THE URGENCY TO
AVOID DESPERATION: As a community supported organization we accept life without
deep-pockets. The consequence is that when fundraising drives fail bad things
happen. November is a month in which we must find a way to reach our fundraising
goal. Doing so will be sufficient, not doing so will lead to serious problems. A
few of you are responding, thank you. The vast majority however are not. We need
your help. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News
Marc Ash |
Obama and the (Disenchanted) Base
Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "Reader Supported News has a vibrant, engaged and outspoken readership. There are things we have consistently been hearing from them for a long time about President Obama. For context, the vast majority of our readers voted for Obama – twice. What has been apparent for some time is a sense of betrayal. A sense that Obama talked the talk, but did not walk the walk."
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Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "Reader Supported News has a vibrant, engaged and outspoken readership. There are things we have consistently been hearing from them for a long time about President Obama. For context, the vast majority of our readers voted for Obama – twice. What has been apparent for some time is a sense of betrayal. A sense that Obama talked the talk, but did not walk the walk."
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Three Ways
Courts Screw the Innocent Into Pleading Guilty
Natasha Vargas-Cooper, The Intercept
Vargas-Cooper writes: "You should go read Jed A. Rakoff’s essay in The New York Review of Books, in which the senior federal district judge tries to explain why innocent people so often plead guilty. But even if you have better things to do this weekend than digest Rakoff’s thorough, convincing, 4,400-word essay, it’s still worth considering why at least 20,000 people have pled guilty to and gone to jail for felonies they did not commit."
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper, The Intercept
Vargas-Cooper writes: "You should go read Jed A. Rakoff’s essay in The New York Review of Books, in which the senior federal district judge tries to explain why innocent people so often plead guilty. But even if you have better things to do this weekend than digest Rakoff’s thorough, convincing, 4,400-word essay, it’s still worth considering why at least 20,000 people have pled guilty to and gone to jail for felonies they did not commit."
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A 3-Star
General Explains 'Why We Lost' in Iraq, Afghanistan
National Public Radio
National Public Radio
Daniel Bolger. (photo: Charles Register/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Excerpt: "In over 500 pages, the retired three-star general describes the conflicting agendas that haunted both campaigns, as well as the difficulty of identifying the enemy and the looming specter of Vietnam."
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Pregnant, and
No Civil Rights
Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin, The New York Times
Excerpt: "If we want to end these unjust and inhumane arrests and forced interventions on pregnant women, we need to stop focusing only on the abortion issue and start working to protect the personhood of pregnant women."
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Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin, The New York Times
Excerpt: "If we want to end these unjust and inhumane arrests and forced interventions on pregnant women, we need to stop focusing only on the abortion issue and start working to protect the personhood of pregnant women."
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Legacy of El
Salvadorian Atrocities Alive and Living in Florida
Clyde Haberman, The New York Times
Haberman writes: "As clichés go, the one about 'the long arm of the law' is moth-eaten. But the law does in fact have a reach, and it can extend far. In recent years, it has stretched out to grab foreign nationals who found refuge in the United States after committing or sanctioning political murder, torture and other human rights abuses in their home countries."
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Clyde Haberman, The New York Times
Haberman writes: "As clichés go, the one about 'the long arm of the law' is moth-eaten. But the law does in fact have a reach, and it can extend far. In recent years, it has stretched out to grab foreign nationals who found refuge in the United States after committing or sanctioning political murder, torture and other human rights abuses in their home countries."
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In Brazil,
Race Is a Matter of Life and Violent Death
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio
Garcia-Navarro reports: "Statistics hide a color-coded truth: Brazil actually has gotten a lot safer for white people. In the past decade, homicides among whites have decreased 24 percent. But among the black population they have increased 40 percent."
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Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio
Garcia-Navarro reports: "Statistics hide a color-coded truth: Brazil actually has gotten a lot safer for white people. In the past decade, homicides among whites have decreased 24 percent. But among the black population they have increased 40 percent."
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California
Proposes Mandatory Pesticide Spraying for Organic Crops
Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press
Knickmeyer writes: "With organic food growers reporting double-digit growth in U.S. sales each year, producers are challenging a proposed California pest-management program they say enshrines a pesticide-heavy approach for decades to come, including compulsory spraying of organic crops at the state's discretion."
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Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press
Knickmeyer writes: "With organic food growers reporting double-digit growth in U.S. sales each year, producers are challenging a proposed California pest-management program they say enshrines a pesticide-heavy approach for decades to come, including compulsory spraying of organic crops at the state's discretion."
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