R.I.P. Nelson Mandela
By CAP Action War Room on December 6, 2013
As you contemplate the inspiring legacy of the late South African leader, here are a few pieces from ThinkProgress that you may find interesting:
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
As you contemplate the inspiring legacy of the late South African leader, here are a few pieces from ThinkProgress that you may find interesting:
Joe Lieberman was a 'third way' Democrat. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Pathetic Centrists
07 December 13
So progressive Democrats have seized on an op-ed by the group Third Way - an op-ed attacking Elizabeth Warren and Bill de Blasio for their terrible, horrible economic populism - as a way to start reclaiming the party from the "centrists". And it's working: the centrists are very much on the run.
Why? Part of the answer is that the Democratic party has become more progressive. But I would argue that the centrists are also suffering from their own intellectual bankruptcy.
I mean, going after Warren and de Blasio for not being willing to cut Social Security and their "staunch refusal to address the coming Medicare crisis" ??? Even aside from the question of exactly what the mayor of New York has to do with Medicare, this sounds as if they have been living in a cave for years, maybe reading an occasional screed from the Pete Peterson complex.
The rest of RSN:
Pratap Chatterjee | How the CIA Bungled the
War on Terror
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch
Chatterjee writes: "Think of it as the CIA's plunge into Hollywood - or into the absurd. As recent revelations have made clear, that Agency's moves couldn't be have been more far-fetched or more real. In its post-9/11 global shadow war, it has employed both private contractors and some of the world's most notorious prisoners in ways that leave the latest episode of the Bourne films in the dust ..."
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Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch
Chatterjee writes: "Think of it as the CIA's plunge into Hollywood - or into the absurd. As recent revelations have made clear, that Agency's moves couldn't be have been more far-fetched or more real. In its post-9/11 global shadow war, it has employed both private contractors and some of the world's most notorious prisoners in ways that leave the latest episode of the Bourne films in the dust ..."
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Wikileaks Reveals Failed Plans to Suppress
Anti-Keystone Activists
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "The oil industry never wanted to people to get worked up about the tapping of Canada's tar sands. ... But a 2010 presentation released by Wikileaks shows just how desperate it was to keep to environmentalists off its back - and just how unsuccessful, three years later, it's been in doing so."
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Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "The oil industry never wanted to people to get worked up about the tapping of Canada's tar sands. ... But a 2010 presentation released by Wikileaks shows just how desperate it was to keep to environmentalists off its back - and just how unsuccessful, three years later, it's been in doing so."
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Kumi Naidoo | Hamba Kahle Nelson
Mandela
Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace
Naidoo writes: "Nelson Mandela was never really a prisoner, but a free man always, and now, forever. As a South African, a comrade in the struggle to liberate my homeland from the evil of apartheid and a citizen of the world, my heart is heavy today. The loss was to be expected, but remains hard to bear."
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Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace
Naidoo writes: "Nelson Mandela was never really a prisoner, but a free man always, and now, forever. As a South African, a comrade in the struggle to liberate my homeland from the evil of apartheid and a citizen of the world, my heart is heavy today. The loss was to be expected, but remains hard to bear."
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Joe Conason |
Why Republicans Can't Address Rising Inequality
Joe Conason, The National Memo
Conason writes: "So far, the Republican response to President Obama's historic address on economic inequality has not veered from the predictable cliches of Tea Party rhetoric. It was appropriately summarized in a tweet from House Speaker John Boehner, complaining that the Democrat in the White House wants 'more government rather than more freedom' - and ignoring his challenge to Republicans to present solutions of their own."
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Joe Conason, The National Memo
Conason writes: "So far, the Republican response to President Obama's historic address on economic inequality has not veered from the predictable cliches of Tea Party rhetoric. It was appropriately summarized in a tweet from House Speaker John Boehner, complaining that the Democrat in the White House wants 'more government rather than more freedom' - and ignoring his challenge to Republicans to present solutions of their own."
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Displaced by
Hurricane Sandy and Living in Limbo, Instead of at Home
Patrick McGeehan and Griff Palmer, The New York Times
McGeehan and Palmer report: "For Kathryn Fitzgerald and her young daughter, Megan, home was a modest three-bedroom house here, on a tightly packed segment of Delaware Avenue two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. That was the only home that Megan had ever known, until Hurricane Sandy hit and a rank mixture of floodwater and untreated sewage rose to chest-high in the lower level of the house."
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Patrick McGeehan and Griff Palmer, The New York Times
McGeehan and Palmer report: "For Kathryn Fitzgerald and her young daughter, Megan, home was a modest three-bedroom house here, on a tightly packed segment of Delaware Avenue two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. That was the only home that Megan had ever known, until Hurricane Sandy hit and a rank mixture of floodwater and untreated sewage rose to chest-high in the lower level of the house."
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