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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Let Rachel Dolezal Be as Black as She Wants to Be
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP whose parents maintain that she is not any part black, as she has claimed. See, I too have been living a lie. For the past 50 years I've been keeping up this public charade, pretending to be something I'm not. Finally, in the wake of so many recent personal revelations by prominent people, I've decided to come out with the truth."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "I sympathize with the dilemma of Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP whose parents maintain that she is not any part black, as she has claimed. See, I too have been living a lie. For the past 50 years I've been keeping up this public charade, pretending to be something I'm not. Finally, in the wake of so many recent personal revelations by prominent people, I've decided to come out with the truth."
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David Sirota and Matthew Cunningham-Cook | Wall Street to Profit off Cuts to Veterans' Pensions
David Sirota and Matthew Cunningham-Cook, International Business Times
Excerpt: "Under a proposal the Pentagon outlined last week, new members of the armed forces would see their guaranteed retirement benefits cut by one-fifth. Under the details of the Pentagon plan, the federal government would divert 3 percent of service members' pay into a 401(k)-style plan that would be managed largely by BlackRock, a financial firm whose executives helped bankroll President Barack Obama's election campaigns."
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David Sirota and Matthew Cunningham-Cook, International Business Times
Excerpt: "Under a proposal the Pentagon outlined last week, new members of the armed forces would see their guaranteed retirement benefits cut by one-fifth. Under the details of the Pentagon plan, the federal government would divert 3 percent of service members' pay into a 401(k)-style plan that would be managed largely by BlackRock, a financial firm whose executives helped bankroll President Barack Obama's election campaigns."
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Bernie Sanders Drawing Huge Crowds Across the Country
Tamara Keith, NPR
Keith writes: "The Democratic presidential candidate is doing something on the campaign trail even he didn't expect - drawing large crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond. 'If you were to ask me a couple of months ago whether we would have larger crowds than any other candidate out there, I would not have told you that that would be the case,' he said recently."
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Tamara Keith, NPR
Keith writes: "The Democratic presidential candidate is doing something on the campaign trail even he didn't expect - drawing large crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond. 'If you were to ask me a couple of months ago whether we would have larger crowds than any other candidate out there, I would not have told you that that would be the case,' he said recently."
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New Docs Raise Questions About CIA Spying Here at Home
Ashley Gorski, American Civil Liberties Union
Gorski writes: "The current debate about government surveillance has largely overlooked the CIA, possibly because we know little about the agency's activities within the United States. But now, in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, the CIA has released a slew of documents concerning CIA surveillance."
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Ashley Gorski, American Civil Liberties Union
Gorski writes: "The current debate about government surveillance has largely overlooked the CIA, possibly because we know little about the agency's activities within the United States. But now, in response to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, the CIA has released a slew of documents concerning CIA surveillance."
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Senate Votes to Permanently Ban Torture
Julian Hattem, The Hill
Hattem writes: "The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to ban the U.S. from ever again subjecting prisoners to waterboarding, 'rectal feeding' and other brutal interrogation practices widely condemned as torture."
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Julian Hattem, The Hill
Hattem writes: "The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to ban the U.S. from ever again subjecting prisoners to waterboarding, 'rectal feeding' and other brutal interrogation practices widely condemned as torture."
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Environmental Movement Is Having an Effect on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Brown writes: "Over the years, it's been a tough road for environmentalists pushing for greenhouse gas emission curbs at the federal level - but advocates shouldn't give up hope, say researchers at Michigan State University."
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Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
Brown writes: "Over the years, it's been a tough road for environmentalists pushing for greenhouse gas emission curbs at the federal level - but advocates shouldn't give up hope, say researchers at Michigan State University."
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The Yes Men Are Revolting: In New Film, Legendary Pranksters Take On Polluters Behind Climate Change
Amy Goodman and Aaron Mate, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "While kayaktivists took to the water in Seattle to protest Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, the culture jamming group The Yes Men staged a different kind of anti-Shell protest last week. They took to the streets of New York posing as representatives of Shell. They handed out free shaved ice cones which they claimed were 'remnants of the last icebergs of the North Pole.'"
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Amy Goodman and Aaron Mate, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "While kayaktivists took to the water in Seattle to protest Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, the culture jamming group The Yes Men staged a different kind of anti-Shell protest last week. They took to the streets of New York posing as representatives of Shell. They handed out free shaved ice cones which they claimed were 'remnants of the last icebergs of the North Pole.'"
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