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OpEdNews Bold and Daring: The Way Progressive News Should Be Has the U.S. Learned Anything From Edward Snowden's NSA Revelations? American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg Not Over Yet, Some Tough Votes Ahead On Fast Track Is Opednews a force worth empowering? Does Opednews do worth work supporting? Opednews produces more bang for the buck than any site on the planet. That's a fact. Help support the progressive vision-- a vision that spells out not just the problems, but specific goals for change.  If you value what we do, become a part of the team and click here to make a donation to support our efforts.  Thanks,  rob kall Support Opednews. Make a tax deductible donation to make OEN Strong. If you have a problem reading this email, please click here to see the web page version. You received this email because you signed up for it at OpEdNews. Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of this email.  Daily Headlines Has the U.S. Learned Anything From Edward Snowden's NSA Revelations? By David Sirota While Snowden's critics say he should come back to the United States to air out his grievances in open court, journalist Glenn Greenwald notes: "He's barred under the Espionage Act even from arguing that his leaks were justified; he wouldn't be permitted to utter a word about that." Read More >> American dreaming, from G1 to Bilderberg By Pepe Escobar Neocons -- with Obama in tow - knock themselves out dreaming that Russia has become "isolated" from the rest of the world because of their sanctions. Since then Moscow has signed major economic/strategic contracts with at least 20 nations. Next month, Russia will host the BRICS summit -- 45 percent of the world's population. Read More >> Not Over Yet, Some Tough Votes Ahead On Fast Track By Kevin Zeese it is not over. Speaker Boehner called for reconsideration of TAA and a re-vote is supposed to happen within two legislative days so there may be another vote as early as Monday afternoon. We need to hold the line on TAA to prevent any form of TAA from passing the House and prepare for a vote in the Senate if a new form of TAA passes or if the TPA bill passed in the House goes back to the Senate without TAA. Read More >> What's up with the T.P.P? By Jim Howe "What's up with the T.P.P." Summarizes the votes on the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill (T.A.A.) and the Trade Promotion Authority bill (T.P.A. aka Fast Track) that were voted on in the House of Representatives on June 12, 2015. It begins to explore what happened and what's next from a working class perspective. Read More >> Reflections on China's South Sea Trouble By Thomas Riggins Reflections on China's role in the South China Sea. Read More >> We're Eating WHAT? Mad Cow Reported in Ireland as US ban is Lifted By Martha Rosenberg Even as the U.S. lifts its 15-year import restriction on beef from Ireland (which was ground zero during mad cow scares) a likely new case of mad cow, BSE, has turned up in Ireland. Both Norway and Canada are also reporting cases of mad cow disease which they call atypical. Read More >> Ten Years After Katrina: NOLA Can Finally Throw Off the Cloak of Shame By Georgianne Nienaber he flooding of New Orleans was not due to political pressure put on the Army Corps of Engineers by the OLB. The answer is profound in its simplicity and found in the details of an engineering study. Human error, subsequent finger pointing and the inability of the Army Corps to admit mistakes, contributed mightily to the post catastrophe suffering of the citizens of New Orleans. Read More >> McKibben to Obama: You still have time to be a climate champion -- but not much By Bill McKibben The sad part of this battle, for all of us, is that physics doesn't really care about political realities -- about how tough Congress has been, or for that matter how burned out and tired some of the rest us can get. Physics just cares about carbon. Reality reality trumps political reality. Read More >> Abolish Special Ops Forces By Sheldon Richman We are expected to trust the government that those operations of Special Ops Forces kill bad guys only. But why should we, when it has done so much to earn our distrust? It has long downplayed the civilian deaths inflicted by drones, bombers, and ground operations. Read More >> The Republican Party's Real Strategy By William P. Homans The answer to anyone who labors under the illusion that who wins the Presidency in 2016 matters Read More >>   Stay COOL By Joel Joseph Open letter to U.S. Senate telling them to hold the line on the Country of Origin Labeling Act. Read More >> Rick Perry embraces Muslims, a gutsy political first. By Mike Ghouse Perry announces his candidacy with two Muslims on stage with him Read More >> Fast Track Fails By Rob Kall A bipartisan vote in the House gave President Obama, who made a special, emergency trip to Capitol Hill this morning, a big middle finger on Fast Track for the trade deals he's been pushing for several years. Read More >> Senator James Inhofe to Pope Francis: Butt Out of Climate Debate By EcoWatch  Senator Inhofe took potshots at Pope Francis, who has spoken out repeatedly on climate change and is expected to deliver his long-awaited encyclical on the topic next week. "Everyone is going to ride the Pope now. Isn't that wonderful," said Inhofe sarcastically. "The Pope ought to stay with his job, and we'll stay with ours." Read More >> Digging Deeper Into Monsanto, GMO and Roundup/Glyphosate; Zen Honeycutt By Rob Kall a dig deep into how GMO's are dangerous-- answering challenges by pro-GMO scientists, with activist Zen Honeycutt-- and a call to activism on July 4th. Read More >> Eat dessert first! By Bob Patterson A bachelor columnist goes to the Bay Book Festival and ends his search for the meaning of life. Read More >> Gunman who opened fire at Dallas police headquarters believed dead, authorities say A lone gunman who opened fire at the Dallas police headquarters early Saturday morning, leading to a tense standoff that continued throughout the morning, is believed to have been killed by a police sniper, authorities said. The suspect -- who identified himself to police as 50-year-old James Boulware -- was shot by a sniper at around 5 a.m. in a parking lot in the Dallas suburb of Hutchins, where he was holed up inside an armored van, Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown said at a news conference Saturday morning. Read More >> Hillary Clinton Draws The Biggest Crowd Of Any 2016 Hopeful for NYC Rally Hillary Clinton has clearly drawn the biggest crowd of the 2016 campaign in New York City today. The previous unofficial record was set by Bernie Sanders at his campaign stop in Minnesota and his campaign launch in Vermont. The biggest crowd that Sanders has drawn so far is 4,000. Hillary Clinton smashed that record today with an overflow audience at Four Freedoms Park. Clinton is kicking her campaign into high gear, and from the look of the crowd here in NYC, her supporters are ready for Clinton to pick up the pace on her march to the White House. Read More >> Hillary, beware the cloak of inevitability By Bob Gaydos One of the knocks on Clinton has always been that she seems to feel entitled, that she should get people's votes just because she is Hillary. That she should be New York's senator just because. That she should be the first woman president of the United States just because. Why does she want to be president? Read More >> Turning tables: Growing support against corporate capture of climate policy-making By Citizen News Service - CNS In the final days of the Bonn Climate Change Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a resounding call was made by over 224,000 people to the governments who have ratified the UNFCCC: protect the treaty and climate policymaking from the undue influence of the globe's biggest polluters. Read More >> Republicans Have Boxed Themselves In A Corner On Obamacare Having spent five years viciously battling the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders are worried that the U.S. Supreme Court may grant them a victory. If the high court rules in favor of conservatives who have challenged the health care law -- essentially gutting it -- millions of Americans will lose the subsidies that allow them to purchase health insurance. It has slowly dawned on some Republican leaders that the law has provided tangible benefits to millions of Americans, and that they are likely to be blamed if those benefits are jerked away. But they have locked themselves into a very small room and lost the key. They can't seem to find a way out. Read More >> LAUSD RELAXES GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS- FAIRNESS OR MORE PREMEDITATED FRAUD? ; by Lenny Isenberg. Perdaily.com Rather than address its longstanding failure to educate students in a timely age-sensitive manner, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has voted to further degrade the value of a high school diploma by letting students pass an A-G college requirement course with a "D"... continuing for generations to socially promotion students, whether or not they have objectively met a course's standards. Now, when they take these higher skills A-G college prep courses, too many do not have the underlying basic language and math skills necessary to do passing work.The victory of form over content that the LAUSD Board seem to be masters of not only jeopardizes the students and teachers in their trust, it threatens the very future of this country as anything that even remotely resembles a democracy of, by, and for the people. Read More >>   Obama Versus Hersh: Who's Telling The Truth? By Sherwood Ross Over and again, the Obama administration threatened its own employees not to talk about the bin Laden slaying. This was done likely to suppress the truth, that his murder was an execution, not a battle, and that he was probably unarmed. Read More >> Ted Cruz Complains That Running for President Sucks By David Corn While Cruz is putting up with a "pizza diet" to advance the conservative cause, right-wingers ought to at least kick in the money for his junk food and hotel rooms. If Cruz is now griping about the lack of sleep, imagine how much he'll complain if he does become president. Read More >> The TPP Fast-Track Vote Wasn't About Obama, It Was About Failed Trade Policies By John Nichols The president will, undoubtedly, continue to advocate for trade agreements, but he cannot succeed merely with the support of Wall Street, Paul Ryan, and ALEC. The way to succeed is with a fair trade model that puts workers, farmers, the environment, human rights, and democracy ahead of the corporate interests that want only a race to the bottom. Read More >> Mumia abu Jamal Still Denied Access to Outside Physician By Deena Stryker Black America's most famous prisoner, former Black Panther Mumia abu Jamal, has been allowed to become diabetic in prison while awaiting a new trial which could free him after decades in solitary confinement. As another falsely convicted black prisoner, Abert Woodfox, awaits release, Mumia is denied outside medical help. Read More >> U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine By Robert Parry The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people -- that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians, reports Robert Parry. Read More >>  Latest Articles TPP gets TP'd by NP Humorous account of TPP and how it evolved to its current pathetic state. Read More >>   Spokane NAACP President Proves Actions, Not Race, Is What Counts in Civil Rights Battle Earl Ofari Hutchinson In February, 2015, the Spokane, Washington NAACP chapter sought action on job discrimination and civil rights violations complaints, took on Comcast, secured legal support for a transgender sexual assault victim, filed police racial profiling complaints, demanded an investigation of KKK literature in the area, and an FBI investigation of other hate crimes, and backed several job discrimination lawsuits. In addition, the Spokan Read More >>  Best News Links from the Web Sarkozy in Israel: 'To boycott a start-up nation makes no sense' Sarkozy made the remarks following a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Sarkozy - who earlier in the day came out unequivocally against boycotting Israel - said that Israel's economic progress is perhaps its "best victory." Though a small country, he said, Israel was a huge force attracting investors from all over the world. "This is the best answer for those calls for boycotts, which are unacceptable and illegal," he said. "To boycott a start-up nation makes no sense politically, economically, morally or financially." Sarkozy said that humanity owes a debt to the Jewish people for their persecution over the centuries, which culminated in the Holocaust. "The silence of the nations while the crimes were committed is a blemish on the conscience of humanity, he said. "We all failed and have a debt toward the Jewish people, and it continues to exist." Read More >> Egypt Opens Gaza Border Crossing Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing with Gaza in both directions Saturday for the first time in three months. The crossing is scheduled to be opened for three days, allowing Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip. Gaza's access to Egypt is the only border, including the Mediterranean Sea, not controlled by Israel. Read More >> Breakfast with Bernie Sanders: I will not make Obama's biggest mistake "The biggest mistake that Barack Obama made" was essentially to tell his supporters, "Thank you very much for electing me, I'll take it from here," Senator Sanders told reporters at a Monitor-hosted breakfast Thursday. "I will not make that mistake." Sanders's solutions are controversial -- a reflection of his belief in Scandinavian-style Democratic socialism. He wants "Medicare for all," free tuition at all public universities, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, paid leave for parents of newborns, paid sick leave, and paid vacation. Read More >> Poland says Washington stonewalling CIA jail investigation The United States is ignoring a request from Poland to hand over the full version of a Senate report that could shed light on allegations the CIA abused al Qaeda suspects at a secret prison in the north of the country, according to Polish prosecutors. The report last December by the U.S. Senate intelligence committee detailed how the CIA used techniques including water-boarding and mock executions on terrorism suspects at secret overseas facilities in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. It named the locations of the secret prisons, but these were blacked out in the summary that was released to the public. Read More >>

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