Saturday, April 19, 2014

RSN: Vermont Senate Passes Mandatory GMO Labeling Law, The Denver Post's 'Energy and Environment' Section Is Produced by the Oil and Gas Industry, et al

Elizabeth Warren | Why Equal Pay Is Worth Fighting For
Sen. Elizabeth Warren weighs in on the equal pay debate. (photo: Getty Images)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "Today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans."
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Ukraine Separatists Refuse to Budge Despite Deal
Luke Harding, Julian Borger and Alec Luhn, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Pro-Russian groups occupying a string of public buildings across eastern Ukraine have insisted that they would not end their occupation until a referendum to decide the status of the region had taken place."
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Enrollments Exceed Obama's Target for Health Care Act
Mark Landler and Michael D. Shear, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Obama announced Thursday that eight million people have signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, including what the White House said were a sufficient number of young, healthy adults."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-Winning Explorer of Myth and Reality, Dies at 87
Marcela Valdes, The Washington Post
Valdes reports: "'One Hundred Years of Solitude' has been translated into more than 35 languages and has sold, by some accounts, more than 50 million copies."
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Two Justices Say High Court Will Likely Rule on NSA Programs
Lawrence Hurley, Reuters
Hurley reports: "Two members of the Supreme Court indicated on Thursday night that the court will ultimately have to decide the legality of National Security Agency surveillance activities."
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The Denver Post's 'Energy and Environment' Section Is Produced by the Oil and Gas Industry
Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress
Valentine reports: "The 'Energy and Environment' section, which was created in February, runs what at first glance appear to be similar stories, but with one catch."
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Steve Weissman | Exposing the Cold War Roots of America's Coup in Kiev
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. (photo: Alexei Nikolsky/AP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Once upon a time, Vladimir Putin started the new Cold War. He set out to take over Ukraine economically."
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'New York Times' Admits It Agreed to 'Gag Orders' in Israel
Greg Mitchell, The Nation
Mitchell reports: "The New York Times late yesterday finally admitted, briefly and offhand, that it agreed (long ago?) to gag orders in Israeli in exchange for press credentials."
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Tom Engelhardt | Inside Attacks, American-Style
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "Name me another wartime period when, for whatever reason, two U.S. soldiers shot up the same base at different times, killing and wounding dozens of their fellow troops."
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Vermont Senate Passes Mandatory GMO Labeling Law
Carey Gillam and Lisa Baertlein, Reuters
Gillam and Baertlein report: "The Vermont Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would make the state the first in the United States to enact mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified crops."
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John Yoo Trashes Pulitzer Over Snowden Files Awards
Murtaza Hussain, Salon
Hussain reports: "How depraved and incompetent do you have to be before people in America stop asking your opinion about things?"
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Robert Borosage | The Faux Populist Wave: Where Are the Pitchforks?
Robert Borosage, Reuters
Borosage reports: "Americans are in a surly mood, confronting rules they feel are rigged against them."
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Billboard in Missouri Set Up to Free a Man Who Is Doing Life Without Parole for Marijuana
Ray Downs, Riverfront Times
Downs reports: "Efforts to release Jeff Mizanskey, the only man in Missouri serving a life-without-parole sentence for a nonviolent marijuana charge, are continuing this month with help from Show-Me Cannabis and Change.org."
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