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Thursday, 12 July 2012 | |  Amy Goodman, Op-Ed: "As Spain's prime minister announced deep austerity cuts Wednesday in order to secure funds from the European Union to bail out Spain's failing banks, the people of Spain have taken to the streets once again for what they call "Real Democracy Now." This comes a week after the government announced it was launching a criminal investigation into the former CEO of Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia. Rodrigo Rato is no small fish: Before running Bankia he was head of the International Monetary Fund. What the U.S. media don't tell you is that this official government investigation was initiated by grass-roots action." | | |  Amanda Peterson Beadle, News Report: "A U.S. citizen is suing the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security after the fingerprint-sharing program Secure Communities incorrectly identified him as an undocumented immigrant. When Chicago resident James Makowski pleaded guilty in December 2010 to a felony charge and sentenced to four months at a drug treatment facility, the controversial programflagged Makowski as an undocumented immigrant, and he spent two months in a maximum-security prison before immigration officials stopped his erroneous deportation order." | | |  George Lakey, Op-Ed: "Ecuador is in the news these days for its embassy in London giving sanctuary to Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, who is in danger of extradition from Britain and prosecution in the United States. Ecuador, in fact, has a long history of defying the U.S. empire. Few people remember that the country once defied the U.S. by joining a wave of nonviolent campaigns in 1944, as the Second World War was coming to a close." | | |  Ethan Freedman, News Analysis: "As the Latino population in the United States rises, the demographic shift will affect future as well as current voting habits, and therefore election outcomes, in the United States, according to several experts. In the highly competitive upcoming presidential elections, "a couple hundred of Latino voters can make a difference," Roberto Suro, director of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at University of Southern California, said Monday. The impact is especially significant in battleground states like Florida, which holds 29 electoral votes, and where 22.9 percent of the populace is Latino." | | |  Nick Turse, Op-Ed: "They call it the New Spice Route, an homage to the medieval trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, even if today's 'spice road' has nothing to do with cinnamon, cloves, or silks. Instead, it's a superpower's superhighway, on which trucks and ships shuttle fuel, food, and military equipment through a growing maritime and ground transportation infrastructure to a network of supply depots, tiny camps, and airfields meant to service a fast-growing U.S. military presence in Africa. " | | |  Megha Rajagopalan, News Report: "In response to a congressional inquiry, mobile phone companies on Monday finally disclosed just how many times they've handed over users' cellphone data to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. By the New York Times' count, cellphone companies responded to 1.3 million demands for subscribers' information last year from law enforcement. Many of the records, such as location data, don't require search warrants or much court oversight." | | |  Robert Reich, Video Report: "It's not merely Republicans versus Democrats, or conservatives versus liberals. The larger battle is between regressives and progressives. Regressives want to take this nation backward — to before Social Security, unemployment insurance, and Medicare; before civil rights and voting rights; before regulations designed to protect the environment, workers, consumers, and investors. Progressives are determined to take this nation forward — toward equal opportunity, tolerance and openness, adequate protection against corporate and Wall Street abuses, and an economy and democracy that are working for all of us." | | |  Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: If only one in four American adults can name his or her U.S. senators, we can assume that even fewer know what Libor is. Libor (pronounced lie-bor) is at the center of another major financial scandal, but that may not improve its name recognition much. This is summer, after all, and making sense of financial manipulation requires effort. | | |  Nick Lyell, News Analysis: "The United States is getting more corrupt. So says Transparency International, which ranks the country the 16th least-corrupt in the world in 2001. By last year, the United States fell back to 24th place. Why is corruption spreading? A recent New York Times story fingers everything from globalization to rising income inequality, as well as the growing role of corporate money in political campaigns. Yet, while corporations are spending more than ever on political campaigns, we've also recently seen a noticeable uptick in corporate corruption scandals." | | |  Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 298 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." | | |  Rebecca Theodore, Op-Ed: "'The long shadow of Sarah Palin still hangs over vice presidential politics,' writes Jennifer Lawless, director of American University's Women and Politics Institute. While many critics argue that Palin's legacy has seriously scarred the image of women in politics in America and imprison the image of the dominant Other, it is often forgotten that feminism as a historical and political movement does not only speak to middle class white women." | | |  Joseph S. Nye, Op-Ed: "When President Richard Nixon proclaimed in the early 1970's that he wanted to secure national energy independence, the United States imported a quarter of its oil. By the decade's end, after an Arab oil embargo and the Iranian Revolution, domestic production was in decline, Americans were importing half their petroleum needs at 15 times the price, and it was widely believed that the country was running out of natural gas." | | |  Steve Horn, News Report: "How do you sell a rotten bag of goods? Rule number one of effective propaganda: repackage it into something seemingly less grotesque. In that spirit, the Houston Chronicle recently reported the American Petroleum Institute (API) has created yet another front group, this one to promote tar sands crude, one of the dirtiest sources of fuel in the world, as a safe and secure energy resource." | | |  Eric Arnold, News Analysis: "Jacob Mathis was a classic underachiever and troubled child. The 15-year-old's grade point average was just 0.77 and by his own accord, he had "extreme anger problems" stemming from his relationship with his stepdad. His emotional turmoil often spilled over into school and affected his conduct in the classroom. After an incident in which he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and making criminal threats, he was sentenced to probation." | | | FROM AROUND THE WEB |
Healthcare The Republican-led House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 244-185, on Wednesday once again passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama's overhaul of the healthcare system. |
Sudan Police use tear gas to disperse protesters as the president dismisses opposition call for an "Arab Spring" uprising. |
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