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t r u t h o u t | 05.15
Wielding New Evidence, Watchdogs Push IRS to Investigate ALEC for Tax Fraud
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30809-wielding-new-evidence-watchdogs-push-irs-to-investigate-alec-for-tax-fraud
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Watchdogs say big corporations are taking taxpayers for a ride when they donate to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is actually a lobbying organization, not a tax-exempt charity, as it claims on its filings with the IRS.
"Whiteness," Criminality and the Double Standards of Deviance/Social Control
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30808-whiteness-criminality-and-the-double-standards-of-deviance-social-control
Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress: When White people commit a heinous crime, they are often deemed "sick" or "mentally ill." Black people, on the other hand, are often criminalized wholesale - by both courts and the dominant media.
Real Talk on Abortion
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30786-real-talk-on-abortion
Amy Hagstrom Miller, Truthout: In Texas and across the United States, anti-choice legislatures aren't just closing clinics to stop abortion. They're attempting to silence the voices of those who support women's personal decision making. Reproductive justice advocates will not be silent.
"Good Kill" Asks, "Why Do We Wear Our Flight Suits, Sir?"
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30781-good-kill-asks-why-do-we-wear-our-flight-suits-sir
Yosef Brody, Truthout: The new drone warfare movie starring Ethan Hawke may be fiction, but ironically, it gives a better sense of the workings and effects of the actual US drone program than anything offered so far by government officials.
Keep Kids Out of Handcuffs
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30713-keep-kids-out-of-handcuffs
Jean Trounstine, Truthout: In some states, children as young as 5, 6 or 7 are being threatened by police, arrested, arraigned and even detained. What will it take for the United States to treat kids like kids?
Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea: Five Years After BP Disaster, New Drilling OK'd by Spill Site
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30816-thirty-million-gallons-under-the-sea-five-years-after-bp-disaster-new-drilling-ok-d-by-spill-site
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Drilling has resumed near the site of the BP-operated offshore oil rig that exploded five years ago in the worst industrial environmental disaster in US history. A Louisiana-based oil company purchased the area from BP and is now drilling into the Macondo reservoir.
Virginia Is for Dirty-Energy Lovers
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30811-virginia-is-for-dirty-energy-lovers
Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: Richmond-based Dominion Resources, which wields near-monopoly power over Virginia's electric grid, is skimping on solar and wind, and wants to boost demand for a fracked-gas pipeline and another nuclear reactor. Why is Dominion getting away with paying lip service to green energy?
DC's Dictator Summit
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30813-dc-s-dictator-summit
Medea Benjamin and Nalini Ramachandran, Foreign Policy in Focus: On May 13 and 14, President Obama is hosting a billionaire conglomerate known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of the Middle Eastern monarchies. The cozy US-GCC relationship exemplifies the twisted nature of US foreign policy.
EU Plan to Sink People Smugglers' Ships Doubles Down on a Failed Agenda
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30814-eu-plan-to-sink-people-smugglers-ships-doubles-down-on-a-failed-agenda
Rosa Freedman, The Conversation: The European Union is spearheading a campaign to enable military action against the boats carrying migrants seeking to leave Libya. This is being presented as a proportionate response to a crisis - but it's just another attempt to shore up a failed agenda.
Black Officers Rally Around Cop Accused in Death of Freddie Gray
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30817-black-officers-rally-around-cop-accused-in-death-of-freddie-gray
Stephen Janis, The Real News Network: The controversy over charges against six officers in relation to the killing of Freddie Gray while in police custody continues as the organization representing Black officers defended one of the six, while also accusing the department she served as being racially biased.
Richard D. Wolff | Economic Update: Profit-Driven Capitalism
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30805-economic-update-profit-driven-capitalism
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This episode provides updates on Verizon's purchase of AOL, why Facebook's "contribution" to ending inequality falls so short and why deadly Mediterranean migrations reflect capitalism's uneven development across the globe. We also respond to questions regarding whether student debt can lead to reduced Social Security benefits.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Eight Amtrak Deaths Reveal How US Transportation Policy Has Derailed
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The Philadelphia accident is only the tip of the iceberg in the titanic failure of the US to invest in mass transportation.
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-eight-amtrak-deaths-symbolize-how-us-transportation-policy-has-derailed
Did We Almost Lose New York to a Nuclear Catastrophe?
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/did-we-almost-lose-new-york-to-a-nuclear-catastrophe
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Joseph Stiglitz: The Secret Corporate Takeover Hidden in the TPP
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-secret-corporate-takeover-hidden-in-the-tpp-2015-05-13?page=2
Read the Article at Marketwatch
Vast Antarctic Ice Shelf a Few Years From Disintegration, Says NASA
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/15/antarctic-ice-shelf-larsen-b-disintegration-nasa?CMP=ema_565
Read the Article at The Guardian
City Where Matthew Shepard Was Slain OKs Protection for Gays, Lesbians
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-laramie-wyo-lgbt-20150513-story.html
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
House Defies Obama Veto Threat, Approves $612 Billion Defense Bill
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/242200-house-passes-612-billion-defense-policy-bill
Read the Article at The Hill
It's Been Six Months Since Tamir Rice Died, and the Cop Who Killed Him Still Hasn't Been Questioned
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/tamir-rice-investigation-cleveland-police
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Forbidden Data: Wyoming Just Criminalized Citizen Science
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/wyoming_law_against_data_collection_protecting_ranchers_by_ignoring_the.html
Read the Article at Slate
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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>Eight Amtrak Deaths Reveal How US Transportation Policy Has Derailed </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>The Philadelphia accident is only the tip of the iceberg in the titanic failure of the US to invest in mass transportation.</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=UySE8BjxXzbmlHQmIubXTWXv4EKDZWC4"><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>Did We Almost Lose New York to a Nuclear Catastrophe?</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=QDcvCNdHWpztYtMUXdjoEmXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Joseph Stiglitz: The Secret Corporate Takeover Hidden in the TPP</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=IJPTsdB0h%2F7%2FxUKf5faZoGXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article at Marketwatch</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Vast Antarctic Ice Shelf a Few Years From Disintegration, Says NASA</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=Rx%2FTqNUUfIQqaX94UjoEd2Xv4EKDZWC4"><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>City Where Matthew Shepard Was Slain OKs Protection for Gays, Lesbians</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=4bpbh3EpMOTzs6nywHDE%2BGXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article at The Los Angeles 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>House Defies Obama Veto Threat, Approves $612 Billion Defense Bill</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=xLVqCEwTkAKv9ijZ5qZ%2BwGXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article at The Hill</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It's Been Six Months Since Tamir Rice Died, and the Cop Who Killed Him Still Hasn't Been Questioned</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=7QPYf0wReXXgWAb725TkhGXv4EKDZWC4"><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>Forbidden Data: Wyoming Just Criminalized Citizen Science</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=%2B3Uu6iT5Of5RgpAlAs63AWXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article at Slate</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> Watchdogs say big corporations are taking taxpayers for a ride when they donate to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is actually a lobbying organization, not a tax-exempt charity, as it claims on its filings with the IRS.</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=I0Xm%2F6EiGuMdppyCmzW3EWXv4EKDZWC4"><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=x504Yw26PwmMURTjWn09fmXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>"Whiteness," Criminality and the Double Standards of Deviance/Social Control</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>Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress:</strong> When White people commit a heinous crime, they are often deemed "sick" or "mentally ill." Black people, on the other hand, are often criminalized wholesale - by both courts and the dominant media.</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=G9yof2ip0D%2BUKMxecl%2BZ62Xv4EKDZWC4"><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=bNM1nioalfsUCcSvT3x%2F22Xv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Real Talk on Abortion</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 Hagstrom Miller, Truthout:</strong> In Texas and across the United States, anti-choice legislatures aren't just closing clinics to stop abortion. They're attempting to silence the voices of those who support women's personal decision making. Reproductive justice advocates will not be silent.</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=n9HH6HMRD8QFvqMNaU2oDmXv4EKDZWC4"><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=jYhFK7fFxNl3R4BHY3f1J2Xv4EKDZWC4"><strong>"Good Kill" Asks, "Why Do We Wear Our Flight Suits, Sir?"</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>Yosef Brody, Truthout:</strong> The new drone warfare movie starring Ethan Hawke may be fiction, but ironically, it gives a better sense of the workings and effects of the actual US drone program than anything offered so far by government officials.</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=ZLlAVTg6PXpsXnORgJKvSGXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Film Review</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=xuatbHUXr%2B4lfkVl5qppjWXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Keep Kids Out of Handcuffs</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>Jean Trounstine, Truthout:</strong> In some states, children as young as 5, 6 or 7 are being threatened by police, arrested, arraigned and even detained. What will it take for the United States to treat kids like kids?</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=hPnDR6ZKPCRUNPEVzfOuh2Xv4EKDZWC4"><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=dr3rXmQ0tLnEZD9Lt8l942Xv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea: Five Years After BP Disaster, New Drilling OK'd by Spill Site</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> Drilling has resumed near the site of the BP-operated offshore oil rig that exploded five years ago in the worst industrial environmental disaster in US history. A Louisiana-based oil company purchased the area from BP and is now drilling into the Macondo reservoir.</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=QHbIGf4PSrKRs%2FaASU5CE2Xv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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=sW0cVhV0bi%2Bn57zCPi%2BMFWXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Virginia Is for Dirty-Energy Lovers</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>Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords:</strong> Richmond-based Dominion Resources, which wields near-monopoly power over Virginia's electric grid, is skimping on solar and wind, and wants to boost demand for a fracked-gas pipeline and another nuclear reactor. Why is Dominion getting away with paying lip service to green energy?</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>Medea Benjamin and Nalini Ramachandran, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> On May 13 and 14, President Obama is hosting a billionaire conglomerate known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of the Middle Eastern monarchies. The cozy US-GCC relationship exemplifies the twisted nature of US foreign policy.</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=yRg1tUN3S1XTwqPvF8xPymXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>EU Plan to Sink People Smugglers' Ships Doubles Down on a Failed Agenda</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>Rosa Freedman, The Conversation:</strong> The European Union is spearheading a campaign to enable military action against the boats carrying migrants seeking to leave Libya. This is being presented as a proportionate response to a crisis - but it's just another attempt to shore up a failed agenda.</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=AQrPkDDcvq664fCQA0U5vmXv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Read the Article</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>Stephen Janis, The Real News Network:</strong> The controversy over charges against six officers in relation to the killing of Freddie Gray while in police custody continues as the organization representing Black officers defended one of the six, while also accusing the department she served as being racially biased.</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=RsNHFm3%2BSmqwwHmldsA3x2Xv4EKDZWC4"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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>Richard D. Wolff, Truthout:</strong> This episode provides updates on Verizon's purchase of AOL, why Facebook's "contribution" to ending inequality falls so short and why deadly Mediterranean migrations reflect capitalism's uneven development across the globe. We also respond to questions regarding whether student debt can lead to reduced Social Security benefits.</p>
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