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By Arundhati Roy

What can we do, now that democracy and the free market are one?
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Taking Populism Seriously

By Adrian Kuzminski

The populist impulse of today, widespread but fragmented and disorganized, is what's left of a once proud and impressive mass political movement in this country. In its heyday, in the 1880s and 90s, fifty populists from the People's party, were elected to the US Congress, with many others winning state and local offices. Such a showing by a third party today would be cataclysmic.

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Journalist Imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay to Sue George Bush

Gwladys Fouche, The Guardian UK: "An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US President George Bush and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities."

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Corporations Sponsor Wolf-Killing "Derbies": Take Action to Stop Them
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CounterPunch
by Evan Knappenberger

07/16/09

Amy made a decision to go AWOL. It was a decision made not out of fear, but out of courage. She simply refused to participate in something she considered to be immoral. A young, beautiful woman with an intellect to match, Amy now chooses to hide in anonymity rather than to turn herself in and be readmitted into a system full of implicit and explicit violence. She cannot drive, rent housing, keep a bank account or phone, or visit her family. But what Amy lacks in lifestyle choices, she more than makes up for in integrity. ‘Not hurting people is worth it’ she claims...

http://counterpunch.org/knappenberger07162009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Christian Science Monitor
by Paul Lamb

07/16/09

Can social capital redeem our financial souls? At a time when financial markets have clearly let us down, we can’t afford to breathe new life into a carcass. Social capital offers the solution we have been looking for. What is social capital? It refers to the worth of our social networks, individual skills, and even things like the time we invest in volunteering. For example, the time I put into helping a neighbor paint a fence (free of charge) is a form of social capital. Its value equates to the time I spent and the ‘worth’ of an enhanced relationship. In traditional economics, the nonfinancial contributions we make are basically worthless. Financial transactions and our monetary net worth are all that really matter. Sadly, we have sunk to measuring our individual and national value through debt, surpluses and productivity gains. But what if we looked beyond investments and financial capital and began taking social capital seriously?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0716/p09s02-coop.html


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Miami Herald

07/16/09

U.S. military personnel at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, actively helped Chinese interrogators question members of China’s Uighur minority, including physically restraining them so they could be photographed against their will, according to testimony presented Thursday to a congressional subcommittee. The testimony is certain to add to the controversy over how the U.S. government has handled the Uighurs, who were turned over to U.S. troops in Afghanistan by bounty hunters who were paid $5,000 per captive...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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