MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Tells PoliticusUSA Why Bernie Sanders Is Surging

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Tells PoliticusUSA Why Bernie Sanders Is Surging Politicus USA recently caught with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, who offered some interesting reasons why Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls.      Read more »

Friday Fox Follies – Shark Jumps Trump, Fox Takes Lumps Another bad week for Fox "News" as the entire free-thinking world rejected 2 iconic symbols the station venerates: the Confederate flag and former-Curvy Couch Potato Donald Trump.     Read more » One Of The Nation’s Most Influential Labor Leaders Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders has picked up a key endorsement as one of the nation's most influential labor leaders has announced his support for the Democratic presidential candidate.     Read more » Mike Huckabee Vows To Resist Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling With Executive Orders Huckabee declared that he would sign executive orders protecting businesses and churches who oppose gay marriage.     Read more » Confederate Flag Designer Said It Is A Symbol Of White Supremacy – Not Southern Heritage Many Americans of all races today refer to any of the Confederacy's flags as "the white supremacist's flag" and they would not have been wrong during the Civil War and they are certainly not wrong in the 21st Century     Read more » Special Prosecutors Seek To Indict Texas Attorney General For First Degree Felony Fraud Special prosecutors are planning to present a first-degree felony securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.     Read more » President Obama Kills Scott Walker’s White House Dream By Exposing His Record Of Failure President Obama put a stake through the heart of Scott Walker's chances of winning the White House by exposing the Walker's record of economic failure to a national audience.     Read more » MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Tells PoliticusUSA Why Bernie Sanders Is Surging PoliticusUSA recently caught with MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who offered some interesting reasons why Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls.     Read more » Editorial Cartoon: 4th of July Enjoy!     Read more » Fox News’ Eric Bolling Says Progressive Boycotts are Economic Terrorism The gang on Fox News' The Five absolutely lost it when Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city is reviewing its contracts with Donald Trump     Read more »

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The VA’s Office of Inspector General Has No Clothes

Editor's Choice The VA’s Office of Inspector General Has No Clothes The Veterans Affairs Inspector General tries to defend its poor performance when it should be trying to find solutions to its problems. Read more POGO Welcomes Leadership Change at VA Inspector General Richard Griffin’s decision to step down from his leadership role at the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Veterans Affairs is welcome news. Read more See also: VA’s embattled watchdog to step down, The Washington Post Application of FOIA in Army Case Leaves Much to be Desired U.S. Central Command is misusing the Freedom of Information Act to hide a report on war crimes in Afghanistan. Read more The Navy’s Scheme to Pay for a New Submarine Fleet The Navy and House and Senate Armed Services Committees are scheming to find a way to pay for a new nuclear submarine fleet. Read more Defense Officials Reject Rosy Cost Estimates The Department of Defense says nuclear spending could reach about 7 percent of its budget, exceeding some outside estimates. Read more From the World of POGO POGO Response to a Statement by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General The OIG takes exception to the written testimony of POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian, claiming that her testimony is “replete with inaccuracies and assertions supported, not by factual evidence, but by footnotes to media reporting.” It is telling, however, that the OIG could provide almost no relevant or specific evidence to support its own claims or rebut POGO’s arguments. Read more POGO Newsletter, January-June 2015 [PDF] Check out POGO's first newsletter of 2015 for updates on some of our ongoing work. Read more [PDF] Take Action Open the Pentagon Budget There are some very troubling things about how the Senate Armed Services Committee debates the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — essentially, the Pentagon's $612 billion budget — behind closed doors. Was your senator one of the seventeen that voted to shut the public out? Tell these senators that they let taxpayers down: Sign the petition We rely on people like you to spread the word about our work. Tell a friend about POGO! POGO :: 1100 G Street, NW, Suite 500 :: Washington, DC 20005 :: (202) 347-1122

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Against IMF domination, Bernie Sanders stood up for Greece

Against IMF domination, Bernie Sanders stood up for Greece Dear Friend, Greeks will be voting in a referendum Sunday on whether to accept even more austerity demands from the International Monetary Fund – austerity demands that even the IMF admits won’t solve the Greek economic crisis. More than anything, Greece needs debt relief and economic growth, which the IMF plan won’t allow.    It’s important for Americans who care about what the IMF is doing to Greece to know who in Congress is standing up for Greece against IMF austerity.    Keith Ellison. Raul Grijalva. Jan Schakowsky. Alan Grayson. John Lewis. Rosa DeLauro. Jerrold Nadler. John Conyers. Hank Johnson.      But most of all, Bernie Sanders, who not only signed the Congressional letter, but made his own statement to the press “blasting” the IMF, as the Huffington Post reported.     For this day on which we celebrate our independence from foreign domination, I wrote a piece celebrating Bernie Sanders’ leadership against what IMF is doing to Greece. Can you help spread the news by reading and sharing my piece?    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/bernie-sanders-will-end-the-imfs-economic-violence-in-greece-and-africa_b_7723284.html    Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just, Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy Robert Naiman RSS Feed  GET UPDATES FROM ROBERT NAIMAN Like 335 Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy. Mr. Naiman edits the Just Foreign Policy daily news summary and writes on U.S. foreign policy at Huffington Post. Naiman has worked as a policy analyst and researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. He has masters degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Illinois and has studied and worked in the Middle East. You can contact him here. Bernie Sanders Will End the IMF's Economic Violence in Greece and Africa Posted: 07/03/2015 3:43 pm EDT Updated: 07/03/2015 4:59 pm EDT Many people want to know more about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' foreign policy agenda. Yes, they say, we like what Sanders is saying about reducing extreme inequality, about reducing the political power of the billionaire class. But what about U.S. foreign policy? Yes, they say, Bernie voted no on the Iraq war; yes, they acknowledge, Sanders supports the Iran deal. But we're spending more than half of our federal income tax dollars on the Pentagon's empire, money we should be spending on rebuilding our nation's domestic infrastructure. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death," Dr. King said. What's Bernie going to do about that? I'm all for pushing Bernie to talk more about downsizing the Pentagon to be an institution focused on actually defending the United States, as opposed to running around the world overthrowing other people's governments -- a Pentagon that "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as President John Quincy Adams put it. But we should also take advantage of the new opportunity that now presents itself; it's not only with bombs that U.S. foreign policy kills and injures innocent civilians. We should recognize and publicize the fact that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is talking about what the IMF is doing to Greece, the only presidential candidate who has a track record of opposing the IMF, the only presidential candidate who, if elected, is likely to do anything to end the economic violence of the IMF. In his historic campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, Jesse Jackson often invoked the theme of "economic violence": Economic violence is the critical issue of our day. When plants close on workers without notice, and leave them without jobs or training for new jobs -- that's economic violence. When three to five million Americans are on the streets and homeless -- that's economic violence. When merger maniacs make windfall profits and top management is given excessive bonuses, golden parachutes to aid a soft landing, while workers are asked to take a wage cut, a benefit cut and a job loss, a crash landing -- that's economic violence. When our children are victimized with poor health care, poor education, poor housing, poor diets and more -- that's economic violence against our children. Jesse Jackson was talking about U.S. domestic policy. But others have used the idea to talk about the IMF: Hundreds of campaigners are marching in Prague as the main policy-making body of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) begins a meeting to discuss debt relief. They want the IMF and its sister organisation, the World Bank, to cancel altogether debts owed to them by the poorest countries. The protesters are staging a "funeral" procession through Czech capital to highlight their view that 7 million children a year die because of the debt crisis. Jubliee 2000, which is organising the march, says it will be totally non-violent and that it is committed to peaceful protest. "We condemn violence, both the violence which ends in broken windows, and the violence that kills 19,000 children a day," the group's UK director Ann Pettifor told the BBC. The IMF is not "over there." The IMF is headquartered in Washington, physically, politically and financially. A progressive economist once reported that he was at a seminar at the IMF, where a senior IMF official was indignant that people were saying that IMF is unaccountable. The IMF official demanded to know: why do people always accuse us of being unaccountable? We never do anything without checking with the U.S. Treasury Department! Until now, unfortunately, Congressional Democrats have been largely content to let Treasury to run the show at the IMF without the input of real Democrats. The IMF is now doing to Greece what the IMF has been doing to Africa since the 1980s and what the IMF did to South America until the progressive governments there kicked the IMF out. The IMF is a member of the "troika" of official creditors that have been making extreme austerity demands on the Greek government and are nowopenly demanding "regime change" in Greece before there can be any deal that ends the crisis in Greece that the troika has imposed. (Some people complain that we shouldn't blame the IMF for what is being done to Greece; they say that some other institution or actor is more responsible. These people want us to play "accountability whack-a-mole" with the institutions. We need to hold the institutions "jointly and severally liable"; and the IMF is the bad actor in the troika for whom Americans have the most responsibility.) Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who is speaking out about this. In Congress, it's the progressive Democrats - including Sanders - who are speaking out about this. U.S. support for the IMF is more politically fragile than many people realize. Many Congressional Republicans hate the IMF, in significant measure because they see the IMF as a Democrat-supported taxpayer-financed slush fund to bail out big private banks when their international bets go bad (which assessment is quite correct.) Without the support of Congressional Democrats, the IMF is dead meat in Washington. Whenever the IMF wants more money from Washington, there's a campaign to trick low-information Democrats into believing that the IMF is "foreign aid," so that Democrats will support it. When more Democrats own the fact that the IMF agenda is the NAFTA-WTO-TPP agenda with a European internationalist smiley face mask pasted on, the IMF will be on a fast train to the dustbin of history. And this is not necessarily a remote prospect - the fact that this is the fundamental identity of the IMF is well known among labor activists, for example. AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs recently wrote: In the U.S. we must take the side of Greece in this fight. It is in our interest, as the immediate problem of the instability this is causing is a rising dollar that will hurt U.S. exports and jobs. And, we can never be sure of the interrelated nature of financial collapses since so much of the banking sector remains in the shadows; with global derivatives trading at values greater than global output. More importantly, we must also revolt against this economic order. It is the same order that saved JP Morgan Chase, but let Detroit and now Puerto Rico fail. It is the same religion that would sacrifice the earnings of American students with rising student debt and de-invest in public higher education. It is the same religion that would sacrifice American jobs and labor standards and back the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We must see these as the same struggle to restore sanity and purpose to role of government and its servant, the economy. This is why supporters of the IMF should be very afraid that Bernie Sanders andprogressive Democrats are denouncing what the IMF is doing to Greece. You can add your voice here. Follow Robert Naiman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/naiman MORE: Bernie SandersIMFGreeceJesse JacksonAfl Cio

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Logistics and Lizards Disrupt Chevron’s Project Off Australia

Logistics and Lizards Disrupt Chevron’s Project Off Australia

Jul 4th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Chevron agreed to share the cost with Exxon Mobil, Shell and three Japanese power companies, Osaka Gas, Tokyo Gas and Chubu Electric Power. “This is probably the last of the megaprojects for theoil companies for a while…”

By A. ODYSSEUS PATRICK: JULY 3, 2015

SYDNEY, Australia — Getting anything toChevron’s gas-processing plant on Barrow Island is a bit of a trick.

Some supplies travel 15 hours from Perth to a supply base for shipping. En route, trucks cannot stop under trees, to avoid picking up bugs and bird droppings. When people and cargo finally make it to the island, an army of 300 enforces a quarantine: Every Velcro strap on clothing and bags is checked for seed pods, boots are scrubbed free of dirt and pants with cuffs never even make it ashore.

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