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William Rivers Pitt | Waking From My Moral Coma
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t r u t h o u t | 03.13
William Rivers Pitt | Waking From My Moral Coma
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15088-waking-from-my-moral-coma
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "It is the killing, it is the permanent war, it is our deranged national priorities. It is the system we live under which requires the serial deaths of all those innocents to maintain our economic health that should appall us."
Juvenile Justice Is Taking a Positive Trajectory - Will it Be Hurt by Harsh Gun Laws?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15080-juvenile-justice-is-taking-a-positive-trajectory-will-it-be-hurt-by-harsh-gun-laws
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: The recent calls for mandatory minimums for gun possession in light of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and the rising urban violence Chicago have led some advocates to wonder what effect this will have on the trend away from incarceration in juvenile justice reform.
National Intelligence Memorandum Outlines Steps Taken to Deter Classified Leaks to Media
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15104-obama-intelligence-directors-memorandum-outlines-steps-taken-to-deter-leaks-of-classified-information-to-media
Jason Leopold, Truthout: A memo sent to more than a dozen government agencies by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says a question added to lie detector tests will help deter leaks to the media. But one expert on government secrecy says the new policy is "shortsighted."
Warm Bodies: Zom-Rom-Solidarity Econ
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15055-warm-bodies-zom-rom-solidarity-econ
Boone Shear and Stephen Healy, Truthout: This review of the zombie movie "Warm Bodies" extols its demonstration that another world is possible.
Once Upon a Time, Corporations Paid Taxes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15096-once-upon-a-time-corporations-paid-taxes
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: How much should we read into these huge contrasts between corporate profits, pay and taxes from over a half century ago and today? What difference does any of this make for the rest of us? A huge difference.
Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They're Down
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15105-corporate-approved-state-bills-kick-low-wage-workers-while-theyre-down
Michelle Chen, In These Times: Wage-suppression laws are the latest strike in a war of attrition waged by ALEC and "private sector leaders" against labor and workplace rights, aimed at forcing low-wage workers into even deeper economic insecurity.
Covert Drone Warfare, By the Numbers
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15091-covert-drone-warfare-by-the-numbers
John Light, Moyers & Company: Unmanned drones have been used to kill thousands of suspected militants - and civilians - and not just in open war zones, but also in covert wars. These graphs show drone-related deaths in these secret wars.
Conservatives: The New Taliban
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15107-conservatives-the-new-taliban
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Here in America, there's a new Taliban rising. They fetishize guns, just like the Afghan Taliban. They fear women and education. They want to keep the people stupid and in chains. They love their ignorance, their bigotry, and most of all, their FOX News.
Bush Detained Alleged Terrorists Without Due Process - Obama Is Killing Them With Drones
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15086-bush-detained-terrorists-without-due-process-obama-is-killing-them-with-drones
Stephen Rohde, Truthout: After reviewing the legal decisions asserting alleged terrorists' right to due process under President Bush, Rohde concludes there can be no legitimate legal justification for targeted drone killings.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Democrats Will Introduce a Plan to Replace the Sequester, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15109-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-senate-democrats-will-introduce-a-plan-to-replace-the-sequester-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Today Senate Democrats will introduce a plan to replace the sequester and propose $100 billion in stimulus spending; Missouri lawmakers voted to lower taxes on corporations and the rich and offset the cuts by increasing the state sales tax; 43 GOP Senators have signed on to block any director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless Democrats scale back that agency's power, and more.
Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15097-two-years-on-will-the-lessons-of-fukushima-go-unheeded
Peter Rugh, Occupy.com: In Japan, the public's faith in authorities has severely eroded since the fallout of Fukushima, which is why the Japanese public is putting its hopes in the only forum it has left: the streets.
John Brennan's Heavy Baggage
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15099-john-brennans-heavy-baggage
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: After a messy confirmation - which asked new questions about drone assassinations and old questions about enhanced interrogations - John Brennan has taken over at CIA. But his past may not be so easily forgotten in a world looking for accountability.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Mary Jo White and the Incestuous Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Regulators and Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17857-mary-jo-white-and-the-incestuous-mutually-beneficial-relationship-between-regulators-and-wall-street
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: President Obama promised to stop the revolving door between K Street, Wall Street and government regulators. But it appears to be rotating around without change, to the detriment of a sound financial system.
Michael Moore: How to Finish Off the NRA
Read the Article at Michael Moore's Blog
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/america-you-must-not-look-away-how-finish-nra
The New York Times | The Worst of the Ryan Budgets
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/opinion/the-worst-of-paul-ryans-budgets.html?_r=0
Justice Department's Voting Rights Section Hurt by Unprofessional Behavior, Report Says
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-departments-voting-rights-section-hurt-by-unprofessional-behavior-report-says/2013/03/12/035aef4c-8b47-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
Battle Brewing Over Likely Labor Pick
Read the Article at The Hill
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/287799-confirmation-battle-brewing-for-obamas-likely-labor-pick
What Paul Ryan's Budget Means for Women
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/173300/what-paul-ryans-budget-means-women?utm_source=Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=24186eaa5f-DD_3_13_133_13_2013&utm_medium=email#
Costco's Profits Soar to $537 Million Just Days After CEO Endorses Minimum-Wage Increase
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/12/costco-profit_n_2859250.html
This Man Wants You To Believe That BPA-Laced Plastic Is Harmless
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/03/bpa-harmless-not-so-fast
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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>Mary Jo White and the Incestuous Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Regulators and Wall Street </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>President Obama promised to stop the revolving door between K Street, Wall Street and government regulators. But it appears to be rotating around without change, to the detriment of a sound financial system.</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=pXbdlHz3dID52zJtk3Myq658QjaqHpnm"><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>Michael Moore: How to Finish Off the NRA</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=255og6t2ovnwmirtEcCnvid5yfyOTDDp"><strong>Read the Article at Michael Moore's Blog</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The New York Times | The Worst of the Ryan Budgets</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=4GxetEmoGMxM%2F6Q%2BCSfgVa58QjaqHpnm"><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>Justice Department's Voting Rights Section Hurt by Unprofessional Behavior, Report Says</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=CPfIIJEDnqwvupc2%2B00%2FQK58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Battle Brewing Over Likely Labor Pick</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=URSJGAAmObOCkq32UsbNvq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Read the Article at The Hill</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What Paul Ryan's Budget Means for Women</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=URSJGAAmObMz3K9Lf7EfC658QjaqHpnm"><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>Costco's Profits Soar to $537 Million Just Days After CEO Endorses Minimum-Wage Increase</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=4XPvNwIJFw3E2096%2Bxmrpa58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Read the Article at The Huffington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This Man Wants You To Believe That BPA-Laced Plastic Is Harmless</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=iNtItqpg9K3cRyehy4%2F00K58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</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=GXNBQ9GacBKq0TEX5SQaHq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Waking From My Moral Coma</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> "It is the killing, it is the permanent war, it is our deranged national priorities. It is the system we live under which requires the serial deaths of all those innocents to maintain our economic health that should appall us."</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=xU2FwFywC1Hmzcm92Nj6vq58QjaqHpnm"><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=28hEuqsFdOBcmwamj%2F7rXq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Juvenile Justice Is Taking a Positive Trajectory - Will it Be Hurt by Harsh Gun Laws?</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>Yana Kunichoff, Truthout:</strong> The recent calls for mandatory minimums for gun possession in light of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and the rising urban violence Chicago have led some advocates to wonder what effect this will have on the trend away from incarceration in juvenile justice reform.</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=GLu6pGKRM5mAIKzzgkzLiDFAZKIba8Tl"><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=FIRI8k40iUdbdvdq%2Bsm5aq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>National Intelligence Memorandum Outlines Steps Taken to Deter Classified Leaks to Media</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, Truthout:</strong> A memo sent to more than a dozen government agencies by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says a question added to lie detector tests will help deter leaks to the media. But one expert on government secrecy says the new policy is "shortsighted."</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=gsxYXcANTDzdosoKbfVWMDFAZKIba8Tl"><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=9gVsIemhs8DkGM17A2sC4K58QjaqHpnm"><strong><em>Warm Bodies</em>: Zom-Rom-Solidarity Econ</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>Boone Shear and Stephen Healy, Truthout:</strong> This review of the zombie movie <em>Warm Bodies</em> extols its demonstration that another world is possible.</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=mDRNCNt4nK6BMC5uMCYGW658QjaqHpnm"><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=yNV8AwnlKgaOQfEgWBe8fK58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Once Upon a Time, Corporations Paid Taxes</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>Sam Pizzigati, Too Much:</strong> How much should we read into these huge contrasts between corporate profits, pay and taxes from over a half century ago and today? What difference does any of this make for the rest of us? A huge difference.</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=eqy5IpfoMkBLbfCB1kdQ%2Bq58QjaqHpnm"><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=hi2JXOt3FEOLXCZZDeGYBq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Corporate-Approved State Bills Kick Low-Wage Workers While They're Down</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> Wage-suppression laws are the latest strike in a war of attrition waged by ALEC and "private sector leaders" against labor and workplace rights, aimed at forcing low-wage workers into even deeper economic insecurity.</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=v5QdwiUpPQg7a%2FamJ3b9mK58QjaqHpnm"><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=5pz5rEvCeZeLpeW3oNAQgq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Covert Drone Warfare, By the Numbers</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>John Light, Moyers & Company:</strong> Unmanned drones have been used to kill thousands of suspected militants - and civilians - and not just in open war zones, but also in covert wars. These graphs show drone-related deaths in these secret wars.</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=2QZHcDr4ke%2FbizedvJbHJa58QjaqHpnm"><strong>View the Charts</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=CutS9uE4IRqhJzTmYdIFla58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Conservatives: The New Taliban</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>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> Here in America, there's a new Taliban rising. They fetishize guns, just like the Afghan Taliban. They fear women and education. They want to keep the people stupid and in chains. They love their ignorance, their bigotry, and most of all, their FOX News.</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=riMNNC5MmSHqjLUjdNpHqa58QjaqHpnm"><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=0WIc%2FlNUwhpsJGNoqeealK58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Bush Detained Alleged Terrorists Without Due Process - Obama Is Killing Them With Drones</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>Stephen Rohde, Truthout:</strong> After reviewing the legal decisions asserting alleged terrorists' right to due process under President Bush, Rohde concludes there can be no legitimate legal justification for targeted drone killings.</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=J1XNAqcMW2e5BfYe2m3fva58QjaqHpnm"><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=mDRNCNt4nK6VAF7bwJvL%2Fa58QjaqHpnm"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Democrats Will Introduce a Plan to Replace the Sequester, and More</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> Today Senate Democrats will introduce a plan to replace the sequester and propose $100 billion in stimulus spending; Missouri lawmakers voted to lower taxes on corporations and the rich and offset the cuts by increasing the state sales tax; 43 GOP Senators have signed on to block any director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless Democrats scale back that agency's power, 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=lRRfBGe7Vye%2Fuu3Zy%2FF5fK58QjaqHpnm"><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=psz4Wsc6L2ViJzSC5GBwVq58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Two Years On, Will the Lessons of Fukushima Go Unheeded?</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>Peter Rugh, Occupy.com:</strong> In Japan, the public's faith in authorities has severely eroded since the fallout of Fukushima, which is why the Japanese public is putting its hopes in the only forum it has left: the streets.</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=RC65SHrexOUkeYj12tKnPa58QjaqHpnm"><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=JVe5kp9K%2BAvv2WCp8GZ0aK58QjaqHpnm"><strong>John Brennan's Heavy Baggage</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>Ray McGovern, Consortium News:</strong> After a messy confirmation - which asked new questions about drone assassinations and old questions about enhanced interrogations - John Brennan has taken over at CIA. But his past may not be so easily forgotten in a world looking for accountability.</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=t4z%2BUWMzMJFwP0HEHtw3ua58QjaqHpnm"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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