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11/20
Institute for Public Accuracy
Economists Opposing Fed Audit "on Payroll"
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2130
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DEMOCRACY NOW!
As UC Regents Approve Major Tuition Hike, Students, Faculty Decry Erosion of Public Education in CA and Nationwide
*Getting schooled on corporate colleges
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/students
On 20th Anniversary of Killings of 6 Jesuit Priests by US-Backed Salvadoran Forces, Thousands to Protest "School of the Assassins" at Ft. Benning
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/blase
Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan
*Makdisi is dead on that the only just solution is one state, isn't he?
So why do he and other advocates, like Ali Abunimah, get so little exposure from "progressive" media?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/israel_under_widespread_international_criticism_for
11/19
Activists to Peg Climate Actions to Science
by Adam Groves
OneClimate.net
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/19-0
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Public Citizen
Former Government Officials, Including Members of Congress, Cashing in as Lobbyists for Financial Industry, Public Citizen Analysis Shows
Lobbyist Ranks Filled With Former Federal Employees, Well-Connected Congressional Staffers
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/19-15
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DEMOCRACY NOW!
Shunning Dissidents, Obama Leaves China Without Firm Pledges on Trade, Climate
*Pretty amoral analysis of China, wouldn't you say?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/shunning_dissidents_obama_leaves_china_without
Iraq Vote in Limbo with Veto of Election Law
*I can't speak to internal Iraqi machinations. I just think that the US isn't going to abandon the huge military infrastructure it's built up anytime soon, especially given the pressure it wants to put on Iran, do you?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/19/iraqi_elections_in_limbo_as_vp
11/18
Rising CO2 Will Cause Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Finds Antarctic Study
Sea levels could rise by up to six metres if the world fails to get pollution under control, according to the latest study in the Antarctic.
by Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
The Telegraph/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/18-6
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Iraqis Say British Army Used Guantánamo Interrogation Methods
by David Brown
The Times Online/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/18
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The Trap of Green Consumerism
by Raj Patel
*Shopping green should be a subsidiary function of living green, not an amoral rationalization not to, right?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-9
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The Architecture of Apartheid
by Sarah Lazare & Clare Bayard
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-4
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Obama's Bad Case Against Single Payer
Solidarity vs Individualism
by Alan Nasser
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-5
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Institute for Public Accuracy
China, U.S. and Global Warming
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2127
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DEMOCRACY NOW!
EXCLUSIVE: Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Responds to Court Ruling Upholding Conviction and Ordering Her to Prison
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/18/exclusive_civil_rights_attorney_lynne_stewart
"The Card Game" - New Doc Investigates History of Credit Card Industry and Proposals for Reform
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/18/the_card_game_new_doc_investigates
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FAIR Blog
Israeli Settlement Isn't, Says Washington Post
*Deadly serious word games
http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/18/israeli-settlement-isnt-says-washington-post/
11/17
Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report
by Carey Gillam
Reuters
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/17-4
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Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
Even as the climate science becomes more definitive, polls show that public concern in the United States about global warming has been declining. What will it take to rally Americans behind the need to take strong action on cutting carbon emissions?
by Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger
*Some interesting thoughts on the reasons for climate change 'tudes, but marred by the dissing of folks who don't mince words, and their own seeming diminution of the crisis at the end, don't you think?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-4
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The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American
Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around?
by Michael Lind
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-8
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Buried Bonanza for Over-Builders
by Laura Flanders
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Massachusetts Physicians say Reform in Their State is No Model for The Nation
Nearly 200 sign ad urging single-payer health care reform
*Congress plays "Follow the bleeder"
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/17-11
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DEMOCRACY NOW!
Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/why_are_we_destroying_public_education
Obama Nominates Pesticide Executive to Be Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/obama_nominates_pesticide_executive_to_be
Raj Patel on America's Growing Hunger Crisis and the UN Summit to Fight Hunger in Rome
*Let them drink Obamade
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/17/raj_patel_on_americans_growing_hunger
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Hunger: * Record in U.S. * Global Meeting
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2126
11/16
Texas Accounts for Half of Executions in US but Now Has Doubts Over Death Row
Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishment
by Chris McGreal in Livingston
The Guardian/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/16-3
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Farmers Not Invited to Food Summit?
by Sabina Zaccaro
Inter Press Service
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/16-5
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Health Deform
by Carol Miller
*The devil's in the details, and the details are our hell
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-2
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The New State Solution
by Chris Hedges
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16
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Economic Lessons from the Playground
by Steve Almond
*"Share and share alike"
Maoist indoctrination, I tells ya!
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/16-8
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Earthjustice
Judge Approves Historic EPA Settlement: EPA and Florida Must Set Limits on Fertilizer and Animal Waste Pollution in State Waters
Polluters' arguments rejected in favor of the environment
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/11/16-13
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FAIR Blog
Obama (Still Definitely) Not Bipartisan Enough
*Comment left at link
http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/11/16/obama-still-definitely-not-bipartisan-enough/comment-page-1/
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Washington as Wall Street's "Biggest Profit Center"
*Money's money talks
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2125
11/13
Invest in Nature Now, Save Trillions Later: Study
by Marlowe Hood
Agence France Presse
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-3
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UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless
UN special rapporteur says wealthy US ignoring deepening homeless crisis while pumping billions into bank rescues
by Chris McGreal in Los Angeles
The Guardian/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-0
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Canada's Tar Sands Are the Future of Oil Production: Oil Exec.
by Michel Viatteau
Agence France Presse
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-6
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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
by Dahr Jamail
Inter Press Service
*What was that about this war being fought for "women's rights"?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-7
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Obama's Pesticide-Pushing Nominee
The president taps an exec from the pesticide lobby - which slammed Michelle Obama's organic garden - for a top agriculture post.
by Kate Sheppard
Mother Jones
*More toxic sludge in Obama's field of corporate dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/13-2
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Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
by Naomi Klein
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13
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Economics without Ecocide
The G20 Framework vs. A Whole Earth Perspective
by Peter Brown & Geoffrey Garver
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13-0
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US Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems
Pinning America's economic woes on China is too easy. The real villains are Wall Street bankers and their influence
by Mark Weisbrot
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13-3
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DEMOCRACY NOW!
Eminent Domain Outrage in Connecticut: Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer to Leave New London, Site of Major Housing Battle
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/eminent
Alleged 9/11 Mastermind and 4 Other Gitmo Prisoners to Stand Trial in NY Federal Court
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/gitmo
CAIR: US Seizure of 4 Mosques over Alleged Iran Ties Threatens Religious Freedom
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/mosques
Alleging Unconstitutional Targeting, ACORN Sues US Gov't Over Defunding Vote
*Van Jones and ACORN are on the "far left"?
That's a mighty meager spectrum, innit?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/acorn
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Prosecution
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2124
Obama's Asia Trip Agenda
http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2123
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