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Marijuana and a New York State of Mind
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t r u t h o u t | 01.10
Marijuana and a New York State of Mind
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21130-marijuana-and-a-new-york-state-of-mind
Aaron Cantu, Truthout: Why aren't more progressive-oriented states legalizing marijuana? A look at how New York state's police departments - and legislative candidates - are funded may provide a clue.
Does the History of the Algerian Coup Offer Clues to What Egypt May Expect?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21106-does-the-history-of-the-algerian-coup-offer-clues-to-what-egypt-may-expect
Yasmine Ryan, Truthout: The way the Algerian military used "the Green Peril" - Islamist extremism - to "kill the aspirations of democracy, freedom and social justice" may well be the model the present Egyptian government is emulating.
Lobbying for Iran War, AIPAC's Napkin Is Half Empty
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21134-lobbying-for-iran-war-aipacs-napkin-is-half-empty
Robert Naiman, Truthout: AIPAC wants the Senate to pass a new Iran sanctions bill. But blowing up President Obama's diplomacy with Iran would be the foreign policy equivalent of repealing ObamaCare.
Dean Baker | Unemployment Falls to 6.7 Percent Due to Workers Leaving the Labor Force
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21145-unemployment-falls-to-67-percent-due-to-workers-leaving-the-labor-force
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: The unemployment rate fell sharply to 6.7 percent in December, but the drop of 0.3 percentage points was almost entirely due to people leaving the labor force. The drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African Americans.
Mass Protests Grow as Military Drags Egypt Back to Dictatorship
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21110-mass-protests-grow-in-egypt-as-its-military-drags-the-country-back-to-dictatorship
Roger Annis, Truthout: Since the coup by Egypt's military overthrowing the democratically elected government of Mohamed Morsi, political repression in Egypt, including violence against peaceful protesters, banning of the Muslim Brotherhood and arrests of journalists, has intensified.
Rachel Maddow | An Alternate Theory of the Christie Scandal
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21147-an-alternate-theory-of-the-christie-scandal
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC: Rachel Maddow presents a new possibility of what the creation of a huge Fort Lee traffic jam was retribution for, if it wasn't over the mayor's gubernatorial endorsement. NJ Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg speaks with Maddow about the exposed political vendetta by Christie administration members.
Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21143-obama-administration-stays-quiet-as-boeing-strikes-major-blow-to-pensions
Mike Elk, In These Times: Boeing is one of the few remaining major corporations in the United States that still offers defined-benefit pensions. But on Friday, 30,000 union Boeing workers in Washington state voted to give up the pensions for new hires.
NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Farmer
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21146-nafta-at-20-state-of-the-north-american-farmer
Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Foreign Policy in Focus: In the United States and throughout North America, NAFTA has accelerated the industrial consolidation of agriculture and pushed out smaller, more sustainable food producers.
Syrian Revolutionaries Resist Violent Fundamentalists
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21148-syrian-revolutionaries-resist-violent-fundamentalists
Anna Lekas Miller, Truthout: Today, Syrian revolutionaries are engaged in a "Day of Rage" against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the al-Qaeda-linked group seizing Syria's liberated provinces to push a fundamentalist agenda. Truthout speaks with a rebel leader about the conflict and why it is still a revolution, despite media reports of civil war.
Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Many Ways That You're Being Tracked and Controlled
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21144-life-in-the-electronic-concentration-camp-the-many-ways-that-youre-being-tracked-catalogued-and-controlled
John W Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute: The electronic concentration camp is perhaps the most insidious of the police state's many tentacles, impacting almost every aspect of our lives and making it that much easier for the government to encroach on our most vital freedoms.
Paul Krugman | Inequality Remains a Critical Issue in the US
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21082-inequality-remains-a-critical-issue-in-the-us
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: It has taken an amazingly long time, but inequality is finally surfacing as a significant unifying issue for progressives in the United States - including the president. And there is also, inevitably, a backlash, or actually a couple of backlashes.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Millionaires Are Now the Majority in Congress: The 1% Literally Rule Us
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18411-millionaires-are-now-the-majority-in-congress-the-1-literally-rule-us
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It's unfortunate that self-interest determines how many people vote. That's why it is especially troubling to learn that now the majority of senators and Congressional representatives are millionaires. Those who haven't reached the 1% will probably have the opportunity with lobbying or corporate jobs when they leave office.
Lies, Stupidity, Waste and War Crimes: Iraq and the Ongoing Calamity of America's "Vital Interests"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18410-lies-stupidity-waste-war-crimes-iraq
Climate Change Madness: The Fate of the Planet Now Depends on Kickstarter
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/10/climate_change_madness_the_fate_of_the_planet_now_depends_on_kickstarter/
No Fast Track for Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Treaty
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18409-no-fast-track-for-secretive-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-treaty
US to Recognize Utah Gay Marriages Despite State Stance
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/us/politics/same-sex-marriage-utah.html?_r=0
Let's Be Real: Online Harassment Isn't "Virtual" for Women
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/let-s-be-real-online-harassment-isn-t-virtual-for-women
West Virginia Chemical Spill Cuts Water to Up to 300,000 Residents, State of Emergency Declared
Read the Article at NBC News
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/09/22245996-west-virginia-chemical-spill-cuts-water-to-up-to-300000-state-of-emergency-declared?lite
Bridgegate: Six New Jersey Residents File Lawsuit Against Christie, Port Authority
Read the Article at the Associated Press
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/bridgegate_six_nj_residents_file_lawsuit_against_christie_port_of_authority.html
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<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=BkYDWy4FYbd6lwmof0iIyvDwrUZ6hZVj" 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>Lies, Stupidity, Waste and War Crimes: Iraq and the Ongoing Calamity of America's "Vital Interests"</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>Climate Change Madness: The Fate of the Planet Now Depends on Kickstarter</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>No Fast Track for Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Treaty</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>US to Recognize Utah Gay Marriages Despite State Stance</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>Let's Be Real: Online Harassment Isn't "Virtual" for Women</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>West Virginia Chemical Spill Cuts Water to Up to 300,000 Residents, State of Emergency Declared</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>Bridgegate: Six New Jersey Residents File Lawsuit Against Christie, Port Authority</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>Aaron Cantu, Truthout:</strong> Why aren't more progressive-oriented states legalizing marijuana? A look at how New York state's police departments - and legislative candidates - are funded may provide a clue.</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=plgJZLa3meHDTb7ZXawcTfDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=cbwCCv0XnvrB%2B%2BBlcwQPVKGvGlbLZw83"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Does the History of the Algerian Coup Offer Clues to What Egypt May Expect?</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>Yasmine Ryan, Truthout:</strong> The way the Algerian military used "the Green Peril" - Islamist extremism - to "kill the aspirations of democracy, freedom and social justice" may well be the model the present Egyptian government is emulating.</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=vmHHXMpyecjx4Cg4fvusSPDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=iuUQwR0CD6s2hYC2N%2B5hqvDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Lobbying for Iran War, AIPAC's Napkin Is Half Empty</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> AIPAC wants the Senate to pass a new Iran sanctions bill. But blowing up President Obama's diplomacy with Iran would be the foreign policy equivalent of repealing ObamaCare.</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=Kuz2Z14WifDpxwfx8T%2Bh5vDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=vj4w9%2FK2BObnfGVDRAozy%2FDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Dean Baker | Unemployment Falls to 6.7 Percent Due to Workers Leaving the Labor Force</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>Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> The unemployment rate fell sharply to 6.7 percent in December, but the drop of 0.3 percentage points was almost entirely due to people leaving the labor force. The drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African Americans.</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=s6jNjRGEVG4YQEOWsR%2FN7KGvGlbLZw83" 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=7q6VaMjLodRI%2F6DyOwe2SPDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Mass Protests Grow as Military Drags Egypt Back to Dictatorship</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>Roger Annis, Truthout:</strong> Since the coup by Egypt's military overthrowing the democratically elected government of Mohamed Morsi, political repression in Egypt, including violence against peaceful protesters, banning of the Muslim Brotherhood and arrests of journalists, has intensified.</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=5qPagSfjm8%2B1MQrgLoTAU%2FDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=Sv3kfUDjEmelGX70XazXRfDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Rachel Maddow | An Alternate Theory of the Christie Scandal</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>Rachel Maddow, MSNBC:</strong> Rachel Maddow presents a new possibility of what the creation of a huge Fort Lee traffic jam was retribution for, if it wasn't over the mayor's gubernatorial endorsement. NJ Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg speaks with Maddow about the exposed political vendetta by Christie administration members.</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=rHblTQuAOcfVesD19QXM7fDwrUZ6hZVj" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Videos</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=i3VoUuP7F%2FfcrlgpdL%2FU6PDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions</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 Elk, In These Times:</strong> Boeing is one of the few remaining major corporations in the United States that still offers defined-benefit pensions. But on Friday, 30,000 union Boeing workers in Washington state voted to give up the pensions for new hires.</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=W8RCFUnRvbpOCPryXKCDefDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>NAFTA at 20: State of the North American Farmer</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>Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> In the United States and throughout North America, NAFTA has accelerated the industrial consolidation of agriculture and pushed out smaller, more sustainable food producers.</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=NdRjQ%2Ff%2B5N%2FcgzWYCt49fvDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=uLLQNHe7UDmxepTKufOXkPDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Syrian Revolutionaries Resist Violent Fundamentalists</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>Anna Lekas Miller, Truthout:</strong> Today, Syrian revolutionaries are engaged in a "Day of Rage" against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the al-Qaeda-linked group seizing Syria's liberated provinces to push a fundamentalist agenda. Truthout speaks with a rebel leader about the conflict and why it is still a revolution, despite media reports of civil war.</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=aPnvnYXpWaOj2dEA2uUeTfDwrUZ6hZVj" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Interview</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=3GlY8JVAeYEvLRDDVrj2J%2FDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Many Ways That You're Being Tracked and Controlled</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>John W Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute:</strong> The electronic concentration camp is perhaps the most insidious of the police state's many tentacles, impacting almost every aspect of our lives and making it that much easier for the government to encroach on our most vital freedoms.</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=%2BEB1zspocRrZOM%2BYMLdxN%2FDwrUZ6hZVj" 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=%2BWiTWzQT4%2FZiV1w6TcoW5fDwrUZ6hZVj"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Paul Krugman | Inequality Remains a Critical Issue in the 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>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> It has taken an amazingly long time, but inequality is finally surfacing as a significant unifying issue for progressives in the United States - including the president. And there is also, inevitably, a backlash, or actually a couple of backlashes.</p>
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