| USDA Seeks to Expand Pilot Program Which Leaves Meat Contaminated With Fecal Matter Candice Bernd, Truthout: Half of the USDA inspectors in industrial meat plants will be replaced with inspectors employed by the same companies whose meats they are inspecting if plans by the Department of Agriculture are allowed to go forward. Read the Article "Build Yourself a Sukkah!": How Occupy Judaism Transformed the Movement Joshua Stephens, Truthout: On the second anniversary of Occupy and with Sukkot approaching, we remember how Occupy Judaism used "Jewish ritual as a form of direct action - transforming sacred rites into acts of justice." And it also helped shelter occupants. Read the Article and See the Photos Act Erratically and the Police Will Shoot You Kristina Chew, Care2: Cuts in mental health services have meant that police increasingly have been summoned to deal with people displaying "erratic behaviors." Law enforcement officers need far more training about how to assist such individuals. Unusual behaviors and even aggression can be a sign of distress but not a reason to pull the trigger on an unarmed person. Read the Article Government Hands More Than $1 Trillion to Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: While our government is laying off hundreds of thousands and cutting services in the name of cutting deficits, a new report exposes that taxpayers are handing more than $1 trillion a year to the wealthiest. Read the Article The Left Pushes Back The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Americans have figured out the truth behind the Reagan Revolution: Whether practiced by Republicans or Democrats, the Reagan Revolution is one giant scam. Read the Article In the War on Drugs, War on Crime and War on Terrorism We Are All Now Potential Swat Team Targets Mark Karlin, Truthout: Truthout speaks with Radley Balko about his book Rise of the Warrior Cop and how the friendly police officer walking the streets has evolved into the warrior cop. Read the Interview How the People Pushed Back on Syria - and Won (for Now) Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine: In an extraordinarily short time, the people petitioned, called their representatives in Congress, held rallies, and used social media to demand a nonviolent approach to the Syrian crisis. The march toward war slowed. Read the Article Chomsky: "The Mafia Doctrine," or the Crucial Issue for the US in Syria Is Credibility Johannes Hautaviita, Truthout: Noam Chomsky argues alongside professor Marjorie Cohn that the crucial issue for the US in Syria is "credibility," telling Truthout that "when the Godfather gives an order, no disobedience can be tolerated." Read the Article Bill Moyers: Let Us Now Praise Common Sense Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: The White House, Congress and the punditry of the Beltway ultimately may be grateful to a public that weighed in on a potential military strike in Syria in that the collective common sense of everyday people became a force so powerful it could not be ignored. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript On the News With Thom Hartmann: Twelve People Killed in Mass Shooting at Navy Yard Complex, and More In today's On the News segment: On Monday, 12 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Navy complex in our nation's capital, and at least eight others were injured; the National Security Agency has been spying on credit card transactions under the guise of catching terrorists; British mining company Anglo American is abandoning Alaska's Pebble Mine; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for Occupy Nick Espinosa, Truthout: There are three key factors to Occupy's failure to produce a sustained revolutionary mass movement capable of solving the injustices it so effectively brought to light: coordinated state repression at a national level, a failure to effectively incorporate racial analysis and leadership by people of color, and the fundamentally undemocratic nature of the OWS general assembly model. Read the Article Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower: How the Security State's Mania for Secrecy Will Create You Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "You will be denounced as a traitor, a defector, a criminal, and your acts called treasonous, even if you're one of the last hopes of the American republic. Right now, those like you are sure to be prosecuted, jailed or chased implacably across the planet. But this won't last forever." Read the Article | 
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