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Henry A. Giroux: Hope in a Time of Permanent War
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t r u t h o u t | 09.04
Henry A. Giroux: Hope in a Time of Permanent War
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18578-hope-in-a-time-of-permanent-war
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Democratic hope is a subversive, defiant practice that makes power visible and interrogates and resists those events, social relations and ideas that pose a threat to democracy.
In Depth: How Soft Is the Obama Administration Really Going on Marijuana?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18605-in-depth-how-soft-is-the-obama-administration-really-going-on-marijuana
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The Obama administration's attitude toward drug enforcement is evolving, but don't expect the administration to reschedule marijuana or push for an end to prohibition anytime soon.
Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18579-seven-arguments-against-going-to-war-with-syria
Stephen Zunes, Truthout: US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular.
Failing Up to the Fed: a Reporters' Guide to the Paper Trail Surrounding Larry Summers
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18586-failing-up-to-the-fed-a-reporters-guide-to-the-paper-trail-surrounding-larry-summers
Mary Bottari, PRWatch: For journalists who are being told what a brilliant man and insightful regulator Larry Summers was behind the scenes, here are a few items from his public record you might want to review.
Should Hurricane James Inhofe Hit the East Coast?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18607-should-hurricane-james-inhofe-hit-the-east-coast
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: We should start naming hurricanes and tropical storms after the politicians that deny climate science and the millionaires and billionaires that are funding all of the climate-change-denying nonsense.
Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18582-building-the-commons-as-an-antidote-to-the-predatory-market-economy
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together to solve common problems and create better lives for all of us.
Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18604-making-the-world-safe-for-banksters-syria-in-the-crosshairs
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog: Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the crosshairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.
"Frackademia" by Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18596-frackademia-by-law-section-999-of-the-energy-policy-act-of-2005-exposed
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: Almost no focus has gone into scrutinizing Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which subsidizes biased pro-industry studies for a decade and in turn, further legitimizes unfettered fracking nationwide.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Are to Blame for Health Care Premium Increases, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18608-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-republicans-are-to-blame-for-health-care-premium-increases-and-more
In today's On the News segment: A new study found that the premium hikes in many red states are actually the result of Republican lawmakers who refuse to expand Medicaid; Congress is rushing to authorize up to three months of military action in Syria; Kansas is challenging the citizenship of more than 15,000 would-be voters; and more.
In Secret AT&T Deal, US Drug Agents Given Access to 26 Years of Americans' Phone Records
http://truth-out.org/video/item/18595-in-secret-att-deal-us-drug-agents-given-access-to-26-years-of-americans-phone-records
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Under a secretive program called the Hemisphere Project, the Drug Enforcement Administration has access to records of every phone call transmitted via AT&T's infrastructure dating back to 1987.
Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18584-response-to-syria-a-duplicitous-affair
Antonia Darder and Peter Mayo, Truthout: Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels and in the absence of clear-cut evidence of the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
What Congress Will Be Voting on Is Another War, Not a "Limited Punitive Strike"
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18175-what-congress-will-be-voting-on-is-another-war-not-a-limited-punitive-strike
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Make no mistake about it. Obama is seeking another war and regime change in Syria. That will be what Congress is really voting on.
All Scrubbed Up, Nowhere to Show
Read the Article at Consortium News
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/04/all-scrubbed-up-nowhere-to-show/
Most in US Oppose Syria Strike, Post-ABC Poll Finds
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/09/03/most-in-u-s-oppose-syria-strike-post-abc-poll-finds/?wpisrc=al_comboPN_p
Relatives of Vets Who Died by Suicide Tell Their Stories (AUDIO)
Read the Article at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/vets-suicide_n_3861728.html
Walmart Workers Plan Nationwide Strike
Read the Article at Al Jazeera America
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/3/walmart-workers-plantostrikethursday.html
In Budget Cuts, Low-Income Students Suffer More Than Wealthy Ones
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/02/why-sequestration-punishes-low-income-students-more-than-wealthy-ones/
What's Wrong With Exxon's Corporate Equality Index Rating?
Read the Article at The Advocate
http://www.advocate.com/print-issue/current-issue/2013/09/03/whats-wrong-exxon
Corporate Welfare Meets Community Destruction
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/04/worst_bailout_ever_corporate_welfare_meets_community_destruction/
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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>What Congress Will Be Voting on Is Another War, Not a "Limited Punitive Strike"
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<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>Make no mistake about it. Obama is seeking another war and regime change in Syria. That will be what Congress is really voting on.</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=KG50FH9HyPLXjIqStVipF%2B0kBuuMbmjk" 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>All Scrubbed Up, Nowhere to Show</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=oQjSRjc7bEHb5Xqjg45fi%2BrtVBzVK5iy" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Consortium News</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Most in US Oppose Syria Strike, Post-ABC Poll Finds</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=UqKNpdjrLuCz%2Bt967rWJO%2BrtVBzVK5iy" 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>Relatives of Vets Who Died by Suicide Tell Their Stories (AUDIO)</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>Walmart Workers Plan Nationwide Strike</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=oNJktlEYSg7fbgUBJIf4IurtVBzVK5iy" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Al Jazeera America</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>In Budget Cuts, Low-Income Students Suffer More Than Wealthy Ones</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=NXVUtC7o5kQqeVHjgXLNb%2BrtVBzVK5iy" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at MSNBC</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's Wrong With Exxon's Corporate Equality Index Rating?</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=5uHiatzYbzp81Hw4WnayLHrlWe5QhFOs" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Advocate</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Corporate Welfare Meets Community Destruction</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=UqKNpdjrLuDjWBMLYtkDDOrtVBzVK5iy" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</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>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> Democratic hope is a subversive, defiant practice that makes power visible and interrogates and resists those events, social relations and ideas that pose a threat to 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=AYWrzkMtpY%2F5vuE%2BHmg%2FS%2BrtVBzVK5iy" 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=CfoK49JhJtBZv%2Bq%2BoGlHnOrtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In Depth: How Soft Is the Obama Administration Really Going on Marijuana?</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> The Obama administration's attitude toward drug enforcement is evolving, but don't expect the administration to reschedule marijuana or push for an end to prohibition anytime soon.</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=F7eOY5lw5khA6%2Fj9KfFjne0kBuuMbmjk" 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=6FQDLEH9IZ4HxzslPDOMcOrtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria</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 Zunes, Truthout:</strong> US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular.</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=t03uEdyKmb12WiocERSAJOrtVBzVK5iy" 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=et3XMEqogbJEJc9Q0PFmXOrtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Failing Up to the Fed: a Reporters' Guide to the Paper Trail Surrounding Larry Summers</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>Mary Bottari, PRWatch:</strong> For journalists who are being told what a brilliant man and insightful regulator Larry Summers was behind the scenes, here are a few items from his public record you might want to review.</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=BBDZFRjUHx4ycl2AyoHegurtVBzVK5iy" 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=NmKpBIeJcaNW7PDFUmzn6%2BrtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Should Hurricane James Inhofe Hit the East Coast?</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> We should start naming hurricanes and tropical storms after the politicians that deny climate science and the millionaires and billionaires that are funding all of the climate-change-denying nonsense.</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=2esIOepmiMEJOo%2FTJbCKK%2BrtVBzVK5iy" 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=LyNImX0EBylFmyD3syefHurtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy</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>Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout:</strong> We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together to solve common problems and create better lives for all of us.</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=7ERDxA11q6FCeG8xr2PO%2Be0kBuuMbmjk" 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=QiZ%2BtyIQamCT6Za10R7NzertVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs</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>Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog:</strong> Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the crosshairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario.</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=%2BPwI%2FbsbWKxWmH78aw14hOrtVBzVK5iy" 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=ByDDtE1AvUoV96TVyl7E6%2BrtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>"Frackademia" by Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed</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>Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog:</strong> Almost no focus has gone into scrutinizing Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which subsidizes biased pro-industry studies for a decade and in turn, further legitimizes unfettered fracking nationwide.</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=HiIz6Yq%2B%2FbcJLhPUnmraYurtVBzVK5iy" 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=htrXbB35YB7VwtfS4SFmnu0kBuuMbmjk"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Are to Blame for Health Care Premium Increases, 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> A new study found that the premium hikes in many red states are actually the result of Republican lawmakers who refuse to expand Medicaid; Congress is rushing to authorize up to three months of military action in Syria; Kansas is challenging the citizenship of more than 15,000 would-be voters; 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=neD2%2F%2BvXuTAnWeqrjnHzy%2BrtVBzVK5iy" 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=FGjmrJx1FQs0G2CMnyPL7urtVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In Secret AT&T Deal, US Drug Agents Given Access to 26 Years of Americans' Phone Records</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> Under a secretive program called the Hemisphere Project, the Drug Enforcement Administration has access to records of every phone call transmitted via AT&T's infrastructure dating back to 1987.</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=BiGqBvi5TELmP85Prx7Qb%2B0kBuuMbmjk" 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=y24AIl5lYIhUWiTyyjOBqertVBzVK5iy"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair</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>Antonia Darder and Peter Mayo, Truthout:</strong> Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels and in the absence of clear-cut evidence of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons.</p>
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