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The Marikana Massacre: A Turning Point for South Africa?
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Sun Sep 2 15:53:48 2012
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | 09.02
The Marikana Massacre: A Turning Point for South Africa?=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11237-the-marikana-massacre-a-turning-point-=
for-south-africa
Nigel Gibson, Truthout: "Sometimes an event occurs that lifts the veil on a=
society and exposes its naked reality for all to see. Such was the case on=
Wednesday, August 16, at Marikana near Rustenberg in the North West Provin=
ce when heavily armed police opened fire on striking platinum miners, killi=
ng 34 workers and injuring 78 others who were on strike.... It was a nation=
al shock. A tragedy that will not be assuaged by the crocodile tears and ho=
milies from the political leaders."
The People Behind the Parties - and the Democratic Party - at the DNC
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11285-the-people-behind-the-parties-and-the-=
democratic-party-at-the-dnc
Steve Horn, Truthout: "The real story of this year's DNC, in actuality, is =
the lobbyists and political operatives throwing the parties at corner bars =
and hosting extravagant dinners everywhere you look, to paraphrase Greenwal=
d. The hosts and organizers of the parties at the DNC are the real wielders=
of power in today's modern Democratic Party. And the 'uber-contrived reali=
ty show'? That'll be occurring on the DNC floor."
Rights Groups Denounce Dropping of CIA Torture Cases=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11284-rights-groups-denounce-dropping-of-cia=
-torture-cases
Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service: "U.S. human rights groups have roundly conde=
mned Thursday's announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that the Justi=
ce Department will not pursue prosecutions of Central Intelligence Agency (=
CIA) officers who may have been responsible for the deaths of two prisoners=
in their custody. The announcement appeared to mark the end of all efforts=
by the U.S. government to hold CIA interrogators accountable for torture a=
nd mistreating prisoners detained during the so-called 'Global War on Terro=
r.'"
The Things That are the Richest are the Least Valued: New Orleans and Haiti=
, Post-Catastrophe=20
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11271-the-things-that-are-the-richest-are=
-the-least-valued-new-orleans-and-haiti-post-catastrophe
Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: "The other thing the rebuilding of New Orleans =
and Port-au-Prince have in common is a sense that what we need is outside e=
xperts. At no point has anyone looked at our history and asked about the ex=
tent to which outside experts have been culpable in our misfortune.... The =
assumption is that foreigners, especially white foreigners, are automatical=
ly more qualified than someone in Haiti who can do the work. You cannot esc=
ape the racial dimension of the post-earthquake assistance."=20
US Halting Program to Train Afghan Recruits
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11287-us-halting-program-to-train-afghan-rec=
ruits
Graham Bowley and Richard A. Oppel, Jr.: "The training of Afghan Local Poli=
ce and special operations forces has been put on hold while their American =
trainers conduct stricter vetting to try to root out any infiltrators or ne=
w recruits who could pose risks to the coalition troops working with them, =
American officials say.... A rash of recent attacks by Afghan forces on Ame=
rican and NATO troops has led American Special Operations commanders in Afg=
hanistan to put a hold on the training of those Afghan units overseen by Am=
erican Special Operations forces."
Financialized Agriculture: The New Realm of Social Activism=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11228-financialized-agriculture-the-new-real=
m-of-social-activism
Jennifer Clapp, Triple Crisis: "The fact that a number of banks have chosen=
to restrict their involvement in agricultural commodity-based investment p=
roducts is a noteworthy victory for civil society groups that have been tir=
elessly working on this issue since the 2007-08 food crisis. The World Deve=
lopment Movement, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth Europe, for example, have =
been at the forefront of NGO research and public education about the role o=
f financial speculation in exacerbating world hunger."
Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11289-closer-than-you-think-top-15-things=
-romney-and-obama-agree-on
Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report: "Republicans and Democrats, like Romne=
y and Obama are of one mind on many more things than they disagree about. F=
rom war and empire to their policies on Big Ag, Big Energy, "clean coal and=
safe nuclear power," and the war on drugs their areas of agreement are vas=
t and troubling... Too much agreement between Republicans and Democrats has=
always been bad news for those at the bottom of America's class and racial=
totem poles."=20
Drones: A New Death From Above
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11288-drones-a-new-death-from-above
Staff, Making Contact: "It's being sold as a cleaner way to wage war. But u=
nmanned military drones are wreaking havoc in Pakistan, Afghanistan and els=
ewhere. On this edition, we bring you voices from Pakistan of families dest=
royed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists=
who are working to build a global movement against this controversial mili=
tary technology which accelerated after 9/11."=20
Does Romney Think the Pentagon Needs More Marching Bands?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11291-does-romney-think-the-pentagon-need=
s-more-marching-bands?
Robert Greenwald and John Amick, War Costs: "What about fiscal responsibili=
ty, Mr. Romney? What about all the waste, like marching bands or NASCAR spo=
nsorships or the $50 billion in cancelled weapons programs - caused by indu=
stry business practices - that contractors get to keep? The Romney-Ryan pro=
posed budget adds more money to an already-massive Pentagon reserve. Worrie=
s of more recessionary pressure on the American economy are mounting - Pew =
now reports one in five Americans go without enough food in a time of recor=
d food stamp enrollment."
A Roadmap to the Future of Juvenile Justice
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11290-a-roadmap-to-the-future-of-juvenile=
-justice
David Muhammad, New America Media: "Juvenile justice is transforming throug=
hout America. Though there is a long road ahead to reform these systems int=
o effective, rehabilitative programs that no longer make children worse, th=
ere is great promise in jurisdictions across the country, that are changing=
how they work with youth. California, Texas, Washington, DC, New York, and=
many other jurisdictions have seen significant juvenile justice reform eff=
orts take root."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Next Right Wing Media Lie: Eastwood Was a Sabotage Agent for the Obama Camp=
aign
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11721-next-right-wing-me=
dia-lie-eastwood-was-a-sabotage-agent-for-the-obama-campaign
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "So, one figures it won't be long=E2=80=
=A6before FOX and Limbaugh start sending out the meme that Eastwood was an =
Obama campaign mole."
Bain Capital Under Investigation for Questionable Tax Practices by New York=
Attorney General
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/09/01/787661/romneys-former-company-=
under-investigation-for-tax-evasion/
Must-Read: Why Campaign Reporters Are Behind the Curve
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/why-campaign-reporters-ar=
e-behind-the-curve/=20
Republican National Convention Workers Were Paid Below Minimum Wage
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/rnc-convention-workers-minimum-wag=
e_n_1844836.html?utm_hp_ref=3DLINKbusiness&ir=3DBusiness=20
The Real Obama Needs to Fight Five GOP Myths About the Imaginary Obama
Read the Article at The Daily Beast=20
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/02/the-real-obama-needs-to-fi=
ght-five-gop-myths-about-the-imaginary-obama.html?utm_medium=3Demail&utm_so=
urce=3Dnewsletter&utm_campaign=3Dcheatsheet_morning&cid=3Dnewsletter%3Bemai=
l%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=3DCheat%20Sheet
Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should Face War Crimes Trial
Read the Article at Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/news/world/2012/09/02/tutu-bush-blair-should-face-tri=
al-the-hague/COY94hjbwW52z194WRFKiJ/story.html =20
Reagan's Personal Spying Machine
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/opinion/sunday/reagans-personal-spying-ma=
chine.html?pagewanted=3Dall=20
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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>"So, one figures it won't be long…before FOX and Limbaugh start sending out the meme that Eastwood was an Obama campaign mole."</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>Bain Capital Under Investigation for Questionable Tax Practices by New York Attorney General</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>Republican National Convention Workers Were Paid Below Minimum Wage</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 Real Obama Needs to Fight Five GOP Myths About the Imaginary Obama</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=y8av4WUKix1BQ4X7oFztLPGHZwXBPndH"><strong>Read the Article at The Daily Beast</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should Face War Crimes Trial</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=e2Fd9WqsbwGb6BaC%2FnX%2FbfGHZwXBPndH"><strong>Read the Article at Boston.com</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Reagan's Personal Spying Machine</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=nHCzb4Q4Vknt0pS6YuGhx%2FGHZwXBPndH"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</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>Nigel Gibson, Truthout:</strong> "Sometimes an event occurs that lifts the veil on a society and exposes its naked reality for all to see. Such was the case on Wednesday, August 16, at Marikana near Rustenberg in the North West Province when heavily armed police opened fire on striking platinum miners, killing 34 workers and injuring 78 others who were on strike.... It was a national shock. A tragedy that will not be assuaged by the crocodile tears and homilies from the political leaders."</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=5rMP%2FMRYy7t6e07aQVyBffGHZwXBPndH"><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=EJ%2FuBJxIlXR5bDwjipdow%2FGHZwXBPndH"><strong>The People Behind the Parties - and the Democratic Party - at the DNC</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>Steve Horn, Truthout:</strong> "The real story of this year's DNC, in actuality, is the lobbyists and political operatives throwing the parties at corner bars and hosting extravagant dinners everywhere you look, to paraphrase Greenwald. The hosts and organizers of the parties at the DNC are the real wielders of power in today's modern Democratic Party. And the 'uber-contrived reality show'? That'll be occurring on the DNC floor."</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=HbHlKNx8YwhT7v4cBdUDCvGHZwXBPndH"><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=1XJVe2%2F8V051TgKN%2BYnzyPGHZwXBPndH"><strong>Rights Groups Denounce Dropping of CIA Torture Cases</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>Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service:</strong> "U.S. human rights groups have roundly condemned Thursday's announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that the Justice Department will not pursue prosecutions of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers who may have been responsible for the deaths of two prisoners in their custody. The announcement appeared to mark the end of all efforts by the U.S. government to hold CIA interrogators accountable for torture and mistreating prisoners detained during the so-called 'Global War on Terror.'"</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=%2FbGFSrXqiqx8B15ea%2BpCjvGHZwXBPndH"><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=tL%2FjBruJ%2Bq%2B66WYVtkBRkPBR4XXWLUiG"><strong>The Things That are the Richest are the Least Valued: New Orleans and Haiti, Post-Catastrophe</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>Beverly Bell, Other Worlds:</strong> "The other thing the rebuilding of New Orleans and Port-au-Prince have in common is a sense that what we need is outside experts. At no point has anyone looked at our history and asked about the extent to which outside experts have been culpable in our misfortune.... The assumption is that foreigners, especially white foreigners, are automatically more qualified than someone in Haiti who can do the work. You cannot escape the racial dimension of the post-earthquake assistance."</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=VqQS%2FTenKlo5BcOjs1%2FrUvGHZwXBPndH"><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=PnLSI9du0WYq5lH2i%2BtmDPGHZwXBPndH"><strong>US Halting Program to Train Afghan Recruits</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>Graham Bowley and Richard A. Oppel, Jr.:</strong> "The training of Afghan Local Police and special operations forces has been put on hold while their American trainers conduct stricter vetting to try to root out any infiltrators or new recruits who could pose risks to the coalition troops working with them, American officials say.... A rash of recent attacks by Afghan forces on American and NATO troops has led American Special Operations commanders in Afghanistan to put a hold on the training of those Afghan units overseen by American Special Operations forces."</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=23jaRTbi9xqrmYtX3JFl2%2FGHZwXBPndH"><strong>Read the Article</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>Jennifer Clapp, Triple Crisis:</strong> "The fact that a number of banks have chosen to restrict their involvement in agricultural commodity-based investment products is a noteworthy victory for civil society groups that have been tirelessly working on this issue since the 2007-08 food crisis. The World Development Movement, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth Europe, for example, have been at the forefront of NGO research and public education about the role of financial speculation in exacerbating world hunger."</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>Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report:</strong> "Republicans and Democrats, like Romney and Obama are of one mind on many more things than they disagree about. From war and empire to their policies on Big Ag, Big Energy, "clean coal and safe nuclear power," and the war on drugs their areas of agreement are vast and troubling... Too much agreement between Republicans and Democrats has always been bad news for those at the bottom of America's class and racial totem poles."</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>Staff, Making Contact:</strong> "It's being sold as a cleaner way to wage war. But unmanned military drones are wreaking havoc in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. On this edition, we bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists who are working to build a global movement against this controversial military technology which accelerated after 9/11."</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>Robert Greenwald and John Amick, War Costs:</strong> "What about fiscal responsibility, Mr. Romney? What about all the waste, like marching bands or NASCAR sponsorships or the $50 billion in cancelled weapons programs - caused by industry business practices - that contractors get to keep? The Romney-Ryan proposed budget adds more money to an already-massive Pentagon reserve. Worries of more recessionary pressure on the American economy are mounting - Pew now reports one in five Americans go without enough food in a time of record food stamp enrollment."</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>David Muhammad, New America Media:</strong> "Juvenile justice is transforming throughout America. Though there is a long road ahead to reform these systems into effective, rehabilitative programs that no longer make children worse, there is great promise in jurisdictions across the country, that are changing how they work with youth. California, Texas, Washington, DC, New York, and many other jurisdictions have seen significant juvenile justice reform efforts take root."</p>
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