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Tuesday 22 May 2012
Henry A. Giroux | The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "We live at a time when the crisis of politics is inextricably connected to the crisis of education and agency.... Against such hard times for the promise of democracy, the Occupy movement offers an incisive language of analysis and hope, a renewed sense of political commitment, different democratic visions and a politics of possibility."
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Boeing HQ Shut Down by Anti-NATO Summit Protesters to Cap Week of Action
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "On Monday, May 21, the streets in front of Boeing's corporate headquarters were eerily similar to those in other countries where Boeing operates its defense business: bodies lying immobile on the ground, armed law enforcement ready to bring out reinforcements and the constant shuttering of media paraphernalia. But the scene wasn't taking place in Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. The bodies on the ground were in downtown Chicago, part of a 'die-in' and protest outside of the defense contractor's office as part of the week of action against the NATO summit coming to Chicago, and joined by several hundred police officers that were part of the beefed-up enforcement around protests during the summit."
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UN Chief Says Iran Deal Near on Inspecting Key Atomic Site
Alan Cowell, Jodi Rudoren and Thomas Erdbrink, The New York Times News Service: "On the eve of international talks in Baghdad over Iran's disputed nuclear program, the leader of the United Nations nuclear monitoring arm announced what appeared to be a significant concession from Tehran, saying that, despite unspecified differences, he expected a deal 'quite soon' on arrangements for an investigation into potential military applications of the program. The comments by Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came after his first visit to Iran since his appointment in 2009."
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Corporate Lobbying Group Asks Supreme Court Not to Use "Empirical Evidence" When Reconsidering Citizens United
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "Late last year, the Montana high court, citing the state's long history of corporate money corrupting politics, defied the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and continued enforcing the state's 100-year old law banning corporate involvement in state elections. The Supreme Court has blocked the Montana court's decision pending on its own determination as to whether to formally hear the case this fall. Allowing a full argument in matter could allow the Court to reconsider the merits of the Citizens United decision, which opened the doors to unlimited corporate and union involvement in American elections."
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Drone Attacks Can't Save the G8's Bacon
Nick Mottern, Truthout: "Many of the G8 countries - comprised of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia - are former colonial powers that have thrived by capturing at gunpoint basic mineral, petroleum and agriculture resources around the world, paying relatively little and thus subsidizing their corporations and their national economies. Right now, the G8 interest in Afghanistan is undoubtedly related to investment potential in minerals, as well as overland routes for oil, gas and electric lines."
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Christine Cegelis | We Must Reduce Our Prison Population
Christine Cegelis, Truthout: "There is probably no greater waste of our taxpayer money than the increased incarceration of our population. The state of Illinois had a prison population of 7,326 inmates in 1970; in 2012, the number has risen to over 48,000. Over that period of time, the state's population has grown only by 12 percent. The average cost of incarceration is approximately $30,000 a year, and our Department of Corrections (DOC) has a budget of over $1.5 billion."
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Wisconsin Recall Roundup: Members of Congress Raise Questions About Governor Walker's 2011 Testimony
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: "Three Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee wrote to Chairman Darrell Issa requesting that he obtain clarification from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker of his testimony before the Committee on April 14, 2011, in light of a new videotape that surfaced recently that appears to contradict his statements."
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Charles Koch + Roger Ailes = Ohio University?
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Foundation: "Why would the esteemed Ohio University host a talk by the likes of Roger Ailes? Maybe we should ask one of the talk's patrons, Charles Koch. Ailes, of Fox News fame, is giving his talk today. The guy who invited him says the point was to get 'perhaps the most influential newsman in America' to spark a discussion about 'free speech and the media,' particularly given OU's 'first-rate school of journalism.' But Roger Ailes isn't a newsman and doesn't do journalism. He does political advocacy that's (very) thinly disguised as journalism. As Eric Boehlert of Media Matters says, 'places of higher learning shouldn't help perpetuate the Fox myth while turning a blind eye to the lasting damage Ailes's enterprise is doing to journalism and to our national discourse.'"
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Paul Krugman | Europe's Leaders Double Down on a Failed Strategy
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I guess we knew this was coming, but in the face of the French and Greek election results and the broader evidence that Europe's economic strategy is an utter failure, the usual suspects are, you guessed it, doubling down. Simon Wren-Lewis, an economics professor at Oxford, has looked on in horror as the Dutch have agreed on completely unnecessary austerity measures, as a way of showing their commitment to Europe's totally misguided fiscal pact."
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Gas Industry Aims to Block Zero-Carbon Building Goal
Maria Gallucci, Inside Climate News: "The natural gas industry and some allies are working behind the scenes in Washington to block a green building rule that was expected to be a national model for carbon-neutral construction. The rule, called Fossil Fuel-Generated Energy Consumption Reduction, would zero out fossil-fuel use - coal, fuel oil and natural gas - in all new and renovated federal buildings by 2030."
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Eugene Robinson | The NAACP's Relevance Step
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: "With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP ... [t]he nation's most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again."
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Evangelicals: Voting Bloc or Mosaic?
Marcia Pally, Truthout: "The moment Rick Santorum dropped out of the presidential race, one question left standing was whether Mitt Romney could win the votes of Santorum enthusiasts, those who identify as 'very conservative' or as evangelicals - as though evangelicals, 26 percent of the US population, are a mono vocal bloc of conservative, religious outliers."
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I'm Fed Up With Advocates of Charter Schools and Vouchers: Public Schools Made America Great
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Saying there is a crisis in public education is like saying we have an immigration problem. We don't have an 'immigration' problem; we have a society that wants to make sure that more brown-skinned people don't enter the US and quicken the timetable for whites becoming a minority in America. Similarly, we don't have a public education problem; we have a problem of education in poor areas where there are no jobs and in areas that have endured social neglect, but is this anything new?"
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A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You
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FCC Violation: Milwaukee Radio Stations Accused of Giving Governor Walker Free Air Time
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The Romney Campaign in Arizona: Craven Is as Craven Does
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Rush Limbaugh in a Downward Spiral?
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How JPMorgan Is Like Enron
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Homosexual Final Solution: Pastor Wants Homosexuals Put Into Concentration Camps
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Definite Intention: The Case Against Presidential Indiscretion
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