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Funding Teachers Doesn't Get Embassies Attacked
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t r u t h o u t | 09.16
Funding Teachers Doesn't Get Embassies Attacked
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11550-funding-teachers-doesnt-get-embassi=
es-attacked
David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org: "We're not out of money. We've stopped taxi=
ng billionaires and corporations, and we're funding war-preparation so gene=
rously that we're sparking a global arms race that will eventually generate=
some enemies with which to justify the war preparation... which will make =
sense to students who were never taught to put events into chronological or=
der. Funding teachers doesn't destroy our environment, erode our civil libe=
rties, hollow out our economy, antagonize the world, or kill anyone."=20
Occupy Wall Street Begins "Year II" With Call to Debt Resistance=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11565-occupy-wall-street-begins-year-ii-with=
-call-to-debt-resistance
Yates McKee, Waging Nonviolence: "September 17 (S17) is of course the one-y=
ear anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, a reclaiming of public =
space that galvanized the political imagination of the country and the worl=
d with its proclaimed opposition between the 99 percent and the 1 percent, =
its prefigurative emphasis on horizontality and mutual aid, and its linking=
of grievances from climate change to Stop and Frisk to predatory debt. All=
summer, OWS organizers have poured their energy into preparing for a three=
-day convergence."
Obama Says One Thing in Spotlight, Another Behind Closed Doors=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11563-obama-says-one-thing-in-spotlight-anot=
her-behind-closed-doors
Kevin Zeese, October 2011: "Obama is taking corporate trade to new levels [=
with] the increased jurisdiction of corporate trade tribunals, the lack of =
regulation for banks and financial institutions and the extension of patent=
s to protect drug profits. It is no wonder, especially during an election y=
ear, that the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] and especially the U.S. propo=
sals are being kept secret. The president does not want the public to know =
that what he is saying in the spotlight of the campaign trail is the opposi=
te of what he is negotiating behind closed doors on behalf of his corporate=
donors."
Thousands Attend Rally for Chicago Teachers as Union Nears Contract=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11562-thousands-attend-rally-for-chicago-tea=
chers-as-union-nears-contract
Steven Yaccino, The New York Times News Service: "As union and school board=
lawyers toiled in private here on Saturday to finish a contract that could=
soon lift the first teacher strike this city has seen in 25 years, a rally=
- not quite victory party, not quite vitriolic protest - was roaring just =
miles away... The city skyline rose behind a stage from which a lineup of p=
oliticians, teachers, students and activists spoke about union strength and=
the need for better school conditions in the city."
The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11569-the-us-war-on-drug-cartels-in-mexico-i=
s-a-deadly-failure
Paul Jay and Mark Karlin, The Real News Network: "My takeaway is the war on=
drugs is really for, one, domestic consumption, and two, a lot of people a=
re dying... Just the other day, Molly Moloy compiled new statistics put out=
by the Mexican government that more than 80,000 people have died since Cal=
der=C3=B3n, Felipe Calder=C3=B3n, who is the outgoing president, started th=
e U.S.-led, reinvigorated war on drugs in 2006. Another 160,000 or 180,000 =
have been displaced in Mexico, and 10,000 to 20,000 have disappeared."=20
Michael Winship | Can Congress Come Out and Play?=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11567-michael-winship-|-can-congress-come-ou=
t-and-play?
Michael Winship, Bill Moyers & Co.: "With just a couple of weeks left in Se=
ptember, members of the House and Senate hurried back to Washington after t=
heir August recess and the party conventions, ready to get some legislating=
done and impress their constituents before they head back home for the fin=
al stretch of their reelection campaigns. Yes, I'm auditioning for a job at=
The Onion."
On Haiti, Jared Diamond Hasn't Done His Homework=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11568-on-haiti-jared-diamond-hasnt-done-his-=
homework
Keane Bhatt, North American Congress on Latin America: "Whereas Diamond sim=
ply disregards Israel's economic strangulation of Palestine, in the case of=
Haiti, Diamond adds a gratuitous dose of blame, suggesting that Haiti's ce=
nturies of misery are due in part to a failure to 'reward hard work.' He al=
so places his casual insult within parentheses, demonstrating how self-evid=
ent he believes his prejudiced claim is. But given the number of foreign-im=
posed traumas that Haiti has confronted, when does an offhand slur like Dia=
mond's cross the line from merely ignorant to obscene?"=20
Are There Borders for the 99%?=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11564-are-there-borders-for-the-99?
Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence: "The power of the caravan rests on =
a different framework, one that challenges our understanding of internation=
al borders in an era when transnational corporations are increasingly overs=
hadowing the primacy of nation states.... Some things - such as money, corp=
orations, corporate-sponsored culture and trade agreements - are free to tr=
apeze across borders. Other things, such as people, are not. A moral crisis=
arises when the contradictions of sovereignty collide."=20
"Targeting" the Poor in Thailand=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11566-targeting-the-poor-in-thailand
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Triple Crisis: "As political strife in the country and=
the continuing conflict between the Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts make clea=
r, Thailand is a deeply divided society. Worsening the divide are the sharp=
differences on how the state should address the presence and consequences =
of the extreme inequalities in income and wealth in Thai society. Thaksin S=
hinwatra, the communications magnate, exploited those differences and rose =
to power by veering in favor of welfare measures that would be considered m=
inimal requirements in an iniquitous society."=20
Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11570-why-your-health-is-bigger-than-your-bo=
dy
Claudia Rowe, YES! Magazine: "Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably un=
like any conversation you have had with your physician.... The Harvard-educ=
ated physician, frustrated by the limitations of science in combating disea=
se, believes that finding answers to the most persistent medical challenges=
of our time - conditions that now threaten to overwhelm our health care s=
ystem - depends on understanding the human body as a system nested within a=
series of other, larger systems: one's family and community, environment, =
culture, and socioeconomic class, all of which affect each other."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Monday, September 17.=20
Five Reasons We Can't Trust Romney With Our National Security
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17507-five-reasons-we-ca=
n-t-trust-romney-with-our-national-security=20
Santorum: "Smart People Won't Vote For Us"
Read the Article at CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57513643-503544/santorum-without-chu=
rch-family-there-is-no-conservative-movement/
Local District Attorneys Allowing Debt Collectors to Use Their Letterhead, =
Split Fees From Shakedown
Read the Article at Naked Capitalism
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/local-das-allowing-debt-collectors-t=
o-use-their-letterhead-split-fees-from-shakedown.html?utm_source=3Dfeedburn=
er&utm_medium=3Demail&utm_campaign=3DFeed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capit=
alism%29=20
Anti-Union Chicago Tribune: Rahm Emanuel's Reputation Tarnished in Teachers=
Union Dust-Up
Read the Article at The Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-teachers-strike-emanuel-091=
6-20120915,0,3383662.story=20
House Votes to Renew Warrantless Wiretapping Bill, But No One Knows How Man=
y Americans Are Spied On
Read the Article at Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/14/warantless_wiretapping_b=
ill_james_clapper_despite_schakowsky_efforts_house_votes_to_renew_fisa_prov=
isions_.html?wpisrc=3Dxs_wp_0001
Workers Out at Walmart in Illinois Suburbs
Read the Article at The Herald-News
http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/15174183-418/workers-walk-out-at-walmar=
t-plant-in-elwood.html=20
Anti-Japan Protests Spread Across China
Read the Article at Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120916a1.html
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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 Swanson, WarIsACrime.org:</strong> "We're not out of money. We've stopped taxing billionaires and corporations, and we're funding war-preparation so generously that we're sparking a global arms race that will eventually generate some enemies with which to justify the war preparation... which will make sense to students who were never taught to put events into chronological order. Funding teachers doesn't destroy our environment, erode our civil liberties, hollow out our economy, antagonize the world, or kill anyone."</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>Yates McKee, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> "September 17 (S17) is of course the one-year anniversary of the occupation of Zuccotti Park, a reclaiming of public space that galvanized the political imagination of the country and the world with its proclaimed opposition between the 99 percent and the 1 percent, its prefigurative emphasis on horizontality and mutual aid, and its linking of grievances from climate change to Stop and Frisk to predatory debt. All summer, OWS organizers have poured their energy into preparing for a three-day convergence."</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>Kevin Zeese, October 2011:</strong> "Obama is taking corporate trade to new levels [with] the increased jurisdiction of corporate trade tribunals, the lack of regulation for banks and financial institutions and the extension of patents to protect drug profits. It is no wonder, especially during an election year, that the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] and especially the U.S. proposals are being kept secret. The president does not want the public to know that what he is saying in the spotlight of the campaign trail is the opposite of what he is negotiating behind closed doors on behalf of his corporate donors."</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=RlzgPKXCSRRSlS1L3%2FY0%2BmH1%2Bx80pors"><strong>Thousands Attend Rally for Chicago Teachers as Union Nears Contract</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>Steven Yaccino, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "As union and school board lawyers toiled in private here on Saturday to finish a contract that could soon lift the first teacher strike this city has seen in 25 years, a rally - not quite victory party, not quite vitriolic protest - was roaring just miles away... The city skyline rose behind a stage from which a lineup of politicians, teachers, students and activists spoke about union strength and the need for better school conditions in the city."</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=eDE1cEp5mWGCx761Qb8s8GH1%2Bx80pors"><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=Aiq3tzn9QvOYtFbZTH1x22H1%2Bx80pors"><strong>The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure</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 Jay and Mark Karlin, The Real News Network:</strong> "My takeaway is the war on drugs is really for, one, domestic consumption, and two, a lot of people are dying... Just the other day, Molly Moloy compiled new statistics put out by the Mexican government that more than 80,000 people have died since Calderón, Felipe Calderón, who is the outgoing president, started the U.S.-led, reinvigorated war on drugs in 2006. Another 160,000 or 180,000 have been displaced in Mexico, and 10,000 to 20,000 have disappeared."</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=9nhal0dzkIjiD%2B6eUIFcmGH1%2Bx80pors"><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=hPUTyoQ26JFVtJg4g9DCwmH1%2Bx80pors"><strong>Michael Winship | Can Congress Come Out and Play?</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>Michael Winship, Bill Moyers & Co.:</strong> "With just a couple of weeks left in September, members of the House and Senate hurried back to Washington after their August recess and the party conventions, ready to get some legislating done and impress their constituents before they head back home for the final stretch of their reelection campaigns. Yes, I'm auditioning for a job at The Onion."</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=ZGbj4AVQ9uXJllWj25s6rWH1%2Bx80pors"><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=3aYWz2Oxm8afcC7rg%2F3WP2H1%2Bx80pors"><strong>On Haiti, Jared Diamond Hasn't Done His Homework</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>Keane Bhatt, North American Congress on Latin America:</strong> "Whereas Diamond simply disregards Israel's economic strangulation of Palestine, in the case of Haiti, Diamond adds a gratuitous dose of blame, suggesting that Haiti's centuries of misery are due in part to a failure to 'reward hard work.' He also places his casual insult within parentheses, demonstrating how self-evident he believes his prejudiced claim is. But given the number of foreign-imposed traumas that Haiti has confronted, when does an offhand slur like Diamond's cross the line from merely ignorant to obscene?"</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=lHM60GfxY5ACntUwi%2Bb5emH1%2Bx80pors"><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=Vx%2Bqf7tARfSNx5IUvLnJJGH1%2Bx80pors"><strong>Are There Borders for the 99%?</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>Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> "The power of the caravan rests on a different framework, one that challenges our understanding of international borders in an era when transnational corporations are increasingly overshadowing the primacy of nation states.... Some things - such as money, corporations, corporate-sponsored culture and trade agreements - are free to trapeze across borders. Other things, such as people, are not. A moral crisis arises when the contradictions of sovereignty collide."</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=DQA8tTPgG5E0XBOXxJDEXGH1%2Bx80pors"><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=%2BjWFj4CDSBwpwYyX9Wk2DGH1%2Bx80pors"><strong>"Targeting" the Poor in Thailand</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>C. P. Chandrasekhar, Triple Crisis:</strong> "As political strife in the country and the continuing conflict between the Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts make clear, Thailand is a deeply divided society. Worsening the divide are the sharp differences on how the state should address the presence and consequences of the extreme inequalities in income and wealth in Thai society. Thaksin Shinwatra, the communications magnate, exploited those differences and rose to power by veering in favor of welfare measures that would be considered minimal requirements in an iniquitous society."</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=Svx2ObFs8C9oB4l%2FTxZyG2H1%2Bx80pors"><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=JLWePbd6P%2BcUriwVk5Rs6mH1%2Bx80pors"><strong>Why Your Health Is Bigger Than Your Body</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>Claudia Rowe, YES! Magazine:</strong> "Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician.... The Harvard-educated physician, frustrated by the limitations of science in combating disease, believes that finding answers to the most persistent medical challenges of our time - conditions that now threaten to overwhelm our health care system - depends on understanding the human body as a system nested within a series of other, larger systems: one's family and community, environment, culture, and socioeconomic class, all of which affect each other."</p>
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