Friday, May 1, 2015

RSN: One in Six of World's Species Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change, American Psychological Association Secretly Aided CIA Torture,



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Bernie Sanders | So-Called 'Free Trade' Policies Hurt US Workers Every Time We Pass Them
Senator Bernie Sanders. (photo: Bob Clark/Getty)
Bernie Sanders, Guardian UK
Sanders writes: "America's trade agreements benefit large multinational corporations and Wall Street, but are a disaster for working families. We must defeat the TPP."
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Baltimore Police Accused of Suspending Due Process
Oliver Laughland, Paul Lewis, Jon Swaine and Ben Jacobs, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Police detention of around 100 people without charge on governor's orders is described by public defender as showing 'no respect for due process.'"
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James Risen | American Psychological Association Secretly Aided CIA Torture
James Risen, The New York Times
Risen writes: "The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners."
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UN Accused of Harboring Vendetta Against Whistleblowers
teleSUR
Excerpt: "A former U.N. official declared Thursday that the way the U.N. handled allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in the Central AfricaRepublic proved how the organization took down its own whistleblowers."
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Will the Supreme Court Look Behind the Curtain of Lethal Injection?
Liliana Segura, The Intercept
Segura writes: "By the time the blinds were raised at 6:23pm on April 29, 2014, to show Clayton Lockett strapped to the gurney and positioned to die, there was a lot that witnesses in Oklahoma's death house had not seen."
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Mexico's 'Modern Slavery' Stocks US Produce Aisles
Carola Sole, Agence France-Presse
Sole writes: "The farmworkers go at a furious pace, kicking up clouds of dust as they crouch down to grab several tomatoes at a time, put them in plastic buckets and hurry them over to be weighed."
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One in Six of World's Species Faces Extinction Due to Climate Change
Adam Vaughan, Guardian UK
Vaughan writes: "New analysis reveals likely impact of global warming on plants and animals if we fail to take action, and comes ahead of crunch climate talks in Paris."
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