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Scott Galindez
| Obama's Next Xmas Gift: Rejecting Keystone Pipeline?
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
Galindez writes: "Congress plans to ring in the new year with a bang. One thing they plan to do is try to fast-track the Keystone XL Pipeline. President Obama can preempt them, give the environmental movement a huge Christmas present, and reject the pipeline today."
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Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
Galindez writes: "Congress plans to ring in the new year with a bang. One thing they plan to do is try to fast-track the Keystone XL Pipeline. President Obama can preempt them, give the environmental movement a huge Christmas present, and reject the pipeline today."
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ACLU, HRW Call
on DOJ to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Probe CIA Torture
Alina Selyukh and Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. civil rights groups on Monday called on the U.S. Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's use of torture and other extreme measures during interrogations."
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Alina Selyukh and Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. civil rights groups on Monday called on the U.S. Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA's use of torture and other extreme measures during interrogations."
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Charles P.
Pierce | The CIA & NYPD: Perilous Insubordination in Our
Democracy
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If the CIA is insubordinate to the president, whom the country elected, then it is insubordinate to all of us. If the NYPD runs a slow-motion coup against the freely elected mayor of New York, then it is running a slow-motion coup against all the people of New York."
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Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "If the CIA is insubordinate to the president, whom the country elected, then it is insubordinate to all of us. If the NYPD runs a slow-motion coup against the freely elected mayor of New York, then it is running a slow-motion coup against all the people of New York."
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Rebecca Solnit
| Challenging the Divine Right of Big Energy
Rebbeca Solnit, TomDispatch
Solnit writes: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
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Rebbeca Solnit, TomDispatch
Solnit writes: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
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Ferguson
Activists Call Out Black Celebrities for 'Saying Nothing'
Rolling Stone
Excerpt: "The four protestors pointed out that Michael Brown's death at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a pattern of systemic violence that threatens their lives and those of their friends and family on a daily basis."
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Rolling Stone
Excerpt: "The four protestors pointed out that Michael Brown's death at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson was not an isolated incident, but rather part of a pattern of systemic violence that threatens their lives and those of their friends and family on a daily basis."
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Santa Claus +
7 Elves Arrested Protesting Fracking Infrastructure
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch
Spear writes: "Yesterday morning nine people dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and their elves were arrested and charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct as they blockaded the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstream's gas storage facility on the shore of Seneca Lake in upstate New York."
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Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch
Spear writes: "Yesterday morning nine people dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus and their elves were arrested and charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct as they blockaded the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstream's gas storage facility on the shore of Seneca Lake in upstate New York."
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Jeff Biggers |
Dear Media: Stop Using the Phrase "Clean Coal"
Jeff Biggers, Al Jazeera America
Biggers writes: "You'd think the filing of a class action lawsuit last month by the families of the 78 coal miners killed in the 1968 Farmington, West Virginia, mine explosion - a disaster that led to the establishment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act - would serve as a painful reminder that coal isn't clean."
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Jeff Biggers, Al Jazeera America
Biggers writes: "You'd think the filing of a class action lawsuit last month by the families of the 78 coal miners killed in the 1968 Farmington, West Virginia, mine explosion - a disaster that led to the establishment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act - would serve as a painful reminder that coal isn't clean."
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