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Truthout Daily Digest | Thursday, 15 January 2015
How “Hate Crimes Against Police” Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Aaron Cantú, Truthout: Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of color. In an ironic twist, the police – who’ve been the main enforcers of this program – now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
Richard Wolff on the Greek Crisis, Austerity and a Post-Capitalist Future
Michael Nevradakis, Truthout: New School professor and economist Richard Wolff analyzes the causes of the economic crises in Greece and the eurozone, debunks claims that the Greek economy is recovering and proposes a post-capitalist future for Greece and the world.
Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: Researchers of a new study predict that virtually all Canadian tar sands oil production will stop by 2020. If Keystone XL is built by then, there would be nothing for the pipeline to transport, and it would become a monument to wasting colossal sums of money on dirty-energy infrastructure.
The Robots Are Coming! Let’s Make Them Work for the Workers
Thomas Matt, Truthout: In a capitalist economy with privately owned means of production, technological advancements often result in unemployment and inequality. In a cooperative political economic system, however, these advancements would mean less work and higher living standards.
Four Places Conservatives Believe Women Don’t Belong
Robin Marty, Care2: Conservatives assert that there are no roadblocks for being female, that a woman can have access to any opportunity a man can have and that there are no opportunity differences between the sexes. But it appears that men and women aren’t that equal at all.
Lobbyists Lobby on Behalf of… Lobbyists
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: It’s bad enough that corporations are spending billions to buy off our lawmakers and corrupt our democracy. Now they’re trying to convince us that we should support or ignore their bad behavior, and strip our own government of the power to protect us from these predators.
In the Wake of Charlie Hebdo, Assaults on Mosques Escalate
s.e. smith, Care2: The Charlie Hebdo attacks provided a convenient smokescreen for those looking to launch retaliatory attacks, despite the fact that the vast majority of Muslims were equally horrified by the attacks and were dismayed by the actions of the killers, who claimed to be acting in the name of Islam.
The United States Is Open for Business in Iraq
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: While the collapse of the Iraqi army and the abandonment of piles of its US weaponry helped create a new business opportunity for weapons makers like General Dynamics, the plan to cash in on Iraq can be traced back to the United States’ occupation of the country.
Hold Your Breath: Fracking and Clean Air Don’t Mix
Staff, Earthworks: Using a FLIR (infrared) camera designed to detect normally invisible, sometimes toxic, volatile organic compounds, mother, activist and FLIR-certified technician Sharon Wilson went on a road trip to document pollution at oil and gas operations – and its human cost.
The Enchanted Land Where Community College Is Free? Welcome to Tennessee in 2015
Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine: A new bill provides two years of tuition at a community college for participating high school grads who might otherwise face a 7.5 percent unemployment rate – and other states are already following suit.
The Distorted Exaggeration of Black-on-Black Crime Ignores Much of the United States’ Criminality
Adam Hudson, AlterNet: This myth relies on shaky evidence and a selective definition of crime that ignores crimes committed by powerful institutions and the people who run them, many of whom are white men. Here are five examples of the kinds of crimes that slip under the radar.
Shannan Stoll, YES! Magazine: From city-issued ID cards to open-source data anyone can access, simple urban innovations are creating more transparent and equitable cities.
Women on Waves: Meet the Dutch Physician Who Defied Abortion Bans by Bringing Her Clinic to the Sea
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: As Republicans in the new Congress and in state legislatures across the United States seek new restrictions on abortion, we look at the story of a Dutch doctor who has brought safe abortion to countries around the world where it is illegal.
Watch the Video and Read the Transcript
BuzzFlash
Maybe the Two-Party System in the US Should Be in the Creation Museum With the Dinosaurs
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The jury is out on whether a two-party system can seriously address the pressing issues of our time.
Partners in Terror: This Is Bigger Than Satire
The Rate of Sea-Level Rise Is “Far Worse Than Previously Thought,” Study Says
Read the Article at The Washington Post
Paris Is a Warning: There Is No Insulation From Our Wars
Read the Article at The Guardian
Cop Rock: The NYPD Turn on Spokesman Patrick Lynch
ISIS Gaining Ground in Syria, Despite US Strikes
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
GOP House Passes Bill Setting Up New Shutdown War Over Immigration
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
“Not the Way We Do Democracy!” Why Is a Ferguson Grand Juror Being Silenced?
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Truthout Daily Digest Monday, 15 December 2014
Dahr Jamail | Documents Show Navy’s Electromagnetic Warfare Training Would Harm Humans and Wildlife
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: While the US Navy claims “no significant impacts” will occur to wildlife or humans from its electromagnetic war games over the Olympic National Forest, military documents and an expert on the human impact of electromagnetic radiation fields say otherwise.
Marjorie Cohn | Torture Report Confirms Team Bush War Crimes
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: “Even after many years of writing books and articles about the Bush torture policy, I was unprepared for the atrocious pattern of crimes our government committed against other human beings in our name.”
Ferguson Outrage Grows From Local Protests to Global Movement
Crystal Shepeard, Care2: People have let out a collective cry of frustration at the lethal force used disproportionately against people of color in the United States. When a grand jury failed to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold, the protests became a global movement.
Dean Baker | Economic Policy Myths of 2014: Dead and Enduring
Dean Baker, Truthout: The good news is that two economic myths that caused great confusion over the last several years are now headed to the trash bin of history. Unfortunately, many of our great national myths have survived 2014.
John Pilger | War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
John Pilger, Truthout: The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an “invisible government.” It is the government.
It’s Not the Law – but Prosecutors – That Give Immunity to Killer Cops
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report: It is not “the law” that stands like a brick wall of impunity for police, but the interpretation of the law by attorneys general and their subordinates, who view prosecutions of police as akin to unnatural acts that cannot be performed in public view.
Simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario: The supposedly brilliant people who run Citigroup have, in the space of a single working week, made a series of serious political blunders with long-lasting implications. Sen. Elizabeth Warren articulated the core of the problem and what needs to be done.
Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement’s Biggest Protest Yet
Amy Goodman, Samantha Riddell and Juan González, Democracy Now!: Saturday’s nationwide actions against police killings and racial profiling was the largest single protest of the post-Ferguson movement and the culmination of daily actions in New York City since a grand jury elected not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner.
Watch the Video and Read the Transcript
US Torture: Past, Present… and Future? Beyond the Torture Report
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch: “Be shocked, be disgusted, be appalled, but don’t be fooled. The Senate torture report, so many years and obstacles in the making, should only be the starting point for a discussion, not the final word on US torture.”
Scalia Is Dead Wrong on Torture
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Even if torture was an effective way to get information from terrorism suspects during a ticking time bomb scenario – and there’s no evidence that it is – it would still be unconstitutional, despite what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.
Mutated Flu Virus Could Signal More Hospitalizations, Deaths This Season
Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: This season’s flu vaccine may not be as effective against new and possibly more virulent strains of the virus that could become the nation’s dominant form of influenza in the young flu season.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Washington Passes Disastrous $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill, and More
In today‘s On the News segment: Washington passed a disastrous $1.1 trillion spending bill; activists staged a protest outside the Office of the US Trade Representative to demand that secret trade negotiations come to an end; corporations that donate to political campaigns are getting a massive return on their investment; and more.
Watch the Video and Read the Transcript
BuzzFlash
The National War on the Homeless Continues: Mass Eviction in San Jose
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It appears that a growing urban trend is to regard destitute humans as “urban blight” and to make them disappear.
Sen. Warren Warns Against Wall Street Returning to Casino Gambling
Listen to the Interview at NPR
Gun Nuts’ Racial Duplicity
Anti-Nuke Activists Fight to Close Diablo Canyon
US Marine Charged With Killing Filipino Transgender Woman
Read the Article at The Guardian
Oil Spill in Bangladesh Threatens World’s Largest Mangrove System
Read the Article at Global Voices
These Seven Men Owned the Company Linked to CIA Torture
Read the Article at Business Insider
The Devalued US Worker
