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Mourning the Changes That Surround Us: Readers Speak Out on Climate
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t r u t h o u t | 07.20
Mourning the Changes That Surround Us: Readers Speak Out on Climate
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31963-mourning-the-changes-that-surround=
-us-readers-speak-out-on-climate
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: While no single abnormal weather event can be attrib=
uted solely to human-caused climate change, the frequency and intensity of =
most events can. We asked Truthout readers to share their observations of w=
eather anomalies they are witnessing, and their answers reflect the on-the-=
ground realities of a rapidly changing planet.
Wolfgang Sch=C3=A4uble, the Hero of the Greek Austerity Crisis?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31953-wolfgang-schauble-the-hero-of-t=
he-greek-austerity-crisis
Dean Baker, Truthout: Germany's finance minister appeared to be the bad cop=
relative to others in the negotiations between Greece and its creditors wh=
o were willing to make at least some concessions to keep Greece in the euro=
zone. But a more careful analysis arguably leads to the opposite conclusion=
.
#BernieSoBlack in the Context of "Confederate Flag Down, Rainbow Flag Up"
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31973-berniesoblack-in-the-context-of-co=
nfederate-flag-down-rainbow-flag-up
Ayo Coly, Truthout: The satirical hashtag #BernieSoBlack has exposed the pr=
oblem with equating the same-sex marriage ruling with the symbolic lowering=
of the Confederate flag. This false equivalency ignores the singularity of=
anti-Black structural racism.
Why Exactly Is the US at War in Yemen?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31954-why-exactly-is-the-us-at-war-in=
-yemen
Rachelle Marshall, Foreign Policy in Focus: The Obama administration wants =
to reassure the Saudis and other Gulf monarchs that if the United states si=
gns a nuclear agreement with Iran, they needn't worry. The White House will=
continue to support them and to treat Iran as an adversary.
Cuban Embassy Opens in Washington as US-Cuban Diplomatic Ties Restored
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31970-cuban-embassy-opens-in-washington-=
as-us-cuban-diplomatic-ties-restored
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: History was made in Washington today when Cuba=
raised its flag and officially reopened its US Embassy after 54 years. Hun=
dreds gathered for this historic moment, including US and Cuban lawmakers a=
nd diplomats, activists and artists, scholars and historians.
Syriza's Hapless and Sad Betrayal of Hope Follows Long Greek Left Tradition
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31971-syriza-s-hapless-and-sad-betray=
al-of-hopes-follows-long-greek-left-tradition
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The first leftist government in the history of=
Greece, unprepared as it was for an alternative solution, has surrendered =
totally to neoliberal Europe by adopting the neoconservative claim that, "T=
here is no alternative." In so doing, it continues the long tradition of Gr=
eek left betrayal.
California and Arizona Miscount Water Supplies, Avoiding Realities of Scarc=
ity
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31957-less-than-zero
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: Despite decades of accepted science, Califor=
nia and Arizona - the two states water experts say are facing the most seve=
re water crises - continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface wa=
ter as if they were entirely separate, but neither are independent supplies=
.
One North Carolina Law Is Bringing the War on Whistleblowers to a New Level
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31961-one-north-carolina-law-is-bringing=
-the-war-on-whistleblowers-to-a-new-level
Derek Royden, Occupy.com: On June 15, North Carolina's state legislature ov=
errode Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's veto of that state's controversial "Ag=
-Gag" bill, also known as the Property Protection Act. The earliest bills o=
f this kind target industry whistleblowers, activists and in some cases jou=
rnalists.
Colombia Arrests Social Activists for Bogot=C3=A1 Bombing Despite Lack of E=
vidence
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31964-colombia-arrests-social-activists-=
for-bogota-bombing-despite-lack-of-evidence
Kate Aronoff, Waging Nonviolence: On July 8, the district attorney of Colom=
bia rounded up and arrested 16 people for their alleged connection to a bom=
bing in the capital city of Bogot=C3=A1 a few days earlier. But the questio=
n being asked by the country's activists is whether they've done anything w=
rong.
Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine: Steadfastness, Creativity and Hope
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31960-nonviolent-resistance-in-palest=
ine-steadfastness-creativity-and-hope
Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh, openDemocracy: On June 8, prominent nonviolent r=
esistance leader Iyad Burnat of Palestine received the James Lawson Award f=
or Achievement in the Practice of Nonviolent Conflict. Spend but a few hour=
s in Iyad's company and you'll figure out where his hope and drive come fro=
m.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Calls for Sweeping Reforms to US =
Prison System
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31972-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-pre=
sident-calls-for-sweeping-reforms-to-us-prison-system
In today's On the News segment: The president calls for changes to mandator=
y-minimum sentencing, review of the use of solitary confinement and for mor=
e investments in education to keep people out of jail; some lawmakers say i=
t's time to expand Social Security; Pope Francis wants the young people of =
the world to rise up against capitalism; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Private Health Care as an Act of Terrorism
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/private-health-care-as-an-act-of-=
terrorism
California Crackdown on Chinese Immigrants Alarms Rights Groups=20
Read the Article at the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/20/california-crackdown-chinese=
-immigrants?CMP=3Dema_565
How the US South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Read the Article at The American Prospect
http://prospect.org/article/how-american-south-drives-low-wage-economy
New Orleans Katrina Pain Index at 10: Who Was Left Behind=20
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/new-orleans-katrina-pain-index-at=
-ten-who-was-left-behind
"There's No Real Fight Against Drugs"
Read the Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/07/chapo-mexico-drug-=
war/398927/
Thirsty Birds Are Dying All Over California - Thanks, Climate Change
Read the Article at Grist
http://grist.org/news/thirsty-birds-are-dying-all-over-california-thanks-cl=
imate-change/?utm_campaign=3Ddaily&utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dnewslett=
er
Debunking the Planned Parenthood Video Hoax
Read the Article at RH Reality Check
http://rhrealitycheck.org/reality-cast/2015/07/20/debunking-planned-parenth=
ood-video-hoax/?&utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dreality&utm_content=3D9+-+=
Debunking+the+Planned+Parenthood+Video+H&utm_campaign=3Ddaily-enews-7-20-20=
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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>Dahr Jamail, Truthout:</strong> While no single abnormal weather event can be attributed solely to human-caused climate change, the frequency and intensity of most events can. We asked Truthout readers to share their observations of weather anomalies they are witnessing, and their answers reflect the on-the-ground realities of a rapidly changing planet.</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=RtD7muxFunJsYX%2F9EaHwcllsnaMp3M58"><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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> Germany's finance minister appeared to be the bad cop relative to others in the negotiations between Greece and its creditors who were willing to make at least some concessions to keep Greece in the eurozone. But a more careful analysis arguably leads to the opposite conclusion.</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=4wo6M1lXSXQwvgPDEkrNkFlsnaMp3M58"><strong>#BernieSoBlack in the Context of "Confederate Flag Down, Rainbow Flag Up"</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>Ayo Coly, Truthout:</strong> The satirical hashtag #BernieSoBlack has exposed the problem with equating the same-sex marriage ruling with the symbolic lowering of the Confederate flag. This false equivalency ignores the singularity of anti-Black structural racism.</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=%2FZVI7WP6J%2BNAdsgZ%2Fg9KsllsnaMp3M58"><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>Rachelle Marshall, Foreign Policy in Focus:</strong> The Obama administration wants to reassure the Saudis and other Gulf monarchs that if the United states signs a nuclear agreement with Iran, they needn't worry. The White House will continue to support them and to treat Iran as an adversary.</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=wyfLAwh1On23AhgcWjx4ellsnaMp3M58"><strong>Cuban Embassy Opens in Washington as US-Cuban Diplomatic Ties Restored</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> History was made in Washington today when Cuba raised its flag and officially reopened its US Embassy after 54 years. Hundreds gathered for this historic moment, including US and Cuban lawmakers and diplomats, activists and artists, scholars and historians.</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=x4M0d88YAutbUA%2Fv73i5%2BFlsnaMp3M58"><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=kvH74vdxuiYcACd2KvFDPlD4IXxUyUro"><strong>Syriza's Hapless and Sad Betrayal of Hope Follows Long Greek Left Tradition</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>C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout:</strong> The first leftist government in the history of Greece, unprepared as it was for an alternative solution, has surrendered totally to neoliberal Europe by adopting the neoconservative claim that, "There is no alternative." In so doing, it continues the long tradition of Greek left betrayal.</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=nOOIkofQpYN8SuE0sCgnBpuFkA%2BZ6JI0"><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=izeqh3RDhBaew%2BXQ6chLXJuFkA%2BZ6JI0"><strong>California and Arizona Miscount Water Supplies, Avoiding Realities of Scarcity</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>Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica:</strong> Despite decades of accepted science, California and Arizona - the two states water experts say are facing the most severe water crises - continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate, but neither are independent supplies.</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=mfuwyvAsICAfE68NhwPesFlsnaMp3M58"><strong>One North Carolina Law Is Bringing the War on Whistleblowers to a New Level</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>Derek Royden, Occupy.com:</strong> On June 15, North Carolina's state legislature overrode Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's veto of that state's controversial "Ag-Gag" bill, also known as the Property Protection Act. The earliest bills of this kind target industry whistleblowers, activists and in some cases journalists.</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=Gr3BoQaZrfhYu37V9jEm3VlsnaMp3M58"><strong>Colombia Arrests Social Activists for Bogotá Bombing Despite Lack of Evidence</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>Kate Aronoff, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> On July 8, the district attorney of Colombia rounded up and arrested 16 people for their alleged connection to a bombing in the capital city of Bogotá a few days earlier. But the question being asked by the country's activists is whether they've done anything wrong.</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=UMlUQjAinZkGfM6DnkUdZllsnaMp3M58"><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=fs5tFZjGb5ejh3vDy5cdy1D4IXxUyUro"><strong>Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine: Steadfastness, Creativity and Hope</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>Katherine Hughes-Fraitekh, openDemocracy:</strong> On June 8, prominent nonviolent resistance leader Iyad Burnat of Palestine received the James Lawson Award for Achievement in the Practice of Nonviolent Conflict. Spend but a few hours in Iyad's company and you'll figure out where his hope and drive come from.</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=ND%2FYBAe5oMG2ntA5k7AdcFD4IXxUyUro"><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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> The president calls for changes to mandatory-minimum sentencing, review of the use of solitary confinement and for more investments in education to keep people out of jail; some lawmakers say it's time to expand Social Security; Pope Francis wants the young people of the world to rise up against capitalism; and more.</p>
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