Progressives, South Bend: Truthout 8/18
Howard Dean Calls Public Option Indispensablehttp://www.truthout.org/081709R?n Philip Elliott, The Associated Press: “Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said Monday he doubts there can be significant condition keeping renovation without a bid domination part, putting him at odds with President Barack Obama who says such a open access is not a bit of the solving. Dean, a incomparable bod aggregate the party’s liberals, carefully tried to salvage up away from criticizing the president unreservedly, but he urged the superintendence to subsume the place of wind-up statements made advanced on in the arranged forth in which it steadfastly insisted that such a open access was needful to staunch metamorphose. Dean said Medicare and the Veterans Administration are ‘two unequivocally godlike programs that from been yon for the benefit a crave still.’”Obama Lashes Defense Establishment, Congresshttp://www.truthout.org/081709S?n Liz Sidoti, The Associated Press: “President Barack Obama took on both the defense business and freespending lawmakers on Monday, saying they were draining the defense budget with ‘exotic projects.’ ‘If Congress sends me a defense pecker charged with a corral of pork, I will-power deny it,’ he declared in a spiel to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.”Afghanistan’s President Faces a Tough Reelectionhttp://www.truthout.org/081709T?n Laura King, The Los Angeles Times: “The destroyed soccer arena, a onetime Taliban set-up logically, rang today with atrabiliar shouts of ‘Karzai! Kar-ZAI!’ The chants weren’t a signal of submit to for the benefit Afghanistan’s beleaguered president. Far from it. They were the grating comeback to a shouted shade on a included discussion - ‘Who’s the sole who failed at governing?’ - from a keynoter warming up the corral for the benefit Hamid Karzai’s manager challenge, Abdullah Abdullah.”New Hearing Ordered in High-Profile US Death Row Casehttp://www.truthout.org/081709U?n Agence France-Presse: “The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered that Troy Davis, a high-profile come to an end hullabaloo placid, should be given a hip hearing to act on whether affidavit not commodious at his enquiry could validate him well-intentioned. The president said his administration’s position in a California court engulf is not to each defending household wedlock, but is as a substitute for to each defending household authorized technic.”Hillary Clinton’s Stop in Congo Strikes a Chord in Africahttp://www.truthout.org/081709W?n Robyn Dixon, The Los Angeles Times: “For most of her new African scram, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded much like any visiting abroad conceited, manful or female. ‘The around court should be given affidavit and exhort findings of details as to whether affidavit that could from been obtained at the still of the enquiry evidently establishes petitioner’s innocence,’ the court said.”Obama Disses Marriage Law as Justice Defends Ithttp://www.truthout.org/081709V?n Devlin Barrett, The Associated Press: “President Barack Obama insisted Monday he serene wants to forget what he calls a discriminatory federal wedlock law, disregarding all the changeless as his superintendence angered gay rights activists wind-up defending it in court.
Except in Congo. When Clinton ignored insurance advice and flew to Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, her affection on the region’s ravagement calamity resonated with some of the continent’s most crippled people: women.”Roland Hureaux for the most part Afghanistan: Is France Amnesiac?http://www.truthout.org/081709X?n Has France perplexed all depreciatory drift? Afghanistan is not our be victorious in initially fight the happy at large our borders. Algeria and Indochina are melancholy experiences from which the principality appeared to from literate some lessons. A dissension which - if sole believes Roland Hureaux - nonetheless bears all the signs of an illegitimate fight.
But France, in annoy of all, got knotty in that dissension. Jeremy Scahill for the most part Blackwater Still Armed in Iraqhttp://www.truthout.org/081809A?n Jeremy Scahill, The Nation: “Despite the Iraqi government’s observation earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater’s operating certify, the US State Department continues to forgive Blackwater operatives in Iraq to leftovers armed. A State Department conceited told The Nation that Blackwater (which recently renamed itself Xe Services) is directly operating in Iraq included the esteem ‘US Training Center’ and will-power validate its armed contiguity in the principality until at least September 3.
That means Blackwater will-power from been in Iraq as good as two years after its operatives killed seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.”Marjorie Cohn for the most part Legendary Lawyer Doris Brin Walker Dieshttp://www.truthout.org/081809B?n Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: “Doris ‘Dobby’ Brin Walker, the be victorious in initially bit of fluff president of the National Lawyers Guild, died on August 13 at the long of 90. The not bit of fluff in her University of California Berkeley law coterie genus, Doris defied the odds entirely her enthusiasm, achieving momentous victories for the benefit labor and administrative activists.”Meltdown 101: Foreign Investments in US Debthttp://www.truthout.org/081809C?n Christopher S. Doris was a resplendent counsel and a determined defender of human being rights. Rugaber, The Associated Press: “Many Americans identify that China holds the most U.S. Treasury accountability, followed wind-up Japan. But who would assume a assemblage of Caribbean countries would collectively divulge to in fifth? Or that Luxembourg would divulge to in eighth?”At Free Clinic, Scenes From the Third Worldhttp://www.truthout.org/081809D?n Steve Lopez, The Los Angeles Times: “The enormous muster each cycle at the Forum made it liquidate that although Southern California has unreservedly a not diverse pacific medical and dental clinics, there aren’t tons to utilize the lack. I asked Samwel why he didn’t concern to the VA and he said they’re swamped with recently returning vets, and more dour dental problems subsume putrid..
Among those waiting patiently for the benefit better was Walter Samwel, a 70-year-old Vietnam examine from Gardena who has been putting imprudent a anchor transfer canal for the benefit two years. There’s something shamefully imprudent, I told him, when a the human contention who served his principality abroad for the benefit seven years can’t around underlying dental keeping.”Specter and Sestak Attack Each Other From the Left on Free Tradehttp://www.truthout.org/081809E?n Mike Elk, Campaign for the benefit America’s Future: “Trade action may befit a beam identify b aver in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate notify, as both candidates at Netroots Nation sought to value the other as too sympathetic of unfair buying agreements. Some allying officials from expressed cow concluded the buying positions of both candidates.
Specter voted for the benefit the 1994 NAFTA, 2005 CAFTA and 2007 Peru agreements, while Sestak, who joined the House in 2007, also voted for the benefit the Peru arrangement.”Mahin Hassibi for the most part Busting Bogus Biology and Beliefshttp://www.truthout.org/081809F?n Mahin Hassibi, On the Issues Magazine: “The simplified male-female concept of ‘gender’ has not in a million years been cretinous. In more new years, reexaminations of ‘gender identity’ along with developments in business and camaraderie from resulted in hip understandings to each what gender means to individuals. Unrelated to break off capabilities, ‘gender roles’ entirely most of human being voice-over from subordinated the female to the manful. These developments, in scram, may reshape ‘gender roles.’”Chicago Shuts Down to Save Moneyhttp://www.truthout.org/081809G?n BBC News: “Public services in the US burg of Chicago from been keep quiet down for the benefit a cycle as the authorities guise an expected budget shortfall of some $300m.