Tuesday articles

Written by: Gerry L on Feb 3, 2009 7:55 AM EST

Tuesday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ February 3rd,  2009

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How "Brilliant" Men Crashed the Economy

What to Do About Wall Street

By RALPH NADER

Soon after the passage in 1999 of the Clinton-Rubin-Summers-P. Graham deregulation of the financial industry, I boarded a US Air flight to Boston and discovered none other than then-Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers a few seats away. He was speaking loudly and constantly on his cell phone. When the plane took off he invited me to sit by him and talk.

http://www.counterpunch.org/nader02022009.html

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Obama turns to grassroots to sway Senate on stimulus

By David Lightman and Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A divided and discontented Senate on Monday began debating a nearly $900 billion economic stimulus plan, while President Barack Obama launched a new grassroots campaign asking Americans to prod their lawmakers to act on it.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/61317.html

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Republicans warned on stimulus plan

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/02/200922172259723365.html

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Groups target GOP senators on stimulus

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/groups-target-gop-senators-on-stimulus-2009-01-29.html

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SEE THE AD

http://www.jobsandeconomicrecovery.com/er

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Tell Congress: Invest in American Jobs Now

http://www.jobsandeconomicrecovery.com/page/speakout/economicrecovery

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Please consider sending the following message (you can copy & paste) or send your own message to each of the ‘targeted’ Republicans:

Senator Susan Collins from Maine

http://collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorCollins.Email

Senator Olympia Snow from Maine

http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.Email

Senator Judd Gregg from New Hamphire

http://gregg.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=contact.contactform

Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska

http://murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactMe.EMailLisa

Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa

http://grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm

also, please consider contacting Mitch McConnell…who would lead the Senate filibuster effort…

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm

 

 Suggested Message…from the Campaign for Jobs & Economic Recovery…

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Doing the Recovery Right

Robert Pollin: America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090216/pollin?rel=hp_picks

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Risking the Future

BOB HERBERT

We do not seem to learn much from history. Time and again an economic boom has followed a period of sustained infrastructure investment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/opinion/03herbert.html?ref=opinion

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Attorney: Rove Will Cooperate With DOJ Probes

Murray Waas

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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By Courting the Republicans, Obama Could Get the Worst of All Worlds

Consensus among the nation's political elite is a recipe for disaster - just look at Iraq, the war on terror and deregulation

by Gary Younge

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/02-2

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Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis?

http://www.truthout.org/020209ED

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Freedom of Assembly, Meet Broadcast Torture

Burning the First Amendment

By MANUEL GARCIA, Jr.

http://www.counterpunch.org/garcia01302009.html

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Eric Holder Is Now Attorney General

Criminal Prosecution

Congratulate him and ask him to appoint a special prosecutor:

Do it now!

http://www.democrats.com/special-prosecutor-for-bush-war-crimes

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Google Earth drops into the oceans

Ocean in Google Earth project allows users to examine wildlife, mountains, shipwrecks and environmental changes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/02/google-earth-oceans

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It was his artistry they bought…

His Stage, the Street; His Rapier, a Peeler

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/nyregion/03ades.html?_r=1&hp

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http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha9.htm

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Torture Chic: Why Is the Media Glorifying Inhumane, Sadistic Behavior?

By Maura Moynihan, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/124739/

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The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/124836/

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A lot discussed over the last couple of days…whether or not Obama has left the gates of rendition still open….appears a murkier matter than at first glance:

The L.A. Times, Obama & Renditions

by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/02-16

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and

Renditions Buffoonery

By Scott Horton

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004326

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The Offensive Side of Missile Defense
Mike Moore

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2423

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Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision

by Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 18 months at an Oval Office meeting Jan. 21.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/02-3

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Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon

by Chalmers Johnson and Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

http://www.tomdispatch.com/

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from and about ‘over there’

 

 

 

 

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Call to Try Bush

by Julio Godoy

BERLIN - Now that former U.S. president George W. Bush is an ordinary citizen again, many legal and human rights activists in Europe are demanding that he and high-ranking members of his government be brought before justice for crimes against humanity committed in the so-called war on terror.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/02

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Bombing Blocks Supply Route for Afghan War

By REUTERS

Suspected militants blew up a bridge in Pakistan’s Khyber Pass on Tuesday, cutting the main route for supplies bound for Western forces in Afghanistan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/asia/03pass.html?ref=world

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Suicide Bomber Kills 25 Policemen in Afghanistan;
American UN Official Kidnapped in Quetta;
Pakistani Taliban take over Swat

http://www.juancole.com/

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A coup for Maliki and a secular Iraq

Patrick Cockburn: Voters have rebuffed religious parties – and cemented the power of the Prime Minister.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/a-coup-for-maliki-and-a-secular-iraq-1543644.html

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Can Mitchell turn Jerusalem into Belfast?

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10255.shtml

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Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright Have Reached the Border of Gaza

Palestine

There's a blog to follow here.

http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2009/02/medea-reports-from-the-border-of-gaza/

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Talking to Israelis, the PLO and Hamas

http://www.truthout.org/020209R

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Gazans say Israeli troops forced them into battle zones

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/61329.html

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500 years of exploitation has sewn many a seed for ‘nationalism’

In Bolivia, Untapped Bounty Meets Nationalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/americas/03lithium.html?ref=world

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Venezuela marks decade of Chavez

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7865683.stm

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Peace and Solidarity

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

 

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