Saturday, April 12, 2014

RSN: Why Aren't We Putting US Agencies on Trial for Financing El Chapo's Drug War?, Republican's Delusions of Disaster, et al

FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Federal Bureau of Incompetence
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Why did the FBI slow-play the local cops on what the Russians told them about the elder Tsarnaev?"
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Paul Krugman | Republican's Delusions of Disaster
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "When it comes to health reform, Republicans suffer from delusions of disaster. They know, just know, that the Affordable Care Act is doomed to utter failure, so failure is what they see, never mind the facts on the ground."
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CIA and White House Under Pressure Over Torture After Leaked Senate Report
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "A leak of the major findings of a landmark Senate inquiry into the CIA's post-9/11 torture of terrorism detainees led, on Friday, to intensified pressure on the White House and the CIA to release the inquiry speedily and with a minimum of redactions."
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When Soldiers Venture Abroad, Women's Bodies Become Occupied Territories
Akemi Johnson, The Nation
Johnson writes: "The sexual conduct of US servicemen in war should be moved from a historical footnote to 'the center of the story.'"
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Eric Boehlert | Shrinking Newsrooms in the Age of the Koch Brothers and Billionaire Donors
Eric Boehlert, Reader Supported News
Boehlert writes: "The larger, disturbing question is what happens to newsgathering, and what happens to a democracy, when the cutbacks show no signs of abating."
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Why Aren't We Putting US Agencies on Trial for Financing El Chapo's Drug War?
Gabriel Matthew Schivone, Guardian UK
Schivone writes: "Nearly seven weeks before an overnight capture at a beach resort, the Mexican newspaper El Universal reported how US agencies had armed and financed El Chapo's Sinaloa criminal empire for at least 12 years."
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Chinese Newscaster Replaced During Live Broadcast for Criticizing "Corrupt Officials"
Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter
Brzeski reports: "In an original recording of the segment that soon leaked to streaming video sites, Cui appears to be interrupted by someone off-screen and defiantly asks, 'Can I finish speaking?'"
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Heavy Spending by Conservative Groups Tilts Senate Races
Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
Confessore reports: "Democrats in races that will help determine control of the Senate are rapidly burning through their campaign cash, whittling away their financial advantage over Republican opponents as they fend off attacks from conservative groups."
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