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Monday, 16 July 2012 NationofChange Turns One! With a tiny staff and a shoestring budget we have managed to raise over $50,000 for progressive causes in this last year alone. Our little website has grown into a substantial player in this fight and we're just getting started.
Of course, none of this could have been or will be possible without your support.
This week, we're asking our readers to show their support for our organization by making a small tax-deductible donation. If you believe that organizations like NationofChange are crucial to our democracy, then give generously now. | | |  David Vine, Op-Ed: Since the "Black Hawk Down" deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, we've heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa (other than a strange report last week about three special operations commandos killed, along with three women identified by U.S. military sources as "Moroccan prostitutes," in a mysterious car accident in Mali). The growing number of patients arriving at Ramstein from Africa pulls back a curtain on a significant transformation in twenty-first-century U.S. military strategy. | | |  Zack Beauchamp, News Analysis: These aren't problems that the federal government alone can address. Researchers for a consortium of major universities found that state regulations play by far the most important role in regulating food safety. "State and local agencies are much closer to consumers than federal agencies and must respond to food safety concerns in their communities, even when the problems originate elsewhere," they found. | | |  Jim Hightower, Op-Ed: Since 2004, craft beers have doubled their share of the U.S. market. Some 250 upstart breweries opened last year alone, bringing their total number to nearly 2,000. This is a true populist economic phenomenon. Consumers and artisans have found each other and spontaneously created an alternative, locally based economy that helps sustain themselves and their community, rather than having their money siphoned out by far-away profit-takers. | | |  Laura Kacere, News Report: The rent strike started two years ago when Sara Lopez woke up early one morning. No one sleeps much in these three buildings — in the winter there's no heat, in the summer there's no electricity, and all year there are rats and cockroaches scurrying in the walls — but that morning Lopez had slept even worse than usual, and she was mad. "I thought and thought and decided that I needed to do something," she said. "So I knocked on 51 doors because I got mad of so much injustice." | | |  Nomi Prins and Paul Craig Roberts, Op-Ed: "The latest news completes the picture of banks and central banks manipulating interest rates in order to prop up the prices of bonds and other debt instruments. We have learned that the Fed has been aware of Libor manipulation (and thus apparently supportive of it) since 2008. Thus, the circle of complicity is closed. The motives of the Fed, Bank of England, US and UK banks are aligned, their policies mutually reinforcing and beneficial." | | |  Fawzia Sheikh, News Report: "Technically, human trafficking differs from human smuggling because the transported individual has given no consent and is further exploited on arrival in the destination country. However, a soon-to-be-published paper by Canadian criminologist Yvon Dandurand states that people who are smuggled into a country often have not realized they are on the verge of being victimized." | | |  Amy Goodman, Video Report: We discuss the Green Party's global reach with Dr. Joachim Denkinger, Deputy Secretary General of The Greens Group in the European Parliament, and Justine McCabe of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States. "I think we just recognized that something is moving in the U.S. in the Green field," Denkinger says. "We have to strengthen the transatlantic bridge because more and more things will be decided on a global level." | | |  Paul Buchheit , Op-Ed: Patriotic Millionaires recently addressed the President and Congress: "Given the dire state of our economy, it is absurd that one-quarter of all millionaires pay a lower tax rate than millions of working, middle-class American families...Please do the right thing for our country. Raise our taxes." It's good to know somebody gets it right. Taxes, for the most part, are not unfair. They represent payment for society's many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer. | | | ![]( "The Latest Lie:") Dave Johnson, Op-Ed: "There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there." | | | FROM AROUND THE WEB |
Syrian Civil War Humanitarian law is now applicable after Red Cross declares Syria a state of civil war. |
Media Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture with MSNBC. |
Global Economy The reduction of solid waste correlates to a state of recession. | | | | |  | | NationofChange is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please let us know. If you do not wish to receive future updates from NationofChange, click here to unsubscribe. | | | NationofChange and the NationofChange logo are registered trademarks of NationofChange
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