Wednesday picks

Written by: Gerry L on Dec 3, 2008 9:07 AM EST

Wednesday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ December 3rd,  2008

Computer-trouble delays today..

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A Consensus Emerges: Build, and Build Big

http://www.truthout.org/120208T

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Pursuing U.S. Aid, G.M. Accepts Need for Drastic Cuts

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/03auto.html?hp

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Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education

http://www.truthout.org/120208R

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How Many Americans Died Because of Bush’s Torture Program?

Scott Horton-No Comment-Harper’s Magazine

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

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An Effort in Congress Attempts to Block Any Bush Pardons of His Administration

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-latt/an-effort-in-congress-att_b_145881.html

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Rep. Nadler Moves to Prevent Pre-Emptive White House Pardons

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny08_nadler/PreEmptPardons_112108.html

Write your Congessional Representatives to support this..

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

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Vote First. Ask Questions Later.

By William Blum

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21377.htm

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William Blum is the author of:

• Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2
• Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
• West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
• Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire

Portions of the books can be read, and signed copies purchased, at www.killinghope.org

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Thanks to John (DFC) for this…

What happened this year in Ohio
by Pete Johnson
The November presidential election was a historic landslide victory for Barack Obama. A closer election would have magnified some very troubling aspects of our election systems, despite the improvements made by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3304

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Change or More of the Same? Obama Introduces National Security Team

President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Senator Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary. Other nominees included retired General James Jones to be National Security Adviser and Susan Rice as ambassador to the United Nations. Is that change or more of the same? We speak with investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation magazine and Steven Clemons of the New America Foundation [includes rush transcript].

http://www.democracynow.org/

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Will Obama Stay the Course?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081202_will_obama_stay_the_course/

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Saxby Succeeds in Georgia

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20081202_saxby_succeeds_in_georgia/

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U.S. Lags In Providing College Access, Study Finds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR2008120203020.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

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Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html?_r=1&hp

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Middle class has been shrinking for decades

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/56943.html

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EPA to gut mountaintop mining rule protecting streams

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/56921.html

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FEIN: Bush the pardoner's tale

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/02/the-pardoners-tale/

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Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/56910.html

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from and about ‘over there’

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Nato 'to resume ties with Russia'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7759833.stm

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American alleges torture in UAE detention

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/

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100 countries join clamour for global ban on cluster bombs

• UK and Germany welcome pact to be signed today
• US and Russia among the governments opting out

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/03/cluster-bomb-international-convention-signing

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

India: No Troop Movements;
Zardari offers to Try Perps in Pakistan;
Lashkar had fought in Iraq

http://www.juancole.com/

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Interview: Hanan Ashrawi

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/12/2008122175844594634.html

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Key Chavez opponent faces charges

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7762082.stm

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Peace and Solidarity

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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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