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Greg Palast | Voter Purges Alter U.S. Political Map

Greg Palast, Al Jazeera America
Palast writes: "Interstate Crosscheck is a computerized system meant to identify fraudulent voters. While Crosscheck's list of nearly 7 million names of 'potential' double voters has yet to unearth, as of this writing, a single illegal vote this year, it did help Republican elections officials scrub voters from registries."
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Phil Donahue | The Life and Death of Tomas Young
Phil Donahue, Moyers & Company
Donahue writes: "Tomas sustained this catastrophic injury while fighting for America in the most sanitized war of my lifetime. The press was admonished not to take pictures of flag-draped coffins, and the press said, 'Okay.'"
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We Need Someone to Judge the Judges
Jordan Smith, The Intercept
Smith writes: "According to multiple affidavits, Jones said, among other things, that minorities are more 'prone' to commit violent crimes (when questioned about this, Jones hedged, saying she was talking about statistics and that, 'sadly,' blacks and Hispanics commit more violent crimes than do others)."
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V. Gene Robinson | Awaiting the Grand Jury, Dread in Ferguson and America
V. Gene Robinson, The Daily Beast
Robinson writes: "Much as they did immediately after the shooting of Mike Brown and the demonstrations that followed, local police appear to be preparing for war, rather than keeping the peace. We saw how such provocative actions only inflamed passions and escalated the unrest."
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Al Franken Schools Ted Cruz on Net Neutrality
Adam Sneed, Politico
Sneed writes: "Sen. Al Franken says Sen. Ted Cruz showed he doesn't understand net neutrality by comparing it to Obamacare. 'He has it completely wrong, and he just doesn't understand what the issue is,' the Minnesota Democrat said Sunday on CNN's 'State of the Union.'"
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DEA Agents Raid NFL Medical Staffs After Games
Jim Litke, Associated Press
Litke writes: "Federal drug enforcement agents showed up unannounced Sunday to check at least three visiting NFL teams' medical staffs as part of an investigation into former players' claims that teams mishandled prescription drugs."
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Obama Pledges $3 Billion for World Climate Fund, Makes GOP Look Even Dumber
Ben Adler, Grist
Adler writes: "The White House announced today that President Obama is going to pledge $3 billion to the U.N.'s Green Climate Fund, throwing down another gauntlet at the GOP just three days after his joint announcement with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the U.S. and China will pursue new emissions reduction goals."
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DemocracyNOW! : Legendary Talk Show Host Phil Donahue on the Silencing of Antiwar Voices in U.S. Media

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Paralyzed Iraq War Vet Turned Peace Activist Tomas Young Dies on Eve of Veterans Day As the nation marks Veterans Day, we remember the Iraq War veteran Tomas Young, who died this week at the age of 34. He enlisted in the military just after the Sept. 11 attacks. On April 4, ... Read More →

Legendary Talk Show Host Phil Donahue on the Silencing of Antiwar Voices in U.S. Media Phil Donahue is one of the best-known talk show hosts in U.S. television history. The Phil Donahue Show was on the air for almost 30 years, until 1996. In 2002, Donahue returned to the ... Read More →

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RSN: Children at the Border, Another U.S. Foreign Policy Debacle, Phil Donahue Unloads on Fox, Cheney and What Happened at MSNBC

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William Boardman | Children at the Border, Another U.S. Foreign Policy Debacle

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "The pictures of thousands of children huddled in shelters are upsetting, and the tales some tell are horrifying, and that is all a real but sentimental distraction from the entrenched American power that created these conditions. American power uses these children and their families and their countries for its own ends."
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Taxpayer-Financed Bigotry
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "President Obama should resist a pressure campaign by some religious groups to weaken a promised executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against gay men, lesbians and transgender people in their hiring practices."
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Rebecca Gordon | Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes."
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GOP Will Sue Obama Because He's Not Implementing Obamacare Fast Enough
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Volsky writes: "House Republicans intend to sue the Obama administration for unilaterally delaying the employer responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act, Politico reported on Thursday, in effect trying to speed up the implementation of the health care law."
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Michael Bloomberg Isn't Afraid of the NRA
Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone
Vozick-Levinson writes: "Two months after concluding his 12-year mayoral term, Bloomberg is eager to discuss his ongoing commitment to reducing gun violence. Just don't call it gun control."
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Phil Donahue Unloads on Fox, Cheney and What Happened at MSNBC
Elias Isquith, Salon
Isquith writes: "The talk-show legend was, at the time, one of the few voices in the mainstream standing against the march to war. He invited antiwar voices onto his show. He questioned the government's argument for why war was necessary. He cautioned against rushing into an undertaking as grave, monumental and consequential as war."
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After 3 Millions Views, Greenpeace 'Save the Arctic Lego Movie' Pulled from YouTube
Jon Queally, Common Dreams
Queally writes: "The Warner Bros. corporation, the film production company behind the "The Lego Movie" based on the famous toy brand, has forced YouTube to remove an online video created by environmental campaigners at Greenpeace designed to expose the troublesome relationship between the company that makes the popular building blocks and a dangerous push for Arctic drilling by Shell oil."
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Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young

Exclusive: Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Explains Decision to End His Life




Tomas Young, Iraq War veteran and the main subject of the documentary, Body of War. On April 4, 2004, his fifth day in Iraq, Young’s unit came under fire in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad. Young was left paralyzed, never to walk again. Released from medical care three months later, Young returned home to become an active member in Iraq Veterans Against the War. He recently announced that he will stop his nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube — a decision which will hasten his death.
        

Phil Donahue, one of the best-known talk show hosts in U.S. television history, his show was on the air for more than 29 years. In 2002, he returned to the airwaves, but he was fired in 2003 on the eve of the war by MSNBC because he was allowing antiwar voices on the air. Along with Ellen Spiro, he directed the documentary, Body of War, which tells the story of Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran paralyzed from a bullet to the spine. Now, at the age of 33, Tomas has decided to end his life.

Claudia Cuellar, the wife and primary caregiver of Tomas Young.

In the week marking the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we spend the hour looking at the remarkable life and imminent death of Iraq War veteran Tomas Young. Citing his overwhelming physical pain from wounds that left him paralyzed in Iraq, Young recently announced he has decided to end his life by discontinuing his medicine and nourishment, which comes in the form of liquid through a feeding tube. Young joins to explain his decision from his home in Kansas City, along with his wife Claudia Cuellar. We’re also joined by Phil Donahue, the legendary TV talk show host, whose 2007 documentary, "Body of War," follows Tomas’ rehabilitation and his political awakening to become one of the most prominent antiwar U.S. veterans speaking out against the invasion and occupation of Iraq. "I am, on one hand, sick and tired of being sick and tired," Young says. "And on the other, I don’t want to watch my body waste away." Donahue calls Tomas’ announcement "a very unusual act of moral courage. He wants people to see this, because he came home from the most sanitized war of my lifetime. We don’t see this. But less than 5 percent of us, maybe 1 percent ... have made a personal sacrifice for this war. And Tomas is one of them." [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/21/exclusive_dying_iraq_war_veteran_tomas


Exclusive: Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Reads "Last Letter" to President Bush and Dick Cheney





Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices




http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/21/phil_donahue_on_his_2003_firing

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Tomas Young and the End of the Body of War