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community. We are perpetually stymied by the lack of adequate funding. I have to
fix that. It's not a job I relish, it is a job that I accept. Help us do this.
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Reader Supported News
Dick Cheney's
Sadistic America: Why Torture Persists Post-W
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes."
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Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Gordon writes: "Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes."
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Israeli
Bombing Turns Gaza Into Ghost Town
Khalid Kazziha, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A ceaseless Israeli bombing campaign, with airstrikes every five minutes, has turned the frenetic hub of the Gaza Strip into a virtual ghost town, emptying streets, closing shops and keeping hundreds of thousands of people close to home where they feel safest from the bombs."
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Khalid Kazziha, Associated Press
Excerpt: "A ceaseless Israeli bombing campaign, with airstrikes every five minutes, has turned the frenetic hub of the Gaza Strip into a virtual ghost town, emptying streets, closing shops and keeping hundreds of thousands of people close to home where they feel safest from the bombs."
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The Senate Is
Giving More Power to the NSA, in Secret
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "One of the most underrated benefits of Edward Snowden's leaks was how they forced the US Congress to shelve the dangerous, privacy-destroying legislation– then known as Cispa – that so many politicians had been so eager to pass under the guise of 'cybersecurity.' Now a version of the bill is back, and apparently its authors want to keep you in the dark about it for as long as possible."
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Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "One of the most underrated benefits of Edward Snowden's leaks was how they forced the US Congress to shelve the dangerous, privacy-destroying legislation– then known as Cispa – that so many politicians had been so eager to pass under the guise of 'cybersecurity.' Now a version of the bill is back, and apparently its authors want to keep you in the dark about it for as long as possible."
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American
Outsiders: The Border Crisis and Civil Rights
Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Cobb writes: "Strip away the minute identifiers, the stray license plate, and the occasional bit of bureaucratic signage, and the images emerging from the growing crisis at the border have the look of dispatches from someplace far beyond America."
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Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker
Cobb writes: "Strip away the minute identifiers, the stray license plate, and the occasional bit of bureaucratic signage, and the images emerging from the growing crisis at the border have the look of dispatches from someplace far beyond America."
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California
High Court Softens 'Three Strikes' Law
Sharon Bernstein, Reuters
Bernstein writes: "California's highest court has softened implementation of the state's 'three-strikes-and-you're-out' criminal sentencing law, marking the second time the rules for identifying and imprisoning career criminals have been loosened in recent years."
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Sharon Bernstein, Reuters
Bernstein writes: "California's highest court has softened implementation of the state's 'three-strikes-and-you're-out' criminal sentencing law, marking the second time the rules for identifying and imprisoning career criminals have been loosened in recent years."
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San Francisco
Landlord Uses Loophole to Evict 98 Year-Old Who Paid Rent on Time for 50
Years
David Edwards, The Raw Story
Edwards writes: "Phillips, who is one of many the low-income families and seniors being evicted, has vowed to fight the eviction because she has nowhere else to go."
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David Edwards, The Raw Story
Edwards writes: "Phillips, who is one of many the low-income families and seniors being evicted, has vowed to fight the eviction because she has nowhere else to go."
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Florida to
Bulldoze Rain Forest for WalMart
Jenny Staletovich, The Miami Herald
Staletovich writes: "One of the world’s rarest forests, a section of Miami-Dade County’s last intact tracts of endangered pine rockland, is getting a new resident: a Walmart."
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Jenny Staletovich, The Miami Herald
Staletovich writes: "One of the world’s rarest forests, a section of Miami-Dade County’s last intact tracts of endangered pine rockland, is getting a new resident: a Walmart."
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