A LARGE DEDICATED AUDIENCE AVERSE TO SUPPORTING THE PROJECT: We have a unique problem. A large dedicated audience that is averse to supporting the project. While there may be reasons, good and bad the net effect is a constant headache for everyone. To expect that 1% of the subscribers would respond to the funding appeals seems like a modest aspiration. We are going to have to find a way to raise the level of participation. You apparently rely on RSN, and we clearly rely on you. Need to find a way to make this work. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News
Andy Borowitz | McCain Calls for Emergency Blame Game on Iraq
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: “Citing the deteriorating situation in the war-torn nation, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) on Saturday called for Congress to convene an emergency blame game on Iraq.”
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Juan Cole | The Second Iran-Iraq War and the American Switch
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: “Iran has decided to intervene directly in Iraq and has already sent fighters to the front, according to the Wall Street Journal, based on Iranian sources. It is alleged that Iranian special forces have helped the Iraqi army push back in Tikrit, the birth place of Saddam Hussein that was overrun earlier this week by ISIS, which captured the city’s police force.”
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John Nichols | Bernie Sanders Is Beating the Austerity Hawks
John Nichols, The Nation
Nichols writes: “Bernie Sanders does not believe that government always gets things right. But the independent senator from Vermont does believe that where government has the capacity to act on behalf of those in need, it should do so.”
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Vermont Begins Fight Over GMO Labeling Law
Gram Slattery, The Christian Science Monitor
Slattery writes: “Tiny Vermont this month boldly went where no US state had gone before, enacting a law to require food producers who treat their products with genetically modified organisms to let consumers know that on the packaging. Now, the state is going, perhaps just as boldly, to court.”
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The Koch Cycle of Endless Cash
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: “It’s not enough, apparently, that some of the wealthiest Americans spend millions to elect their candidates to Congress. Now they are using their fortunes to lobby Congress against any limits on their ability to buy elections.”
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Underground Reservoir Triple Size of Oceans Found
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: “Scientists have found evidence of a huge underground reservoir containing up to three times as much water as on the entirety of the earth’s surface and theorized to be the source for all the world’s oceans.”
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Poachers Massacre Elephants in Congo Park
Paul Schemm, Associated Press
Excerpt: “One of Africa's oldest national parks is under attack ‘from all fronts,’ said its director Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered over the past two months by poachers wielding chain saws and grenades and shooting them from helicopters.’
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