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America s real deficit is a moral one

Our Future Blog
by Richard Trumka

05/24/11

Politicians in Wisconsin, Ohio and a dozen other states are trying to take away workers' right to organize and bargain for a better life. But that s not all. In state after state, politicians are attacking voting rights by imposing ID requirements, shortening early voting periods, blocking young people from voting because they are too 'liberal' and even levying criminal penalties and fines for breaking arbitrary rules in the voter registration process...

http://tinyurl.com/3lgk37g



How about an 'American Spring?'

San Francisco Chronicle
by Deepak Chopra

05/23/11

Anyone who has admired President Obama s idealism all along should come away inspired by the high-mindedness of his 'Arab spring' speech. It served to reassure his liberal base that he wasn't solely continuing the Bush policy in the Middle East (i.e., kill every terrorist, ignore human rights...

http://tinyurl.com/3trec6r



What Americans want

In These Times
by David Moberg

05/23/11

A national budget tells a lot more about a country and its politics than simply where the government s money comes from and where it goes. As President Obama rightly stressed, it is also 'about the kind of future we want ? [and] the kind of country we believe in.' But as happens so often in the United States, the political and media establishments distort the public debate by accepting the right-wing s framing. In this case that means the issue is simply deficits and spending cuts, not national needs and adequate revenue...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7333/what_americans_want



The resistance in Obama Time

CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley

05/24/11

Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009. These figures certainly underestimate the number actually arrested as arrests in US protests are rarely covered by the mainstream media outlets which focus so intently on arrests of protestors in other countries. Arrests at protest have been increasing each year since 2009...

http://counterpunch.org/quigley05242011.html


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