Tuesday, May 13, 2014

RSN: GOP Vote Scheme Finally Imploding: Why the End May Be Here, Bundy Supporters Drove ATVs Through Native American Ruins, et al



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Juan Cole | Did the GOP Obsession With Monica Lewinsky Contribute to 9/11?
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The reemergence in the news of Monica Lewinsky is also a reminder of one of the lowest deeds in modern politics, the impeachment of Bill Clinton by House Republicans in December of 1998."
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Boko Haram Leader Offers to Free Schoolgirls in Exchange for Prisoners
Shiv Malik, Guardian UK
Malik writes: "Boko Haram has released a video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and warning that they would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed."
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Robert Parry | Ukraine's Dueling Elections
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Despite many procedural shortcomings, the referenda for secession in eastern Ukraine confront the post-coup regime in Kiev and its Western backers with a growing problem, the realization that major ethnic Russian population centers near the Russian border reject the new right-wing national leaders and favor independence."
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Pratap Chatterjee | The Three Faces of Drone War
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch
Chatterjee writes: "Today, we are left with just the reassuring 'face' of the terrorist enemy, killed clinically by remote control while we go about our lives, apparently without any 'collateral damage' or danger to our soldiers. Now, however, that may slowly be changing, bringing the true face of the drone campaigns Washington has pursued since 9/11 into far greater focus."
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The FCC Is Pretending to Back Down From its Controversial Net Neutrality Plan
Brad Reed, Boy Genius Report
Reed reports: "Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler's plan to let ISPs charge content providers more money to make sure that their traffic gets delivered more quickly is probably not the most popular idea."
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GOP Vote Scheme Finally Imploding: Why the End May Be Here
Brad Friedman, Salon
Friedman writes: "It seems that the recent landmark court ruling in WI, followed by last week's towel toss in Pennsylvania and embarrassing revelations in Iowa, may be seen in the not-too-distant future as the moment that the GOP 'voter fraud' fraud finally began to permanently unravel."
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Bundy Supporters Drove ATVs Through Native American Ruins
Sara Morrison, The Atlantic Wire
Morrison writes: "If there's one thing that will get your point across and persuade the general public to support your cause, it's driving a bunch of ATVs through Native American ruins and burials. That seems to be the logic used by anti-Bureau of Land Management, pro-Cliven Bundy protestors who drove ATVs through a Utah canyon trail where motorized vehicles are banned."
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