For our San Francisco Bay Area readers: Truthout's Jason Leopold will be speaking about the tenth anniversary of Guantanamo and the National Defense Authorization Act, which President Obama signed into law New Year's Eve, at UC Hastings Law School, Friday, January 13th at noon. Leopold will be in conversation with Truthout contributor Andy Worthington, who has written extensively about Guantanamo and the so-called "war on terror." For more information and to RSVP, please visit the event page here. Leopold and Worthington will also hold court the evening of that same Friday at Cyprus Restaurant where they will discuss why the prison facility is still open.
Monday 9 January 2012
Bird-Dogging the New Hampshire Candidates
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "... [T]he occupiers here have adopted 'bird-dogging' as the primary instrument in their doctrine of resistance. The reference is lost on a native of New York City like me, but I gather that hunters release dogs to scare birds into flight, the better to shoot them in the open air. That exposure in the service of destruction is wrought by protesters, who seek out candidates and ask them confrontational questions ..."
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Chris Hedges | The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "'Despite the obvious similarities between Jesus' death on the cross and the death of thousands of black men and women strung up to die on a lamppost or tree, relatively few people, apart from the black poets, novelists, and other reality-seeing artists, have explored the symbolic connections. Yet, I believe this is the challenge we must face.'"
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Ellen Brown | Saving the Post Office: The Models of Kiwibank and Japan Post
Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Banking in post offices is not new. Many countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Japan and New Zealand, have a long and successful history of it - and so does the United States. From 1911 to 1967, the US Postal Savings System provided a safe and efficient place for customers to save and transfer funds. It issued US Postal Savings Bonds in various denominations that paid annual interest, as well as Postal Savings Certificates and domestic money orders."
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Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera: "The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Number of American Voters Identifying as Independents Hits Highest Mark in 60 Years, and More
In today's On the News segment: Tensions continue to rise between the US and Iran, a new IRS report shows American citizens and businesses cheated the US government out of $450 billion in tax dollars in 2006, the number of voters identifying as Independents hits highest mark in 60 years, and more.
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Author of "Pity the Billionaire" Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
Aaron Leonard, Truthout: "The theme of your new book is that the current economic crisis has been paradoxically met with pleas for sympathy for the wealthy and the political activation of a social base of middle-class people who have taken up their call. Could you talk about how that phenomenon came about?"
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Fifteen Things Old Boys Like Rick Santorum Don't Want You to Know About Your Body and Your Contraception
Valerie Tarico, Away Point: "When a serious presidential candidate can approve outlawing contraception, you know there are powerful forces aligned against you having control over your fertility."
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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew
Jason Leopold, Truthout: To mark the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison to house "war on terror" detainees captured after 9/11, Truthout will republish a handful of exclusive reports by Jason Leopold about the facility.
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US Agents Aided Mexican Drug Trafficker to Infiltrate His Criminal Ring
Ginger Thompson, The New York Times News Service: "Last month, The Times reported that these kinds of operations had begun in Mexico as part of the drug agency's expanding role in that country's fight against organized crime. The newly obtained documents provide rare details of the extent of that cooperation and the ways that it blurs the lines between fighting and facilitating crime."
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Dean Baker | Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Mitt Romney seems ready to wield his version of birthirism as a major weapon in the fall campaign against President Obama. In his standard stump speech, he tells audiences that President Obama wants, 'to replace our merit-based society with an entitlement society.'"
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The Death of Pvt. Danny Chen: Military Admits Chen Was Target of Race-Based Hazing on Daily Basis (Video)
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "U.S. Army investigators have released explosive new details about the death of Private Danny Chen, who allegedly took his own life just weeks after he was deployed to Afghanistan last October. The family of the 19-year-old Chinese-American soldier says the Army told them Chen had been abused by comrades on an almost daily basis ..."
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Michael Winship | An "Incredibly Close" Screening
Michael Winship, Truthout: "A preview of 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close' turns into group therapy for post-9/11 New Yorkers."
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Jim Hightower | Organize in 2012
Jim Hightower, OtherWords: "Last year's many political downers have prompted promising uprisings at America's grassroots, including a strong national coalition for repealing 'corporate personhood.'"
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Will Pat Buchanan finally get the boot at MSNBC?
It is way past time for the "progressive" channel to drop kick the "brown shirt" pundit into oblivion.
Although ThinkProgress has announced his departure, statements from MSNBC President Phil Griffin are more ambiguous.
What we do know is that Buchanan published a book last fall, "Suicide of a Superpower." It was so racially and religiously offensive that even MSNBC, which had allowed Buchanan to spew his white/Christian-centric bigotry as a paid commentator, suspended him for the time being while the thug pundit peddles his American version of "Mein Kampf."
Over the years, BuzzFlash at Truthout has taken note of Buchanan's repeated brazen bigotry and Aryan Nation assertions of what amounts to a DC-tolerated version of "white power" - with an emphasis on males running the show. Media Matters put together a compendium of just some of Buchanan's racism, gender bias and defamation of anyone who is not Christian and white.
Even though his latest diatribe on behalf of Aryan Nation beliefs - with chapters such as "The End of White America" and "The Death of Christian America" - finally set off an alarm at MSNBC, Griffin refers to Buchanan as "a good guy." Inside the DC beltway, Pat's got a likeable reputation as always being nice to chat with at cocktail parties, but so did a lot of Nazi diplomats.
In one of our past commentaries on Buchanan, BuzzFlash at Truthout observed:
The psyche of the white male yearning for the patriarchal hierarchy was reassured by Bush as president - who proved that any idiot white male could rise to the top of the pyramid, even if his strings were being pulled by two other white males: Cheney and Rove. But then the psychic crack-up happened: an African-American male was elected to the highest office in the land by a landslide.
So for the Pat Buchanans of the world who saw Clinton as a Bubba who had betrayed them, Bush gave hope that the ante-bellum order of white male plantation dominance would be restored.
And then it all came crashing down and now is manifesting itself in demagogic outbursts of forcefully overtaking the government and restoring the white man on top.
That's Pat Buchanan and the long goodbye in a nutshell, because the tide of American demographics is wresting power from the white male, forcing a power sharing agreement that they don't want any part of.
It's time for Buchanan's mainstream media perch to be taken away. His is a pernicious, abominable, nativistic ideology that should not be condoned or sanctioned - let alone paid for - by the media.
Let him pick a street corner upon which to rant away. That's his First Amendment right. But MSNBC shouldn't be giving him a salary for espousing a "more palatable" version of "The Turner Diaries."
Mark Karlin,
Editor BuzzFlash at Truthout
There's No War on Religion in America: There Is a GOP War on Reality
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Obama Administration Fends Off Mining Industry and Republicans - Moves Forward With Ban on New Uranium Mining Claims Near Grand Canyon
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Paul Krugman on the GOP and America's Unlevel Playing Field
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Indiana House Democrats End Three-Day Boycott on Monday, but Won't Promise a Vote on Contentious Anti-Labor Bill
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Why Is Lying and Fraudulence So Integral to Getting Elected?
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The Rapid Economic Recovery Republicans Are Praying Against
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BP Pushes PR to Persuade Americans That the Gulf Region Has Recovered - Locals Don't Buy It
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