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Friday 18 February 2011William Rivers Pitt | Volunteers of America
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Did you hear about the uprising? Not the
one in Tunisia, or Egypt. No not the one in Libya, though what has been
happening there is certainly riveting. Thousands of protesters took to the
streets in several cities, defying the forty-year rule of Muammar el-Qaddafi
under threat of death. Not the similar one in Bahrain, where several died and
many more were injured. Not the similar one in Yemen, which has been
going on for more than seven days. Not the really interesting one in Iran,
which has been a long time coming, and which prompted the ruling elite to call
for the immediate murder of anyone and everyone who is not down with the
sickness. Not the one in Iraq, which involved a demand from the city of
Baghdad for one billion dollars from the United States of America, to pay for
the damage done to the city from the war."
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ion.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RmwceY3P2RMMmSdd/OXixbXSV3TwYHxh)
Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill as Mass Protests Continue
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the
anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators
have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate
leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber,
the GOP does not have the majority quorom to vote on the bill, which has
been called the biggest assault on worker's rights in Wisconsin and would
effectively strip collective bargaining rights from most public-sector
unions. Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to give all public-sector
workers bargaining rights in 1959."
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House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood, Jackie Spier Stands Up for Women
Tanya Somanader, ThinkProgress: "Since gaining the upper-hand in the
House, Republicans have led what Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called 'the most
comprehensive and radical assault on women's health in our lifetime.' Blindly
constructing bills to redefine rape, to leave women to die rather than
perform an abortion, and to cut off support for women's health care clinics, the
House GOP has beat the anti-choice drum while woefully ignorant of how such
sanctimony affects women in the real world."
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Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourners
Michael Slackman and Mark Landler, The New York Times News Service:
"Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl
Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion
grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed
fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners crumpling to the ground.
It was not immediately clear what type of ammunition the forces were firing,
but some witnesses reported live fire from automatic weapons and the crowd
was screaming 'live fire, live fire.' At a nearby hospital, witnesses
reported seeing people with very serious injuries and gaping wounds, at least
some of them caused by rubber bullets that appeared to have been fired at
close range."
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Dean Baker: Budget Cuts Are the Real Job-Killers (Video)
Laura Flanders, GRITtv: "'People who want to see the budget cut are people
who are advocating throwing people out of work, it's that simple,' says
Dean Baker of the pressure from conservatives on Obama's budget - pressure,
it appears, that Obama is conceding to as he brags that discretionary
spending will be the lowest since Eisenhower's administration. So Obama's budget
includes cuts to infrastructure, education, and more, and for Republicans,
that's still not enough. Dean joins us from D.C. via Skype to talk about
what the president should be arguing as the budget fight heats up."
_Watch the Video_
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Joe Conason | Why Do They Hate Social Security?
Joe Conason, Truthout: "Among the mysteries of modern politics in America
is why so many of our leading pundits and politicians persistently seek to
undermine Social Security, that enduring and successful emblem of active
government. In the current atmosphere of budgetary panic, self-proclaimed
'centrists' are joining with ideologues of the right in yet another campaign
against the program - and yet again they are misinforming the public about
its purposes, costs and prospects."
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Police Brutalize Ray McGovern as Hillary Clinton Talks Free Speech
David Swanson, David Swanson's Blog: "As Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday about the failures of foreign
leaders to respect people's freedoms, a 71-year-old U.S. veteran Army officer, a
man who spent 27 years in the CIA and delivered presidential daily briefs,
a peace activist and proponent of nonviolence, the man who famously
confronted Donald Rumsfeld for his war lies, the man who drafted our letter to
Spain and delivered it to the Spanish Embassy on Monday, our friend Ray
McGovern turned his back in silence."
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Tom Engelhardt | Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Here's the latest news from Congress, in
case you've been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks. A debate about
slashing the federal budget is now upon us, while fears of a possible
government shutdown as spring approaches are on the rise. The Republican
leadership of the House of Representatives originally picked $40 billion as its
target figure for cuts to the as-yet-not-enacted 2011 budget. That was the
gauntlet it threw down to the Obama administration, only to find its own
proposal slashed to bits by the freshman class of that body's conservative
majority.They insisted on adhering to a Republican Pledge to America vow to cut
$100 billion from the budget."
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Outsourcing, Trade Agreements and Employment: Lame Duck or Just Plain Lame?
Gerald Epstein, TripleCrisis: "The Obama plan for employment generation
has now come down to this: trickle-down stimulus tax cuts and a pledge to
double exports in five years' time. The first plan was passed during a lame
duck session of Congress, while the second is pretty lame, plain and simple.
Taking a page out of the Clinton playbook, the Obama administration is now
touting free trade agreements and the restoration of American
competitiveness as a key solution to our economic and employment problems."
_Read the Article_
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Alexander Cockburn | BP Faces Fines of Up to $10 Billion, Plus Jail Time
for Guilty Officials
Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: "For its huge oil spill last summer in the
Gulf of Mexico, BP is facing 'the largest criminal fine ever paid in the
United States,' according to the man who worked for 17 years in the
Environmental Crimes Section at the Justice Department and ran the Crimes Section for
seven. These days, David Uhlmann is a professor at the University of
Michigan Law School. He recently authored an article - 'After the Spill Is Gone:
The Gulf Of Mexico, Environmental Crime, and the Criminal Law' - scheduled
for publication this spring in the Michigan Law Review."
_Read the Article_
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BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
It's tough to be a pinhead elitist, as Bill O'Reilly calls liberals.
After all, we are in a nation where intelligence has never been valued
much by the culture. But we've reached a point, where as one
BuzzFlash/Truthout reader emailed, if we taxed stupidity, we would be running a huge
national budget surplus.
However, given the corporate shaping of the news by the mainstream media,
it is not surprising to read that many Americans are not so much stupid as
ignorant of the facts. Force fed an alternative reality by the likes of Fox
- including the psychotic, psychedelic fantasies of Glenn Beck - many US
citizens just don't know what they don't know.
Recently, I was reading Walter Lippman's treatise on the failings of
journalism at the beginning of the last century, "Liberty and the News." Lippman
faulted the press during the WW I period for confusing jingoism with the
facts, for inflating a false sense of patriotism that sold papers, but
didn't disseminate the truth.
Lippman had this to say about his time - and prophetically ours:
And yet I am convinced that we shall accomplish more by fighting for truth
than by fighting for our theories.... To deny this, it seems to me, is to
claim that the mass of men [and women are] impervious to education, and to
deny that, is to deny the postulate of democracy, and to seek salvation in
a dictatorship. There is, I am convinced, nothing but misery and confusion
that way.
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priceless.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Obama Backs Collective Bargaining for Public Workers in Wisconsin
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House Blocks Federal Aid for Planned Parenthood
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Will the Movement to Hold Banks Accountable for Taxes Hit the US?
_Read the Article at The Guardian UK_
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GOP Tries to Defund Regulation of Wall Street
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Watered Down FCC Net Neutrality Ruling Under Attack by House
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Will Wisconsin GOP Governor Call Out National Guard to Suppress Dissent?
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Private Sector Workers Join Ohio Fight for Right to Collective Bargaining
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Classified Papers Prove German Warnings to Bush
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