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Glenn Greenwald | The Noble Post-White-House Career Path of Obama's Core Team 
McDonald's sign. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "So many Obama officials have 'spun through the revolving door' that it's almost impossible to count them all. In March, the Guardian described 'a rash of senior White House staff jumping ship for well-paid lobbying jobs at some of America's biggest and most controversial companies.'" 
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Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein and Annie Leonard | Shell's Arctic Drilling Is the Real Threat to the World, Not Kayaktivists 
Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein and Annie Leonard, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Shell has created a 'safety zone' to keep protesters out of its drilling sites, but its unblinking, destructive quest for profit must be addressed by Obama to curb the very real threat climate change." 
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Obama Lawyers Asked Secret Court to Ignore Public Court's Decision on Spying 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months." 
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Supreme Court Rebukes Congress on Jerusalem Passport Law 
Ben Kamisar, The Hill 
Kamisar writes: "The Supreme Court ruled Monday that presidents have the power to choose not to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on passports, despite laws passed by Congress that seek to compel that recognition." 
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The US Is Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine 
Will Cathcart and Joseph Epstein, The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "Not all the members of the Ukrainian ultranationalist militias the U.S. is training have SS tattoos, and not all espouse fascism. But enough do to be worrisome." 
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Jack Warner: Former FIFA Vice-President Investigated Over Missing Haiti Earthquake Funds, BBC Reports 
ABC 
Excerpt: "Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner is being investigated over the disappearance of money intended for victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the BBC has reported." 
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Alaska's Wolves Face Catastrophe 
Taylor Hill, TakePart 
Hill writes: "Southeast Alaska's isolated wolf population has declined by 60 percent in just one year, dropping from an estimated 221 individuals in 2013 to 89 wolves in 2014, according to the U.S. Forest Service." 
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