Sunday, May 4, 2014

RSN: Wall Street Republicans' Dark Secret: Hillary Clinton 2016, Twisting Putin's Words on Ukraine, et al



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Robert Parry | Twisting Putin's Words on Ukraine
Russian president Vladimir Putin. (photo: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Sometimes dealing with the waves of U.S. media propaganda on the Ukraine crisis feels like the proverbial Dutch boy putting his fingers in the dike."
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Wall Street Republicans' Dark Secret: Hillary Clinton 2016
Ben White and Maggie Haberman, Politico
Excerpt: "The biggest parlor game on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms these days is guessing whether former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president and save the GOP's old establishment base from its rising populist wing."
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Protests Force Condoleezza Rice to Withdraw From Rutgers Commencement Address
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War."
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The 800-Pound Gorilla of the Christian Right
Josh Israel, ThinkProgress
"The Alliance Defending Freedom wants to take America back to the 3rd century. Literally. On the website for its legal fellowship program, the organization explains that it 'seeks to recover the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries.'"
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Look Who the Folks Who Took Down ACORN Are Targeting Now
Lee Fang, The Nation
Fang writes: "Kefauver, a key player in the rising cottage industry of lobbyists and consultants hired by the retail sector, warned his audience that a new movement was taking hold, one that could leverage the 'exponential growth of grassroots networks' to force change at corporations beyond the reach of traditional labor unions."
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The Anchorman Activist
Reid Cherlin, New York Magazine
Cherlin writes: "Jorge Ramos says to the camera in front of him: Protests against deportations from the United States are swelling in number and intensity."
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Seven Washington University Students Arrested Protesting Peabody Coal
Jeff Biggers, EcoWatch
Biggers writes: "On the heels of an earlier arrest of a student at a growing divestment blockade at Harvard University, seven Washington University students were arrested today in St. Louis, as they sought to enter the quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees."
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