Tuesday, March 11, 2014

RSN: The Well-Known Zombie War Criminal Dick Cheney, Vermont Votes for Public Banking, Hunger Strike, et al



Charles Pierce | The Well-Known Zombie War Criminal Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney. (photo: Peter Kramer/NBC NewsWire/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The producers decided that who the country really needed to hear from concerning the situation in the Ukraine was well-known zombie war criminal Dick Cheney."
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US Will Not Recognize Crimea Poll
Luke Harding, Guardian UK
Harding writes: "America's ambassador in Kiev said the US would refuse to recognise next Sunday's 'so-called referendum' in Crimea, and said Washington would take further steps against Russia if it used the poll to legitimise its occupation."
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David Bromwich | The Leader Obama Wanted to Become and What Became of Him
David Bromwich, TomDispatch
Bromwich writes: "The culprits in a Congress where, from the White House point of view, evil has been every shade of Republican turned out to be seven disloyal Democrats."
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Paul Krugman | Liberty, Equality, Efficiency
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Most people, if pressed on the subject, would probably agree that extreme income inequality is a bad thing, although a fair number of conservatives believe that the whole subject of income distribution should be banned from public discourse."
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Democratic Senators to Stage All-Night Session of Climate Change Speeches
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg reports: "More than two dozen Democratic senators will take to the Senate floor on Monday for an all-night session of speeches on climate change."
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John Nichols | Vermont Votes for Public Banking
John Nichols, The Nation
Nichols writes: "When the prairie populists of the North Dakota Non-Partisan League swept to power a century ago, with their promise to take on the plutocrats, one of the first orders of business was the establishment of state-run bank."
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300 Immigrants on Hunger Strike in Washington State
Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Pearce reports: "About 330 detainees were on a hunger strike for better conditions at an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Wash., as of Sunday afternoon, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
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