Thursday, June 11, 2015

RSN: Slam the Door on Fast-Track!, Iceland Put Bankers in Jail Rather Than Bailing Them Out - And It Worked




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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Slam the Door on Fast-Track! 
Demonstrators protest against the legislation to give US president Barack Obama fast-track authority to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership during a protest march in Washington on 21 May. (photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) 
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company 
Excerpt: "President Obama, the Republican Party, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, K Street lobbyists and giant multinational companies are all singing 'Kumbaya' and working together to shove through Congress the fast-track legislation that will grease the wheels for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement." 
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The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street 
Michael Levitin, The Atlantic 
Levitin writes: "Income inequality is the crisis du jour - a problem that all 2016 presidential candidates must grapple with because they can no longer afford not to. And, in fact, it's just one of a long list of legislative and political successes for which the Occupy movement can take credit."
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'Sea Change' in Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal 
Daniel Burke, CNN 
Burke writes: "Pope Francis has created a church tribunal to judge bishops who fail to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the Vatican announced Wednesday, a move long sought by abuse victims and their advocates." 
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Private Prisons, Public Shame 
Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America 
Turck writes: "Prisoners can't vote in the United States and as a result they don't have much sway over public policy decisions. But private, for-profit prison companies do." 
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Illinois Budget Crisis Could Turn Obamacare Success Story Into Tragedy 
E. Tammy Kim, Al Jazeera America 
Kim writes: "Illinois has been a poster child for the ACA, but everything is now in flux." 
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Iceland Put Bankers in Jail Rather Than Bailing Them Out - And It Worked 
Matthew Yglesias, Vox 
Yglesias writes: "Instead of embracing the orthodoxy of bank bailouts, austerity, and low inflation, Iceland did just the opposite. And even though its economy was hammered by the banking crisis perhaps harder than any other in the world, its labor didn't deteriorate all that much, and it had a great recovery." 
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Why Cigarette Butts Threaten to Stub Out Marine Life 
Hannah Gould, Guardian UK 
Gould writes: "While we know cigarettes damage our bodies, we still don't fully understand their health implications for our oceans, beyond that other forms of microplastics and microfibres pose a risk to marine organisms." 
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