Saturday, July 18, 2015

RSN: Climate Change Seen as Greatest Threat by Global Population, Poll Finds, Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Created ISIS, There Have Only Been 12 Days Without a Fatal Police Shooting in 2015




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Cornel West | In Defense of James Baldwin - Why Toni Morrison (a Literary Genius) Is Wrong About Ta-Nehisi Coates 
Professor Cornel West. (photo: Vice News) 
Cornel West, Cornel West's Facebook Page 
West writes: "Coates is a clever wordsmith with journalistic talent who avoids any critique of the Black president in power." 
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David Sirota | Following the Money to Silicon Valley 
David Sirota and Andrew Perez, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "The $109 million in Silicon Valley money pumped into the 2008 and 2012 elections represents a 61 percent increase from 2004 and 2000." 
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There Have Only Been 12 Days Without a Fatal Police Shooting in 2015 
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post 
Ingraham writes: "Police officers have shot and killed at least 518 people so far this year, according to the Washington Post's database of fatal police shootings. Seventy eight people have been killed in the past 30 days. Since the start of this week, 13 people have lost their lives to police gunfire." 
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Goldman Sachs Employees Are Donating Big Money to Jeb Bush's Election Campaign 
Colin Campbell, Business Insider 
Campbell writes: "Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) presidential campaign raised gobs of money from Goldman Sachs employees during his first 16 days as a candidate." 
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The War on Drugs Is a War on Minorities: Former Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "President Obama became the first sitting president in history to visit a federal prison Thursday when he toured the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma." 
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Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Created ISIS 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Hussain writes: "Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing." 
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Climate Change Seen as Greatest Threat by Global Population, Poll Finds 
Ami Sedghi, Guardian UK 
Sedghi writes: "The survey, conducted in 40 countries and taking in the views of more than 45,000 respondents, attempts to measure perceptions of global threats. In 19 of the 40 countries polled, climate change was found to be the issue of highest concern." 
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