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t r u t h o u t | 01.22
Henry A. Giroux | The New Extremism and Politics of Distraction in the Age of Austerity
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13998-the-new-extremism-and-politics-of-distraction-in-the-age-of-austerity
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "The debate in both Washington and the mainstream media over austerity measures, the alleged fiscal cliff and the looming debt crisis not only function to render anti-democratic pressures invisible, but also produce what the late sociologist C. Wright Mills once called 'a politics of organized irresponsibility.'"
Twelve Ways Obama Smacked Down the Right in His Inauguration Speech
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14046-12-ways-obama-smacked-down-the-tea-party-and-the-right-in-inauguration-speech
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet: Reclaiming the language of patriotism, President Barack Obama then threw it back in the faces of right-wing Republicans to advance a liberal agenda.
Team Obama Mastered the Science of Mass Persuasion - and Won
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14026-team-obama-mastered-the-science-of-mass-persuasion-and-won
Eric Siegel, Truthout: Eric Siegel opens a window on the new marketing technologies of persuasion modeling and predictive analytics successfully used in the Obama re-election campaign.
GOP, Thomas Hobbes Rig Elections
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14069-gop-thomas-hobbes-rig-elections
Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: It's time that we as a nation ask ourselves if we are capable of governing ourselves, or if we should simply let the modern-day kings, the billionaires, run things?
Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug Maker
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14053-fiscal-footnote-big-senate-gift-to-drug-maker
Kevin Sack and Eric Lipton, The New York Times: The "fiscal cliff" bill included a provision that did not name the world's largest biotechnology firm, Amgen, but nonetheless provided them with a two-year window to sell their specific drug without government controls.
Chris Hedges | A Time for "Sublime Madness"
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14043-a-time-for-sublime-madness
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "It is only those who can retreat into the imagination who uncover the physical and psychological strength to resist."
Paul Krugman | The Curious Case of Japan's Economic Stimulus
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14070-the-curious-case-of-japans-economic-stimulus
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: For the past three years the developed world has been dominated by austerian orthodoxy. Now, Japan is breaking with the trend and the results have been positive.
The Agenda for Obama's Second Term: Full Employment and Fighting Poverty
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14063-the-agenda-for-obamas-second-term-full-employment-and-fighting-poverty
Robert Pollin, Back to Full Employment: President Obama needs to set clear goals in order to reduce unemployment and poverty in his second term.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Filibuster Reform Debate Begins in the Senate Today
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14075-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-filibuster-reform-debate-begins-in-the-senate-today
In today's On the News segment: Reagan worshippers across America are freaking out after President Obama's Second Inaugural Address; Republicans in Virginia took an outrageous step Tuesday to rig the next state senate elections; everyone is watching Majority Leader Harry Reid to see just how bold he is when it comes to ending obstructionism in the upper chamber; and more.
Will China-Japan-US Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14066-will-china-japan-us-tensions-in-the-pacific-ignite-a-conflict-and-sink-the-global-economy
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch: Beware. Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.
Three Things Obama Can Do If He Is Serious About Promise to Middle Class
http://truth-out.org/video/item/14073-three-things-obama-can-do-if-he-is-serious-about-promise-to-middle-class
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, believes the president is continuing to perpetuate the myth that there is a fiscal crisis.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The New Untouchables Are Wall Street Executives, Despite Evidence Many Likely Criminally Violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17763-the-new-untouchables-are-wall-street-executives-despite-evidence-many-likely-criminally-violated-sarbanes-oxley-act
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "60 Minutes" reported in 2011 that the Department of Justice had not criminally prosecuted one Wall Street executive for America's economic collapse. Tonight, "Frontline" will report that nothing has changed.
Charles P. Pierce | President of the Whole Country
Read the Article at Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/barack-obama-president-whole-country-0213
A Beleaguered Roe Versus Wade at 40
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17761-a-beleaguered-roe-v-wade-at-forty
Virginia GOP Sneaks Through Redistricting Bill During Inauguration, Hails "Stonewall" Jackson
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/republicans-dirty-trick-inauguration.php
"Cyberazzi" Data-Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Read the Article at CorpWatch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15809
Paul Krugman | Seneca, Selma and Stonewall
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/seneca-salem-and-stonewall/
The GOP and National Planning? Count On It
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17760-the-gop-and-national-planning-count-on-it
Western Powers Continue to Reap War on Terror's Blowback
Read the Article at Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/21-5
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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>"60 Minutes" reported in 2011 that the Department of Justice had not criminally prosecuted one Wall Street executive for America's economic collapse. Tonight, "Frontline" will report that nothing has changed.</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>Virginia GOP Sneaks Through Redistricting Bill During Inauguration, Hails "Stonewall" Jackson</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>"Cyberazzi" Data-Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy</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>Paul Krugman | Seneca, Selma and Stonewall</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 GOP and National Planning? Count On It</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>Western Powers Continue to Reap War on Terror's Blowback</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, Truthout:</strong> "The debate in both Washington and the mainstream media over austerity measures, the alleged fiscal cliff and the looming debt crisis not only function to render anti-democratic pressures invisible, but also produce what the late sociologist C. Wright Mills once called 'a politics of organized irresponsibility.'"</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=pvnCRkKG9%2FnA5p3SakUQhAtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=H9hj1syGKICWKn7%2F2hOEIwtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Twelve Ways Obama Smacked Down the Right in His Inauguration Speech</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>Adele M. Stan, AlterNet:</strong> Reclaiming the language of patriotism, President Barack Obama then threw it back in the faces of right-wing Republicans to advance a liberal agenda.</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=FY6L9kLZa0TFMPZMQkKc0wtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=T1ztC%2BYleXylzE50X7xaRAtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Team Obama Mastered the Science of Mass Persuasion - and Won</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>Eric Siegel, Truthout:</strong> Eric Siegel opens a window on the new marketing technologies of persuasion modeling and predictive analytics successfully used in the Obama re-election campaign.</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=NYsz4XBhpam6iae4F%2FSZ8QtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=IKXrdqhS5UsGYXV1J79J%2FNjbs3XzY%2F33"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>GOP, Thomas Hobbes Rig Elections</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>Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take:</strong> It's time that we as a nation ask ourselves if we are capable of governing ourselves, or if we should simply let the modern-day kings, the billionaires, run things?</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=lTLjJQBtSolr77%2FPGZq6igtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=dV2CDpAHBqoM4U6%2B05BkwwtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Fiscal Footnote: Big Senate Gift to Drug Maker</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>Kevin Sack and Eric Lipton, The New York Times:</strong> The "fiscal cliff" bill included a provision that did not name the world’s largest biotechnology firm, Amgen, but nonetheless provided them with a two-year window to sell their specific drug without government controls.</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=RTi53frgqhgjiUWYvCgGztjbs3XzY%2F33" 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=ddcykUSu8fzkTB%2FM47gXrQtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Chris Hedges | A Time for "Sublime Madness"</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>Chris Hedges, Truthdig:</strong> "It is only those who can retreat into the imagination who uncover the physical and psychological strength to resist."</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=Y46KRId4%2FxP1tWfKvxPvLgtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=4I%2FH25H7l6ncwPjicEWOx1fYiKq3Alh2"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Paul Krugman | The Curious Case of Japan's Economic Stimulus</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 Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> For the past three years the developed world has been dominated by austerian orthodoxy. Now, Japan is breaking with the trend and the results have been positive.</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=pPx9xZV%2BYt2V%2Fr90TZcoNwtiLkQUs4AQ" 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=xKVtSlgrNItmLbPC1ACJpwtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Agenda for Obama's Second Term: Full Employment and Fighting Poverty</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>Robert Pollin, Back to Full Employment:</strong> President Obama needs to set clear goals in order to reduce unemployment and poverty in his second term.</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Reagan worshippers across America are freaking out after President Obama’s Second Inaugural Address; Republicans in Virginia took an outrageous step Tuesday to rig the next state senate elections; everyone is watching Majority Leader Harry Reid to see just how bold he is when it comes to ending obstructionism in the upper chamber; and more.</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=3w34ZzjnwCJPOKTZrtHqAgtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Will China-Japan-US Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?</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 T. Klare, TomDispatch:</strong> Beware. Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.</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=vyz1iikcBc%2FAZ15kC8d5MNjbs3XzY%2F33" 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=HXzvf7fychEs8gWhF7MtcAtiLkQUs4AQ"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Three Things Obama Can Do If He Is Serious About Promise to Middle Class</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, The Real News Network:</strong> Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, believes the president is continuing to perpetuate the myth that there is a fiscal crisis.</p>
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