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Dean Baker | Money in Hyping the Generational War Story
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t r u t h o u t | 03.17
Dean Baker | Money in Hyping the Generational War Story
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22507-dean-baker-money-in-hyping-the-gene=
rational-war-story
Dean Baker, Truthout: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on ret=
irement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from th=
e policies that allow them to get rich at everyone else's expense. And the =
rich are prepared to spend lots of money to keep the public distracted.
Chris Hedges | Israel's War on American Universities
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22504-chris-hedges-israels-war-on-america=
n-universities
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at=
Northeastern University in Boston on March 7, along with a university thre=
at of disciplinary measures against some of its members, replicates sanctio=
ns being imposed against numerous student Palestinian rights groups across =
the country.
Indigenous Voices in Climate Activism: Autonomous or Subjugated?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22466-indigenous-voices-in-climate-activi=
sm-autonomous-or-subjugated
Sara Santiago, Truthout: First Nations are key to much climate change and o=
ther environmental activism through the assertion of their sovereign land r=
ights and the fact that their communities often depend on contested environ=
ments. Their voices must not be subsumed by NGOs and others.
Gimme Shelter
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22392-gimme-shelter
Leslie Thatcher, Truthout: Howard Mansfield's Dwelling in Possibility; Sear=
ching for the Soul of Shelter suggests by demonstration that how we constru=
ct our dwellings makes a cosmic difference in the quality of our personal a=
nd communal lives.
How the Antiunion Right Declared War in Chattanooga
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22468-how-the-anti-union-right-declared-war-=
in-chattanooga
John Logan, Truthout: If the National Labor Relations Board fails to respon=
d to the right-wing campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections - which =
included a "grassroots" group commissioning antiunion consulting firm Proje=
ctions Inc. - billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as p=
olitical contests.
Billionaires ... First They Came for the Economy=E2=80=A8http://truth-out.o=
rg/opinion/item/22525-billionaires-first-they-came-for-the-economy=E2=80=A8=
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Over the past 40 years, billiona=
ire oligarchs have slowly but surely taken over just about all aspects of l=
ife in America. It's time to end America's "oligonomy" by rolling back the =
Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act so that corporatio=
ns can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles of money.
Vermont Bus Drivers Strike Over Dangerous Conditions
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22510-vermont-bus-drivers-striking-over-dang=
erous-conditions
Jonathan Leavitt, Truthout: Municipal bus drivers in northern Vermont are s=
triking today against unsafe conditions, surveillance and discipline, and p=
art-time status, in a show of union solidarity that could prove a powerful =
model for public-sector strikes.
Guatemala's Praised Attorney General To Step Down Under Controversy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22520-guatemalas-praised-attorney-general-to=
-step-down-under-controversy
Paul N. Avakian, Truthout: Guatemala's Constitutional Court - which vacated=
the genocide verdict against Jos=C3=A9 Efra=C3=ADn R=C3=ADos Montt last Ma=
y - has now ruled that Guatemala's highly respected prosecutor general, Cla=
udia Paz y Paz, must leave office.
Four Ways To Really Fix the Pentagon's Effort To ID the Missing
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22514-four-ways-to-really-fix-the-pentagons-=
effort-to-id-the-missing
Megan McCloskey, ProPublica: The Pentagon's floundering mission to find and=
identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts has been h=
ampered by outdated scientific methods, a lack of public outreach and cumbe=
rsome bureaucracy. Here are four ideas to really fix the effort.
Amy Goodman | Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA "Infects" Millions of Compute=
rs, Impersonates Facebook Server
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22523-snowden-docs-expose-how-the-nsa-infect=
s-millions-of-computers-impersonates-facebook-server
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the N=
SA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. The Intercept rep=
orts that the NSA is spreading the software to millions of computers under =
an automated system codenamed "Turbine."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Nuclear Regulators Are Hiding the Risk o=
f a Fukushima-Style Incident, and More=E2=80=A8http://truth-out.org/news/it=
em/22526-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-us-nuclear-regulators-are-hiding-th=
e-risk-of-a-fukushima-style-incident-and-more=E2=80=A8In today's On the New=
s segment: Recently released documents show that since Fukushima, our nucle=
ar regulators have been playing down the risk of a similar incident happeni=
ng in the US; homeowners want energy choices - and for once, that's not jus=
t a Republican talking point; four new man-made gases are destroying our oz=
one layer and intensifying the effects of climate change; and more.
Gold for Executives; Contempt for Taxpayers
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22511-gold-for-executives-contempt-for-taxpa=
yers
Gerald E. Scorse, The Hill: Jamie Dimon took high heat over his 74 percent =
mega-raise, but he's not at fault. The blame goes to a 1993 boondoggle for =
bigwigs - a boondoggle that's cost taxpayers by the billions ever since. Co=
ngress should call a halt to it, and the country's mood could push it to do=
just that.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
President Obama Is Endangering Future Generations by Ignoring Climate Chang=
e
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/president-obama-is-endangerin=
g-future-generations-by-ignoring-climate-change
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The gap between the rhetorical promise =
of change and the reality of a detached presidency is dangerously evident i=
n climate change. President Obama has offered little more than lip service =
to preventing catastrophic eco-atmospheric damage.
Open Government Study: Obama Administration Is Denying Requests for Data Mo=
re Than Ever=20
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUNSHINE_WEEK_FOIA?SITE=3DAP&SECT=
ION=3DHOME&TEMPLATE=3DDEFAULT=20
Five Inequities of the Wall Street Freeloaders Having No Financial Transact=
ion Tax
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/five-inequities-of-the-wall-s=
treet-freeloaders-having-no-financial-transaction-tax=20
US Sanctions on Russia Freeze Top Officials' Assets
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/us-announces-russia-sanctions
When Was the Bill of Rights for the American People Replaced by a Corporate=
Bill of Rights?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/when-was-the-bill-of-rights-f=
or-the-american-people-replaced-by-a-corporate-bill-of-rights
Joseph E. Stiglitz | On the Wrong Side of Globalization
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/on-the-wrong-side-of-global=
ization/?_php=3Dtrue&_type=3Dblogs&_php=3Dtrue&_type=3Dblogs&_php=3Dtrue&_t=
ype=3Dblogs&_r=3D2=20
The US Is Abandoning Democracy, Becoming an Aristocracy Instead
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-us-is-abandoning-democrac=
y-becoming-an-aristocracy-instead=20
Paris Bans Cars, Makes Transit Free To Fight Air Pollution
Read the Article at Grist
http://grist.org/news/paris-bans-cars-makes-transit-free-to-fight-air-pollu=
tion/?utm_source=3Dnewsletter&utm_medium=3Demail&utm_term=3DDaily%2520March=
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>The gap between the rhetorical promise of change and the reality of a detached presidency is dangerously evident in climate change. President Obama has offered little more than lip service to preventing catastrophic eco-atmospheric damage.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=ssG93%2BgMzSWZUnFGYcCsZkkNwFm5zwEV"><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>Open Government Study: Obama Administration Is Denying Requests for Data More Than Ever</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=iFOJGfcXAtUbey2W5JPHxkkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Five Inequities of the Wall Street Freeloaders Having No Financial Transaction Tax</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=RMWHoyuHeEjA5htTID5J0UkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>US Sanctions on Russia Freeze Top Officials' Assets</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=GF0XliulTObpozUv%2FNMuu0kNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>When Was the Bill of Rights for the American People Replaced by a Corporate Bill of Rights?</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>Joseph E. Stiglitz | On the Wrong Side of Globalization</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>The US Is Abandoning Democracy, Becoming an Aristocracy Instead</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=GjSfLVk%2FicUHO4%2BLPeAWOkkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Paris Bans Cars, Makes Transit Free To Fight Air Pollution</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them to get rich at everyone else's expense. And the rich are prepared to spend lots of money to keep the public distracted.</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=4xKLuO2ts7a61J56BtnLwUkNwFm5zwEV"><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=bE39oorkOjbImzqD7%2F%2FymEkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Chris Hedges | Israel's War on American Universities</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 Hedges, Truthdig:</strong> The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at Northeastern University in Boston on March 7, along with a university threat of disciplinary measures against some of its members, replicates sanctions being imposed against numerous student Palestinian rights groups across the country.</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=LGwUKfLzr4G6nbKdZ9FH%2BUkNwFm5zwEV"><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=npDbT9Ut28Gb5Sq29RF4F0kNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Indigenous Voices in Climate Activism: Autonomous or Subjugated?</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>Sara Santiago, Truthout:</strong> First Nations are key to much climate change and other environmental activism through the assertion of their sovereign land rights and the fact that their communities often depend on contested environments. Their voices must not be subsumed by NGOs and others.</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=vPzfmnusduc%2F%2FSEBz3NIQUkNwFm5zwEV"><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=iURlzSmmvElkEZ9AExMLBUkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Gimme Shelter</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>Leslie Thatcher, Truthout:</strong> Howard Mansfield's <em>Dwelling in Possibility; Searching for the Soul of Shelter</em> suggests by demonstration that how we construct our dwellings makes a cosmic difference in the quality of our personal and communal lives.</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=LZSBEk5XpjFUDP9pvCR6W0kNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Read the Review</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=9puiumwtliy8nwXTrJODJJoQzuB0pqIW"><strong>How the Antiunion Right Declared War in Chattanooga</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 Logan, Truthout:</strong> If the National Labor Relations Board fails to respond to the right-wing campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections - which included a "grassroots" group commissioning antiunion consulting firm Projections Inc. - billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as political contests.</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=pHedDXc82o4qyZW0naeZ0EkNwFm5zwEV"><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=HNEy%2F6yKxB4OPLA%2BIlYe%2FEkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>Billionaires ... First They Came for the Economy</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> Over the past 40 years, billionaire oligarchs have slowly but surely taken over just about all aspects of life in America. It's time to end America's "oligonomy" by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles of money.</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>Jonathan Leavitt, Truthout:</strong> Municipal bus drivers in northern Vermont are striking today against unsafe conditions, surveillance and discipline, and part-time status, in a show of union solidarity that could prove a powerful model for public-sector strikes.</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>Paul N. Avakian, Truthout:</strong> Guatemala's Constitutional Court - which vacated the genocide verdict against José Efraín Ríos Montt last May - has now ruled that Guatemala's highly respected prosecutor general, Claudia Paz y Paz, must leave office.</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>Megan McCloskey, ProPublica:</strong> The Pentagon's floundering mission to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts has been hampered by outdated scientific methods, a lack of public outreach and cumbersome bureaucracy. Here are four ideas to really fix the effort.</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. <em><em>The Intercept</em></em> reports that the NSA is spreading the software to millions of computers under an automated system codenamed "Turbine."</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=VcxpJvx89c2%2FfyxEkT2TwkkNwFm5zwEV"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Nuclear Regulators Are Hiding the Risk of a Fukushima-Style Incident, 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> Recently released documents show that since Fukushima, our nuclear regulators have been playing down the risk of a similar incident happening in the US; homeowners want energy choices - and for once, that's not just a Republican talking point; four new man-made gases are destroying our ozone layer and intensifying the effects of climate change; and more.</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>Gerald E. Scorse, The Hill:</strong> Jamie Dimon took high heat over his 74 percent mega-raise, but he's not at fault. The blame goes to a 1993 boondoggle for bigwigs - a boondoggle that's cost taxpayers by the billions ever since. Congress should call a halt to it, and the country's mood could push it to do just that.</p>
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