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Robert Parry |
The 'We-Hate-Putin' Group Think
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Across the ideological spectrum, there is rave support for the coup that overthrew Ukraine's elected president - and endless ranting against Russian President Vladimir Putin for refusing to accept the new coup leadership in Kiev and intervening to protect Russian interests in Crimea."
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Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Across the ideological spectrum, there is rave support for the coup that overthrew Ukraine's elected president - and endless ranting against Russian President Vladimir Putin for refusing to accept the new coup leadership in Kiev and intervening to protect Russian interests in Crimea."
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Behind Clash
Between CIA and Congress, a Secret Report on Interrogations
Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
Mazzetti reports: "It was early December when the Central Intelligence Agency began to suspect it had suffered what it regarded as an embarrassing computer breach."
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Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times
Mazzetti reports: "It was early December when the Central Intelligence Agency began to suspect it had suffered what it regarded as an embarrassing computer breach."
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Conservative
Group ALEC Trains Sights on City and Local Government
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington reports: "The rightwing group Alec is preparing to launch a new nationwide network that will seek to replicate its current influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities."
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Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington reports: "The rightwing group Alec is preparing to launch a new nationwide network that will seek to replicate its current influence within state legislatures in city councils and municipalities."
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Texas:
Bringing the 'Pre-Roe' Days Back for Women
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Germanos reports: "Two more reproductive healthcare clinics in Texas that provided abortion closed this week, an 'injustice' critics say has been brought on by legislation that robs women of their rights and 'endangers the lives of the state's most vulnerable women.'"
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Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Germanos reports: "Two more reproductive healthcare clinics in Texas that provided abortion closed this week, an 'injustice' critics say has been brought on by legislation that robs women of their rights and 'endangers the lives of the state's most vulnerable women.'"
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FBI
Investigates Prison Company
Rebecca Boone, Associated Press
Boone reports: "The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it 'Gladiator School.'"
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Rebecca Boone, Associated Press
Boone reports: "The FBI has launched an investigation of the Corrections Corporation of America over the company's running of an Idaho prison with a reputation so violent that inmates dubbed it 'Gladiator School.'"
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While We Wait
on Keystone Decision, a Different Tar Sands Pipeline Gets
Approved
Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin writes: "Canada's National Energy Board have approved a proposal by Enbridge Inc. to allow the reversal and expansion of their Line 9 pipeline."
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Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin writes: "Canada's National Energy Board have approved a proposal by Enbridge Inc. to allow the reversal and expansion of their Line 9 pipeline."
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Bernie Sanders
| There's No Need to End Saturday Mail Delivery
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Sanders writes: "Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world."
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Declassify the
Senate Report on CIA Interrogation Methods
The Washington Post
Excerpt: "More than a dozen years after the attacks of 9/11, it is time to treat government decisions made in the aftermath as history - to be debated and learned from."
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The Washington Post
Excerpt: "More than a dozen years after the attacks of 9/11, it is time to treat government decisions made in the aftermath as history - to be debated and learned from."
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Pussy Riot
Members Attacked With Green Paint and Rubbish
Reuters
Excerpt: "Two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot were attacked by a group of men who poured rubbish and bright green paint over them and shouted obscenities at them at a McDonald's restaurant."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "Two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot were attacked by a group of men who poured rubbish and bright green paint over them and shouted obscenities at them at a McDonald's restaurant."
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Senate Rejects
Blocking Military Commanders From Sexual Assault Cases
Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper reports: "The Senate on Thursday rejected a controversial bipartisan bill to remove military commanders from decisions over the prosecution of sexual assault cases in the armed forces, delivering a defeat to advocacy groups that argued that wholesale changes are necessary to combat an epidemic of rapes and sexual assaults in the military."
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Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper reports: "The Senate on Thursday rejected a controversial bipartisan bill to remove military commanders from decisions over the prosecution of sexual assault cases in the armed forces, delivering a defeat to advocacy groups that argued that wholesale changes are necessary to combat an epidemic of rapes and sexual assaults in the military."
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Congressional
Black Caucus Demands Darrell Issa Be Removal As Committee Chair
Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress
Leber reports: "At a House hearing yesterday, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) cut the mic of Democratic Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), fueling the Congressional Black Caucus to demand Issa face punishment for his 'unequivocally unacceptable' actions."
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Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress
Leber reports: "At a House hearing yesterday, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) cut the mic of Democratic Ranking Member Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), fueling the Congressional Black Caucus to demand Issa face punishment for his 'unequivocally unacceptable' actions."
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MSNBC's Ed
Schultz: 'I Was Wrong,' Don't Build Keystone XL Pipeline
Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski reports: "Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC's The Ed Show, has changed his mind and become the latest prominent opponent of approving the Keystone XL pipeline."
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Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski reports: "Ed Schultz, host of MSNBC's The Ed Show, has changed his mind and become the latest prominent opponent of approving the Keystone XL pipeline."
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