Friday, June 12, 2015

RSN: Privately-Owned US Prisons Keep Inmates Longer, Study Finds, On Eve of Trade Vote, Bernie Sanders Pressures Hillary Clinton to Speak Up




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Bill Simpich | Obama Reminds Allies: "Remember What Happened to Dr. King?" 
John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in 1960. (photo: Ted Spiegel/CORBIS) 
Bill Simpich, Reader Supported News 
Simpich writes: "McGovern just wrote the definitive argument on the disappointments of the Obama presidency - and why it will take an older and more independent individual like Bernie Sanders to get this country anywhere near back on track." 
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On Eve of Trade Vote, Bernie Sanders Pressures Hillary Clinton to Speak Up 
Janet Hook, The Wall Street Journal 
Hook writes: "With the House headed for a climactic vote on trade policy, Sen. Bernie Sanders Thursday lashed out at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for failing to stake out a clear position on legislation to make it easier for a president to negotiate and win approval of international trade deals." 
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Judge Rules 'Enough Evidence' for Charges in Tamir Rice Killing 
Phil Trexler and Kim Wendel, USA Today 
Excerpt: "Officials have enough evidence to charge a Cleveland police officer with murder in the shooting death last year of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a judge ruled Thursday."
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McDonald's Is Built to Be Union-Proof, but Labor Groups Believe They Can Force It to the Bargaining Table 
Lydia DePillis, The Washington Post 
DePillis writes: "This past weekend, the walls of Cobo Center on the Detroit River reverberated with more than the usual amount of cheers and chants, endlessly repeating a two-pronged demand: A minimum wage more than double the level of the federal baseline, and a labor union for the fast food industry." 
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Privately-Owned US Prisons Keep Inmates Longer, Study Finds 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The study is the first to compare time served in public and private prisons, and suggests financial reasons exist for keeping people behind bars." 
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Obama in Iraq: New Strategy, Old Mistakes 
Phyllis Bennis, CounterPunch 
Bennis writes: "Almost nine months after President Obama admitted that 'we don't have a strategy yet'; to challenge the Islamic State - and just days after he said he still has 'no complete Iraq strategy' - the non-strategy suddenly has a name: escalation." 
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Sea Shepherd to Pay Millions to Whale Killers 
Taylor Hill, TakePart 
Hill writes: "Sea Shepherd Conservation Society agreed to pay $2.55 million to Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research on Monday as part of a settlement to resolve a long-standing legal battle over the anti-whaling group's tactics against Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic." 
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