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t r u t h o u t | 08.07
Watchdog Group Sues US for Access to Shell Oil's Safety Plan for Arctic Dri=
lling
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32250-watchdog-group-sues-for-access-to-=
shell-oil-s-safety-plan-for-arctic-drilling
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: As Shell begins drilling in the treacherous and remo=
te Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea, environmental watchdogs are suing fede=
ral offshore drilling regulators for access to records detailing the compan=
y's safety and spill response measures, which they claim should already be =
publicly available.
Double-Barreled Disaster: Two GOP Debates in One Night
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32269-double-barreled-disaster-two-go=
p-debates-in-one-night
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Listening to that pack of howling wolves al=
l night, I remembered again that in order to exist in that atmosphere, you =
must believe in a carefully concocted fiction that has no basis whatsoever =
in fact, history, reason or sense."
Socialist Faces in High Places: Syriza's Fall From Grace and the Elusive El=
ectoral Road
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32237-socialist-faces-in-high-places-=
syriza-s-fall-from-grace-and-the-elusive-electoral-road
Enrique Guerrero-L=C3=B3pez and Adam Weaver, Truthout: There are no shortcu=
ts or quick fixes on the long road to liberation. Only by building power fr=
om below - in our schools, workplaces and communities - do we create the bu=
ilding blocks of a new world.
Will Sharing Abortion Stories Further Reproductive Justice?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32252-will-sharing-abortion-stories-f=
urther-reproductive-justice
Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Aspen Baker, the founder of Exhale, a 15-year-o=
ld post-abortion telephone talk line, has written a sure-to-be-controversia=
l book - part-memoir and part how-to guide for ending the so-called "aborti=
on wars" through empathy and active listening.
Permits to Build Keystone XL in Jeopardy as Hearings Reveal Missteps
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32260-permits-to-build-keystone-xl-in-je=
opardy-as-hearings-reveal-missteps
Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: TransCanada's decision to purchase all of the =
pipe needed to complete the Keystone XL pipeline before receiving a permit =
could prove a costly mistake. Not only is President Obama expected to rejec=
t the TransCanada's cross-border permit, the company must recertify an expi=
red South Dakota permit.
Job Growth Remains Strong in July
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32265-job-growth-remains-strong-in-july
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: The Labor Department r=
eported the economy added 215,000 jobs in July, while the overall unemploym=
ent rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent. The unemployment rate for African Am=
ericans fell from 9.5 percent to 9.1 percent, the lowest level since Februa=
ry of 2008.
War With Iran: The Same Old Story
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32256-if-you-liked-the-iraq-war-you-l=
l-love-the-iran-war
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Bibi and the Bush administr=
ation and the Republican establishment were all completely wrong about Iraq=
. Does that really mean we should ignore their frightened screams about Ira=
n? Yes - because they're singing the exact same tune as before.
First Republican Debate of 2016 Presidential Race Kicks Off With Roger Aile=
s' Favorites
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32262-first-republican-debate-of-2016-pr=
esidential-race-kicks-off-with-roger-ailes-favorites
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Ten leading Republican presidential candidates=
faced off in the first debate of the 2016 presidential election Thursday n=
ight. Some analysts described the debate as the Roger Ailes primary since t=
he head of Fox News had so much say in who participated.
Scott Walker Wins Koch Straw Poll, $900 Million in the Offing
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32259-scott-walker-wins-koch-straw-poll-=
900-million-in-the-offing
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: The Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exch=
ange Council held their annual summits in California this year. Wisconsin G=
ov. Scott Walker was a featured speaker at both, capturing enthusiastic app=
lause as he won the Koch summit straw poll this week.
Fighter's Capture Spells Trouble for US-Led Coalition Against Islamic State
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32220-fighter-s-capture-spells-troubl=
e-for-us-led-coalition-against-islamic-state
Julia Harte, The Center for Public Integrity: A Syrian who embraced the US =
cause, Farhan al-Jassem, was captured by al-Qaeda sympathizers. Jassem's st=
ory is a lesson that deepening US involvement in this complex territorial c=
onflict comes with many risks, both political ones and for the fighters, pe=
rsonal ones.
Jeb Bush Didn't Misspeak: The GOP Wants to Dismantle Reproductive Health Pr=
ograms
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32258-bush-didn-t-misspeak-the-gop-wa=
nts-to-dismantle-reproductive-health-programs
Andrea Flynn, Next New Deal: This week, Jeb Bush made a slip of the tongue =
that let us know just where he stands on reproductive health. "I'm not sure=
we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues," he said at an e=
vent in Nashville.
Sacramento Activists "No Fracking No Way" at Protest
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32212-sacramento-activists-sing-no-frack=
ing-no-way-at-protest
Dan Bacher, Indy Bay: The Sacramento Chapter of "System Change Not Climate =
Change" held a protest, featuring the "Raging Grannies" singing their songs=
calling on the Brown administration to end fracking now at the California =
Department of Conservation office in Sacramento.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Blowback From the Colonization of Puerto Rico: Young, Educated Islanders Fl=
ee to Mainland for Jobs
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The exodus of a skilled and educated wo=
rkforce presents severe challenges to Puerto Rico's economic future at a ti=
me the island is being crushed by debt.
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/blowback-from-colonization-of=
-puerto-rico-young-educated-islanders-flee-to-mainland-for-jobs
"Frack Now, Pay Later," Top Services Companies Say Amid Oil Crash
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/07/us-fracking-halliburton-schlumber=
ger-nv-idUSKCN0QC0F220150807
Read the Article at Reuters
Seven Key Moments From the Republican Presidential Debate
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/08/07/top-moments-from-republ=
ican-presidential-debate/VRNAPmyMtw5mCIZYPHc8RN/story.html
Read the Article at The Boston Globe
"Oppressed People Are Everywhere": A Year After Ferguson, a Conversation Wi=
th One of the Protests' Organizers
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/johnetta-elzie-ferguson-black-l=
ives-matter
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Fifteen Youth Movements to Dismantle White Supremacy Rising This Summer
http://www.thenation.com/article/15-youth-movements-to-dismantle-white-supr=
emacy-rising-this-summer/
Read the Article at The Nation
A Hotter Climate May Boost Conflict, From Shootings to Wars
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hotter-climate-may-boost-confl=
ict-shootings-wars-180956180/
Read the Article at Smithsonian Magazine
Another Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obamacare-contraceptive-mandate
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
Hate Groups Surge, Raking in Cash and New Recruits After Charleston Massacr=
e
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/08/06/hate-groups-surge-raking-cas=
h-and-new-recruits-after-charleston-massacre
Read the Article at the Southern Poverty Law Center
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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>Blowback From the Colonization of Puerto Rico: Young, Educated Islanders Flee to Mainland for Jobs </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 exodus of a skilled and educated workforce presents severe challenges to Puerto Rico's economic future at a time the island is being crushed by debt.</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=AbadmKeY1INad%2FAiS%2Fc1BcbLWt7GIgcv"><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>"Frack Now, Pay Later," Top Services Companies Say Amid Oil Crash</strong></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>Seven Key Moments From the Republican Presidential Debate</strong></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>"Oppressed People Are Everywhere": A Year After Ferguson, a Conversation With One of the Protests' Organizers</strong></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>Fifteen Youth Movements to Dismantle White Supremacy Rising This Summer</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=VZ33vFvaRzaQDqw38hEiEcbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Read the Article at The Nation</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>A Hotter Climate May Boost Conflict, From Shootings to Wars</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=lQ97%2Bthv3CdsGEXzYz%2FBicbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Read the Article at Smithsonian Magazine</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Another Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate</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=wA%2FXiSc0ACnuMmN6iM4tFsbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Hate Groups Surge, Raking in Cash and New Recruits After Charleston Massacre</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=S4XFn2ma7%2FGzSJJj2WwQL8bLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Read the Article at the Southern Poverty Law Center</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> As Shell begins drilling in the treacherous and remote Arctic waters of the Chukchi Sea, environmental watchdogs are suing federal offshore drilling regulators for access to records detailing the company's safety and spill response measures, which they claim should already be publicly available.</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=8ModjIycY7CZrLjPFZf%2FscbLWt7GIgcv"><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=JwVSMP56XOLaN0RNLYZQdMbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Double-Barreled Disaster: Two GOP Debates in One Night</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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "Listening to that pack of howling wolves all night, I remembered again that in order to exist in that atmosphere, you must believe in a carefully concocted fiction that has no basis whatsoever in fact, history, reason or sense."</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=3dOCFv0PrwxJN6zZA%2FF5dMbLWt7GIgcv"><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=AvT0Fe1V3r7XMAzBbMYBBcbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Socialist Faces in High Places: Syriza's Fall From Grace and the Elusive Electoral Road</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>Enrique Guerrero-López and Adam Weaver, Truthout:</strong> There are no shortcuts or quick fixes on the long road to liberation. Only by building power from below - in our schools, workplaces and communities - do we create the building blocks of a new world.</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=7Mv3kpG6lk3mwQOy79uxssbLWt7GIgcv"><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=64wyFNAyrZscv7IF6z33vcbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Will Sharing Abortion Stories Further Reproductive Justice?</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>Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout:</strong> Aspen Baker, the founder of Exhale, a 15-year-old post-abortion telephone talk line, has written a sure-to-be-controversial book - part-memoir and part how-to guide for ending the so-called "abortion wars" through empathy and active listening.</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=9Qaq0n4UhqpsLjCOLoHgtcbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Read the Book 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=OKATX4dzP%2BGA4iFH1C3K9cbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Permits to Build Keystone XL in Jeopardy as Hearings Reveal Missteps</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>Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog:</strong> TransCanada's decision to purchase all of the pipe needed to complete the Keystone XL pipeline before receiving a permit could prove a costly mistake. Not only is President Obama expected to reject the TransCanada's cross-border permit, the company must recertify an expired South Dakota permit.</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=PwX9HlzvtxvtSm4ZB3FGGsbLWt7GIgcv"><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=ZxU88KgWxnxHhdzSOutb3MbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Job Growth Remains Strong in July</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>Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> The Labor Department reported the economy added 215,000 jobs in July, while the overall unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent. The unemployment rate for African Americans fell from 9.5 percent to 9.1 percent, the lowest level since February of 2008.</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>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> Bibi and the Bush administration and the Republican establishment were all completely wrong about Iraq. Does that really mean we should ignore their frightened screams about Iran? Yes - because they're singing the exact same tune as before.</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> Ten leading Republican presidential candidates faced off in the first debate of the 2016 presidential election Thursday night. Some analysts described the debate as the Roger Ailes primary since the head of Fox News had so much say in who participated.</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=D0s9dMnkWO4sq9YKf9VPlsbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Scott Walker Wins Koch Straw Poll, $900 Million in the Offing</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>Mary Bottari, PR Watch:</strong> The Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council held their annual summits in California this year. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was a featured speaker at both, capturing enthusiastic applause as he won the Koch summit straw poll this week.</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=uOo%2FQCRsLZJctylPoq%2FqdsbLWt7GIgcv"><strong>Fighter's Capture Spells Trouble for US-Led Coalition Against Islamic State</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>Julia Harte, The Center for Public Integrity:</strong> A Syrian who embraced the US cause, Farhan al-Jassem, was captured by al-Qaeda sympathizers. Jassem's story is a lesson that deepening US involvement in this complex territorial conflict comes with many risks, both political ones and for the fighters, personal ones.</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>Andrea Flynn, Next New Deal:</strong> This week, Jeb Bush made a slip of the tongue that let us know just where he stands on reproductive health. "I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues," he said at an event in Nashville.</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=uOo%2FQCRsLZI%2FaxIzOGVYDsbLWt7GIgcv"><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>Dan Bacher, Indy Bay:</strong> The Sacramento Chapter of "System Change Not Climate Change" held a protest, featuring the "Raging Grannies" singing their songs calling on the Brown administration to end fracking now at the California Department of Conservation office in Sacramento.</p>
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