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The Media Know That Spreading the Fear of Terrorism Sells
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t r u t h o u t | 03.01
The Media Know That Spreading the Fear of Terrorism Sells
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/29352-the-media-knows-that-sprea=
ding-the-fear-of-terrorism-sells=20
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Susan Jeffords, co-editor of Covering bin Laden: Glo=
bal Media and the World's Most Wanted Man, explains that the iconic status =
of Osama bin Laden was achieved through global media coverage and governmen=
t propaganda.=20
John Pilger | Why the Rise of Fascism Is Again the Issue
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29368-why-the-rise-of-fascism-is-agai=
n-the-issue=20
John Pilger, Truthout: Again and again, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and e=
lsewhere, state lies to the public - with the help of corporate media - hav=
e allowed the United States to wage war abroad as a means to control other =
nations and their natural resources.
To Die in an Alabama Cell
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29300-to-die-in-an-alabama-cell=20
William C. Anderson, Truthout: In Alabama, several prisoner deaths resultin=
g from apparent negligence by corrections staff illustrate a growing proble=
m that can be fatal. While national conversations around racial injustice d=
ominate our news cycles, it's crucial that the lives of those behind bars b=
e taken into account.
Jury Awards Guestworkers Over $14 Million in Landmark Human Trafficking, Fo=
rced Labor Case
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29371-jury-awards-guestworkers-over-14-milli=
on-in-landmark-human-trafficking-forced-labor-case=20
Rachel Luban, In These Times: A New Orleans jury awarded more than $14 mill=
ion in damages to the plaintiffs of David v. Signal International, the firs=
t of a series of lawsuits that together constitute one of the largest human=
trafficking and forced labor cases in US history.=20
Plague Outbreaks That Ravaged Europe Were Driven by Climate Changes in Asia
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29370-plague-outbreaks-that-ravaged-euro=
pe-were-driven-by-climate-changes-in-asia=20
Boris Schmid and Nils Christian Stenseth, The Conversation: In terms of our=
understanding of the past plague pandemics, new research provides a differ=
ent perspective as to how the "Black Death" disease moved across Eurasia, d=
riven by climate events that were and still are frequently occurring.
Ukraine War: A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29369-ukraine-war-a-reverse-cuban-missile=
-crisis=20
William R. Polk, Consortium News: Guided by an aggressive neoconservative "=
regime change" strategy, the United States has stumbled into a potential mi=
litary confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, a dangerous predicament that=
could become a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse.
In Anti-Discrimination Suit, Haiping Su Took on Big Government and Won
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29375-in-anti-discrimination-suit-haiping=
-su-took-on-big-government-and-won=20
Dr. George Koo, New America Media: The lesson of Dr. Haiping Su's experienc=
e with the US justice system has implications for all Chinese Americans wor=
king in technical disciplines in the United States, and is worthy of more d=
etailed examination.
Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29372-bigger-than-science-bigger-than-rel=
igion=20
Richard Schiffman, YES! Magazine: We're closer to environmental disaster th=
an ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth, on=
e that goes beyond science and religion; a story that recognizes we are a p=
art of nature and not separate from it.
"A Red Letter Day" at the FCC: Net Neutrality Wins
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29374-a-red-letter-day-at-the-fcc-net-neutra=
lity-wins=20
Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: "This is no more a plan to regulate the =
internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate freedom of speech,"=
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Thursday. "Thi=
s is the FCC using every tool in our toolbox to protect innovators and cons=
umers."
This week in Speakout: Kelly Hayes reports on the activism in favor of repa=
rations for torture victims of Chicago Police Department's Jon Burge; Sheph=
erd Bliss examines growing resistance to unlimited wine industry expansion =
in both Sonoma County and in neighboring Napa County; Dan Falcone speaks wi=
th John Grant, a US Veteran for Peace; US Right to Know staff analyze a rid=
iculous anti-consumer GMO-labeling plan proposed by the Obama administratio=
n, and, in a separate post, examine how media reports saying that GMO scien=
ce is settled are flat-out wrong; Rivera Sun reflects on how nowhere is Han=
nah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" more potent than at Los Alamos, =
New Mexico; Lawrence Davidson considers the potential opportunities and pro=
blems Palestine could face at the International Criminal Court; Bob McChesn=
ey talks on Rag Radio about our media crisis; Ali Hangan points out that a =
chaotic work schedule, not tuition, can prove to be the greatest challenge =
for the community college student; Halyna Mokrushyna wonders how a new, dem=
ocratic Ukraine can prosper when its population consists of so many "relics=
" of the totalitarian Soviet past; and more.
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout
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Private Police Carry Guns and Make Arrests, and Their Ranks Are Swelling=20
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/private-police-carry-guns-and-mak=
e-arrests-and-their-ranks-are-swelling/2015/02/28/29f6e02e-8f79-11e4-a900-9=
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Fracking Opponents Feel Police Pressure in Some Drilling Hotspots
Read the Article at NPR
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/01/389598765/fracking-opponents-feel-police-pres=
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US Seeks to Deport Bosnians Over War Crimes
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/us-seeks-to-deport-bosnians-over-wa=
r-crimes.html
Study Unearths Impacts of Our Growing Carbon Emissions - and It's Not Prett=
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Read the Article at Mashable
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"I Was in a Black Site": Chicago's Policing Nightmare - and Assault on Peop=
le of Color
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/26/i_was_in_a_black_site_chicagos_policing_nig=
htmare_and_assault_on_people_of_color/=20
Our Condolences: How the US Paid for Death and Damage in Afghanistan
Read the Article at The Intercept
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/27/payments-civilians-afghanista=
n/=20
You've Probably Never Heard of the United States' Worst Police Force
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a Know That Spreading the Fear of Terrorism Sells</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Susan Jeffords, co-edito=
r of <em>Covering bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man</=
em>, explains that the iconic status of Osama bin Laden was achieved throug=
h global media coverage and government propaganda.</p>
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1.1"><strong>John Pilger, Truthout:</strong> Again and again, in Afgh=
anistan, Iraq, Ukraine and elsewhere, state lies to the public - with the h=
elp of corporate media - have allowed the United States to wage war abroad =
as a means to control other nations and their natural resources.</p>
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1.1"><strong>William C. Anderson, Truthout:</strong> In Alabama, seve=
ral prisoner deaths resulting from apparent negligence by corrections staff=
illustrate a growing problem that can be fatal. While national conversatio=
ns around racial injustice dominate our news cycles, it's crucial that the =
lives of those behind bars be taken into account.</p>
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s Guestworkers Over $14 Million in Landmark Human Trafficking, Forced Labor=
Case</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Rachel Luban, In These Times:</strong> A New Orleans jur=
y awarded more than $14 million in damages to the plaintiffs of <em>David v=
. Signal International</em>, the first of a series of lawsuits that togethe=
r constitute one of the largest human trafficking and forced labor cases in=
US history.</p>
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ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DUSzxpX%2FRrQWMwXyrdro51IBqjdR3YXre"><strong>Plague O=
utbreaks That Ravaged Europe Were Driven by Climate Changes in Asia</strong=
></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Boris Schmid and Nils Christian Stenseth, The Conversation:</=
strong> In terms of our understanding of the past plague pandemics, ne=
w research provides a different perspective as to how the "Black Death" dis=
ease moved across Eurasia, driven by climate events that were and still are=
frequently occurring.</p>
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olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D6Wte5rlbDdCDEzExXn32l4BqjdR3YXre"><strong>Read t=
he Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DXHOuEvS2HH1iyntc4vmP9YBqjdR3YXre"><strong>Ukraine Wa=
r: A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>William R. Polk, Consortium News:</strong> Guided by an =
aggressive neoconservative "regime change" strategy, the United States has =
stumbled into a potential military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, =
a dangerous predicament that could become a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse=
.</p>
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olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DuyuCsUnCb%2BWrH3wV9UPDUIBqjdR3YXre"><strong>Read=
the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dq%2BIH3f0sZlUjjbk0s%2FOjwdWa54VrJxxS"><strong>In Ant=
i-Discrimination Suit, Haiping Su Took on Big Government and Won</strong></=
a></p>
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1.1"><strong>Dr. George Koo, New America Media:</strong> The lesson o=
f Dr. Haiping Su's experience with the US justice system has implications f=
or all Chinese Americans working in technical disciplines in the United Sta=
tes, and is worthy of more detailed examination.</p>
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olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DygrhgOaN210DW%2F8RLV83r4BqjdR3YXre"><strong>Read=
the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DP4Ve9HB0ZXi5KoK3%2FSpdbtWa54VrJxxS"><strong>Bigger T=
han Science, Bigger Than Religion</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Richard Schiffman, YES! Magazine:</strong> We're closer =
to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our rel=
ationship with the Earth, one that goes beyond science and religion; a stor=
y that recognizes we are a part of nature and not separate from it.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DRJ7ffmdL8MBRgZfRFL82pIBqjdR3YXre"><strong>Read t=
he Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DQpcenoYS7%2FnRqrUSwJyTnIBqjdR3YXre"><strong>"A Red L=
etter Day" at the FCC: Net Neutrality Wins</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Michael Winship, Moyers & Company:</strong> "This is=
no more a plan to regulate the internet than the First Amendment is a plan=
to regulate freedom of speech," Federal Communications Commission Chairman=
Tom Wheeler said Thursday. "This is the FCC using every tool in our toolbo=
x to protect innovators and consumers."</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DZ2Y0Suo1%2FQ56Em77VnMNLoBqjdR3YXre"><strong>Read=
the Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
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ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DUSzxpX%2FRrQU4DiDXgzv%2FXoBqjdR3YXre"><strong>This w=
eek in Speakout:</strong></a></p>
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1.1"><b>Kelly Hayes</b> reports on the activism in favor of reparations fo=
r torture victims of Chicago Police Department's Jon Burge; <b>Shepherd Bli=
ss</b> examines growing resistance to unlimited wine industry expansion in =
both Sonoma County and in neighboring Napa County; <b>Dan Falcone</b> speak=
s with John Grant, a US Veteran for Peace; <b>US Right to Know staff</b> an=
alyze a ridiculous anti-consumer GMO-labeling plan proposed by the Obama ad=
ministration, and, in a separate post, examine how media reports saying tha=
t GMO science is settled are flat-out wrong; <b>Rivera Sun</b> reflects on =
how nowhere is Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" more potent th=
an at Los Alamos, New Mexico; <b>Lawrence Davidson</b> considers the potent=
ial opportunities and problems Palestine could face at the International Cr=
iminal Court; <b>Bob McChesney</b> talks on Rag Radio about our media crisi=
s; <b>Ali Hangan</b> points out that a chaotic work schedule, not tuition, =
can prove to be the greatest challenge for the community college student; <=
b>Halyna Mokrushyna</b> wonders how a new, democratic Ukraine can prosper w=
hen its population consists of so many "relics" of the totalitarian Soviet =
past; and more.</p>
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