Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  Friday 22 June 2012 Germany Swaps Nuclear for Solar and Wind PowerOliver Lazenby, Yes! Magazine: "Germany, the world's most aggressive adopter of renewable energy, is taking a bold leap toward a future free from nuclear energy.... Last year, in response to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a plan to close down all 17 of Germany's nuclear reactors and replace them with renewable energy, mostly solar and wind power." Read the Article From Agent Orange to "Kill Lists": "Brilliant" Psy-Ops Become the News John Pilger, Truthout: "In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that 'the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including woman and children.' The code name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. Today, an estimated 4.8 million victims of Agent Orange are children." Read the Article Domestic Violence Survivors Battle Within the Courts: Confronting Retaliatory Litigation Antoinette Bonsignore, Truthout: "Courts, and in particular family courts, must begin to recognize the patterns of abusive litigation to protect the needs of domestic violence survivors. Survivors need to believe that they can report domestic violence and seek police protection without the fear of legal repercussions that may cost victims time, money and peace of mind.... Protection orders can only be effective if the enforcement of those orders result in tangible consequences for batterers." Read the Article Members Who Supported Big Oil Have Received $38.6 Million From the Industry Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress: "Republicans have said they are for all forms of energy, but the Domestic Energy Production Act passed today shows much different priorities. While the energy package included many provisions to encourage oil and gas, clean energy was included only twice. GOP leaders did not even permit debate over amendments to include support for renewables and other forms of clean energy." Read the Article Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica: "Over the past several decades, US industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth ... No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millennia." Read the Article Tom Horne, Death Threats and the US Constitution Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: "In 2010, the anti-ethnic studies bill HB 2281 was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer. In 2012, under threat of the loss of 10 percent of the district's annual budget, Tucson Unified School District dismantled the [Mexican-American studies] MAS department. Despite this, the battle is not over as there are a number of legal issues and court cases still to be litigated. In the meantime, much hate has been unleashed, including death threats." Read the Article The Jerry Sandusky Trial and Child Sexual Abuse's Walking Wounded Ellen Magnis, The Guardian UK: "Those of us who work to fight crimes against children use the Jerry Sandusky trial as a platform to say that this happens so much more than you would imagine. We use this as an opportunity to appeal to parents to pay attention, to look for changes in a child's 'normal,' and to understand the consequences of looking the other way. While we wait for the outcome of this latest national scandal, we are missing the bigger discussion. I understand why. It's an ugly topic nobody really wants to talk about." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Evidence Shows That Austerity Is Hurting the US Economy, and More In today's On the News Segment: Evidence shows that austerity is hurting the US economy, the Roberts Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Chamber of Commerce in every single case it has heard so far this term, the oligarchs are meeting this weekend to plot how they're going to buy the elections this year, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Moody's Cuts Credit Ratings of 15 Big Banks Peter Eavis and Susanne Craig, The New York Times News Service: "Already grappling with weak profits and global economic turmoil, 15 major banks were hit with credit downgrades on Thursday that could do more damage to their bottom lines and further unsettle equity markets. The credit agency, Moody's Investors Service, which warned banks in February that a downgrade was possible, cut the credit scores of banks to new lows to reflect new risks that the industry has encountered since the financial crisis." Read the Article Inventing Human Rights Michael A. Peters, Truthout: "We need to be aware how we got here to understand both how to avoid going where we do not want to and how to direct ourselves on a path toward greater real equality and justice ... Today, more than ever before, we need a set of rights to education and knowledge anchored in a concept of equality as a buttress to an emerging global system of intellectual property rights." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Of course, there is one big problem with the racially coded language of the GOP war on food stamps - and it's a big problem for the racial hog callers: whites outnumber blacks on food stamps. And whites outnumber blacks on welfare by about a 2-1 margin. So, what the Republicans are engaged in with their latest farm bill attack on food stamps is not even just racial coding; it's just plain racist." Read the BuzzFlash Commentary 2012 Elections Could See Record Number of Women Running for House Seats American Patriotism in Hyperdrive With Flags Made in China Matt Taibbi | The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Romney Invested in Bain Capital as Firm Pioneered Practice of Moving Jobs Overseas Drone Industry Becomes a Booming Business Nearly Two-Thirds of Republicans Still Believe Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction Is Grover Norquist's Steel Grip on the GOP Finally Slipping? Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines
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