Monday, May 19, 2014

RSN: Countdown to Oblivion: The Real Reason We Can't Stop Global Warming, How Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren Demolished the Conventional Wisdom on Debt , et al



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Steve Weissman | Marine Le Pen Targets Muslims, Seeks Jewish Support and Loves Vladimir Putin
President of French far-right party Front national (FN) Marine Le Pen. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Marine Le Pen has rebranded France’s Front National (FN) and is fast becoming the face of Europe’s growing right-wing nationalism. But how much does the new right-wing darling still take from Adolph Hitler’s National Socialists, which gave the FN much of its initial inspiration?"
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Charles Pierce | The Times Scandal Is an Embarrassment to Journalism
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The sudden defenestration of Jill Abramson is an ongoing embarrassment to the profession of journalism. Worse, it's given every wingnut with Internet access a permanent stiffie."
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How Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren Demolished the Conventional Wisdom on Debt
Sean McElwee, Salon
McElwee writes: "According to the prevailing story, debt is caused by lavish and irresponsible spending by poor and middle-class families. But like much 'conventional wisdom,' an increasing amount of evidence belies this point. In fact, the decline of saving and the rise of debt was an almost inevitable consequence of families trying to scrape by in the face of rising inequality."
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Can the Surveillance State Be Stopped?
Danny Schechter, Consortium News
Schechter writes: "Just as the publication of the Pentagon Papers in l971 did not end the Vietnam War, the leaks from a world of questionable 'intelligence' gathering have only made our spymasters more determined."
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Hunger-Striking Al Jazeera Journalist Near Death in Egyptian Jail
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Egypt's Cairo Criminal Court has rejected an appeal by Al Jazeera Arabic's Abdullah Elshamy against a decision to extend his detention, as his family denied claims he had quit a hunger strike he started more than 110 days ago."
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Colorado River Reaches Gulf
Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Galvan writes: "It was a monumental moment for conservationists, who said that water hasn't flowed regularly from the Colorado River to the sea in more than 50 years. It temporarily reached the sea twice in the 1980s and last in 1993."
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Countdown to Oblivion: The Real Reason We Can't Stop Global Warming
Saskia Sassen, Salon
Sassen writes: "There was a time when the environmental damage we produced remained somewhat localized, confined to specific places. That time is gone."
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