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Week ending Friday August 26, 2011    Readers Choice | Most Read Views... Craig Studer: What Did You Learn in School Today? (The Texas Version) Richard Wolff: Austerity: Why Capitalism Is Choosing Plan B Mazher Ali: Let's 'Make Them' End the Great Recession Jim Hightower: Dim Bulbs in Congress Ralph Nader: Dark Horizon for Verizon Malcolm Harris: The Get Lost Generation Robert C. Koehler: Common Sense in a Coma Thomas S. Harrington: Learned Helplessness and the Imperial Mind John Feffer: Governments Kill Phil Rockstroh: Idiot Wind: The Eternal Return of the Politics of the 1970s Readers Choice | Most Read News... America’s Rampant Inequality Impossible to Deny The Great American Grand Canyon of Wealth Inequality. The vast gaping canyon between the richest 1 percent and Corporate America, on the one hand, and the rest of us on the other, has become so large and well-documented that denial no longer works. Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal A power play is underway in the foreclosure arena. On the one side is Eric Schneiderman, the NY Attorney General, who is conducting his own investigation into the practices that led up to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. On the other side is the Obama administration, the banks, and all the other state attorneys general. Chile's Commander Camila, The Student Who Can Shut Down a City Camila Vallejo's call for better and cheaper education has seen student protests transform into a two-day nationwide shutdown. Hormone-Disrupting Toxins Found in Top Clothing Brands Greenpeace campaigner Li Yifang said that nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), commonly used as detergents in industries including the production of natural and synthetic textiles, were detected in two-thirds of the samples the group tested. Bill Moyers Returns to Public Television, but Not PBS His new hourlong weekly show, called “Moyers & Company,” will focus on one-on-one interviews with people not often heard on television, “thinkers who can help us understand the chaos of this time.” The program will be based at WNET in New York City and distributed free to public television stations. Going Backwards: FCC Kills Off Fairness Doctrine Earlier this summer FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski agreed to erase the post WWII-era rule, but the action Monday puts the last nail into the coffin for the regulation that sought to ensure discussion over the airwaves of controversial issues did not exclude any particular point of view. Bill McKibben Jailed After White House Tar Sands Pipeline Protest McKibben and 64 other protesters kicked off a two-week sit-in at White House on Saturday to oppose a $7 billion, 1,700-mile oil pipeline planned to cross the nation’s Great Plains. Sanders Bill to Strengthen, Not Cut, Social Security To keep Social Security strong for another 75 years, Sanders’ legislation would apply the same payroll tax already paid by more than nine out of 10 Americans to those with incomes over $250,000 a year. Wikileaks: McCain, Collins, Lieberman Pushed to Arm Qadhafi A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable shows that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain promised to help Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi obtain U.S. military hardware in 2009. Nuclear Reactors on East Coast Brace for Irene's Wrath More than a dozen nuclear reactors along the U.S. East Coast are being prepared for potential loss of power and damage from high winds and storm surges as Hurricane Irene bears down on the region. Home About Us Donate Subscribe Archives ****** Common Dreams Summer Fundraising Campaign We are close! Only $8K more to go. Please Donate Today! ****** Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. www.commondrems.org You are subscribed to the Common Dreams Weekly Newsletter as F.Abdolian.blogi@blogger.com. Click here to unsubscribe.