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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
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t r u t h o u t | 05.17
Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16406-education-reform-in-the-new-jim-crow-era
P.L. Thomas, Truthout: There are significant parallels between the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform, and both create an underclass - especially among African-American males, according to Thomas, who traces the history.
84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16423-84-percent-of-nyc-fast-food-workers-report-wage-theft-in-a-new-survey
Josh Eidelson, The Nation: Yesterday, fast-food employees and activists released a new report in which 84 percent of the industry's workers reported that their employer had committed some form of wage theft over the previous year.
Surveillance After Boston
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16421-surveillance-after-boston
Ali Winston, Truthout: After the Boston bombings, demands for heightened security abound, but while technical fixes like networks of surveillance cameras make governments look like they are tough on terrorism, technology's effectiveness as a law enforcement tool is contested.
The Casualties of Justice
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16415-the-casualties-of-justice
Max Eternity, Truthout: The death of Jim Crow laws in 1965 was supposed to mean the end of government persecution of African-Americans, while a scathing new report and data from a growing chorus of experts say otherwise.
Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16255-unfolding-repression-in-the-shadows-of-the-guatemalan-genocide-trial
Lauren Carasik, Truthout: As Guatemala and the world focused on the trial of former Gen. Jose Efrain Rios Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, the human rights situation in the country grew increasingly grave, as it has elsewhere in Mesoamerica.
Another CIA Debacle: The Real Benghazi Scandal
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16426-another-cia-debacle-the-real-benghazi-scandal
Melvin A. Goodman, CounterPunch: When Congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate Intelligence Committee to take up three major issues that have been largely ignored.
Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party Mess
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16425-ambiguity-in-tax-rules-and-disintegration-of-election-law-may-have-led-to-irs-tea-party-mess
Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: Exploitation of the social welfare section of the tax code was made possible by ambiguity in IRS rules: What constitutes "political intervention" is unclear, and how much is too much is ill-defined.
A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16427-a-novel-idea-asking-an-afghan-about-afghanistan
Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website: Yahya Maroofi, counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, makes it clear that Afghans don't want to fight the Taliban at all, and that a race for the country's resources is the motive behind a "peace" deal.
Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16428-hijacked-organic-limited-local-faulty-fair-trade
Mark Engler, Dissent Magazine: The industrial food system has proved adept at co-opting its critics when they think of themselves in its preferred terms, as consumers. The radical eater, in contrast, is first a citizen.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Chicago Mayor "Rahmbo" Emanuel Gets a Political Beat-down on Closing of Minority Public Schools
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17972-chicago-mayor-rahmbo-emanuel-gets-a-political-beat-down-on-closing-of-minority-public-schools
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, is one of the national leaders in undercutting public education. He lost a stand-off with the Chicago Teachers Union last year, and now he is under fire from the progressive president of the Cook County Board.
Glenn Greenwald | The Major Sea Change in Media Discussions of Obama and Civil Liberties
Read the Article at the Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/obama-civil-liberties-sea-change
Ohio Republicans Push Law to Penalize Colleges for Helping Students Vote
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/ohio-republicans-push-law-to-penalize-colleges-for-helping-students-vote.php
Pentagon "Rewrites Constitution" Affirming Endless War
Read the Article at Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/16-6
Congress Is Ready to Fight Over Deep Food Stamp Cuts
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174391/congress-ready-fight-over-deep-food-stamp-cuts
New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis
Read the Article at Wired
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/able-archer-scare/
If Obama Went "Bulworth," Here's What He'd Say
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/16/if-obama-went-bulworth-heres-what-hed-say/
House Votes 229-195 to Repeal ObamaCare (for the 37th time)
Read the Article at The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/300315-house-votes-to-repeal-obamacare
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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>Chicago Mayor "Rahmbo" Emanuel Gets a Political Beat-down on Closing of Minority Public Schools </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>Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago, is one of the national leaders in undercutting public education. He lost a stand-off with the Chicago Teachers Union last year, and now he is under fire from the progressive president of the Cook County Board.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3%2FWPiXQSONhjT2qZ43BHc5%2F3io3mdXBG" 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>Glenn Greenwald | The Major Sea Change in Media Discussions of Obama and Civil Liberties</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gjAokotdczn18LA%2F4HKQvp%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian UK</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ohio Republicans Push Law to Penalize Colleges for Helping Students Vote</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zUG%2FmN429eyuIrwuq9pHxm9DEdPFQ9Fn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Pentagon "Rewrites Constitution" Affirming Endless War</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HjaM0tkpwfkmh%2FAaiM1zf5%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Common Dreams</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Congress Is Ready to Fight Over Deep Food Stamp Cuts</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RH9IHXw7p2zw%2BaqAsbhkBZ%2F3io3mdXBG" 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>New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lkmP2VchrGD17c18rEp2CZ%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Wired</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>If Obama Went "Bulworth," Here's What He'd Say</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mKtb7Bn7MczFPybL8%2Bql1Z%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>House Votes 229-195 to Repeal ObamaCare (for the 37th time)</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DY%2ByWpqz%2BZMMmp5y7ptDq5%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Hill</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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=e52CIK2CbdOI7c7LP1cWtFO5Hl3sKvW2" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era</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>P.L. Thomas, Truthout:</strong> There are significant parallels between the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform, and both create an underclass - especially among African-American males, according to Thomas, who traces the history.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7nNM9dyJN4JZx30tUVKIwJ%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bsu4MX6UTe7SpMOjW2qIkJ%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey</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>Josh Eidelson, The Nation:</strong> Yesterday, fast-food employees and activists released a new report in which 84 percent of the industry's workers reported that their employer had committed some form of wage theft over the previous year.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=97MyI8pJOQdP%2BjCRUro9bJ%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Gz6iBhTyUieoNmENIZkS1Z%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Surveillance After Boston</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>Ali Winston, Truthout:</strong> After the Boston bombings, demands for heightened security abound, but while technical fixes like networks of surveillance cameras make governments look like they are tough on terrorism, technology's effectiveness as a law enforcement tool is contested.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NoBhLhfTuc0a04vXuamd85%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=klDBr1Km7Mf5FDeKQzCBO5%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Casualties of Justice</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>Max Eternity, Truthout:</strong> The death of Jim Crow laws in 1965 was supposed to mean the end of government persecution of African-Americans, while a scathing new report and data from a growing chorus of experts say otherwise.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lkmP2VchrGDUtNabmq56Np%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oFNEDUwV1UR6U2%2BY3B%2Binp%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Unfolding Repression in the Shadows of the Guatemalan Genocide Trial</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 Carasik, Truthout:</strong> As Guatemala and the world focused on the trial of former Gen. Jose Efrain Rios Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, the human rights situation in the country grew increasingly grave, as it has elsewhere in Mesoamerica.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DFGkkZah4y1W2WgaVzAIBlO5Hl3sKvW2" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=quilRwuifYeJ%2FywJe1BkyZ%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Another CIA Debacle: The Real Benghazi 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>Melvin A. Goodman, CounterPunch:</strong> When Congressional Republicans complete manipulating the Benghazi tragedy, it will be time for the virtually silent Senate Intelligence Committee to take up three major issues that have been largely ignored.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D6JaUGCs6WOCD6xUpuYBx5%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FO%2BEuRAjkRk3MfXhHTQBY5%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Ambiguity in Tax Rules and Disintegration of Election Law May Have Led to IRS Tea Party 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>Brendan Fischer, PRWatch:</strong> Exploitation of the social welfare section of the tax code was made possible by ambiguity in IRS rules: What constitutes "political intervention" is unclear, and how much is too much is ill-defined.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cRSIX%2FeZM7wv5fOAzjuptp%2F3io3mdXBG" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=voso2HqVExNLdBo6nLaYyZ%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan</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>Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website:</strong> Yahya Maroofi, counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, makes it clear that Afghans don't want to fight the Taliban at all, and that a race for the country's resources is the motive behind a "peace" deal.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6Klf52Vp9COkG694oH%2Bx0Z%2F3io3mdXBG" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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