Tuesday, March 18, 2014

RSN: Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, et al



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Robert Parry | Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Right Sektor activists in the Maidan square in Kiev, Ukraine, on Feb. 22, 2014, the day of the coup. (photo: Mstyslav Chernov/Unframe)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "As the Ukraine crisis continues to deepen, the mainstream U.S. news media is sinking to new lows of propaganda and incompetence."
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A Failure to Protect Our Rights
Faiza Patel, Al Jazeera America
Patel writes: "Two seemingly unrelated news items last week demonstrate just how broken the oversight of the nation’s intelligence agencies is."
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Michael Wolff | MH370 Story Is the New Anti-Journalism
Michael Wolff, Guardian UK
Wolff writes:" Well, the plane is somewhere. Although there exists the eerie possibility that it will remain as if nowhere – forever lost."
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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie
Peter Wagner, Leah Sakala, Prison Policy Initiative
Excerpt: "Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 688,000 people released every year include those getting out of local jails?"
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Obama Meets with Palestine's Abbas at the White House
Mark Landler, The New York Times
Landler reports: "President Obama met with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority at the White House on Monday, amid signs that the peace process has hit a roadblock over Israel's insistence that the Palestinians formally recognize it as a Jewish state."
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Navy SEALs Seize Oil Tanker From Libya Rebel Port
Ulf Laessing, Feras Bosalum, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. special forces have seized a tanker that fled with a cargo of oil from a Libyan port controlled by anti-government rebels, halting their attempt to sell crude on the global market."
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Judge Rejects Latest Koch-Led Bid to Snuff Out Cape Wind
John Upton, Grist
Upton writes: "Wind won, and Bill Koch took another one in the crotch."
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