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Monday 10 January 2011

Tom DeLay Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
: "A federal judge Monday sentenced former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to three years in prison for his role in orchestrating a scheme to illegally funnel nearly $200,000 in corporate cash to Texas political candidates in 2002."

Federal Murder Charges Filed in Giffords Shooting Case
: "A 22-year-old man was formally charged Sunday with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder in a shooting rampage that killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Lee Loughner, of Tucson, Ariz., is in federal custody. He'll go before a federal magistrate on Monday and could face additional state and federal charges, including domestic terrorism."

Thom Hartmann | Put Lou Dobbs Out to Pasture: "Under the guise of satisfying a consumer demand for low prices, multinationals have accelerated outsourcing ever since the Reagan years and pushed the 'free trade' and 'globalization' ideology that has given us the NAFTA and GATT/WTO processes initiated under President George H. W. Bush and finished by President Bill Clinton. As a direct result, American blue-collar workers saw their jobs vanish as factories making things from jeans to precision tools moved to Mexico and other countries."


Serious Guns and White Terrorism: "Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy such a serious weapon? The weapon reportedly used in the mass murders in Tucson was a serious weapon - a Glock 19, semi-automatic pistol with an extended magazine. Some weapons like that were illegal to sell in the US from 1994 to 2004 under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. It is now legal to sell and own them.”

Nick Turse | Empire of Bases: "Like all empires, the US military's empire of bases will someday crumble. These bases, however, are not apt to fall like so many dominos in some silver-screen last-stand sequence. They won't, that is, go out with the 'bang' of futuristic Alamos, but with the 'whimper' of insolvency. Last year, rumbling began even among Washington lawmakers about this increasingly likely prospect. 'I do not think we should be spending money to have troops in Germany 65 years after World War II. We have a terrible deficit and we have to cut back,' said Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank."

Michael Winship | Hate Speech, the Right's Magic Bullet
: "The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov had a rule: if you show a gun in the first act, by the time the curtain falls, it has to go off. For weeks and months, that gun, the weapon of angry rhetoric and intemperate rabble rousing, has been cocked and loaded in plain view on the American stage; Saturday morning outside a shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona, it went off again and again and again."

Dean Baker | The Progressive Case Against Obama's New Team
: "Most reports on the selection of William Daley as President Obama's new chief of staff and Gene Sperling as the head of his National Economic Council included a few lines of criticism from progressives who were unhappy with these picks. Since there was not much space for the argument, these lines probably left many readers wondering why progressives don't like Daley and Sperling." 


How a Red Herring About WikiLeaks Killed Whistleblower Protections
  "WikiLeaks killed our whistleblower protections bill - sort of. After an unbelievable roller coaster of fear and fallacies, votes on and off, and a flurry of activity, when the lights went out in the Capitol Building on December 22, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act was dead. It may be one of the few times in history when legislation has passed both chambers unanimously within two weeks and still failed to get to the president's desk."


 
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