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RSN: Indigenous Seed Savers Gather in the Andes, Agree to Fight Climate Change With Biodiversity, US "Humanitarian" Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual



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Glenn Greenwald | US "Humanitarian" Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual
A young Iraqi boy wearing an army uniform sits near Muslim worshipers loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, performing the Friday prayer in the mainly Shiite Sadr City district in Baghdad. (photo: Getty Images)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The suffering in Iraq is real, as is the brutality of ISIS, and the desire to fix it is understandable. There may be some ideal world in which a superpower is both able and eager to bomb for humanitarian purposes. But that is not this world."
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Israel and Hamas Back at War as Talks on New Ceasefire Remain Deadlocked
Jason Burke and Patrick Kingsley, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "The Israeli military has said it struck more than 30 targets through Friday night and into Saturday morning in the Gaza Strip as militant rocket fire continued towards Israel."
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James Brady's Death Ruled a Homicide by Virginia Medical Examiner
Peter Hermann and Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post
Ruane writes: "Monday's death of President Ronald Reagan's press secretary James S. Brady has been ruled a homicide resulting from the gunshot wound he suffered in the assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981, more than three decades ago."
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US Judge Rules Against NCAA, Says Athletes Can Be Paid
Dan Levine and Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
Excerpt: "The National Collegiate Athletic Association must allow universities to offer student athletes a limited share of revenue, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, a decision that cuts to the heart of the NCAA's mission to enforce amateurism in college sports."
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NYT Drops Government-Preferred Euphemisms and Will Now Call Torture "Torture"
Jon Queally, Common Dreams
Queally writes: "In an announcement on Thursday, the New York Times' executive editor Dean Baquet said the widely-read newspaper - at the urging of reporters in the newsroom - will end its long-held and widely criticized practice of calling torture by the U.S. government 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and instead call it by its 'common' name: torture."
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Indigenous Seed Savers Gather in the Andes, Agree to Fight Climate Change With Biodiversity
Erin Sagen, YES! Magazine
Sagen writes: "They discovered that their cultures were more similar than they had expected, and that one concern had been troubling all of them: Climate change was making it harder to grow food on the mountains that had sustained them for centuries. They were meeting to do something about it."
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