ED’S Sunday Morning News And Views Clippings
That Won’t Be In Your Sunday Paper!
(Ratting Out The “Main Stream “Media)
Since the start of
our tragic war in Iraq, the organization that has done the most extensive,
and most respected, counting of the bodies is aptly named Iraq Body Count.
I’ve relied on
their work in my many, many articles and book about
the war, its victims, and the media, for over a decade now. (Current death
count: nearly 4,500 US troops and at least 125,000 Iraqi civilians).
Now they’ve posted
an important piece by Josh Dougherty on the verdict in the Bradley Manning case
at their site that (1) compares how US soldiers who committed war crimes in
Iraq have gotten off easy and (2) thanks Manning for releasing material that
documented thousands of civilian casualties there that we wouldn’t know about
otherwise.
On October 22, 2010, the group WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs,
a series of nearly 400,000 classified military records, also known as
"SIGACTs". These documents have remained publicly available on the
internet in various forms since the original release, and IBC has been
working since then to carefully integrate them into our database. As of
today, more than 4,000 civilian deaths have been added to the IBC database
derived exclusively from these records, and roughly 10,000 more are likely to
be added as the work continues.1 …
In others words:
those who killed civilians got off, the man who exposed the shocking numbers,
and much else revelatory about the wars (and our allies) in Iraq and
Afghanistan gets severely punished.
Two excerpts, but
read it all:
For example, the US
Marines involved in one of the most notorious massacres of civilians in Iraq
by US forces, in Haditha in November 2005, faced virtually no legal
consequences. One Marine was convicted of a minor offense for which he served
no jail time, and the rest have all been acquitted or had all charges dropped
and will live the rest of their lives in freedom. The helicopter pilots who
gunned down at least ten civilians, including two Reuters journalists and a
father of two children who stopped to try to help the wounded, as documented
in the “Collateral Murder” video exposed by Bradley Manning, face no punishment
of any kind…
IBC has produced a list of thousands of incidents in the Iraq
war between 2004-09, killing several thousand Iraqi civilians that have now
been sourced exclusively from the documents released by Bradley Manning, and
who would otherwise have remained hidden to the world at large. These and
thousands of others like them are known to the world today only because
Bradley Manning could no longer in good conscience collude with an official
policy of the Bush and Obama administrations to abuse secrecy and “national
security” to erase them from history. If Manning deserves any punishment at
all for this, certainly his three years already served, and the disgraceful
abuse he was made to suffer during it, is more than enough.
His Conviction On Espionage Act Charges Poses Grave Dangers For American
Journalism.
Manning had already pleaded guilty to ten
of the lesser charges against him—for instance, unauthorized possession and
improper storage of classified material, which together carry a maximum
twenty-year term. But this was not enough for the prosecution: it pressed on
with a dozen more serious offenses, including the potential capital crime of
aiding the enemy as well as charges stemming from the Espionage Act of 1917,
which Richard Nixon retooled as a weapon against domestic leakers in his
vendetta against Daniel Ellsberg. (Such a use of the statute has never been
decided on the legal merits until this case.) Judge Denise Lind announced a
verdict that splits the difference, acquitting the soldier of aiding the
enemy but convicting him on the Espionage Act charges. Private Manning could
still face a prison term of more than 130 years (the sentence will be
determined in a separate proceeding). The consequences for American
journalism are grave, as the government now has even greater incentive to
prosecute as a spy any confidential source who passes classified information
to the press, criminalizing what has long been a vital (and tacitly accepted)
conduit of essential public information. Such collateral damage to the Fourth
Estate will not be mourned by a government that has become aggressively
intolerant of leaks, whistleblowers and, it often seems, a well-informed
citizenry.
Fort Meade is the
too-perfect setting for Manning’s court-martial: an Army base, it is also
home to the National Security Agency, now famous for its powers of digital
intrusion after the spectacular revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA is the largest bureaucracy in the bloated US security complex, a
farrago of draconian harshness coupled with casual indiscipline, dodgy
legality with solemn appeals to the rule of law, and state-of-the-art IT with
chronic power outages and a shambolic incapacity to run a search of its own
employees’ e-mails.
Private Manning was
an Army intelligence analyst deployed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Hammer
in Iraq when, in 2010, he amassed 90,000 field logs from the Afghan War and
392,000 from Iraq, files on the Guantánamo prisoners and 250,000 State
Department diplomatic cables—a huge trove, but still less than 1 percent of
what Washington classified in 2010. Manning passed them all to WikiLeaks, which
published most of them through well-established newspapers and
magazines.
Many of the leaks
are not flattering to Washington’s amour-propre. The most famous
is the “Collateral Murder” video: the gunsight view from an Apache helicopter
opening fire on a couple of armed men and several civilians in Baghdad in
July 2007. But the logs from both wars include reports of night raids gone
wrong, Afghan outposts laboriously built and then abandoned, civilian
casualty estimates whose existence had been officially denied, and
documentation of torture by Iraqi authorities under the noses of occupying US
soldiers. The diplomatic cables show Washington lobbying to keep the minimum
wage down in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; to impose
US-style patent law regimes abroad for the benefit of Big Pharma; and to
suppress criminal investigations in Germany into the CIA kidnapping of a
terrorist suspect that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
One might guess
that Manning’s exfiltration of so many documents required amazing feats of
subterfuge, but it needed no deception beyond scrawling “Lady Gaga” on a
CD-ROM, with the files later sent to a WikiLeaks site from a Barnes &
Noble in suburban Maryland while the private was on leave. There was no security
to speak of at the SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) at FOB
Hammer, where the “infosec” (information security) protocols were casually
flouted with the full knowledge of supervisors. This was not an anomaly: 1.4
million Americans have top-secret security clearances—480,000 of them private
contractors. Security clearance vetting is cursory, like so much else about
the sloshy and erratic US infosec: intact military hard drives can turn up
for sale in the bazaars of Kabul, and top-secret documents have been accessed
by all sorts of people through the file-sharing technology installed on
government laptops by the children and grandchildren of national security
officials, as Dana Priest and William Arkin documented in Top Secret
America, their book on our ballooning security state.
IBC has produced a list of thousands of incidents in the Iraq
war between 2004-09, killing several thousand Iraqi civilians that have now
been sourced exclusively from the documents released by Bradley Manning, and
who would otherwise have remained hidden to the world at large:
This is
not yet even a complete record, as many thousands more are likely to be added
as the work of integrating the documents continues. Just a few examples
include:
·
Ala' Sabr Hamad Hulu Al Batuti, a
refinery employee shot dead in Basra in November 2009.
·
Sheik Ali Hadi Khoder and his son and cousin, killed in Tal Afar in August 2005
These and thousands of others like them are known to the world
today only because Bradley Manning could no longer in good conscience collude
with an official policy of the Bush and Obama administrations to abuse
secrecy and "national security" to erase them from history. If
Manning deserves any punishment at all for this, certainly his three years
already served, and the disgraceful abuse he was made to suffer during it, is
more than enough.
Apparently getting “hot under the
collar” is not just a figure of speech. According to a new study published in
the journal Science, a team of U.S.
scientists “found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall
correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group
conflicts and war.” The BBC reports: The
researchers looked at 60 studies from around the world, with data spanning
hundreds of years.
They
report a “substantial” correlation between climate and conflict.
Their
examples include an increase in domestic violence in India during recent
droughts, and a spike in assaults, rapes and murders during heat waves in the
US.The
report also suggests rising temperatures correlated with larger conflicts,
including ethnic clashes in Europe and civil wars in Africa. . .
The
scientists say that with the current projected levels of climate change the
world is likely to become a more violent place. They
estimate that a 2C (3.6F) rise in global temperature could see personal
crimes increase by about 15%, and group conflicts rise by more than 50% in
some regions. Besides the obvious problem of
correlation versus causation, there is also the crucial but much-neglected difference
between “climate change” and “weather.” Not to mention that blaming the
Bosnian genocide or the Algerian civil war on global warming is a hard sell,
to say the least. But, hey. Now you have a retort
the next time someone tells you to chill out.
Mcclatchy News Agency Asks Clapper Whether US Spy Agencies Monitored Reporter’s Phone Calls
“Absent a well-founded, good faith
belief that a journalist is engaged in terrorist activities, compiling and
analyzing a journalist’s metadata would violate core First Amendment
principles, and U.S. law,” Gyllenhaal and Morgan-Prager wrote.
They asked Clapper whether any
U.S. intelligence agencies helped in the “collection, use or analysis” of any
metadata from McClatchy freelancer Jon Stephenson’s cellphone while he worked
in Afghanistan last year.
Metadata includes logs and timing
of phone calls and lists of Internet communications, but does not include the
actual contents of communications.
“We regard any targeted collection
of the metadata of our journalists as a serious interference with McClatchy’s
constitutional rights to gather and report the news,” the two McClatchy
officials wrote.
Clapper’s Office Had No Immediate Comment Late
Tuesday.
Stephenson has claimed his
reporting was monitored by the U.S. intelligence programs revealed by National
Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on behalf of New Zealand’s military.
On Sunday, the Star-Times
newspaper of New Zealand reported that the New Zealand military conspired
with U.S. spy agencies to monitor Stephenson’s communications with sources in
Afghanistan. New Zealand officials have denied the allegations.
Stephenson’s claim was the latest
revelation in the ongoing debate over government snooping since Snowden in
June revealed two top secret U.S. programs that monitor millions of
Americans’ telephone and Internet communications each day.
U.S. intelligence officials have
denied Stephenson’s claim, but wouldn’t elaborate on what did happen. Other
intelligence officials and experts suggested Stephenson’s phone calls to
Afghan sources might have been caught up in standard military intelligence
monitoring of enemy combatant’s communications. The
Logs:
This wouldn't be the first time the U.S. has been accused of
deliberately targeting first responders after one of its drone attacks. It's
called a "double-tap" strike. In other words, murder on top of
murder. Can you imagine what the reaction would be if No. 1, another country
were bombing us with drone strikes, and No. 2, it was then bombing the first
responders to those attacks?? I don't think "possible" war crime
adequately conveys it. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found that the
U.S. has indeed done this in Pakistan (if not other places as
well).
What -- this isn't on the front page of every newspaper in the
country? Perish the thought. Neither is this story of yet another child
killed by a drone strike. There's your Mr. Hope & Change in
action.
Laura Flanders, Truthout: Laura Flanders
interviews Noam Chomsky about Bradley Manning; the secretive TransPacific
Partnership agreement; the wisdom of indigenous people; "tiny
robots;" Obama's "terrorism operation," maybe biggest in
history; and more. Read
the Article
Wisconsin's Student Bill of Rights is a 43-point program written
by high schoolers. Similar to the National Student Bill of Rights, it calls for student
input in school decision-making; support for technology, arts, music and
bilingual education; freedom from discrimination; culturally relevant
learning; restorative justice in school discipline; and college counseling -
and access - for all. Points 6 and 7 bring a Wisconsinite twist:
"Students have a right to a school environment where all teachers and
staff have the right to collectively bargain" as well as "a
desegregated public education system that is not undermined by
privatization."
Youth Empowered in the Struggle
"I've gotten a lot of comments saying it was the
teachers making the students write it," says Karla De Jesús,17,
from Milwaukee. "There's a lot of discrimination. It's so hard to
believe that students are doing something."
As students in Racine tried to get the bill encoded in district policy last year, the school board resisted. "They didn't approve of it, because we were too political," says Berenice Beltrán, 17, a Racine student "They said we were brainwashed." Wisconsin's collective memory suggests otherwise. As the governor maneuvered to squash organized labor, the conversation percolated from news outlets to dinner gatherings to math and social studies lessons. "If you were in Milwaukee when Scott Walker was going into office," says Kika Meráz, 19, a Milwaukee native who now attends Marquette University, "everyone knew what collective bargaining is, what privatization is."
As most public sector unions lost between one- and two-thirds of
their members, the group spearheading the bill, Youth Empowered in the
Struggle (YES), exploded. Between 2011 and 2012, YES grew from 200 to 600
dues-paying members, with 15 chapters spread across high schools and
universities in Milwaukee and Racine. Last April, students pushed the
Milwaukee school board to approve the Student Bill of Rights in principle.
Teachers, who now have to recertify their union every year and can no
longer automatically collect dues, have turned to student organizers as
allies in local and state-level struggles. Though Michael Moore and Tom
Morello have left the capitol, and Scott Walker hasn't been dethroned,
the uprising continues - this time, in the hands of those with few rights to
begin with.
Whose occupation?
Milwaukee is the most segregated urban
area in the country, with blacks mostly confined to the city's North Side and
Latinos to the South. The loss of manufacturing jobs has thrown people of
color into disproportionate levels of
low-wage work or unemployment.
The headquarters of Milwaukee's Voces de la Frontera, YES's parent group, are the "ER of the South Side," a refuge for the city's Latino community. Its meeting hall hosts citizenship classes, support groups for families with members who are detained or in deportation proceedings, voter training, youth organizing and worker organizing - including the ongoing Palermo's Pizza strike. Its hallways are lined with photos from the 2006 Day Without Latinos and May Day marches since then. A state-shaped fist abuts "Stand with Wisconsin 2011." Scott Walker's face appears with the tagline, "I have seen the face of Democracy. This ain't it." During the 2011 capitol occupation, students from Milwaukee and Racine, the state's fifth-largest city with a combined 43 percent black and Latino population, bused to Madison every weekend. For the recall votes that followed, YES launched "Vote for Our Future," a nonpartisan engagement campaign. Five hundred high school students, mostly younger than 18 and many bilingual, door-knocked in Milwaukee and Racine. In one day, the canvass tallied upward of 8,000 doors knocked and 3,500 voters who committed to go to the polls.
The assault on collective bargaining - and education funding -
was a rap on students. "Many of us are first-generation students, and
many of us are getting through school with the guidance of our
teachers," says Kennia Coronado, 19, a student at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee. "In the country where my parents are from, Mexico,
teachers are respected."
Uprising 2.0
After students came to the capitol every week in spring 2011, teachers reciprocated. Since then, YES has found it easier to recruit adult chaperones for getting out the vote. In Milwaukee, teachers have hosted student-led professional development on social justice pedagogy. The Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association recently created a full-time youth organizing position, which will support student organizing and conduct trainings for teachers. Now, many teachers are allies in the multi-city push for student rights. Without a bill of rights, students are left with a disciplinary code. "What it basically is is a book that helps you get expelled from school and suspended," says Rafa Diaz, 14, a high school freshman in Milwaukee.
The bill was written by YES with input from groups from
Milwaukee's predominantly black North Side, including Urban Underground,
Youth Rising Up and Pathfinders. "We tried to narrow it down to three
pages," De Jesús says. "It was kind of hard because there
are so many issues in these schools."
In October 2011, 195 of 215 students at the bilingual ALAS High School walked out over district funding cuts and excessive school policing. In December, organizers held a youth summit at South Division High School to launch the bill of rights. By February, the bill was finalized.
The Racine and Milwaukee teachers unions immediately endorsed
it. After 250 students packed a Milwaukee school board meeting in March - and
50 spoke - the district passed it in spirit, requesting revisions prior to full
adoption. The Racine school board delayed putting the bill on the agenda
until November 2012 - with a two-day window before voting. With the
superintendent's urging, the board voted it down.
This September, Racine students will try to implement it as part
of the district's triannual revision of the student code. Meanwhile,
each of YES's 12 high school chapters will take on one of the 43
rights for passage.
The new face of Wisconsin?
The Student Bill of Rights is a vehicle for struggle that transcends any set
of formal rights. Separately, students have been working on implementing
Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, organizing with Voces against
deportations and the state's now-sidelined voter ID law and undergoing
leadership training at Voces's Freedom School.
For those without rights, building power doesn't always come
with an Arcade Fire soundtrack. As a youth organization,
organizers confront standard challenges recruiting new members, engaging
members who have moved on to college, winning respect from teachers and
working with teachers and administrators without having to curtail their
language or demands. In Milwaukee and Racine counties, students and teachers
face an extra hurdle in accessing resources stipulated under the bill of
rights with the explosion of voucher and charter schools under the pretext of
school "choice." Grassroots opposition is still materializing.
As student activists become more visible, they also carry targets on their backs. After Voces's nonpartisan canvassing helped Racine surpass the surrounding county in voter turnout for the first time this fall, conservative shock jock Mark Belling took to his radio show to accuse the group of being "political." Under pressure from conservatives, the United Way, the Racine Community Foundation and the Racine school district pulled funding from students' Martin Luther King Day celebration. In the national memory, these struggles are a sidebar to the Wisconsin Spring. On Milwaukee's South Side, the uprising was the tip of a longer history of resistance. "My mother would take me to May Day, and I would see the Latinos out in the streets and the messaging and marches around immigration," says Coronado, whose mother was undocumented for 13 years after coming from Mexico. "As a Latina, and as a woman, I see many injustices."
"We were aware that our classrooms were too large before
Scott Walker," Meráz says. "We were aware that we didn't
have a voice before Scott Walker."
One cheer for Scott Walker. By provoking the Wisconsin uprising,
he's aroused the voice of resistance - and it has a future.
ALEC vs. Kids: ALEC’s Assault on Public Education. That’s the
alarmingly accurate title of a new report that focuses on how the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC) education task force has used a state-by-state report
card to fabricate failure in state public education systems in order to
create sales opportunities for their corporate membership.
That concept is, of
course, not new: the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was famously known as
No Corporation Left Behind, when instead of delivering equal access to public
education to millions of American children, it provided billions of dollars
in profits to corporate clients through dubious processes of testing and
assessment and supplemental educational services.
The wedding of big
business and education benefited many, including Sandy Kress, chief architect
of NCLB; Harold McGraw III, textbook publisher; Bill Bennett, former Reagan
education secretary; and Neil Bush, the then-president’s youngest brother.
Apparently, ALEC
likes that business model.
ALEC – All About
Favoring Corporations
ALEC was formed in
1973 by a group of conservative activists who came together to advance a
national right wing agenda in state legislatures across the country. They do
this by coordinating and connecting corporate special interests, insurance
companies, lobbyists, right wing think tanks, the super rich and conservative
state legislators.
So it is no
surprise that the hallmark of ALEC model legislation is to make conditions as
favorable to corporations as possible. The group is behind just about every
bad Republican initiative, including union-busting, Voter ID and Stand Your Ground gun laws that helped George Zimmerman
go free after murdering an unarmed Trayvon Martin.
Recently the
conservative lobbying group has found its way into the previously untapped
market of public education by producing an education “report card.” And the
2013 result is not a pretty sight.
Report Full Of
“Shoddy” Research
Professor
Christopher Lubienski and doctoral candidate T. Jameson Brewer, both of the
University of Illinois, reviewed the document:
The ALEC report
card assigns its grades
based on states’ policies regarding their support for charter schools, their
implementation of school voucher plans, and the permissiveness they display
toward homeschooling.
The authors contend
that these grades are based on “high quality” research demonstrating that the
policies for which they award high grades will improve education for all
students, Lubienski and
Jameson write. Instead, the report card draws on the work of advocacy groups
and is grounded in ideological tenets, leading the authors to assign high
grades to states with unproven and even disproven market-based policies, the
reviewers add. They point out that the authors’ claims of a growing body of
research lacks citations;
their grading system contradicts testing data that they report; and their
data on alternative teacher research is simply wrong.
In fact, the
research ALEC highlights is quite shoddy and is unsuitable for supporting its
recommendations, Lubienski and
Jameson conclude. The report’s purpose appears to be more about shifting
control of education to private interests than in improving education.
Virginia is one of
the nine states profiled in the report. Here’s what happened there:
Putting Profits
Before Children
Governor Bob
McDonnell received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from
virtual learning company K12 Inc., and promptly requested the introduction of
ALEC model legislation to expand virtual education in 2010.
It passed in the
Virginia legislature, and K12 Inc. swung into action in Carroll County, one
of the state’s most impoverished counties, to maximize the public money it
would receive. Even when the school board voted to close K12 Inc. down
because it did worse than traditional schools on 20 out of 22 measures, Virginia
legislators with ALEC connections enacted a law in 2012 requiring high school
students to take an online course to graduate.
71 Bills Based On
ALEC ‘Models’
ALEC’s ‘model’
bills are making their way into state legislatures, as in Virginia, and they
are dangerous.
Currently, at least
71 bills introduced in 2013 that make it harder for average Americans to
access the civil justice system resemble ‘models’ from ALEC, according
to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy.
These are bills
that would weaken the legal rights of people who are wrongfully harmed by a
corporation. Not surprisingly, given the interests of ALEC, they are bills
designed to provide protection for the industries who wrote them, by changing
the rules to limit accountability when a corporation’s products or actions
cause injury or death.
We need to kick
ALEC out of education, and indeed, out of our lives.
This is what the Democrats are up
against when it comes to voting in this country! This right wing
MORONIC behavior is typical and when you can’t even speak in a fluent dialect
why in hell do you make a complete ass of yourself on national
television? This radical right wing insanity which lacks respect for
others is what’s wrong with our country. Ask yourself why these cretins
in our society have to act this way in public? Maybe this is why the
radical right attacks public education so as to create more of this kind of
MORON in our society! Lower education standards and you create the
perfect head bobbing moron needed to vote in the conservative base.
After viewing this video I’ve come
to the overall conclusion it is hopeless to even respond to the right wing
trolls trolling these news-zap public forums today. I will continue to
post my opinions and no more. God help our country if we have voters
like that MORON speaking at Rep Roby’s town hall meeting in Alabama.
The boy needs to be watched and most of all he needs professional help and
soon!
REMEMBER TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR 2014…… WE NEED TO STOP
THE RADICAL RIGHT WING INSANITY IN THIS COUNTRY…..
Apparently the "ex-gay" rally earlier this week
was a "great day for former homosexuals in America," despite the
fact that nobody showed up
It looks like Tom McClusky has left the
Family Research Council.
Is Rep. Trey Gowdy is auditioning to
be the craziest Republican member of Congress?
According to Jeffrey Kuhner,
the fact that President Obama acknowledged the historical fact that Ho Chi
Minh was inspired by Thomas Jefferson insulted "the memory of the nearly
60,000 Americans who died in Vietnam" by somehow "granting
legitimacy to Vietnam’s odious
regime."
It seems that if you are against
abortion but also an atheist, anti-choice groups will refuse to work
with you.
Finally, Scott Lively is mad at
the Pope for using the phrase "a gay person," instead of "a
person who struggles with homosexual temptation" because the former
phrase is "a major concession to sexual-orientation theory when used by
a church leader about Christians.
David Krieger, Truthout: Of the many
social, political and economic issues that plague the US today, none can be
addressed by nuclear weapons. Yet this continues to be a huge drain on our
economy and our attention. David Krieger explains why something so
"pointless" remains a huge problem globally. Read
the Article
Thom Hartmann, Thom Hartmann Program: This week on the news with Thom Hartmann Republicans may finally
push Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to fix the filibuster; A new report
shows that each student who takes out $50,000 dollars to pay for college will
face a lifetime loss of wealth of $200,000; Polling numbers released
yesterday show that the majority of Kentucky voters disapprove of Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's job performance; and More. Watch
the Video and Read the Transcript
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus: "Until negotiations are based not on U.S. support for
Israeli power but on international law, the ‘peace process' will continue to
fail," writes Phyllis Bennis about the upcoming peace talks between
Palestine and Israel. Read
the Article
Staff, Making Contact: Given the
huge blow that unions have taken in this new economy, Progressive Radio's
Matthew Rothschild interviews author Bill Fletcher Jr. about why working
Americans and unions have lost touch with one another. Read
the Article
Rand Wilson, Workerist: The United
States is alone among industrialized countries in allowing workers to be
considered "at will" employees who can be dismissed for any reason
– justified or not. Labor should seize the opportunity to champion the
passage of "just cause" standards into state laws. Read
the Article
TOPPING THE
CHARTS ON DAILY KOS:
· Sally Quinn's column is a
setback for women everywhere, by Susan Gardner
· Ed Schultz skewered Scott
Walker last night (awesome video), by Puddytat
· The new white poor are not
Honey Boo Boo, they sleep in their cars and shop at Trader Joe's, by
chaunceydevega
· Zimmerman stopped for
speeding, had gun in car, by varii
· Tell the feds to enforce the
law on C.E.O. pay, by Daily Kos Campaigns
· Republicans offer details on
plan to starve American citizens, by Jed Lewison
· Montana experiment brings
NHS-style health care to USA; saves state millions, patients delighted, by
james321
· Most viral Facebook meme: So
much for trickling down, eh? , by Daily Kos
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Tell TV Stations: Don't Air Citizens United's "Documentary"The special interest group that ushered in the SuperPAC era of American politics released a 30-minute "documentary" about Terry McAuliffe.Like other "documentaries" they've produced in the past — including the anti-ObamaThe Hope and The Change — their new film about Terry is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attack ad designed to con viewers into believing it's presenting an objective take on this election.That's basically the equivalent of 3,600 free commercials all tearing down Terry McAuliffe and propping up Ken Cuccinelli. If you don't think it's right for these television stations to be airing this "documentary," let them know by signing our petition right now:
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