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William Rivers Pitt | Thinking Makes It So
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t r u t h o u t | 08.09
William Rivers Pitt | Thinking Makes It So
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10798-thinking-makes-it-so
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "I have very few quibbles with the Green Party's platform, and as stated, I think Jill Stein is simply magnificent. But 'thinking makes it so' is not going to get the job done, and the Green Party has squandered twelve long years' worth of national awareness chanting exactly that, to no avail."
Mitt Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10481-mitt-romney-gold-medal-in-dishonesty
Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "Even mainstream journalists have written about Mitt taking political lying and disdain for the facts to a new art form on campaign issues ranging from his tenure at Bain to blatantly dishonest ads about his opponents, first in the Republican primaries and now about President Obama."
Congress as Enabler: The Pentagon Can't Kill the M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can (Part Two)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10784-congress-as-enabler-the-pentagon-cant-kill-the-m-1-tank-only-an-ied-can-part-two
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "The Army wants to stop making M-1 Abrams tanks for a couple of years and redesign the tank for urban warfare.... Enough members of Congress, however, do not want to stop the tank production in a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) plant in Lima, Ohio, that is run by General Dynamics."
Noam Chomsky | The Electoral Process in America
http://truth-out.org/video/item/10808-noam-chomsky-elections-part-one
Noam Chomsky, Intelligent Channel: In this video, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky discusses the electoral process in America.
World War II: The Good War Gone Bad
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10664-world-war-ii-the-good-war-gone-bad
H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: "The seeds of American militarism spawned by the Second World War compel us to probe beneath the 'good war' moniker because it is the poster war that keeps war acceptable in our society. In this piece, the soldiers' and veterans' voices are unique in being few - it was our most popular war, critics are rare and it is from voices of highly educated veterans and high-level military commanders."
America's Ten Largest Corporations Paid Nine Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10789-americas-10-largest-corporations-paid-nine-percent-average-tax-rate-last-year
Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress: "America's 10 most profitable corporations paid an average corporate income tax rate of just 9 percent in 2011, according to a study from financial site NerdWallet reported by the Huffington Post. The 10 companies include Wall Street banks like Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase, oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron, and tech companies like Apple, IBM, and Microsoft."
America's Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10793-americas-syrian-jihad-an-old-war-in-new-clothes
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Truthout: "The situation in Syria continues to spiral out of control. Bashar al-Assad's forces, including tanks and helicopter gunships, supported by Russia and Iran, are currently amassed around the city of Aleppo, where Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels have fought an eleven-day offensive leading 200,000 civilians to flee their homes - with both sides claiming they are winning the battle."
Gar Alperovitz | Drifting Away From Our Ideals
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10786-drifting-away-from-our-ideals
Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative: "We often forget that it was once simply assumed the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality. A 1963 American Economic Review article observed that 'most recent studies' of US economic history take for granted that 'since the end of the depression the nation's wealth has been redistributed and prosperity has been extended to the vast majority.'"
The Election Year Outsourcing That No One's Talking About
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10800-washington-puts-its-money-on-proxy-war-the-election-year-outsourcing-that-no-ones-talking-about
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "... Washington is now planning to rely ever more heavily on drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world."
John Pilger | How the Chosen Ones Ended Australia's Olympic Prowess and Revealed Its Secret Past
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10799-how-the-chosen-ones-ended-australias-olympic-prowess-and-revealed-its-secret-past
John Pilger, Truthout: "One of the ferries is named after Evonne Goolagong, the tennis star who won Wimbledon in 1971 and 1980. She is Aboriginal, like Cathy Freeman, who won a gold medal in the 400 meters at Sydney. For all their talent, both belong to a carefully constructed facade, behind which Australia's secret indigenous history is suppressed and denied."
Time to Rebel! Five Ways We Can Break the Big Banks' Death Grip on the Economy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10807-time-to-rebel-five-ways-we-can-break-the-big-banks-death-grip-on-the-economy
Stephen Lerner, AlterNet: "... the wheels of history are turning and Wall Street's incredible greed and arrogance may have finally handed us the tools and leverage we need to challenge and break the death grip Wall Street has on struggling people and communities around the country."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Bribing Foreign Government Officials, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10810-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-corporations-are-bribing-foreign-government-officials-and-more
In today's On the News segment: On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it would temporarily freeze any new licenses or renewal of licenses for nuclear power plants around the country; corporations are bribing foreign government officials; Florida Gov. Rick Scott is defending the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Blood Money Helped Start Bain Capital
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11656-blood-money-helped-start-bain-capital
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Given Romney's record of launching his vulture capitalism firm with the backing of the bloody hands of the oligarchy in Central America, you can expect the dirty wars to return there under a Romney administration."
Conservatives Say This Could Have Been the Moment Mitt Romney Lost the Election
Read the Article at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/romneycare-andrea-saul-mitt-romney-obamacare-bain-capital-2012-8
Gun Control After Wisconsin Shooting: "Everyone Looks at the United States as Uncivilized"
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/gun-control-wisconsin-shooting_n_1756619.html
American Exceptionalism and Nuclear Righteousness
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11653-american-exceptionalism-and-nuclear-righteousness
The Dark Heart of the LIBOR Scandal
Read the Article at Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/07/the-dark-heart-of-the-libor-scandal/
Disarray to Unity: How Democrats Got Their Groove Back
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/how-democrats-got-their-groove-back.php
The Caterpillar Strike and the Middle Class
Read the Article at Progress Illinois
http://progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2012/08/07/op-ed-caterpillar-strike-and-middle-class?utm_source=PI+Extra+8.8.12+&utm_campaign=PI+email+8.8.12&utm_medium=email
Paul Ryan? Seriously?
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169285/paul-ryan-seriously#
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Given Romney's record of launching his vulture capitalism firm with the backing of the bloody hands of the oligarchy in Central America, you can expect the dirty wars to return there under a Romney administration."</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O%2FiJYStkCRhYFSKueYPhNgCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Conservatives Say This Could Have Been the Moment Mitt Romney Lost the Election</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4KKRWnanL%2FI2%2FKotTwvT3gCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Business Insider</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Gun Control After Wisconsin Shooting: "Everyone Looks at the United States as Uncivilized"</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eIrOGDQUAWRR0BSpv42wXgCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Huffington Post</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>American Exceptionalism and Nuclear Righteousness</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VMJSLQ2flz%2FAjQ5Fb4ChZwCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Dark Heart of the LIBOR Scandal</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j2Lms9MFQmlUVt6WPYBDBACCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Counterpunch</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Disarray to Unity: How Democrats Got Their Groove Back</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Jec4W2VSkKmPrQJY%2BsRxbQCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Caterpillar Strike and the Middle Class</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rptgWXe5VPNctiSDddXSngCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Progress Illinois</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Paul Ryan? Seriously?</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IKFcKjW9AT15RrclG7tqdACCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Nation</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "I have very few quibbles with the Green Party's platform, and as stated, I think Jill Stein is simply magnificent. But 'thinking makes it so' is not going to get the job done, and the Green Party has squandered twelve long years' worth of national awareness chanting exactly that, to no avail."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ce5wHSMhjnt%2BDvvKrn0xJQCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qMLl6KTmuF%2FIh1eszuFfOgCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Mitt Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout:</strong> "Even mainstream journalists have written about Mitt taking political lying and disdain for the facts to a new art form on campaign issues ranging from his tenure at Bain to blatantly dishonest ads about his opponents, first in the Republican primaries and now about President Obama."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Z4GhbvV9bBBbkjlnm32N7QCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AASbcL2hfZqulvjsrF0NegCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Congress as Enabler: The Pentagon Can't Kill the M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can (Part Two)</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dina Rasor, Truthout:</strong> "The Army wants to stop making M-1 Abrams tanks for a couple of years and redesign the tank for urban warfare.... Enough members of Congress, however, do not want to stop the tank production in a government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) plant in Lima, Ohio, that is run by General Dynamics."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iLZaYLU2PloK6goCWGTaWACCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rV9SP2N6vGQrAmPonG3PvgCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Noam Chomsky | The Electoral Process in America</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Noam Chomsky, Intelligent Channel:</strong> In this video, MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky discusses the electoral process in America.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=G%2FTwoD2L3ZNN%2BK%2BtzsTQrACCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O4MI0sMwscjEpRFO34rQPgCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>World War II: The Good War Gone Bad</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout:</strong> "The seeds of American militarism spawned by the Second World War compel us to probe beneath the 'good war' moniker because it is the poster war that keeps war acceptable in our society. In this piece, the soldiers' and veterans' voices are unique in being few - it was our most popular war, critics are rare and it is from voices of highly educated veterans and high-level military commanders."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KgXwexKYfdyDKQnFjqs6PwCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RC2iEt4roobxAtVc%2BvjEmwCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>America's Ten Largest Corporations Paid Nine Percent Average Tax Rate Last Year</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress:</strong> "America's 10 most profitable corporations paid an average corporate income tax rate of just 9 percent in 2011, according to a study from financial site NerdWallet reported by the Huffington Post. The 10 companies include Wall Street banks like Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase, oil companies like ExxonMobil and Chevron, and tech companies like Apple, IBM, and Microsoft."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vGjmbH8KH2I8JA52y1QnZQCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zjVH6VW1qwbkhtIJU3qTnQCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>America's Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Truthout:</strong> "The situation in Syria continues to spiral out of control. Bashar al-Assad's forces, including tanks and helicopter gunships, supported by Russia and Iran, are currently amassed around the city of Aleppo, where Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels have fought an eleven-day offensive leading 200,000 civilians to flee their homes - with both sides claiming they are winning the battle."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KSLAQ0n9g7rU4i5Hh8jtDACCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Gar Alperovitz | Drifting Away From Our Ideals</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative:</strong> "We often forget that it was once simply assumed the United States would move inevitably in the direction of ever greater equality. A 1963 American Economic Review article observed that 'most recent studies' of US economic history take for granted that 'since the end of the depression the nation's wealth has been redistributed and prosperity has been extended to the vast majority.'"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H7GNYe5CFgZ1BhjGnCMS8wCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KPQ1BQlpiB2HgL8ts3ZXRACCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Election Year Outsourcing That No One's Talking About</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nick Turse, TomDispatch:</strong> "... Washington is now planning to rely ever more heavily on drones and special operations forces to fight scattered global enemies on the cheap. A centerpiece of this new American way of war is the outsourcing of fighting duties to local proxies around the world."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IUO1oFWb4ZrnJJAKopPR0gCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DmgFFON1aKc%2FUhsIE4ELRACCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>John Pilger | How the Chosen Ones Ended Australia's Olympic Prowess and Revealed Its Secret Past</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>John Pilger, Truthout:</strong> "One of the ferries is named after Evonne Goolagong, the tennis star who won Wimbledon in 1971 and 1980. She is Aboriginal, like Cathy Freeman, who won a gold medal in the 400 meters at Sydney. For all their talent, both belong to a carefully constructed facade, behind which Australia's secret indigenous history is suppressed and denied."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bQzOUSbqwIXzGD57HO%2B7UQCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9xFHTJj8yw5DaHTbqeKj4ACCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Time to Rebel! Five Ways We Can Break the Big Banks' Death Grip on the Economy</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Stephen Lerner, AlterNet:</strong> "... the wheels of history are turning and Wall Street's incredible greed and arrogance may have finally handed us the tools and leverage we need to challenge and break the death grip Wall Street has on struggling people and communities around the country."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mhV0fK%2BGeoBBqT%2BG%2FAv9CwCCMZZHUI2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W6UesmzELNdIIJbSjmrY2wCCMZZHUI2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporations Are Bribing Foreign Government Officials, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> On Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it would temporarily freeze any new licenses or renewal of licenses for nuclear power plants around the country; corporations are bribing foreign government officials; Florida Gov. Rick Scott is defending the Firearm Owners' Privacy Act; and more.</p>
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