Your Must-Do Assignment for This Year: Read This Chart and Pass It On Dina Rasor, Truthout: "The defenders and beneficiaries of this endlessly rising budget are already squealing about a planned cut in the increase of the defense budget. But added on to that is the sequestration deal that both political parties made to cut social programs and defense, with each side not really believing that the other side will go through with it." Read the Article Facing Grand Jury Intimidation: Fear, Silence and Solidarity Natasha Lennard, Truthout: "Two Portland-based activists, Leah-Lynn Plante and Dennison Williams, publicly announced late last month that they had been subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury in Seattle and that they would refuse to cooperate." Read the Article Six Worst Lies in Paul Ryan's Speech Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress: "Vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is taking flack on the morning news shows for his keynote address at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. His speech was riddled with false claims, so much so that even Fox News wrote, 'To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan's speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.'" Read the Article New Yorkers Rally to Urge Governor Cuomo to Reject Fracking Sara Jerving, PRWatch: "Activists estimated that over two thousand concerned citizens joined the march in Albany Monday to try to persuade Cuomo not to lift the moratorium - statewide or in some counties - a decision expected to be announced some time after Labor Day." Read the Article Sen. Bernie Sanders: Overturn Citizens United Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders' Blog: "Sen. Bernie Sanders told a Senate panel on Tuesday that a constitutional amendment is needed to undo the Supreme Court ruling that let corporations and wealthy individuals spend unlimited sums to sway American elections. Vermont and five other states have adopted resolutions asking Congress for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision. More than 200 local governments, including about 60 towns in Vermont, have passed similar measures." Watch the Video and Read the Article Can Corporations Be Made to Fit Democratic Theory and Vision? Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press: "Intimately related to economic inequality is the matter of time - in this case as it concerns democracy as well as liberty. From Aristotle on, it has been obvious that democracy becomes meaningless if people do not have time to participate." Read the Excerpt On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Barack Obama Endorses Movement to Amend the Constitution and Overturn Citizens United, and More In today's On the News segment: Paul Ryan rattled off lie after lie after lie against President Obama in his speech last night, the United States leads its European counterparts in preventable deaths, the movement to amend the Constitution and overturn the Supreme Court's disastrous Citizens United decision just got endorsed by President Barack Obama, Japanese citizens continue to protest nuclear power, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Within "Special Cell" of Delhi Police, a History of Falsifying Evidence - Part Three Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The Delhi Police Special Cell, which has accused an Indian journalist and four Iranians of conspiring to bomb an Israeli embassy car in Delhi Feb. 13, has a long history of planting evidence on those it has accused and of obtaining false confessions, according to court records now cited by critics of the police unit." Read the Article Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad" Michael Corcoran, Truthout: "'Breaking Bad' is a fascinating show. But efforts to compare it to 'The Wire,' which systematically analyzed American institutions and the American experience, are misguided. 'Breaking Bad' is fundamentally a conservative show that is all about the individual." Read the Article Where Are the Jobs? Scenes From California's Job Club Dashka Slater, Economic Hardship Reporting Project: "As we stood in line at a Burger King in Sacramento, Calif., Joe Sisco gave me a nudge. 'Look at the age of the people who are here right now,' he said and cocked his chin toward the three women behind the counter, each several decades past the age when manning the deep fryer might seem like a good career move. 'That's the economy, right here.'" Read the Article Who Cares if It's True? It Works: Romney's Ads Are Based on Lies Lauren Feeney, Moyers & Co.: "Romney's claim that the Obama administration has dropped the work requirements for welfare recipients has been thoroughly debunked, and that debunking has been widely reported.... Why then, do the ads keep running? Two Romney insiders offered some surprisingly candid insight into the question at a forum hosted by ABC News and Yahoo! News this morning." Read the Article Matt Taibbi: The Secret to Mitt Romney's Fortune? Greed, Debt and Forcing Others to Foot the Bill Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "A new article by reporter Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sheds new light on the origin of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's fortune, revealing how Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Party Conventions and Convention Parties: Dripping in Irony Craig Holman, PhD, Public Citizen: "As the nation witnesses the spectacle we call the party nominating conventions, the ironies are dripping more than the corporately funded ice sculpture bars in Tampa Bay. The most obvious irony, of course, is that more money is being spent on the conventions yet fewer people seem to care." Read the Article | 
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