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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Netanyahu Speaks, Money Talks

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company
Excerpt: "Everything you need to know about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress Tuesday was the presence in the visitor's gallery of one man - Sheldon Adelson."
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Trevor Timm | Americans Are Still Being Spied On in Ways That Haven't Been Made Public
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "There are still programs aimed at Americans that the Obama administration is keeping secret from the public. They should be a scandal, not line items in bills."
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Amy Goodman and Bruce Schneier | The Hidden Battle to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Amy Goodman and Bruce Schneier, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "While the leaks of Edward Snowden have shed light on the National Security Agency's surveillance practices, less attention has been paid to other forms of everyday surveillance - license plate readers, facial recognition software, GPS tracking, cellphone metadata and data mining."
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Gareth Porter | The Untold Story Behind the Republicans' Iran Letter
Gareth Porter, Middle East Eye
Porter writes: "The real story is how enforcers of Likudist policy on Iran used a young Republican politician to try to provoke a breakdown in nuclear talks."
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Police Spied on at Least Five UK Labor Unions
Rob Evans, Guardian UK
Evans writes: "An undercover police unit that monitored political groups over 40 years gathered intelligence on members of at least five trade unions, a whistleblower has revealed."
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Obama's Attorney General Pick Is Too Easy on Wall Street
Jesse Byrnes, The Hill
Byrnes writes: "American Family Voices, a left-leaning advocacy group, is opposing the nomination of Loretta Lynch as attorney general, saying that she's not tough enough on Wall Street."
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States Turning Water Over to Private Corporations
Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
Stannard writes: "Commodification of water seems silly enough in the abstract. Now in the throes of artificial scarcity, U.S. cities, counties and states are running out of water even as they turn control over managing water supplies to private corporations."
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