Saturday, March 8, 2014

RSN: FBI Investigates Prison Company, Conservative Group ALEC Trains Sights on City and Local Government, et al


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Robert Parry | The 'We-Hate-Putin' Group Think
President-elect Putin watches the tactical exercises of Russia's Northern Fleet in the Barentsevo Sea. (photo: CNN)
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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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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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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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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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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Bernie Sanders | There's No Need to End Saturday Mail Delivery
Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: AP)
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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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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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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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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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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