Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  The Oligarchy's Rule of Law: From Russia to Oklahoma Mark Ames, The Daily Banter: "At the end of the 1990s, the unprecedented collapse of Russia's economy and its capital markets, the wholesale looting, the quiet extermination of millions of Russians from the shock and destitution - the terrible consequences of imposing radical libertarian free-market ideas on an alien culture - turned out worse than any worst-case-scenario imagined by the free-market true-believers.... Publicly-traded companies have been and can be transformed into elaborate schemes to loot and steal from the public and enrich a tiny handful of oligarchs." Read the Article Syria Denies Responsibility in Brutal Attack as Protests Erupt Hwaida Saad and Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times News Service: "The Syrian government on Sunday rejected claims that it carried out a massacre that killed more than 90 villagers, including at least 32 children, a death toll that has prompted a sharp denunciation from United Nations officials.... In one of the worst episodes of carnage since the uprising began 15 months ago, Syrian tanks and artillery pounded Houla ... then soldiers and pro-government fighters stormed the village and killed families in their homes late at night." Read the Article Lethal Injection the Latest Chapter in America's History of Botched Executions Robert Wilbur, Truthout: "The American correctional system has repeatedly sought to deploy our native ingenuity to devise the ultimate corrective: an engine of death that will dispose of our villains in a civilized manner. The quest, which goes on to this day as states refine the technique of lethal injections, has been fraught with disappointments.... Maybe Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy will take a tip from a listener to ABC News and to hell with botched executions." Read the Article How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Jill Richardson, AlterNet: "Will Obama's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition help farmers? The New Alliance was announced in conjunction with the G8 meeting last Friday. Under the scheme, some 45 corporations, including Monsanto, Syngenta, Yara International, Cargill, DuPont, and PepsiCo, have pledged a total of $3.5 billion in investment in Africa.... These promises are not charity; they are business." Read the Article In the Flesh: Marriage and the State Matthew Harwood, Truthout: "Only six states plus the District of Columbia allow their citizens the freedom to marry whomever they choose. But the writing is on the wall, and the narrative of freedom, love and equality will knock down those barriers one state at a time. President Obama's frustratingly drawn-out embrace of gay marriage is evidence of that." Read the Article Democrat to Offer a "Lifeline" for Single-Payer Healthcare Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: "Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds they're receiving through Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs to build a universal single-payer system. Advocates are describing the bill as a 'lifeline' for advocates." Read the Article How Students are Painting Montreal Red Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Zoltán Glück, Waging Nonviolence: "The media in the United States have hardly noticed the Quebec student strike, despite it being the longest and largest in the history of North America. Those of us who have been following the movement have been amazed by the sheer numbers that these mass demonstrations have mobilized, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets on major days of action. What is less known, but equally important, is that every single night for the past month there have been marches of several thousand protesters." Read the Article Immigrant Tracking Moves Deeper Into Realm of Sci-Fi Elena Shore, New America Media: "Immigrant rights groups in Los Angeles are reporting that LAPD officers used handheld devices to scan the fingerprints of day laborers on the street corners. The incident, they say, raises serious concerns over privacy rights. 'These day laborers are not suspected of any criminal activity that we know of,' said Jennifer Lynch, author of a new report released Wednesday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Immigration Policy Center that describes the episode." Read the Article From 1968, a Long View on Movement Building Curtis Black, Newstips: "Mel Rothenberg ... has the distinction of leading the only demonstration that succeeded in marching to the International Ampitheatre, where the Democratic National Convention was being held, in 1968.... Chicago 1968 'was very different,' he says. 'It was a shock. Everybody, the demonstrators and cops, were uncertain about what would happen.' At last weekend's NATO protest, "both the authorities and the demonstration organizers had much more control of the street action, and the media had already orchestrated its coverage ahead of time." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
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