Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 at 5:57 pm

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Analysts on wartime contracting discuss how the Pentagon has tripled no-bid contracts and wasted billion since 9/11 (Democracynow!)

Excellent documentary by Current about Sri Lanka and the war on terror- how the government defeated the Tamil rebellion (22 minutes)

Leading climate scientist James Hansen on the tar sands pipeline, civil disobedience, and why Obama must act

Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11–  Iraq has cost $3-5 trillion, huge cause of debt…

While US troop deaths may be down, the Iraq war is not over– we’re still paying billions, Iraqis still being killed…

The failure of welfare reform– how the welfare-to-work program pushed by Clinton and the right wing during the 90′s has made it harder for people to find new jobs and climb out of poverty

3 charts to email to your right-wing brother-in-law– official government statistics on spending, deficit, and the stimulus

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 at 5:57 pm

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Analysts on wartime contracting discuss how the Pentagon has tripled no-bid contracts and wasted billion since 9/11 (Democracynow!)

Excellent documentary by Current about Sri Lanka and the war on terror- how the government defeated the Tamil rebellion (22 minutes)

Leading climate scientist James Hansen on the tar sands pipeline, civil disobedience, and why Obama must act

Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11–  Iraq has cost $3-5 trillion, huge cause of debt…

While US troop deaths may be down, the Iraq war is not over– we’re still paying billions, Iraqis still being killed…

The failure of welfare reform– how the welfare-to-work program pushed by Clinton and the right wing during the 90′s has made it harder for people to find new jobs and climb out of poverty

3 charts to email to your right-wing brother-in-law– official government statistics on spending, deficit, and the stimulus

Friday, September 2nd, 2011 at 7:08 pm

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Documents reveal that David Welch, former top Bush administration official and currently an executive for Bechtel, a massive multinational, met with Gadaffi officials in August to help them undermine the rebels and try to win the propaganda war

Foreign students on a work-study program with Hershey discuss how they have been duped and abused by the corporation.  They are fighting to be reimbursed the $3-6k they paid to come here and to pressure Hershey to give their jobs to local citizens for a living wage (Democracynow!)

Must see:  an author of the study that found 25 top CEOs get paid more than their companies pay in taxes explains how they cheat the system and how extreme the abuse really is (Democracynow!)

Paleontologist Peter Ward discusses the mass extinction underway, the overpopulation crisis, and global warming

Documents reveal that private corporations have provided the CIA with jets to transport captives to penal colonies all over the world.  The private jets have cost taxpayers a fortune, in one rendition case totaling “$301,113 for eight flights over three days that took the Gulfstream to Bangkok, via Alaska and Japan, on to Kabul via Sri Lanka, and then home again via Dubai and Shannon (pdf).”

Finally some good news about the Obama administration.  The Justice Department is suing to block the AT&T buyout of T-Mobile to prevent further consolidation

Tim DeChristopher, in a poignant letter from prison, explains why he heroically decided to spend two years in jail rather than admit that he was wrong for trying to prevent oil and natural gas companies form buying more land and polluting

For those unfamiliar with DeChristopher’s story, here it is

Thursday, September 1st, 2011 at 5:38 pm

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Homeowners devastated by flooding from Hurricane Irene will likely not be covered by insurance

New report finds 25 of the 100 highest paid CEOs earned more money than their companies paid in taxes 

In Israel, the IDF is arming settlers with tear gas and preparing for violent clashes with Palestinians because of the impending vote for statehood at the UN

New study finds Pentagon no-bid contacts have tripled in past decade, totaling 55% in 2011, a low point since 9/11

US and Taliban were making progress in peace talks, but Karzai sabotaged them in a bid to secure control

August was deadliest month of Afghan war for US troops

Ex-Bush official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses the crimes of Dick Cheney and the Bush administration.  He says he’d be willing to testify if Cheney is put on trial.  Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff during the infamous 2003 UN speech, discusses the intense doubts on the intelligence he and Powell had, and he reveals that CIA Director George  Tenet, acting at the behest of Bush/Cheney, fabricated information about the Saddam-Al-Qaeda connection at the last minute to pressure them to go ahead with the speech (Democracynow!)

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 5:48 pm

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Check out tarsandsaction.org if you want to get involved and protest the Keystone XL pipeline proposal

Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org, explains the connection between climate change, Hurricane Irene, and overall extreme weather (democracynow!)

A reporter who tracks solitary confinement in America condemns Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to not evacuate Riker’s Island, leaving prisoners stranded in a scenario that could have mirrored Katrina, when many prisoners were left to die in their cells

New study finds that climate cycles, particularly el nino, create civil wars, accounting for “one-fifth of the 240 civil conflicts since 1950″

Politifact:  Warren Buffet is correct when he says, “The “mega-rich” pay about 15 percent in taxes, while the middle class ‘fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.‘”

Politifact:  ”Wall Street hedge fund managers “pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland.” 

Politifact: 53% of black wealth has disappeared in the downturn

2012 might see the end of the presidential public financing system