Thursday 11 August 2011

Jason Leopold | Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "In a stunning new interview set to air on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado tonight, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, for the first time, levels explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials - George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee - accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the Bush and Clinton White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments about two of the 9/11 hijackers who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks."
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Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "Watching 'Orwell Rolls in His Grave,' it becomes increasingly clear that we can't see the forest through the trees, because with the consolidation of for-profit corporate media, the forest of information is pretty much owned by just a few companies. And those companies not only frequently create 'facts' to enhance profits, but also create the frame through which public policy is debated to meet their business goals."
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War and the Tragedy of the Commons (Part 3)
H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: "As long as Agent Orange is not addressed, along with the reparations that the US agreed to offer the Vietnamese, the Indochina War cannot be considered over. Rather, it entered a different phase, a phase without artillery and gunshots, but a phase in which millions continue to suffer and die in agony."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Jan Schakowsky Introduces Plan to Create 2.2 Million Jobs, and More
In today's On the News segment: Jan Schakowsky introduces a plan to create 2.2 million jobs, again; stocks plummeted 519 points; 79 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the United States government, secret peace negotiations between United States officials and the Taliban have collapsed; Democrats vow to recall Gov. Scott Walker next year; Kentucky Christian theme park given 75 percent discount on property taxes over next 30 years; and more.
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Economic Crisis or Nonviolent Opportunity? Gandhi's Answer to Financial Collapse
Michael Nagler, Waging Nonviolence: "The real purpose of an economic system is to guarantee to every person in its circle the fundamentals of physical existence (food, clothing, shelter) and the tools of meaningful work so that they can get on with the business of living together and working out our common destiny. This was Gandhi’s vision, among others'."
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Verizon's Workers Strike Back at Corporate Greed - You Can Join Them!
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Right now Verizon is greedily trying to put the squeeze on its workers, cutting pensions, sick pay, health insurance, even disability for employees injured on the job. If this story sounds all too familiar, this part won't: Their workers are fighting back with a strike! And you can join them!"
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Pelosi Picks Members for "Super Committee"
Lisa Mascaro, The Los Angeles Times: "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, named the three final appointees Thursday to the super committee on deficit reduction, adding diversity along with budget expertise to a panel that was all white and includes only one woman."
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Obama's Legal Duty to Create Jobs Now
Jeanne Mirer and Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: "The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a legal duty to create jobs and must act immediately - if not through Congress, then through the Federal Reserve."
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United Snakes of America: Obama, the Republicans and the Media
Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "I was thrilled to vote for Obama. My wife and I donated more money to his campaign than we have given to any candidate running for any office. I believed he was more than just pocket 'change we could believe in.' I still have an Obama bumper sticker on my car. This weekend, with gusto, I'm tearing it off."
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US Relies on Contractors in Somalia Conflict
Jeffrey Gettleman, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times News Service: "The fight against the Shabab, a group that United States officials fear could someday carry out strikes against the West, has mostly been outsourced to African soldiers and private companies out of reluctance to send American troops back into a country they hastily exited nearly two decades ago."
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Paul Krugman | United States vs. Europe: Who Is Worse Off?
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "America is hamstrung by its crazy right; Europe by its single currency that can be neither abandoned nor accompanied by sufficient reforms to make it work; Japan by lousy demography and monetary timidity that is now deeply ingrained in expectations."
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US Navy Vet Sues Donald Rumsfeld for Torture in Iraq, Court Allows Case to Move Forward (Video)
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "On Monday, a federal appeals court refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two U.S. citizens against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and unnamed others for developing, authorizing and using harsh interrogation techniques against detainees in Iraq."
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