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Darren Wilson: There's 'No Way' Michael Brown Put His Hands Up
HP | Paige Lavender | 11/25/14

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson opened up for the first time in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, part of which aired Tuesday evening, less than 24 hours after it was announced a grand jury would not indict him for the death of Michael Brown.

Wilson said there was "no way" Brown put his hands up before Wilson fired his weapon, as some witnesses have described. Wilson said he thought, "he will kill me if he gets to me" when he saw Brown come toward him. ... Read more
Darren Wilson: There's 'No Way' Michael Brown Put His Hands Up

Good News for Mother Earth: Solar, Wind Power Becoming Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels
BillMoyers | author | 11/24/14

The untold story of the 2009 stimulus package is that it jump-started a failing renewable energy sector in the US. As journalist Michael Grunwald, author The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, told The Atlantic in 2012, the much-maligned American American Recovery and Reinvestment Act "really launched a silent green revolution." A big part of that revolution was driven by the stimulus package's $90 billion for clean energy at a time when the government had been spending only a few billion per year.

Today, many of our green energy subsidies have expired, and additional tax breaks are unlikely to be renewed by Congress. But spending on research and development in both the public and private sector -- and by other countries -- now appears to be paying dividends. As of last year, the solar energy business alone accounted for more American jobs than gas and coal combined, according to the Solar Foundation's annual survey. ... Read more

Five bedrock assumptions that are warping American policy in the Middle East.
TomDispatch & BillMoyers | author | date

"Iraq no longer exists." My young friend M, sipping a cappuccino, is deadly serious. We are sitting in a scruffy restaurant across the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper West Side. It's been years since we've last seen each other. It may be years before our paths cross again. As if to drive his point home, M repeats himself: "Iraq just doesn't exist."

His is an opinion grounded in experience. As an enlisted soldier, he completed two Iraq tours, serving as a member of a rifle company, before and during the famous Petraeus "surge." After separating from the Army, he went on to graduate school where he is now writing a dissertation on insurgencies. Choosing the American war in Iraq as one of his cases, M has returned there to continue his research. Indeed, he was heading back again that very evening. As a researcher, his perch provides him with an excellent vantage point for taking stock of the ongoing crisis, now that the Islamic State, or IS, has made it impossible for Americans to sustain the pretense that the Iraq War ever ended. ...

Prosperity Amidst the Ruins
ZeroHedge | author | 11/26/14

The fundamental problem facing the global economy is not slow economic growth but political inequality.

It's striking: as economies stagnate, the top tier is living even larger while the low-income masses sink further into marginalized poverty. I call this widening divide between the vested interests/wealthy and the rest of society prosperity amidst the ruins.

How can the top slice prosper while the rest of the populace suffers from higher taxes, stagnant wages and a collapse of employment/enterprise opportunities? ... Read more

There Goes The Shopping Spree: Nor'easter May Hit East Coast For Thanksgiving
ZeroHedge | author | 11/26/14

Forget Black Friday and Q4 GDP... it appears, from the most recent forecasts that from Wednesday on this week, the eastern US faces a 'White Five-Day' as Accuweather reports "an increasing likelihood for a swath of heavy snow stretching from eastern Pennsylvania through New York's Hudson Valley and across much of New England before all is said and done." Furthermore, as WaPo notes, Wednesday's possible storm has a chance to develop into a legitimate Nor'easter. ... Read more