Wednesday, October 8, 2014

RSN: Take the Climate Fight to Washington, 69 Percent of Republicans Say They Couldn't Live on Minimum Wage, Police Killed 77 People in September




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Glenn Greenwald | Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No Doubt That Endless War Is Official US Doctrine
Hillary Clinton. (photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Long before Americans were introduced to the new 9/11 era super-villains called ISIS and Khorasan, senior Obama officials were openly and explicitly stating that America's 'war on terror,' already 12 years old, would last at least another decade."
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43 Missing Students, a Mass Grave and a Suspect: Mexico's Police
Randal C. Archibold, The New York Times
Archibold writes: "They were farm boys who did well in school and took one of the few options available beyond the backbreaking work in the corn and bean fields of southern Mexico: enrolling in a local teachers college with a history of radicalism but the promise of a stable classroom job."
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James Risen: 'Obama Hates the Press'
Hadas Gold, Politico
Gold writes: "New York Times reporter James Risen said Sunday that none of the current leak investigations would be happening if President Barack Obama did not hate the media so much, the Morning Sentinel of Maine reports."
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Police Killed 77 People in September
E.P. Bannon, World Socialist Web Site
Bannon writes: "US police killed 77 people throughout the country in September, according to a compendium of local press reports compiled by volunteers on Wikipedia. Over the past week, police have killed at least 14 more people, while judges and prosecutors continued to protect the perpetrators of police violence."
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Harper's Index: 69 Percent of Republicans Say They Couldn't Live on Minimum Wage
Harper's Magazine
Excerpt: "Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage: 69. Percentage who support raising it: 37."
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Bill Clinton, Democrats Scramble to Keep Senate
Michael Mathes, Agence France-Presse
Mathes writes: "Bill Clinton returned to Arkansas in a bid to keep the US Senate Democratic, but he is fighting a Republican wave that could claim all Deep South senators for the first time in a decade."
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Tim DeChristopher and Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Take the Climate Fight to Washington
Tim DeChristopher and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Beyond Extreme Energy
Excerpt: "After the historic and inspiring People's Climate March and Flood Wall Street actions showed the potential of our growing movement, discussion is taking place about how to put that power into action. The power demonstrated on the streets of New York was a signal that we are big enough and strong enough to take our government out of the grip of the fossil fuel industry."
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