Tuesday, May 5, 2015

RSN: Oil Industry Dumping Toxic Waste Into California's Underground Water, Samples of Israel's Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza





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Glenn Greenwald | Samples of Israel's Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
A Palestinian man cries in front of his destroyed house in northern Gaza Strip. (photo: Oliver Weiken/EPA)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza last summer."
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Ryan Devereaux | Mexico: How 43 Students Disappeared in The Night
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Devereaux writes: "At a dimly lit intersection in Iguala, police with automatic weapons surrounded three buses loaded with college students. The police opened fire."
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John Oliver Blasts Media Over 'Racist' Baltimore Coverage
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
Stern writes: "On Last Week Tonight, the witty Brit laid into the media's coverage of the Baltimore protests in the wake of Freddie Gray's death, and also had choice words for Floyd Mayweather."
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Boehner Says Hillary Clinton Should Support White House on Trade
Reuters
Excerpt: "Lawmakers are debating whether to give President Barack Obama fast-track authority to negotiate deals such as the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP."
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Jessica Valenti | If the Pope Wants Women's Equality, He Must Support Reproductive Rights
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK
Valenti writes: "The Vatican's war on the wage gap is great, but it won't mean much without access to birth control and abortion."
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'Refrigerator Capital of the World' Left Out in the Cold by Free Trade
Naureen Khan, Al Jazeera
Khan writes: "The prosperity promised by free trade doesn't always come ashore for all, as Greenville, Michigan, learned."
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Oil Industry Dumping Toxic Waste Into California's Underground Water
Center for Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "Recently revealed documents show that California regulators allowed oil companies to drill more than 2,400 illegal injection wells for waste disposal or oil production into protected aquifers, including many with water clean enough to drink."
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FOCUS: Steve Weissman | Charlie Hebdo and the Agony of Free Speech
The publishing director of Charlie Hebdo Stéphane Charbonnier, who was killed in the attack. (photo: Fred Dufour/AFP)
Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "If you like a good fight, you'll love the literary spat over the PEN American Center's decision to give its award for courage to the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, twelve of whose cartoonists, staff, and contributors were massacred in Paris on January 7 by the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi."
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