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Justice
Ginsburg: America Has a 'Real Racial Problem'
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court was 'once a leader in the world' in combating racial discrimination, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 'What's amazing,' she added, 'is how things have changed.'"
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court was 'once a leader in the world' in combating racial discrimination, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 'What's amazing,' she added, 'is how things have changed.'"
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Landon Jones |
Another St. Louis Summer
Landon Jones, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "It was the time of the Midwestern gothic of the Greenlease kidnapping, but it was also a time when the quest for justice could encompass both black people and white people, operating together and freely."
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Landon Jones, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "It was the time of the Midwestern gothic of the Greenlease kidnapping, but it was also a time when the quest for justice could encompass both black people and white people, operating together and freely."
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David Sirota |
Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in US
Taxes
David Sirota, International Business Times
Sirota writes: "Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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David Sirota, International Business Times
Sirota writes: "Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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Joshua Holland
| How Obama Could Help 6.1 Million Workers With a Stroke of His
Pen
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "With a Congress that's so polarized it barely can maintain the most basic functions of government, these small efforts at least represent a step in the right direction."
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Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "With a Congress that's so polarized it barely can maintain the most basic functions of government, these small efforts at least represent a step in the right direction."
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Last Tango in
Kabul
Matthieu Aikins, Rolling Stone
Aikins writes: "While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.'
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Matthieu Aikins, Rolling Stone
Aikins writes: "While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.'
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'Hands Up,
Don't Shoot': A Call for Nation-Wide Action
Common Dreams
Excerpt: "'The murders of unarmed people in our communities has reached epidemic numbers.' This is the warning that kicks off a national call (via video) from the Dream Defenders - the group that grabbed the national media spotlight last year when its members launched protests against Stand Your Ground Laws, including by occupying the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott."
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Common Dreams
Excerpt: "'The murders of unarmed people in our communities has reached epidemic numbers.' This is the warning that kicks off a national call (via video) from the Dream Defenders - the group that grabbed the national media spotlight last year when its members launched protests against Stand Your Ground Laws, including by occupying the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott."
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Ronnie Cummins
| What's Holding Back the Organic Food and Farming Revolution
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Cummins writes: "There is growing alarm among conscious consumers and activists that our 21st Century food and farming system, and the government-corporate cabal that props it up, is spiraling out-of-control. Chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, climate-destabilizing factory-farmed and genetically engineered food and farming are destroying not only our health and our environment, but also the soil fertility, biodiversity, and climate stability that make civilization possible."
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Cummins writes: "There is growing alarm among conscious consumers and activists that our 21st Century food and farming system, and the government-corporate cabal that props it up, is spiraling out-of-control. Chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, climate-destabilizing factory-farmed and genetically engineered food and farming are destroying not only our health and our environment, but also the soil fertility, biodiversity, and climate stability that make civilization possible."
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