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Sunday 21 November 2010
The Great Tax Cut Debate
Robert Weiner and Varun Saxena, Truthout: "President Obama and most
Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of
Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax cuts for everybody despite Bush's tax bill enacted in June 2001 to suspend the tax cuts at the end of 2010 in order to restore needed revenue. If nothing is done, everyone's taxes will rise."
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At NATO Summit, Obama Pressures GOP on START Missile Treaty
Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor: "President Obama may be

temporarily out of theWashington political maelstrom, but he used his soapbox from the NATO summit Saturday to throw a punch at Republicans holding up ratification of one of his stand-out foreign policy achievements."
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INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: "In Arizona there are numerous policies and programs in place (such as Operation Streamline) to criminalize migrants – policies that, not coincidentally, line the pockets of the private prison industry.
What's more, an array of law enforcement agencies continue to become extensions of the USBorder Patrol – operating as though SB 1070 were already the law of the land."
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Sharing Meals, Groceries and Anti-authoritarianism Worldwide: Food Not
Bombs Founder Keith McHenry
Mickey Z., Truthout: "Created in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980, Food Not
Bombs (FNB) is the brainchild of Keith McHenry and seven other activists.... By linking the national problem of homelessness with the larger issue of rampant militarism, McHenry's goal is to address 'the inhumane agenda of the government at both the personal and international levels' as a path towards beginning a nationwide debate."
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Iraq: US Influence on the Decline
Mohammed A. Salih, Inter Press Service: "Iraq's much-awaited recent powersharing deal signifies a shift of influence on Iraqi politics away from the U.S. and its regional allies to domestic Iraqi political actors, most notably the Kurds, and eastward to Iran."
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What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Election Results
John Kane, Truthout: "I would strongly suggest that, while the election results are certainly a political setback for Democrats, this 'Tea Party triumph' interpretation is wildly misleading once we look more closely at the actual election results.... It must be understood that referring to a substantial change in institutional power relations between the two parties as a substantial change in the mood of 'The
American People' is political sleight of hand at its worst. However, my position should not be interpreted as a defense of the Democratic Party, but rather as a condemnation of nonsensical media 'analysis'."
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Much Needed Justice for Victims of Crime
H.P. Albarelli, Jr., Truthout: "Simply put, parallel justice is a comprehensive

effort to provide real and necessary services to victims of crime that address their physical, financial, and emotional needs and enhance their inclusion in the justice system, that often ignores or excludes them, to ensure that they are treated with respect and are notified, present and heard at any formal proceeding they wish to participate in."
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Let's Build the New Economy
Joe Brewer, Cognitive Policy Works: "We need to build a new economy, one that promotes widespread prosperity while protecting us against ecological disaster.
The problem is that the current economy has been structured explicitly to extract wealth from the global commons and accumulate it in the coffers of an extremely powerful elite. And it is standing in our way."
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The Chertoff Connection: Body Scanners Are About Profits Not Protection
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No Road Map for Afghan Withdrawal
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Political Divide Between Coasts and Midwest Deepening, Midterm
Election Analysis Shows
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US Envoy in Asia Amid New North Korea Nuclear Concern
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Minimum Wage is Worth Less Now than in 1968
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Ireland Will Apply for Bailout Package
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Please Mr. President: Don't Double Down on Your Mistakes
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