Friday, March 6, 2015

RSN: To Save the Environment, Don't Manufacture What You Can't Clean Up, The Demolition of Workers' Comp Is Driving Americans Into Poverty



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NOW Slams 'Sexist' Warren Buffett Comment About Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren. (photo: Greg Nash)
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Cirilli writes: "The president of the National Organization for Women criticized billionaire Warren Buffett's comments on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as sexist."
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Trevor Timm | Petraeus Won't Serve a Day in Jail; Neither Should Snowden
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "The sweetheart deal the Justice Department gave to former CIA director David Petraeus for leaking top secret information compared to the stiff jail sentences other low-level leakers have received under the Obama administration has led to renewed calls for leniency for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
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Seumas Milne | The Demonization of Russia Risks War
Seumas Milne, Guardian UK
Milne writes: "Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It's dangerous folly."
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Drone Pilots Quitting Due to PTSD
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch
Chatterjee writes: "The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers."
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The Demolition of Workers' Comp Is Driving Americans Into Poverty
Michael Grabell, ProPublica and Howard Berkes, National Public Radio
Excerpt: "Over the past decade, state after state has been dismantling America's workers' comp system with disastrous consequences for many of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer serious injuries at work each year, a ProPublica and NPR investigation has found."
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Iraq Offensive Displaced Tens of Thousands, Says UN
Deutsche Welle
Excerpt: "Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced in the four days since the offensive began to retake Tikrit. An estimated 2.5 million Iraqis have fled since 'Islamic State' started taking territory in the region."
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To Save the Environment, Don't Manufacture What You Can't Clean Up
Derrick Jensen, CounterPunch
Jensen writes: "Some of the most important questions confronting us are: what should we do about this culture's industrial wastes, from greenhouse gases to pesticides to ocean microplastics?"
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