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How Dark Money Groups Can Get Away With Breaking the Law
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34048-how-dark-money-groups-can-get-away-with-breaking-the-law
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Campaign finance watchdogs allege that dark money groups that conceal their donors are brazenly circumventing the tax code and even breaking the law to help elect individual candidates. Here's how they are getting away with it.
To the Donald Trump-Led GOP: We Will Fight You and We Will Win
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34076-to-the-donald-trump-led-gop-we-will-fight-you-and-we-will-win
Chris Crass, Truthout: In high school, I had friends who refused to let white supremacy claim other white people without a fight. Today, we must call out and combat racism in politics and in our communities, and build a multiracial movement that supports racial, economic and gender justice.
Nuclear Power Is on the Wane, Despite Efforts of High-Profile Boosters
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34082-nuclear-power-is-on-the-wane-despite-efforts-of-high-profile-boosters
Linda Pentz Gunter, Truthout: While the US energy secretary, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the American Nuclear Society continue to tout the potential of nuclear power, the real trajectory of nuclear energy since the 1970s shows a shrinking, not expanding, fan base.
Socialism Facilitates Human Liberation
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/34079-socialism-facilitates-human-liberation
Danny Katch, Haymarket Books: What is socialism? A short answer is that socialism is a society whose top priority is meeting all of its people's needs - ranging from food, shelter and health care to art, culture and companionship. In contrast, capitalism only cares about any of that basic human necessity stuff to the extent that money can be made off it.
Every Student Succeeds Act Still Leaves Most Vulnerable Kids Behind
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34080-every-student-succeeds-act-still-leaves-most-vulnerable-kids-behind
Mary Battenfeld and Felicity Crawford, The Conversation: The new law is better than No Child Left Behind, because it takes aim at test-and-punish strategies. However, it still emphasizes "accountability" over the root causes of inequality.
The Republican Path to the Dark Side
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34077-the-republican-path-to-the-dark-side
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Republicans are totally and completely committed to scaring people to get elected so they can have access to money and power for their own purposes. And that is something worth worrying about, because if history tells us anything, it's that when people are scared, they'll do pretty much anything to feel safe.
Justice for Freddie Gray Uncertain as Baltimore Jury Fails to Reach a Verdict
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34088-justice-for-freddie-gray-uncertain-as-baltimore-jury-fails-to-reach-verdict
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Freddie Gray died in April from a spinal injury sustained while being transported in the back of a police van. On Wednesday, a judge declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict on any of the charges after three days of deliberation.
Five New Studies That Change Our Understanding of Permafrost
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34081-five-new-studies-that-change-our-understanding-of-permafrost
Krista Langlois, High Country News: Until recently, little was known about the repercussions of thawing permafrost. Its role in the global carbon cycle is becoming increasingly apparent. These are the new studies transforming our understanding of the North's frozen soil.
Will the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34084-will-the-supreme-court-free-albert-woodfox-after-43-years-in-solitary
Katie Rose Quandt, Solitary Watch: Albert Woodfox, the last remaining incarcerated member of the "Angola 3," is appealing to the Supreme Court for his release after a tumultuous succession of appeals and overturned decisions.
Great Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risks as the Seas
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34083-acid-trip-great-lakes-could-face-similar-acidification-risk-as-the-seas
Brian Bienkowski, The Daily Climate: As in the oceans, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could throw off water chemistry in large freshwater bodies like the Great Lakes, putting the food web at risk. But the science must be bolstered if we are to understand what this means for freshwater.
In Preparation to Join US Wars, Japan Dismantles Freedom of the Press
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34085-in-preparation-to-join-us-wars-japan-dismantles-freedom-of-the-press
Jon Mitchell, Freedom of the Press Foundation: In three years, Japan went from being ranked 11th in Reporters Without Borders' global Press Freedom Index to 61st. Since coming to power in 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party have embarked upon a war of attrition against press freedoms in Japan.
The United States' Secret African Drone War Against ISIS
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34086-the-united-states-secret-african-drone-war-against-isis
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: At an "inactivation ceremony" on October 7, Lt. Col. Daniel Drake turned in the "colors" of his drone unit. Drake's force spent more than a year in the Horn of Africa targeting ISIS. The US Air Force has since taken steps to cover up the actions of the unit.
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Weapons Sales to Taiwan Show That for the US, Arming the World Is Profitable
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/latest-weapons-sales-to-taiwan-symbolize-that-arming-the-world-is-profitable-us-export
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: As China continues to profit from what Fortune called an "an all-time high" US trade deficit with Beijing, the US is hoping that weaponizing the world will help reduce the gap.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Millennials: Return of the Chicken Hawks
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/donald-trump-ted-cruz-and-millennials-return-of-the-chicken-hawks
Where Are Airplane Emissions in the Paris Agreement?
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http://magazine.good.is/articles/why-a-climate-action-plan-needs-to-include-airplane-emissions?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood
Martin Shkreli Arrested by FBI Over Hedge Fund Investigation
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/17/martin-shkreli-arrested-by-fbi-over-hedge-fund-investigation?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Version+A&utm_term=144452&subid=14675834&CMP=ema_565a
Guess Who's Reaping Hundreds of Billions From Iraq's Oil?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/guess-who-s-reaping-hundreds-of-billions-from-iraq-s-oil
A Quiz to See if US Schools Taught You State Propaganda
Read the Article at Let's Try Democracy
http://davidswanson.org/node/5007
How We Can Disrupt the Pattern of Anti-Abortion Violence
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Centuries of Melting Already Locked in for Polar Ice, Scientists Say
Read the Article at InsideClimate News
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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>Danny Katch, Haymarket Books:</strong> What is socialism? A short answer is that socialism is a society whose top priority is meeting all of its people's needs - ranging from food, shelter and health care to art, culture and companionship. In contrast, capitalism only cares about any of that basic human necessity stuff to the extent that money can be made off it.</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=5ImlOmtBROq0LtmUMM57lJ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>Read the Book Excerpt</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>Mary Battenfeld and Felicity Crawford, The Conversation:</strong> The new law is better than No Child Left Behind, because it takes aim at test-and-punish strategies. However, it still emphasizes "accountability" over the root causes of inequality.</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=I6ymK6vcvByxHXzzpahnWZ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=QxH1FGNc2bTQYe3%2Bo8pHFp%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>The Republican Path to the Dark Side</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> Republicans are totally and completely committed to scaring people to get elected so they can have access to money and power for their own purposes. And that is something worth worrying about, because if history tells us anything, it's that when people are scared, they'll do pretty much anything to feel safe.</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=KPFW8wlACPlgrpJkTgqk4p%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=qu1NPswDmyGLjHxl7HghRJ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>Justice for Freddie Gray Uncertain as Baltimore Jury Fails to Reach a Verdict</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 and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!:</strong> Freddie Gray died in April from a spinal injury sustained while being transported in the back of a police van. On Wednesday, a judge declared a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict on any of the charges after three days of deliberation.</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=2pbbEqR4vOZ%2BJ5JQbxG%2BhJ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=eB9eZ0STVxGrbcoUH%2FSbGJ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>Five New Studies That Change Our Understanding of Permafrost</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>Krista Langlois, High Country News:</strong> Until recently, little was known about the repercussions of thawing permafrost. Its role in the global carbon cycle is becoming increasingly apparent. These are the new studies transforming our understanding of the North's frozen soil.</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=MkSe02VBOgWi176d6ftq05%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=9JXvFDaG6d1qCYtNLVHZPp%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>Will the Supreme Court Free Albert Woodfox After 43 Years in Solitary?</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>Katie Rose Quandt, Solitary Watch:</strong> Albert Woodfox, the last remaining incarcerated member of the "Angola 3," is appealing to the Supreme Court for his release after a tumultuous succession of appeals and overturned decisions.</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=Ui9CR7sopN9HrCdl5jjLzp%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=JDwittRWZx%2FPgUdM20A7lp%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>Great Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risks as the Seas</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>Brian Bienkowski, The Daily Climate:</strong> As in the oceans, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could throw off water chemistry in large freshwater bodies like the Great Lakes, putting the food web at risk. But the science must be bolstered if we are to understand what this means for freshwater.</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=d4MU%2B2WNeA2%2BGfdGEeAtgWOFXh9OOlOg"><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=KSsDLwXvyF4lvp8N10OvUGOFXh9OOlOg"><strong>In Preparation to Join US Wars, Japan Dismantles Freedom of the Press</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>Jon Mitchell, Freedom of the Press Foundation:</strong> In three years, Japan went from being ranked 11th in Reporters Without Borders' global Press Freedom Index to 61st. Since coming to power in 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party have embarked upon a war of attrition against press freedoms in Japan.</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=jWowNujw30sg%2FR1B7j0rtZ%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><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=KvNsn6hyK9Bfn7K0Xmh645%2FINn%2Fn9TBr"><strong>The United States' Secret African Drone War Against ISIS</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 Turse, TomDispatch:</strong> At an "inactivation ceremony" on October 7, Lt. Col. Daniel Drake turned in the "colors" of his drone unit. Drake's force spent more than a year in the Horn of Africa targeting ISIS. The US Air Force has since taken steps to cover up the actions of the unit.</p>
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