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Runaway Inequality Is Ripping Us Apart
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t r u t h o u t | 12.13
On US Campuses, Pro-Israel Groups Target Supporters of Palestinian Rights
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34007-on-us-campuses-pro-israel-groups-target-supporters-of-palestinian-rights
Joe Catron, Truthout: Palestinian rights activists in the United States face broad, organized efforts to repress their advocacy, with pro-Israel groups often directing their harshest threats against women, Arabs and Muslims, especially on college campuses.
Runaway Inequality Is Ripping Us Apart
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/33992-runaway-inequality-is-ripping-us-apart
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Les Leopold, author of Runaway Inequality, discusses how Wall Street deregulation and debt creation have contributed to growing income inequality in the US, how prisons and mass incarceration have replaced poverty-reduction policies and how progressives can form a united movement and fight back.
Playful Protesters Use Art to Draw Attention to Inadequacy of Paris Climate Talks
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34006-playful-protesters-use-art-to-draw-attention-to-inadequacy-of-paris-climate-talks
T.J. Demos, Truthout: Outside the UN climate talks in Paris, and in other cities, artist-activists used creative visuals and direct-action performance art to point out the hypocrisy of the conference's corporate sponsorship and the inadequacy of government negotiators' proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In Congress, Christmas Is a Time of Giving - and Receiving
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34010-in-congress-christmas-is-a-time-of-giving-and-receiving
Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: The one thing on which both Democrats and Republicans agree: a little something tucked away in legislation in exchange for campaign largesse is the greatest gift of all. And for some in Washington, Christmas came a little early this year.
Teflon's Toxic Legacy
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34011-teflon-s-toxic-legacy
Sharon Kelly, Earth Island Journal: For more than half a century, DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick. Perfluorooctanoic acid, known as C8, has become so pervasive that it's found in virtually every American's blood and is a glaring example of the failure of US toxic chemical law.
House-Passed Visa Waiver Discrimination Is Trump Lite
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34008-house-passed-visa-waiver-discrimination-is-trump-lite
Robert Naiman, Truthout: The nationality-based discrimination of the House-passed visa waiver bill is Trump Lite: it's Trumpism applied to a smaller group of people. It is very likely that some version of the visa waiver bill will be attached to the omnibus spending bill that must pass Congress and be signed by the president in the next few days.
Native Americans Warn Native Hawaiians of the Dangers of Federal Recognition
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34012-native-americans-warn-native-hawaiians-of-the-dangers-of-federal-recognition
Imani Altemus-Williams, IC Magazine: With the understanding that Native Hawaiians and Native Americans endured a vastly different history of US colonization and occupation, Hawaii's future could look strikingly similar to the life of many Native American tribes today.
Greece's Former President of Parliament on Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34014-greece-s-former-president-of-parliament-on-why-syriza-party-broke-its-pledge-to-the-people
Steve Rushton, Occupy.com: As president of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou formed the Truth Committee on Public Debt, which found Greece's debt to be "illegal, illegitimate and odious," providing the legal framework for the nation to reject austerity. But this tool was not used and Syriza broke its promise to the Greek people.
Farmers Would Do Better to Understand the Land Than Grow GM Crops
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34015-farmers-would-do-better-to-understand-the-land-than-grow-gm-crops
Julia Wright, The Conversation: Studies have shown that agroecological approaches produce better results than genetically modified (GM) farming in terms of environmental impact, human health and societal benefits. Furthermore, using GM varieties does nothing for biodiversity in agriculture.
This week in Speakout: Dennis J. Bernstein interviews Indigenous leader Andrea Carmen, who says Native peoples who live close to the land are seeing the effects of global warming sooner than many urban dwellers; John Geyman examines the growing bureaucracy and fraud in US health care; Alex Emmons argues that Europe should not block Syrian refugees, but rather help provide for them; Sheila D. Collins reflects on the legacy of the New Deal, when government was the solution; in a new report, Corporate Europe Observatory staff reveal how European PR firms are greenwashing for polluters; Kumar Sundaram asks if an India-Japan nuclear deal will set back global nonproliferation efforts; and Peter van Buren looks at how the world's self-proclaimed "freest" society is anything but.
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook School Massacre
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MASS_SHOOTINGS_GUN_LAWS_CTOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-13-09-55-28
Ted Cruz Opens Up 10-Point Lead on Donald Trump in Iowa
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/12/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-iowa-poll/
BP Faces Mexican Class Action Lawsuit Over Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/11/bp-gulf-oil-spill-mexico-lawsuit-deepwater-horizon
Fear at the Tap: Uranium Contaminates Water in the West
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ce678b95a88c40e2b8e53aed3176c600/fear-tap-uranium-contaminates-water-west
Martin Shkreli's Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/business/martin-shkrelis-latest-plan-to-sharply-raise-drug-price-prompts-outcry.html
Threats and Violent Attacks Against Muslims in the US, Just From This Week
Read the Article at The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/12/threats-and-violent-attacks-against-muslims-in-the-u-s-just-from-this-week/
Who's Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-11/a-144-000-student-default-shows-who-profits-at-taxpayer-expense
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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>States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook School 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=pkV2V15DD0gd243vcEHkqkR3lhRVa3g8"><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>Ted Cruz Opens Up 10-Point Lead on Donald Trump in Iowa</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=l9%2BJP35tYot1MfswqiaHmFoUnO3r30Im"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>BP Faces Mexican Class Action Lawsuit Over Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill</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=J%2F0XNwCJ9w9ppGGd6eem%2BER3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Read the Article at the Guardian US</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Fear at the Tap: Uranium Contaminates Water in the West</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=6Xybb6On2sRsHmkIYxDf8VoUnO3r30Im"><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>Martin Shkreli's Latest Plan to Sharply Raise Drug Price Prompts Outcry</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=X2kwGd%2B5bEe5Q%2FiAW4XCGER3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Read the Article at The New York 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>Threats and Violent Attacks Against Muslims in the US, Just From This Week</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=NAfJqPEC9kdTu8tlO5cFckR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Read the Article at The Intercept</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who's Profiting From $1.2 Trillion of Federal Student Loans?</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=dALCAq8NWPVsTD8OuKqurER3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Read the Article at Bloomberg</strong></a></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=2YNVT31MoM%2BHKfNGVc19NUR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>On US Campuses, Pro-Israel Groups Target Supporters of Palestinian Rights</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>Joe Catron, Truthout:</strong> Palestinian rights activists in the United States face broad, organized efforts to repress their advocacy, with pro-Israel groups often directing their harshest threats against women, Arabs and Muslims, especially on college campuses.</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=q1Ru8EuTHw5L8pa3MsYnCkR3lhRVa3g8"><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=cqd5NQfIFkKByuKx6JhosloUnO3r30Im"><strong>Runaway Inequality Is Ripping Us Apart</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> Les Leopold, author of <em>Runaway Inequality</em>, discusses how Wall Street deregulation and debt creation have contributed to growing income inequality in the US, how prisons and mass incarceration have replaced poverty-reduction policies and how progressives can form a united movement and fight back.</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=OagsyoYZKn7FwvWlZzMQVUR3lhRVa3g8"><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=okI0NzVuY3QEB2IpZtCiKER3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Playful Protesters Use Art to Draw Attention to Inadequacy of Paris Climate Talks</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>T.J. Demos, Truthout:</strong> Outside the UN climate talks in Paris, and in other cities, artist-activists used creative visuals and direct-action performance art to point out the hypocrisy of the conference's corporate sponsorship and the inadequacy of government negotiators' proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</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=V39VmWB2jFn7Rn%2FBjEC%2FskR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Read the Article and View the Photos</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=Sq9mG2sdUnCGqLfRCYWGEUR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>In Congress, Christmas Is a Time of Giving - and Receiving</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>Michael Winship, Moyers & Company:</strong> The one thing on which both Democrats and Republicans agree: a little something tucked away in legislation in exchange for campaign largesse is the greatest gift of all. And for some in Washington, Christmas came a little early this year.</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=XDpdKBsmE2rnsi9GJMT5iUR3lhRVa3g8"><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=DuyLCBrK%2Fv9o0OANr%2B7YkFoUnO3r30Im"><strong>Teflon's Toxic Legacy</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>Sharon Kelly, Earth Island Journal:</strong> For more than half a century, DuPont hid information that a chemical it was using to make Teflon might be making people sick. Perfluorooctanoic acid, known as C8, has become so pervasive that it's found in virtually every American's blood and is a glaring example of the failure of US toxic chemical law.</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=yrAvJzje3ulyhTxzPGo4AkR3lhRVa3g8"><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=NCPJuTayBI7B6UnqFMR1WER3lhRVa3g8"><strong>House-Passed Visa Waiver Discrimination Is Trump Lite</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>Robert Naiman, Truthout:</strong> The nationality-based discrimination of the House-passed visa waiver bill is Trump Lite: it's Trumpism applied to a smaller group of people. It is very likely that some version of the visa waiver bill will be attached to the omnibus spending bill that must pass Congress and be signed by the president in the next few days.</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=z3lY%2Fbns8CXaV2zvx96GRVoUnO3r30Im"><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=LYZnS41QMrFHPz50dSKpxUR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Native Americans Warn Native Hawaiians of the Dangers of Federal Recognition</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>Imani Altemus-Williams, IC Magazine:</strong> With the understanding that Native Hawaiians and Native Americans endured a vastly different history of US colonization and occupation, Hawaii's future could look strikingly similar to the life of many Native American tribes today.</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=LEn9sHk6NVgvtdxkgijUU0R3lhRVa3g8"><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=MMqZVpITmv8rs3Rhg5CxEkR3lhRVa3g8"><strong>Greece's Former President of Parliament on Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People</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>Steve Rushton, Occupy.com:</strong> As president of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou formed the Truth Committee on Public Debt, which found Greece's debt to be "illegal, illegitimate and odious," providing the legal framework for the nation to reject austerity. But this tool was not used and Syriza broke its promise to the Greek people.</p>
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