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William Rivers Pitt | It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at
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t r u t h o u t | 05.09
William Rivers Pitt | It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9016-it-is-enough-an-open-letter-to-the-s=
ick-at-heart=20
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I have lost count of the states in this uni=
on that are holding votes on who can get married, who can get birth control=
, who can get basic medical care and who can vote - or not - in this ongoin=
g American experiment. It all boils down to some very simple questions: who=
is it legal to hate? Who can be banished from their basic American rights?=
Who is, and who is not? They call it being 'conservative,' which sounds ni=
ce and safe."
Obama Affirms Personal Support for Marriage Equality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9037-obama-embraces-marriage-equality=20
Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: "His endorsement comes less than a week after V=
ice President Joe Biden embraced the issue during an appearance on Meet The=
Press and a day after North Carolina banned marriage equality and civil un=
ions in its state constitution. During the interview, Obama stressed that h=
e personally affirms same-sex marriage, but says the matter should be left =
to the individual states."
Why Are Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double? Thank These Lobbyists Wh=
o Helped Kill the Bill Yesterday
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9028-why-are-student-loan-interest-rates-set=
-to-double-thank-these-lobbyists-who-helped-kill-the-bill-yesterday=20
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Republicans blocke=
d a measure that would have prevented a big hike for student loan interest =
rates. The legislation would have kept 'subsidized Stafford loans at 3.4 pe=
rcent for an additional year, rather than doubling automatically for new lo=
ans starting July 1.' While the vote yesterday was certainly a partisan bat=
tle, a closer look at the interest groups driving the roll call vote explai=
ns the greater powers at play."
North Carolina Adds Ban on Gay Unions to Its Constitution
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9015-north-carolina-adds-ban-on-gay-unions-t=
o-its-constitution=20
Lynn Bonner and Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers: "North Carolina has become=
the 31st state to add an amendment on marriage to its constitution, with v=
oters banning same-sex marriage and barring legal recognition of unmarried =
couples by state and local governments.... The National Organization for Ma=
rriage contributed $425,000 to the Vote for Marriage campaign, according to=
the latest reports, and the Human Rights Campaign and its affiliates contr=
ibuted nearly $500,000 to the opposition Coalition to Protect All N.C. Fami=
lies."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Oil Prices Are the Lowest They Have Been Th=
is Year So Far, and More=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9038-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-and-more=
=20
In today's On the News segment: A new poll shows that only 27 percent of Am=
ericans support the war in Afghanistan, oil prices continue to fall, Michel=
e Bachmann becomes a Swiss citizen, and more.
Long-Time Senator Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9018-long-time-senator-lugar-loses-primary-c=
hallenge-in-indiana=20
Monica Davey, The New York Times News Service: "Richard G. Lugar ... a six-=
term senator from Indiana who had won most of his recent elections with mor=
e than 60 percent of the vote, lost a hard-fought Republican primary to Ric=
hard E. Mourdock, the state treasurer. Mr. Mourdock's campaign was fueled b=
y Tea Party groups and national conservative organizations that deemed Mr. =
Lugar too willing to compromise and poured millions of dollars into the cam=
paign to defeat him."
Against War and Austerity, Hollande Is Right and Obama Should Agree
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9017-against-war-and-austerity-hollande-is-r=
ight-and-obama-should-agree=20
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Newly elected French President Fran=C3=A7ois Holl=
ande is coming to the White House next week to meet with President Obama ..=
. Press reports suggest that Obama's agenda for the meeting will include tr=
ying to induce Hollande to renege on his pledge to withdraw French troops f=
rom Afghanistan. That would be a terrible mistake, a terrible waste of a un=
ique opportunity for Obama to agree with Hollande on a common position for =
speeding up the withdrawal of all foreign forces that they can announce at =
the NATO summit in Chicago."
Jim Hightower | Monsanto, Dow and Genetically Modified Trouble
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9030-monsanto-dow-and-genetically-modifie=
d-trouble=20
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Dow is hardly alone in pursuing its happiness at =
the expense of others. Indeed, rather than finding ways to cooperate with t=
he natural world, America's agribusiness giants generally reach for the qui=
ck, high-tech fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is=
that if brute force isn't working, they're probably not using enough of it=
. But Mother Nature, damn her, has rebelled....We need non-chemical, non-GM=
O, sustainable systems that work with nature."
Inside the Mind of a Microcredit Icon: Truthout Interviews Director of "Bon=
sai People," a Film on Mohammad Yunus
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9027-inside-the-mind-of-a-microcredit-ico=
n-truthout-interviews-director-of-film-on-mohammad-yunus=20
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Director Holly Mosher spent years making this docum=
entary detailing how innovative economic initiatives, such as microcredit t=
o the poor, can provide an alternative to traditional capitalistic financia=
l products that ignore those without wealth. In the film, Mosher not only p=
rovides a close-up portrait of microlending at work in rural Bangladesh, bu=
t also talks with Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus about his growing alter=
native economy and the provision of services for those without means."
The Drone Summit, the Lunchbox and the Invisibility of Charred Children
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9011-the-drone-summit-the-lunch-box-and-t=
he-invisibility-of-charred-children=20
Hugh Gusterson, Truthout: "I was at the all-day Drone Summit in Washington,=
DC, organized by Codepink ... And I kept thinking about the lunchbox. The =
lunchbox belonged to a schoolgirl in Hiroshima. Her body was never found, b=
ut the rice and peas in her lunchbox were carbonized by the atomic bomb. Ev=
eryone knows, in the abstract at least, that the atom bomb killed thousands=
of children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But any visual representation of th=
is fact was deemed out of bounds by defenders of the bombing."
Joseph E. Stiglitz | After Austerity
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9020-after-austerity=20
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate: "Financial leaders, from finance min=
isters to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the current=
mantra: the crisis countries have to get their houses in order, reduce the=
ir deficits, bring down their national debts, undertake structural reforms,=
and promote growth. Confidence, it was repeatedly said, needs to be restor=
ed. It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at =
the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered t=
he global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing m=
ess."
The Currency of Words or the Coin of the Realm
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9023-the-currency-of-words-or-the-coin-of-th=
e-realm=20
Michael L. Weinstein, Truthout: "On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, the nation's t=
op soldier, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Gen. =
Martin Dempsey finally generated the long-overdue, mandatory edict that all=
training and educational materials throughout the US military must be imme=
diately reviewed within one month's time to ensure that no anti-Muslim or a=
nti-Islam references or content remain. Henceforth, officers and enlisted m=
embers will no longer be taught and institutionally indoctrinated that 'the=
United States is at war with Islam and we ought to just recognize that.'"
Wisconsin Democrats Choose Challenger to Run Against Governor in Recall Rac=
e
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9021-wisconsin-democrats-choose-challenger-t=
o-run-against-governor-in-recall-race=20
Steven Yaccino, The New York Times News Service: "Wisconsin Democrats will =
get a do-over election between Gov. Scott Walker and Tom Barrett when the t=
wo face off in a rare recall vote next month. Mr. Barrett, the mayor of Mil=
waukee, got the nod from his party after a statewide primary on Tuesday ...=
The vote on Tuesday underscored one of the steepest challenges for the gov=
ernor's opposition: namely that Democrats have failed to coalesce around an=
alternative."
Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9032-austerity-the-euro-crisis-and-the-us=20
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: "In Greece and France, the majority of vot=
ers have clearly rejected the policies of austerity. Now joining us to talk=
about the significance of this for Europe, but also for America, is Dean B=
aker. Dean is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in=
Washington. He's the author of several books, the latest being The End of =
Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive."
Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9036-obama-backs-same-sex-marriage
Michael Barbaro and Michael D. Shear, The New York Times News Service: "Pre=
sident Obama declared for the first time [today] that he supports same-sex =
marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue t=
hat continues to divide the country.... Obama's remarks - becoming the firs=
t sitting president to support extending the rights and status of marriage =
to gay couples - came after long-standing pressure from gay rights activist=
s who are among his most loyal constituent but have been frustrated by his =
refusal to weigh in on the issue."
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http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13488
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "With the passage of a constitutional a=
mendment in North Carolina yesterday that bans gay marriage and civil union=
s, the question must be asked again: which is more of a threat to heterosex=
ual marriage, gays or divorce and fooling around with people of the opposit=
e sex?"
Matt Taibbi: Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/austerity-cant-be-a-one=
-way-street-20120508
After North Carolina Passes Marriage Amendment, Opponents Consider Next Ste=
ps
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/north-carolina-amendment-one-oppo=
nents-challenge.php?ref=3Dfpb
Scott Brown Goes Birther on Elizabeth Warren
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/05/scott-brown-goes-birther-elizabeth-=
warren
Vermont Poised to Be First State to Outlaw Fracking=20
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47343737/ns/us_news-environment/#.T6qoDb-q8y4
Twitter Stands Up for One of Its Users
Read the Article at The ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security-free-spe=
ech/breaking-news-twitter-stands-one-its-users
Charlotte City Manager Declares Bank of America Shareholder Meeting "Extrao=
rdinary Event"
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167761/charlotte-city-manager-declares-bank-a=
merica-shareholder-meeting-extraordinary-event
Melinda Gates' New Crusade: Investing Billions in Women's Health
Read the Article at Newsweek
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/06/melinda-gates-new-crusade-=
investing-billions-in-women-s-health.html
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><p>Wednesday 9 May 2012 <br />
<br />
<font><strong>William Rivers Pitt | It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sic=
k at Heart</strong></font><br />
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I have lost count of the states in this uni=
on that are holding votes on who can get married, who can get birth control=
, who can get basic medical care and who can vote - or not - in this ongoin=
g American experiment. It all boils down to some very simple questions: who=
is it legal to hate? Who can be banished from their basic American rights?=
Who is, and who is not? They call it being 'conservative,' which sounds ni=
ce and safe."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DiAc%2F=
3Kg6jsOZhHI%2BP80QN1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Obama Affirms Personal Support for Marriage Equality</strong>=
</font><br />
Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: "His endorsement comes less than a week after V=
ice President Joe Biden embraced the issue during an appearance on Meet The=
Press and a day after North Carolina banned marriage equality and civil un=
ions in its state constitution. During the interview, Obama stressed that h=
e personally affirms same-sex marriage, but says the matter should be left =
to the individual states."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D3Tw57E=
FG4poAPhn16KL5wlZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and R=
ead the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Why Are Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double? Thank Thes=
e Lobbyists Who Helped Kill the Bill Yesterday</strong></font><br />
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Republicans blocke=
d a measure that would have prevented a big hike for student loan interest =
rates. The legislation would have kept 'subsidized Stafford loans at 3.4 pe=
rcent for an additional year, rather than doubling automatically for new lo=
ans starting July 1.' While the vote yesterday was certainly a partisan bat=
tle, a closer look at the interest groups driving the roll call vote explai=
ns the greater powers at play."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D53AObW=
fmduqhIR8RgDBnLlZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>North Carolina Adds Ban on Gay Unions to Its Constitution</st=
rong></font><br />
Lynn Bonner and Jay Price, McClatchy Newspapers: "North Carolina has become=
the 31st state to add an amendment on marriage to its constitution, with v=
oters banning same-sex marriage and barring legal recognition of unmarried =
couples by state and local governments.... The National Organization for Ma=
rriage contributed $425,000 to the Vote for Marriage campaign, according to=
the latest reports, and the Human Rights Campaign and its affiliates contr=
ibuted nearly $500,000 to the opposition Coalition to Protect All N.C. Fami=
lies."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DAJiq9Q=
kkcQRZFi3VXCaX0VZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Oil Prices Are the Lowest The=
y Have Been This Year So Far, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: A new poll shows that only 27 percent of Am=
ericans support the war in Afghanistan, oil prices continue to fall, Michel=
e Bachmann becomes a Swiss citizen, and more.<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D3NF5dF=
t1BETqL3kt2FT0RVZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and R=
ead the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Long-Time Senator Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana</s=
trong></font><br />
Monica Davey, The New York Times News Service: "Richard G. Lugar ... a six-=
term senator from Indiana who had won most of his recent elections with mor=
e than 60 percent of the vote, lost a hard-fought Republican primary to Ric=
hard E. Mourdock, the state treasurer. Mr. Mourdock's campaign was fueled b=
y Tea Party groups and national conservative organizations that deemed Mr. =
Lugar too willing to compromise and poured millions of dollars into the cam=
paign to defeat him." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DK0p9Os=
MMyzO7Mo%2BWnJ%2BJMVZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Against War and Austerity, Hollande Is Right and Obama Should=
Agree</strong></font><br />
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Newly elected French President François Ho=
llande is coming to the White House next week to meet with President Obama =
... Press reports suggest that Obama's agenda for the meeting will include =
trying to induce Hollande to renege on his pledge to withdraw French troops=
from Afghanistan. That would be a terrible mistake, a terrible waste of a =
unique opportunity for Obama to agree with Hollande on a common position fo=
r speeding up the withdrawal of all foreign forces that they can announce a=
t the NATO summit in Chicago."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D3M3jSS=
TFk3FA54rdOkAJ21Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Jim Hightower | Monsanto, Dow and Genetically Modified Troubl=
e</strong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Dow is hardly alone in pursuing its happiness at =
the expense of others. Indeed, rather than finding ways to cooperate with t=
he natural world, America's agribusiness giants generally reach for the qui=
ck, high-tech fix in a futile effort to overpower nature. Their attitude is=
that if brute force isn't working, they're probably not using enough of it=
. But Mother Nature, damn her, has rebelled....We need non-chemical, non-GM=
O, sustainable systems that work with nature."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DSfuARN=
JyYu7ZCyV2UO%2F8%2B1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Inside the Mind of a Microcredit Icon: Truthout Interviews Di=
rector of "Bonsai People," a Film on Mohammad Yunus</strong></font><br />
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Director Holly Mosher spent years making this docum=
entary detailing how innovative economic initiatives, such as microcredit t=
o the poor, can provide an alternative to traditional capitalistic financia=
l products that ignore those without wealth. In the film, Mosher not only p=
rovides a close-up portrait of microlending at work in rural Bangladesh, bu=
t also talks with Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus about his growing alter=
native economy and the provision of services for those without means." <br =
/>
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dil%2BP=
Wcu851zBfuU2%2FO0pP1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Drone Summit, the Lunchbox and the Invisibility of Charre=
d Children</strong></font><br />
Hugh Gusterson, Truthout: "I was at the all-day Drone Summit in Washington,=
DC, organized by Codepink ... And I kept thinking about the lunchbox. The =
lunchbox belonged to a schoolgirl in Hiroshima. Her body was never found, b=
ut the rice and peas in her lunchbox were carbonized by the atomic bomb. Ev=
eryone knows, in the abstract at least, that the atom bomb killed thousands=
of children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But any visual representation of th=
is fact was deemed out of bounds by defenders of the bombing."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DeqOdl4=
SjWe%2B8%2BkwAQ%2BX9Z1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Joseph E. Stiglitz | After Austerity</strong></font><br />
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate: "Financial leaders, from finance min=
isters to leaders of private financial institutions, reiterated the current=
mantra: the crisis countries have to get their houses in order, reduce the=
ir deficits, bring down their national debts, undertake structural reforms,=
and promote growth. Confidence, it was repeatedly said, needs to be restor=
ed. It is a little precious to hear such pontifications from those who, at =
the helm of central banks, finance ministries, and private banks, steered t=
he global financial system to the brink of ruin - and created the ongoing m=
ess." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dn5dg3c=
C3tsaPqEVFP1OVT1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Currency of Words or the Coin of the Realm</strong></font=
><br />
Michael L. Weinstein, Truthout: "On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, the nation's t=
op soldier, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Gen. =
Martin Dempsey finally generated the long-overdue, mandatory edict that all=
training and educational materials throughout the US military must be imme=
diately reviewed within one month's time to ensure that no anti-Muslim or a=
nti-Islam references or content remain. Henceforth, officers and enlisted m=
embers will no longer be taught and institutionally indoctrinated that 'the=
United States is at war with Islam and we ought to just recognize that.'" =
<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DtSBXiQ=
ssM8Oz3rEoBRRaa1Znf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Wisconsin Democrats Choose Challenger to Run Against Governor=
in Recall Race</strong></font><br />
Steven Yaccino, The New York Times News Service: "Wisconsin Democrats will =
get a do-over election between Gov. Scott Walker and Tom Barrett when the t=
wo face off in a rare recall vote next month. Mr. Barrett, the mayor of Mil=
waukee, got the nod from his party after a statewide primary on Tuesday ...=
The vote on Tuesday underscored one of the steepest challenges for the gov=
ernor's opposition: namely that Democrats have failed to coalesce around an=
alternative." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dw0UhN%=
2BdRsCDcK8jN9SSw3VZnf8U%2F3oZc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US</strong></font><br />
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: "In Greece and France, the majority of vot=
ers have clearly rejected the policies of austerity. Now joining us to talk=
about the significance of this for Europe, but also for America, is Dean B=
aker. Dean is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in=
Washington. He's the author of several books, the latest being The End of =
Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive."<br />
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