Saturday, March 15, 2014

RSN: Covering Up Torture for Years, EPA Allows BP to Resume Drilling in Gulf, .....


Andy Borowitz | Total Absence of Information About Malaysia Flight Not Hindering Twenty-Four-Hour Coverage, Cable Networks Say
Sean Hannity on Fox News. (photo: Fox News)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A total absence of actual information about the missing Malaysia flight is not in any way hindering twenty-four-hour coverage of the story, the major cable news networks confirmed today."
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Mark Zuckerberg Lectures Obama on Spying
Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
Oreskovic reports: "Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government's electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he'd personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure."
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Amy Goodman | CIA Spies and Tortured Lies
Amy Goodman, Truthdig
Goodman writes: "This week's public spat between CIA-loyalist Feinstein and that agency might briefly upset the status quo, but they will make up."
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Paul Krugman | Fear of Wages
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Suddenly, it seems as if all the serious people are telling each other that despite high unemployment there's hardly any 'slack' in labor markets."
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50,000 Activists Demand Sexual Assault Reform at Dartmouth After Student Publishes 'Rape Guide'
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler reports: "Dartmouth is currently under federal investigation for potential violations of Title IX, the federal gender equity law that requires universities to ensure a safe learning environment for students."
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Lakota Vow: 'Dead or in Prison Before We Allow the XL Pipeline'
Camila Ibanez, Waging Nonviolence
Ibanez reports: "For a nation whose land and sovereignty has been threatened for hundreds of years by U.S. politics, the Keystone XL pipeline is part of a long history of threats to the Lakota Nation - and to the earth itself."
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EPA Allows BP to Resume Drilling in Gulf
Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times
Banerjee reports: "The Environmental Protection Agency and BP announced Thursday an agreement that would allow the energy giant to bid once again on deep-water offshore drilling leases, reversing a government decision two years ago to bar the company from federal contracts following its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico."
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FOCUS: Marcy Wheeler | The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency's Role in Torture for Years
John Brennan. (photo: file)
Marcy Wheeler, The Intercept
Wheeler reports: "The fight between the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee over the Committee's Torture Report - which Dan Froomkin covered here - has now zeroed in on the White House."
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FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Obama, the CIA, and the Limits of Conciliation
Has Obama tried too hard to reach across the aisle? (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that, in one very important way, the president has lost control of his own government."
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