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William Rivers Pitt | The Poisoning of Flint Was a Crime, Not an
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The Poisoning of Flint Was Not an Accident - It Was a Crime
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34553-the-poisoning-of-flint-was-not-=
an-accident-it-was-a-crime
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The people of Flint, Michigan, have been dri=
nking, cooking with and bathing in lead-poisoned water for two years. More =
than 8,000 children have been exposed. This was not an accident, nor was it=
truly an attempt to save money. It was an act of violence.
"It Was Like a Fascist Rally": Sikh Protester Ejected From Trump Event Spea=
ks Out
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34573-it-was-like-a-fascist-rally-sikh-p=
rotester-ejected-from-trump-event-speaks-out
Dan Kugler, Truthout: Protester Arish Singh was ejected from a Donald Trump=
campaign rally in Iowa on Sunday after attempting to display a "Stop Hate"=
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How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism
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economic systems were unworthy of discussion.
Environmental Justice: What the Candidates Missed in Flint - and the Rest o=
f the Country
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34552-environmental-justice-what-the-can=
didates-missed-in-flint-michigan-and-the-rest-of-the-country
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: As the contaminated water crisis unfolded in Flint, =
Michigan, the resulting uproar among presidential candidates and the mainst=
ream media did little to acknowledge that environmental racism is a widespr=
ead and systemic problem that the government has failed to act on for years=
.
Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34567-saudi-arabia-is-killing-civilia=
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Marjorie Cohn, teleSUR: Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians with US-made bomb=
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Yemen.
What It's Like to Be Trapped in an Experimental Unit Within a US Prison
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Nahal Zamani, Center for Constitutional Rights: Communications Management U=
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n prisoners' communications, both within the prison and with the outside wo=
rld. A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging CMUs, Abdul-Ali, speaks a=
bout his experiences.
EPA Mulls Ban on Nation's Most Heavily Used Insecticide
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children and farmworkers. The Environmental Protection Agency's recent pro=
posal to ban the chemical has been met with mixed reactions from farmers.
"Yes We Can" vs. "No We Can't"
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34564-yes-we-can-vs-no-we-can-t
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: In Bernie Sanders, many Dem=
ocratic voters see the candidate that Barack Obama pretended to be but neve=
r was. In Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, many see a candidate whose message ba=
sically boils down to "What Obama did was good and we really can't do much =
more, so pick me to serve as president."
Baghdad Kidnappings: American Civilians Work for US Defense on Iraq's Speci=
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Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black, The Bureau of Investigative Journ=
alism: Two of three missing US civilians kidnapped by Shiite militia forces=
in Baghdad are believed to have been working on a "critical" multimillion-=
dollar deal to train Iraq's counterterrorism forces in the fight against IS=
IS.
Six National Security Questions the Presidential Candidates Don't Want to A=
nswer
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34563-six-national-security-questions=
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Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch: What sort of national security concerns sh=
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t a reasoned discussion of heavily politicized matters is probably impossib=
le, other issues of demonstrable significance deserve attention. Here are s=
ix questions that should be posed to presidential candidates.
Taking the Bite Out of Government Watchdogs
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Sam Sacks and Sam Knight, The District Sentinel: This podcast discusses the=
increasingly hostile relationship between the Obama administration and fed=
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ter rules; the Supreme Court case on immigration; and more.
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Irrational Arguments About the Coal Industry
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http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/donald-trump-inherits-the-leg=
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ong many white people is that he represented settler colonialism, the "righ=
teousness" of the US empire and the assumption of white male superiority.
Matt Damon Slams Michigan Governor Over Flint Water Crisis: "At the Very Le=
ast He Should Resign"=20
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ernor-over-flint-water-crisis-at-the-very-least-he-should-resign
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Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons
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Lawsuit Filed Against Disney for Displacing US Workers
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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>Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons</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>Obama Misses the Point: Bernie Sanders Is More Than a "Bright, Shiny Object"</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>Judge Sides With Evangelical Ark-Building Group on Tax Incentive</strong></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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> The people of Flint, Michigan, have been drinking, cooking with and bathing in lead-poisoned water for two years. More than 8,000 children have been exposed. This was not an accident, nor was it truly an attempt to save money. It was an act of violence.</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 Kugler, Truthout:</strong> Protester Arish Singh was ejected from a Donald Trump campaign rally in Iowa on Sunday after attempting to display a "Stop Hate" banner. In an exclusive interview, Truthout spoke with Singh about his motivations for the protest and how he felt while being forcibly ejected.</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=G7pS%2Fh4jC1SOy%2BYhiCIgbtiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism</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>Richard D. Wolff, Truthout:</strong> Whether in the US, UK or Germany, nations with two major political parties cement the social dominance of the employer-employee relationship that structures capitalist enterprises. The parties function as if that relationship were the best humanly possible and alternative economic systems were unworthy of discussion.</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=9R60wNgv2Kur1Zqc8rGnT9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Environmental Justice: What the Candidates Missed in Flint - and the Rest of the Country</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> As the contaminated water crisis unfolded in Flint, Michigan, the resulting uproar among presidential candidates and the mainstream media did little to acknowledge that environmental racism is a widespread and systemic problem that the government has failed to act on for years.</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=mwPzn6KrYyvb%2ByNg6X1Zl9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Saudi Arabia Is Killing Civilians With US Bombs</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>Marjorie Cohn, teleSUR:</strong> Saudi Arabia is bombing civilians with US-made bombs, which violates both US and international law. The US government should immediately halt arms transfers and military support to Saudi Arabia and support an independent investigation into US arms transfers and war crimes in Yemen.</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=9lvvi2kCcuaUpqt5HTkRediKVLUMzzZV"><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=xZnlKA1C5KjM%2BYTkTam8F9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>What It's Like to Be Trapped in an Experimental Unit Within a US Prison</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>Nahal Zamani, Center for Constitutional Rights:</strong> Communications Management Units (CMUs) are experimental prison units that impose severe restrictions on prisoners' communications, both within the prison and with the outside world. A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging CMUs, Abdul-Ali, speaks about his experiences.</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=PtUeybobPmRLBGy7rccQttiKVLUMzzZV"><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=36LaHUUQx%2BuFZkcw%2BrjUf9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>EPA Mulls Ban on Nation's Most Heavily Used Insecticide</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 Koberstein, Earth Island Journal:</strong> Numerous studies show that chlorpyrifos - developed before World War II as a nerve gas - causes serious harm to children and farmworkers. The Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to ban the chemical has been met with mixed reactions from farmers.</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=4R%2FK3J7dIsWtxD3ajvT7%2B9iKVLUMzzZV"><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=hbeZLU0%2FVgViDXuH2HO4rtiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>"Yes We Can" vs. "No We Can't"</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> In Bernie Sanders, many Democratic voters see the candidate that Barack Obama pretended to be but never was. In Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, many see a candidate whose message basically boils down to "What Obama did was good and we really can't do much more, so pick me to serve as president."</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=8ywhm4MX0Q1z59ZuCoHT1tiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Baghdad Kidnappings: American Civilians Work for US Defense on Iraq's Special Forces Program</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>Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:</strong> Two of three missing US civilians kidnapped by Shiite militia forces in Baghdad are believed to have been working on a "critical" multimillion-dollar deal to train Iraq's counterterrorism forces in the fight against ISIS.</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=xbHui1qnwtj2GHksL4BNY9iKVLUMzzZV"><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=nMCKyosFIvXILLg4rTo4JdiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Six National Security Questions the Presidential Candidates Don't Want to Answer</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>Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch:</strong> What sort of national security concerns should be front and center in the current election cycle? While conceding that a reasoned discussion of heavily politicized matters is probably impossible, other issues of demonstrable significance deserve attention. Here are six questions that should be posed to presidential candidates.</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=NlBGfHcw6Arh5RrPCFxkY9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Taking the Bite Out of Government Watchdogs</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>Sam Sacks and Sam Knight, The District Sentinel:</strong> This podcast discusses the increasingly hostile relationship between the Obama administration and federal inspectors general; the Flint water crisis and GOP attacks on clean water rules; the Supreme Court case on immigration; 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=PtUeybobPmSDeYIOalCmodiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Listen to the Audio Segment</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=%2BREjbgHX2yHpiCl6PyBcMtiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Tim DeChristopher, Aria Doe and Josh Fox on Civil Disobedience and Climate Activism</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> Aria Doe and Tim DeChristopher, activists featured in Josh Fox's new documentary, <em>How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change,</em> join the filmmaker to discuss the role of direct action in fighting global warming.</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=hy3DcN9bzW%2BfoH6VK5zDttiKVLUMzzZV"><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=dt9Nt9ZC%2FPQ%2BoSFOIiY7R9iKVLUMzzZV"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Doctors Are Organizing Against Corporatized Medicine, 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> Doctors in the Pacific Northwest say that they're not going to take corporatized medicine anymore; the wealthy elite have $7.6 trillion stashed offshore; the National Labor Relations Board is standing up to Walmart; 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=3EBkWh7%2BSmuhqycRFTmwQ9iKVLUMzzZV"><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=fOKImxC2VK3yy2tKA8VVVNiKVLUMzzZV"><strong>Irrational Arguments About the Coal Industry</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> While you might want to quibble over specific data points, the boom in renewable energy in the United States is very real, as is the surging number of jobs in occupations like solar panel installation. It appears new green jobs exceed the loss of jobs in coal mining.</p>
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