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David Sirota, Op-Ed: Ryan labels himself an opponent of "crony capitalism" and is often promoted by reporters as someone who can help Mitt Romney thwart the Washington insiders who corrupt our politics. Somehow, we are expected to ignore the fact that Ryan has spent the vast majority of his adult life in Washington; that his wife served as a top pharmaceutical and oil lobbyist in Washington; and that, as Newsweek reported in 2011, he tried to insert special provisions into federal law that would boost his personal oil investment portfolio. 
Candice Bernd, News Report: Events on Thursday were also staged in Dallas and Houston, where protestors standing in solidarity with rural landowners say TransCanada bullied and manipulated residents across the state, forcing the pipeline's construction through the use of eminent domain—a legal maneuver that allows corporations to seize private citizens' property without their consent. "TransCanada lied to me from day one," says Susan Scott, a landowner in East Texas whose property will be condemned. 
Robert Borosage, Op-Ed: Biden's pledge, of course, offends the conventional wisdom among Washington's chattering classes that favors a "grand bargain to get our books in order" in which "everything is on the table." What that translates into is that Democrats agree to cuts in Medicare and Social Security, in return for which Republicans agree to "tax reform" that lowers tax rates but raises more revenue by closing loopholes. 
Suevon Lee, News Analysis: The court ruled that the law is a valid "election regulation" and held the burdens were not "sufficiently unreasonable." In addition, the court frequently referenced the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld Indiana's voter ID law on federal constitutional grounds. The state Supreme Court's decision included one dissent. It found the state's photo ID requirement was a "minimal, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory restriction" and repeatedly cited the U.S. Supreme Court decision as persuasive authority. 
Robert Skidelsky, Op-Ed: The impact of population and GDP is obvious: A large population increases the chance that a country will have athletes with the natural talent to win medals, and a high GDP means that it will have the money to invest in the infrastructure and training needed to develop medal-winning athletes. Past performance is also important: the visibility and prestige of a sport increases after Olympic success, as does funding. Medals attract money; failure results in cuts. 
Igor Volsky and Pat Garofalo, News Report: Ryan's budget would send the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) back to the states as a block grant and cut the program by $134 billion. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "an average of almost 10 million people would have to be cut from the program in the years from 2016 through 2022 to achieve the required savings." 
Christopher Petrella, Video Report: As prison labor becomes a mode of generating profit for the prisons. Prisoner minimum wage labor that is earned becomes garnished up to 80%. Over 200,000 illegal immigrants were detained last year in two large prison that are being backed by the big investment banks such as Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and WellsFargo. These banks are backing the private prison that have been garnishing the wages of prisoners. 
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: We can't even have a clear debate about programs like Medicare, because Romney and Ryan seem determined to sow as much confusion as possible about their proposed voucher system. (At least Romney says his own approach to Medicare is "almost identical" to Ryan's.) They've been charging all week that President Obama's Affordable Care Act "robs" Medicare of more than $700 billion over the next decade. 
Jack Fitzpatrick and Khara Persad, News Analysis: "Former state Senate President Russell Pearce, who wrote the law, did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. Arizona also is in the national debate over voting rights. Democrats say the increasing Latino population could put the state within reach for President Barack Obama in November, and that Arizona's voter ID and immigration laws motivate Latinos to vote." 
Ken Butigan, Op-Ed: They come from all walks of the civil and human rights struggle, each a distinguished leader with a long record of advocacy, molded in courage and sacrifice. But last week, these leaders — some in their 60s, 70s, and even a few at age 80 and beyond — came together from across the nation in what they called "an historic gathering" at North Carolina A&T University, to be reborn in a collective purpose, amid the legacy of the 1960 lunch counter sit-in movement that inspired the world. 
Haider Rizvi, News Report: Food price hikes, rising unemployment and variety of other factors are all contributing to the worsening scenario, according to the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Last week, the FAO said that food prices had gone up in July up by six percent compared to the previous month. Grains and sugar were the main drivers of the increase. Commenting on the FAO report, Colin Roche of Oxfam International told IPS, "This is not some monthly wake-up call. It's the same global alarm that has been screaming at us since 2008. --
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