OccupyWallStreet Is More Than a Hashtag – It’s Revolution in Formation
Nathan Schneider, Truthout: “A lot of what you’ve probably seen or read about the #occupywallstreet action is wrong, especially if you’re getting it on the Internet. The action started as an idea posted online and word about it then spread and is still spreading, online. But what makes it really matter now is precisely that it is happening offline, in a physical, public space, live and in person. That’s where the occupiers are assembling the rudiments of a movement.” 

House Passes Stopgap Bill, Edges Closer to Avoiding Shutdown
Robert Pear, The New York Times News Service: “House Republican leaders, trying to recover from a humiliating political defeat, made one change in the bill. The new version would offset more of the cost of disaster assistance by rescinding $100 million from an Energy Department program that guaranteed a loan for Solyndra, the solar equipment manufacturer that filed recently for bankruptcy protection.” 

War Reporter Ed Girardet on Meeting Bin Laden, Chaos and Resistance Joni Praded, Chelsea Green Publishing: As an award-winning correspondent, Edward Girardet’s reporting has taken him to the heart of Afghanistan’s most dangerous conflicts, devastated disaster zones and across hundreds of miles of rugged terrain. In his new book, “Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan,” Girardet delivers a firsthand account of his years on the ground amid the war, chaos and strife that have come to define the country. Ed Girardet recently spoke with his editor, Joni Praded, about the book. Read the Article  

Iranian President Offers Nukes Compromise to US
Barbara Slavin, Inter Press Service: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran would be willing to halt production of enriched uranium that is close to weapons grade if the United States sells Iran fuel for a reactor that produces medical isotopes. But Ahmadinejad said Iran would not stop making low enriched uranium and would not give up its nuclear stockpiles, making it unlikely that Washington will embrace his proposal.”
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Occupy Wall Street Activists Disrupt Sotheby’s Art Auction (Video)
Matt Renner, Truthout: “Activists from the ongoing occupation in lower Manhattan, called ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ infiltrated an art auction at the famous Sotheby’s auction house and gallery to give voice to the demands of the Occupy Wall Street movement and to stand in solidarity with Sotheby’s workers who have been locked out in an ongoing labor dispute.”
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Conservatives Say It Out Loud: They Hate Democracy
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future: “The roots of today’s toxic conservative movement lie in Ayn Rand’s teaching that wealthy ‘producers’ – now called ‘job creators’ – should be left alone by the government, namely the rest of us. The rest of us are ‘freeloaders,’ ‘moochers,’ ‘leeches’ and ‘parasites’ who feed off these producers and who shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions to collect taxes from them or regulate them or interfere in most other ways. The Randians hate democracy, and say so, declaring that ‘collectivism’ sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes.”
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fox News Gives Hate Group a Platform in Republican Debate, and More
In today’s On the News segment: Fox so-called News gives a platform to hate group The Federation for American Immigration Reform, Boehner musters up enough support in his party to pass a short-term funding bill, one in four children in America live in poverty, Ohio is the first state to sell a public prison to a private corporation, there may be a particle that moves faster then the speed of light, and more.
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A Different Strike for a Different Hotel
Carl Finamore, Truthout: “Hyatt Hotels wasted no time and pulled no punches in condemning UNITE-HERE’s seven-day strike against six hotels in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Waikiki…. As experienced union negotiators understand, no contract is just about wages and benefits. There are other extremely important protections and rights for workers that are often the most controversial aspects of negotiations. In this particular case, the union is taking a stand for specific contract language that allows workers to organize solidarity actions such as strikes and boycotts.”
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Palestinians Formally Request UN Membership
Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times News Service: “Resisting American pressure, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority formally requested full United Nations membership on Friday as a path toward statehood, rejecting arguments by the United States and Israel that it was not a substitute for direct negotiations for peace in the Middle East.”
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Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice
Robert Scheer, Creator’s Syndicate: “The most egregious argument for capital punishment is the claim that the finality of officially condoned killing is a necessary guarantor of civilized order. It’s egregious because it is not possible to make that case without explaining why most of the democratic societies that we admire shun the death penalty as contrary to their most deeply held values. Or is it China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen – which, along with the United States, lead the world in government executions – that we most admire? There’s something stunningly disgraceful about the company we keep on this issue.”
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Nine Policies Conservatives Were for Long Before They Were Against Them
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: “Before the memory-hole swallows them up, consider nine other ideas that Republicans had long championed, and were then picked up by Democrats and became toxic within the GOP caucus. They tell us not only how serious Republicans are about undermining the administration, but also how far both parties have lurched to the right – the Democrats are offering inherently conservative proposals to deal with the problems we face, and today’s Right considers those policies to be way out in left field.”
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President Obama Gives States Flexibility to Opt Out of No Child Left Behind Provisions
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Is Mexico’s President Implying the “L” Word?
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Scalia Ruled That the Constitution Doesn’t Prohibit Executing an Innocent Man in Troy Davis Case
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Protest in New York City for Troy Davis: “A Day of Outrage”
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News Corp. May Face Legal Action in the US
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Report: Border Patrol Abuses Widespread
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Whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse on How KBR Ended Her Career
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Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
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