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Closing up the Dog Days of Summer at Brick TeeVee! The Dog Days of Summer are coming to a close as The 50th Anniversary of March on Washington took place in DC yesterday. We'll have more on this next week (and the Beltway Bubalas are all over it on the Sunday morning talkies) but here are few for now from The Nation.

• Seeing 'New Jim Crow' Placards Seized by Police & More From the March on Washington by Dave Zirin
  
• The March on Washington in Historical Context by Rick Perlstein
  
• This Week in 'Nation' History: The Forgotten Radicalism of the March on Washington by Katrina vanden Heuvel
  
• On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, a New Civil Rights Movement Emerges by Ari Berman

The Nation's Josh Eidelson reports Fired Walmart Workers Arrested at Rally Announcing Labor Day Deadline Nine fired workers and a current employee were arrested around 2:30 pm Thursday after locking arms and sitting in front of the entrance to a Washington, DC, Walmart office. The planned act of civil disobedience concluded a noon rally at which workers announced a Labor Day deadline for Walmart to raise wages and reinstate workers they allege were fired for their activism. Twenty workers who joined a June strike by the labor group OUR Walmart have since been terminated; another fifty-some have been otherwise disciplined by Walmart. “Hopefully it opens Walmart’s eyes and lets them know that this is just the beginning,” OUR Walmart activist Barbara Collins told The Nation prior to her arrest. If Walmart doesn’t meet the Labor Day deadline, she said yesterday, “then we’re going to give them a lot more actions, a lot stronger actions, a lot bolder ones. And it’ll be across the country.” ....... Organizers say hundreds of supporters joined this afternoon’s rally to demand Walmart cease retaliation and offer full-time jobs that pay a minimum of $25,000 a year. Chants included “Whose Walmart? OUR Walmart!” and “If we don’t get it, shut it down!” In live video posted online by the campaign, people in suits could be seen stepping over the human chain of seated ex-workers to enter the Walmart office. According to the campaign, arrests took place following three warnings issued over a bullhorn by police; participants in the civil disobedience were individually escorted to a nearby area where they were issued citations for a misdemeanor of blocking a passage, and then released. The DC protest comes as the city’s mayor mulls a veto of a retail living wage bill fiercely opposed by the retail giant. Some marched to the rally from the offices of the federal National Labor Relations Board, the agency charged with investigating the workers’ claims of widespread illegal discipline against activists. OUR Walmart has urged the NLRB to seek a federal injunction to more quickly address the alleged retaliation; the NLRB did not respond to a Wednesday request for comment on the case. ......... While fired Walmart workers were rallying against the company in DC, US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker was delivering remarks and participating in a panel at an afternoon US Manufacturing Summit in Orlando hosted by Walmart. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment this morning on the alleged retaliation or the administration’s participation in the summit, and has not responded to inquiries from The Nation over the past nine months regarding labor strife at the retail giant. Asked this month whether the Obama administration should stop praising and appearing with Walmart, Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry, whose union has backed organizing efforts against the company, told The Nation she “would rather, instead of dealing with the specific tactics of the president’s behavior with individual companies, keep calling on the president to say we have to have both a tax policy and an ability for workers to bargain again as a way to get off this low-wage road that the economy’s on. And I’d like to keep pressing on him to lead on the sort of bigger concern [rather] than grievance publicly about what he’s doing on individual things.” The Brick TeeVee Crew asks, "Where are YOUR 'comfortable shoes', Mary Kay? Eh?" We're pretty sure the SEIU president doesn't have to shop at Walmart while many of her membership certainly has fewer options. At ConsortiumNews.com In the Grip of Warfare Amid a deepening scientific consensus that human activity is inviting environmental catastrophe, humanity’s continued reliance on warfare to settle disputes is the other incendiary element in the mix for global annihilation, as Lawrence S. Wittner observes. Is the human race determined to snuff itself out through mass violence? There are many signs that it is. The most glaring indication lies in the continued popularity of war. Despite well over a hundred million deaths in World Wars I and II, plus the brutal military conflicts in Korea, Indochina, Hungary, Algeria, Lebanon, Angola, Mozambique, the Philippines, the Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, wars continue to rage across the globe, consuming vast numbers of lives and resources......... The acceptability of mass violence is demonstrated on a much larger scale by national governments’ ongoing preparations for nuclear war. Sixty-eight years after the U.S. government employed atomic bombs to exterminate the populations of two Japanese cities and it became clear to all but the mentally feeble that nuclear war meant global annihilation, over 17,000 nuclear weapons remain in existence, with 94 percent of them in the arsenals of the U.S. and Russian governments. Despite numerous claims by national leaders that they are committed to building a nuclear weapons-free world, the United States, Russia, China, India and Pakistan are currently modernizing their nuclear weapons, with the United States and Russia spending about $75 billion a year between them on this project. ........ Good read! During our Dog Days week off we had in the can Zerohedge's Tyler Durdan report Japan Finally Admits The Truth: "Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima". For more on the story see Justin McCurry in The Guardian Fukushima operator reveals leak of 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water. Frantic efforts to contain radioactive leaks at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been dealt another blow after its operator said about 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water had seeped out of a storage tank at the site. The leak is the worst such incident since the March 2011 meltdown and is separate from the contaminated water leaks, also of about 300 tonnes a day, reported recently. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it did not know how the water leaked out or where it had leaked to, but it believed that the spillage had not flowed into the Pacific ocean....... How an anyone believe anything TEPCO says now after denying just about everything for 2½ years? For another follow-up we go to WashingtonsBlog.com who tell us the West Coast of North America to Be Hit Hard by Fukushima Radiation An ocean current called the North Pacific Gyre is bringing Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America: [image] The leg of the Gyre closest to Japan – the Kuroshio current – begins right next to Fukushima: [image] While many people assume that the ocean will dilute the Fukushima radiation, a previously-secret 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents, and there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation. The University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center created a graphic showing the projected dispersion of debris from Japan: [image] Last year, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences showed that radiation on the West Coast of North America could end up being 10 times higher than in Japan: Much more! Click over to see the images and read more! Also at WashingtonsBlog this long read Low Level Radiation: Deadly … Or Harmless? AND these videos in You Won’t BELIEVE the Upshot of BP’s Gulf Oil Spill PLUS Biting Our Tongues Doesn’t Keep Us Safe … It Only INCREASES Danger In the Long Run Preface: German pastor Martin Niemöller initially supported Hitler. But he later opposed him, and was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp for years. Niemöller learned the hard way that keep your head down doesn’t keep one out of trouble … in the long run, it increases the danger to all of us. ...... NEXT Ellen Brown writes at her Web of Debt blog Not Too Big to Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street’s Worst Nightmare Before Eliot Spitzer’s infamous resignation as governor of New York in March 2008, he was one of our fiercest champions against Wall Street corruption, in a state that had some of the toughest legislation for controlling the banks. It may not be a coincidence that the revelation of his indiscretions with a high-priced call girl came less than a month after he published a bold editorial in the Washington Post titled “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States from Stepping in to Help Consumers.” The editorial exposed the collusion between the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street in deregulating the banks in the guise of regulating them, by taking regulatory power away from the states. It was an issue of the federal government versus the states, with the Feds representing the banks and the states representing consumers. Five years later, Spitzer has set out to take some of that local regulatory power back, in his run for New York City comptroller. Mounting the attack against him, however, are not just Wall Street banks but women’s groups opposed to this apparent endorsement of the exploitation of women. ........ Lynn Parramore, who considers herself a feminist, countered in an August 8th Huffington Post article that it is likely to be in the best interests of the very women who are opposing him to forgive and move on. His stand for women’s reproductive rights and other feminist issues is actually quite strong, and his role as Wall Street watchdog protected women from predatory financial practices. As New York Attorney General, he was known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street.” He is one of the few people with not only the insight and experience to expose Wall Street corruption but the courage to go after the perpetrators. ....... SPEAKING OF Wall Street corruption investigative journalist Greg Palast at vice.com uncovers The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears. Let me explain: The year was 1997. US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was pushing hard to de-regulate banks. That required, first, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to dismantle the barrier between commercial banks and investment banks. It was like replacing bank vaults with roulette wheels. Second, the banks wanted the right to play a new high-risk game: "derivatives trading". JP Morgan alone would soon carry $88 trillion of these pseudo-securities on its books as "assets". Deputy Treasury Secretary Summers (soon to replace Rubin as Secretary) body-blocked any attempt to control derivatives. But what was the use of turning US banks into derivatives casinos if money would flee to nations with safer banking laws? The answer conceived by the Big Bank Five: eliminate controls on banks in every nation on the planet -- in one single move. It was as brilliant as it was insanely dangerous. How could they pull off this mad caper? Go read ALL of this! WOW! In a related matter The Atlantic's senior editor GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA asks Can the GOP Fix Its Woman Problem in Time to Fight Clinton? ...... The major impediment to women achieving parity in office right now in our two-party system is another form of the gap -- what Case Western Reserve Professor Karen Beckwith has called the "partisan imbalance in elected women." A September 2012 analysis by Beckwith found that Republican women in 2010, a wave year for the GOP that featured a record number of Republican women running for the House, were much less likely to win their primaries than were Democratic women. "Only 47 women won GOP nominations to run for House seats -- for a 37 percent win rate in the primaries. And only 24 Republican women actually won House seats in this very promising year," she wrote in a paper for the Scholars Strategy Network. "Democrats got shellacked in 2010, but even as their party lost its House majority, 91 Democratic women won their party's nomination (with a 68 percent win rate in primaries). In the end, 49 Democratic women were elected to the House." It had been even worse in 2008: Women were 22.3 percent of the Democrats who ran for the House, but less than 10 percent of Republicans candidates. At the local level, only a third of state Republican legislative candidates were women, and "just over half of them won their contests.' Meanwhile, "More females ran on Democratic tickets, and two-thirds won." So not only are female Republicans running at lower rates, they are winning at lower ones, too. When one considers the GOPhers elect crazies like Michele "I'm not Swiss" Bachmann, "Mean Jean" Schmidt and Sarah "I can see Russia from my porch" Palin it's amazing they win at all - and what does that say about their constituents who vote them in? Well it seems one GOPher isn't drinking the Red Kool-Aid anymore. In the GOPher War on Common Sense we find Iowa County Co-Chair Quits Party Because the GOP Has, ‘Declared War on Common Sense’ by Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA.com On the same day that seven Republican Party officials quit in Maine, an Iowa county co-chair quit because Republicans have, “declared war on science and common sense.” Polk County (Iowa) GOP co-chair Chad Brown wrote about his disappointment with the party in his resignation letter, “Having spoken with a pastor and having prayed about this for hours, I came to the conclusion that this is my only recourse. I’m disappointed with the Republican Party at the National level. I’m disappointed with the Republican Party at the Statewide level. I’m disappointed with the Republican Party at the Countywide level. I find it increasingly difficult to defend issues and statements made by Party leaders and officials from all three levels.” Brown expanded on his reasons for quitting the Republican Party in an interview with The Des Moines Register........ The seven party officials who quit in Maine left the GOP because it wasn’t conservative enough for them. Brown had the complete opposite problem. He thinks that the Republican Party has moved too far to the right. The fact that officials can quit the same party on the same day for completely opposite reasons is indicative of an organization with no identity. However, Brown’s criticism of his former party is more based in the reality of the times. The fact is that the Republican Party has declared war on common sense, and any Republican who is unable to suspend the ability to use their common sense will find the GOP intolerable. What Mr. Brown confirmed on his way out the door is that in order to be a Republican today, one has to leave their brain at the door. Anyone who uses common sense to come to the conclusion that maybe hating minorities isn’t the best way to win future elections has no place in this Republican Party. Immigration, climate change, healthcare, the economy, and women’s rights all areas where Republicans are fighting against science and/or common sense. If Republicans win their war on common sense, the only thing that will be certain is the future loss of many elections. Agreed! Sanity is not a prerequisite for the GOPher party (and the Dems too it seems sometimes). That's why the BTV crew has set up SanePeopleOfOhio.com AND SanePeopleOfAmerica.com! BTV WANT AD: We're looking for help to develop these web sites. If you are SANE and have web design skills please submit your credentials to btv33 AT att dot net. We're also looking for content bloggers & citizen journalists so stay tuned! If you can, go reserve your state's URL like SanePeopleOfIowa.com, SanePeopleOfOregon, SanePeopleOfNevada, SanePeopleOfMaine and so forth! You get the idea! Then write us to tell us you have the URL! We'll post your links at SanePeopleOfAmerica.com as they come in! The 2014 Mid-Term elections are around the corner so let's get busy! And as for Citizen Journalism California's alleged-Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein wants to limit who can be a journalist The most recent congressional threat to the free press in the United States comes from California Democrat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In a proposed amendment to a media shield law being considered by Congress, Feinstein writes that only paid journalists should be given protections from prosecution for what they say or write. The language in her proposal is raising concerns from First Amendment advocates because it seems to leave out bloggers and other nontraditional forms of journalism that have proliferated in recent years thanks to the Internet. "It rubs me the wrong way that the government thinks it should be in the business of determining who should be considered a journalist," said Ken Bunting, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition at the Missouri School of Journalism. ....... The difficulty with writing any such law - this is the third time Congress has attempted to craft a federal shield law - is that any such law would have to set standards for who counts as a journalist or what qualifies as an "act of journalism." There are shield laws on the books in 40 states, but they do not apply in federal court. The First Amendment of the U.S Constitution promises that the right to a free press "shall not be infringed." The proposed federal shield law would protect journalists from having to comply with subpoenas or court orders forcing them to reveal sources and other confidential information. The important question, of course, is how to determine that the shield law applies to one person and not another. In other words, how do you determine someone is a journalist? ...... Nation of Change reports that Facebook Removes March Against Monsanto Event Facebook has been accused of being a facade for free speech as it has been known to censor controversial content. ..... The group March Against Monsanto announced yesterday on their Facebook page that Facebook removed an event page promoting a rally in St. Louis, MO, where the biotech giant is headquartered. The rally is set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 12, with a broad coalition of regional groups and solidarity activists planning to converge at the company's corporate headquarters. While the event did not contain derogatory or inappropriate content, it was removed for violating Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The group has since created a new event page for the rally. ...... It's safe to assume that the censorship by the media will continue as critical mass awareness is being reached on the issues that are challenging systemic corruption. But with March Against Monsanto planning more than 600 solidarity events worldwide with an estimated 3.6 million people pledging participation, it is also safe to assume that no amount of censorship is going to keep that awareness from growing. THEN Alternet's Alex Kane found the 5 Companies That Make Money By Keeping Americans Terrified of Terror Attacks Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency, has invaded America’s television sets in recent weeks to warn about Edward Snowden’s leaks and the continuing terrorist threat to America. But what often goes unmentioned, as the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald pointed out, is that Hayden has a financial stake in keeping Americans scared and on a permanent war footing against Islamist militants. And the private firm he works for, called the Chertoff Group, is not the only one making money by scaring Americans. Post-9/11 America has witnessed a boom in private firms dedicated to the hyped-up threat of terrorism. The drive to privatize America's national security apparatus accelerated in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, and it’s gotten to the point where 70 percent of the national intelligence budget is now spent on private contractors, as author Tim Shorrock reported. The private intelligence contractors have profited to the tune of at least $6 billion a year. In 2010, the Washington Post revealed that there are 1,931 private firms across the country dedicated to fighting terrorism. What it all adds up to is a massive industry profiting off government-induced fear of terrorism, even though Americans are more likely to be killed by a car crash or their own furniture than a terror attack. Here are five private companies cashing in on keeping you afraid. WashingtonsBlog also covers CIA Admits It Helped Overthrow the Democratically Elected Government of Iran in 1953 Indeed, the bigger story is that the CIA admitted that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister. Indeed, governments from around the world admit they carry out this sort of subterfuge: WashingtonsBlog has all the links to every bit of this including the whole back-story! Go read now! From AntiWar.com Justin Raimondo alerts us that They’re Going After Greenwald This time they've gone too far. The enemies of liberty have escalated their attack on Glenn Greenwald – the Guardian journalist whose reporting on Edward Snowden's revelations has provoked an international movement against the Surveillance State - in a way even I never thought possible. They have targeted his longtime partner, David Miranda: en route home to Brazil, where he and Greenwald presently reside, Miranda passed through London's Heathrow Airport, where he was detained by officers and questioned for nine hours. They claimed authority to do so under the terms of the "Terrorism Act 2000," which allows them to detain terrorist suspects at airports and border crossings at will. Miranda had been visiting friends in Berlin. After confiscating his laptops, his cell phone, and all electronics, they finally let him go. From news accounts of what happened at Heathrow, it looks as if the Brits dearly wanted to arrest him, or at least get clearance to hold him longer – and only the energetic efforts of the Brazilian embassy managed to just barely get Miranda out of there and home to a free country. As of this writing, we don't know exactly what the interrogation entailed, but it isn’t hard to imagine...... The message to journalists everywhere is ominous indeed: if you report things the US government and/or its overseas vassals don't like, not only you but your loved ones will be unmercifully harassed and quite possibly arrested until we make you stop. How is this different from what Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and other world-infamous despots did to earn a prominent spot in history’s rogues gallery? This incident was clearly meant as a warning shot aimed directly at Greenwald, who has publicly expressed his desire to return to the United States. ........ If I were Glenn, I would stay in Brazil: there is no obligation to make oneself a martyr. I say this not because I'm so presumptuous as to offer him public advice on a highly personal matter (although I am that), but in order to make a political point: the guarantees of basic rights enshrined in the Constitution are simply no longer operable. It is admirable to take the Constitution seriously: for that reason, it is necessary to take the enemies of the Constitution just as seriously. These people mean business – and quite a dirty business it is, too. They don't care about the rule of law: as Greenwald spent a whole book explaining to us, today the law is applied in a grossly unequal manner, and this degeneration of our legal system has occurred over a long period of years. The vast secret surveillance apparatus he has so thoroughly exposed in his reporting shows this degenerative process is almost complete. In short, no one is safe – and that is the hallmark of an authoritarian society, now isn't it? No, not journalists, not the Guardian, not Antiwar.com – our power-crazed political class will stop at nothing to preserve its prerogatives and privileges. And if Greenwald thinks the Constitution will prove to be an obstacle in their path, then why is it that up until now they've used it as a doormat? Nothing short of a revolution is going to stop this power grab ..... No, it isn't too late to bring about peaceful change: but the hour is getting damned late. Which is why I fear it is going to take a lot more than a few bills in Congress - or even the victory of civil libertarians at the polls – to derail this coup d’etat against the rule of law and restore the Constitution. The Guardian's Editor Alan Rusbridger explains David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face and The Guardian's Josh Halliday explains Rusbridger: destroying hard drives allowed us to continue NSA coverage Esquire's Charles P. Pierce explains The Sentencing Of Bradley Manning This is what passes for mercy in the military-justice system, so you take what you can get. He goes away for 35 years instead of 90. There is an appeals process, which theoretically could mitigate the sentence some. The problem I have is that it is very likely that his whole story goes away with him, which it should not. As the invaluable Charlie Savage points out, there was a lot more going on in the saga of Bradley Manning than one private who leaked some classified material. ......... It's that last bit -- the part about Manning's being credited with the 112 days in the military jail -- that ought to be remembered, along with the fact that we know more about what was done in our name in Iraq because of what Manning did than the government wanted us to know. Manning was treated barbarically over those 112 days. This didn't happen by accident. This wasn't an oversight. It was a policy decision. He was treated that way deliberately by this government. He was treated that way because that is how this administration wanted him treated. This is an administration that simply does not want the people to know what is being done in its name. The last administration didn't want that either, but C-Plus Augustus wasn't a constitutional law professor promising the most open and transparent administration in history, either.) And that's the part of the story that shouldn't go away with Bradley Manning. Yes Charlie damn YES! We must again refer you to The Most Transparent Administration Ever™ for all the obomber apologists to read and try again to reconcile their unwavering support no matter how egregious his actions are to The Bill of Rights. Manning's statement is superb, too. From OSCAR LEÓN, TRNN PRODUCER: Bradley Manning In His Own Words After Being Sentenced to 35 years "Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy—the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, the Japanese-American internment camps—to name a few. I am confident that many of our actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light. As the late Howard Zinn once said, 'There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.'" Statement from Center for Constitutional Rights We are outraged that a whistleblower and a patriot has been sentenced on a conviction under the Espionage Act. The government has stretched this archaic and discredited law to send an unmistakable warning to potential whistleblowers and journalists willing to publish their information. We can only hope that Manning's courage will continue to inspire others who witness state crimes to speak up. This show trial was a frontal assault on the First Amendment, from the way the prosecution twisted Manning’s actions to blur the distinction between whistleblowing and spying to the government’s tireless efforts to obstruct media coverage of the proceedings. It is a travesty of justice that Manning, who helped bring to light the criminality of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, is being punished while the alleged perpetrators of the crimes he exposed are not even investigated. Every aspect of this case sets a dangerous precedent for future prosecutions of whistleblowers - who play an essential role in democratic government by telling us the truth about government wrongdoing - and we fear for the future of our country in the wake of this case. We must channel our outrage and continue building political pressure for Manning's freedom. President Obama should pardon Bradley Manning, and if he refuses, a presidential pardon must be an election issue in 2016. There is so much more info to read, watch and listen to so check out all of the posts below, especially in the BTV 'SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT' section for more on Manning and also stay up-to-date on the NSA-Snowden coverage at The Guardian at their special section on THE NSA FILES and Glenn Greenwald's analysis at Glenn Greenwald on Security and Liberty section. Geez look at the time! We'll see you next week for our Labor Day Special! 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Democracy Now's Iraq interactive timeline

Headlines Monday, Aug 19, 2013

• DN! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous in Cairo Sharif Abdel Kouddous: In Modern Egypt’s Bloodiest Period, "New Horrors Are Brought Every Day"
  
• Ahdaf soueif, Egyptian writer & Chris Toensing, executive director of the Middle East Research and Information Project with Sharif Abdel Kouddous Ahdaf Soueif: Amidst Egypt’s Bloodshed, "We Are Trying Keep the Discourse of the Revolution Alive"
  
• Matthew Rothschild, editor and publisher of The Progressive magazine Editor of The Progressive Arrested Covering Solidarity Singers’ Protest of Wisconsin Gov. Walker
  

Headlines Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013

• Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi: U.S. Student Loan Bubble Saddles a Generation With Debt and Threatens the Economy
  
• Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher & Gareth Peirce, a British attorney UK Media Crackdown: Greenwald’s Partner Detained, Guardian Forced to Destroy Snowden Files
  

Headlines Wednesday, Aug 21, 2013

• Gary Younge & William P. Jones 50 Years Later, the Untold History of the March on Washington & MLK’s Most Famous Speech For more on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 50 years later, we’re joined by two guests. In Madison, Wisconsin, William Jones is a professor at the University of Wisconsin specializing in civil rights and labor history. His new book is just out, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. His recent piece for Dissent magazine is "The Forgotten [Radical] History of the March on Washington." And in Chicago, we’re joined by Gary Younge, an award-winning columnist for The Guardian and The Nation. His book, The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream, has also just been published.
  

Headlines Thursday, Aug 22, 2013

• David Coombs, attorney for Army Private Bradley Manning. Bradley Manning: "Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society"
  
• David Coombs with Alexa O'Brien, independent journalist "He Wanted To Help America": Manning Attorney in First Extended Interview After 35-Year Sentence
  
• David Coombs "I Am Chelsea Manning. I Am a Female": Bradley Manning Announces Gender Transition
  

Headlines Friday, Aug 23, 2013

• Razan Zaitouneh, lawyer and human rights activist, who works with the Human Rights Violation Documentation Center Syrian Activist on Ghouta Attack: "I Haven’t Seen Such Death in My Whole Life"/a>
  
• Chase Strangio, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Project & Lauren McNamara, a transgender activist and an online confidant of Chelsea Manning "Empowering, So Brave": Trans Activists Praise Chelsea Manning, Raise Fears over Prison Conditions
  
• Azadeh Zohrabi, a member of the Prisoners Mediation Team and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, and a Soros Justice Fellow at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Exclusive: As Judge OKs Force-Feeding, California Prisoner on 47-Day Hunger Strike Speaks Out
  

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Washington, DC – Today a group of U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers introduced the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act (ACHE Act, H.R. 526) to protect Appalachian families and communities from the nation’s most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal. The Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act’s leading sponsors are Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), joined by original cosponsors Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Rep. Janice Schakowksy (D-IL), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Rep. Jared Polis (DCO).

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!

NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. ACTION! Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA. Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The “new” version is in fact identical to the original CISPA — and poses the same threat to our digital civil liberties. If CISPA becomes law, it will be a major blow to our online privacy. But more than that, CISPA’s passage would have a chilling effect on our freedom to connect online. We won’t feel as free to state unpopular opinions, or to speak truth to power, if we know that Big Brother could get a feed of everything we say and do. This is not what the free and open Internet is about. We must tell Congress: Vote NO on CISPA and bury this bill for good.

NEW!!! Stop Media Consolidation! Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is trying to change the agency’s ownership rules to pave the way for Murdoch to get exactly what he wants. Worse, Genachowski and Murdoch are keeping this all very hush-hush, hoping you won't notice.3 These changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!? We can still stop the agency from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it. By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger. Please take action today. Click HERE to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation!

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar for more! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com

REPRESENT.US IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US. Represent.Us is a fresh campaign to pass the American Anti-Corruption Act: a law that would overhaul campaign finance, impose strict lobbying and conflict of interest laws, and end secret political money. We are mobilizing millions of Americans — conservatives and progressives, young and old, every issue group fighting K Street, online and offline — to join this campaign. Represent.Us is not just building a movement to pass the Act. The campaign will use hard-hitting accountability tactics to unseat politicians who fail to endorse the Act. If passed, the Act will completely reshape American politics and policy-making and give people a voice. See this Guest Blog at Greenpeace by Executive Director Josh Silver The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics for more information!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network UPDATE! From the Bradley Manning Support Network Update 8/24/13: Alexa O'brien's interview with defense lawyer David Coombs, NYT calls sentence "excessive" After the crushing sentence announcement earlier this week, Alexa O'brien interviewd Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's lawyer David Coombs. Watch the video! And the New York Times has published an editorial criticizing the government and military for having given Manning far too harsh a sentence - particularly given his noble intentions. ....... AND Heroic whistle-blower addresses gender publicly: ready to move on to next phase of her life August 22, 2013. By Chelsea Manning. In a statement provided by lawyer David Coombs, the WikiLeaks whistle-blower formerly known as Bradley Manning announces: "As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female." Read the rest of her statement here.

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  »» “Big Pharma’s War on Women.” Linda Lipsen, CEO of the American Association for Justice talks about big Pharma’s penchant for harming female consumers.
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  • The Federal Reserve 100th Anniversary Road Show Spectacular! by alexschaefer - Paint Provocateur Alex Schaefer wants to say “Happy Birthday, Federal Reserve!’ You made it to 100 years of conducting the nation’s monetary policy! Since mainstream media didn’t send a card, a painter, a protestor, a filmmaker, a freedom fighter and a mad crew are going on a road trip across the USA to visit all twelve of your branches to help you celebrate! Come rain or monkey shines, they are on a mission to throw the birthday party nightmares are made of. A party to highlight the historic END of the original 100 year charter the Federal Reserve Bank has with the U.S. Government December 23rd, 2013! CLICK HERE FOR THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN & HELP GET THE SHOW ON THE ROAD! Lots of great donation perks, all original works of art by Alex Schaefer and Cain Motter! This is a great way to collect some art AND help fund this amazing journey and film. It’s a win-win situation! Let’s some history and shake things up around here!
  • Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states by maxkeiser - READ What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones (guardian.co.uk)
  • Some Verrrry Interesting Points to Make About Spiralling Higher Education Costs by Stacy Herbert - First of all, this sentence: As we’ve reported before, colleges are increasingly directing their aid to wealthier families—who need it least—in a bid to increase revenue and raise their prestige (though it doesn’t necessarily fetch smarter students).The world over has an ingrained prejudice toward ‘the wealthy,’ and so privilege and ‘prestige’ are thrust upon them by the entire system around them, compounding their advantage. Of course, those who watch Fox News will find ways to justify these facts evident in the every day life around us, but, if it didn’t exist, then George W. Bush would never have been president. FACT. READ Are College Costs Reaching a Breaking Point? (businessweek.com)
  • You’re pathologically ill. Ben Bernanke. Lloyd Blankfein. Ben Bernanke. Lloyd Blankfein. Jamie Dimon. by Stacy Herbert - Stacy Summary: Found this clip from a Keiser Report episode back in the 100s. This is one of the upsides of shooting in front of a green screen. Can’t do this now that we have a live backdrop. Maybe we ought to shoot a few in chroma studio just for a few of these . . .
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  ~ Black Helicopters: Britain’s Blind Faith in Intelligence Agencies (spiegel.de)
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  • KEISER REPORT [KR486] Keiser Report: US High Cathedral of Fraud We discuss Mom and Pop investors taken out on a slab and their wealth burnt to a crisp by the high cathedral of fraud that is the New York Stock Exchange and its degenerate priests of high finance. Max proposes a scheme of mortgages collateralized by food stamps. In the second half, Max talks to Owen Jones, a columnist at the Independent and author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, about the prejudice of George Osborne’s policies which takes nearly £12 billion from housing benefit for the poor and shifts it to property speculation schemes for the middle class.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR487] Keiser Report: NSA-spread Digital AIDS We discuss the fact that banks are lobbying to force credit unions to become banks in order to destroy the Move Your Money competitive threat. They also discuss frontrunning the NSA and the digital AIDS they’ve spread. In the second half, Max talks to former government official, Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari.com about extricating yourself from the tapeworm economy.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR488] Keiser Report: Dutch Blues & Bubble Markets We discuss the Dutch blues and the pay per gaze advertising coming to a pair of glasses near you. Max proposes a scheme of mortgages collateralized by food stamps. In the second half, Max talks to Ann Pettifor of PrimeEconomics.org about the Alice in Wongaland economy in the United Kingdom where people borrow from payday lenders in order to live and, instead of lending to the economy, the economy is lending to banks. They also discuss interest rate apartheid, carry trades and public unrest.
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1286] The Truth About Markets – 27 July 2013 Stacy Summary: Forgot to post this yesterday! In this episode, the conversation is quite wide ranging. We ruminate a bit on the great aluminum vs aluminium debate. We talk about Business Secretary, Vince Cable, accusing the Bank of England of being ‘capital Taliban.’ We also discuss the latest in hacking cars. Download show HERE (mp3)
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  • Scott Horton Radio Show 8/22/13 Alexa O’Brien: Independent journalist Alexa O’Brien discusses her post-sentencing interview with Bradley Manning’s attorney David Coombs; the government’s failure to prove damage to national security from Manning’s leaks; the role of the FBI and State Department in his investigation and prosecution; the fertile grounds for appeal; and how Adrian Lamo worked with the feds to set Manning up.
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