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Noam Chomsky | De-Americanizing the World
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t r u t h o u t | Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Noam Chomsky | De-Americanizing the World
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19825-noam-chomsky-de-americanizing-the-world
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: During the latest episode of the Washington farce that has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world system, perhaps the world should become "de-Americanized."
William Rivers Pitt | Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19833-william-rivers-pitt-decisions-are-made-by-those-who-show-up
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: All you need to see to understand just how poorly our level of voter turnout has been working out for each and every one of us is the front page of any newspaper in America.
The Rise of Chicago's 99% Against Rahm Emanuel, "Mayor 1%"
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19810-the-rise-of-chicagos-99-against-rahm-emanuel-mayor-1
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Kari Lydersen, author of Mayor 1%, tells Truthout that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is representative of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic party, and he's getting significant pushback in his efforts to expand privatization and limit protests.
Bill Moyers | Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19830-bill-moyers-yves-smith-and-dean-baker-on-secrets-in-trade
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Some vigilant independent watchdogs are tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations with sources they trust, including Dean Baker and Yves Smith, who join Moyers & Company this week.
Food Safety Modernization Act Threatens Fresh, Healthy, Sustainably Grown Food
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19816-food-safety-modernization-act-threatens-fresh-healthy-and-sustainably-grown-food
Michael Tabor and Nick Maravell, Lancaster Farming: "Each week at my farm stands in the Maryland area, we try to explain a peculiar situation to our customers. On the one hand, they want to buy our fresh fruit and vegetables. However, in a few years, these will all be illegal to sell! Why? Because they have some degree of dirt and bacteria on them."
Food Stamps Are Affordable; Corporate Welfare Is Not
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19844-food-stamps-are-affordable-corporate-welfare-is-not
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Simply put, the American taxpayer isn't paying much for social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicare. But we are paying a lot for the billions of dollars the US government gives to corporate America each year.
A Field Guide to Losing Friends, Influencing No One and Alienating the Middle East
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19841-a-field-guide-to-losing-friends-influencing-no-one-and-alienating-the-middle-east
Bob Dreyfuss, TomDispatch: Although President Obama can order raids virtually anywhere using Special Operations forces, and although he can strike willy-nilly in targeted killing actions by calling in the Predator and Reaper drones, he has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East.
California Probe of Campaign Donations Sheds Light on "Dark Money"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19832-california-probe-of-campaign-donations-sheds-light-on-dark-money
Chris Megerian and Anthony York, McClatchy Newspapers: Tony Russo had a multimillion-dollar problem. The Republican consultant and his team had raised piles of cash to use in California politics as last November's election approached. But a wrinkle in state law meant he couldn't spend it in the final two months of the campaign without jeopardizing the anonymity he had promised his rich donors.
MSNBC "Leans Forward" Into Running "Native Ads" Promoting Fracking
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19826-msnbc-leans-forward-into-running-native-ads-promoting-fracking
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: Three years into its "Lean Forward" re-branding campaign, MSNBC has given new meaning to the catch phrase, leaning forward into running branded content promoting hydraulic fracturing.
Drones Have Come Out of the Shadows
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19836-drones-have-come-out-of-the-shadows
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK: New films, reports and media coverage finally are giving the American public a taste of the personal tragedies involved with President Obama's deadly drone program.
First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation ... Still No One in Jail
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19838-first-wall-street-criminal-confession-in-a-generation-still-no-one-in-jail
Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Hedge fund SAC advisers have admitted to insider trading. This is the first criminal confession from a Wall Street firm in a generation.
This Week in SpeakOut: An Open Letter to the Climate Justice Movement
http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/19828-an-open-letter-to-the-climate-justice-movement
Robin Hahenl, New Politics: "I am writing to you with whom I share these central political commitments because I believe you are making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Massive Toxic Japanese Tsunami Island of Trash Headed Toward US
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Globalization takes on a whole new meaning when an island of toxic debris, possibly radiated by the Fukushima leaks, is potentially headed our way.
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18295-massive-toxic-japanese-tsunami-island-of-trash-headed-toward-us
Pro-Nuke Scientists Should Go to Fukushima
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18294-pro-nuke-scientists-should-go-to-fukushima
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Where Were You When They Told Us the World as We Know It Is Over?
http://agonist.org/told-us-world-know/
Read the Article at The Agonist
ALEC Fights to Put Workers Into Poverty, but When Will Someone Put ALEC Out of Business?
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18293-alec-workers-poverty-out-of-business
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
The Real Story Behind the Phony Canceled Health Insurance Scandal
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/obamacare-canceled-health-insurance
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Former US House Speaker Jim Wright Denied Voter ID Card in Texas
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-house-speaker-jim-wright-denied-voter-id-card
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
Charles P. Pierce | The Saga of Big Chicken: A Continuing Series
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/chris-christie-is-a-chicken-110413
Read the Article at Esquire
Campaign Intensifies for Latino Museum on the National Mall
http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/campaign-intensifies-for-latino-museum-on-the-national-mall-20131104
Read the Article at The National Journal
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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>Former US House Speaker Jim Wright Denied Voter ID Card in Texas</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> During the latest episode of the Washington farce that has astonished a bemused world, a Chinese commentator wrote that if the United States cannot be a responsible member of the world system, perhaps the world should become "de-Americanized."</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=wh1BsVO%2F5jibf2vyl5gCbSioHFlVmqlg" 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=ymCcpw961BVQP%2FdDkJeXuyioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up</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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> All you need to see to understand just how poorly our level of voter turnout has been working out for each and every one of us is the front page of any newspaper in America.</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=IK2ciIPBgyMbpiJqtT0YNueAwQXp04M9" 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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Kari Lydersen, author of <em>Mayor 1%</em>, tells Truthout that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is representative of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic party, and he's getting significant pushback in his efforts to expand privatization and limit protests.</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=KaMNi%2Fr04YY6QjjYX6RfHOeAwQXp04M9" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Bill Moyers | Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade</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>Michael Tabor and Nick Maravell, Lancaster Farming:</strong> "Each week at my farm stands in the Maryland area, we try to explain a peculiar situation to our customers. On the one hand, they want to buy our fresh fruit and vegetables. However, in a few years, these will all be illegal to sell! Why? Because they have some degree of dirt and bacteria on them."</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=tCFC%2BwhMGfB4H7lINNFypCioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Food Stamps Are Affordable; Corporate Welfare Is Not</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> Simply put, the American taxpayer isn't paying much for social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicare. But we are paying a lot for the billions of dollars the US government gives to corporate America each year.</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=6Xf5tOn8Rc3lEwTx91ycdCioHFlVmqlg" 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=oGOskZuDbOnlKYR2m7Jn5SioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Field Guide to Losing Friends, Influencing No One and Alienating the Middle East</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>Bob Dreyfuss, TomDispatch:</strong> Although President Obama can order raids virtually anywhere using Special Operations forces, and although he can strike willy-nilly in targeted killing actions by calling in the Predator and Reaper drones, he has become the Rodney Dangerfield of the Middle East.</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=5ggAt%2FMJ24HkKoZ90wiAtSioHFlVmqlg" 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=xFCOBedOuK8h2AAkwh8lmCioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>California Probe of Campaign Donations Sheds Light on "Dark Money"</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 Megerian and Anthony York, McClatchy Newspapers:</strong> Tony Russo had a multimillion-dollar problem. The Republican consultant and his team had raised piles of cash to use in California politics as last November's election approached. But a wrinkle in state law meant he couldn't spend it in the final two months of the campaign without jeopardizing the anonymity he had promised his rich donors.</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=AaKU5Gh4xtxrLJZWyhqf4SioHFlVmqlg" 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=GYqritnGIl9%2BZCxKKjipLSioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>MSNBC "Leans Forward" Into Running "Native Ads" Promoting Fracking</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> Three years into its "Lean Forward" re-branding campaign, MSNBC has given new meaning to the catch phrase, leaning forward into running branded content promoting hydraulic fracturing.</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=L5Q%2BZXtNH%2BoTOKGc1GHLyyioHFlVmqlg" 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=oGOskZuDbOmJAkCEhFr6biioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Drones Have Come Out of the Shadows</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>Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK:</strong> New films, reports and media coverage finally are giving the American public a taste of the personal tragedies involved with President Obama's deadly drone program.</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=o9IyBKVCEtTlJmFTvHV%2BcSioHFlVmqlg" 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=iFO4%2FMqIWvR6Ujl5gWMMxSioHFlVmqlg" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>First Wall Street Criminal Confession in a Generation ... Still No One in Jail</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>Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network:</strong> Hedge fund SAC advisers have admitted to insider trading. This is the first criminal confession from a Wall Street firm in a generation.</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=9kUSX%2FWg1YMW9DqiDVnc3yioHFlVmqlg" 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=u2egOnmGbgN2OCyEgRbxG3bSYoLBXwhU" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>This Week in SpeakOut: An Open Letter to the Climate Justice Movement</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>Robin Hahenl, New Politics:</strong> "I am writing to you with whom I share these central political commitments because I believe you are making a serious strategic mistake by categorically rejecting international carbon trading."</p>
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