RSN: Antarctica Hit Highest Temperature Ever This Week, Monsanto Pays $600,000 for Failing to Disclose Use of Toxins, Methods Police Use on the Mentally Ill Are Madness

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Noam Chomsky | The Death of American Universities

Noam Chomsky, Jacobin
Chomsky writes: "As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force."
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Methods Police Use on the Mentally Ill Are Madness
Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Friedersdorf writes: "Why do so many American cops believe that shooting a schizophrenic man dead for failing to drop a screwdriver is an acceptable outcome?"
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Migrant Drownings Skyrocket Following Border Patrol 'Surge'
Seth Robbins, Associated Press
Robbins writes: "A U.S. surveillance helicopter hovering over the Rio Grande spots a body floating near a muddy bank on the Mexican side of the river."
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Monsanto Pays $600,000 for Failing to Disclose Use of Toxins
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The U.S. based agrochemical company released harmful toxins into the atmosphere for over three years without reporting it."
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US Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq
Barbara Koeppel, Newsweek
Koeppel writes: "During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents."
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Tens of Thousands March Against Austerity in Brussels
RT
Excerpt: "Rainy weather in Brussels did not stop tens of thousands of people from protesting against austerity measures introduced by the new Belgian government."
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Antarctica Hit Highest Temperature Ever This Week
Ari Phillips, Think Progress
Phillips writes: "The coldest place on Earth just got warmer than has ever been recorded."
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