Tuesday, September 9, 2014

RSN: Koch Brothers Responsible for Nearly 10 Percent of All Campaign Ads This Season




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Steve Weissman | Meet One of the Scariest People on Planet Earth
Aymeric Chauprade. (photo: Wikimedia.de)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Chauprade presents himself as a geopolitical realist. In fact, he’s more an old-fashioned romantic and right-wing Catholic traditionalist defending the French nation, its identity, its 1500-year-old civilization, its European origins, and its Christian culture against a host of modernist evils."
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Paul Krugman | Scots, What the Heck?
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Next week Scotland will hold a referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom. And polling suggests that support for independence has surged over the past few months."
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Koch Brothers Responsible for Nearly 10 Percent of All Campaign Ads This Season
Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov
Brinkerhoff writes: "The right-wing bogeymen known as the Koch brothers have given liberals yet another reason to shake their fists over the billionaire duo’s campaigning spending."
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CIA Tortured Detainees by Holding Their Heads Underwater Until They Almost Drowned
Peter Foster, The Telegraph
Foster writes: "The CIA brought top al-Qaeda suspects close 'to the point of death' by drowning them in water-filled baths during interrogation sessions in the years that followed the September 11 attacks, a security source has told The Telegraph."
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UN Watchdog Blasts U.S. for Ongoing Racism
Lauren Carasik, Al Jazeera America
Carasik writes: "On Aug. 28, the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) slammed the United States for persistent racial and ethnic discrimination."
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Hundreds of Thousands Plan World's Biggest-Ever Climate March in 10 Major Cities
Adam Vaughan, Guardian UK
Vaughan writes: "Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of New York, London and eight other cities worldwide in a fortnight to pressure world leaders to take action on global warming, in what organisers claim will be the biggest climate march in history."
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Cities Prepare for Warm Climate Without Saying So
John Flesher, Associated Press
Flesher writes: "With climate change still a political minefield across the nation despite the strong scientific consensus that it's happening, some community leaders have hit upon a way of preparing for the potentially severe local consequences without triggering explosions of partisan warfare: Just change the subject."
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