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William Rivers Pitt | A Good Week for Hard Drinking
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t r u t h o u t | William Rivers Pitt | A Good Week for Hard Drinking
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21288-william-rivers-pitt-a-good-week-for-hard-drinking
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "In retrospect, what I should have done five days ago was buy a case of Jameson, find the most conveniently-located boulder, crawl under it, and wait for this filthy disaster zone of a week to pass me by."
Gitmo 12 Years Later
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21260-gitmo-12-years-later
Adam Hudson, Truthout: It's been 12 years since the prison at Guantanamo opened, and its future continues to ebb and flow. Congress eased restrictions on transferring Guantanamo detainees and more prisoners have been released. Despite these changes, the fundamental issues of indefinite detention and perpetual war remain.
What's the Price of Workers' Lives in Cambodia?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21278-what-price-workers-lives
Anne Elizabeth Moore, Truthout: This month, the Cambodian military police killed five garment workers demanding a living wage of $160 per month. It suggests the garment workers have been mobilized in service to a political agenda that has little to do with the workers' own search for survival.
Protests Grow in Japan: "We Want to Bring Our Message to the World to Stop Nuclear Power Plants"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21296-protests-grow-in-japan-we-want-to-bring-our-message-to-the-world-to-stop-nuclear-power-plants
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Recent moves by the Japanese government to restart the country's nuclear power plant facilities have been met by growing protests "I think this is a problem of the world, not just of Japan," protester Kato Kaiko says.
Drones Speak for America in Yemen
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21243-drones-speak-for-america-in-yemen
James Gundun, Truthout: The Obama administration promises to investigate drone strike casualties, the possibility of being fed false intelligence and the overall launch process of targeted strikes. Meanwhile, civilians in Yemen are dying and al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula is garnering new recruits.
Colorado Pot Stores Will Soon Get a Little Help From Their Friends at "High Times"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21292-colorado-pot-stores-will-soon-get-a-little-help-from-their-friends-at-high-times
Susan Bird, Care2: Executives from the magazine High Times have established the HT Growth Fund, a new private-equity fund that will invest in the growth of established mid-size cannabis-related businesses.
Members of Congress Introduce a New Fix for the Voting Rights Act
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21289-members-of-congress-introduce-a-new-fix-for-the-voting-rights-act
Ari Berman, The Nation: Yesterday Congressional representatives introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision last June invalidating a critical section of the law.
West Virginia Chemical Spill: When Small Government Doesn't Work
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21293-west-virginia-chemical-spill-when-small-government-doesnt-work
Crystal Shepeard, Care2: How was this chemical able to be stored near a main water source and why has no one done anything about it before now? The answer lies in a complex failure of oversight and regulation that stretches from local enforcement all the way to the halls of Congress.
Open Fire and Open Markets: The Asia-Pacific Pivot and Trans-Pacific Partnership
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21291-open-fire-and-open-markets-the-asia-pacific-pivot-and-trans-pacific-partnership
Christine Ahn, Foreign Policy in Focus: Thomas Friedman once said the hidden hand of the market needs the hidden fist of the military. The TPP and the Obama administration's Pacific Pivot pack both.
Economic Update: Europe's Approach to Inequality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21279-economic-update-europes-approach-to-inequality
Richard D Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout: Updates on Colorado's new marijuana shops, how context exposes "recovery" claims, cause and cure for US obesity epidemic, and France's 75 percent tax rate on annual incomes over $1.3 million. Major discussions of history and dimensions of global inequality and movements for guaranteed annual incomes in Switzerland and beyond.
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