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Noam Chomsky | Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane?
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08.01
Noam Chomsky | Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17923-is-edward-j-snowden-aboard-this-plane
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "Governments always plead security as an excuse - in the Snowden case, security from terrorist attack. This pretext comes from an administration carrying out a grand international terrorist campaign with drones and special operations forces that is generating potential terrorists at every step."
Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17916-science-as-social-control-political-paralysis-and-the-genetics-agenda
Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News: There is clear evidence that the search for genetic predispositions is the centerpiece of a long-term corporate agenda whose purpose is to sway public opinion.
Watchdogs: Regulators Fail to Enforce Pipeline Safety Despite Spills and Deadly Accidents
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17939-watchdogs-regulators-fail-to-enforce-pipeline-safety-despite-spills-and-deadly-accidents
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: A watchdog group's data supports accusations that federal regulators are either negligent or too cozy with the energy industry to ensure the public's safety from gas explosions and pipeline leaks that cause deaths and destroy property and the environment year after year.
The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street's Creative Destruction
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17936-the-great-eviction-the-landscape-of-wall-streets-creative-destruction
Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch: Since 2007, the foreclosure crisis has displaced at least 10 million people from more than four million homes across the country. Gottesdiener travels through neighborhoods affected by the crisis and reports on the grassroots movements of resistance to foreclosure and displacement.
Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17927-tunisian-protesters-occupy-the-streets-as-parliament-on-verge-of-collapse
S.T. McNeil, Truthout: Thirty-three months after the Jasmine Revolution, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, question the legitimacy of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a constitution in the time allotted.
President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17924-president-offers-to-give-republicans-the-store-they-demand-more
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Why did the President offer Republicans a corporate tax reform plan that gives them everything they want, even before negotiations begin?
Bombshell: Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17917-bombshell-plutocrats-brazenly-collude-to-hurt-state-economies-and-screw-working-people
Lynn Parramore, AlterNet: It's not a figment of the American people's imaginations. Corporate titans are using corruption and collusion to rig the economy.
"We Can't Survive on $7.25"
http://www.truth-out.org/video/item/17934-we-can%E2%80%99t-survive-on-725
Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Company: Fast food workers in seven US cities are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industry's history.
Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17920-investigation-what-the-jpmorgan-chase-energy-scandal-reveals-about-fossil-fuel-financing
Peter Rugh, Occupy.com: Big bank energy market manipulations highlight Wall Street's entrenched stake in the fossil fuel economy that is heating up the planet.
What Ifs? The Sad Tale of Darlington Mills
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17790-what-ifs-the-sad-tale-of-darlington-mills
Ann Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout: In this 15th in our series on judicial amendment to the NLRA, we learn how the Supreme Court allowed Deering Milliken to close its Darlington Mills plant rather than operate it with a union. It took 24 years for the employees - or their heirs - to receive any compensation.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Granted a One-Year Asylum in Russia, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17940-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-granted-a-one-year-asylum-in-russia-and-more
In today's On the News segment: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a one-year asylum in Russia; as climate change increases temperatures around our planet, many species of plants and animals are finding it more difficult to survive; Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy wants some answers from the NSA; and more.
Conservative Policies are Driving Americans to Suicide
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17938-conservative-policies-are-driving-americans-to-suicide
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: There is a disturbing, but not surprising, connection between America's suicide rate and Conservative economic policies.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Intelligence Chief Clapper Should be Prosecuted for Congressional Perjury
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18121-intelligence-chief-clapper-should-be-prosecuted-for-congressional-perjury
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Why do those who provide us with transparency get prosecuted? Why do those government officials who lie under oath to conceal the truth get immunity?
GOP's Long-Predicted Comeuppance Has Arrived
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/07/gops_long-predicted_comeuppance_has_arrived.php?ref=fpb
Senate Panel Presses NSA on Phone Logs
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/us/nsa-surveillance.html
Health Care Costs Rise at Slowest Rate in 50 Years
Read the Article at USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/29/administration-lowered-premiums-white-house/2596453/
Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
Read the Article at The Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12193/dirty-hands-77-alec-bills-2013-advance-big-oil-big-ag-agenda
Jobless Claims in US Decline to Lowest Level in Five Years
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-01/jobless-claims-in-u-s-decline-to-lowest-level-in-five-years.html
"Landfill Harmonic": Reverence for Garbage
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18120-landfill-harmonic-reverence-for-garbage
Southern Elected Officials Take Stands Against Voter ID
Read the Article at Facing South
http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/07/southern-elected-officials-take-stands-against-vot.html
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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>Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda</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>Jobless Claims in US Decline to Lowest Level in Five Years</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>"Landfill Harmonic": Reverence for Garbage</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>Noam Chomsky, Truthout:</strong> "Governments always plead security as an excuse - in the Snowden case, security from terrorist attack. This pretext comes from an administration carrying out a grand international terrorist campaign with drones and special operations forces that is generating potential terrorists at every step."</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=ScSDqzOPIqqXDQ3S6cR58mnJASgWlgJW" 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>Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News:</strong> There is clear evidence that the search for genetic predispositions is the centerpiece of a long-term corporate agenda whose purpose is to sway public opinion.</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=L9le%2BpOFxty1N0XHZABmCGnJASgWlgJW"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street's Creative Destruction</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=Q%2FD0am2a3sd2sg2bS6DYDmnJASgWlgJW"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse</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>S.T. McNeil, Truthout:</strong> Thirty-three months after the Jasmine Revolution, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, question the legitimacy of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a constitution in the time allotted.</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=LJrnVZL2vdgaqEk4x1ShYmnJASgWlgJW"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More</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>Lynn Parramore, AlterNet:</strong> It's not a figment of the American people's imaginations. Corporate titans are using corruption and collusion to rig the economy.</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>Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Company:</strong> Fast food workers in seven US cities are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industry’s history.</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=AojGqB69%2BuGl1zTXv2vEGGnJASgWlgJW"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Investigation: What the JPMorgan Chase Energy Scandal Reveals About Fossil Fuel Financing</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> Big bank energy market manipulations highlight Wall Street's entrenched stake in the fossil fuel economy that is heating up the planet.</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=8a645P7SgxrpasKYjxa0wmnJASgWlgJW" 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=aWEKG0g6RbvLkeK%2Bj5X4plhOSdPM6FI%2F"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>What Ifs? The Sad Tale of Darlington Mills</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>Ann Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout:</strong> In this 15th in our series on judicial amendment to the NLRA, we learn how the Supreme Court allowed Deering Milliken to close its Darlington Mills plant rather than operate it with a union. It took 24 years for the employees - or their heirs - to receive any compensation.</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> NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted a one-year asylum in Russia; as climate change increases temperatures around our planet, many species of plants and animals are finding it more difficult to survive; Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy wants some answers from the NSA; and more.</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=Ys%2Fowp%2FlEd95uXLNQ%2BkKXWnJASgWlgJW" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Un%2BoH8nYjNA9b07cANFza2nJASgWlgJW"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Conservative Policies are Driving Americans to Suicide</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> There is a disturbing, but not surprising, connection between America’s suicide rate and Conservative economic policies.</p>
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