RSN: 26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking's Smoking Gun Is in Texas, These Terrorist Attacks Are Not About Religion

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | These Terrorist Attacks Are Not About Religion

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "When the Ku Klux Klan burns a cross in a black family's yard, Christians aren't required to explain how these aren't really Christian acts."
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200,000 Sign Petition Urging Elizabeth Warren to Run for President
James Pindell, The Boston Globe
Pindell writes: "More than 200,000 Americans have signed a petition to encourage Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, two of the country's largest progressive groups behind the effort announced Friday."
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Staten Island Prosecutor Who Oversaw Eric Garner Grand Jury to Run for Congress
Jessica Glenza, The Guardian
Glenza writes: "The Staten Island district attorney who failed to obtain an indictment for the officer involved in the death of Eric Garner will run for Congress as a Republican, he announced Friday evening."
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When We Call Criminal Acts "Terrorism," We Destroy Our Rights and Sacrifice Our Principles
Mike Masnick, TechDirt
Masnick writes: "Every so often over the past decade or so in the 'age of terrorism,' someone has raised the issue of why we treat 'terrorism' as somehow distinct from criminal activity."
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Anonymous to Wage Cyber-War Against Jihadists in Response to Charlie Hebdo Shooting
Anthony Cuthbertson, International Business Times
Cuthbertson writes: "Anonymous, the online 'hacktivist' collective, has announced that it will avenge the attack on Charlie Hebdo by rendering jihadist websites inaccessible."
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EU Austerity Faces Rising Public Anger
Simon Marks, Al Jazeera America
Marks writes: "After half a decade of public spending cuts, job losses, and poor wage growth, Europe is barely emerging from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
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26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking's Smoking Gun Is in Texas
James Joiner, The Daily Beast
Joiner writes: "After 11 quakes in the last two days - with one registering at a 3.6 - Irving, Texas' sudden onset tremor problem might be the fracking industry's nightmare."
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