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Charles Pierce | The Long Reach of Dead ACORN
ACORN members protest the home foreclosure epidemic October 2007 at the Manhattan offices of Countrywide Financial. ACORN was dissolved in 2010. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Please explain to me now, slowly, and in small words that I can understand, what the Democratic party gained by kicking ACORN in the teeth so hard that it died?"
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'60 Minutes' Implodes After New Revelations About Star Benghazi Witness
Greg Mitchell, The Nation
Mitchell writes: "Logan and her producer, if this implosion continues, must go, promptly, a la Dan Rather."
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US, Israel Lose Voting Rights at UNESCO Over Palestine
Reuters
Excerpt: "UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.'s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians."
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Ann Jones | The Cost of War American-Style
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Jones writes: "To American officials back in that homeland, war was clearly a theoretical construct, and victory a matter of dreaming up those winning new strategies, or choosing some from past wars ... and then sending in the brash kids I would see in that stadium near Mazar-i-Sharif to carry them out."
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Dianne Feinstein's Bill Is a Big Step Backwards for Privacy
Michelle Richardson, Guardian UK
Richardson writes: "The legislation would make clear in no uncertain terms that communication records like phone, email, and internet data can be collected without even an ounce of suspicion."
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David Sirota | We Need a War on Poverty, Not on Teachers
David Sirota, Salon
Sirota writes: "As I've reported before, we know that American public school students from wealthy districts generate some of the best test scores in the world. This proves that the education system's problems are not universal."
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Fossil Fuels Receive $500 Billion a Year in Government Subsidies Worldwide
Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin reports: "Producers of oil, gas and coal received more than $500 billion in government subsidies around the world in 2011, with the richest nations collectively spending more than $70 billion every year to support fossil fuels."
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