| Truthout Contributor Mike Lofgren Tells Bill Moyers Why "The Party Is Over" Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "The growing power of the religious right is one reason my guest left the Republican Party and became an Independent. 'The mixture of politics and religion,' [Mike Lofgren] says, 'debases both, and has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect.' He has his problems with Democrats, too. For one thing, he says, both parties 'are captives to corporate loot.'" Watch the Video and Read the Transcript William Rivers Pitt | The Week of Living Dangerously William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The right-wing reavers, slowly empowered over these last decades by the GOP, have finally slipped the leash and are running wild. They have no reservations whatsoever about making the core of their campaign about swatting the wasp's nest of racism as a means of turning out the only constituency they have left: angry white people." Read the Article Noam Chomsky | War Drums Beat Ever More Loudly Over Iran Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "If Iran is indeed moving toward nuclear-weapons capability - this is still unknown to US intelligence - that may be because it is 'inspired to do so' by the US-Israeli threats, regularly issued in explicit violation of the UN Charter. Why then is Iran the greatest threat to world peace, as seen in official Western discourse? The primary reason is acknowledged by US military and intelligence and their Israeli counterparts: Iran might deter the resort to force by the United States and Israel." Read the Article Hacked Intel Email: NYPD Involved in "Damn Right Felonious Activity" Jason Leopold and Matt Harwood, Truthout: "Among the 5 million emails the group Anonymous hacked from the servers of private intelligence firm Stratfor in February, one seems to not only confirm the controversial NYPD surveillance activities uncovered by the Associated Press, but hints at even worse civil liberties violations not yet disclosed." Read the Article Romney's Success at Bain Capital: The Scam as Business Model Dean Baker, Truthout: "Private equity companies like Bain Capital are not primarily about producing wealth. They profit largely by siphoning off wealth created elsewhere in the economy. There are many different ways in which this diversion of wealth is accomplished. The simplest and most common trick is gaming the tax code." Read the Article Never Mind Super PACs: How Big Business Is Buying the Election Lee Fang, The Nation: "US law still bans foreign corporations from participating directly in elections. But after Citizens United, trade associations like API - whose influential members include foreign corporations - are free to spend as they wish, unburdened by disclosure requirements." Read the Article Marjorie Cohn | No Accountability for Torturers Marjorie Cohn, MarjorieCohn.com: "Amnesty for torturers is unacceptable. General Barry McCaffrey declared, 'We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the CIA.'" Read the Article Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform Michelle Chen, In These Times: "The Romney camp's new attack line on the Obama administration - that he 'gutted' the work requirements imposed on families receiving public assistance - has been widely debunked as a distortion of a mundane policy memo. But the real scandal here isn't what Obama did or didn't do to 'workfare'; it's that both parties have gutted the welfare system as a whole to conduct a cruel social experiment on impoverished families." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Are Republicans Trying to Redefine Labor Day? In today's On the News segment: The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, hacktivists working within the group "Anonymous" are claiming they've caught the FBI spying on more than 12 million Apple customers, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor used Labor Day on Monday to shill for big businesses and CEOs, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Afghanistan's Base Bonanza: Total Tops Iraq at That War's Height Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "Afghanistan may turn out to be one of the great misbegotten 'stimulus packages' of the modern era, a construction boom in the middle of nowhere with materials largely shipped in at enormous expense to no lasting purpose whatsoever. With the US military officially drawing down its troops there, the Pentagon is now evidently reversing the process and embarking on a major deconstruction program." Read the Article Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win - and Now Protect - Voting Rights in US Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "We spend the hour looking at the bloody struggle to obtain - and protect - voting rights in the US with the civil rights icon, now 13-term Georgia congressmember, John Lewis." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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