Rampant Racism Carefully Cloaked

FOCUS | The Racism at the Heart of the Reagan Presidency

Ian Haney-Lopez, Salon
Haney-Lopez writes: "In the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan would come out firing on racial issues, and would blast past Carter. Just 36 percent of whites, only slightly better than one in three, voted for Carter in 1980."
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Peter Van Buren | The NSA, You Can't Opt Out

Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
Van Buren writes: "If, instead of spending trillions of dollars on spying and domestic surveillance, we had spent that same money on repairing our infrastructure and improving our schools, wouldn't we now have a safer, stronger America?"
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Chris Hedges | The Trouble With Chris Christie

Chris Hedges, TruthDig
Hedges writes: "The corporate state's repression, now on the brink of totalitarianism, would with the help of Christie, his corporate backers and his tea party loyalists become a full-blown corporate fascism."
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Carl Gibson | Time for a Digital Labor Movement

Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "Even though I have a journalism degree and worked for NPR affiliates for 5 years, I no longer read newspapers, watch TV, or listen to the radio. I get all of my news from Twitter by following people on the ground, credible journalists, and independent news outlets."
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John McCain Calls for NSA Investigation
Paul Lewis, Guardian UK
Lewis reports: "John McCain, the Republican senator and former presidential candidate, has called for a congressional investigation into America's 'broken' National Security Agency."
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Iran, World Powers Reach Deal Opening Nuke Program
Nasser Karimi, Associated Press
Karimi reports: "Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and to open its nuclear program to daily inspection by international experts starting Jan. 20, setting the clock running on a six-month deadline for a final nuclear agreement, officials said."
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Carl Hiaasen | Let's Put an End to the Executions
Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald
Hiassen writes: "For decades, the dogged maneuvering and serial delays in capital cases have frustrated prosecutors and police, and brought more misery to the victims' relatives. There is no workable solution except to repeal the death penalty and replace it with mandatory life sentences."
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America Is Still a Deeply Racist Country
Chris Arnade, Guardian UK
Arnade writes: "In my Florida hometown, there is a train track that splits the town into two colors. When we passed into the black section of town, even if I were lying in the back of the station wagon, I knew it. The gravel roads would wake me, and I could basically smell poverty through the windows."
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Big Ag's Big Antibiotic Lie
Alexander Zaitchik, Salon
Zaitchik reports: "There is a near consensus among public health experts that the bulk antibiotics produced by AHI's member companies are accelerating the approach of a post-antibiotics nightmare scenario."
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