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Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal
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t r u t h o u t | 10.15
Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Orwellian Nightmares and Neoliberal Authoritariani=
sm
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26817-henry-a-giroux-beyond-orwellian-ni=
ghtmares-and-neoliberal-authoritarianism=20
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Those who fight against neoliberalism must not s=
ettle for reforming a system that is as broken as it is dangerous. Any viab=
le, transformative struggle will need a boldly democratic vision; durable, =
longstanding organizations and strategies that make politics meaningful.
From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and T=
orture
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26822-from-chicago-to-geneva-a-call-for-poli=
ce-accountability-for-violence-and-torture=20
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: We Charge Genocide, a coalition of Chicago activi=
sts, is turning outside the US criminal justice system to force accountabil=
ity for police misconduct by taking their demands to the United Nations.
Congress Ignores Obama's Broad Executive Power Use - Except on Guant=C3=A1n=
amo
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26837-congress-ignores-obama-s-dramat=
ic-use-of-executive-power-except-when-the-president-plans-to-close-guantana=
mo=20
Sharon Adams, Truthout: While The Washington Post writes that closing Guant=
=C3=A1namo is "potentially the most dramatic use" of President Obama's exec=
utive power, it and Congress simultaneously ignore Obama's other dramatic u=
ses of executive power.
Sixteen for '16 - Number 16: No Tar Sands, No Offshore Drilling, No Hydraul=
ic Fracturing and Definitely No More Coal
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26818-sixteen-for-16-number-16-no-tar=
-sands-no-offshore-drilling-no-hydraulic-fracturing-and-definitely-no-more-=
coal=20
Salvatore Babones, Truthout: Tar sands, offshore oil, shale gas and coal mi=
ning: All this means carbon, and carbon of the worst kind. Every progressiv=
e should be in favor of eliminating the use of fossil fuels.
Judge Pens Plea to SCOTUS to Overturn His Own Landmark Voter ID Ruling
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26832-posner-s-penance-revered-reagan-ap=
pointed-jurist-pens-plea-to-scotus-to-overturn-his-own-landmark-ruling-on-p=
hoto-id-voting-laws=20
Ernest A. Canning and Brad Friedman, Truthout: Seventh Circuit Judge Richar=
d A. Posner's courageous reversal of his Crawford v. Marion County Election=
Board opinion on photo ID voting laws in a recent dissent should convince =
the US Supreme Court that such laws are both unconstitutional and a violati=
on of the Voting Rights Act.
Mass Murder by Botulism: Surge in Great Lakes Bird Deaths Driven by Invader=
s
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26824-mass-murder-by-botulism-surge-in-g=
reat-lakes-bird-deaths-driven-by-invaders=20
Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News: The botulism bacterium is the =
most toxic natural substance on earth. Just one gram could kill off 2 milli=
on people. And for birds in the Great Lakes region, it is essentially just =
widespread food poisoning.
A Red Privatization Horror Story
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/26846-a-red-privatization-horror-story
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Republicans don't care abou=
t the damage privatization does to our society because privatization destro=
ys the one thing standing between them and the total corporate takeover of =
our democracy: our government.
Long Sentences and No Federal Parole Deepen Crisis of Mass Incarceration
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26819-long-sentences-and-no-federal-paro=
le-deepen-crisis-of-mass-incarceration=20
Jamila T. Davis, Jamila Davis' Blog: Do the statistics correctly portray Am=
ericans to the world as the most dangerous country, filled with heathens wh=
o commit far more serious crimes than any other nation? Or is there another=
explanation for our country's mass incarceration epidemic?
James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Cra=
ckdown on Whistle-Blowers
http://truth-out.org/news/item/26831-james-risen-prepared-to-pay-any-price-=
to-report-on-war-on-terror-amid-crackdown-on-whistleblowers=20
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Veteran New York Times investigative reporter =
James Risen faces years in prison if he refuses to testify at the trial of =
a former CIA officer accused of giving him classified information. But he s=
ays it is a price he is willing to pay.
In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26838-in-wisconsin-dark-money-got-a-mini=
ng-company-what-it-wanted=20
Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica: An accidentally released court filing reveals =
how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorabl=
e mining legislation passed.
Obamacare Helps Millions, but Per Capita Cost of Care Still Higher Than in =
Other Nations
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26821-wendell-potter-obamacare-helps-=
millions-but-falls-short-in-many-ways=20
Wendell Potter, The Center for Public Integrity: Despite publicly touted su=
ccesses of the Affordable Care Act, the law falls short in many ways. While=
it is reducing the rate of uninsured Americans, it doesn't get us anywhere=
close enough to the universal coverage that residents of other developed c=
ountries enjoy.
High-Level Donor Conference on Cholera in Haiti Fails to Secure Much Needed=
Funding
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26828-high-level-donor-conference-on-cho=
lera-in-haiti-fails-to-secure-much-needed-funding=20
Jake Johnston, Center for Economic and Policy Research: Cholera, which scie=
ntific studies have found was introduced to Haiti by United Nations troops =
in 2010, has so far killed at least 8,614 and sickened more than 700,000. B=
ut international actors have failed to raise an adequate amount of funds to=
eradicate it.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Mainstream US Corporate Media Ignore Increased Fukushima Water Radioactivit=
y
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/mainstream-western-media-igno=
re-increased-fukushima-water-radioactivity
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: You have to go to The Japan Times to fi=
nd out that this week's Typhoon Phanfone caused a significant spike in the =
radioactive contamination of groundwater at Fukushima.
Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/mass-shootings-increasing-harva=
rd-research
Wealth Gap: Just $3,650 Puts a Person in Top Half of Wealth in the World
Read the Article at Jonathan Turley's Blog
http://jonathanturley.org/2014/10/15/wealth-gap-just-3650-puts-a-person-in-=
top-half-of-wealth-in-the-world/
Hong Kong Police Beat Protester in Violent Crackdown on Demonstrations
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/hong-kong-police-protester-cra=
ckdown?CMP=3Dema_565
Joe Biden: The Tea Party Is Crazy
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/14/politics/biden-south-carolina/index.html?hpt=
=3Dhp_t2
CIA Study: Arming Rebels Rarely Works
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/us/politics/cia-study-says-arming-rebels-=
seldom-works.html
Supreme Court Issues a Qualified Reversal of Devastating Texas Abortion Cli=
nic Law
Read the Article at The MaddowBlog
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/supreme-court-offers-reprieve-texas=
-womens-clinics
Orphaned by Deportation: The Crisis of Children Left Behind
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/15/immigration-boy-reform-obama=
-deportations-families-separated?CMP=3Dema_565
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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>You have to go to The Japan Times to find out that this week's Typhoon Phanfone caused a significant spike in the radioactive contamination of groundwater at Fukushima.</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=jwmTssfgFsu9ePOkXG2tOn6ML3JEfoVK"><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>Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows</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=1BtSugvChu%2FrhSiZN1sfg36ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Wealth Gap: Just $3,650 Puts a Person in Top Half of Wealth in the World</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>Hong Kong Police Beat Protester in Violent Crackdown on Demonstrations</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>Joe Biden: The Tea Party Is Crazy</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=94f3lixAND6sqIs%2BSI03136ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>CIA Study: Arming Rebels Rarely Works</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>Supreme Court Issues a Qualified Reversal of Devastating Texas Abortion Clinic Law</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=KOG6HVcUhOe0lxBxWzUGv36ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Read the Article at The MaddowBlog</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Orphaned by Deportation: The Crisis of Children Left Behind</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=UEjcPBkokAl%2FihFIhe3omX6ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</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>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> Those who fight against neoliberalism must not settle for reforming a system that is as broken as it is dangerous. Any viable, transformative struggle will need a boldly democratic vision; durable, longstanding organizations and strategies that make politics meaningful.</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=Ur%2BS3Sn585SdMPWOBOj2TH6ML3JEfoVK"><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=KKBl0A0fVKJ0SrMQ7wwV6H6ML3JEfoVK"><strong>From Chicago to Geneva, a Call for Police Accountability for Violence and Torture</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>Yana Kunichoff, Truthout:</strong> We Charge Genocide, a coalition of Chicago activists, is turning outside the US criminal justice system to force accountability for police misconduct by taking their demands to the United Nations.</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=NezueDELYUbUUb7bzmZYgn6ML3JEfoVK"><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=MvaIeujrcKPNG84v7tlep36ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Congress Ignores Obama's Broad Executive Power Use - Except on Guantánamo</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>Sharon Adams, Truthout:</strong> While The Washington Post writes that closing Guantánamo is "potentially the most dramatic use" of President Obama's executive power, it and Congress simultaneously ignore Obama's other dramatic uses of executive power.</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=a7TsZU%2BFI8MUjGbAeUP%2BeH6ML3JEfoVK"><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=bQhT%2FbHD2JtFMons%2F7iD9n6ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Sixteen for '16 - Number 16: No Tar Sands, No Offshore Drilling, No Hydraulic Fracturing and Definitely No More Coal</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>Salvatore Babones, Truthout:</strong> Tar sands, offshore oil, shale gas and coal mining: All this means carbon, and carbon of the worst kind. Every progressive should be in favor of eliminating the use of fossil fuels.</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=DQK6m8ZQFp%2Bun0kmRESekL4ICNWhHhD%2B"><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=1uOz4sCM7nx0vwRGb9kcKn6ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Judge Pens Plea to SCOTUS to Overturn His Own Landmark Voter ID Ruling</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>Ernest A. Canning and Brad Friedman, Truthout:</strong> Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner's courageous reversal of his <em>Crawford v. Marion County Election Board</em> opinion on photo ID voting laws in a recent dissent should convince the US Supreme Court that such laws are both unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting Rights Act.</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=pasQAXjeW3XhiC1lkbPwjn6ML3JEfoVK"><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=CPn9l8QOdz4%2B0Ve38EOO1H6ML3JEfoVK"><strong>Mass Murder by Botulism: Surge in Great Lakes Bird Deaths Driven by Invaders</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>Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News:</strong> The botulism bacterium is the most toxic natural substance on earth. Just one gram could kill off 2 million people. And for birds in the Great Lakes region, it is essentially just widespread food poisoning.</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>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> Republicans don't care about the damage privatization does to our society because privatization destroys the one thing standing between them and the total corporate takeover of our democracy: our government.</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>Jamila T. Davis, Jamila Davis' Blog:</strong> Do the statistics correctly portray Americans to the world as the most dangerous country, filled with heathens who commit far more serious crimes than any other nation? Or is there another explanation for our country's mass incarceration epidemic?</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> Veteran New York Times investigative reporter James Risen faces years in prison if he refuses to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer accused of giving him classified information. But he says it is a price he is willing to pay.</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>Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica:</strong> An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.</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>Wendell Potter, The Center for Public Integrity:</strong> Despite publicly touted successes of the Affordable Care Act, the law falls short in many ways. While it is reducing the rate of uninsured Americans, it doesn't get us anywhere close enough to the universal coverage that residents of other developed countries enjoy.</p>
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