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Return of Ma Bell? FCC Net Neutrality Order a “Squandered Opportunity”
Free Press Managing Director Craig Aaron said today: “The new rules are riddled with loopholes, evidence that the chairman sought approval from AT&T instead of listening to the millions of Americans who asked for real Net Neutrality. …”
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Cost of START Treaty
Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and is on the coordinating committee of Abolition 2000, a disarmament coalition. She said today: “The Obama administration will pay a heavy price to ratify the modest START treaty should it receive the required 67 Senate votes this week to enact it into law. The president originally promised the weapons labs $80 billion over ten years for building three new bomb factories in Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Kansas City to modernize our nuclear arsenals as well as an additional $100 billion for new delivery systems –…
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Slavery and the States’ Rights Myth
Loewen is author of the bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me and the new book The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader (with Edward Sebesta). Loewen said today: “In 1860 and 1861, when the Southern states seceded, they said why, and it was all about slavery — its protection and extension. They said nothing about states’ rights. Why would they? The federal government was doing what they wanted, from recapturing fugitive slaves to low tariffs. On the contrary, South Carolina (and other states) inveighed AGAINST states’ rights, attacking states that refused to return slaves, for example.” See Loewen’s webpage
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D.C. Metro to Search Bags
The D.C. Bill of Rights Coalition and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalitionith launched an online petition campaign today in opposition to the bag search program announced on Thursday, but not yet implemented, by D.C. Metro Transit Police. Elder and Udry are members of both civil liberties groups. The bag searching program was initially announced in 2008, but was put aside due to widespread community opposition. Udry, who is also director of the Defending Dissent Foundation, said today: “Metro officials are referencing a recent alleged bomb plot against Metro as justification for the random bag searches. They should remember that…
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Civil Resistance at White House Led by Veterans
Military veterans will lead a nonviolent act of civil resistance at the White House Thursday, Dec. 16, at 10:00 a.m. to protest the ongoing U.S. wars and occupations. Veterans For Peace organizers expect this to be the largest veteran-led resistance since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began. Among the scheduled participants: Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers; Mike Ferner, Veterans For Peace national president; Leah Bolger, Veterans For Peace vice president and retired Navy commander; Ray McGovern, retired CIA official; Coleen Rowley, FBI whistleblower; and Chris Hedges, author and former New York Times war correspondent. See: stopthesewars.org
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Holbrooke
Zunes just wrote the piece “Richard Holbrooke Represented the Worst of the Foreign Policy Establishment.” Zunes is professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and senior policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus.
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New President’s House Exhibit Includes Slavery
Lusane is author of the new book The Black History of the White House and an associate professor at American University. He said today: “The opening of the new exhibit ‘President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in Making a New Nation’ at Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell Center pavilion in Independence Park is an opportunity to highlight the long history and contemporary status of race relations in the United States.
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Health Mandate
Flowers is congressional fellow for the 18,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program; Almberg is the organization’s communications director. Flowers said today: “This ruling is just another sign of the deterioration of this complicated piece of legislation. What’s needed is a more reasonable, simpler approach, which would be enhanced Medicare-for-all.”
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Obama, Congress and Taxes
JOHN BERG Professor of government at Suffolk Un…
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Attacks on WikiLeaks Violating the Law?
CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON Simpson is a professor who…
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