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San Francisco's Green Power Plan Still Stalled by Corporate Interests a Decade Later
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18347-considered-a-national-example-san-franciscos-green-power-plan-has-struggled-for-a-decade-to-overcome-opposition-from-monopoly-corporate-interests
Darwin Bond Graham, Truthout: CleanPowerSF initially called for investing over a billion dollars in energy efficiency upgrades and publicly-owned renewable energy assets at thousands of sites in San Francisco. The plan's huge public popularity and technical authority have not protected it from attack and subversion.
Freedom Cannot Exist Alongside a Massive Surveillance Industrial Complex: They Are Incompatible
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/18356-freedom-cannot-exist-alongside-a-massive-surveillance-industrial-complex-they-are-incompatible
Heidi Boghosian, City Lights Books: Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?
Pursuing Profits - or Power?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18354-pursuing-profits-or-power
James K. Boyce, Dollars & Sense: Recognizing the real-world pursuit of power redirects our attention from the dichotomy between the market and the state toward a more fundamental one: the divide between oligarchy and democracy.
Paul Krugman | Those Not-So-Good Old Days
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18365-those-not-so-good-old-days
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Paul Krugman examines the rise of the internet and its effect on journalism and concludes: "When it comes to useful economic analysis, these are the good old days."
Americans Are Working Too Damn Hard
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18357-americans-are-working-too-damn-hard
Laura Flanders, The Nation: Ours is the last rich country in the world where offering paid time off to workers is optional. So we'll march. We'll march for jobs, but where do you line up for the march for leisure?
Markets Aren't That Stupid
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18370-markets-arent-that-stupid
James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario: Activist investors tend to improve the companies they invest in. They target companies that are underperforming - they improve their performance on those operational measures, and they provide an initial bump in stock price that does not get reversed over the next five years.
Eugene Robinson | GOP in Fantasyland
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18360-gop-in-fantasyland
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: "No matter how contemptuous they may be about Obamacare, opponents have only two viable options: Repeal it or get over it."
A Big Victory for Oregon's Biggest Union
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18362-a-big-victory-for-oregons-biggest-union
Shamus Cooke, Workers Action: The key lesson in the victory was that unions have an independent power completely separate from politicians, expressed most strongly through their ability to mobilize the membership for a strike.
What We Know Now (and How It Doesn't Matter)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18363-what-we-know-now-and-how-it-doesnt-matter
P.L. Thomas, The Becoming Radical: Neither the claims made about educational failures, nor the solutions for education reform policy today are supported by large bodies of compelling research.
Chris Hedges on Manning Being Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
http://truth-out.org/video/item/18368-chris-hedges-on-manning-being-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison
Oscar Leon, The Real News Network: "Using the Espionage Act to go after Manning is part of that wider campaign to make it impossible for those of us on the outside to understand what authority is doing and not more importantly the abuse of authority," says Chris Hedges.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The DOJ Has Corrupted the Rule of Law by Not Prosecuting Wall Street Financial Looters
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18158-the-doj-has-corrupted-the-rule-of-law-by-not-prosecuting-wall-street-financial-looters
In not prosecuting the individuals and financial institutions who defrauded America, the Obama administration has diminished the credibility of the United States legal system.
Thirteen Things the Government Is Trying to Keep Secret from You
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18157-thirteen-things-the-government-is-trying-to-keep-secret-from-you
50 Years After the March on Washington, What Would MLK March For Today?
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/50-years-after-the-march-on-washington-what-would-mlk-march-for-today/2013/08/22/f5fb5474-037b-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html
Paul Krugman | This Age of Bubbles
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/opinion/krugman-this-age-of-bubbles.html?_r=0
Kochs Give Up Bid to Buy Los Angeles Times
Read the Article at the AFL-CIO Now
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Kochs-Give-Up-Bid-to-Buy-Los-Angeles-Times
Review of US Surveillance Programs to Be Led by Panel of Intelligence Insiders
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/22/nsa-surveillance-review-panel-insiders
Fast-Food Wage Protests Head South
Read the Article at CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/23/news/companies/fast-food-workers-south/index.html
Robert Reich | Private Gain to a Few Trumps Public Good for the Many
Read the Article at Robert Reich's Blog
http://robertreich.org/post/59021478207
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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>50 Years After the March on Washington, What Would MLK March For Today?</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=fW5CCgn%2FHl3CGu33K6u%2BzYV%2FwGvrlgxH" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</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>Kochs Give Up Bid to Buy Los Angeles Times</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>Review of US Surveillance Programs to Be Led by Panel of Intelligence Insiders</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=KsIeg%2Bege84Cup2HOWbxZ4V%2FwGvrlgxH" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Fast-Food Wage Protests Head South</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=kbu%2FoR5TR5E6B5v1jd48YIV%2FwGvrlgxH" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Robert Reich | Private Gain to a Few Trumps Public Good for the Many</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>Darwin Bond Graham, Truthout:</strong> CleanPowerSF initially called for investing over a billion dollars in energy efficiency upgrades and publicly-owned renewable energy assets at thousands of sites in San Francisco. The plan's huge public popularity and technical authority have not protected it from attack and subversion.</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=B0TDiK%2BX8QpYhofPqQRYc4V%2FwGvrlgxH" 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>Heidi Boghosian, City Lights Books:</strong> Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?</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=w0KTdc7TZ5aBOsdhvY2aoIV%2FwGvrlgxH" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Excerpt</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>James K. Boyce, Dollars & Sense:</strong> Recognizing the real-world pursuit of power redirects our attention from the dichotomy between the market and the state toward a more fundamental one: the divide between oligarchy and democracy.</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=zKP76WUcEA34t8FVJ2zzEaLDr6U7na5l" 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=zinLX2CQL71Sv9ucRG7vp4V%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Paul Krugman | Those Not-So-Good Old Days</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> Paul Krugman examines the rise of the internet and its effect on journalism and concludes: "When it comes to useful economic analysis, these are the good old days."</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=m5%2FVNPSUws7OcPo%2F8BwEBoV%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=9H1k6n%2BtL%2B7bageYcau0VYV%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Americans Are Working Too Damn Hard</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>Laura Flanders, The Nation:</strong> Ours is the last rich country in the world where offering paid time off to workers is optional. So we’ll march. We’ll march for jobs, but where do you line up for the march for leisure?</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=ep0%2FN%2BjhZA%2BGPfE0ONlgkYV%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=%2F54MO54qKTGmGG1vIqkg94V%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Markets Aren't That Stupid</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>James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario:</strong> Activist investors tend to improve the companies they invest in. They target companies that are underperforming - they improve their performance on those operational measures, and they provide an initial bump in stock price that does not get reversed over the next five years.</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=7k2O1VL%2B4ItpCo5a3ITXEYV%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=QPHCJGUUqQUvaWfUaHqNWYV%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Eugene Robinson | GOP in Fantasyland</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>Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group:</strong> "No matter how contemptuous they may be about Obamacare, opponents have only two viable options: Repeal it or get over it."</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=klEJVBqNLwrr8UK7oJR6R4V%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=WuwopdtzFHWbjfQPv0%2F9toV%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Big Victory for Oregon's Biggest Union</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>Shamus Cooke, Workers Action:</strong> The key lesson in the victory was that unions have an independent power completely separate from politicians, expressed most strongly through their ability to mobilize the membership for a strike.</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=uSmfUokcuSD%2BVz55K%2BVAt4V%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=98qJUkQOojKL6btaDyZxWIV%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>What We Know Now (and How It Doesn't Matter)</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, The Becoming Radical:</strong> Neither the claims made about educational failures, nor the solutions for education reform policy today are supported by large bodies of compelling research.</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=2m30DA5%2FfOHPmYQUMFo5NIV%2FwGvrlgxH" 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=qhlVfkjrZBF4MRLjECGb6oV%2FwGvrlgxH"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Chris Hedges on Manning Being Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison</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>Oscar Leon, The Real News Network:</strong> "Using the Espionage Act to go after Manning is part of that wider campaign to make it impossible for those of us on the outside to understand what authority is doing and not more importantly the abuse of authority," says Chris Hedges.</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=pI%2BV52C7J0X2SajvEK9BQ4V%2FwGvrlgxH" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
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