William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "t r u t h o u t" <messenger@truthout.org>
Date: Oct 22, 2013 3:26 PM
Subject: William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Tuesday, 22 October 2013 View Recent Newsletters Tell a friend about Truthout! Donate Today!   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.

BuzzFlash Social Security Pumps $2 Into US Economy for Every Benefit Dollar Spent Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Don't blame Social Security for any deficits, now or in the future. Not only did retirees pay into the fund, Social Security spending actually stimulates the economy. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   AFL-CIO to Democrats: We'll Work to End Your Career if You Cut Social Security or Medicare Read the Article at The Huffington Post   What Does the Rise of Super-Fortunes Mean for the Rest of Us Read the Article at NPR   Unemployment Falls to Lowest Rate Since 2008 Read the Article at CNN   US Drone Strikes Break International Law, Report Finds Read the Article at the CBC News Network   Poll Results Just Keep Getting Worse and Worse for Republicans Read the Article at Mother Jones   One Year After Sandy: Ignoring Climate Change at Our Own Peril Read the Article at The Nation   Japan's Fukushima Cleanup Effort Is Turning Into Another Kind of Disaster Read the Article at The Washington Post     Can our system, which is both broken and "fixed," ever be changed to represent the dreams of ordinary people? We believe it can, if we get to the bottom of systemic inequalities. That's why Truthout doesn't just report on crisis and disaster but also provides a forum for new ideas. Will you help us find solutions by making a tax-deductible donation now? Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 William Rivers Pitt | America on Fire William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: In Australia, the fear is that the fires being battled by heroic public servants who got their funding cut initially were started by arsonists. In America, the arsonists are in Congress, on Wall Street and in the White House to no small degree. Read the Article  Thank You Anarchy Author and Wall Street Occupier Nathan Schneider on the Movement's True Power Mark Karlin, Truthout: Nathan Schneider, author of Thank You Anarchy, Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse, tells Truthout he has been changed irrevocably by the movement, of which Zuccotti Park was only the beginning, and he craves the just, humane and free society the occupation modeled. Read the Interview  ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has jumped into the conservative effort to dismantle public pension systems in a big way, making it one of its top 2014 legislative priorities. Read the Article  Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy Joanne Barkan, Dissent: Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived power in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligations. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already translates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency. Read the Article  Are the Koch Brothers the New "Copper Kings"? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The ghost of William A. Clark, the corrupt "Copper King," is alive and well in the form of billionaires such as the Koch Brothers, who are corrupting our political process while destroying the environment and poisoning us. Read the Article  The Return of the Nicaraguan Revolution David L. Wilson, Truthout: In the 1980s, New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio traveled to Nicaragua. With the election looming, the media is recalling his activism, which, like mine, was derided at the time as "idealistic" and "more than a touch naïve." Read the Article  Paul Krugman | America's New Employment Reality Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "If certain skills are in short supply, show us the workers with these skills who are being offered premium wages; show us the employers laying out real dollars to train the workers they need." Read the Article  Right-Wing Ideology Run Wild Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News: The Radical Right - reflecting the overlapping ideologies of Ayn Rand capitalists, Christian fundamentalists and neo-Confederate white supremacists - is set on crippling the federal government and humiliating the first African-American president. But the extremism could shatter the Republican Party. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fracking Companies Want to Start Drilling at the Source of Washington's Water Supply, and More In today's On the News segment: Fracking companies want to move in to the George Washington National Forest, which supplies water to the DC metro area; lawmakers in red states are enacting as many discriminatory voting laws as possible, and now they want to rig the Electoral College; Ohio will be the next state to expand Medicaid; and more. Read the Transcript  Why Washington Can't Stop: The Coming Era of Tiny Wars and Micro-Conflicts Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: We're entering a new period in terms of American war making. Call it the era of tiny wars, especially in the tribal backlands of the planet. What's not changing is Washington's preference for war as the option of choice, often of first resort. Read the Article  Zoos Get Pandas, China Gets Uranium: Is This a Fair Trade? Kristina Chew, Care2: Lately, China's central government seems to be using its monopoly on pandas as a valuable bargaining chip to gain resources, including uranium (to power nuclear plants) and access to renewable-energy technology. Read the Article

Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation  Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 Subscribe | Unsubscribe Privacy Policy