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Death by Corporation: America's Corporate Deathstar
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t r u t h o u t | Monday, 12 August 2013
Death by Corporation: America's Corporate Deathstar
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18115-mankind-death-by-corporation-part-i=
ii-the-tpp-as-corporate-deathstar
Dr Brian Moench, Truthout: Dr. Brian Moench continues his examination of Am=
erica's corporate "Deathstar" and explains why the TransPacific Partnership=
will allow corporations to have "virtually unchecked control of our food s=
upply, our land, air, water, wallets and our future."
Is $15 an Hour a Fair Wage for Serving Fast Food?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18067-is-15-an-hour-a-fair-wage-for-servi=
ng-fast-food
Salvatore Babones, Truthout: As fast-food workers fight to raise the minimu=
m wage, Salvatore Babones reminds us that other countries that pay fast-foo=
d workers $15 per hour, like Australia, have flourished with an economy tha=
t upholds a living wage.=20
Chris Hedges | America's Disappeared
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18117-americas-disappeared
Chris Hedges, TruthDig: Poor, undereducated and underrepresented, released =
prisoners often "disappear" into the prison industrial complex creating a c=
ycle of poverty and crime.=20
Dean Baker | The Smart Boys: Larry Summers and Jeff Bezos
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18119-dean-baker-the-smart-boys-larry-sum=
mers-and-jeff-bezos
Dean Baker, Truthout: The press' praise of tentative Federal Chair nominee =
Larry Summers and business mogul Jeff Bezos reflects the backwards morals w=
ith which we view our society and our economy.=20
Torturing Animals with Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Feed
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18139-torturing-animals-with-monsantos-genet=
ically-engineered-feed
Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association: "What happens when animals a=
re confined in cramped, filthy environments and force-fed monoculture diets=
of genetically modified corn and soy?" asks Katherine Paul, as she connect=
s the torture of animals with the unethical practices of Monsanto corp.=20
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
http://truth-out.org/video/item/18121-taming-capitalism-run-wild
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Economist Richard Wolff is interviewed about=
the reckless abandonment practiced in today's economy and discusses strate=
gies for protest.=20
The Moral Imperative of Activism
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18137-the-moral-imperative-of-activism
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: "Today's crises seem . . . to paralyze actio=
n rather than inspire activism, but the imperative to do something in the f=
ace of injustice defines one's moral place in the universe," writes Ray McG=
overn.=20
Jeff Bezos's Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18129-jeff-bezoss-other-endeavor-charter-sch=
ools-neoliberal-education-reforms
Lee Fang, The Nation: While many people speculate as to what business mogul=
Jeff Bezos will follow now that he has purchased The Washington Post, ther=
e is no doubt that he will change the paper's relationship with Kaplan, whi=
ch supports "for-profit" education practices.=20
If Sports Had No Rules =E2=80=A6
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18142-if-sports-had-no-rules
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The practice of unregulated fina=
ncial contributions in MLB will result in the same corruption that unregula=
ted campaign donations created in politics: a system dependent more on who =
is writing the check than it is on the moral core of the game.=20
Truthout TV Interviews Victoria Law About Hunger Strikes at Pelican Bay Sta=
te Prison
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18116-truthout-tv-interviews-victoria-law-ab=
out-hunger-strikes-at-pelican-bay-state-prison
Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Victoria Law updates Truthout about the hunger str=
ikes at Pelican Bay State Prison in California in this video interview.=20
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The DoJ to Reevaluate How It Handles Nonvio=
lent Drug Offenders, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18141-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the-doj=
-to-reevaluate-how-it-handles-non-violent-drug-offenders
In today's On the News segment: The Justice Department is overhauling the w=
ay it deals with nonviolent offenders, unveiling a plan to change how the f=
ederal government prosecutes drug offenders; States like Maryland are going=
to great lengths to help people enroll in Obamacare, while others - like V=
irginia - are not doing much at all; President Obama announced his plan to =
reform government surveillance programs saying in a White House press confe=
rence, that "it's right" for Americans to ask questions about surveillance;=
and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Larry Summers Made Out Like a Bandit on Wall Street: That May Be His Key Cr=
edential to Head the Fed
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Larry Summers has made millions of dol=
lars traveling through the revolving door of payments from Wall Street and =
government positions overseeing Wall Street. Is that the key qualification=
for being chair of the Federal Reserve?
Read the article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18139-larry-summers-made-out=
-like-a-bandit-on-wall-street-that-may-be-his-key-credential-to-head-the-fe=
d
NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Tactics Violate Rights, Judge Rules
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/12/us-usa-newyork-police-idUSBRE97B0=
FK20130812
Holder Seeks to Avert Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Some Low-Level Drug O=
ffenders
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/holder-seeks-to-avert=
-mandatory-minimum-sentences-for-some-low-level-drug-offenders/2013/08/11/3=
43850c2-012c-11e3-96a8-d3b921c0924a_story.html
Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break up Planned=
Protest
Read the Article at Earth Island Journal
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/undercover_age=
nts_infiltrated_tar_sands_resistance_camp_to_break_up_planned/
Five Reasons Congress Should Be Deeply Ashamed About Jobs
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18138-five-reasons-congress-=
should-be-deeply-ashamed-about-jobs
John Grisham: After Guantanamo, Another Injustice
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/after-guantanamo-another-i=
njustice.html?pagewanted=3D2&_r=3D2&smid=3Dtw-share&
Lawsuit Uncovers Horrifying Scheme: Fake Mortgage Documents
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/your_mortgage_documents_are_fake/
Robert Reich in New Documentary "Inequality for All"
Watch the Video at RadiusTWC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9REdcxfie3M&wpisrc=3Dnl_wonk_b
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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>Five Reasons Congress Should Be Deeply Ashamed About Jobs</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>John Grisham: After Guantanamo, Another Injustice</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>Lawsuit Uncovers Horrifying Scheme: Fake Mortgage Documents</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>Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout:</strong> Dr. Brian Moench continues his examination of America's corporate "Deathstar" and explains why the TransPacific Partnership will allow corporations to have "virtually unchecked control of our food supply, our land, air, water, wallets and our future."</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SLLN2C9F1YnXnDDtHiR7nMnnsdC7Mnji"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KEnWuNSB73decABXrYyTmcnnsdC7Mnji"><strong> Is $15 an Hour a Fair Wage for Serving Fast Food?</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>Salvatore Babones, Truthout: </strong>As fast-food workers fight to raise the minimum wage, Salvatore Babones reminds us that other countries that pay fast-food workers $15 per hour, like Australia, have flourished with an economy that upholds a living wage.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iVD6%2FF6K9akH7AN%2FvWv%2BeMnnsdC7Mnji"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hyIrBRjPHmXu5gXIWoaQscnnsdC7Mnji"><strong>Chris Hedges | America's Disappeared</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> Poor, undereducated and underrepresented, released prisoners often "disappear" into the prison industrial complex creating a cycle of poverty and crime.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WYbUh4YZeE781XeAS5iX7snnsdC7Mnji"><strong>Dean Baker | The Smart Boys: Larry Summers and Jeff Bezos</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>Dean Baker, Truthout: </strong>The press' praise of tentative Federal Chair nominee Larry Summers and business mogul Jeff Bezos reflects the backwards morals with which we view our society and our economy.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q9m2jOsmXIcMQghbIr1UmGvuu6leHgYo"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rVyUmpYL63jQAd7hIhwBmMnnsdC7Mnji"><strong>Torturing Animals with Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Feed</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>Katherine Paul, Organic Consumers Association:</strong> "What happens when animals are confined in cramped, filthy environments and force-fed monoculture diets of genetically modified corn and soy?" asks Katherine Paul, as she connects the torture of animals with the unethical practices of Monsanto corp.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NxUmSWldi3wOWR%2Fc6s7dCsnnsdC7Mnji"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UFL4v7I0DQa%2Fl1g0dr1ODsnnsdC7Mnji"><strong>Taming Capitalism Run Wild</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>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company:</strong> Economist Richard Wolff is interviewed about the reckless abandonment practiced in today's economy and discusses strategies for protest.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BVqA8SfIlKPXRvbkfo1tGMnnsdC7Mnji"><strong>The Moral Imperative of Activism</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> "Today's crises seem . . . to paralyze action rather than inspire activism, but the imperative to do something in the face of injustice defines one's moral place in the universe," writes Ray McGovern.</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>Lee Fang, The Nation: </strong>While many people speculate as to what business mogul Jeff Bezos will follow now that he has purchased <i>The Washington Post</i>, there is no doubt that he will change the paper's relationship with Kaplan, which supports "for-profit" education practices.</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>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> The practice of unregulated financial contributions in MLB will result in the same corruption that unregulated campaign donations created in politics: a system dependent more on who is writing the check than it is on the moral core of the game.</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>Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: </strong>Victoria Law updates Truthout about the hunger strikes at Pelican Bay State Prison in California in this video interview.</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>The Justice Department is overhauling the way it deals with nonviolent offenders, unveiling a plan to change how the federal government prosecutes drug offenders; States like Maryland are going to great lengths to help people enroll in Obamacare, while others - like Virginia - are not doing much at all; President Obama announced his plan to reform government surveillance programs saying in a White House press conference, that "it's right" for Americans to ask questions about surveillance; and more.</p>
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