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Truthout Contributor Mike Lofgren Tells Bill Moyers Why "The Party
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t r u t h o u t | 09.04
Truthout Contributor Mike Lofgren Tells Bill Moyers Why "The Party Is Over"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11304-the-party-is-over
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "The growing power of the religious right is one=
reason my guest left the Republican Party and became an Independent. 'The =
mixture of politics and religion,' [Mike Lofgren] says, 'debases both, and =
has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect.' He has his problems with Demo=
crats, too. For one thing, he says, both parties 'are captives to corporate=
loot.'"
William Rivers Pitt | The Week of Living Dangerously
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11324-the-week-of-living-dangerously
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The right-wing reavers, slowly empowered ov=
er these last decades by the GOP, have finally slipped the leash and are ru=
nning wild. They have no reservations whatsoever about making the core of t=
heir campaign about swatting the wasp's nest of racism as a means of turnin=
g out the only constituency they have left: angry white people."=20
Noam Chomsky | War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11309-when-travesty-borders-on-tragedy
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "If Iran is indeed moving toward nuclear-weapons ca=
pability - this is still unknown to US intelligence - that may be because i=
t is 'inspired to do so' by the US-Israeli threats, regularly issued in exp=
licit violation of the UN Charter. Why then is Iran the greatest threat to =
world peace, as seen in official Western discourse? The primary reason is a=
cknowledged by US military and intelligence and their Israeli counterparts:=
Iran might deter the resort to force by the United States and Israel."
Hacked Intel Email: NYPD Involved in "Damn Right Felonious Activity" =C2=A0
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11326-hacked-intel-email-nypd-involved-in-da=
mn-right-felonious-activity
Jason Leopold and Matt Harwood, Truthout: "Among the 5 million emails the g=
roup Anonymous hacked from the servers of private intelligence firm Stratfo=
r in February, one seems to not only confirm the controversial NYPD surveil=
lance activities uncovered by the Associated Press, but hints at even worse=
civil liberties violations not yet disclosed."
Romney's Success at Bain Capital: The Scam as Business Model
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11316-romneys-success-at-bain-capital-the-sc=
am-as-business-model
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Private equity companies like Bain Capital are not p=
rimarily about producing wealth. They profit largely by siphoning off wealt=
h created elsewhere in the economy. There are many different ways in which =
this diversion of wealth is accomplished. The simplest and most common tric=
k is gaming the tax code."
Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11305-never-mind-super-pacs-how-big-busin=
ess-is-buying-the-election
Lee Fang, The Nation: "US law still bans foreign corporations from particip=
ating directly in elections. But after Citizens United, trade associations =
like API - whose influential members include foreign corporations - are fre=
e to spend as they wish, unburdened by disclosure requirements."
Marjorie Cohn | No Accountability for Torturers
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11319-no-accountability-for-torturers
Marjorie Cohn, MarjorieCohn.com: "Amnesty for torturers is unacceptable. Ge=
neral Barry McCaffrey declared, 'We tortured people unmercifully. We probab=
ly murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces=
and the CIA.'"
Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11307-reforming-welfare-and-gutting-the-poor=
-a-bipartisan-platform
Michelle Chen, In These Times: "The Romney camp's new attack line on the Ob=
ama administration - that he 'gutted' the work requirements imposed on fami=
lies receiving public assistance - has been widely debunked as a distortion=
of a mundane policy memo. But the real scandal here isn't what Obama did o=
r didn't do to 'workfare'; it's that both parties have gutted the welfare s=
ystem as a whole to conduct a cruel social experiment on impoverished famil=
ies."=20
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Are Republicans Trying to Redefine Labor Da=
y?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11327-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-are-rep=
ublicans-trying-to-redefine-labor-day
In today's On the News segment: The Democratic National Convention kicks of=
f this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, hacktivists working within the gr=
oup "Anonymous" are claiming they've caught the FBI spying on more than 12 =
million Apple customers, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor used Labor Day o=
n Monday to shill for big businesses and CEOs, and more.
Afghanistan's Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War's Height
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11306-afghanistans-base-bonanza-total-tops-i=
raq-at-that-wars-height
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great m=
isbegotten 'stimulus packages' of the modern era, a construction boom in th=
e middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense t=
o no lasting purpose whatsoever. With the US military officially drawing do=
wn its troops there, the Pentagon is now evidently reversing the process an=
d embarking on a major deconstruction program."=20
Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win - and Now Protec=
t - Voting Rights in US
http://truth-out.org/video/item/11318-rep-john-lewis-civil-rights-icon-on-t=
he-struggle-to-win-and-now-protect-voting-rights-in-us
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "We spend the hour looking at the bloody strug=
gle to obtain - and protect - voting rights in the US with the civil rights=
icon, now 13-term Georgia congressmember, John Lewis."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
George Romney, Mitt's Father, "Was on Welfare Relief for the First Years of=
His Life"
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11727-george-romney-mitt=
-s-father-was-on-welfare-relief-for-the-first-years-of-his-life
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Mitt Romney wouldn't be a multi-billio=
naire today if it weren't for federal aid - the safety network - provided t=
o his father, period."
Rachel Maddow | A "Record to Run On"
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/04/13656929-a-record-to-run-on
A Summer of Easy Guns and Dead Children
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/nyregion/in-the-safest-big-city-a-summer-=
of-guns-and-death.html?hp
America's Shocking Waste in Afghanistan
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/04/americas_shocking_waste_in_afghanistan/
Hundreds Protest Corporate Greed at Democratic National Convention
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169708/hundreds-protest-corporate-greed-democ=
ratic-national-convention#
Feds Shut Down Criminal Investigation of Arpaio; No Charges to Be Filed
Read the Article at The Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20120831sheriff-arpaio-fede=
ral-criminal-investigation-closed.html
Gallup: GOP Convention Had "Minimal Impact" on Voter Attitudes
Read the Article at McClatchy News Service
http://blogs.mcclatchydc.com/washington/2012/09/gallup-gop-convention-had-m=
inimal-impact-on-voter-attitudes.html
German MP Visits Assange
Read the Article at Sky News
http://www.skynews.com.au/politics/article.aspx?id=3D790924&vId=3D
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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>George Romney, Mitt's Father, "Was on Welfare Relief for the First Years of His Life" </strong></p>
<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>"Mitt Romney wouldn't be a multi-billionaire today if it weren't for federal aid - the safety network - provided to his father, period."</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=GN3ihNHdGupfb3rpoME0xSrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.3"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Rachel Maddow | A "Record to Run On"</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=BhrYAqsyw6CM%2F4cCfLG1Pirf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at MSNBC</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>A Summer of Easy Guns and Dead Children</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=7Zvmvtq1yl89p7r1PtlN6Crf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>America's Shocking Waste in Afghanistan</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=dMbelrBGD8AQ6CoUhoXwiirf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Hundreds Protest Corporate Greed at Democratic National Convention</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=m357Eux70NV2ZHdVE3KYZCrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at The Nation</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Feds Shut Down Criminal Investigation of Arpaio; No Charges to Be Filed</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=3TVSqEnJ8uVrK3%2By1mmXlCrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at The Arizona Republic</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Gallup: GOP Convention Had "Minimal Impact" on Voter Attitudes</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=zmhdjfvdd9HkQyhuYu1dRDffj8A1DNOo"><strong>Read the Article at McClatchy News Service</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>German MP Visits Assange</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=8ltIbLF6pNiIA1hxaNDBFCrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Read the Article at Sky News</strong></a></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=leGl3dyhiEKa6UeQaeADBirf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Truthout Contributor Mike Lofgren Tells Bill Moyers Why "The Party Is Over"</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>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.:</strong> "The growing power of the religious right is one reason my guest left the Republican Party and became an Independent. 'The mixture of politics and religion,' [Mike Lofgren] says, 'debases both, and has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect.' He has his problems with Democrats, too. For one thing, he says, both parties 'are captives to corporate loot.'"</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=P4zIpZPps%2BebFoMCMCvkyCrf79ECU2Qa"><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=eDzFByY%2FcvFEd6XhhDPpgirf79ECU2Qa"><strong>William Rivers Pitt | The Week of Living Dangerously</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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "The right-wing reavers, slowly empowered over these last decades by the GOP, have finally slipped the leash and are running wild. They have no reservations whatsoever about making the core of their campaign about swatting the wasp's nest of racism as a means of turning out the only constituency they have left: angry white people."</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=Z2MWCsrsFU4kUAS6iGUlkSrf79ECU2Qa"><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=cq3%2F13HE23mhWlPUgwv0SCrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Noam Chomsky | War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran</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, Truthout:</strong> "If Iran is indeed moving toward nuclear-weapons capability - this is still unknown to US intelligence - that may be because it is 'inspired to do so' by the US-Israeli threats, regularly issued in explicit violation of the UN Charter. Why then is Iran the greatest threat to world peace, as seen in official Western discourse? The primary reason is acknowledged by US military and intelligence and their Israeli counterparts: Iran might deter the resort to force by the United States and Israel."</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=gjQfdkWn7jcMSBX8rYJ3Eirf79ECU2Qa"><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=k3cUw7fYfSCKG4ogjIYbiyrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Hacked Intel Email: NYPD Involved in "Damn Right Felonious Activity"</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>Jason Leopold and Matt Harwood, Truthout:</strong> "Among the 5 million emails the group Anonymous hacked from the servers of private intelligence firm Stratfor in February, one seems to not only confirm the controversial NYPD surveillance activities uncovered by the Associated Press, but hints at even worse civil liberties violations not yet disclosed."</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=b6f5LtOd853EtGhaDB7h1yrf79ECU2Qa"><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=fcR6vVFK0xcUctjJJTGNiyrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Romney's Success at Bain Capital: The Scam as Business Model</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> "Private equity companies like Bain Capital are not primarily about producing wealth. They profit largely by siphoning off wealth created elsewhere in the economy. There are many different ways in which this diversion of wealth is accomplished. The simplest and most common trick is gaming the tax code."</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=WujPxCV%2FgPAjLE5LkF1v4irf79ECU2Qa"><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=qU7%2FyyAplscj1AFFCL154irf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election</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>Lee Fang, The Nation:</strong> "US law still bans foreign corporations from participating directly in elections. But after Citizens United, trade associations like API - whose influential members include foreign corporations - are free to spend as they wish, unburdened by disclosure requirements."</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=HCJKQzaYDvLoPrGnUFmmJSrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Marjorie Cohn | No Accountability for Torturers</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>Marjorie Cohn, MarjorieCohn.com:</strong> "Amnesty for torturers is unacceptable. General Barry McCaffrey declared, 'We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the CIA.'"</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=iOSSiHw4nSs%2BysJ47GRCdCrf79ECU2Qa"><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=jsk6NOAFqUplsyP9GOze5yrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform</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>Michelle Chen, In These Times:</strong> "The Romney camp's new attack line on the Obama administration - that he 'gutted' the work requirements imposed on families receiving public assistance - has been widely debunked as a distortion of a mundane policy memo. But the real scandal here isn’t what Obama did or didn’t do to 'workfare'; it’s that both parties have gutted the welfare system as a whole to conduct a cruel social experiment on impoverished families."</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=W5c4kIOiM6vRODt4O1UrxSrf79ECU2Qa"><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=niMXF9bIHlxCScV6m4RJhSrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Are Republicans Trying to Redefine Labor Day?</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 Democratic National Convention kicks off this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, hacktivists working within the group "Anonymous" are claiming they've caught the FBI spying on more than 12 million Apple customers, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor used Labor Day on Monday to shill for big businesses and CEOs, 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=gZAYJGQvMdDu9ssFkxhDtyrf79ECU2Qa"><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=xLQIJLtm4rpe504X3jlBhSrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War’s Height</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> "Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten 'stimulus packages' of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever. With the US military officially drawing down its troops there, the Pentagon is now evidently reversing the process and embarking on a major deconstruction program."</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=gF9NK5DT9T%2Bjha2%2BMAZkzyrf79ECU2Qa"><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=0GU%2FKTeTcMswLLDfXIcKMyrf79ECU2Qa"><strong>Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win - and Now Protect - Voting Rights in US</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!:</strong> "We spend the hour looking at the bloody struggle to obtain - and protect - voting rights in the US with the civil rights icon, now 13-term Georgia congressmember, John Lewis."</p>
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