William Boardman | Bloomberg's Banal Bloviation Makes McCarthyite Headlines at Harvard
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "That CNN headline on May 30 typified news coverage of the Harvard College commencement speech offered by former New York Mayor and continuing media mogul Michael Bloomberg, but it's a headline that pretty much distorts the reality of Bloomberg's speech, while accurately focusing on Bloomberg's own political/ideological distortions."
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Gun Nuts Aim at Each Other! Inside NRA's Fight With Open-Carry Lunatics
Jim Newell, Salon
Newell writes: "There is no better manifestation of American gun culture gone off the deep end than when greater-than-zero people believe there's nothing strange about openly wearing a semiautomatic rifle on a sling into a fast-food burrito line."
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At Guantanamo Bay, the Guilty Go Free, the Innocent Remain
Clive Stafford Smith, Al Jazeera America
Smith writes: "With the Taliban five headed for freedom, the cleared prisoners now make up more than 52 percent of the 149 detainees left there. Has there ever existed another prison where more than half the prisoners were told they had been cleared to leave but they could not go?"
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NSA Leaks: Is Your Selfie Filed Away in a Massive Government Database?
Noelle Swan, The Christian Science Monitor
Swan writes: "Two years ago, Facebook users wary of posting their pictures online were ridiculed for fearing that Big Brother might be watching. But leaked documents indicating that the National Security Agency has been compiling a massive database of photographs gleaned from online communications for use in its facial recognition software suggest those 'conspiracy theorists' had good reason to be concerned."
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French President to Eat Two Dinners in One Night to Keep Obama, Putin Away From Each Other
Angela Charlton, Associated Press
Charlton writes: "French President Francois Hollande certainly won't go hungry this Thursday night. He's dining twice - first with U.S. President Barack Obama, then with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It will be a digestive and logistical challenge, but the safest diplomatic solution for the French president to keep apart two leaders who are at odds."
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The Other Cannabis War: Hemp
Coco McPherson, Rolling Stone
McPherson writes: "In the annals of strange bedfellow politics, the story of how, in 2014, industrial hemp emerged from Drug War purgatory is an epic one. But even for long-time hemp advocates, the sight of Rep. Thomas Massie, a conservative Republican from northern Kentucky, biting jubilantly into a hemp bar on live TV last month was startling."
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Al Gore | The Most Important Step Taken to Combat Climate Change in Our Country's History
Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Gore writes: "Today's announcement by the Obama administration to reduce our nation's global warming pollution from power plants is the most important step taken to combat the climate crisis in our country's history."
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