Monday, May 5, 2014

RSN: Fracking-Linked Earthquakes May Strike Far from Wells, What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the Gulf Oil Spill, CIA, FBI Agents 'Advising' Ukraine Government, et al



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Elizabeth Warren | What Happened to the Middle Class?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Getty Images)
Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "The hollowing out of America's middle class has been years in the making, but it wasn't inevitable that working families would fall further and further behind."
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Report: CIA, FBI Agents 'Advising' Ukraine Government
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "Dozens of specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are advising the Ukrainian government, a German newspaper reported Sunday."
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Nate Silver and Allison McCann | Are White Republicans More Racist Than White Democrats?
Nate Silver, Allison McCann, FiveThirtyEight
Excerpt: "When racist statements by high-profile figures are made public, some news commentators become preoccupied with trying to discern the speaker's political affiliation."
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How the Rich Stole Our Money - and Made Us Think They Were Doing Us a Favor
David Atkins, Salon
Atkins writes: "If you've paid attention to the economy over the last few years, you've doubtless seen the charts and figures showing the decline of the American middle class in concert with the explosion of wealth for the super-rich."
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What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the Gulf Oil Spill
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Excerpt: "Despite what you may have heard about the cleanup being complete, fresh tarballs keep reappearing. Especially after storms, Henderson’s liable to find them by the thousands."
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Nuclear Experts Raise Concerns Over Giant "Ice Wall" at Fukushima
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Germanos writes: "Nuclear experts are casting doubt on Japan's plans to build a giant underground "ice wall" surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in a bid to stop dangerous radiation leaks."
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Fracking-Linked Earthquakes May Strike Far from Wells
Becky Oskin, Live Science
Oskin writes: "Fracking may cause earthquakes much farther from the sites of its wastewater wells than previously thought, researchers said at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America."
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