Monday, September 8, 2014

RSN: Kenya Poaching Crisis a 'National Disaster', Bob McDonnell Isn't the Only Politician Taking Bribes,



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Carl Gibson | Bob McDonnell Isn't the Only Politician Taking Bribes
Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia. (photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: 'Why is it legal for corporations and the wealthy to buy politicians? And what can we do to correct a system that's become nakedly corrupt?'
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ISIS Beheads 2nd Captive Lebanese Soldier
Diaa Hadid, Associated Press
Hadid writes: "The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State group said photographs posted online Saturday purporting to show his beheading appeared to be real."
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Blackwater Trial Approaches Verdict
Dan Roberts, Guardian UK
Roberts writes: "As the US military returned to combat in Iraq this summer, a group of jurors in Washington DC were hearing arguments over a dark chapter of the last war."
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Dennis Kucinich | ISIS, Libya, NATO and Preventing the Next 9/11
Dennis Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "Those who call for immediate military action rarely have a long-term strategy. That is why America's march of folly from Iraq to Libya has been a recruiting tool for jihadist forces, including ISIS."
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Mike Cockrell | Veterans, Retired Police Captain Agree on Ending Marijuana Prohibition
Mike Cockrell, Reader Supported News
Cockrell writes: "The 2014 Veterans for Peace National Conference has unanimously passed Resolution 2014-03, which among other things calls for further studies of medical cannabis, including calling upon the federal government to reschedule the plant, which is currently federally listed as a Schedule I Drug."
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Kenya Poaching Crisis a 'National Disaster'
Peter Martell, Agence France-Presse
Martell writes: "Kenya's government was under renewed pressure Friday to declare a 'national disaster' because of the rampant slaughter of elephant and rhino, with two major newspapers dismissing wildlife authority claims that the situation was under control."
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In Chad, Elephants Make a Comeback
Celeste Hicks, Al Jazeera America
Hicks writes: "Lorna Labuschagne never tires of the excitement of seeing the continent's wild animals. But a plane trip over Chad's Zakouma National Park in late 2013 was a particularly remarkable moment for her and several colleagues who were working to save elephants in the Central African wilderness. Below, they spied at least 21 new elephant calves."
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FOCUS: Robert Parry | Sidestepping Ukraine's 'N-Word' for Nazi
Far-right group 'Right Sector' train in Independence Square in central Kiev, January 25, 2014. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "The New York Times, in its ceaseless anti-Russian bias over the Ukraine crisis, now wants everyone to use the 'I-word' - for 'invasion' - when describing Russia’s interference in Ukraine despite the flimsy supporting evidence for the charge presented by Kiev and NATO."
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FOCUS | In Fact Obama Does Have ISIS Strategy, and it Involves Iran
President Barack Obama. (photo: Ints Kalnins/Reuters)
Jacob Siegel, The Daily Beast
Siegel writes: "The President hasn’t announced his strategy for dealing with ISIS yet, but there is a clear military approach taking shape in Iraq."
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