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Beyond the Drone Debate: Should US Military and CIA Be Judge, Jury
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t r u t h o u t | 06.02
Beyond the Drone Debate: Should US Military and CIA Be Judge, Jury and Executioner?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31117-re-examining-drone-strikes-in-the-wake-of-hostage-killings
Adam Hudson, Truthout: After it was revealed that two Western hostages held by al-Qaeda were killed in a US drone strike in January, public debate centered on the method of targeted killing - drone strikes - rather than whether assassination was legal, moral or effective policy.
US Military Expansion in Africa Is About Domination and Exploitation, Not Humanitarian Concerns
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/31109-us-military-expansion-in-africa-is-about-domination-and-exploitation-not-humanitarian-concerns
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Author Nick Turse discusses his book,"Tomorrow's Battlefield," about the extension of the US military mission in Africa and how the continent is targeted for its rich natural resources and coveted geopolitical military positioning by foreign nations like the US and China.
Strengthen the Middle Class and the Country With Higher Wages
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31119-strengthen-the-middle-class-and-the-country-with-higher-wages
Mark Gomez, Truthout: The Los Angeles City Council's recent vote to increase the local wage standard by 2020 to $15 per hour promises to transform California's low-wage economy. Los Angeles' progress may well be a catalyst for the rest of the state and the nation.
To Protect Animals, Support Rescuers
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31099-to-protect-animals-support-rescuers
Wayne Hsuing, Truthout: Animal rescuer Patty Mark was arrested for removing near-death chickens from an egg farm for emergency veterinarian care. Big Agriculture is fighting animal rescues in the courts, but activists can win in the court of public opinion.
Helping to Build a Black Coalition-Led Movement: Madison's White Racial Justice Organizing
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31111-we-re-building-a-movement-with-young-gifted-and-black-coalition-in-the-lead-z-haukeness-on-madison-s-white-racial-justice-organizing
Chris Crass, Truthout: Z! Haukeness, who has worked in both majority Black and majority white efforts over the past decade, shares his experience as a racial justice organizer, urging white people to be mindful of privilege but also powerful for collective liberation, knowing the time to rise against structural racism is now.
WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 "Bounty" for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31120-wikileaks-launches-campaign-to-offer-100-000-bounty-for-leaked-drafts-of-secret-tpp-chapters
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been in secret and the public has not seen much of the text. Democracy Now! speaks to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the new campaign to offer $100,000 for the leaking of the unseen chapters.
Jeb Bush Speaking at Secret Coal Industry Retreat
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31124-jeb-bush-speaking-at-secret-coal-industry-retreat
Nick Surgey, PR Watch: Presidential candidate Jeb Bush will speak at the fourth annual Coal & Investment Leadership Forum held at an exclusive resort owned by the founder of the United Coal Company. The event brings together five other coal companies and well-known climate change deniers to discuss carbon emissions and energy investment.
North Carolina Governor Goes to Bat for Big Energy
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31116-north-carolina-governor-goes-to-bat-for-big-energy
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: After being elected governor of North Carolina, the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition quickly recruited Republican Pat McCrory. Since joining the coalition, Governor McCrory has used his state office to promote expanding offshore drilling, raising concerns of transparency.
Crop Gene Banks Are Preserving the Future of Agriculture, but Who's Preserving Them?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31112-crop-gene-banks-are-preserving-the-future-of-agriculture-but-who-s-preserving-them
Virginia Gewin, Ensia: The world's gene banks hold bounties of diversity created by farmer-assisted evolution. Their importance is growing in the face of climate change because the seeds in these collections almost certainly contain traits that will help future crops withstand disease or prolonged drought.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 1.2 Million People Found Jobs in Renewable Energy in 2014, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31129-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-1-2-million-people-found-jobs-in-renewable-energy-in-2014-and-more
In today's On the News segment: 1.2 million people found jobs in renewable energy last year alone; China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, reduced its coal use by about 8 percent in a single year; Canadian scientists don't find genetically modified salmon fit for human consumption; France will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent within 15 years; and more.
Latin America's Relative Success in Fighting Hunger
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31127-latin-america-s-relative-success-in-fighting-hunger
Marianela Jarroud, Inter Press Service: While 34 million people still go hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new plan adopted by the region proposes to eliminate hunger by prioritizing fighting food insecurity and mitigating the effects of climate change that mainly affect small-scale family farmers and the poor.
You've Been Scammed! Kept Politicians and Demobilized Americans in a System Without a Name
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31121-you-ve-been-scammed-kept-politicians-and-demobilized-americans-in-a-system-without-a-name
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Graduates are trapped in a political system known as "the real world" - one that is awash in plutocratic contributions to politicians, while students drown in debt, Engelhardt warns the class of 2015 in this hypothetical commencement address.
America: Not the Home of the Brave, but the Scared S**tless
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31115-america-not-the-home-of-the-brave-but-of-the-scared-s-tless
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: On Sunday night, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed the NSA to collect phone records, expired. But this week, the Senate will probably pass the USA Freedom Act, and the NSA's mass surveillance programs will go on as before, with a few minor changes.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Ben & Jerry's Makes Life a Rocky Road for Many Migrant Dairy Workers
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/ben-and-jerry-s-makes-life-a-rocky-road-for-many-dairy-workers
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The exploitation of migrant workers on dairy farms providing milk to Ben & Jerry's is probably underreported because of fear of deportation and lack of legal recourse.
Forty Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/forty-reasons-our-jails-and-prisons-are-full-of-black-and-poor-people
In Blunt Letter, Elizabeth Warren Blasts Head of the SEC
Read the Article at The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/06/02/elizabeth-warren-slams-sec-chairwoman-mary-white/i56JsrMVCGUOX1GKs2Xk9J/story.html
The FBI Is Operating a Small Air Force to Spy on Americans
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-is-reportedly-operating-a-small-air-force-to-monitor-americans-2015-6
Pew Study: Right-Wing Radio Shows Among Most Distrusted Sources of News
Read the Article at Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/06/01/pew-study-right-wing-radio-shows-among-most-dis/203837
KFC Sues Chinese Companies Spreading Mutant Chickens Rumors Online
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kfc-lawsuit-chinese-online-rumors?
Bernie-nomics: How Sanders Wants to Handle the Economy
Read the Article at Bloomberg News
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-30/bernie-nomics-how-senator-sanders-wants-to-handle-the-economy
Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep US Spying - Even if the Original Dies
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/31/zombie-patriot-act-will-keep-u-s-spying-even-if-the-original-dies.html
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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>Ben & Jerry's Makes Life a Rocky Road for Many Migrant Dairy Workers </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 exploitation of migrant workers on dairy farms providing milk to Ben & Jerry's is probably underreported because of fear of deportation and lack of legal recourse.</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=jOeKg719kYCsTnKLrzSLJRTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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>Forty Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People</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=X%2BnMmCaACQT1IhFurQlJghTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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>In Blunt Letter, Elizabeth Warren Blasts Head of the SEC</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=kBI9%2BqqCeShqO%2Focx7WqZhTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Article at The Boston Globe</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 FBI Is Operating a Small Air Force to Spy on Americans</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=voBylwxDnMmdfez7pMNe6hTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Pew Study: Right-Wing Radio Shows Among Most Distrusted Sources of News</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=BTkBcMV4UehhNMxFAblRQxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Article at Media Matters for America</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>KFC Sues Chinese Companies Spreading Mutant Chickens Rumors Online</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=fGeNxQlaY6XoEJHXCD5jphTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Bernie-nomics: How Sanders Wants to Handle the Economy</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=UwquTJY4cuP3hocgXLM0ODCHr2B%2FhTUk"><strong>Read the Article at Bloomberg News</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Zombie Patriot Act Will Keep US Spying - Even if the Original Dies</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=V7DcydlQfUMwR6s25mZrJxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Article at The Daily Beast</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>Adam Hudson, Truthout:</strong> After it was revealed that two Western hostages held by al-Qaeda were killed in a US drone strike in January, public debate centered on the method of targeted killing - drone strikes - rather than whether assassination was legal, moral or effective policy.</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=WMKq%2B9GSVpcjMfCsOzFM6RTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=F%2Flvc76gyz77Fz%2FYRgbHAhTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>US Military Expansion in Africa Is About Domination and Exploitation, Not Humanitarian Concerns</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>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Author Nick Turse discusses his book, <em>Tomorrow's Battlefield,</em> about the extension of the US military mission in Africa and how the continent is targeted for its rich natural resources and coveted geopolitical military positioning by foreign nations like the US and China.</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=TkjOitfH6jGUxltQnkbLVxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Interview</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=xGjr19Yh4vjeORz9SlOU4xTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Strengthen the Middle Class and the Country With Higher Wages</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>Mark Gomez, Truthout:</strong> The Los Angeles City Council's recent vote to increase the local wage standard by 2020 to $15 per hour promises to transform California's low-wage economy. Los Angeles' progress may well be a catalyst for the rest of the state and the nation.</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=6P2wQcWpq6ebftzxGP43ghTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=jhhrkml9XklY97JJsYfFxhTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>To Protect Animals, Support Rescuers</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>Wayne Hsuing, Truthout:</strong> Animal rescuer Patty Mark was arrested for removing near-death chickens from an egg farm for emergency veterinarian care. Big Agriculture is fighting animal rescues in the courts, but activists can win in the court of public opinion.</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=%2Bs%2FRCIVbR%2FqdX2KYbtyVUxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=AexlhFSf%2BZctqTKHYLYtNxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Helping to Build a Black Coalition-Led Movement: Madison's White Racial Justice Organizing</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>Chris Crass, Truthout:</strong> Z! Haukeness, who has worked in both majority Black and majority white efforts over the past decade, shares his experience as a racial justice organizer, urging white people to be mindful of privilege but also powerful for collective liberation, knowing the time to rise against structural racism is now.</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=3Z78JeDUYnRZ1RicsdUOFhTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Read the Interview</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=ijFWAOpcmIwHQK92imEgqBTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>WikiLeaks Launches Campaign to Offer $100,000 "Bounty" for Leaked Drafts of Secret TPP Chapters</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, Democracy Now!:</strong> Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been in secret and the public has not seen much of the text. Democracy Now! speaks to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the new campaign to offer $100,000 for the leaking of the unseen chapters.</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=RHR5sDCduc6VK34kEZgYJBTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Jeb Bush Speaking at Secret Coal Industry Retreat</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>Nick Surgey, PR Watch:</strong> Presidential candidate Jeb Bush will speak at the fourth annual Coal & Investment Leadership Forum held at an exclusive resort owned by the founder of the United Coal Company. The event brings together five other coal companies and well-known climate change deniers to discuss carbon emissions and energy investment.</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=ZTXA7MIb5Dk3aDwtcJUBExTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>North Carolina Governor Goes to Bat for Big Energy</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>Sue Sturgis, Facing South:</strong> After being elected governor of North Carolina, the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition quickly recruited Republican Pat McCrory. Since joining the coalition, Governor McCrory has used his state office to promote expanding offshore drilling, raising concerns of transparency.</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=%2FwIAQiHKUm37N6y%2FKWYuzxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Crop Gene Banks Are Preserving the Future of Agriculture, but Who's Preserving Them?</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>Virginia Gewin, Ensia:</strong> The world's gene banks hold bounties of diversity created by farmer-assisted evolution. Their importance is growing in the face of climate change because the seeds in these collections almost certainly contain traits that will help future crops withstand disease or prolonged drought.</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=%2FSffvES%2F2x%2B1LFOBSeUHJxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=GKCgBzjBYnrufdwelEnO0xTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>America: Not the Home of the Brave, but the Scared S**tless</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> On Sunday night, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allowed the NSA to collect phone records, expired. But this week, the Senate will probably pass the USA Freedom Act, and the NSA's mass surveillance programs will go on as before, with a few minor changes.</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=LW2M1WXlbadChvVmwd%2FC4RTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>Latin America's Relative Success in Fighting Hunger</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>Marianela Jarroud, Inter Press Service:</strong> While 34 million people still go hungry in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new plan adopted by the region proposes to eliminate hunger by prioritizing fighting food insecurity and mitigating the effects of climate change that mainly affect small-scale family farmers and the poor.</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=HT%2B50d5BLUVcQKaqmKDMwhTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=XklUC%2FAcM1%2B1N2sw51ML8RTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>You've Been Scammed! Kept Politicians and Demobilized Americans in a System Without a Name</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> Graduates are trapped in a political system known as "the real world" - one that is awash in plutocratic contributions to politicians, while students drown in debt, Engelhardt warns the class of 2015 in this hypothetical commencement address.</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=7neSPVQO6qDGQnUOl27cbxTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><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=hgIpzQswzfcCZqszTDbnoBTd%2Bm9Xez%2FB"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: 1.2 Million People Found Jobs in Renewable Energy in 2014, 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> 1.2 million people found jobs in renewable energy last year alone; China, the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter, reduced its coal use by about 8 percent in a single year; Canadian scientists don't find genetically modified salmon fit for human consumption; France will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent within 15 years; and more.</p>
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