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News
Carl Gibson |
9 Good Reasons to Ban Fracking Immediately
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "The natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has simultaneously become a cash cow for unimaginably wealthy energy companies, a brutally efficient destroyer of limited natural resources depended upon by the rest of us, and a disturbing new trend that will lead to massive social instability."
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Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "The natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has simultaneously become a cash cow for unimaginably wealthy energy companies, a brutally efficient destroyer of limited natural resources depended upon by the rest of us, and a disturbing new trend that will lead to massive social instability."
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Elizabeth
Warren on Barack Obama: "They Protected Wall Street. Not
Families."
Thomas Frank, Salon
Excerpt: "The system is rigged. And now that I've been in Washington and seen it up close and personal, I just see new ways in which that happens. But we have to stop and back up, and you have to kind of get the right diagnosis of the problem."
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Thomas Frank, Salon
Excerpt: "The system is rigged. And now that I've been in Washington and seen it up close and personal, I just see new ways in which that happens. But we have to stop and back up, and you have to kind of get the right diagnosis of the problem."
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Juan Cole |
Listening to Nobelist Malala Yousafzai Instead of Just Honoring
Her
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "There is always a danger that in honoring a figure like Malala Yousafzai, the world will drown out her more challenging views."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "There is always a danger that in honoring a figure like Malala Yousafzai, the world will drown out her more challenging views."
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Our Sons Know
They Could Be the Next Michael Brown. But They Should Never
Surrender.
Claudia Rankine, Guardian UK
Rankine writes: "The drive to Ferguson prepares me for Ferguson. Once out of downtown St Louis, county after county radiates a pervasive poverty: abandoned malls, boarded-up stores, homes in disrepair, the occasional fast-food place, gas stations and, finally, the Ferguson Market & Liquor store on West Florissant Avenue."
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Claudia Rankine, Guardian UK
Rankine writes: "The drive to Ferguson prepares me for Ferguson. Once out of downtown St Louis, county after county radiates a pervasive poverty: abandoned malls, boarded-up stores, homes in disrepair, the occasional fast-food place, gas stations and, finally, the Ferguson Market & Liquor store on West Florissant Avenue."
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Ebola: How it
Spreads
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Ebola isn't airborne. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said people don't get exposed by sitting next to someone on the bus."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "Ebola isn't airborne. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said people don't get exposed by sitting next to someone on the bus."
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News From the
Frontlines of the GOP's War on Voting
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "Less than four weeks away from a crucial election that may see control of the Senate shift to the GOP, there’s a bitter fight underway."
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Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "Less than four weeks away from a crucial election that may see control of the Senate shift to the GOP, there’s a bitter fight underway."
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Agriculture
Has Poisoned Water Throughout California's Central Valley
Katya Cengel, Al Jazeera America
Cengel writes: "It may seem remarkable that a community in California, one of the wealthiest states in one of the wealthiest countries, does not have safe drinking water. But for the residents of San Lucas, water problems are nothing new."
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Katya Cengel, Al Jazeera America
Cengel writes: "It may seem remarkable that a community in California, one of the wealthiest states in one of the wealthiest countries, does not have safe drinking water. But for the residents of San Lucas, water problems are nothing new."
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