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Drowning Public Education in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
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t r u t h o u t | 12.07
Losing Time or Doing Time: Drowning Public Education in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13194-losing-time-or-doing-time-drowning-public-education-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-sandy
Henry A. Giroux and Jacqueline Edmondson, Truthout: Major crises generally offer a chance to rethink priorities, but in this case, school officials simply allowed the Sandy disaster to serve as an excuse to continue the worst dimensions of a policy that wages war on public education.
The Corporate "Heist" of the United States Government Began With a Memo in 1971
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13166-the-corporate-heist-of-the-united-states-government-began-with-a-memo-in-1971
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Thom Hartmann speaks about the documentary he narrates, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream in Broad Daylight? and dissects the evolution of corporate control over the federal government.
Unemployment Rate Edges Down to 7.7 Percent as Job Growth Slows
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13202-unemployment-rate-edges-down-to-77-percent-as-job-growth-slows
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: The private sector accounted for almost all the November job growth, adding 147,000 jobs, and self-employment jumped by 163,000 in the last month. But at the current pace, we would not see the economy returning to full employment for another decade.
A Public Bank for Scotland Could Ensure Economic Sovereignty
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13175-a-public-bank-for-scotland-could-ensure-economic-sovereignty
Ellen Brown, Truthout: With the Scottish National Party in control, independence is on the table. One way Scotland could exercise true economic sovereignty - and control over the national currency, credit and debt - would be to have its own publicly-owned bank, one that served the interests of the Scottish people.
Inside the Invisible World of Domestic Work: An Interview With Ai-jen Poo
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13206-inside-the-invisible-world-of-domestic-work-an-interview-with-ai-jen-poo
Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Company: Domestic workers have traditionally been excluded from the most basic protections, like minimum wage. Working behind closed doors in private homes, they are vulnerable to abuse and unable to organize.
The Cost of Austerity? Just Look at the UK Economy - It's a Mess
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13201-the-cost-of-austerity-just-look-at-the-uk-economy-its-a-mess
Christopher Ryan, America Blog: The next time any Republican, or center-right Democrat, calls for austerity wake them up and tell them to read the news beyond their hometown or inside the Beltway.
Fracking Is Making Its Way Toward the UK
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13200-fracking-making-its-way-toward-the-uk
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: The opposition to fracking seems to be meeting deaf ears in the United Kingdom. If approved, 64 percent of the British countryside (over 34,000 square miles) could soon be subject to fracking.
Vandana Shiva | Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13204-vandana-shiva-everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in-the-forest
Vandana Shiva, Yes! Magazine: Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter, to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher.
Leveson's Punch and Judy Show Masks Hacking on a Scale You Can Barely Imagine
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13185-levesons-punch-and-judy-show-masks-hacking-on-a-scale-you-can-barely-imagine
John Pilger, Truthout: The post-Murdoch inquiry into Britain's media culture pales in comparison to the sins of omission committed in the name of mainstream journalism.
Obama's Chance to Change (Political) Climate
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13205-obamas-chance-to-change-political-climate
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang, USA Today: The United States has a special responsibility to act on climate change, and more than any other nation, we have the affordable solutions to cut this planet-threatening pollution.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Like Newt Gingrich, John Boehner May Drive the GOP Tea Party/Corporate Express Off the Cliff
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17680-like-newt-gingrich-john-boehner-may-drive-the-gop-tea-party-corporate-express-off-the-cliff
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The so-called "fiscal cliff" may turn out to be a political precipice for the House Republicans, and John Boehner is driving the van.
A War on Terror, or a War for Terror?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17676-a-war-on-terror-or-a-war-for-terror
How to Save the Democratic Party
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/171613/how-save-democratic-party
David Swanson | Pearl Harbor Day and the Money We Spend on War
Read the Article at War Is A Crime
http://warisacrime.org/content/pearl-harbor-day-day-cherish-13-trillion-we-blow-war-preparation-every-year
Could Boehner's Re-Election as Speaker Be in Doubt?
Read the Article at National Journal
http://nationaljournal.com/congress-legacy/could-boehner-s-reelection-as-speaker-be-in-doubt-20121206
Crazy Voices Are Still Heard in the Land
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17678-crazy-voices-are-still-heard-in-the-land
After Romney Loss, GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/after-romney-loss-gop-plan-recovery-change-rules
Koch Brothers Leading the Charge for Michigan's "Right-to-Work" Bill
Read the Article at the Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20121206/BUSINESS06/121206066/Koch-Brothers-Americans-Prosperity-leading-charge-Snyder-s-right-work-bill
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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>The so-called "fiscal cliff" may turn out to be a political precipice for the House Republicans, and John Boehner is driving the van.</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=oCbTmeR2wtCFxgI0pZVoC59%2FEyQtAiSe" 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>A War on Terror, or a War for Terror?</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>How to Save the Democratic Party</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=jGlZbSkok0E%2BaqHDB%2F%2Ff6J9%2FEyQtAiSe" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>David Swanson | Pearl Harbor Day and the Money We Spend on War</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>Could Boehner's Re-Election as Speaker Be in Doubt?</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>Crazy Voices Are Still Heard in the Land</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>After Romney Loss, GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College</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>Koch Brothers Leading the Charge for Michigan's "Right-to-Work" Bill</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>Henry A. Giroux and Jacqueline Edmondson, Truthout:</strong> Major crises generally offer a chance to rethink priorities, but in this case, school officials simply allowed the Sandy disaster to serve as an excuse to continue the worst dimensions of a policy that wages war on public education.</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=N6NfKJALgzlAJ9ZJHPCzM59%2FEyQtAiSe" 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=r7NYv9s4jn3ikQF5AWCgkp9%2FEyQtAiSe"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Corporate "Heist" of the United States Government Began With a Memo in 1971</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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Thom Hartmann speaks about the documentary he narrates, <em>Heist: Who Stole the American Dream in Broad Daylight?</em> and dissects the evolution of corporate control over the federal government.</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=bfNmKn3qNgPcHKJ7QyGSfp9%2FEyQtAiSe" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Interview</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=406to2dTvgxTKharNJd7cECcwX7NJ0Ig"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Unemployment Rate Edges Down to 7.7 Percent as Job Growth Slows</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, Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> The private sector accounted for almost all the November job growth, adding 147,000 jobs, and self-employment jumped by 163,000 in the last month. But at the current pace, we would not see the economy returning to full employment for another decade.</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=5AlfUvv7ZqU5LUoUrSStpZ9%2FEyQtAiSe"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Public Bank for Scotland Could Ensure Economic Sovereignty</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>Ellen Brown, Truthout:</strong> With the Scottish National Party in control, independence is on the table. One way Scotland could exercise true economic sovereignty - and control over the national currency, credit and debt - would be to have its own publicly-owned bank, one that served the interests of the Scottish people.</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=2FU60VmVa5gfJ4mY1wHk%2BJ9%2FEyQtAiSe" 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=wPLtE5FTpMuO4FUXiWD5%2B59%2FEyQtAiSe"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Inside the Invisible World of Domestic Work: An Interview With Ai-jen Poo</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>Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Company:</strong> Domestic workers have traditionally been excluded from the most basic protections, like minimum wage. Working behind closed doors in private homes, they are vulnerable to abuse and unable to organize.</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=zjNY67UwY2MpmYqsRo8obJ9%2FEyQtAiSe" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Interview</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=ILR%2FubuEPIV3Ax7lJk117Z9%2FEyQtAiSe"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Cost of Austerity? Just Look at the UK Economy - It's a Mess</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>Christopher Ryan, America Blog:</strong> The next time any Republican, or center-right Democrat, calls for austerity wake them up and tell them to read the news beyond their hometown or inside the Beltway. </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=KV87H5FyEnN%2BCTNEiZ04AJ9%2FEyQtAiSe" 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=379nYMZkPk1%2FzrgBb3s7XJ9%2FEyQtAiSe"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Fracking Is Making Its Way Toward the UK</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, DeSmogBlog:</strong> The opposition to fracking seems to be meeting deaf ears in the United Kingdom. If approved, 64 percent of the British countryside (over 34,000 square miles) could soon be subject to fracking.</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=JVFTURqkLo2mfmy3FHVOtp9%2FEyQtAiSe" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Vandana Shiva, Yes! Magazine:</strong> Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter, to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher. </p>
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