Thursday digest

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 5, 2009 8:06 AM EST

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 5th, 2009

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Democracy and Capitalism Are NOT One and the Same

by: Glynn Wilson, t r u t h o u t | Movie Review

If Michael Moore had arrived on the film scene as a conservative Republican activist in 1989, he might be heralded by Fox News today as a major American hero, and he might even be able to get a fair review in the so-called "liberal" New York Times. http://www.truthout.org/1104099

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The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

By Joe Conason —

The more that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and kindred spirits appear to represent the Republican brand, the less appeal that brand possesses.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_the_gops_toxic_tea_party/

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‘him’ the mucho-macho ‘rough-rider’!!!…

Dick Armey Is Back on the Attack

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08Armey-t.html?ref=politics

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Not Right Wing but Still Angry

E.J.Dionne

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_not_right-wing_but_still_angry/

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Low Road to High Finance: McClatchy Expose Reveals How Goldman Sachs Sold Off Billions in Mortgage Securities After Anticipating Housing Collapse

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/4/sachs

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Small banks didn't cause the mess, but no bailout for them

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

The collapse in home prices sunk many big banks last year, but this year smaller lenders and community banks are going bust at an alarming rate because of their exposure to souring commercial real estate loans. » read more

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/78351.html

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Making Pelosi Live Up to Her Promise

The Medicare-for-All Moment

By ROBERT WEISSMAN

http://www.counterpunch.org/weissman11042009.html

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Blue Dog congressman pushes tort reforms in health bill

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/78364.html

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The Gullible Dittoheads

by Guy Reel

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/04-3

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Can you spare a few moments today to comment on a letter to the editor, opinion piece or a news item?  Check your local paper’s website..Your progressive comment is needed!

Among ‘most recent letters’ to the editor in the Cincinnati area’s Enquirer

An explanation for voters' insanity
Regarding the letter ("Insanity in the voting booth," Nov. 3): The reason the same politicians keep getting...

Little Miami voters put wallets before children
There was one Little , tMiami levy on the ballot, one levy failure, thousands of children affected. If...

'Older, whiter' headline offensive
The Nov. 3rd headline ("Today's Voter: Older, Whiter") was offensive to me. Imagine the furor that would...

What I responded to…

N.Y. candidate was no moderate
In the New York House race between Bill Owens (D) and?Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party,?and a lady who...

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/letters/2009/11/04/n-y-candidate-was-no-moderate/

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George Will

Liberal bullying of referendum signers must stop
It is time to speak up about thuggish liberalism, especially when it tries to suppress...

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Factory Farms Write Business Model into State Constitution

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/bretprogressohio/CXcQ

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Deregulating How Food Is Processed And Manufactured, As Well As How Corporate Agribusinesses Raise And Process Livestock

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXcr

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thanks to Dave Harding’s blog (ProgressOhio) for this..

Congressman Tim Ryan: House Republicans and Health Care Reform: 'The Wrong Side of History'

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXcH

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A Court Decision That Reflects What Type of Country the US Is

Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity

by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/04-1

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House Shames Itself on Goldstone Report

by Matthew Rothschild

Shame on the House of Representatives, and on the Democratic leadership of the House, for pushing through a resolution once again blindly taking the side of Israeli aggression.

I’m referring to the vote on Tuesday, by a lopsided 344-to-36 margin, to condemn the Goldstone report on Gaza.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/04-13

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President Obama's Deep Love Of Peace?
By William Blum

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23898.htm

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from and about ‘over there’

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Italian Court Sentences 23 CIA Agents Over Rendition Flight
By Richard Owen in Rome
The Americans were all tried in absentia, but the verdicts were nevertheless hailed by human rights campaigners as an important victory that could open the way to further prosecutions. Two lower-ranking agents of the Italian military agency SISMI were sentenced to three years each. Continue

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23895.htm

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America's new crusader castles

Simon Tisdall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/oct/29/us-embassies-crusader-castles

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Why and To What End in Afghanistan

by Ralph Nader

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/04

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Hollow Victory

BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/68820

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America is Performing its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator
By Robert Fisk
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23897.htm

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Erekat Sees One-State Solution if Settlements are not Halted

http://www.juancole.com/

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Zionism's Jewish Enemy

Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23893.htm

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Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

The new Christmas Island refugee detention center has come to symbolize what many call one of Australia’s defining fears: the arrival of boat people from Asia .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/asia/05island.html?ref=world

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Deal to restore ex-president languishes in Honduran Congress

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/78347.html

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Peace and Solidarity

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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