Thursday, April 10, 2014

RSN: Blood In Pennsylvania, Corporate Takeover of Society, Deepwater Horizon damage, Koch Brothers Received Millions in Obamacare Subsidies,


FOCUS: Charles Pierce | Blood In Pennsylvania
arents and students embrace near Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pa. after more than a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at the school Wednesday morning. (photo: AP Photo/Tribune Review, Sean Stipp)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "There will be no more awful bit of news than this one today."
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FOCUS: Frank Rich | Scandal Loves a Clinton
The Clintons. (photo: Getty Images)
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "What the right really wants to talk about when it talks about the Clintons is none of the above. The conversation will quickly turn to sex."
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Stephen Colbert: 'Nice Try Jeb. It's Over'
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Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor
Grier writes: "On 'The Colbert Report' Monday night, comic Stephen Colbert pronounced Jeb Bush's prospects for winning the White House to be zero, ended, kaput."
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Koch Brothers Received Millions in Obamacare Subsidies
Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress
Volsky writes: "Charles and David Koch may have spent millions of dollars opposing President Obama's Affordable Care Act, but that didn't stop them from benefiting from the law."
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US Prisons House Ten Times More Mentally Ill Than State Hospitals
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "There are 10 times more mentally ill Americans in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals, a report published Tuesday found - adding that those individuals' conditions often deteriorate while they are incarcerated."
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel Denied Access to Her Own NSA File
The Local
Excerpt: "Germany's interior ministry reportedly approached the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) last October to ask for the file's content, amid revelations the NSA had been tapping the chancellor's mobile phone."
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Snowden: Whistleblower "Did Complain" to NSA Before Leaking Classified Documents
Kashmira Gander, The Independent
Gander writes: "Former US NSA contractor Edward Snowden has blasted allegations that he did not file a formal complaint to the agency before he disclosed thousands of classified government documents, it has been reported."
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How the Corporate Takeover of Society Is Leaving Us Feeling Empty Inside
George Monbiot, Guardian UK
Monbiot writes: "How do you engineer a bland, depoliticised world, a consensus built around consumption and endless growth, a dream world of materialism and debt and atomisation, in which all relations can be prefixed with a dollar sign, in which we cease to fight for change? You delegate your powers to companies whose profits depend on this model."
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Wildlife in Gulf of Mexico Still Suffering Four Years After BP Oil Spill
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK
Goldenberg reports: "The BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused dangerous after-effects to more than a dozen different animals from dolphins to oysters, a report from an environmental campaign group said on Tuesday."
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