Sriram Madhusoodanan on Fossil Fuel Investigations, Amin Husain on Decolonizing Museums view post on FAIR.org MP3 Link (cc photo: Frank Schwichtenberg) This week on CounterSpin: The harms of climate disruption are already terrible and will only get worse, and despite what appears to be some people’s magical thinking, no one will be unaffected. What’s more, the drivers of climate disruption are known, and it isn’t people who leave the lights on. What’s missing is a public and media dialog that features fossil fuel industries and their leaders accurately, as roadblocks to the climate justice solutions we desperately need. While federal inaction and even regression is distressing, some state attorneys general are pushing forward for accountability. We’ll talk about that movement with Sriram Madhusoodanan, deputy campaigns director with the group Corporate Accountability. MP3 Link (cc photo: Perimeander) Also on the show: Warren Kanders has resigned from the board of New York’s Whitney Museum—a “casualty to the social justice mob,” as one account had it; or, for others, a victory for those who prefer their art without a side order of complicity with the manufacture of tear gas and high velocity ammunition. A few months ago, CounterSpin spoke with Amin Husain, core organizer with the group Decolonize This Place, on the forefront of activism around cultural institutions. We’ll revisit that conversation today. MP3 Link

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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt used his private email for official business when he served as Oklahoma's attorney general. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP)

New Pruitt Question: Where Are His Emails?
Emily Holden, Politico
Holden writes: "The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed. Watchdog groups don't believe it."
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Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline

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Greg Palast | The Pig That Burst the Keystone Pipeline   

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Palast writes: "Yesterday, the Keystone pipeline cracked and dumped 210,000 gallons of oil onto the South Dakota prairie. Here’s the reason the pipeline burst: the PIG didn’t squeal."
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Judge Considers Whether Trump’s Tweets Should Open Up Government’s Dossier Probe
Josh Gerstein, Politico
Gerstein writes: "A federal judge is considering whether President Donald Trump’s own tweets could force the federal government to reveal more information about its efforts to verify the claims in the controversial privately compiled dossier about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia."
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Frustrated Foreign Leaders Bypass Washington in Search of Blue-State Allies
Michael Birnbaum and Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Some nations are finding that even if they are frustrated by President Trump’s Washington, they can still prosper from robust relations with the California Republic and a constellation of like-minded U.S. cities, some of which are bigger than European countries."
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Chicago Cop Accused of Framing Dozens Now Also Accused of Extortion
Melissa Segura, BuzzFeed
Segura writes: "A Chicago police officer who is accused of framing at least 51 people for murder will now face a new allegation: A former drug dealer says he paid Detective Reynaldo Guevara at least $1,000 a week in exchange for protection from arrest."
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Your Uncle Said What? How to Talk About Social Justice With Your Family During the Holidays
Wyatt Massey, Yes! Magazine
Massey writes: "Finding connection and engaging face to face is important social change work. Yet all too often, the same folks willing to march down Fifth Avenue or hold a sign on Capitol Hill are not willing to confront a racist uncle or climate-denier cousin."
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Mugabe Given Until Noon Monday to Quit as President of Zimbabwe
MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock, Reuters
Excerpt: "Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday and gave the 93-year-old less than 24 hours to quit as head of state or face impeachment, an attempt to force a peaceful end to his 37 years in power after a de facto coup."
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Tom Goldtooth: Carbon Trading Is "Fraudulent" Scheme to Privatize Air and Forests to Permit Pollution
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "A new report is exposing the dangers of carbon trading, a scheme in which major companies purchase carbon credits from countries who agree to plant trees or protect existing forests."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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RSN: Lessons From 2014: If You Care About Green Cities, You Must Care About Justice Too

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Andy Borowitz | Jeb Bush Resigns as George W. Bush's Brother

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In the strongest sign to date that he intends to seek the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has officially resigned his position as George W. Bush's brother."
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Paul Krugman | Twin Peaks Planet
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "In 2014, soaring inequality in advanced nations finally received the attention it deserved."
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The Appalling Career of Michael Grimm
Evan Ratliff, The New Yorker
Ratliff writes: "Michael Grimm's pugnacious career in government service ended with a whimper on Monday night, with an after-hours statement announcing his resignation from Congress."
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Economist Thomas Piketty Refuses France's Highest Honor
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "France's influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the 21st Century,' on Thursday refused to accept the country's highest award, the Legion d'honneur, to criticise the Socialist government in power."
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Duluth Case Shows Police Body Camera Footage Is New Legal Battleground
Jessica Glenza, The Guardian
Glenza writes: "Official reluctance to release images of the police shooting of a Minnesota man in his own home has raised issues about transparency, privacy and mental health."
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6th Annual Vigil Marks Oscar Grant's Shooting Death in Oakland
Riya Bhattacherjee, NBC
Bhattacherjee writes: "Hundreds gathered Thursday at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland to remember Oscar Grant III who was shot to death at the station on New Year's Day in 2009 by a BART police officer."
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Lessons From 2014: If You Care About Green Cities, You Must Care About Justice Too
Greg Hanscom, Grist
Hanscom writes: "Suffice it to say that the stories that unfolded this year were not the ones we thought we'd be writing."
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CounterCurrents: 2015 International Year Of The Soil: A Message Of Hope

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If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter, http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents

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2015 International Year Of The Soil: A Message Of Hope
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally020115.htm

Last year, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil citing the threat to one of the key ingredients to the planet's food and farming systems posed by "expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use, pollution, overgrazing and climate change."Summarizing the issues at stake and the fight ahead, Dr. Vandana Shiva, has posted an impassioned New Years message to those battling on behalf of food sovereignty, economic egalitarianism, agroecology, climate action, and social justice


Xmas As Usual Killing Jesus In Afghanistan. Now Complete A New Year's Resolution!
By Jay Janson

http://www.countercurrents.org/janson020115.htm

As during thirteen previous birthday celebrations of Jesus, Americans shot, bombed and starved Afghani and the citizens of other nations, at the same time according to Jesus Himself shooting, booming and starving Jesus, for in Matthew 25:40: Jesus says, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me." Readers invited to finish New Year's Resolutions begun for Americans in 2015


Terrorism “Insurance” Expires
By Buddy Bell

http://www.countercurrents.org/bell020115.htm

Something Ended January 1, But It Wasn’t the Afghanistan War


Defeat Of Resolution On Palestine Highlights The Real Issue
By Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava

http://www.countercurrents.org/srivastava020115.htm

Resolution of the Palestine problem needs to be resolved earliest and the defeat of the resolution should not be taken as the victory by Israel, USA but they must ponder in realistic terms to unravel the truth why is there so much unrest. A genuine efforts are immediately required by USA and other stakeholders in order to save the people of the Palestine with which many problems of the world are linked to


“Dos” And “Don’ts”: Things I Learned Writing About The Middle East
By Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud020115.htm

Writing and reporting about the Middle East is not an easy task, especially during these years of turmoil and upheaval. Following and reporting on these constant changes without a deep and compassionate understanding of the region will achieve little but predictable and lackluster content that offers nothing original, but recycled old ideas and stereotypes. From my humble experience in the region, I share these “dos” and “don’ts” as to how the Middle East should be approached in writing and reporting


2014: Another Hard And Difficult Year For American Muslims
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali020115.htm

Relating all the hate attacks, discrimination, mosque vandalism, and other negative incidences related to the American Muslims are beyond the scope of this article


The Strategic Significance Of The Fight For $15
By Ann Robertson & Bill Leumer

http://www.countercurrents.org/leumer020115.htm

The fight for $15 is a battle actually unfolding before us, the kind of battle we have not witnessed for decades. Right now it is the only battle on the horizon. The call for $15 has inspired low-wage workers and youth to act. To the degree that they achieve victories, they will open up the potential to change the course of history and trigger a resurgence of a working class movement


Postcard From The End of America: Passyunk Square, Philadelphia
By Linh Dinh

http://www.countercurrents.org/dinh020115.htm

Writing this piece, I didn't have to get on any bus or train, but only walk five minutes to see Beth, someone I first met 28 years ago. Most lives are improbable, I know, but when I listen to Beth talk, I often find myself thinking, That can't possibly be true, but her facts have always checked out, and her stories consistent, even on a retelling many years later


Locked Doors: A Deserted Village
By Sumita Guru

http://www.countercurrents.org/guru020115.htm

Rampant Seasonal Migration from the village Khohar in Northern Rajasthan


Welcoming The New Year!
By Shu Shi

http://www.countercurrents.org/shi020115.htm

Thanks Tinky and Bala for those beautiful New Year’s gifts! Who knows, your example might be enthuse me to celebrate New Year’s Eve again—and in the manner that you did!


Kashmir: Governor’s Rule-Unavoidable Alternative?
By Mohammad Ashraf

http://www.countercurrents.org/ashraf020115.htm

To prevent further paralysis in the state administration urgently required to move on a fast track in the task of restoration of the flood damage, the Governor’s Rule seems only sensible alternative!


Importance of School Based Internal Evaluation As A Quality Assurance Mechanism
By Swaleha Sindhi

http://www.countercurrents.org/sindhi020115.htm

The Board of Education must take necessary steps to implement school internal evaluation as mandatory to bring improvements taking on local decision making first, followed by those who need more time to learn about and develop the necessary skills. Local decision making could provide direction and support for broader dissemination across the system


Dear Men! Women Too Have Strong Sex Drive Like You !
By Er.Yazhmozhi

http://www.countercurrents.org/yazhmozhi020115.htm

Every day, we are witnessing reports of sexual violence against women. What we witness is only some of the instances which are brought out by media and some in the form of lawsuits. We also know that these instances are idiotically justified by saying that, “Men have strong sexual desires! So they are easily aroused by womenwith‘anti-traditional’ wear.This myth “Men have strong sexual desires!” is believed worldwide. This is one of the social constructs in a patriarchal society to subjugate women

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Carl Younger

A religious leader with power who is actually following in the path of Jesus Christ? Must be driving all the fake Christians FOX watchers crazy.

 

 

 

#42 - Sustainable Man Top 100 Viral Posts of 2013 - #42 Post Date: 10/6 Original Post: http://on.fb.me/1fouCBNhttp://sustainableman.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 A Woman's PERFECT Response to Her Anti-Gay Neighbors
 

Bold Nebraska

Share the story of the Allpress family and other Nebraskans in the path of Keystone XL by sending these postcards to Barack Obama and other key decision makers: http://boldnebraska.org/postcard

Pictured: Noel, Bob, and Nancy Allpress at the entrance to their ranch in Keya Paha County.

Bob Allpress’s great grandfather William Allpress and his family arrived by wagon on the south side of the Keya Paha River in 1882, where they set up a homestead. At that time, the north side... of the river was still populated by Sioux tribes. After the Sioux ceded the land to the US Government and opened it for settlement in 1886, Bob’s grandfather, great uncle, and two great aunts moved across the river and established joined homesteads along Alkali Creek. All four homesteads were eventually gathered together as one ranch and have been in the family for the last 127 years.

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline route traverses the Allpress property by crossing over a Sioux burial site, passing behind Bob’s house before exiting through the front gate of his brother’s home. ‪#‎NoKXL‬

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350.org

This is one of the most important graphs of 2013. Even as the United States makes significant reductions in domestic carbon emissions, we're digging up more fossil fuels than ever before. Read more here: http://wapo.st/19T6lnd

And SHARE if you think the U.S. needs to keep that carbon in the ground, not just sell it to be burned somewhere else!

 

 

 

 

 

Bernie Sanders Exposes 18 CEOs who took Trillions in Bailouts, Evaded Taxes and Outsourced Jobs

 

 

Sen. Bernie Sanders fired back at 80 CEOs who wrote a letter lecturing America about deficit reduction by released a report detailing how 18 of these CEOs have wrecked the economy by evading taxes and outsourcing jobs.

80 CEO’s raised the ire of Sen. Sanders by publishing a letter in the Wall Street Journal urging America to act on the deficit, and reform Medicare and Medicaid.

Sen. Sanders responded to the lecture from America’s CEO’s by releasing a report that detailed how 18 of them have helped blow up the deficit and wreck the economy by outsourcing jobs and evading US taxes.

http://www.politicususa.com/2012/10/25/bernie-sanders-exposes-18-ceos-trillions-bailouts-evaded-taxes-outsourced-jobs.html

 

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Watch: Koch Brothers Caught Red-Handed Buying Economics Professors and Studies

 

Apparently unsatisfied with simply buying politicians, the Koch Brothers have turned their attention and pocketbooks to purchasing economics professors of supposedly “public” universities and funding economic studies which support their extreme right-wing economic theories.

Brilliantly exposed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in this 4-minute segment, this new tactic is being deployed by the billionaire brothers in order to promulgate their demonstrably false economic theories, such as trickle-down taxation and the busting of labor unions.

This is how the billionaire brothers’ dangerous myths are able to seep into our universities’ curriculums and economic journals, instilling a false academic justification for economic policies that hurt the middle and working class while lining their own corporatist pockets.

Please watch the video below and share this and other related articles on social media forums so that we can expose the Koch Brothers and their sinister purchasing of our economic discourse.


http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-koch-brothers-caught-red-handed-buying-economics-professors-and-studies/