Truthout: 7 March 2012

Economic Recovery for Whom?
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "The truth about 'economic recovery' is that, for the mass of people, it is untrue. For the top 10 percent and especially the top 1 percent - those who brought global capitalism into crisis in 2007 - recovery has been real.... 'Recovery' is the go-to word when business and government impose conditions to make the US more profitable especially for big business. 'Recovery,' in this capitalist economy, refers to profits, not to people."
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Despite Risks, Undocumented Immigrants Stage "Coming Out of the Shadows" Week
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Despite a year of record deportations and little movement on a progressive immigration policy, undocumented people are coming out and publicly declaring their immigration status for the third year in a row, telling American society that they are 'undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic.' March 10 will be the first day of a weeklong set of actions by a coalition of groups in Illinois to highlight the continuing crisis caused by enforcement and lack of rights in immigrant communities."
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Romney Narrowly Wins Ohio; Santorum Strong
Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times News Service: "Mitt Romney appeared to pull off a narrow victory in Ohio on Super Tuesday but lost several other states to Rick Santorum, a split verdict that overshadowed Mr. Romney's claim of collecting the most delegates and all but ensured another round of intense infighting on the road to the Republican presidential nomination."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: A New Study Shows That Extreme Poverty in America Has Doubled in the Last 15 Years, and More
In today's On the News segment: A new study shows that extreme poverty in America has doubled in the last 15 years, a new front has opened up in the battle against Citizens United, European austerity continues to take its toll, and more.
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Reclaiming the Commons (Graphic Journalism)
Susie Cagle, Truthout: "Founded by squatters more than 150 years ago, full of foreclosed buildings, and shrinking by thousands per year, Oakland in many ways presents as a tremendously attractive target for occupation. But it's been a bumpy road since the first camps were cleared on October 26."
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What's Ahead for Rep. Dennis Kucinich?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "In a newly drawn district in Ohio, outspoken antiwar Rep. Dennis Kucinich suffered a defeat against Rep. Marcy Kaptur. The two were forced to square off in a Democratic primary after Republicans redrew Ohio's congressional map. Kaptur now faces Samuel Wurzelbacher, 'Joe the Plumber,' winner of the district's Republican primary. Kucinich has said he may establish residency in Washington state, where there is a June filing deadline to run for a new congressional seat in the Seattle area."
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The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money
Zaid Jilani, Republic Report: "As we head into an election year, we're going to increasingly hear that Democrats and Republicans fight like cats and dogs, that there is a civil war in Washington. This describes the state of play on some issues, but on others there is bipartisan agreement to do the wrong thing: Both parties do what the money tells them to do."
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For First Time in 16 Years, Kucinich Loses His Seat
Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "In a primary faceoff between two veteran Democratic incumbents, voters in Ohio delivered a victory to Representative Marcy Kaptur, a progressive from Toledo, over Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, leaving him without a seat in Congress for the first time in 16 years.... Most political analysts agreed that Mr. Kucinich would likely remain in the public sphere, even if he was not in elected office, either in a research group or as a television commentator."
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A Brief History of the Education Culture Wars: On Santorum's Legacy, the GOP and School Reform
Dana Goldstein, The Nation: "A significant segment of the Republican electorate understands public education not as a crucial civic institution ... Instead, this coalition of religious conservatives and extreme tax-cutters prefers to vilify public schools - and actually, pretty much any traditional educational institution, including liberal arts colleges - as potential corruptors of the nation's youth; as unwanted interlocutors in that most sacred relationship: the one between a child and her parent."
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The Violence of Andrew Breitbart
Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Waging Nonviolence: "'Victories' won through violence - whether literal or verbal - are dubious at best, and disastrous at worst. This is because they do nothing to eliminate the underlying cause of the grievance being addressed, and only pile on new hatreds. They expand the divisions between people, rather than close them.... What does this have to do with the recent sudden death of BigGovernment.com's scorch-and-burn blogger Andrew Breitbart? Everything."
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Banks and Congress Grapple With Stubborn, Stupid Facts
Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.: "Facts are stubborn things, said founding father John Adams, a basic truth Ronald Reagan famously mangled at the Republican National Convention in 1988, when he tried to quote Adams and declared, 'Facts are stupid things,' before correcting himself.... Witness the resistance on the part of banking institutions and certain members of the congressional leadership, despite regulations demanding that they allow facts and figures to be reported, information that could keep us from the edge of yet another economic meltdown."
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In Troubled Europe, Agonizing Options
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "It's not too hard to see what Europe as a whole should be doing: less in terms of demands for austerity, much more general reflation ... And you can make the case that austerity, at least at this level of harshness, is actually counterproductive even in fiscal terms: it depresses growth, so that the debt position becomes worse even if the current budget deficit is reduced. It's much harder, however, to say what the leaders of such peripheral economies should do."
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Attacking Iran: Just Because We Can, Doesn't Mean We Should
Camillo "Mac" Bica, Truthout: "The debate regarding Iran's nuclear program has focused upon pragmatic, tactical, strategic and economic issues regarding the feasibility and consequences of continuing and/or escalating military action against Iran.... While such discussions may have media and political appeal, they are premature and miss the point entirely. They either take for granted or completely ignore the more fundamental question of whether continuing/escalating a war with Iran is the right thing to do, not militarily or pragmatically, but legally and morally."
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Let's Face It: Rush Limbaugh Is a Misogynist
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "What we're seeing here is the modern incarnation of the 'barefoot and pregnant' male cultural standard: the subjugation of females, including their sexuality, to meet the whims of males. Men should have their sexual pleasure with women, and women should literally bear the consequences. That's Rush's outlook and clearly music to the ears of many of his listeners."
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UN Top Torture Official Denounces Bradley Manning's Detention
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What America Lost When Dennis Kucinich Lost
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Newt Gingrich
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Eight Women File Lawsuit, Accuse Military of Having "High Tolerance for Sexual Predators in Their Ranks"
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The Los Angeles Times: Holder's Troubling Death-by-Drone Rules
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Alabama Senator Backs Off Forced Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Bill, but Alabama Women Aren't Backing Down
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Politics Q&A: Lawrence Lessig on the 2012 Primaries
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