Wednesday picks

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 18, 2009 7:44 AM EST

Wednesday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 18th, 2009

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Maybe…

Another Round of Regulatory Reform

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/opinion/18wed1.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1258539461-Dr99zdO+aVOKHQ8uuwc5Lg

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Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

By Robert Scheer —

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/who_are_you_and_what_have_you_done_with_the_community_organizer_we_elected_/

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Obama orders financial fraud task force beefed up

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79053.html

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Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell

By Jim Hightower, AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/story/144026/hightower%3A_obscenely_rich_bankers_claim_to_do_god%27s_work_--_they_can_go_to_hell

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Congress Can Move Now to Prevent Layoffs, Plant Closings

by John Nichols

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-13

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Why Did Obama Win?
Stephen Sackur Interviews Noam Chomsky.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23993.htm

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What Real Health Reform Looks Like

We Need Health Care, Not Insurance

By CAROL MILLER

http://www.counterpunch.org/miller11162009.html

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That said….

3 Democrats Could Block Health Bill in Senate

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/health/policy/18senate.html

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Let's Beat the BlueDogs - and Blanche Lincoln

http://www.democrats.com/lets-beat-the-bluedogs

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Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability

by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature

http://www.truthout.org/111709Giroux

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Aw,gee golly shucks…

Rogue American Woman

By Maureen Dowd..

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/opinion/18dowd.html?_r=1

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Eugene Robinson | Our Rogue Evita

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/111709vh06

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Bogus Bidder Loses Shot at Global-Warming Defense

by Robert Gehrke

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/17-7

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Help Tim Dechristopher…

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=67983060464

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

Have you a few moments to spare today to make a comment to an opiion item at your local paper’s website.. Your progressive voice is needed!

Most recent letters to the editor at The Enquirer: 

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Politics & Government

http://news.cincinnati.com/news

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Legislation to Limit Use of State Secrets Privilege an Uphill Battle

by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report

http://www.truthout.org/1117097

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The Real Story Of The Terrorist "Mad Doctor Hasan"
By Jeff Gates
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23991.htm

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Why We Should Put Jihad on Trial

By Steven Simon

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/opinion/18simon.html

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The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, the Madness of the Military Commissions

by: Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

http://www.truthout.org/1117095

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Check out what’s going on in the anti-war resistance…

Here’s one website…

WORLD CAN’T WAIT

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

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from and about ‘over there’

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The China visit…

Here an analysis based on U.S. Govt’s perspective…

China’s War on Low U.S. Interest Rates

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/chinas-war-on-low-us-interest-rates/?ref=world

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And then, there’s this one:

The View from China

posted by Robert Dreyfuss

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/498052/the_view_from_china

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Celebrating Revolution With Roots in a Rumor

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/europe/18czech.html?em

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Our National Cognitive Dissonance

By Jeff Huber

~~~ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
– Bertrand Russell

http://original.antiwar.com/huber/2009/11/17/our-national-cognitive-dissonance/

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Afghanistan as a Patronage Machine

by Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt

http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/11/17/afghanistan-as-a-patronage-machine/

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Pakistani Military Takes Taliban Strongholds;
Maulana Fazlullah Surfaces in Afghanistan

http://www.juancole.com/

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Judge Rules Arab Teens Need Protection from Israeli Justice

Israel's Two-Tiered Justice System

By JONATHAN COOK

http://www.counterpunch.org/cook11172009.html

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Addicted To Occupation
By Gideon Levy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23988.htm

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Honduran Crisis Outfoxes US Attempts at Negotiation

by Tom Hayden

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/17-1

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From Just Foreign Policy

Trumka: Free Elections Not Possible Now in Honduras
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/11/16/trumka-free-elections-not-possible-now-in-honduras/

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For more excellent foreign news coverage see their website:

Just Foreign Policy News

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/408

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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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