Sunday's scan

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 15, 2009 7:26 AM EST

Sunday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 15th, 2009

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Reform and Medical Costs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/opinion/15sun1.html?_r=1

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Another Option for the Public Option
There might be a way to set a trigger for a stronger health-insurance public option starting in 2013, says Robert Parry.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111109b.html

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Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children

by David Michael Green

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/14-1

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Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

Katha Pollitt: Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough is enough.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/pollitt

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No Country for Yes Men

Shakthi Jothianandan

Notorious political pranksters the Yes Men have made a career out of impersonating henchmen from major companies, including Exxon, Dow Chemical and McDonald's--and getting away with it.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/jothianandan

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Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?

By David Cole

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23382

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Al Gore's Current TV Lays Off 80 Staff, Changes Direction

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-derrick/al-gores-current-tv-lays_b_355248.html

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Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670020915?tag=thomhartmann

and other books:

http://www.thomhartmann.com/category/books/

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

Please check your local paper’s website today for a chance to leave a comment

Or make a recommendation on an item which could use your progressive voice!

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Two recent letters to the editor

Health debate should focus on patients
Public betrayed with support of health reform
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Charles Krauthammer

A medical excuse for mass murder?

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Sunday Enquirer Forum

Important step toward meaningful reform
More Forum

Health-care reform must help Medicaid patients

House bill lacks medical liability reforms

House's Rx not the health-care cure

Saying 'no' to health care reform for too long

Both sides at barricades

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Gates Invokes New Authority to Block Release of Detainee Abuse Photos

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/111409jl01

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The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul

By Frank Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/opinion/15rich.html

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In case you did not catch this…

Week In Review: John Perkins & Russ Baker on Secret Empires

GRITtv with Laura Flanders

Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but both of Wednesday’s guests are experts on the powerful forces holding the status quo in place. John Perkins is the author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , and has written about how corporations push politicians around and even threaten them with violence. Russ Baker, meanwhile, is the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America and has written extensively about the military-industrial complex.  They both argue that it is nearly impossible for one politician–or even a body of them–to fight the massive private industries that so effectively control and direct the powers of even the U.S. government.

They argue the only weapon we have is public opinion and public pressure–and we need to bring it to bear not just on the government, but on the corporations.

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/11/14/week-in-review-john-perkins-russ-baker-on-secret-empires/

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from and about ‘over there’

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World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change

By Helene Cooper

SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15prexy.html?ref=global-home

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In China, Obama will glimpse world's new center of gravity

By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers

When President Barack Obama lands here Sunday night in China's largest city, he'll find many of its 20 million people intrigued by him and welcoming, but hardly deferential, and some openly skeptical of his promises of change. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/78898.html

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Juan Cole:  Informed Commet

Peshawar Bombing Kills 12;
Tablighi Turn against Taliban

http://www.juancole.com/

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Patrick Cockburn: The general is right. Liam Fox is wrong

The Taliban are able to present themselves as battling for Afghan independence

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-the-general-is-right-liam-fox-is-wrong-1819743.html

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The Sleazy Advocacy of a Leading "Liberal Hawk"
By Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times today details the unbelievably sleazy story of Peter Galbraith, one of the Democratic Party's leading so-called "liberal hawks" and a generally revered Wise Man of America's Foreign Policy Community.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23959.htm

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Rights Group Fires Back at Israel

Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel and its backers of waging a campaign of misinformation in an effort to discredit the group. HRW has been a leading voice in condemning alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20091114_israel_attacking_rights_groups/

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SC senator forces U.S. change on Honduras

Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/78899.html

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Scott Horton Interviews Greg Palast

Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses the domestic political motives behind the war posturing of Venezuela and Colombia, Obama’s embrace and expansion of Plan Colombia, the demonization of Hugo Chavez and Ecuador’s escape from vassalage to the U.S. and big oil.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/11/12/greg-palast-7/

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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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