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Dahr Jamail | As Climate Disruption Advances, 26 Percent of Mammals
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t r u t h o u t | 01.06
Dahr Jamail | As Climate Disruption Advances, 26 Percent of Mammals Face Ex=
tinction
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28372-as-climate-disruption-advances-26-perc=
ent-of-mammals-face-extinction
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: In this month's dispatch, we examine how climate dis=
ruption is progressing rapidly on every front, and how even some diehard cl=
imate deniers are starting to recognize the dire danger we face.
Top Secret List Shows McChrystal Halting Night Raids After Controversy
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28365-top-secret-list-shows-mcchrystal-h=
alting-night-raids-after-controversy
Gareth Porter, Truthout: Published documents show Gen. Stanley McChrystal a=
dmitted the raids "come at a steep cost in terms of perceptions of the Afgh=
an people." He said, "Nearly every Afghan I talk to mentions [night raids] =
as the single greatest irritant."
Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda - in Her Own Words
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28377-elizabeth-warren-our-populist-agenda-i=
n-her-own-words
Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future: Sen. Elizabeth Warren has beco=
me the most visible leader of the growing populist movement that is uniting=
a new majority around an agenda for economic change. We present Warren's t=
hinking about the economy in her own words.
Police Violence? Body Cams Are No Solution
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28357-police-violence-body-cams-are-no-so=
lution
Shahid Buttar, Truthout: Cameras fail to provide meaningful transparency, e=
xtend domestic spying, fuel mass incarceration and represent a budgetary bo=
nus to police departments and corporate camera contractors, while distracti=
ng the debate from the more important issue of officer - and department - a=
ccountability for abusive patterns and practices.
Former Guant=C3=A1namo Prisoner Given Life Sentence in Russia
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28385-former-guantanamo-prisoner-given-life-=
sentence-in-russia
Aisha Maniar, Truthout: Rasul Kudaev's case exemplifies how the stamp of Gu=
ant=C3=A1namo can blight an innocent man's life more than a decade after hi=
s release and how, to create a false sense of terror to justify illegal act=
ions, states all over the world destroy lives with impunity.
So-Called "Free Trade" Deals Have Decimated the US Economy
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: While the Trans-Pacific Par=
tnership (TPP) has been negotiated on and written in secret, many of its ke=
y details have been leaked, and those leaks paint a very disturbing picture=
about the effects that the TPP would have on the US public and economy.
A Self-Perpetuating Machine for US Insecurity: Welcome to the National Secu=
rity State of 2015
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28395-a-self-perpetuating-machine-for-us-=
insecurity-welcome-to-the-national-security-state-of-2015
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Official Washington has invented a national se=
curity system so dumb, so extreme, so fundamentalist and so deeply entrench=
ed in our world that changing it will surely prove a stunningly difficult t=
ask. Welcome to the nightmarish inheritance we are preparing for our childr=
en and grandchildren.
Let's Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28379-the-movement-can-begin-the-year=
-with-a-major-victory-over-corporate-power
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance: We have an immediate =
challenge in 2015 that threatens our progress. Obama and Congress are pushi=
ng to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If we don't stop it, our stru=
ggles will be set back and social, economic and environmental justice will =
be more difficult to achieve.
An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28380-an-interview-with-sherry-payne-nurs=
e-childbirth-educator-womanist
Monica J. Casper, The Feminist Wire: "When I think of how this [reproductiv=
e justice] framework 'fits' for my community, I think about the lack of acc=
ess to dependable and efficacious contraceptives; I think about a maternity=
care complex that pathologizes Black women rather than promotes pregnancy =
wellness," says Sherry Payne in this interview.
Studies Show Pot Legalization Has Not Impacted Teen Use
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28378-studies-show-pot-legalization-has-=
not-impacted-teen-use
Lizabeth Paulat, Care2: Although adult use of marijuana increased following=
the years of legalization in Colorado and Washington State, what's interes=
ting is that teen use has fallen. According to the National Institute on Dr=
ug Abuse, the use of marijuana has fallen among teens in almost every secto=
r.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pope Francis to Urge Catholics to Address C=
limate Change, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28394-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-pope-fr=
ancis-to-urge-catholics-to-address-climate-chance-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Pope Francis will urge the world's 1.2 bill=
ion Catholics to do more to address global warming; more than 50 percent of=
the food tested by our government contains pesticides; Vermont just proved=
we have the power to shut down nuclear plants; and more.
"David Duke Without the Baggage": Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign Over =
Speech to Racist Group?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28388-david-duke-without-the-baggage-will-to=
p-goper-steve-scalise-resign-over-speech-to-racist-group
Amy Goodman and Aaron Mat=C3=A9, Democracy Now!: As Congress begins a new s=
ession today, one of its top Republicans has acknowledged he once addressed=
a gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. House Majority Whip Steve=
Scalise has confirmed reports he spoke at a 2002 convention of EURO - the =
European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Slavery May No Longer Officially Exist, but the Plantation Police Are Still=
on Patrol
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/slavery-may-no-longer-officia=
lly-exist-but-the-plantation-police-are-still-on-patrol
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Contemporary policing includes "plantat=
ion patrols" that enact a modern form of accepted institutional intimidatio=
n, brutality, incarceration and killing.
Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in the US
Read the Article at Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/michael-brown-father-interview-0115?click=
=3Dskybox
The Greatest Trick Obama Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World the US Isn't =
Still at War
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/obama-america-still-at=
-war-congress-illegal?CMP=3Dema_565
"Incomprehensible" Secrecy: Sen. Bernie Sanders Demands Release of TPP Trad=
e Agreement Text
Read the Article at Ring of Fire
http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/bernie-sanders-details-of-the-disasterou=
s-tpp-must-be-released/
Without Fox News, There Would Have Been No Iraq War
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/01/without-fox-news-there-would-=
have-been-no-iraq-war
How I Busted Steve Scalise: Inside a GOP Political Scandal - and Its Ongoin=
g Cover-Up
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/06/how_i_busted_steve_scalise_inside_a_gop_pol=
itical_scandal_and_its_ongoing_coverup/?source=3Dnewsletter
Palestinians Seen Gaining Momentum for Statehood
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/world/middleeast/palestinians-seen-gainin=
g-momentum-in-quest-for-statehood.html
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Dave Zirin: As I Fought Cancer, Stuart Scott Was My Strength
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/194049/stuart-scott-was-my-strength
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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>Slavery May No Longer Officially Exist, but the Plantation Police Are Still on Patrol </strong></p>
<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>Contemporary policing includes "plantation patrols" that enact a modern form of accepted institutional intimidation, brutality, incarceration and killing.</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=%2BhYSfbdHWJlt%2FgYTTMdL2EZFTdFvdHm6"><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>Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in the US</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=sMTdQiApQiBrJf3jcO3lzEZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Read the Article at Esquire</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Greatest Trick Obama Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World the US Isn't Still at War</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=11y53AnWUkrVVI9DiH4%2BTUZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>"Incomprehensible" Secrecy: Sen. Bernie Sanders Demands Release of TPP Trade Agreement Text</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=5P2OD7Wguxlmb2RV2KxBWEZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Read the Article at Ring of Fire</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Without Fox News, There Would Have Been No Iraq War</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=zZT%2Fsumqb8Jy2lzPuakC5kZFTdFvdHm6"><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>How I Busted Steve Scalise: Inside a GOP Political Scandal - and Its Ongoing Cover-Up</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=%2BaZEG%2F%2Fob2toir0L6kMPSUZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Palestinians Seen Gaining Momentum for Statehood</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=8zsRdSTtGRA%2F6M0EIvY3xEZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dave Zirin: As I Fought Cancer, Stuart Scott Was My Strength</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=Afbdunp9J42%2BLL6yxvjBL50CUNVbFNrj"><strong>Read the Article at The Nation</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>Dahr Jamail, Truthout:</strong> In this month's dispatch, we examine how climate disruption is progressing rapidly on every front, and how even some diehard climate deniers are starting to recognize the dire danger we face.</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=7vuxNvrfJGSGtF6ZH1bxDEZFTdFvdHm6"><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=OW0Rr0CbMBrO3K6igHvjxUZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Top Secret List Shows McChrystal Halting Night Raids After Controversy</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>Gareth Porter, Truthout:</strong> Published documents show Gen. Stanley McChrystal admitted the raids "come at a steep cost in terms of perceptions of the Afghan people." He said, "Nearly every Afghan I talk to mentions [night raids] as the single greatest irritant."</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=ATrx7ZTgRpC%2Fc5JYuEQ%2BMJ0CUNVbFNrj"><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=dS7E%2F9325h1melksIu0fpkZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda - in Her Own Words</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 Hickey, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> Sen. Elizabeth Warren has become the most visible leader of the growing populist movement that is uniting a new majority around an agenda for economic change. We present Warren's thinking about the economy in her own words.</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=gI%2FXoDcXJg2Io%2BJJfWX3x0ZFTdFvdHm6"><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=xedLFpngsxTI%2FtwCG9HayEZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Police Violence? Body Cams Are No Solution</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>Shahid Buttar, Truthout:</strong> Cameras fail to provide meaningful transparency, extend domestic spying, fuel mass incarceration and represent a budgetary bonus to police departments and corporate camera contractors, while distracting the debate from the more important issue of officer - and department - accountability for abusive patterns and practices.</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=i4uuoV2q91lLW3LLZK0VtEZFTdFvdHm6"><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=I3MXE%2BDrR%2BOsYL%2FDQ2cBakZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Former Guantánamo Prisoner Given Life Sentence in Russia</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>Aisha Maniar, Truthout:</strong> Rasul Kudaev's case exemplifies how the stamp of Guantánamo can blight an innocent man's life more than a decade after his release and how, to create a false sense of terror to justify illegal actions, states all over the world destroy lives with impunity.</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=qhUVepDIv%2BrhXiFPqZVriUZFTdFvdHm6"><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=xej72LP1hT3GwU0iGIbJCp0CUNVbFNrj"><strong>So-Called "Free Trade" Deals Have Decimated the US 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 Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been negotiated on and written in secret, many of its key details have been leaked, and those leaks paint a very disturbing picture about the effects that the TPP would have on the US public and economy.</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=3aAam4oYIcyMCL4TgBlXY0ZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>A Self-Perpetuating Machine for US Insecurity: Welcome to the National Security State of 2015</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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> Official Washington has invented a national security system so dumb, so extreme, so fundamentalist and so deeply entrenched in our world that changing it will surely prove a stunningly difficult task. Welcome to the nightmarish inheritance we are preparing for our children and grandchildren.</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=jXwRkUNhtQG6IG4b36CXRkZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Let's Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power</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 Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance:</strong> We have an immediate challenge in 2015 that threatens our progress. Obama and Congress are pushing to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If we don't stop it, our struggles will be set back and social, economic and environmental justice will be more difficult to achieve.</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=HtyZG9%2FX%2BxOV7BAuuaUpJEZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist</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>Monica J. Casper, The Feminist Wire:</strong> "When I think of how this [reproductive justice] framework 'fits' for my community, I think about the lack of access to dependable and efficacious contraceptives; I think about a maternity care complex that pathologizes Black women rather than promotes pregnancy wellness," says Sherry Payne in this interview.</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=fP2hLS1UobPxrqI0TGi7gkZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>Studies Show Pot Legalization Has Not Impacted Teen Use</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>Lizabeth Paulat, Care2:</strong> Although adult use of marijuana increased following the years of legalization in Colorado and Washington State, what's interesting is that teen use has fallen. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the use of marijuana has fallen among teens in almost every sector.</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=pkEossOQOkm3wgRXmmRfQ0ZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pope Francis to Urge Catholics to Address Climate Change, 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> Pope Francis will urge the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to do more to address global warming; more than 50 percent of the food tested by our government contains pesticides; Vermont just proved we have the power to shut down nuclear plants; and more.</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=Zl4LpNK60HeP50VkNuUWp0ZFTdFvdHm6"><strong>"David Duke Without the Baggage": Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign Over Speech to Racist Group?</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>Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, Democracy Now!:</strong> As Congress begins a new session today, one of its top Republicans has acknowledged he once addressed a gathering of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has confirmed reports he spoke at a 2002 convention of EURO - the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.</p>
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