Friday, August 1, 2014

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Juan Cole | Gaza and Soweto
Juan Cole. (photo: Informed Comment)
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Gaza is very much like a Bantustan of Israel, surrounded by it and kept weak and disrupted. But in this way the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced there from their original homes in what is now southern Israel can be denied citizenship in Israel."
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CIA Admits to Spying on Senate Staffers
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff."
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Dennis J. Kucinich | We Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here's How
Dennis J. Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "As someone who through 16 years in the House served with most current members of Congress, I urge you to help end the grave humanitarian crisis of death and destruction."
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Netanyahu Wants Hamas to Stay
Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Lake and Rogin write: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his military will not stop until it dismantles a labyrinth of tunnels often burrowed under private homes and even beneath Gaza's mosques. But Netanyahu has not called for destroying the organization that built those tunnels."
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Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby: Male Justices Don't Get It
Katie Couric News Video
Excerpt: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her in the Hobby Lobby case have a 'blind spot' when it comes to women."
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Colorado's Now Averaging 2 Oil and Gas Spills Per Day
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "As oil and gas operations ramp up in Colorado, spills, too, are having their heyday. In the year 2014, according to a Denver Post analysis, they're occurring at a rate of two per day."
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Whole Foods Repackages for the Poor
Mark Guarino, Al Jazeera America
Guarino reports: "In the past three years, Whole Foods has opened stores in Boston's Jamaica Plain, Detroit's Midtown and New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhoods, repurposing its model of organic and locally sourced food for gentrifying areas with high crime, vacant storefronts and crumbling infrastructure."
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