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Friday Nite Videos -- July 18, 2014

Portside
Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma. If Latinos Said the Stuff White People Say. Johnny Winter: Live at the Fillmore East. Reggae Got Soul. Murder on Abortion Row.

Tidbits - July 17, 2014

Portside
Reader Comments - Detroit Denying Its Citizens Water; New Voices for Peace by Jews; Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War; UK's Largest Union Backs Boycott; Portside Readers Respond - Whither the Socialist Left; How Social Movements Can Win; Bernie Sanders; On the Waterfront and Working-Class Studies; Scotland; Common Core and Bill Gates; Equal Rights Amendment

Happy Birthday Woody

Harry Targ Diary of a Heartland Radical
July 12, Woody Guthrie would have been 102. The people's artist wrote the words to This Land is Your Land, the peoples' national anthem, and frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists on his guitar..

What's Missing From Hillary Clinton's `Hard Choices'

Eleanor J. Bader Rewire
Hillary Clinton is no radical. She uses Hard Choices to situate herself as a centrist Democrat - a wife, mother, and person of deep Christian faith who fervently believes in American exceptionalism. This mindset, that U.S. economic and military interests should trump the interests of other nations because, quite simply, we're an important imperial power, dovetails with Clinton's most deep-seated beliefs.

Gaza Beach Murder Eyewitness; Demonstration in Tel Aviv Saturday; On Collective Punishment

Peter Beaumont; Adam Keller; Marjorie Cohn
First-hand account of deadly strike on Gaza port by Peter Beaumont, in Gaza. There is a deafening explosion, then a second. Four children are dead. Adam Keller writes from Tel Aviv: "It is forbidden to shoot at civilian populations. It is forbidden and still it happens. Both sides do it. Hamas shoots on the population of Israel. The IDF shoots at the population of Gaza." Lawyer Marjorie Cohn reviews legal standing of collective punishment.

Why Opposing the Israel Lobby Is No Longer Political Suicide

by Phyllis Bennis The Nation
Our movement isn’t strong enough yet to end US enabling of the carnage in Gaza—but the shift in public discourse is a crucial first step. Now we just have to escalate our own work to get on to that next stage.

GOP Governor Implements GOP Economics, Disaster Ensues

By Paul Waldman The Washington Post
In many ways, Brownback’s term has been a perfect experiment in Republican governance. Take a crusading conservative governor, give him a legislature with Republican super-majorities so he can do pretty much whatever he wants, and let him implement the right’s wish list. The result was supposed to be a nirvana of economic growth and budgetary stability. But the opposite happened.

A Navy Nurse Is Refusing to Force-Feed a Guantanamo Inmate

By Josh Eidelson Business Week
“This nurse concluded that the military’s Guantanamo force-feeding policies are not humane,” Reprieve’s Crider said in an e-mailed statement. “Yet the military still insists that they are—so why won’t the Obama administration release the ten-plus hours of Mr. Dhiab being force-fed that I have seen? I think the American people would be very concerned to see what is happening at the prison.”

Reps. Rush, Davis Encourage Karen Lewis to Run for Mayor

By Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times
“When the leaders of my city, when the mayor stands proudly and takes credit for closing 54 public schools that are mostly on the South and West Sides of the City of Chicago, there is nothing but a continuation of the decades-long disinvestment in good-quality schools,” Rush said.