Top 10 Epic Reasons Why Americans Should Give a Sh*t About Voting

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BuzzFlash Christ Gets Kidnapped by Prosperity Theology Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: In an age when 95 percent of the nation's economic gains since 2008 have gone to the top 1%, what could be more appropriate than a revisionist view of Christ as a promoter of greed? Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   The Act of Voting vs. the Controlling Interests of the US Empire Read the Article at BuzzFlash   How Police Brutality Changed Me: "He Crushed His Knee Into My Neck. I Could Hardly Breathe" Read the Article at Salon   50,000 Missing Georgia Voter-Registration Applications? Nothing to See Here Read the Article at The Daily Beast   Lindsey Graham: White Men Will "Do Great" Under My Presidency Read the Article at Talking Points Memo   These Maps of California's Water Shortage Are Terrifying Read the Article at Mother Jones   When Did Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo Go to Medical School? Read the Article at The Nation   Charles P. Pierce | The Democrats' Hillary Clinton Problem Read the Article at Esquire     That was incredible! We thought there was a very real chance that we wouldn't hit our fundraising goal, but with the final push last night we just made it! We want to thank everyone who stepped up to donate to Truthout - you are our constant inspiration and we couldn't do this without you. Top 10 Epic Reasons Why Americans Should Give a Sh*t About Voting Victoria Collier and Ben-Zion Ptashnik, Truthout: Voting - or not voting - in some way impacts almost every aspect of our lives, including whom we can love, our bodies, our food, our air and water. Voting is important in spite of our fundamentally corrupt political system. Read the Article  Tom Engelhardt: The National Security State Has Filled Us With Fear but Has Not Improved Our Well-Being Mark Karlin, Truthout: Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch discusses his new book, Shadow Government, about whether the surveillance state actually makes the United States more secure and how Washington exists in a post-legal world. Read the Interview  Smoke and Mirrors: Essential Questions About "Prison Reform" Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress: We're hearing that we've entered a new era of "bipartisan prison reform." Don't celebrate just yet, though. There is a "reform" agenda, to be sure, but what are the elements of that reform? Read the Article  'Tis the Season to Be Frightened Brian Moench, Truthout: Ebola, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, valley fever, Lyme disease, hantavirus: Republican ideology created some of these threats in the first place, or managed to make others worse. The climate crisis, which Republicans dismiss en masse, is a key ingredient in all of them. Read the Article  The 0.01 Percent's "I Reap All" Accounts Bob Lord, OtherWords: Multimillionaires and billionaires are shielding vast fortunes from taxation with monstrously huge IRAs. While the government sets limits on IRA contributions to curb this abuse, there are still more loopholes than restrictions. Read the Article  What Would Republicans Do With a Senate Majority? Robert Naiman, Truthout: Election fatigue can often foster election cynicism. Perhaps it would be useful for progressives to eavesdrop a bit on what Republicans are saying to other Republicans about what they should do with a majority in the Senate. Read the Article  Green World Rising: A Call to Save the Earth From Climate Change The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: The threat of climate change is very real, but we have the solutions, knowledge and ingenuity needed to save our planet; a new video talks about how we can put those solutions and that knowledge into action right now. Watch the Video  Arming the Warrior Cop: From Guns to Drones, Inside the Booming Business of Police Militarization Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!: Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer goes inside the corporations and government departments involved in enabling police departments to acquire anything from bayonets to semiautomatic rifles and drones. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  US Sends Planes Armed With Depleted Uranium to Middle East David Swanson, War Is A Crime: Depleted Uranium (DU) is classed as a Group 1 Carcinogen by the World Health Organization, and evidence of health damage produced by its use is extensive. Yet the US Air Force says it is not halting its use of DU weapons, it has recently sent them to the Middle East and it is prepared to use them. Read the Article  Voters Turned Away Because of Texas Photo ID Law Staff, Brennan Center for Justice: Actual voters tell of the difficulties they've encountered at the polls. Texas failed these voters twice - first, by requiring identification they did not have, and second, by not training election officials to help them navigate the rules. Read the Article  US Energy Policies Based on Inflated Fracking Predictions: Post Carbon Institute Report Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: A new report from the Post Carbon Institute shatters the government's estimate of the potential productivity of shale regions in the United States. Four out of seven of the top shale regions have peaked and are now in a decline. Read the Article  The Missing Women of Afghanistan: After 13 Years of War, the Rule of Men, Not Law, Prevails Ann Jones, TomDispatch: The disconnect between Washington's much-advertised support for women's rights and its actual disdain for women was not lost on canny Afghans. From early on, they recognized that the Americans were hypocrites at heart. Read the Article  Dean Baker | Defense Spending and Net Exports Spur Higher Than Expected Third-Quarter Growth Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research: GDP grew at a higher than expected: 3.5 percent annual rate in the third quarter. Although there was a 16 percent increase in defense spending, health spending continues its slower path. Read the Article

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Union Made Halloween Treats | Democratic Party of DuPage County

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Freedom Summer, 2015 - The New Yorker

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E-Votes Flip D to R in Texas, R to D in Illinois: More Trouble With Touch-Screens

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Henry A. Giroux | Higher Education and the New Brutalism

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BuzzFlash The Surveillance Security State Is a Cancer Spreading Through the Body of the United States Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: This cancer will continue to grow upon the US body politic until it is disinfected by sunlight. Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   BP Gulf Oil Spill Left Rhode Island-Sized Oily "Bathtub Ring" on Sea Floor, Study Finds Read the Article at The Associated Press   In Legalization Battles, Alcohol Defines the Politics of Marijuana Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Report Reveals Wider Government Tracking of Mail in US Read the Article at The New York Times   How Dark Money Is Taking Over Judicial Elections Read the Article at Mother Jones   The Blundering Rise and Epic Fall of the Christie-Cuomo Ebola Quarantine Read the Article at Talking Points Memo   Texas Election Judge Forced to Bar 93-Year-Old Veteran From Voting Read the Article at Crooks & Liars   A Catastrophe of Disenfranchisement Read the Article at The New Yorker     As a reader we know you value the work Truthout does - that's why we're asking you now for help. We have until the end of tomorrow to raise $26,000 more - funds that are crucially needed for our tight operating budget. Will you make a tax-deductible donation right now to ensure Truthout survives? 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 | Higher Education and the New Brutalism Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: The crisis of higher education is about much more than a lack of funding, an assault on dissent, the emergence of a deep-seated anti-intellectualism or its service to the financial elite; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics. Read the Article  William Rivers Pitt | This Nation of Cowards William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Kaci Hickox's quarantine is but one example of a nation that has entirely surrendered to its fears, both real and imagined, because those fears are a facile way for TV networks to get ratings, and for politicians to get coverage by stoking those fears. Read the Article  Victoria Law | What Do Private Prisons Have to Do With the Upcoming Election? Victoria Law, Truthout: As Election Day draws near, what are some of the ways that private prison corporations support their candidates? What do they receive in return? Why should voters care? Read the Article  Judith Butler: On Israel, Palestine and Unacceptable Dimensions of the Status Quo Dan Falcone, Truthout: Critical theorist and activist Judith Butler talks about Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, US education, anti-Semitism, radical democracy, activism, inequality, solidarity and more. Read the Interview  Does Crying Terrorism Trump Free Speech? Chip Gibbons, Truthout: The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal of Tarek Mehanna marks another step in the US government's long history of attempts to curtail the free speech rights of dissidents. Read the Article  What Has Greed Cost the United States? The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Virtually every societal problem in the US today can trace its roots back to the overwhelming levels of greed that have taken over our economy and society. While greed is destroying the US, other countries are saying, "Not so fast," and are putting people ahead of profits. Read the Article  Concerned About ISIS, but Also About Endless War? Back Limits on the Use of Force Robert Naiman, Truthout: Members of Congress can show that they back the public's desire for a Congressional debate by supporting a new resolution setting limits on use of force. You can urge your representative to back the resolution. Read the Article  Monsanto, Big Agriculture Spend Millions Fighting Ballot Measures to Label GMO Foods Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, Democracy Now!: Colorado and Oregon could soon become the first states in the nation to pass ballot initiatives mandating the labeling of food products containing genetically modified organisms. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  E-Votes Flip D to R in Texas, R to D in Illinois: More Trouble With Touch Screens Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog: "As early voting is now under way in much of the country, we are, predictably, beginning to receive our first reports from voters seeing their votes flipped before their eyes on touch-screen voting systems." Read the Article  Black Freedom Fighters in Ferguson: Some of Us Are Queer Darnell L. Moore, The Feminist Wire: "Not all of the freedom fighters are black men with masculine swag and pedigree. Not all of them are cisgender and straight and able-bodied. Some of us are women. Some of us are queer. Some of us are trans. Some of us are poor. Some of us are disabled." Read the Article  "You Got Into My Heart Violently, but You're There" Studs Terkel, TomDispatch: "I can see myself dying. I think the process would be messy, the actual dying, death. But I don't think I would be particularly bothered by the fact that death is inevitable. I'm not embracing death, but I'm not afraid of it." Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: NPR's Climate Coverage Has Declined Over the Years, and More In today's On the News segment: NPR is supposed to be our national public radio, but it's barely covering climate issues that are in the public's interest; the World Trade Organization says you don't need to know where your meat comes from; more than 24,000 Texans want climate denial removed from their children's textbooks; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  Paying for Cheap Chocolate Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: What if US consumers kept spending $20 billion a year on chocolate and bought a smaller quantity of higher quality? We might hand out smaller morsels too good to throw away. Here's the best reason for higher prices: child labor. Read the Article

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Scott Walker's Palinesque word salad meltdown on Medicaid

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On Climate Disruption, Washington Governor Inslee Vows "Disruptive Change"

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BuzzFlash How the Corporate Media Use the Word "Militant" to Crush Dissent Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Based on today's US government and media standards, rebels such as George Washington, Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson were militants, weren't they? Read the BuzzFlash Commentary   Grim Numbers From the 2014 Global Wealth Report Read the Article at BuzzFlash   Infant Deaths Near Oil Drilling Sites Raise Questions for Researchers Read the Article at The Denver Post   Ebola Deaths in the US Won't Even Come Close to the Number of Deaths Caused by Tobacco and Alcohol Read the Article at BuzzFlash   In Brazilian City, Homeless People Face Extermination Read the Article at Al Jazeera America   Fellow Nobel Peace Laureates to Obama: Stain of US Torture Is Your Job to Repair Read the Article at Common Dreams   Louisiana Is Grabbing Millions of Dollars in Oil Royalties From Lands It Failed to Protect Read the Article at The Weather Channel   In the Wake of Ferguson, What Will It Take to Reshape the United States' Police? Read the Article at The American Prospect     Truthout doesn't simply expose the problems faced by our species and our planet: We reveal paths to positive change. We know our readers want to make the world a better place, too - that's why we're counting on you. Will you help us raise the remaining $33,000 we urgently 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.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 Dahr Jamail | On Climate Disruption, Washington Governor Inslee Vows "Disruptive Change" Dahr Jamail, Truthout: In Washington State, the Chehalis River Valley is the site of some of the worst floods in the Pacific Northwest. Gov. Jay Inslee recently toured the region to meet with people affected by extreme weather events resulting from climate disruption, and emphasized policy solutions over political ideology. Read the Article  The Uncertainty of Access: Reproductive Health in the Rio Grande Valley Katie Klabusich, Truthout: As goes reproductive health-care access in Texas, so may go the nation. The tireless work of the activists in the Rio Grande Valley should be informing national organizing because it's effective and because the legal challenge to Texas law HB2 will likely land in front of the Supreme Court. Read the Article  Author Nora Barrows-Friedman Chronicles Rise of Student Movement for Justice in Palestine Charlotte Silver, Truthout: Nora Barrows-Friedman, author of In Our Power, discusses what makes the Students for Justice in Palestine movement sustainable, why it's growing in the face of an amply funded opposition, and how the BDS strategy is a game changer. Read the Interview  Dean Baker | The Ebola Vaccine, Traffic Congestion and Global Warming Dean Baker, Truthout: While the spread of Ebola and needless traffic congestion are both areas where many have paid a price from their determination not to help others, the greatest cost comes in the context of global warming. There is a real cost of having determined selfishness as a fundamental political principle. Read the Article  In Midterm Elections Farce, Public Ignored by Both Parties Michael Meurer, Truthout: With both parties representing big money rather than competing economic visions, voters are opting out, and the 2014 midterm elections have devolved into an empty and expensive spectacle in which trivia such as White House chicken-wing recipes take center stage. Read the Article  Bill Moyers | The Fight - and the Right - to Vote Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: The Lone Star state's voter ID law is part of a nationwide effort to suppress the vote as demographic changes are altering the electoral landscape. Close to half the states in the United States have passed laws restricting the right to vote. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  Not Feeling Up for That Hanky Panky? There's a Pill for That Mara Kardas-Nelson, Truthout: The pharmaceutical industry is pressuring the FDA to approve a pill for "Female Sexual Disorder" that isn't significantly better at increasing the frequency of "satisfying sexual events" than a placebo and comes with some significant side effects for many women. Read the Article  This City Came Up With a Simple Solution to Homelessness: Housing Kara Dansky, The Nation: Salt Lake City was spending $20,000 per homeless resident per year. Homelessness was not going down. Instead, for for $7,800 a year, through a new program called Housing First, the city found it could provide a person with an apartment and case management services. The initiative has reduced chronic homelessness by 72 percent. Read the Article  When It Comes to Torture, Silence Is Bipartisan Victoria Bassetti, Brennan Center for Justice: Torture politics makes for strange bedfellows. For those of you who think the Obama administration doesn't know how to work with Republicans, think again. North Carolina's Republican Senator, Richard Burr, may soon be one of the administration's best friends. Read the Article  Still on the Thank-You Tour-of-Duty Circuit 13 Years Later Rory Fanning, TomDispatch: Many veterans enlisted in the military thinking that they were indeed serving a noble cause, and it's no lie to say that they fought with valor for their brothers and sisters to their left and right. Unfortunately, good intentions at this stage are no substitute for good politics. Read the Article  Amy Goodman | Former Weapons Inspector in Iraq Questions Claims That Iran Hiding Nuclear Tests Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Six world powers leading nuclear negotiations with Iran have set a November deadline to reach a deal to constrain Iran's nuclear program in exchange for easing Western sanctions. Earlier this month, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency found Iran is meeting its commitments under a temporary deal. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript  On the News With Thom Hartmann: In the US, Wealth Accumulation Outpacing Income, and More In today's On the News segment: The US has added more than $31 trillion of household wealth since the crash of 2008, but that's not necessarily something to celebrate; many retailers have opened earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving Day to draw in customers for Black Friday sales; the Social Security Administration announced the cost-of-living adjustment for 2015 benefits; and more. 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Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate | Network World

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Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy | Network World

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s fast food math prompts lawsuit from labor group

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More Cities Are Making It Illegal To Hand Out Food To The Homeless : The Salt : NPR

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* I'm sorry, but this kind of policy is just sick. I'd rather give the homeless food than money to begin with. Better yet, give them homes. It's not like there's any shortage of vacant houses in forclosure. Hell, even the US House might as well be vacant for all they've not accomplished in six years. Undo what Reagan did and give these people a safe place to be. - Dan

Want the Truth About New York's Human Trafficking Courts? Ask a Sex Worker

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BuzzFlash The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return soon.   Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required Read the Article at The New York Times   UK Troops and US Marines Officially End Military Operations in Afghanistan Read the Article at Reuters   More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless Read the Article at NPR   Indigenous Communities Take Chevron to Global Court for Crimes Against Humanity Read the Article at Common Dreams   New Device Tracks When Cop Pulls Trigger Read the Article at RT News   One-Third of Top Websites Restrict Customers' Right to Sue Read the Article at The New York Times   Desert Hawks: Paramilitary Veterans Group Stakes Out US-Mexico Borderlands Read the Article at Al Jazeera America     Whether it's climate change, economic inequality or police brutality, only truly independent media tackles the crucial issues of the day honestly. That's what Truthout does, but we need your help to continue. Show you believe in independent journalism - make a tax-deductible donation now towards the $37,000 we still need to raise! 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.) Want the Truth About New York's Human Trafficking Courts? Ask a Sex Worker Mike Ludwig, Truthout: A New York State prostitution court model of treating defendants as "trafficking victims" needing social services is gaining popularity. However, sex workers claim the human trafficking narrative is based on an unreliably narrow view of the sex trade, which should be decriminalized altogether. Read the Article  Brutal Crimes Don't Justify Bad Laws Jean Trounstine, Truthout: A true tragedy, driven by a media frenzy, often provokes a misguided need to do something as quickly as possible and leads to bad public policy - like California's Three Strikes sentencing law. Read the Article  Greek Politics in the Age of the Euro Crisis and the Urgent Task for Left Unity C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: As a politically, economically and socially underdeveloped Balkan country in which corruption, cronyism and clientelism largely constitute the driving forces of "development," "social mobility" and "social progress," Greece's only hope of revival from its moral and social morass is a unified left. Read the Article  Super PACs Exploit Disclosure Loophole Dave Levinthal, The Center for Public Integrity: Thanks to a contentious quirk in federal law, at least six new super PACs may hide their funders from public scrutiny until early December, no matter how much money they raise or spend from now until Election Day. Read the Article  The Stealth Campaign to Buy US Courts Zoë Carpenter, The Nation: With ideological groups increasingly eager to buy seats on state-level benches, judges are forced to act more like politicians, turning to lawyers and other parties who may later appear before them in court to raise campaign cash. Read the Article  Truthout Interviews William Rivers Pitt on Chemical Weapons in Iraq Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: William Rivers Pitt discusses a recent New York Times piece on chemical weapons found in Iraq between 2004 and 2011 - and Bush administration efforts to silence news of their discovery. Watch the Interview  The Second American Revolution Is Brewing in Oregon Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout: In Oregon, the capture of local government by the timber industry results in the destruction of the natural world and the poisoning of the populace, but a Josephine County ballot initiative would ban tree spraying by corporations and government entities. Read the Article  Victims of Domestic Violence Getting Longer Prison Sentences Than Their Children's Abusers? Alyssa Figueroa, AlterNet: At least 29 states have failure-to-protect laws, such as injury to a child "by omission," by "permitting child abuse" or "enabling child abuse." Maximum prison sentences for breaking these laws vary from one year to life, and in some states, they carry the same sentence as child abuse itself. Read the Article  Japanese Wartime Medical Orderly on Army's Role in Maintaining "Comfort Women" System David McNeill, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Matsumoto Masayoshi, a former medical orderly with the Japanese army, has spoken out this year. In this disturbing interview, he says during World War II, Korean women were used like public toilets, with soldiers lining up to rape them. Read the Article and Watch the Interview  Sticking Texas-Sized Hurdles on the Path to Polls Marc Morial, OtherWords: Voter suppression and disenfranchisement far outweigh any trumped up and spurious claims of Election Day confusion. Don't let anything keep you from the polls on November - even if you're a Texas voter. Read the Article  This week in Speakout: On the 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, David Krause memorializes its impact on homelessness; Josephine Simmons describes corruption in Greek soccer; the Drug Policy Alliance reports that marijuana arrests in Bill de Blasio's New York have not only increased, but also continue disproportionately to target people of color; Ann Wright lauds the young people who have spearheaded ongoing protests over police violence and racial discrimination in Ferguson; David Swanson comes out in defense of the free speech of prisoners; Dr. Hakim discusses the heartbreaking story of Imal, an Afghan child whose father was killed by a US drone; high school senior Giovani Serrano considers the causes and impacts of poverty; Reprieve reports GCHQ has demanded the British government stay in compliance with international law on its drone program; Dean Baker criticizes The Washington Post's efforts at downplaying crack rolled into Los Angeles streets by the CIA; John Boik and Lorenzo Fioramonti propose a framework to end poverty and maximize well-being; and more. 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