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How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate
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t r u t h o u t | 01.15
How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime St=
atutes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28543-how-hate-crimes-against-police-expose-=
the-fatal-flaw-within-hate-crime-statutes=20
Aaron Cant=C3=BA, Truthout: Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-=
year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of col=
or. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this=
program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.=20
Richard Wolff on the Greek Crisis, Austerity and a Post-Capitalist Future
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28505-richard-wolff-on-the-greek-crisis-=
austerity-and-a-post-capitalist-future=20
Michael Nevradakis, Truthout: New School professor and economist Richard Wo=
lff analyzes the causes of the economic crises in Greece and the eurozone, =
debunks claims that the Greek economy is recovering and proposes a post-cap=
italist future for Greece and the world.
Pipeline to Nowhere
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28553-pipeline-to-nowhere=20
Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: Researchers of a new study predict that v=
irtually all Canadian tar sands oil production will stop by 2020. If Keysto=
ne XL is built by then, there would be nothing for the pipeline to transpor=
t, and it would become a monument to wasting colossal sums of money on dirt=
y-energy infrastructure.
The Robots Are Coming! Let's Make Them Work for the Workers
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28530-the-robots-are-coming-let-s-mak=
e-them-work-for-the-workers=20
Thomas Matt, Truthout: In a capitalist economy with privately owned means o=
f production, technological advancements often result in unemployment and i=
nequality. In a cooperative political economic system, however, these advan=
cements would mean less work and higher living standards.
Four Places Conservatives Believe Women Don't Belong
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28558-four-places-conservatives-believe-=
women-don-t-belong=20
Robin Marty, Care2: Conservatives assert that there are no roadblocks for b=
eing female, that a woman can have access to any opportunity a man can have=
and that there are no opportunity differences between the sexes. But it ap=
pears that men and women aren't that equal at all.
Lobbyists Lobby on Behalf of... Lobbyists
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28574-time-to-lock-up-the-lobbyists
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: It's bad enough that corpor=
ations are spending billions to buy off our lawmakers and corrupt our democ=
racy. Now they're trying to convince us that we should support or ignore th=
eir bad behavior, and strip our own government of the power to protect us f=
rom these predators.
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on-mosques-escalate=20
s.e. smith, Care2: The Charlie Hebdo attacks provided a convenient smokescr=
een for those looking to launch retaliatory attacks, despite the fact that =
the vast majority of Muslims were equally horrified by the attacks and were=
dismayed by the actions of the killers, who claimed to be acting in the na=
me of Islam.
The United States Is Open for Business in Iraq
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28571-the-united-states-is-open-for-busi=
ness-in-iraq=20
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: While the collapse of the Iraqi army and the =
abandonment of piles of its US weaponry helped create a new business opport=
unity for weapons makers like General Dynamics, the plan to cash in on Iraq=
can be traced back to the United States' occupation of the country.
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28565-hold-your-breath-fracking-and-clea=
n-air-don-t-mix=20
Staff, Earthworks: Using a FLIR (infrared) camera designed to detect normal=
ly invisible, sometimes toxic, volatile organic compounds, mother, activist=
and FLIR-certified technician Sharon Wilson went on a road trip to documen=
t pollution at oil and gas operations - and its human cost.
The Enchanted Land Where Community College Is Free? Welcome to Tennessee in=
2015
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28560-the-enchanted-land-where-community=
-college-is-free-welcome-to-tennessee-in-2015=20
Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine: A new bill provides two years of tuition at =
a community college for participating high school grads who might otherwise=
face a 7.5 percent unemployment rate - and other states are already follow=
ing suit.
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ed States' Criminality
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28559-the-distorted-exaggeration-of-black-on=
-black-crime-ignores-much-of-america-s-criminality=20
Adam Hudson, AlterNet: This myth relies on shaky evidence and a selective d=
efinition of crime that ignores crimes committed by powerful institutions a=
nd the people who run them, many of whom are white men. Here are five examp=
les of the kinds of crimes that slip under the radar.
Three Ideas for Inclusive Cities: How Raleigh, Seattle and Others Are Bring=
ing Everyone Into the Fold
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28555-three-ideas-for-inclusive-cities-h=
ow-raleigh-seattle-and-others-are-bringing-everyone-into-the-fold=20
Shannan Stoll, YES! Magazine: From city-issued ID cards to open-source data=
anyone can access, simple urban innovations are creating more transparent =
and equitable cities.
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ng Her Clinic to the Sea
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28563-women-on-waves-meet-the-dutch-phys=
ician-who-defied-abortion-bans-by-bringing-her-clinic-to-the-sea=20
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: As Republicans in the new C=
ongress and in state legislatures across the United States seek new restric=
tions on abortion, we look at the story of a Dutch doctor who has brought s=
afe abortion to countries around the world where it is illegal.
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the Dinosaurs
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout:=C2=A0 The jury is out on whether a two-=
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gger-than-satire
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ys
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a-level-rise-is-far-worse-than-previously-thought-study-says/?tid=3Dhp_mm&h=
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Cop Rock: The NYPD Turn on Spokesman Patrick Lynch
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ISIS Gaining Ground in Syria, Despite US Strikes
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und-in-syria-despite-u-s-strikes.html?via=3Dnewsletter&source=3DCSMorning
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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>Robin Marty, Care2:</strong> Conservatives assert that there are no roadblocks for being female, that a woman can have access to any opportunity a man can have and that there are no opportunity differences between the sexes. But it appears that men and women aren't that equal at all.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i%2BEdkyTqBdQh0fgU7DKjMht3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gqSFamhyPnEpj0Ia4RvITxt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Lobbyists Lobby on Behalf of... Lobbyists</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> It's bad enough that corporations are spending billions to buy off our lawmakers and corrupt our democracy. Now they're trying to convince us that we should support or ignore their bad behavior, and strip our own government of the power to protect us from these predators.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZEgtbPeQ0QCFzArL888wsRt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AqITFpr2AQ2kxPFuaAmlUhXWhKuXVBlW" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In the Wake of Charlie Hebdo, Assaults on Mosques Escalate</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>s.e. smith, Care2:</strong> The Charlie Hebdo attacks provided a convenient smokescreen for those looking to launch retaliatory attacks, despite the fact that the vast majority of Muslims were equally horrified by the attacks and were dismayed by the actions of the killers, who claimed to be acting in the name of Islam.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MPpRaZM9FoNuaGKcZKMu3ht3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EmMJxvx1DgbzYl8Q%2FsM%2Ftht3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The United States Is Open for Business in Iraq</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>Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch:</strong> While the collapse of the Iraqi army and the abandonment of piles of its US weaponry helped create a new business opportunity for weapons makers like General Dynamics, the plan to cash in on Iraq can be traced back to the United States' occupation of the country.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1BYEILtjm8iHXPbowJP3zht3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=arMeSvF%2FEnw0nZfJKzB%2B3Rt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Hold Your Breath: Fracking and Clean Air Don't Mix</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>Staff, Earthworks:</strong> Using a FLIR (infrared) camera designed to detect normally invisible, sometimes toxic, volatile organic compounds, mother, activist and FLIR-certified technician Sharon Wilson went on a road trip to document pollution at oil and gas operations - and its human cost.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QOZH3xkVNUUvKvPhZaVa3Bt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xDuENkNBVwl0fh6YiFXSKxt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Enchanted Land Where Community College Is Free? Welcome to Tennessee in 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>Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine:</strong> A new bill provides two years of tuition at a community college for participating high school grads who might otherwise face a 7.5 percent unemployment rate - and other states are already following suit.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3X1O2FInRSbqkDRmBOL4ihXWhKuXVBlW" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=l31Zm8uHrsiYyIeYXzWeQBt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Distorted Exaggeration of Black-on-Black Crime Ignores Much of the United States' Criminality</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>Adam Hudson, AlterNet:</strong> This myth relies on shaky evidence and a selective definition of crime that ignores crimes committed by powerful institutions and the people who run them, many of whom are white men. Here are five examples of the kinds of crimes that slip under the radar.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6%2FhuoeWM%2FSSOrZodDSCBwJ1vNYFWTvPr" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7Pob1HqXUcpRWAwkuXk65Bt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Three Ideas for Inclusive Cities: How Raleigh, Seattle and Others Are Bringing Everyone Into the Fold</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>Shannan Stoll, YES! Magazine:</strong> From city-issued ID cards to open-source data anyone can access, simple urban innovations are creating more transparent and equitable cities.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jLoZQEphAqyfAtwlmieHEBt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RXBz8Qf4GtvThA%2Fu2yv4oRt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Women on Waves: Meet the Dutch Physician Who Defied Abortion Bans by Bringing Her Clinic to the Sea</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 Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!:</strong> As Republicans in the new Congress and in state legislatures across the United States seek new restrictions on abortion, we look at the story of a Dutch doctor who has brought safe abortion to countries around the world where it is illegal.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FnmrFs4MtY4nxiPL4ezIzBt3v%2B2Ra4Mn" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
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