Saturday, July 5, 2014

RSN: Quest to Release Information 'Destroyed CIA Officer's Career', House Panel Opposes Giving SEC Documents for Insider Trading Probe



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Paul Krugman | It Was the Housing Bubble Stupid
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "You often find people talking about our economic difficulties as if they were complicated and mysterious, with no obvious solution. As the economist Dean Baker recently pointed out, nothing could be further from the truth."
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Palestinian Protests Spread After Boy's Funeral
Peter Beaumont, Guardian UK
Beaumont writes: "Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters have spread following the funeral of a teenager who Palestinians claim was killed by Israeli extremists in a revenge attack."
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Quest to Release Information 'Destroyed CIA Officer's Career'
Greg Miller, The Washington Post
Miller writes: "The most perilous posting for Jeffrey Scudder turned out to be a two-year stint in a sleepy office that looks after the agency's historical files. It was there that Scudder discovered a stack of articles, hundreds of histories of long-dormant conflicts and operations that he concluded were still being stored in secret years after they should have been shared with the public."
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House Panel Opposes Giving SEC Documents for Insider Trading Probe
Luciana Lopez, Nate Raymond and Sarah Lynch, Reuters
Excerpt: "A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Friday it should not have to comply with a federal regulator's demand for documents sought for an insider-trading probe involving the staff director of a subcommittee and a lobbyist."
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Protesters Hound Buses of Immigrant Children: 'Nobody Wants You'
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "On Tuesday afternoon, a swell of anti-immigrant protesters prevented three buses carrying undocumented immigrants from driving to a Border Patrol processing facility in Murrieta, California, a small town less than two hours away from Los Angeles."
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Another Coastal Town Stands Up for Marine Life, Says 'No' to Offshore Drilling
Brianna Elliott, Oceana
Elliott writes: "Kill Devil Hills, a small coastal town located in North Carolina's Outer Banks, has joined the mounting opposition towards seismic airgun blasting along the Atlantic Coast."
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