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Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US
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t r u t h o u t | 02.11
Democracy in Peril: Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Under the Telecommunications Act
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act
Michael Corcoran, Truthout: Twenty years after President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act, it's one of the primary reasons that the majority of media is owned by just a few massive multinational corporations. Today, the telecom industry is donating to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in dizzying amounts.
Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/34794-us-guardian-elite-rulers-date-back-to-nation-s-founding
Noam Chomsky, Columbia University Press: The United States' shriveled conception of democracy has solid roots. The "founding fathers" were much concerned about the hazards of democracy. In the debates of the Constitutional Convention, the main framer, James Madison, warned of these hazards.
Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34791-why-our-government-isn-t-listening-how-greed-is-at-the-root-of-us-suffering
Eliza A. Webb, Truthout: In the US, children go hungry every day. More than one in four Black and Brown Americans are living in poverty. Why doesn't the government of a country as wealthy as the US provide for its people? Because oppression is a profitable business.
Could Unelected Superdelegates Give Clinton the Nomination Even if Sanders Wins the Primaries?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34805-could-unelected-superdelegates-give-clinton-the-nomination-even-if-sanders-wins-the-primaries
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: It would seem that the race for the Democratic nomination would be neck and neck. But that is not the case. In New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton split the delegates evenly thanks to unelected superdelegates siding with the former secretary of state.
IRS Allows Post-Citizens United Karl Rove Group to Continue Concealing Source of Donors
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34799-irs-allows-post-citizens-united-karl-rove-group-to-continue-concealing-source-of-donors
Sam Knight, The District Sentinel: The Internal Revenue Service decided to grant "social welfare" tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS, an influential conservative political action group cofounded by Karl Rove in 2010, in the wake of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The confirmation of the 501(c)(4) status came last November.
The Oil Industry Won in Alberta. Now First Nations Look to Heal Their Land
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34796-the-oil-industry-won-in-alberta-now-first-nations-look-to-heal-their-land
Erika Lundahl, YES! Magazine: More than 860 miles northeast of the Unist'ot'en clan's British Columbia blockade is the Athabasca River Valley, where the five First Nations of the region know too well what it's like to live with Big Oil and Gas in their backyard.
The US Military Suffers From Affluenza: Showering the Pentagon With Money and Praise
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34801-the-us-military-suffers-from-affluenza-showering-the-pentagon-with-money-and-praise
William J. Astore, TomDispatch: The institution of the military wreaks havoc, wastes money and kills innocent people. In return, it is rewarded with boundless praise and a bountiful allowance, and is not held accountable for its wrongdoing. Like the wealthy Texas teenager who killed four people but was sentenced to only probation, the US military might be said to have a case of "affluenza."
Hillary Clinton's Very Bad Night
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34800-hillary-clinton-s-very-bad-night
Robert Parry, Consortium News: The magnitude of Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire drubbing has establishment Democrats wringing their hands as it dawns on them that no candidate in modern US political history has bounced back from a 22-point loss in that first-in-the-nation primary to win the White House.
Betting the Farm on Free Trade
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34798-betting-the-farm-on-free-trade
Janet Redman, OtherWords: From her home in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Karen Feridun is helping stage a growing citizen pushback against the expansion of natural gas extraction. But a far-reaching global deal recently signed halfway around the world may make her job much harder.
North Carolina Voting Rights Fight Moves From the Courtroom to the Streets
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34793-north-carolina-voting-rights-fight-moves-from-the-courtroom-to-the-streets
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: As the federal trial over North Carolina's restrictive voter ID law wrapped up last week in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina NAACP - the lead plaintiff suing the state over its ID requirements - was getting ready to shift its fight for voting rights from the courtroom to the streets.
The New York Times' Bank-Boosting, Neoliberal-Excusing Story of the Global Debt Hangover
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34797-the-new-york-times-bank-boosting-neoliberal-excusing-story-of-the-global-debt-hangover
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: The lead story at The New York Times last week, "Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth" by Peter Eavis, gives a one-sided view of the problem of too many bad loans around the world that have yet to be recognized and resolved. It's an economically warped account that leaves important policy options off the table.
Four Soldiers Arrested in El Salvador in Case of 1989 University Campus Massacre
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34795-four-soldiers-arrested-in-el-salvador-in-case-of-1989-university-campus-massacre
Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News: Four former soldiers are in an El Salvador jail, arrested February 5 in connection with the November 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. The massacre, which took place on the grounds of the University of Central America, marked a turning point in the country's civil war.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Cliven Bundy, Father of Oregon Wildlife Refuge Protest Leader, Arrested
Read the Article at USA Today
http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/2016/02/11/cliven-bundy-father-oregon-wildlife-refuge-protest-leader-arrested/80219554/
Emails Claim Michigan Governor Ordered Withholding of Flint Lead Test Results
Read the Article at MLive
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/02/snyder_ordered_deq_to_withhold.html?hootPostID=b1701df3760e27546cdf425e51b018c3
Mark Ruffalo: We're Heading Toward a National Water Crisis
Read the EcoWatch Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/mark-ruffalo-we-re-heading-toward-a-national-water-crisis
Stop Spending Dollars on War; Use the Money to Defuse Our Toxic Environmental Time Bomb
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/stop-spending-dollars-on-war-use-the-money-to-defuse-our-toxic-environmental-time-bomb
States Push to Prosecute Heroin Dealers as Murderers
Read the Article at the Guardian US
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/09/new-hampshire-heroin-fentanyl-drug-dealers-murder-charges?CMP=twt_gu
Female Veterans Face Pitiful Health Care
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/congress-might-make-women-register-draft-are-veterans-hospitals-ready
Cleveland Bills Tamir Rice's Family for Ambulance After Cop Killed Him
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/tamir-rice-shooting/
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<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=%2BF1SZ3p0NZrgSPEt%2FJhsyDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the Article at USA Today</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Emails Claim Michigan Governor Ordered Withholding of Flint Lead Test Results</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=lTBM7Llrk%2B6fEtz2%2FITM1TSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the Article at MLive</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Mark Ruffalo: We're Heading Toward a National Water Crisis</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=6VFK9u0n0QVUl3OtccsxtTSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the EcoWatch Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Stop Spending Dollars on War; Use the Money to Defuse Our Toxic Environmental Time Bomb</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>States Push to Prosecute Heroin Dealers as Murderers</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>Female Veterans Face Pitiful Health Care</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=Iqz6Svtd9jnadoQMZ90TLzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cleveland Bills Tamir Rice's Family for Ambulance After Cop Killed Him</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=Qo3gXaH0ZY8jbajyjJ%2FMHTSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</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>Michael Corcoran, Truthout:</strong> Twenty years after President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act, it's one of the primary reasons that the majority of media is owned by just a few massive multinational corporations. Today, the telecom industry is donating to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in dizzying amounts.</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=75VT%2BGefcrz1PBSFkn5LnzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=fmKWK83zblFaUqZWOIG3%2BzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US</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>Noam Chomsky, Columbia University Press:</strong> The United States' shriveled conception of democracy has solid roots. The "founding fathers" were much concerned about the hazards of democracy. In the debates of the Constitutional Convention, the main framer, James Madison, warned of these hazards.</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=106zq%2B4b9p1J7Ogpr43K2TSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Read the Book Excerpt</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=NaXcXhnXf8Yn72aynaDhCDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Why Our Government Isn't Listening: How Greed Is at the Root of US Suffering</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>Eliza A. Webb, Truthout:</strong> In the US, children go hungry every day. More than one in four Black and Brown Americans are living in poverty. Why doesn't the government of a country as wealthy as the US provide for its people? Because oppression is a profitable business.</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=oshi8XiGfoYLhimq3n5FmDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=2XwBLHPD7Xt2UJNhRKJ5HjSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Could Unelected Superdelegates Give Clinton the Nomination Even if Sanders Wins the Primaries?</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> It would seem that the race for the Democratic nomination would be neck and neck. But that is not the case. In New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton split the delegates evenly thanks to unelected superdelegates siding with the former secretary of state.</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=bRvNpTNAi2J53Q7fwU1O3jSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=azhhSPoYcr%2B1eCee2BPsgDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>IRS Allows Post-<i>Citizens United</i> Karl Rove Group to Continue Concealing Source of Donors</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 Knight, The District Sentinel:</strong> The Internal Revenue Service decided to grant "social welfare" tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS, an influential conservative political action group cofounded by Karl Rove in 2010, in the wake of the Supreme Court's <i>Citizens United</i> decision. The confirmation of the 501(c)(4) status came last November.</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=6t9dM6lmtgyes7RH3zH2XDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=%2FC024mArSj3NEhQSlq9QhzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>The Oil Industry Won in Alberta. Now First Nations Look to Heal Their Land</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>Erika Lundahl, YES! Magazine:</strong> More than 860 miles northeast of the Unist'ot'en clan's British Columbia blockade is the Athabasca River Valley, where the five First Nations of the region know too well what it's like to live with Big Oil and Gas in their backyard.</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=PvEF4MOQJcGzqagnEbLxJTSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=%2FsaIw3e01yxZyyeiLcG4UzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>The US Military Suffers From Affluenza: Showering the Pentagon With Money and Praise</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 J. Astore, TomDispatch:</strong> The institution of the military wreaks havoc, wastes money and kills innocent people. In return, it is rewarded with boundless praise and a bountiful allowance, and is not held accountable for its wrongdoing. Like the wealthy Texas teenager who killed four people but was sentenced to only probation, the US military might be said to have a case of "affluenza."</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=rewS2tUNr0YGIXqX9NE8wzSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=sco%2B7DTRMXMO37Lehn0wMjSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Hillary Clinton's Very Bad 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>Robert Parry, Consortium News:</strong> The magnitude of Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire drubbing has establishment Democrats wringing their hands as it dawns on them that no candidate in modern US political history has bounced back from a 22-point loss in that first-in-the-nation primary to win the White House.</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=lYGGMff%2FY%2FxjkrGkMCBo%2FjSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>Betting the Farm on Free Trade</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>Janet Redman, OtherWords:</strong> From her home in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Karen Feridun is helping stage a growing citizen pushback against the expansion of natural gas extraction. But a far-reaching global deal recently signed halfway around the world may make her job much harder.</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=nopTgIbrIKDvFB4oYTljIjSBqTB%2FRCPU"><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=eDWZTLfyHbR1RWaTRwxkZTSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>North Carolina Voting Rights Fight Moves From the Courtroom to the Streets</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>Sue Sturgis, Facing South:</strong> As the federal trial over North Carolina's restrictive voter ID law wrapped up last week in Winston-Salem, the North Carolina NAACP - the lead plaintiff suing the state over its ID requirements - was getting ready to shift its fight for voting rights from the courtroom to the streets.</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=ZQy%2B5BFQq03yXZY875KkmDSBqTB%2FRCPU"><strong>The New York Times' Bank-Boosting, Neoliberal-Excusing Story of the Global Debt Hangover</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>Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:</strong> The lead story at The New York Times last week, "Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth" by Peter Eavis, gives a one-sided view of the problem of too many bad loans around the world that have yet to be recognized and resolved. It's an economically warped account that leaves important policy options off the table.</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>Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:</strong> Four former soldiers are in an El Salvador jail, arrested February 5 in connection with the November 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. The massacre, which took place on the grounds of the University of Central America, marked a turning point in the country's civil war.</p>
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