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Marjorie Cohn | Supreme Court Upholds Auto Stop With No Traffic Violation
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28652-supreme-court-upholds-auto-stop-with-n=
o-traffic-violation
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: The latest in 15 years of continuous Supreme Court=
decisions effectively enlarging police powers and restricting Forth Amendm=
ent protections against illegal searches and seizures, Heien v. North Carol=
ina upheld a traffic stop where there was no traffic violation.
Economist Leonidas Vatikiotis: Syriza's Proposals Don't Go Far Enough for G=
reece
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28661-economist-leonidas-vatikiotis-syriza-s=
-proposals-don-t-go-far-enough-for-greece
Michael Nevradakis, Truthout: Economist Leonidas Vatikiotis, previously a E=
uropean Parliament candidate with Greece's Antarsya political party, shares=
his take on the upcoming elections in Greece, the economic proposals put f=
orth by main opposition party Syriza, and the need, in his view, for Greece=
to depart from the eurozone.
Interim Settlement Reached in Lac M=C3=A9gantic Oil Train Disaster, but Cul=
prits Say "It Wasn't Us"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28663-interim-settlement-reached-in-lac-mega=
ntic-oil-train-disaster-but-culprits-say-it-wasn-t-us
Roger Annis, Truthout: Amid continuing official support for oil trains in C=
anada, an initial financial compensation agreement for some victims of the =
2013 Lac M=C3=A9gantic, Quebec oil train disaster has been reached with som=
e of the oil and transportation companies responsible for the tragedy.
New Year, Same as the Old Year? 2015 Reproductive Rights Preview
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28670-new-year-same-as-the-old-year-2015=
-reproductive-rights-preview
Katie Klabusich, Truthout: The GOP-led 114th Congress declared its legislat=
ive priority by opening with assaults on reproductive healthcare access fro=
m all angles, choosing the 42nd anniversary of <i>Roe v. Wade</i> as the da=
y to vote on new abortion restrictions.=20
State of the Black Union: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28666-state-of-the-black-union-the-sh=
adow-of-crisis-has-not-passed
Staff, Black Lives Matter: We the people, committed to the declaration that=
Black lives matter, will fight to end the structural oppression that preve=
nts so many from realizing their dreams. We cannot, and will not stop until=
the United States recognizes the value of Black life.
Supreme Court's Latest Race Case: Housing Discrimination
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28668-supreme-court-s-latest-race-case-h=
ousing-discrimination
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica: This week, the Supreme Court will take up =
one of the most important civil rights cases of the last decade - Texas Dep=
artment of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Proje=
ct. Many fear the case could gut the landmark Fair Housing Act.
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Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition (Watch the Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28677-koch-brothers-exposed-2014
Staff, Brave New Films: This documentary delves even deeper into where the =
Koch brothers' money is going, who their money is hurting and how much they=
made during the whole process leading up to the 2014 elections.
Is John Boehner a Traitor?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28690-is-john-boehner-a-traitor
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: By inviting Israeli Prime M=
inister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, Speaker of the House John =
Boehner may have broken any number of laws, and the Department of Justice n=
eeds to investigate.=20
Michael Winship | In SOTU, President Punts on Income Inequality
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28662-in-sotu-president-punts-on-income-=
inequality?tsk=3Dadminpreview
Much of the buildup to President Obama's State of the Union address made it=
sound as if he was going to have a "Piketty moment." Yet, with a president=
too often bold in words but timid in action, facing a Congress more Republ=
ican and obstructionist than ever, little will get done to fix inequality.
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The 1% Dine in Davos as Latin America Pulls People Out of Poverty
http://truth-out.org/news/item/28672-1-dine-in-davos-as-latin-america-pulls=
-people-out-of-poverty
Cyril Mychalejko, teleSUR: Billionaires and political elites have swooped i=
nto Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum. The biggest risk t=
he world faces may be the Forum's continued neoliberal economic policies it=
s members advocate that have created the crises it supposedly seeks to redr=
ess.
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Inequality Is Costing Us Big-Time
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28665-inequality-is-costing-us-big-time
Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords: If the United States had been as equal in 2007 a=
s it was in 1979, that average income would have been $94,310. In other wor=
ds, inequality is costing the average American family about $18,000 a year.
=20
More and War: The Tao of Washington
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28686-more-and-war-the-tao-of-washing=
ton
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: The visibly Orwellian nature of US intelligenc=
e is now widely accepted, at least in Washington, as a necessity of our age=
, of our need for (you guessed it) safety and security. As a result, its bu=
reaucratic expansion, secret wars, global kill lists and other activities a=
re largely beyond challenge.
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Why the CIA Is So Eager to Demolish Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28667-why-the-cia-is-so-eager-to-demolis=
h-whistleblower-jeffrey-sterling
Norman Solomon, Expose Facts: The CIA is on a quest for more respect from a=
nyone willing to defer to its authority, no matter how legally hypocritical=
or morally absent. Demolishing the life of Jeffrey Sterling is just anothe=
r means to that end.
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New Jersey Officers Shoot and Kill Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up
Read the Article at The Chicago Tribune
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ng-20150121-story.html=20
Inequality in the Air We Breathe?
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/opinion/charles-blow-inequality-in-the-ai=
r-we-breathe.html?smprod=3Dnytcore-iphone&smid=3Dnytcore-iphone-share&_r=3D=
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Maureen Dowd's Clueless White Gaze: The "Selma" Backlash
Read the Article at Salon
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lly_behind_the_selma_backlash/?source=3Dnewsletter
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US Senate Again Fails to Admit Human Role in Global Warming
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/us-senate-man-climate-ch=
ange-global-warming-hoax?CMP=3Dema_565
The Narcissistic Fantasy of Mitt Romney
Read the Article at The Week
http://theweek.com/articles/534651/narcissistic-fantasy-mitt-romney-2016
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Pelosi Slams Netanyahu Invite
Read the Article at The Hill
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/230393-pelosi-slams-netanyahu-invite
Toxic Tanneries Poisoning Workers in Bangladesh
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<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=n6qPYKdredxtL6j1Frr2Ctqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>State of the Black Union: The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed</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, Black Lives Matter:</strong> We the people, committed to the declaration that Black lives matter, will fight to end the structural oppression that prevents so many from realizing their dreams. We cannot, and will not stop until the United States recognizes the value of Black life.</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=TjM%2FdDVCJXyMLrJ7EIKr8wczKjuSMxaP" 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=b2tXjCGgJ%2Btl%2FLUtxD9Jmdqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Supreme Court's Latest Race Case: Housing Discrimination</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>Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica:</strong> This week, the Supreme Court will take up one of the most important civil rights cases of the last decade - <i>Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project</i>. Many fear the case could gut the landmark Fair Housing Act.</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=y5dP52%2FA%2Br1vtOH%2BreI5Jdqo5OXXPuSR" 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=FDPl9iXl5eqmYtrNkJ%2Bb4Nqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition</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, Brave New Films:</strong> This documentary delves even deeper into where the Koch brothers' money is going, who their money is hurting and how much they made during the whole process leading up to the 2014 elections.</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=ZEQHuZxo5lzKdmpZXIvLb9qo5OXXPuSR" 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=U%2BZRWOKSGoFSv90pxoQHH9qo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Is John Boehner a Traitor?</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> By inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, Speaker of the House John Boehner may have broken any number of laws, and the Department of Justice needs to investigate.</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=7vhIP4iQzRg5IcK3rMyP0dqo5OXXPuSR" 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=XitxKogKjKg0k8EmT3pw2tqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In SOTU, President Punts on Income 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>Michael Winship, Truthout:</strong> Much of the buildup to President Obama's State of the Union address made it sound as if he was going to have a "Piketty moment." Yet, with a president too often bold in words but timid in action, facing a Congress more Republican and obstructionist than ever, little will get done to fix inequality.</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=FNlF8b2w2HxVvO%2FfI5gp8dqo5OXXPuSR" 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=F%2BPssDjDPugfK%2B%2BCDnYZjtqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The 1% Dine in Davos as Latin America Pulls People Out of Poverty</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>Cyril Mychalejko, teleSUR:</strong> Billionaires and political elites have swooped into Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum. The biggest risk the world faces may be the Forum's continued neoliberal economic policies its members advocate that have created the crises it supposedly seeks to redress.</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=b5X2WRtgi%2BA8O8owIOkovAczKjuSMxaP" 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=dzqhE7vMqtgCHaNOPqAh7MxTMnPkUGwa" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Inequality Is Costing Us Big-Time</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>Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords:</strong> If the United States had been as equal in 2007 as it was in 1979, that average income would have been $94,310. In other words, inequality is costing the average American family about $18,000 a year.</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=YUhHkAo4kbaxr4xdbGYkItqo5OXXPuSR" 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=dYBVAu1rlbBnBmsvzG%2BI59qo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>More and War: The Tao of Washington</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> The visibly Orwellian nature of US intelligence is now widely accepted, at least in Washington, as a necessity of our age, of our need for (you guessed it) safety and security. As a result, its bureaucratic expansion, secret wars, global kill lists and other activities are largely beyond challenge.</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=qrBY3q9CPi5ItS6902wc7dqo5OXXPuSR" 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=cTEBnFoa9V4kFs%2FALnizodqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Why the CIA Is So Eager to Demolish Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling</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>Norman Solomon, Expose Facts:</strong> The CIA is on a quest for more respect from anyone willing to defer to its authority, no matter how legally hypocritical or morally absent. Demolishing the life of Jeffrey Sterling is just another means to that end.</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=7B6cV6U8APaOgV%2BCnbuuKdqo5OXXPuSR" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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