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Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11085-hard-travelin-with-henry-rollins-an-exclusive-interview
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Henry Rollins says he likes to think of himself as his 'own little punk rock journalist.' But the former leader of the legendary Los Angeles hardcore punk band, Black Flag, is just being modest. He's already proven himself to be a true master of the trade. Rollins is talking about all of the reporting he did for his most recent book, 'Occupants,' which features dozens of photographs he shot over the course of seven years in war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan that are as intense as Rollins' stare, and prose as raw and ferocious as the anti-establishment lyrics he belted out during the Reagan era."
RNC to Open With Politician Who "Should Be in Jail"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11158-rnc-opens-with-politician-who-should-be-in-jail
Greg Palast, Truthout: "'Tim Griffin should be in jail.' That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republicans have chosen to bring to their convention podium."
Romney Pledges a Fed That Will Screw Workers
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11133-romney-pledges-a-fed-that-will-screw-workers
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Last week, Mitt Romney committed himself to picking a Federal Reserve Board chairman that will try to keep workers' wages down, likely costing them tens of thousands of dollars over the next decade. You remember reading the front page news stories on this pronouncement? Of course you didn't read them, because the media largely ignored President Romney's statement about his choice of Fed chairs."
An American Journey Across Expendable Communities and People
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/11021-days-of-siege
Chris Hedges, Nation Books: "In a room across the street from Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where meals are provided for the homeless on Saturdays, a group of African American women bow their heads over a table and hold hands. They are led by Lallois Davis, sixty-seven, known as Lolly, a heavyset woman who radiates an indomitable spirit. 'The poor have to help the poor,' Davis says, 'because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money.'"
The Gas Menagerie
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11146-the-gas-menagerie
Paul Hond, Columbia Magazine: "Two weeks before Los Angeles, Fox unplugged himself from an editing room in New York where Gasland 2 was under construction (according to Fox, the new movie will focus on 'the contamination of our political system by industry lobbying and influence') and drove up to Albany to testify at a state-senate hearing on fracking. On the way, he spoke about the state of the state."
Ohio GOP Admits Early Voting Cutbacks Are Racially Motivated
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11136-ohio-gop-admits-early-voting-cutbacks-are-racially-motivated
Ari Berman, The Nation: "Now it'll be harder for voters across Ohio, particularly in the most populous, heavily Democratic cities, to find a convenient time to vote before Election Day in order to avoid the long lines that plagued the state in 2004 and may have cost John Kerry the election."
US Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11135-us-arms-sales-make-up-most-of-global-market
Thom Shanker, The New York Times News Service: "Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran's regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress. Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Is Desperately Trying to Downplay Fears of a Civil War Brewing Within Their Party, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11155-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann?tsk=adminpreview
In today's On the News segment: The Republican National Convention kicks off this week in Tampa, Florida, and Republicans are desperately trying to downplay fears of a civil war brewing within their party; Republicans are desperately trying to rig the election in November by kicking millions of Democratic voters off the rolls with voter suppression ID laws; the Empire State Building shooting last Friday dominated the news, but it wasn't the only mass shooting in America; and more.
How Quickly Will the US Leave Afghanistan?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11140-the-best-laid-plans-how-quickly-will-the-us-leave-afghanistan
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "The message is certainly clear enough, however unprepared those in Washington and in the field are to hear it: forget our enemies; a rising number of those Afghans closest to us want us out in the worst way possible and their message on the subject has been horrifically blunt. As NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski put it recently, among Americans in Afghanistan there is now 'a growing fear the armed Afghan soldier standing next to them may really be the enemy.'"
Uprising in Montana: Activists Take a Stand Against Coal Exports
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11143-uprising-in-montana-activists-take-a-stand-against-coal-exports
Scott Parkin, AlterNet: "The Coal Export Action was initiated and led by grassroots, youth, and student organizers from Montana, Oregon, and Washington, most of them affiliated with the Blue Skies Campaign and the Cascade Climate Network. It was also supported by a number of environmental and climate groups like Rainforest Action Network, 350.org, and Rising Tide North America. It was inspired by the Tar Sands Action called for by writer Bill McKibben at the White House in 2011, which resulted in over 1,200 arrests. Some of the 23 arrested in Helena last week were also participants in the actions at the White House."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Romney's Foreign Tax Payments May Have Pushed His US Income Tax to Zero
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11703-romney-s-foreign-tax-payments-may-have-pushed-his-us-income-tax-to-zero
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Now, The New York Times notes another documented loophole Romney used to lower any US income tax he may or may not have paid: a generous allowance for deducting foreign income taxes from what he might have owed on American income taxes."
Taxes Avoided by the Rich Could Pay Off the Deficit
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11702-taxes-avoided-by-the-rich-could-pay-off-the-deficit
Ecuador Says Britain Withdraws Threat to Raid Embassy in Assange Standoff
Read the Article at Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/uk-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-idUKBRE87O0EV20120825
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Declares State of Emergency as Isaac Gains Strength
Read the Article at the New Orleans Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2012/08/new_orleans_mayor_mitch_landri.html
Dog-Whistle Politics: Romney Claims Obama Gutting Welfare Work Requirements to "Shore Up His Base"
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/27/747161/romney-obama-gutting-welfare-work-requirements-to-shore-up-his-base/
"The Chief of Police Stepped on Me and Then He Charged Me With Rioting": Activists Face Jail Time for Defending Homes
Read the Article at AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/chief-police-stepped-me-and-then-he-charged-me-rioting-activists-face-jail-time-defending-homes
Mitt Romney and GOP in Tampa: How Low Will They Go?
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/mitt-romney-gop-how-low-will-they-go
The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/the_new_new_deal_the_hidden_story_of_change_in_the.php?ref=fpblg
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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>Taxes Avoided by the Rich Could Pay Off the Deficit</strong></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>New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Declares State of Emergency as Isaac Gains Strength</strong></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>Dog-Whistle Politics: Romney Claims Obama Gutting Welfare Work Requirements to "Shore Up His Base"</strong></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>"The Chief of Police Stepped on Me and Then He Charged Me With Rioting": Activists Face Jail Time for Defending Homes</strong></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>Jason Leopold, Truthout:</strong> "Henry Rollins says he likes to think of himself as his 'own little punk rock journalist.' But the former leader of the legendary Los Angeles hardcore punk band, Black Flag, is just being modest. He's already proven himself to be a true master of the trade. Rollins is talking about all of the reporting he did for his most recent book, 'Occupants,' which features dozens of photographs he shot over the course of seven years in war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan that are as intense as Rollins' stare, and prose as raw and ferocious as the anti-establishment lyrics he belted out during the Reagan era."</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>Chris Hedges, Nation Books:</strong> "In a room across the street from Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where meals are provided for the homeless on Saturdays, a group of African American women bow their heads over a table and hold hands. They are led by Lallois Davis, sixty-seven, known as Lolly, a heavyset woman who radiates an indomitable spirit. 'The poor have to help the poor,' Davis says, 'because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money.'"</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9wtXeJKtcqLmH1Z8L6hw3%2B6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>The Gas Menagerie</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>Paul Hond, Columbia Magazine:</strong> "Two weeks before Los Angeles, Fox unplugged himself from an editing room in New York where Gasland 2 was under construction (according to Fox, the new movie will focus on 'the contamination of our political system by industry lobbying and influence') and drove up to Albany to testify at a state-senate hearing on fracking. On the way, he spoke about the state of the state."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RVmdkzaQEtrfOl6oE3zDOO6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>Ohio GOP Admits Early Voting Cutbacks Are Racially Motivated</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>Ari Berman, The Nation:</strong> "Now it'll be harder for voters across Ohio, particularly in the most populous, heavily Democratic cities, to find a convenient time to vote before Election Day in order to avoid the long lines that plagued the state in 2004 and may have cost John Kerry the election."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EHaupfX7RWFasRzc6127we6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>Read the Article and 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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DB%2Bkx7FyuO7ROIBRben6fe6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>US Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market</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>Thom Shanker, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran's regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress. Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RXoEpVjiFzkXHrGbqcUlD6PcmIfYjiKc"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TRJZab1Esnp%2FXHl3ydwCr%2B6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Is Desperately Trying to Downplay Fears of a Civil War Brewing Within Their Party, 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> The Republican National Convention kicks off this week in Tampa, Florida, and Republicans are desperately trying to downplay fears of a civil war brewing within their party; Republicans are desperately trying to rig the election in November by kicking millions of Democratic voters off the rolls with voter suppression ID laws; the Empire State Building shooting last Friday dominated the news, but it wasn't the only mass shooting in America; and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FtjCRrC22Tn8%2F%2BAGpQMuv%2B6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dUOcYkK3zcLJRQCJbwajke6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>How Quickly Will the US Leave Afghanistan?</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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> "The message is certainly clear enough, however unprepared those in Washington and in the field are to hear it: forget our enemies; a rising number of those Afghans closest to us want us out in the worst way possible and their message on the subject has been horrifically blunt. As NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski put it recently, among Americans in Afghanistan there is now 'a growing fear the armed Afghan soldier standing next to them may really be the enemy.'"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WP%2FpX6hit8db50%2Fz%2FkSON%2B6HuOmxGIr7"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tNmOB7Nu7KtSYFLaXTs0ve6HuOmxGIr7"><strong>Uprising in Montana: Activists Take a Stand Against Coal Exports</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>Scott Parkin, AlterNet:</strong> "The Coal Export Action was initiated and led by grassroots, youth, and student organizers from Montana, Oregon, and Washington, most of them affiliated with the Blue Skies Campaign and the Cascade Climate Network. It was also supported by a number of environmental and climate groups like Rainforest Action Network, 350.org, and Rising Tide North America. It was inspired by the Tar Sands Action called for by writer Bill McKibben at the White House in 2011, which resulted in over 1,200 arrests. Some of the 23 arrested in Helena last week were also participants in the actions at the White House."</p>
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