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Court Rules Bush Administration Can Be Sued for Its "War on Terror"
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34032-court-rules-bush-administration=
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The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: The Bush administration has=
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suspects. Recently, however, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that=
former Bush administration officials can be sued for how they conducted th=
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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> The Bush administration has, up until now, avoided punishment for its shameful treatment of terrorism suspects. Recently, however, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Bush administration officials can be sued for how they conducted the "war on terror."</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=LBrOf4D%2BhOiYa29YDvJ7GdQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Resisting Regulation, Predatory Lenders Pump Millions Into State Political Campaigns</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>Fred Schulte, The Center for Public Integrity:</strong> Title lenders have fended off tighter state oversight of their operations with millions of dollars in campaign contributions, aggressive challenges to regulators who seek to rein them in and loan contracts that leave aggrieved low-income borrowers with little legal recourse.</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=zTDDxqbCvaIP2AQK6wkCI9Q3Fk4NTAa8"><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=6VzLWMmzhLZNERKv8uT0UNQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Like Copenhagen Talks, Paris Climate Negotiations Were Mostly Smoke and Mirrors</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 James Parsons, Truthout:</strong> At the COP21 climate talks, the primary outcome was known before the heads of state even arrived in France. The agreement codifies the woefully inadequate greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments that were submitted by member states before negotiations began.</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=E9x8L8MdsoaBtLXHBQDD0dQ3Fk4NTAa8"><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=9yURE9dLmOC264ICaEyyKNQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Dow, DuPont Announce Plans for $130 Billion Merger</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>Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:</strong> Recently, Dow and DuPont announced plans for a $130 billion mega-merger. They are already among a small group of companies that control both an overwhelming amount of the world's seed supply and the production of chemicals used in the fields. Patty Lovera of Food & Water Watch discusses the implications for agriculture.</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=NhcrlnR5NOZ%2Bm%2B6PwMi3BNQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Listen to the Interview 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=E5Yu3z3N%2BRVLgyxQjt%2FpkdQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Supreme Court Case Could Disempower Communities of Color in the South</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>Allie Yee, Facing South:</strong> In a Texas case titled <em>Evenwel v. Abbott</em>, the plaintiffs seek to count eligible voters, rather than the total population when drawing political districts - a move that could significantly shift political representation to older, whiter communities in the South and elsewhere across the US.</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=N93h67YJ%2F5yPOt9TpopWztQ3Fk4NTAa8"><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=0H5QbS3lpMpjYuWmKhVRmdQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Daniel Holtzclaw and the Vulnerability of Black Women to Police Abuse</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> Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw is facing life in prison for the serial rapes of African-American women. According to law professor and author Kimberlé Crenshaw, "this is precisely an example of the vulnerability that Black women face to various forms of police abuse."</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=YyDIdfKWKy39TUODM74lfjzs0Txek1uD"><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=dLvmnEiMNjSEXaI%2FSpIaW9Q3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>ALEC and ACCE's Pay-to-Play Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona</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>Lauren Kuby, PR Watch:</strong> Even as gridlock in Congress stymies change on the federal level, cities across the US have been driving forward progressive reforms. Their success has caught the attention of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has now launched the right-wing American City County Exchange to repress these efforts.</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=HiqkCYbyvsjP1JR205It29Q3Fk4NTAa8"><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=yGqUEVzjoxWh5O7NQtI7R9Q3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Toxic Chemical Causes Lung Disease in Producers and Users of Flavored E-Cigarettes</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>Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times:</strong> Not only are workers in the chemical flavorings and food manufacturing and preparation industries continuing to be exposed to diacetyl, but with the advent of e-cigarettes, a great many more people may be at risk for the lung disease associated with this chemical.</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=mHfeScZCf5Oa6Ph%2Bs6pQ4dQ3Fk4NTAa8"><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=f96ctUKHCLftpeJZcDmRU9Q3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Working Until It's Time for Your Grave</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>Tiffany Williams, OtherWords:</strong> My mom and other low-income and middle-class workers shouldn't have to go it alone. It's time for all of us to stand together and demand fairness in retirement. I don't want her, or anyone else's parents, to work themselves into the grave.</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=gQonfunCTriw4OYLpXFz6Tzs0Txek1uD"><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=etnACHA5APRajAxWR3ZjJdQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment</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> Single-event news throws our world - and particularly its dangers - out of context, while playing into irrational fears and prejudices. Corporate mainstream media create spectacles in an increasingly unbalanced country. What they don't offer is perspective.</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=eZYTXUUTeEg0FMu9uAGjcNQ3Fk4NTAa8"><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=XouOE8ENOYFTjKMDO7S7bNQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>A Lesson From Iceland: It Pays to Have Your Own Currency</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>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> The evidence really does suggest that there are important advantages to keeping your own currency. Case in point: the Icelandic krona. It seems that the human toll of the euro crisis in Iceland was much less severe than it was in Ireland because Iceland retained its own currency.</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=rB2%2FJS5mRI%2BIOyGUllytY9Q3Fk4NTAa8"><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=925M0APjERSkngUP2RxE8Tzs0Txek1uD"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Bananas May Go Extinct, 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> New research shows that the famous and iconic banana may be under threat of extinction; a new type of plastic is 100 percent reusable, petroleum-free and able to be broken down by living organisms; Thom Hartmann gives his assessment of the Paris climate change agreement; and more.</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=K6BtD3%2B3wAn5xxBKEU4UdtQ3Fk4NTAa8"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
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