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t r u t h o u t | Tuesday, 7 January 2014
William Rivers Pitt | Homegrown
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21058-william-rivers-pitt-homegrown
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: What is more caustic to this society: marijuana (which is already everywhere anyway, and that is fact) or thousands upon thousands of people consigned to the tender mercies of the penal system? Marijuana or thousands of people suffering and dying in needless and preventable pain?
Noam Chomsky | What Is the Common Good?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21070-noam-chomsky-what-is-the-common-good
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: Concern for the common good should impel us to find ways to cultivate human development in its richest diversity. Institutions that constrain such development are illegitimate, unless they can somehow justify themselves.
John Pilger | Would as Many as 1 Million Be Alive if the Media Had Done Its Job
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21043-is-the-media-now-just-another-word-for-control
John Pilger, Truthout: Imagine if the lies of governments had been properly challenged and exposed as they secretly prepared to invade Iraq. Perhaps a million people would be alive today.
Locked in Winter
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21084-locked-in-winter
Kathy Kelly, War Is a Crime: The Chaman e Babrak refugee camp in Afghanistan spills over the grounds of a large field formerly used for sporting events. With 720 families crowded into the camp, it is second in density and size only to the Charahi Qambar refugee camp, on the outskirts of Kabul.
Does Tea Party Hero Mike Lee Really Want a War With Iran?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21056-does-tea-party-hero-mike-lee-really-want-a-war-with-iran
Robert Naiman, Truthout: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is boasting that it has captured 47 US senators, including Tea Party hero Mike Lee, for its war-with-Iran project, but has it really?
In a Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power To Ban Harmful Prescribers
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21065-in-a-major-shift-medicare-wants-power-to-ban-harmful-prescribers
Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica: For the first time, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would have the authority to kick out providers who engage in abusive prescribing. It could take such action if providers' licenses have been suspended or revoked by state regulators.
The Republican Sabotage of America
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21086-the-republican-sabotage-of-america
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Never in the history of our nation has a political party tried so hard to actively sabotage a piece of legislation like today's Republican Party is doing with Obamacare. Republicans are so committed to sabotaging President Obama's presidency that they're willing to let people die.
America's Black-Ops Blackout: Unraveling the Secrets of the Military's Secret Military
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21085-americas-black-ops-blackout-unraveling-the-secrets-of-the-militarys-secret-military
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: Despite the lack of official cooperation, an analysis reveals US Special Operations Command to be an operation on the make with a sprawling reach. In a future now only six years off, SOCOM wants to be everywhere.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Right-Wing Media Point to Polar Vortex to Support Climate Denial, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21087-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-right-wing-media-use-polar-vortex-for-climate-denial-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Right-wing media are pointing to the cold snap as so-called proof that global warming is a myth; 900 of the wealthiest Americans won't pay any more into Social Security for the rest of the year; moral Mondays are coming to Georgia; and more.
GMO and "Natural" Food Fight: Treacherous Terrain
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21064-gmo-and-natural-food-fight-treacherous-terrain
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association: The multinational food corporations last month raised the stakes in the ongoing David vs. Goliath battle by petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to continue to label or market products that contain genetically modified organisms as "natural."
Pentagon Data on Student Testing Program Rife With Errors and Contradictions
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21062-pentagon-data-on-student-testing-program-rife-with-errors-and-contradictions
Pat Elder, War Is a Crime: In late December, the Department of Defense released a database on the military's controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high schools. An examination of the complex and contradictory dataset raises serious issues regarding student privacy.
"Drugs Aren't the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science and Myths About Addiction
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21078-drugs-arent-the-problem-neuroscientist-carl-hart-on-brain-science-and-myths-about-addiction
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Amy Goodman speaks with Dr. Carl Hart, who learned about drug usage while growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods. He recently wrote a memoir titled "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
We Need More Citizens to Expose the Surveillance State: Remembering Eight Who Did
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18403-we-need-more-citizens-to-expose-the-surveillance-state-remembering-eight-who-did
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: More than four decades ago, eight Vietnam War protesters burglarized a suburban Philadelphia FBI office. What they found revealed that American dissent was being systematically investigated and suppressed. Only now are we finding out who these daring whistleblowers were.
Why the Arctic Is Drunk Right Now
http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-the-arctic-is-drunk-right-now/
Read the Article at Grist
Blame Fossil Fuel Industry for Worst Drought in California's History - Reporters and Meteorologists Need to Say It Too: Global Warming
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18402-fossil-fuel-drought-california-global-warming
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Will Elizabeth Warren Oppose Obama's Pick for Banking Watchdog?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/will-elizabeth-warren-support-obamas-pick-banking-watchdog
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Chicago Ban on Gun Sales Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-06/chicago-ban-on-gun-sales-in-city-unconstitutional-judge-rules.html
Read the Article at Bloomberg News
US Steps Up Iraq Weapons Shipments as Violence Surges
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/us-steps-up-iraq-weapons-shipments
Read the Article at the Guardian
NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/01/07/nsa-insiders-reveal-what-went-wrong/
Read the Article at Consortium News
The Onion: This Is What Happens When You Watch Mainstream Media TV News
http://youtu.be/guaLbl_WmVw
Watch the Video at YouTube
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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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> What is more caustic to this society: marijuana (which is already everywhere anyway, and that is fact) or thousands upon thousands of people consigned to the tender mercies of the penal system? Marijuana or thousands of people suffering and dying in needless and preventable pain?</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=q0SQPNiWrnLUwg7HlCpftsGWLrFZkdTP"><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=zoivwHwqtpAVz8ACaKhXTMGWLrFZkdTP"><strong>Noam Chomsky | What Is the Common Good?</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>Noam Chomsky, Truthout:</strong> Concern for the common good should impel us to find ways to cultivate human development in its richest diversity. Institutions that constrain such development are illegitimate, unless they can somehow justify themselves.</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=QNNlcR0cnHnwZUyqOuuzQ%2BUWCViS7nRx"><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>John Pilger, Truthout:</strong> Imagine if the lies of governments had been properly challenged and exposed as they secretly prepared to invade Iraq. Perhaps a million people would be alive today.</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=LmeJpH0K8WhbTo3K3n2GPMGWLrFZkdTP"><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>Kathy Kelly, War Is a Crime:</strong> The Chaman e Babrak refugee camp in Afghanistan spills over the grounds of a large field formerly used for sporting events. With 720 families crowded into the camp, it is second in density and size only to the Charahi Qambar refugee camp, on the outskirts of Kabul.</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=G4G2AOOJZMSN7DywjYCg9sGWLrFZkdTP"><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=yOBSBHQcpEsF9ClMG1HHq8GWLrFZkdTP"><strong>Does Tea Party Hero Mike Lee Really Want a War With Iran?</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 Naiman, Truthout:</strong> The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is boasting that it has captured 47 US senators, including Tea Party hero Mike Lee, for its war-with-Iran project, but has it really?</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=kf1pEv2Ld8ftR0zh6X%2BlVsGWLrFZkdTP"><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=m0gyUw1xtlGjqVmGCgliE8GWLrFZkdTP"><strong>In a Major Shift, Medicare Wants Power To Ban Harmful Prescribers</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>Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica:</strong> For the first time, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would have the authority to kick out providers who engage in abusive prescribing. It could take such action if providers' licenses have been suspended or revoked by state regulators.</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=4hZBRHoRqd1bBdJESDDrv8GWLrFZkdTP"><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=zGiSwqAU%2FkTbIFMchbzoKuUWCViS7nRx"><strong>The Republican Sabotage of America</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> Never in the history of our nation has a political party tried so hard to actively sabotage a piece of legislation like today's Republican Party is doing with Obamacare. Republicans are so committed to sabotaging President Obama's presidency that they're willing to let people die.</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=r9iKn24jTkGIj2xGSiQv98GWLrFZkdTP"><strong>America's Black-Ops Blackout: Unraveling the Secrets of the Military's Secret Military</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>Nick Turse, TomDispatch:</strong> Despite the lack of official cooperation, an analysis reveals US Special Operations Command to be an operation on the make with a sprawling reach. In a future now only six years off, SOCOM wants to be everywhere.</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=MnYuez0bwluKxzXsX3vfqcGWLrFZkdTP"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Right-Wing Media Point to Polar Vortex to Support Climate Denial, 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> Right-wing media are pointing to the cold snap as so-called proof that global warming is a myth; 900 of the wealthiest Americans won't pay any more into Social Security for the rest of the year; moral Mondays are coming to Georgia; and more.</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=ycgkbt5iqLryXnJVOODTG8GWLrFZkdTP"><strong>GMO and "Natural" Food Fight: Treacherous Terrain</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>Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association:</strong> The multinational food corporations last month raised the stakes in the ongoing David vs. Goliath battle by petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to continue to label or market products that contain genetically modified organisms as "natural."</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=764GrH7kqRG6jMTW%2FZCrXsGWLrFZkdTP"><strong>Pentagon Data on Student Testing Program Rife With Errors and Contradictions</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>Pat Elder, War Is a Crime:</strong> In late December, the Department of Defense released a database on the military's controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high schools. An examination of the complex and contradictory dataset raises serious issues regarding student privacy.</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=IyZcOuT%2FISnxdB4tKGkUysGWLrFZkdTP"><strong>"Drugs Aren't the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science and Myths About Addiction</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> Amy Goodman speaks with Dr. Carl Hart, who learned about drug usage while growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods. He recently wrote a memoir titled <em>High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.</em></p>
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