RSN: Robert Strauss's Watergate Secret, How the GOP Became the White Supremacy Party and Got Away With It, et al

FOCUS: Robert Parry | Robert Strauss's Watergate Secret

Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Robert Strauss, who died Wednesday, was a Democratic powerbroker who thrived in the age of Nixon, Reagan and Bush-41. But an enduring Watergate mystery is whether Strauss earned his GOP spurs by secretly helping the Republicans in the spy scandal."
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Mike Whitney | Crimea River, Obama's Ukrainian Blunder

Mike Whitney, CounterPunch
Whitney writes: "Here's something you won't read in the mainstream media: Ukraine's fake revolution is over."
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Snowden Revelations Invite Sanctions Against US Tech Industry
Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times
Miller reports: "IBM is spending more than a billion dollars to build data centers overseas to reassure foreign customers that their information is safe from prying eyes in the United States government."
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Multiple Attacks Across Iraq Kill Dozens
Al Jazeera America, The Associated Press
Excerpt: "A series of attacks north and west of Baghdad on Friday, including two suicide bombings, left at least 38 people dead, many of whom were members of security forces. Dozens more were wounded, Iraqi officials said."
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How Texas Women Are Fighting Back Against Attacks on Their Reproductive Rights
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler reports: "Women here have been facing serious threats to their reproductive rights well before Texas' new law started shutting down abortion clinics."
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Could Citizens United and a Semi-Colon Undo Obamacare?
Scott Bomboy, National Constitution Center
Bomboy reports: "Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases related to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and the stakes are high for both sides. In fact, the interpretation of a semi-colon in the context of the First Amendment could play a critical role."
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How the GOP Became the White Supremacy Party and Got Away With It
Chauncey DeVega, AlterNet
DeVega reports: "Paul Ryan has attempted to clarify his racist argument that 'inner city' black people are lazy and do not want to work."
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