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The Age of Hyper-Racism: White Supremacy as the White Knight of
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The Age of Hyper-Racism: White Supremacy as the White Knight of Capitalism
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18780-the-age-of-hyper-racism-white-supremacy-as-the-white-knight-of-capitalism
Michael Ortiz, Truthout: White supremacy is a fluid social framework that has morphed from the system of slavery to the system of Jim Crow, ultimately to the contemporary system of color-blind racism and mass incarceration, changing form but not the intensity of racial power.
Snack Food Companies Face Scrutiny in Campaign Against Unsustainable Palm Oil
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18921-snack-food-companies-face-scrutiny-in-campaign-against-unsustainable-palm-oil
Martha Sorren, Truthout: Rainforest Action Network's new campaign against unsustainable palm oil production has called out 20 snack food companies in the hope that their power and influence can bring a change to their sector of palm oil consumption.
Iran Cooties: Will Obama Meet With Rouhani Tuesday?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18960-iran-cooties-will-obama-meet-with-rouhani-tuesday
Robert Naiman, Truthout: The world is watching to see if President Obama will break through the "cooties" quarantine Iran has been placed in by US foreign policy to greet and meet with Iran's newly elected, pragmatic, pro-diplomacy President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations.
Neoliberalism Plays Key Role in Economically Forced Mexican Migration to US
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18937-neo-liberalism-plays-key-role-in-economically-forced-mexican-migration-to-us
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Truthout speaks with David Bacon, author of "The Right to Stay Home," about how much of the Mexican migration to the United States comes about in dire response to profiteering economic and nation-state strategies.
Eugene Robinson | Obama Needs to Stand His Ground
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18953-obama-needs-to-stand-his-ground
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: Republicans in the House are like a bunch of 3-year-olds playing with matches. Their hapless leaders don't have the sense to scold them and send them to their rooms - which means President Obama has to be the disciplinarian in this dysfunctional family.
On Reinventing the Meaning of Politics and What Needs to Be Done
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18968-on-reinventing-the-meaning-of-politics-and-what-needs-to-be-done
Henry A Giroux, Truthout: On Monday, August 19, 2013 McMaster University Professor Henry Giroux spoke at the Third Ontario Common Front General Assembly. These excerpts are from his keynote address.
Chemical Weapons, Then Nuclear Weapons
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18926-chemical-weapons-then-nuclear-weapons
David Krieger, Truthout: US-Russian cooperation on achieving the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons is an exciting first step in the direction of a more decent world order.
The Misery Trick: Republican Bait-and-Switch on the Budget
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18963-the-misery-trick-republican-bait-and-switch-on-the-budget
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: This bait-and-switch offer from Republicans to keep the government running will raise unemployment, hurt businesses, cut the economy, harm families and could destroy the recovery.
How Fake Second Amendment History Kills
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18959-how-fake-2nd-amendment-history-kills
Robert Parry, Consortium News: A key reason why the nation is frozen in a shocking paralysis, unable to protect even little children, is that the American Right has sold much of the country on a false history regarding the Second Amendment.
Is Capitalism to Blame for the Syrian War Drive?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18955-is-capitalism-to-blame-for-the-syrian-war-drive
Shamus Cooke, Workers Action: The international game of geopolitics mirrors the corporate competition for international markets; with each country the United States dominates politically - through war - US corporations are able to profit through being the primary lender.
Jim Hightower | Squeezing More Profits from Crummy Tomatoes
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18964-squeezing-more-profits-from-crummy-tomatoes
Jim Hightower, OtherWords: Bland, mass-produced tomatoes doused with pesticides, machine harvested while green, and shipped across country are only ideal for the maximization of corporate profits.
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US Embraces Cruel Dictators Who Host the Navy and Supply Our Oil
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18205-us-embraces-cruel-dictators-who-host-the-navy-and-supply-our-oil
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Brutal dictators can be a democracy's best friend. Hypocrisy knows no limits when it comes to harsh regimes that fuel the US empire.
Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Watchdog Forces JPMorgan to Pay $329 Million
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/elizabeth-warren-cfpb-jpmorgan-customer-refund
From Afghan Youth to Leaders of Today: Daylight Is Almost Here
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18204-from-afghan-youth-to-leaders-of-today-daylight-is-almost-here
Is the FBI's Domestic Spying Out of Control?
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-fbis-domestic-spying-out-of-control-20130919
Fed Up with Wall Street, Democrats Look to the Left
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-democrats-lean-to-the-left/2013/09/17/e7409aa2-1fcd-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html
Rampage. Regret. Repeat.
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/09/20/colorado-state-senate-president-john-morse-on-the-fight-for-gun-control.html
Colorado Floods: 13,500 Gallons of Oil Spilled Along St. Vrain River; 5,250 Gallons Spilled in South Platte
Read the Article at The Denver Channel
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/13500-gallons-of-oil-spilled-along-st-vrain125-barrel-released-in-milliken
Darrell Issa's Pathetic, Error-Laden Benghazi Obsession Continues
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/darrell_issas_pathetic_error_laden_obsession_continues/?source=newsletter
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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>From Afghan Youth to Leaders of Today: Daylight Is Almost Here</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>Fed Up with Wall Street, Democrats Look to the Left</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>Rampage. Regret. Repeat.</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>Colorado Floods: 13,500 Gallons of Oil Spilled Along St. Vrain River; 5,250 Gallons Spilled in South Platte</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>Darrell Issa's Pathetic, Error-Laden Benghazi Obsession Continues</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>Michael Ortiz, Truthout:</strong> White supremacy is a fluid social framework that has morphed from the system of slavery to the system of Jim Crow, ultimately to the contemporary system of color-blind racism and mass incarceration, changing form but not the intensity of racial power.</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>Martha Sorren, Truthout:</strong> Rainforest Action Network's new campaign against unsustainable palm oil production has called out 20 snack food companies in the hope that their power and influence can bring a change to their sector of palm oil consumption.</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>Robert Naiman, Truthout:</strong> The world is watching to see if President Obama will break through the "cooties" quarantine Iran has been placed in by US foreign policy to greet and meet with Iran's newly elected, pragmatic, pro-diplomacy President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations.</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=7fdg5640SHb%2BLOj0sDNEF0WnxcWuxjzi"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Neoliberalism Plays Key Role in Economically Forced Mexican Migration to US</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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Truthout speaks with David Bacon, author of "The Right to Stay Home," about how much of the Mexican migration to the United States comes about in dire response to profiteering economic and nation-state strategies.</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=%2Baf3%2BKXKqDhTO%2FYRzLLYEUWnxcWuxjzi" 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=jnMjro67S1LrG2TSVeTP1g1jDo8XCZwz"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Eugene Robinson | Obama Needs to Stand His Ground</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> Republicans in the House are like a bunch of 3-year-olds playing with matches. Their hapless leaders don't have the sense to scold them and send them to their rooms - which means President Obama has to be the disciplinarian in this dysfunctional family.</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> On Monday, August 19, 2013 McMaster University Professor Henry Giroux spoke at the Third Ontario Common Front General Assembly. These excerpts are from his keynote address.</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>David Krieger, Truthout:</strong> US-Russian cooperation on achieving the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons is an exciting first step in the direction of a more decent world order.</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=vjrsfh7EfPiZ04PYd0mCOA1jDo8XCZwz" 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=ZuU09AXNxu1y5RCTR7wvIQ1jDo8XCZwz"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Misery Trick: Republican Bait-and-Switch on the Budget</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>Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> This bait-and-switch offer from Republicans to keep the government running will raise unemployment, hurt businesses, cut the economy, harm families and could destroy the recovery.</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=8uzlpjeD4H2ks2Bu8VOtxUWnxcWuxjzi" 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=815%2FKtyppivjlwmH0z9J3UWnxcWuxjzi"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>How Fake Second Amendment History Kills</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>Robert Parry, Consortium News:</strong> A key reason why the nation is frozen in a shocking paralysis, unable to protect even little children, is that the American Right has sold much of the country on a false history regarding the Second Amendment.</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=RLr3w4CyOyrQLqx6QFm6PUWnxcWuxjzi" 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=U0EYV5V8AovY25hHAJY2hEWnxcWuxjzi"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Is Capitalism to Blame for the Syrian War Drive?</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 international game of geopolitics mirrors the corporate competition for international markets; with each country the United States dominates politically - through war - US corporations are able to profit through being the primary lender.</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=SEgOqDyRUS1FU0LqwY4cKkWnxcWuxjzi" 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=jRCbJqhfoJ3B1FqXmvcN2kWnxcWuxjzi"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Jim Hightower | Squeezing More Profits from Crummy Tomatoes</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>Jim Hightower, OtherWords:</strong> Bland, mass-produced tomatoes doused with pesticides, machine harvested while green, and shipped across country are only ideal for the maximization of corporate profits.</p>
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