Click here to view this and past newsletters online. Please add "messenger@truthout.org" to your email contacts to ensure delivery.  Friday 13 July 2012 From Penn State to JPMorgan Chase and Barclays: Destroying Higher Education, Savaging Children and Extinguishing DemocracyHenry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Rather than representing a society's dreams and hope for the future, young people, especially poor white and minority children, have become a commodity to be mined for profit and/or pleasure and disposable after they have served those purposes in the age of casino capitalism and big money." Read the Article Banksters Take Us to the Brink Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: "Every day brings more reminders of the terrible unfairness that besets our country, the tragic reversal of fortune experienced by millions who once had good lives and steady jobs, now gone.... And you wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff." Read the Article Beyond Barclays: Laying Out the LIBOR Investigations Cora Currier, ProPublica: "Last week, the British bank Barclays was slapped with $450 million in fines and penalties for manipulating information used to set a critical interest rate.... Barclays' traders attempted to steer rates up or down in order to benefit trades they had made to profit off of those rates. Separately, the filings show that during the financial crisis, Barclays tried to counter reports that it had financial troubles by changing the interest rate it reported." Read the Article Murky Waters: The Education Debate in New Orleans Adam Bessie and Dan Archer, Truthout: "The current movement to reform our schools forwards a neoconservative economic agenda, one that strives to dramatically reduce the government's role in schooling and ultimately turn schools over to private enterprise. At the same time, these marketplace policies are carefully cloaked in the progressive rhetoric of social justice, with privatization of public education presented as the only path toward equality and civil rights for children in impoverished neighborhoods." Read the Article March of the Unemployed Kicks Off Two Projects in Oakland J.A. Myerson, Truthout: "In Oakland, 13.7 percent are unemployed, as of last count (May 2012), and several dozen of those roughly 54,000 people met up Wednesday at Ogawa Plaza (renamed by Occupy Oakland for Oscar Grant, who was shot to death in 2009 by the transit cop at whose feet he lay under arrest), to launch the Union of Unemployed Workers." Read the Article Truthout FOIA Exposes Forceful Drugging of Detainees Alyona Minkovski, The Alyona Show: "For years, current and former detainees from Guantanamo and other US military sites, as well as their attorneys, have argued that they were forcibly given pills and injected with unknown medications.... And now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Truthout, a report from the DOD's deputy inspector general has confirmed much of it. Alyona Minkovsky talks to Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter for Truthout.org about what the FOIA exposed." Watch the Video Gar Alperovitz: Is Public Ownership the Solution? Paul Jay, The Real News Network: "During the crisis there was a lot of discussion about the importance or need for nationalizing banks and such. But now, two years after the crisis - supposedly after the crisis - the issue of public ownership seems to be back off into the margins of the discussion. Well, we think it should be back up front and center. And now joining us is someone who's done some work on this issue of public ownership, Gar Alperovitz." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Minnesota Amish vs. Fracking Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: "The Winona, Minnesota area, it turns out, possesses a heavy concentration of Amish citizens. It is also now part of 'Sand Land' and the frac sand industry's land grab. Does the industry's ongoing land grab clash with the fundamental tenets of Winona's Amish population? As it turns out, quite possibly.... Critics say the plan is an affront to the Amish way of life." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Study Shows Two-Thirds of Americans Want the Government to Act on Climate Change, and More In today's On the News segment: According to a new Washington Post/Stanford University poll, 6-in-10 Americans believe in climate change, and two-thirds of Americans think the government needs to do something about it; Wikileaks just won a major legal battle in Iceland; there are more troubles at the San Onofre nuclear plant in California; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Verizon Wants the "Freedom" to Edit Your Internet Simon Maloy, Media Matters: "Last week, Verizon filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit laying out their various and sundry complaints against the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order, which put net neutrality regulations in place for Internet service providers. The telecom giant is suing to have the FCC's order thrown out, and one of their legal arguments is raising more than a few eyebrows. Verizon, per the court document, considers itself your Internet editor." Read the Article States Have Enacted 39 New Abortion Restrictions This Year Alone Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash, RH Reality Check: "In the first half of 2012, states enacted 95 new provisions related to reproductive health and rights. Of the 44 state legislatures that have convened this year, only seven currently remain in session. As was the case in 2011, issues related to abortion, family planning funding and sex education once again were significant flash-points in many legislatures." Read the Article Connie Mack Chief of Staff Was Paid by Foreign Lobbying Interests, Anti-Chavez Groups Zaid Jilani, Republic Report: "President Obama made what should be an uncontroversial statement the other day. He told a Spanish language television station that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez does not pose a serious threat to the United States. But South Floridan politicians, many of whom pander to the right-wing Cuban exile lobby, pounced on Obama's statement. Groups dedicated to creating conflict between the Latin America left and the United States are likely cheering Mack's alarmism." Read the Article Click here for more Truthout articles
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "In this dysfunctional economic, social and political climate, maybe there really is something to be said for putting aside differences for the moment, when alliances based on a common goal or two can create a majority." Read the BuzzFlash Commentary The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): An Extremist 1% Global Attack Voter ID Laws Are the Last Gasp of a Fading GOP Strategy The Market Has Spoken, and It Is Rigged Why Mitt's Story Doesn't Add Up Billions of Tax Dollars for Drones While Kids Starve and Cities Go Broke Fourteen Reasons Why This Is the Worst Congress Ever Southern California Seaweed Tests Over 500 Percent Higher for Fukushima Radiation Than Anywhere Else in US Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines
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