Truthout: November 22, 2011
Truthout: November 22, 2011
William Rivers Pitt | The
People's Surveillance State
William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout: "Memo to the police and the surveillance state you
represent: you are not working in the dark anymore. You may
have your own system of surveillance, but We The People are
watching you just as closely, and we have our own system of
surveillance."
http://www.truth-out.org/peoples-surveillance-state/1321898348
FBI
Claims It Does Not Have Any Documents on Occupy Wall
Street
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "We were surprised
the FBI provided us with a final response to our FOIA
request within two weeks, given the agency's FOIA backlog
and the lengthy wait times we have faced when filing other
FOIA requests with the agency. We were even more surprised
to learn the FBI was unable to locate a single document in
which agency officials discussed Occupy Wall Street, a
global movement which, in the past month, has resulted in
violent crackdowns by local law enforcement."
http://www.truth-out.org/fbi-headquarters-says-it-does-not-have-any-documents-occupy-wall-street/1321994542
Juan
Cole | How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class
War
Juan Cole, Truthdig: "The deliberate
pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at
UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the
horrific incident must not cloud the real question: What led
comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the
Occupy protest movement against income inequality and
big-money politics in the first place?"
http://www.truth-out.org/how-students-landed-front-lines-class-war/1321991682
Rebecca
Solnit | Civil Society at Ground Zero: You Can Crush the
Flowers, But You Can't Stop the Spring
Rebecca
Solnit, TomDispatch: "Civil society contains all kinds of
people, and all kinds have shown up at the Occupy
encampments. The inclusiveness of such places is one of the
great achievements of this movement. (Occupy Memphis, for
instance, has even reached out to Tea Party members.)
Veterans, students, their grandparents, hitherto apolitical
people, the employed and unemployed, the housed and the
homeless, and people of all ages and colors have been drawn
in along with the unions. And yes, there are also a lot of
young white activists, who can be thanked for taking on the
hard work and heat. We can only hope that this broad
coalition will hang together a while longer."
http://www.truth-out.org/civil-society-ground-zero-you-can-crush-flowers-you-cant-stop-spring/1321972796
Republicans
in Indiana to Seek Law Limiting Unions
Monica Davey,
The New York Times News Service: "Republican leaders in
Indiana on Monday declared as their top legislative priority
making Indiana a "right to work" state, setting the stage
for a new battle over union rights that has already consumed
many states. The proposal would prevent unions from
negotiating contracts that would require workers to pay
union dues. The notion instantly set off objections from the
state's union leaders, who said the true aim was to weaken
labor unions, and from Democratic lawmakers, some of whom
had left the state for more than a month early this year in
an effort to block similar provisions."
http://www.truth-out.org/republicans-indiana-seek-law-limiting-unions/1321973060
Tens
of Thousands Call for Top Military Official to Resign in
Cairo's Tahrir Square
David D. Kirkpatrick and Alan
Cowell, The New York Times News Service: "A day after the
cabinet offered its resignation to Egypt's transitional
military government, protesters demanding an end to army
rule fought street battles with the police for a fourth
straight day, braving an increasingly lethal crackdown
recalling the earliest days of the Arab Spring."
http://www.truth-out.org/wider-protests-urged-egypt-crackdown-enters-day-4/1321972594
The
"Public University" as Response to Funding Cuts to UK's
Higher Education
Simon Dawes, Truthout: "The global
economic crisis has highlighted the inherent problems with
unfettered free-market capitalism (not to mention, more
specifically, the high-risk activities of those working in
the deregulated financial sector). Similarly, the worldwide
meltdown has also exposed the dangers of an obsession with
short-term profits and of a worldview that comprises only
the economy where there is also society, culture and
politics. Despite the clear lessons of the global recession,
the response of governments around the world has been to
pass the debt on to the poorer sections of society, to
further privatize and deregulate and, so, depoliticize the
public realm. Costs are cut and profits boosted for
immediate short-term relief, regardless of the longer-term
economic consequences or their effect on culture."
http://www.truth-out.org/public-university-response-funding-cuts-uks-higher-education/1321984014
Super
Committee Fails: How Republican Tax Intransigence Killed It:
A Timeline
Sarah Ayres, ThinkProgress: "By now we
have all heard the latest in the months-long debate over
reducing the nation's deficit - barring a last-minute
miracle, the congressional super committee tasked with
finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction will
fail to come to an agreement. Cue handwringing by pundits
lamenting the inability of both Democrats and Republicans to
compromise."
http://www.truth-out.org/super-committee-fails-how-republican-tax-intransigence-kills-it-timeline/1321914735
On
the News With Thom Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street Is Bringing
Down the Big Banks, and More
In today's On the News
segment: Occupy Wall Street is bringing down the big banks;
Gang of 12 supercommittee failed to come up with a
compromise; according to a new study, you're better off
watching no news than GOP TV's Fox so-called News, religious
lobbying groups on Capitol Hill have increased fivefold
since Roe v. Wade, and more.
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-occupy-wall-street-bringing-down-big-banks-and-more/1321984652
Greg
Palast: US "Vulture" Funds Make Millions By Exploiting
African Nations (Video)
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!:
"American 'vulture' investors, including a top funder of the
Republican Party, have demanded that African nations pay
over half a billion dollars for old debts - for which the
investors paid only a few million. One New York vulture
speculator, Peter Grossman of FG Capital Management, is
demanding $100 million from the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Is he collecting a legitimate debt from the Congo -
or is the vulture's claim based on a stolen security? Greg
Palast reports from the Congo, Bosnia and New York in the
joint investigation by the BBC, the Guardian and Democracy
Now!"
http://www.truth-out.org/reporter-greg-palast-exposes-how-us-vulture-funds-make-millions-exploiting-african-nations/1321990
Julie
Doucet: It's Amazing I'm Able to Make a Living
Anne
Elizabeth Moore and Aidan Koch, Truthout: "This week in
Ladydrawers, we continue hearing from one of the most
important and talented female comics artists in North
America - Julie Doucet. As she told us in the first
installment, she left the industry after 12 years of drawing
comics not because she was forced out for any visible acts
of sexism, but because the "all-boys crowd" and personal
jealousies had started to drain. Her personal narrative may
not be atypical - so begins to create a disturbing overall
picture of how structural inequities affect individual
creators in unseen ways. What is atypical is how her renown
in comics only grew once she stopped drawing them."
http://www.truth-out.org/julie-doucet-its-amazing-im-able-make-living/1321972906
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Pregnant Woman Blasted
With Pepper Spray Says She Miscarried
Read the
Article at The Stranger
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/11/21/pregant-woman-blasted-with-pepper-spray-by-spd-reportedly-miscarries
The
Unmentionable: Land Mines in Afghanistan Sexually Mutilate
US Troops
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13168
Wisconsin
Governor Walker's Opponents Plagued by Threats,
TheftsZ
Read the Article at Channel 3000
http://www.channel3000.com/politics/29819444/detail.html
Obama
Confronts Congress' Failure, Promises to Enforce
Cuts
Read the Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/obama-confronts-congresss-failure-promises-to-enforce-cuts/248877/
Why
I Got Arrested at Occupy Wall Street
Read the Article
at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/164732/why-i-got-arrested-occupy-wall-street
Gingrich:
Put Poor Kids to Work Cleaning Schools
Read the
Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/newt-gingrich-thinks-school-children-should-work-as-janitors/248837/
Elizabeth
Warren: Obama's Natural Heir?
Read the Article at The
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/elizabeth-warren-obamas-natural-heir/2011/11/21/gIQA13ZzhN_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmfix
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