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Analysts Denounce 100 Reps. Urging Super Committee Austerity
Fox News features a piece claiming “Moderate Lawmakers Lead Insurrection, Urge Super Committee to Defy Leadership and Go Big.” Fox states: “As the Super Committee butts against a hard and fast deadline for reducing the deficit, a Republican and a Democratic lawmaker on Sunday say they must be willing to buck their leadership and go big on both cutting spending and adding revenues. Reps. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, and Heath Shuler, D-N.C., are leading a group of 100 representatives who crafted a letter to the Super Committee calling for all options to be laid on the table in the quest to…
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Greece: From the Frying Pan, Into the Fire?
MARK WEISBROT, mweisbrot at cepr.net; also via Dan Beeton, beeton at cepr.net Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and is just back from Europe. The group recently released a statement: “G20 Continues With Failed Policies in Europe, Putting Regional and Global Economy at Risk.” COSTAS PANAYOTAKIS, [in NYC] cpanayotakis at gmail.com Panayotakis is associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology at CUNY and author of the forthcoming book Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy. He said today: “Far from ending the Greek and eurozone crisis, the announcement of…
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Israeli Forces Commandeer Gaza Boats
The group U.S. Boat to Gaza has just released a statement that begins: “Canadian and Irish ships, the Tahrir and the Saoirse, sailing with Freedom Waves to Gaza have been illegally boarded by the Israeli military in international waters, about 50 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza, around 9:30 am EDT. The IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] spokesperson confirmed that the vessels were taken to the port of Ashdod, and the passengers were taken into custody by the Israeli police. Although the IDF spokesperson claimed they took ‘every precaution to ensure the safety of the activists,’ Freedom Waves to Gaza…
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Poverty Rate in Most States and Among Children Lowered by New Measure
SHAWN FREMSTAD, fremstad at cepr.net, Alan Bar…
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WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Ties to Honduran Drug Dealer
DANA FRANK, danafrank at ucsc.edu Frank is prof…
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“Freedom Wave to Gaza” Approaching Shore
The group U.S. Boat to Gaza has released a statem…
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G-20: * Greece * Financial Transaction Tax
COSTAS PANAYOTAKIS, [in NYC] cpanayotakis at g…
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* Oakland General Strike * “Veterans of the 99%”
AP is reporting this morning: “Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to close the nation’s fifth-busiest port.” For more, see: OccupyOakland.org SCOTT CAMPBELL, angrywhitekid at gmail.com Campbell is a social media officer at a nonprofit who was arrested during the police raid on Occupy Oakland on Tuesday morning, when former Marine and Iraq War vet Scott Olsen sustained a skull…
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Greek Government “Blackmailing” Public
COSTAS PANAYOTAKIS, cpanayotakis at gmail.com Panayotakis is associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology at CUNY and author of the forthcoming book “Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy.” He said today: “Faced with escalating opposition and resistance to the austerity measures it has imposed on the Greek population ever since the IMF and EU-backed bailout 18 months ago, the Greek government has announced a referendum on the latest European deal, which includes a new bailout for Greece as well as a voluntary 50 percent haircut for the country’s privately held debt.
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As Violence in Afghanistan Escalates, Drone Trial Starts Tomorrow
There have been a string of attacks on Western forces in Afghanistan the last several days, killing over 20 troops. On Tuesday the trial of the Hancock Drone Resisters, 38 people from throughout Central New York and beyond who converged on Syracuse, New York on April 22, 2011 to protest the piloting of hunter-killer Reaper drones at Hancock Air National Guard Base is scheduled to begin. They participated in a die-in at the main entrance, symbolizing the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan by drones.
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