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A Renewed Discourse on Inequality
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t r u t h o u t | 02.09
A Renewed Discourse on Inequality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21708-a-renewed-discourse-on-inequality
Jed Morey, Truthout: Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords, accompanied by the ability to craft legislation and pour unlimited funds into the political process, exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.
Forty Koch Brothers Donors Exposed After Document Left at Hotel by Mistake Is Leaked
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21744-forty-koch-brothers-donors-exposed-after-document-left-at-hotel-by-mistake-is-leaked
Jodie Gummow, AlterNet: A new document providing rare insight into the political machine of the Koch brothers has surfaced - revealing the names of up to 40 donors, as well as senior Koch officials.
Scarred by War, Exploited in Peace: Review of Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20723-scarred-by-war-exploited-in-peace-review-of-pure-grit-how-american-world-war-ii-nurses-survived-battle-and-prison-camp-in-the-pacific
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Mary Cronk Farrell's new book, Pure Grit, tells the story of 79 white female American nurses who were captured by the Japanese during World War II and held as prisoners.
Beyond Keystone XL: Eight Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21742-beyond-keystone-xl-eight-reasons-for-optimism-on-climate-change
Michael Northrop, Yes! Magazine: Recent signs that Barack Obama may approve the Keystone XL pipeline have some environmentalists feeling down about the future of the climate. But huge and positive changes are quietly taking place.
Missing the Marx: On Intellectual Failure and Environmental Catastrophe
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21743-missing-the-marx-more-or-less-on-intellectual-failure-and-environmental-catastrophe
Paul Street, ZNet: Getting radical anti-capitalist ideas wrong and ignoring those ideas completely are timeworn traditions for US intellectuals. Paul Street analyzes two books that he says misrepresent these radical ideas.
Tipping the Scales of Inequality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21745-tipping-the-scales-of-inequality
Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, OtherWords: Stagnating wages for tipped workers is part of a bigger story of rising inequality in America.
Sharing the Struggle: Three Ways Environmental and Economic Activism Overlap
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21746-sharing-the-struggle-three-ways-environmental-and-economic-activism-overlap
Kevin Mathews, Care2: The pursuit of economic justice IS the pursuit of environmental justice. Each movement could stand to benefit from uniting their causes due to these three profound links.
Rising Inequality: Economic Recovery Driven Almost Entirely by the Rich
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21753-rising-inequality-economic-recovery-driven-almost-entirely-by-the-rich
Gaius Publius, America Blog: The top 20 percent of income earners now account for more than 60 percent of all consumption in the US. Do the rich really need the rest of us? If by "us" you mean middle-class Americans, the answer is likely, "No, not anymore."
Digital Underground Believed to Be Behind Attack on Target
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21751-digital-underground-believed-to-be-behind-attack-on-target
Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune: Although Target's breach remains under cloaked investigation with no official results, a security intelligence firm says it is following a ring of nine people dealing in access to hacked point-of-sale terminals.
Heads of Killing, Lying and Spying Under Fire at Senate Intelligence Hearing
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21748-heads-of-killing-lying-and-spying-under-fire-at-senate-intelligence-hearing
Cayman Kai, CodePink: In the midst of bipartisan bashing of Edward Snowden in a Senate intelligence hearing on January 29, some stood up for truth in the face of repeated lies and evasion from intelligence chiefs.
Greg Palast | SAC Billionaire Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19906-steven-cohen-cant-make-his-mommys-monkey-jump
Greg Palast, Truthout: Last Thursday, a federal jury found Mathew Martoma guilty of insider trading. Martoma's boss is Steven A. Cohen, worth about $9 billion, who directs a criminal enterprise masquerading as a hedge fund called SAC Capital.
This week in Speakout: Victor Grossman discusses the Seegers' visit to then-East Germany; Ahmed R. Teleb suggests how much easier it is even for progressive media to vilify sports team owners than to question society's complicity in sports abuses; Nemat Sadat talks about the whirlwind created in Afghanistan by his coming out; Evelyn Galindo-Doucette argues the relevance of El Salvador's elections to US Americans; Ed Kinane of the "Hancock 17" deplores drone terrorism in his closing statement at trial; Laura Finley reviews some of the cultural peculiarities of her adopted home-state, Florida; Popular Resistance describes how to fight back against the NSA on February 11; and more.
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
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US Treasury Introduces "Extraordinary Measures" as February 27 Debt Deadline Looms
Read the Article at RT News
http://rt.com/usa/us-debt-lew-treasury-173/
Justice Department to Give Married Same-Sex Couples Equal Protection
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-to-give-married-same-sex-couples-sweeping-equal-protection/2014/02/08/36eafcae-90cc-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html?wpisrc=al_national
Snowden Used Common Web Crawler Tool to Collect NSA Files
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/edward-snowden-used-simple-technology-nsa
North Carolina's Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/178291/north-carolinas-moral-monday-movement-kicks-2014-massive-rally-raleigh#
NSA Is Collecting Less Than 30 Percent of US Call Data, Officials Say
Read the Article at RT News
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-collection-30-percent-daily-137/
The Sochi Scandal No One Is Talking About: How Russia Is Silencing Its Environmentalists
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/09/the_sochi_scandal_no_ones_talking_about_how_russia_is_silencing_its_environmentalists/
Report: Ohio Oil Industry Paying to Educate Teachers About Fracking
Read the Article at Al Jazeera America
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/8/ohio-oil-industrypayingtoeducatepublicschoolteachersaboutfrackin.html
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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>Jed Morey, Truthout:</strong> Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords, accompanied by the ability to craft legislation and pour unlimited funds into the political process, exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.</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=SO%2BBzomynQ6IQEc5J%2FSyrvW5sUhKQXu8"><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=fuOHQUJMfGEB5l1hqit28fW5sUhKQXu8"><strong>Forty Koch Brothers Donors Exposed After Document Left at Hotel by Mistake Is Leaked</strong></a></p>
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<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=wLme8bGC93ZaaqQGf8iRXfW5sUhKQXu8"><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=W3gHATx4%2FOQ64w7VvX6VbfW5sUhKQXu8"><strong>Scarred by War, Exploited in Peace: Review of <em>Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific</em></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>Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout:</strong> Mary Cronk Farrell's new book, <em>Pure Grit</em>, tells the story of 79 white female American nurses who were captured by the Japanese during World War II and held as prisoners.</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=zPexwPi7n054KOlW9t%2BcoPW5sUhKQXu8"><strong>Tipping the Scales of Inequality</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>Marjorie Elizabeth Wood, OtherWords:</strong> Stagnating wages for tipped workers is part of a bigger story of rising inequality in America.</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=EEVrSzpH3zYrTYsMDr2U2%2FW5sUhKQXu8"><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=5xRDVJ9vVYAKWNoGerktJfW5sUhKQXu8"><strong>Sharing the Struggle: Three Ways Environmental and Economic Activism Overlap</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>Kevin Mathews, Care2:</strong> The pursuit of economic justice IS the pursuit of environmental justice. Each movement could stand to benefit from uniting their causes due to these three profound links.</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=Bp44m%2FWuULJGDZ7Yd4bWJPW5sUhKQXu8"><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>Gaius Publius, America Blog:</strong> The top 20 percent of income earners now account for more than 60 percent of all consumption in the US. Do the rich really need the rest of us? If by "us" you mean middle-class Americans, the answer is likely, "No, not anymore."</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>Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune:</strong> Although Target's breach remains under cloaked investigation with no official results, a security intelligence firm says it is following a ring of nine people dealing in access to hacked point-of-sale terminals.</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>Cayman Kai, CodePink:</strong> In the midst of bipartisan bashing of Edward Snowden in a Senate intelligence hearing on January 29, some stood up for truth in the face of repeated lies and evasion from intelligence chiefs.</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=FgMHsuk7p5OBXxg7%2FhpSRfW5sUhKQXu8"><strong>Greg Palast | SAC Billionaire Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump</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>Greg Palast, Truthout:</strong> Last Thursday, a federal jury found Mathew Martoma guilty of insider trading. Martoma's boss is Steven A. Cohen, worth about $9 billion, who directs a criminal enterprise masquerading as a hedge fund called SAC Capital.</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">Victor Grossman discusses the Seegers' visit to then-East Germany; Ahmed R. Teleb suggests how much easier it is even for progressive media to vilify sports team owners than to question society's complicity in sports abuses; Nemat Sadat talks about the whirlwind created in Afghanistan by his coming out; Evelyn Galindo-Doucette argues the relevance of El Salvador's elections to US Americans; Ed Kinane of the "Hancock 17" deplores drone terrorism in his closing statement at trial; Laura Finley reviews some of the cultural peculiarities of her adopted home-state, Florida; Popular Resistance describes how to fight back against the NSA on February 11; and more.</p>
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