Henry A. Giroux | ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism

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BuzzFlash Another Study Proves That Only the Richest Are Gaining Income From Economic Growth Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: This country's distribution of earnings and wealth has regressed at an accelerating pace, devolving into a feudal system. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   Time to Drive a Stake Through the Heart of US Exceptionalism Read the Article at BuzzFlash   The Supreme Court That Made It Easier to Buy Elections Just Made It Harder for People to Vote in Them Read the Article at The Nation   The Power to Solve Climate Change Read the Article at BuzzFlash   John Cleese Weighs In on Fox News Watch the Video at YouTube   Poll: 70 Percent of Troops Say No More Boots on the Ground in Iraq Read the Article at the Army Times   The South's Victim Complex: How Right-Wing Paranoia Is Driving New Wave of Radicals Read the Article at Salon   George Zimmerman's Big Pity Party Read the Article at Crooks & Liars     This is urgent: If you believe in Truthout's work, please take a moment to show your support. We absolutely must raise $16,000 more by the end of the day. We can only do this with your help - please make 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 Henry A. Giroux | ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: The spectacle of neoliberal terrorism, violence and misery has become one of the major organizing principles of everyday life. Therefore, we must examine the significance of a range of old and new media apparatuses as powerful political and pedagogical forces that shape this spectacle. Read the Article  "Government, Not Gangsters, Should Control the Drug Market": But Will That Stop Mass Incarceration? Victoria Law, Truthout: Will the Global Commission on Drug Policy's recommendations for decriminalization - along with government regulation of the drug market - suffice to stem the tide of the mass incarceration of people of color? Read the Article  Did We Really Create ISIS? Zach McKoon, Truthout: It has been alleged in many circles that Western powers and their allies created ISIS, which a US-led coalition is now battling in Syria. How accurate is this claim? Read the Article  Dean Baker | Eric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars Dean Baker, Truthout: There are positives to Eric Holder's tenure as attorney general, but one really big minus is his decision not to prosecute any of the Wall Street crew whose actions helped to prop up the housing bubble. As a result of this failure, the main culprits walked away incredibly wealthy. Read the Article  How Carbon Is Changing the Price of Everything: An Interview With the Author of Carbon Shock Shay Totten, Truthout: Author Mark Schapiro explains how climate change is affecting the cost of everything - and the wrong people are paying the price. His book takes readers on a journey to the front lines of a changing world, where the same chaotic forces reshaping our weather patterns are also transforming the global economy. Read the Interview  Why the Web of Life Is Dying The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: As more and more species continue to die off, our planet is losing its interconnectedness and balance, and the web of life is becoming unraveled. Fortunately, there's still time for us to prevent a complete disaster. Read the Article  Winged Warnings: Built for Survival, Birds in Trouble From Pole to Pole Alanna Mitchell, Environmental Health News: Sole descendants of the dinosaurs, birds have penetrated nearly every ecosystem on earth and then tailored their own size, habits and colors to each one, pollinating, dispersing seeds, controlling bugs, cleaning up carrion and fertilizing plants. But they are in trouble. Read the Article  Story of a War Foretold: Why We're Fighting ISIS Nafeez Ahmed, Ceasefire Magazine: The rise of ISIS was both predicted and evitable, and the West's current military campaign is already being used to neuter mass surveillance reforms at home and will likely produce further political destabilization in the region. Read the Article  The Obvious Relationship Between Climate and Family Planning - and Why We Don't Talk About It Valerie Tarico, Grist: Analysis of population trajectories and effects seems like an obvious and necessary part of the climate dialogue. But in recent decades, public talk about population has been taboo, even among people who are keenly aware of the issues. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: Activists Take Over Wall Street After Climate March, and More In today's On the News segment: Activists take over Wall Street after the massive march for action on climate change; the Obama administration is standing up to corporate tax dodgers; Google finally drops ALEC; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  Marjorie Cohn | "I'm Just a Kid": Tariq's Ordeal Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn's Blog: Tariq Khdeir, a 15-year-old US citizen from Baltimore, came back alive from Jerusalem after being beaten and arrested by Israeli police - but only because his assault was caught on tape and because he was a US citizen. Read the Article  Conflict Keeps Mothers From Health Care Services Stella Paul, Inter Press Service: Increasing levels of violence across India due to ethnic tensions and armed insurgencies are taking their toll on women and cutting off access to crucial reproductive health services. This could have huge repercussions in India, home to more than 31 million women in the reproductive age group. Read the Article

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Understanding Our Many Fergusons: The "Right" to Kill

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BuzzFlash Elizabeth Warren Urges Senate to Investigate Federal Reserve About Lax Enforcement Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Few have been held sufficiently accountable" is a criticism that Warren often makes about the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice in regards to the financial industry. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   How We Win on Climate Change Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Why the Showdown With Islamic Extremists Is the War the Pentagon Was Hoping for Read the Article at AlterNet   Paul Krugman | Our Invisible Rich Read the Article at The New York Times   Is 2014 the "Tipping Point" for the GMO Labeling Movement? Read the Article at Mother Jones   US Bankruptcy Judge Allows Detroit Water Shutoffs to Continue Read the Article at Reuters   Eight Migrants Die Every Day Trying to Reach Richer Countries, Study Reveals Read the Article at The Guardian   DOJ Tells Ferguson Cops to Stop Wearing "I Am Darren Wilson" Bracelets Read the Article at Talking Points Memo     Truthout works 365 days a year to provide the groundbreaking reporting and crucial analysis on which we know you rely. If we are to survive, we need your help to raise the remaining $24,000 needed in our fundraiser. Even a few dollars will make a difference - make a tax-deductible donation now if you can! 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 Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines - the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill Noel A. Cazenave, Truthout: There is a race war raging in the United States right now that pits the right of African-American youth to live with dignity against the right of angry white policemen and vigilantes with guns to kill them. Read the Article  Corporations Are Not Going to Save Us From Climate Disruption Rachel Smolker, Truthout: The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, SEFA and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are among the many partnerships between industry, governments, the UN and the private sector that appear designed primarily to prevent serious challenges to the current business model. Read the Article  Terrorism Serves the State Brian Martin, Truthout: Continual attention to non-state terrorism helps justify state power. There are several little-discussed options to address non-state terrorism, including promoting nonviolent methods and giving less media attention to terrorism. Read the Article  Noncandidate Spending Increases in State Elections Rachel Baye, Reity O'Brien, Kytja Weir and Ben Wieder, Center for Public Integrity: More than 90 noncandidate organizations have spent $55 million to shape state-level races in 30 states, accounting for roughly 19 percent of state-level political ad dollars spent. Read the Article  Lyme Disease Surges North, and Canada Moves Out of Denial Marianne Lavelle, The Daily Climate: Scientists long expected climate change to harm human health, but one of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world's most advanced economies. Canada is belatedly struggling to cope with Lyme disease's migration into North America." Read the Article  We Need to Listen to the Founders and Stop the Forever War The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: War without end poses a very real threat to our democracy. And if Congress is serious about protecting our way of life, they'll pass a new, limited authorization for use of force before we go the way of ancient Rome. Read the Article  Venture Capitalists Are Poised to "Disrupt" Everything About the Education Market Lee Fang, The Nation: Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education. What does this mean for public school students? Read the Article  Ferguson Fridays: White Antiracism, Social Media and the Problem of Self-Serving Allying Heather Laine Talley, The Feminist Wire: Some have pointed out that the ways antiracist whites often post on social media appropriate black experience and sidestep a real analysis of the structural underpinnings of racism. But that's not the only problem. Read the Article  The Next Attorney General Should Enforce the Rule of Law, Protect Constitutional Rights and Investigate Abuse of Power Kevin Zeese, Green Shadow Cabinet: President Obama should replace Holder with a lawyer who works in the public interest, not a corporate lawyer - someone who will put the rule of law before corporate power. This appointment is an opportunity to shut the revolving door between big business and government. Read the Article  Medicare, Dr. Mengele and You Karen Garcia, Sardonicky: The multimillionaire architect of Obamacare, Ezekiel Emanuel, seems to hate old people, believing that they are eyesores and albatrosses around the necks of "high society." This is a Democrat, mind you, a highly influential member of Obama's inner circle of health policy advisers. Read the Article  The Wilderness Act Turns 50: Celebrating the Great Laws of 1964 William deBuys, TomDispatch: The Wilderness Act legislated compassion toward the planet by insisting that we humans must leave certain lands alone and not take anything more from them. This third great law passed in 1964 made a down payment on giving Earth its due. Read the Article

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William Rivers Pitt | War Eternal: One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills

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BuzzFlash Surfers Win a Round for Public Access to Ocean Beaches Against Billionaire Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: No one owns the Pacific Ocean, but some of the wealthiest people in the United States think that they do. California surfers, however, are successfully challenging that sense of entitlement. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   Rush Limbaugh Must Be in Real Trouble Read the Article at Crooks & Liars   $26 Billion in US Aid Later, the Iraqi Military Is a Total Disaster Read the Article at Mother Jones   Number of Mass Shootings in US Has Risen Sharply, FBI Report Says Read the Article at The Guardian   No Room for Ebola Victims, Except in the Grave Read the Article at The New York Times   South Carolina Trooper Charged in Shooting of Unarmed Black Man Read the Article at CBS News   The Time Has Come for Agroecology Read the Article at IPS News   Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Schools in Suburban Denver Read the Article at The Denver Post     Truthout doesn't just expose problems and injustice: We also reveal emerging examples of positive change. Will you help us continue to report on the possibilities for a better future? Any tax-deductible donation you can spare will go directly toward this vital work! 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 | War Eternal: One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The Obama administration tries to justify the US campaign against ISIS by saying both Syria and Iraq are too weak to defend themselves. Nowhere in these excuses is any accountability for the United States' contribution to the destabilization of the region. Read the Article  Hands Up! Don't Shoot! Death and Visibility in Black America Nicholas Powers, Truthout: Black "innocence" always has to be proven and depends on attaining a "respectability" defined by white mores and the white gaze. Why is African-American suffering so invisible, so unvalued that it takes a city in flames to see it? Read the Article  Living Death: The Real Costs of Fracking Ellen Cantarow, Truthout: The Real Cost of Fracking, by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, paves the way for the high-volume hydraulic fracturing industry to be put on trial for its role in endangering the health of American families, animals, food and water systems. Read the Review  The Nasty, Scary World of Emerging Tick-Borne Disease Marianne Lavelle, The Daily Climate: Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases ticks transmit, public health officials are finding. Read the Article  What Happened After Cairo? Assessing 20 Years of Work on "Population and Development" Kanya D'Almeida, Truthout: Twenty years after the first International Conference on Population and Development, a billion people have moved out of extreme poverty; literacy rates in some of the world's least developed countries are on the rise; life expectancy is up; and yet, there remains far more to do. Read the Article  Syrians in the Golan Heights Stuck Between Sectarian War and Unjust Occupation Creede Newton, Truthout: Syrians in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hear the constant shelling of the civil war that divides their community while living through the decades-old occupation, which dominates daily life. Read the Article and Watch the Video  Stupid Stuff L. Michael Hager, Truthout: The president's reported quote, "Don't do stupid stuff," is good advice. However, our policy makers too often ignore it. The Middle East wars, Guantánamo and the unconditional support of Israel are ongoing examples of stupid stuff. Read the Article  It's Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback The Daily Take Team, Truthout: Americans can't put roofs over their heads, put their kids through college, pay for life-saving health care or save up for retirement. It's time to repudiate Reaganomics so the American middle class can make a comeback. Read the Article  The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining - and the World Bank - Out of El Salvador Diana Anahi Torres-Valverde, Foreign Policy in Focus: Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold-mining firm for its shakedown of one of Central America's poorest countries. Read the Article  Bill Moyers | Climate Change: The Next Generation Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Kelsey Juliana, an 18-year-old activist, is fighting climate change in the courts and walking across the country to spread the word on global warming. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  American "Success" and the Rise of West African Piracy Nick Turse, TomDispatch: Nearly everywhere in Africa, the US military is in action. It's not just boots on the continent and drones over it these days. For the US military, it's also ships off the coast. Read the Article  The GOP Continues Its Condescending Outreach to Female Voters Robin Marty, Care2: The Republicans' latest effort to reach out to female voters isn't going so well. In an attempt to prove that it is pro-women, the GOP is talking to women the only way it knows how - by belittling them. Read the Article  Economic Update: How Capitalism Works Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This episode covers why efforts against obesity fail; Cadillac's move into New York; the Atlanta Symphony lockout; subprime auto credit and bank economics. We also discuss the economics of climate change and respond to listeners' questions on Jamestown's importance in US history; current minimum wage struggles; and the economics of insurance. Listen to the Radio Program

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Policing for Wealth

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BuzzFlash The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return soon.   The Economic Case for Paternity Leave Read the Article at The Atlantic   Bay Area Activists Again Prevent Unloading of Israeli Ship Read the Article at Electronic Intifada   Police Officer Shot in Ferguson as Protests Continue Read the Article at Crooks and Liars   Hong Kong Police Use Teargas and Pepper Spray to Disperse Protesters Read the Article at The Guardian   Dozens of Hikers Apparently Dead Near Peak of Erupted Volcano in Japan Read the Article at The New York Times   Why Obama's Assurance of "No Boots on the Ground" Isn't So Reassuring Read the Article at The Washington Post   US-Led Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Near Syria-Turkey Border Read the Article at the Los Angeles Times     To continue inspiring action and making a difference, Truthout must keep reaching more people - and we can only do that with your help. These are serious times and the need for your support is more critical than ever. Please, help us raise the remaining $33,000 we need by making a tax-deductible donation today! 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.) Policing for Wealth Aaron Cantú, Truthout: When proponents claim that the broken windows policing strategy reduces crime, they overlook that it has marshaled state power for a very unfair model of urban development in every city it has been applied. Read the Article  The Book of Trans-Genesis: Protecting the World's Seeds Roberto Rodriguez, Truthout: At the recent international "Justice Begins With Seeds" Biosafety Alliance conference in Portland, Oregon, people with biological and scientific backgrounds, educators, attorneys, human rights activists and organic farmers contrasted the apocalyptic consequences of genetically modified crop cultivation and people's preference for non-GMO food. Read the Article  We Must Demand the Impossible to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change Naomi Klein, Truthout: Klein's new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, resets the debate over global warming by focusing on how it is integrally related to the current economic system that spans the globe. Read the Excerpt  For Oil and Gas Companies, Rigging Seems to Involve Wages, Too Naveena Sadasivam, ProPublica: US Department of Labor investigations have uncovered hundreds of cases in which oil and gas workers, many involved in dangerous jobs, are being cheated of earnings. Read the Article  Truthout Interviews Featuring Paul Armentano on Marijuana, Alcohol, and the Law Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Ted Asregadoo talks to Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Paul Armentano about the health impacts of marijuana (cannabis) and alcohol and the way alcohol is exempt from Drug Enforcement Administration regulations while cannabis is classified under the strictest enforcement category. Watch the Video  Fact-Checking Feinstein on the Assault Weapons Ban Lois Beckett, ProPublica: The senator says "the evidence is clear: the ban worked." Except there's no evidence it saved lives - and the researcher behind the key statistic Feinstein cites says it's an outdated figure that was based on a false assumption. Read the Article  Pledges Can Work, But It Will Take International Law to Fight Climate Change Luke Kemp, The Conversation: The choice the world now faces is whether to accept a useful, yet likely insufficient, pledge-based approach, or find a way of having a climate treaty without US ratification. Read the Article  Uruguay's Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War Benjamin Dangl, teleSUR: In December of last year, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana. Read the Article  Some Arguments Deserve to Be Uncivil Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Civility is a gesture of respect, and the loudest demands for civility come from those who have done nothing to earn it. Uncivil remarks by people like, well, me, you'll find are similarly aimed at people arguing in bad faith. Read the Article  This week in Speakout: Victoria Young discusses the failures of education "reforms" in the third installment of her series "Thirty Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms"; William C. Baker reveals what life is like in Chesapeake Bay, the "front line" of climate change; Darius Shahtahmasebi points out the continuity between the foreign policies of Presidents George W. Bush and Obama; Roberto (Dr. Cintli) Rodriguez reflects on his book, Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother, which was banned by Arizona schools as part of the state's racist push to eliminate Raza Studies programs; Sarah Blum criticizes the NFL's history of silently allowing and covering up domestic violence by its team members; Lawrence Davidson describes how educational elites have yet to catch up with Israel's loss of popular support globally; Bill Henderson declares that since politicians refuse to lead on climate change, activists must step up to the plate; Shepherd Bliss reports back from the Village Building Convergence in Sebastopol, Northern California; and more. Read the Articles

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