RSN: Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science, Thousands in Japan Protest Nuclear Power, et al

Charles Pierce | David Brooks, The Last Romantic

Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "No, really, David, it's nice to see you again. Thanks for coming. Stay right here. Have some dip. I have to go into the kitchen and saute the cat."
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Ukraine and Russia Agree to Truce as Crimea Votes in Referendum
Luke Harding, Guardian UK
Harding writes: "Russia and Ukraine have agreed a truce in Crimea until 21 March, Ukraine's acting defence minister has announced, in a move that appears to reduce tensions between Moscow and the western-backed government in Kiev."
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Natasha Lennard | We Have Not Consented to Our Own Constant Surveillance
Natasha Lennard, The New Inquiry
Lennard writes: "One photo from the sometime halcyon days of Occupy Wall Street has come to haunt me."
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How the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet Could Have Been Hijacked
Brendan I. Koerner, Wired Magazine
Koerner writes: "In the hours after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, the notion that hijackers were responsible seemed far-fetched."
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ACLU: Terror Watchlist Stigmatizing US Citizens
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "The U.S. government's 'massive' watchlist database risks stigmatizing hundreds of thousands of people as known or suspected terrorists – including some its own citizens, a leading civil liberties group has warned."
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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science
William J. Broad, The New York Times
Broad writes: "Absent from his narrative, though, was the back story, one that underscores a profound change taking place in the way science is paid for and practiced in America."
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Thousands in Japan Protest Nuclear Power
Al Jazeera America and AFP
Excerpt: "More than 5,000 protesters gathered at Hibiya Park in Tokyo on Saturday to pressure the government not to restart the country's nuclear power stations."
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