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Martin Luther King Memorial: Honor or Burial of a Movement?
JARED BALL, freemixradio at gmail.com Ball is an associate professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore and is the author of I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto. He just wrote the piece “The Corporate King Memorial and the Burial of a Movement,” which states that the newly unveiled MLK Memorial is designed to ensure that “King be forever separated from his anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-patient work for a genuine revolution.”
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Nuclear Plant Near Earthquake Epicenter, with Hurricane Coming
The Washington Post is reporting that a 5.9 magn…
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Libya: Liberation or Re-Colonization?
NASEER ARURI, naruri at aol.com Aruri is chancellor professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and chair of the Trans-Arab Research Institute. He said today: “The impending collapse of the Qaddafi regime is part and parcel of an ongoing re-colonization of the Arab world by the United States and the major European countries. The attempted re-penetration of the Arab world was stepped up with the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s, the installation of a compliant Iraqi regime and Obama’s call on Qaddafi and Bashar Assad to step aside. Meanwhile Washington continues to protect Israel…
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The Rick Perry Model
ABBY RAPOPORT, rapoport at texasobserver.org Rapoport is a reporter with the Texas Observer. She said today: “Don’t assume a gaffe or two means Rick Perry doesn’t have an excellent campaign strategy. The Texas governor rewrote the playbook on political organizing back in 2010, when he created an expansive grassroots network. No mailers, no yard signs, few television ads. His only request to supporters: recruit 12 Perry voters from friends and family and get them to the polls. The Republican primary campaign—against the popular and very well-funded Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison—defied all expectations. Unprecedented turnout gave Perry the victory. The strategy…
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Tar Sands Pipeline: “A Climate Killing Disaster”
Starting this weekend people from across the co…
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‘We’ are Not Responsible for D.C. Deadlock
THOMAS FERGUSON, thomas.ferguson at umb.edu Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute. He recently wrote the piece, “Memo to New York Times: Data Shows That ‘We’ Are Not Responsible for D.C. Deadlock.” It states: “After this summer’s exhausting budget and debt ceiling follies, everyone who can turn on a TV knows that Congress is sharply polarized along party lines. But most pundits are way off on what causes it.
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Iraq: “Disastrous 20 Year War”
RAED JARRAR, jarrar.raed at gmail.com An Iraqi-American blogger and political analyst based in Washington D.C., Jarrar was in Iraq two weeks ago. He said today: “The coordinated wave of attacks that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqis this week were not religious, sectarian, or ethnic in nature. And unlike what many U.S. pundits have been claiming, these attacks are yet another reason for the U.S. to leave Iraq and end this war that started in 1991.
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Millionaires: “Read Our Lips, Raise Our Taxes”
Warren Buffett recently wrote “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” BRIAN SETZLER, brian.setzler.cpa at gmail.com Setzler is President of TriLibrium, an accounting and business advisory firm in Portland, Ore. and member of Business for Shared Prosperity, a network of forward-thinking business owners, executives and investors committed to building enduring economic progress on a strong foundation of opportunity, equity and innovation.
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British Austerity and Riots
MURTAZA HUSSAIN, m8hussai at gmail.com Hussai…
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Social Security: Endangered on its 76th Birthday
Altman is co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, a coalition of over 300 national and state organizations representing more than 50 million Americans and author of the book “The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble.” She said today: “Social Security has transformed the nation, insuring American workers and their families against the loss of wages…
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