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Women Prisoners Endure Rampant Sexual Violence; Current Laws Not
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t r u t h o u t | 12.22
Women Prisoners Endure Rampant Sexual Violence; Current Laws Not Sufficient
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13280-women-prisoners-endure-rampant-sexual-violence-current-laws-not-sufficient
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Abuse of female prisoners can take many forms, and while advocates for the incarcerated have long tried to draw attention to these conditions, they've made little or no headway.
Boehner Cancels Tax Vote in Face of GOP Revolt
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13468-boehner-cancels-tax-vote-in-face-of-gop-revolt
Jonathan Weisman, The New York Times News Service: Speaker John Boehner's effort to pass fallback legislation collapsed in defeat after Republicans declared there would be no votes to avert the "fiscal cliff" until after Christmas.
J Street Pushes Back on Neocon Bid to "Swift Boat" Chuck Hagel Nomination as Defense Secretary
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13460-j-street-pushes-back-on-neocon-bid-to-swift-boat-chuck-hagel-nomination-as-defense-secretary
Robert Naiman, Truthout: Pro-Israel group J Street defends Chuck Hagel's nomination to Secretary of Defense despite right-wing attempts to make Hagel seem anti-Israel.
We Are Being Nuked With False Information on Atomic Energy
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13443-we-are-being-nuked-with-false-information-on-atomic-energy
Gar Smith, Chelsea Green Publishing: One consistent lesson from Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima is clear: When the public is at risk, plant operators and government officials inevitably cover up and lie.
Beyond Super-Elites and Conspicuous Consumption: Real Ecological Sustainability in the 21st Century
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13467-beyond-super-elites-and-conspicuous-consumption-real-ecological-sustainability-in-the-twenty-first-century
Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press: Pluralist Commonwealth strategies aim to undercut forces that permit unrestrained expansion by building up converging lines of foundational restructuring over time, especially those that reduce key inequality and psychological consumption drivers and develop new community cultural norms.
Bill Moyers | Remember the Victims; Reject the Violence
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13472-bill-moyers-essay-remember-the-victims-reject-the-violence
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Remember the victims of the Newtown tragedy; reject doubling down on guns and armor, and to work toward moral solutions.
One Year After US Withdrawal, No Relief for Iraqi Refugees
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13475-no-relief-for-iraqi-refugees-one-year-after-us-withdrawal
Andrew Lam, New American Media: While the US had a direct hand in creating the exodus by invading and occupying that country for nearly a decade, spurring a civil war between religious groups, it is now more or less washing its hands of the refugee problem.
Not Another Wall Street Puppet
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13476-not-another-wall-street-puppet
Timothy A. Canova, The American Prospect: Is it too much to hope, after decades of Wall Street rule at Treasury, for a new Treasury Secretary to put people back to work while actually restoring the tax base and reducing deficits?
Can't Bear to Read: Our Harsh Logic
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13478-cant-bear-to-read-our-harsh-logic
Ira Chernus, Truthout: I can't bring myself to open Our Harsh Logic, a collection of testimonies by Israeli soldiers who have served in the occupation army in the West Bank and Gaza - but it must be read.
Walmart Is Now Under Investigation in Mexican "Bribery Aisle" Scandal
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13469-the-bribery-aisle-how-walmart-used-payoffs-to-bribe-its-way-through-expansion-in-mexico
Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: New details have emerged in the massive bribery scandal behind Walmart's expansion into Mexico, and the Justice Department is now considering whether or not the corporation violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The NRA Is Just the Tip of the Bullet When It Comes to Gun Fetishists
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It is hard to think of gun worshipers who are more extreme in their policies than the National Rifle Association, but they are out there - locked and loaded.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17710-the-nra-is-just-the-tip-of-the-bullet-when-it-comes-to-gun-fetishists
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Paul Krugman | Playing Taxes Hold 'Em
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/opinion/krugman-playing-taxes-hold-em.html?_r=0
Read the Article at The New York Times
The Humiliation of John Boehner
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/21/the_humiliation_of_john_boehner/
Read the Article at Salon
North Carolina Tea Party's Post-Newtown Massacre "Great Gun Giveaway"
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17709-north-carolina-tea-party-s-post-newtown-massacre-great-gun-giveaway
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
The Great Walmart Walkout
http://www.thenation.com/article/171868/great-walmart-walkout
Read the Article at The Nation
Help Fight Anti-Abortion Jackassery
http://paulbibeau.blogspot.com/2012/12/help-fight-anti-abortion-jackassery.html
Read the Article at Paul Bibeau Blogspot
Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the Fifth Amendment
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/
Read the Article at The Atlantic
151 Victims of Mass Shootings in 2012 : Here Are Their Stories
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-victims-2012
Read the Article at Mother Jones
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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 Humiliation of John Boehner </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>North Carolina Tea Party's Post-Newtown Massacre "Great Gun Giveaway"</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 Great Walmart Walkout</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>Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the Fifth Amendment</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>151 Victims of Mass Shootings in 2012 : Here Are Their Stories</strong></p>
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<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=4IiH%2Bxqq0a5qfa5Wuq%2Bm03C2uvZbp2dN"><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>Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press:</strong> Pluralist Commonwealth strategies aim to undercut forces that permit unrestrained expansion by building up converging lines of foundational restructuring over time, especially those that reduce key inequality and psychological consumption drivers and develop new community cultural norms.</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=59jhiTXV0oivqiH64KY%2FdXC2uvZbp2dN"><strong>Read the Excerpt</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>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company:</strong> Remember the victims of the Newtown tragedy; reject doubling down on guns and armor, and work toward moral solutions.</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>Andrew Lam, New American Media:</strong> While the US had a direct hand in creating the exodus by invading and occupying that country for nearly a decade, spurring a civil war between religious groups, it is now more or less washing its hands of the refugee problem.</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=A7FXgLjsmiybLKd6KZRmL3C2uvZbp2dN"><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>Timothy A. Canova, The American Prospect:</strong> Is it too much to hope, after decades of Wall Street rule at Treasury, for a new Treasury Secretary to put people back to work while actually restoring the tax base and reducing deficits?</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=ZoAcFtCD2SnlK95qsYAczHC2uvZbp2dN"><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=ytI7lsqpgtwFhtYFU4aQ73C2uvZbp2dN"><strong>Can't Bear to Read: <em>Our Harsh Logic</em></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>Ira Chernus, Truthout:</strong> I can't bring myself to open <em>Our Harsh Logic</em>, a collection of testimonies by Israeli soldiers who have served in the occupation army in the West Bank and Gaza - but it must be read.</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=hObRn3yaZiHdwmhsVxpZJHC2uvZbp2dN"><strong>Read the Review</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=6%2BJpQXeqDUxjTGAQzA%2BwRHC2uvZbp2dN"><strong>Walmart Is Now Under Investigation in Mexican "Bribery Aisle" Scandal</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>Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> New details have emerged in the massive bribery scandal behind Walmart’s expansion into Mexico, and the Justice Department is now considering whether or not the corporation violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.</p>
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