple has done something central to its corporate strategy: it has avoided millions of dollars in taxes in California and 20 other states. Apple's headquarters are in Cupertino, California. By putting an office in Reno, just 200 miles away, to collect and invest the company's profits, Apple sidesteps state income taxes on some of those gains."
South Carolina Republicans Step in Line Behind Romney
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8799-south-carolina-republicans-step-in-line-behind-romney
James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers: "In a classic political case of better late than never, South Carolina Republicans who earlier spurned Mitt Romney are belatedly embracing him as he closes in on their party's presidential nomination. But in South Carolina, one of the hotbeds of the nation's tea party movement and where Republican activists spent long months taking an anyone-but-Romney stance, the embrace feels reluctant - more weak handshake than hearty hug."
Cigarette Companies and Their Underhanded Tactics
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8803-cigarette-companies-and-their-underhanded-tactics
David Donovan, Independent Australia: "The world's biggest cigarette companies made their case in the [Australian] High Court, battling the Federal Government's attempts to impose plain packaging on their product, fearful it may set a worldwide precedent. One of their arguments is that since the Government stands to save money in the public health budget from people not dying or needing to go to hospital as a result of smoking, tobacco companies should to be compensated. David Donovan, a former tobacco company employee, gives an inside view about just how far big tobacco will go in their efforts to preserve their noxious trade."
Health Spending Is Flattening Out
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8798-in-hopeful-sign-health-spending-is-flattening-out
Annie Lowrey, The New York Times News Service: "The growth rate mostly slowed as millions of Americans lost insurance coverage along with their jobs. Worried about job security, others may have feared taking time off work for doctor's visits or surgical procedures, or skipped non-urgent care when money was tight.... Of course, health care experts caution that there have been times when health care spending had slowed, only to start tracking back up again."
Undergrads May Fail Critical-Thinking Test, but Academia Is Failing Them
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8446-undergrads-may-fail-critical-thinking-test-but-academia-is-failing-them
Margaret Austin Smith, Truthout: "Undergraduate students are not improving their critical thinking skills in college, that this claim is sustained by the failure of a putatively representative sample of 2,362 students at 24 four-year institutions to increase their average score on standardized tests of critical thinking, and that this failure in critical thinking is affecting them negatively in the labor market and in civil society (as indicated by the percentage with full-time employment or graduate or professional school status, and by self-reported newspaper-reading habits)."
The Vision Thing: Keeping Union Reform on Track
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8801-the-vision-thing-keeping-union-reform-on-track
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes: "Reformers take over at the union hall. They're sick of seeing management run roughshod over the local, so they put together a slate and a plan to mobilize the members. When it works, reformers can make remarkable changes, transforming dormant locals into ones with proud members who put management on notice. But some reformers fail ... Too many don't know how to step off the path of least resistance, and they slide into the ways of their predecessors."
Obama's Climate Change Promise: A Feeble Charm Offensive
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8805-obamas-climate-change-promise-a-feeble-charm-offensive
Ryan Rafaty, Dissent Magazine: "According to a comprehensive Brown University report, there has been a demonstrable shift in President Obama's rhetoric since taking office regarding 'climate change' and 'global warming.' 'These terms are stunningly absent from the political arena,' writes Graciela Kincaid, a co-author of the study. President Obama simply refuses to throw any red meat to the Republicans, though they always manage to find some to devour anyway."
Labor Leaders Question Contractor's Hiring Practices
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8804-labor-leaders-question-contractors-hiring-practices
Loretta Marie Long, Lower Columbia Workers' News: "In a town where building-trade workers across the board have unemployment rates ranging from 19 to 50 percent, many local workers, union and non-union, feel that they are the ones being robbed.... Dan Coffman President of ILWU Local 21 has been wondering the same thing. 'I think there needs to be some serious oversight over companies who come into a community and bring their outside work forces in on labor visas, or bring in right-to-work state workers who lower our wages. These corporations are building facilities paid for partly with our taxpayers' money.'"
A Dog's Life
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8756-a-dogs-life
Ed Kinane, Truthout: "Archie, our black lab mix, is a remarkably handsome guy (I think) ... Archie's life must be better than that of many - most? - humans. I doubt he ever questions the unruffled ease of his life. He never asks who built or bought that couch he's made his own. Nor does he ask who pays the vet bill. Surely, Archie never wonders whose labor produces the food that magically keeps appearing in his bowl twice a day. In Archie's case the obliviousness is innate. The sadness is that we humans can go through life no less oblivious."
If You - and the Yes Men - Owned Bank of America
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8802-if-you-and-the-yes-men-owned-bank-of-america
Laura Gottesdiener, Yes! Magazine: "To learn how laughter can be the greatest weapon of all, I sat down with Andy Bichlbaum, one of the founders of The Yes Men, last month at Scratcher Bar in the East Village. In addition to The Yes Men, The Yes Lab, and teaching at New York University, he has recently been involved in developing the Plus Brigades, a project of Occupy Wall Street meant to infuse the movement with renewed creativity in the streets."
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Rodney King's Legacy
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/25/rodney-king-s-legacy.html
US Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran
Read the Article at Wired
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/armada-masses-near-iran/
Why Low Minimum Wages Kill Jobs and Crush Living Standards for Everyone
Read the Article at AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/economy/155132/why_low_minimum_wages_kill_jobs_and_crush_living_standards_for_everyone/
Top Republican Strategist Denies Women Are Paid Less Than Men
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/04/29/473292/castellanos-fair-pay/
Crowd-Working 101: Romney Struggles to Hold College Students' Attention
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/college-students-not-exactly-fired-up-for-mitt-romney.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Demographics Favor Obama Over Romney in November Election
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/29/demographics-favor-obama-over-romney-in-november-election.html
Obama Roasts Romney at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Read the Article at The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/29/obama-roasts-romney-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
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><p>Sunday 29 April 2012 <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Understanding Iran's Diplomatic Strategy</strong></font><br /=
>
Gareth Porter, Al Jazeera English: "For Obama's advisers, assuming Iran was=
simply 'playing for time' justifies a heavy reliance on 'coercive diplomac=
y'... But that conventional wisdom, which the Obama administration inherite=
d from the Bush administration, ignores the accumulated evidence that Iran'=
s diplomacy strategy is to accumulate centrifuges, not in order to support =
a weapons program, but rather to negotiate a larger bargain with the United=
States." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DW7lB3O=
SVzq5UXSgleU1bHNE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article an=
d Watch the Video</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes</strong></font><br />
Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewski, The New York Times News Service: "Wi=
th a handful of employees in a small office in Reno, [Nevada], Apple has do=
ne something central to its corporate strategy: it has avoided millions of =
dollars in taxes in California and 20 other states. Apple's headquarters ar=
e in Cupertino, California. By putting an office in Reno, just 200 miles aw=
ay, to collect and invest the company's profits, Apple sidesteps state inco=
me taxes on some of those gains."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DUrWyTQ=
jMBeCbiHzEou8c5NE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>South Carolina Republicans Step in Line Behind Romney</strong=
></font><br />
James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers: "In a classic political case of better l=
ate than never, South Carolina Republicans who earlier spurned Mitt Romney =
are belatedly embracing him as he closes in on their party's presidential n=
omination. But in South Carolina, one of the hotbeds of the nation's tea pa=
rty movement and where Republican activists spent long months taking an any=
one-but-Romney stance, the embrace feels reluctant - more weak handshake th=
an hearty hug."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D%2BRIz=
RyYmf4d31oxcl61h7NE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Cigarette Companies and Their Underhanded Tactics</strong></f=
ont><br />
David Donovan, Independent Australia: "The world's biggest cigarette compan=
ies made their case in the [Australian] High Court, battling the Federal Go=
vernment's attempts to impose plain packaging on their product, fearful it =
may set a worldwide precedent. One of their arguments is that since the Gov=
ernment stands to save money in the public health budget from people not dy=
ing or needing to go to hospital as a result of smoking, tobacco companies =
should to be compensated. David Donovan, a former tobacco company employee,=
gives an inside view about just how far big tobacco will go in their effor=
ts to preserve their noxious trade."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DZSz%2F=
lm4fXZ3rlyYzoCbJpdE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Health Spending Is Flattening Out</strong></font><br />
Annie Lowrey, The New York Times News Service: "The growth rate mostly slow=
ed as millions of Americans lost insurance coverage along with their jobs. =
Worried about job security, others may have feared taking time off work for=
doctor's visits or surgical procedures, or skipped non-urgent care when mo=
ney was tight.... Of course, health care experts caution that there have be=
en times when health care spending had slowed, only to start tracking back =
up again." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DXSrZv0=
%2FuB55TpkM6c5hQFdE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Undergrads May Fail Critical-Thinking Test, but Academia Is F=
ailing Them</strong></font><br />
Margaret Austin Smith, Truthout: "Undergraduate students are not improving =
their critical thinking skills in college, that this claim is sustained by =
the failure of a putatively representative sample of 2,362 students at 24 f=
our-year institutions to increase their average score on standardized tests=
of critical thinking, and that this failure in critical thinking is affect=
ing them negatively in the labor market and in civil society (as indicated =
by the percentage with full-time employment or graduate or professional sch=
ool status, and by self-reported newspaper-reading habits)." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D4wGxnN=
MLDUSzcRdmsn5JMtE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Vision Thing: Keeping Union Reform on Track</strong></fon=
t><br />
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes: "Reformers take over at the union hall. They'r=
e sick of seeing management run roughshod over the local, so they put toget=
her a slate and a plan to mobilize the members. When it works, reformers ca=
n make remarkable changes, transforming dormant locals into ones with proud=
members who put management on notice. But some reformers fail ... Too many=
don't know how to step off the path of least resistance, and they slide in=
to the ways of their predecessors." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DL1lGAq=
ykopfvVFt2rwju7dE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Obama's Climate Change Promise: A Feeble Charm Offensive</str=
ong></font><br />
Ryan Rafaty, Dissent Magazine: "According to a comprehensive Brown Universi=
ty report, there has been a demonstrable shift in President Obama's rhetori=
c since taking office regarding 'climate change' and 'global warming.' 'The=
se terms are stunningly absent from the political arena,' writes Graciela K=
incaid, a co-author of the study. President Obama simply refuses to throw a=
ny red meat to the Republicans, though they always manage to find some to d=
evour anyway." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DQKhGXw=
O1TuWCXxIwxCTUEdE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Labor Leaders Question Contractor's Hiring Practices</strong>=
</font><br />
Loretta Marie Long, Lower Columbia Workers' News: "In a town where building=
-trade workers across the board have unemployment rates ranging from 19 to =
50 percent, many local workers, union and non-union, feel that they are the=
ones being robbed.... Dan Coffman President of ILWU Local 21 has been wond=
ering the same thing. 'I think there needs to be some serious oversight ove=
r companies who come into a community and bring their outside work forces i=
n on labor visas, or bring in right-to-work state workers who lower our wag=
es. These corporations are building facilities paid for partly with our ta=
xpayers' money.'"<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DboMejM=
SjnW8%2FWgFJQ6RbWdE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>A Dog's Life</strong></font><br />
Ed Kinane, Truthout: "Archie, our black lab mix, is a remarkably handsome g=
uy (I think) ... Archie's life must be better than that of many - most? - h=
umans. I doubt he ever questions the unruffled ease of his life. He never a=
sks who built or bought that couch he's made his own. Nor does he ask who p=
ays the vet bill. Surely, Archie never wonders whose labor produces the foo=
d that magically keeps appearing in his bowl twice a day. In Archie's case =
the obliviousness is innate. The sadness is that we humans can go through l=
ife no less oblivious."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DLwIJ7m=
EaUCtQJxKs8%2FvRltE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>If You - and the Yes Men - Owned Bank of America</strong></fo=
nt><br />
Laura Gottesdiener, Yes! Magazine: "To learn how laughter can be the greate=
st weapon of all, I sat down with Andy Bichlbaum, one of the founders of Th=
e Yes Men, last month at Scratcher Bar in the East Village. In addition to =
The Yes Men, The Yes Lab, and teaching at New York University, he has recen=
tly been involved in developing the Plus Brigades, a project of Occupy Wall=
Street meant to infuse the movement with renewed creativity in the streets=
." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DAc6hvW=
Rs17lJrHjZq0bNv9E%2Bf7J%2FBr9X"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> </p>
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<p><strong>Rodney King's Legacy<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3Dh1ll5GU3cIeGTm85P8ncqNE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
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<p><strong>US Amasses Stealth-Jet Armada Near Iran<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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<p><strong>Why Low Minimum Wages Kill Jobs and Crush Living Standards for E=
veryone<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3D0ol7DOz0qwXQ%2Fx%2F4OHFuudE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X" target=3D"_blank"><font color=
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<p><strong>Top Republican Strategist Denies Women Are Paid Less Than Men<br=
/>
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DVqqPrPxexGQQIqeke2BGttE%2Bf7J%2FBr9X" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
cc0000">Read the Article at ThinkProgress</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Crowd-Working 101: Romney Struggles to Hold College Students' At=
tention<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DTSyOk4MzlNdKikYDbTLpJ9E%2Bf7J%2FBr9X" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
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<p><strong>Demographics Favor Obama Over Romney in November Election<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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<p><strong>Obama Roasts Romney at White House Correspondents' Dinner<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3D9YzPMwXKISYEuol3OZ1ny9E%2Bf7J%2FBr9X" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
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