Saturday, August 27, 2016

Left Side of the Aisle #258




Left Side of the Aisle
for the weeks of August 25 to September 7, 2016

This week:

Good News: Being good to employees pays off
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2015/11/2254-update-gravity-systems-company.html
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/10/1558819/-One-year-later-Gravity-employees-happily-flip-off-FOX-with-a-70k-gift-to-their-generous-boss
https://gravitypayments.com/thegravityof70k/#infographic-1

Good News: federal private prisons to be phased out
https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html
https://www.statista.com/chart/2755/no-country-incarcerates-more-women-than-the-us/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-goodwin/when-mass-incarceration-t_b_11554242.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_incarceration
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2016/03/2424-war-on-drugs-was-lie-from-start.html
http://www.care2.com/causes/a-new-department-of-justice-report-shows-private-prisons-are-especially-dangerous.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?utm_term=.ab209a04b3e7
https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/e1606.pdf
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2016/08/18/roberts-feds-stop-using-private-prisons-meanwhile-arizona/88949902/

Not Good News: phaseout does not apply to "immigrant detention centers"
http://www.alternet.org/immigration/theres-monster-loophole-feds-move-stop-working-private-prisons
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-texas-immigrant-children-20140618-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-immigration-family-detention-20151020-story.html
https://www.rt.com/usa/356548-border-patrol-detention-photos/
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/04/15/mothers-renew-hunger-strike-over-absolutely-horrendous-confinement-immigration

Footnote: The US is the only nation to imprison children for life without parole
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/life-without-parole-no-child-deserves-that/2013/06/27/d3c7db52-df45-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html?utm_term=.fdcf247e834e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_v._Louisiana
http://eji.org/children-prison/death-in-prison-sentences

Why Turkey sent tanks into Syria
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/middleeast/turkish-troops-isis-syria-operation/
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/24/why-turkey-finally-went-to-war-in-syria-jarablus-invasion-kurds/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/13/middleeast/syria-isis-manbij/
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/europe/understanding-turkey-enemies/
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/turkey-syria-isis-tanks-gamble-in-a-very-dangerous-game-a7207881.html

Clown Award: Jan Brewer
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/jan-brewer-clarifies-clinton-lying-killer-remark-it-was-a-st?utm_term=.fxGYoZwo6#.mrmJjL3ja
http://www.mediaite.com/online/jan-brewer-calls-clinton-lying-killer-says-arizona-wont-go-blue/

Colombia and FARC sign peace deal
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/24/world/americas/ap-lt-colombia-peace-accord.html?_r=0

TPP headed for lame-duck showdown
http://whoviating.blogspot.com/search?q=TPP
http://inthesetimes.com/article/18695/TPP_Free-Trade_Globalization_Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/08/grassroots-democrats-are-making-tpp-big-issue-congressional-races
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/obama-congress-trade-warning-226952
http://www.jill2016.com/
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/291324-liberals-rally-to-sink-obama-trade-deal
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/34629-chamber-of-commerce-lobbyist-tom-donohue-clinton-will-support-tpp-after-election
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/terry-mcauliffe-hillary-clinton-tpp-trade-226253
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/16/hillary-clinton-picks-tpp-and-fracking-advocate-to-set-up-her-white-house/

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