Friday, July 10, 2015

RSN: Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says - But It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years, GOP Leaders Fear Damage to Party's Image as Donald Trump Doubles Down, Death, Lies, and Ghost Schools: A Look at the Amazing Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan




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Joseph Stiglitz | The US Must Save Greece 
Supporters of the 'No' vote wave Greek flags after the referendum's exit polls at Syntagma square in Athens. (photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP) 
Joseph Stiglitz, TIME 
Stiglitz writes: "As the Greek saga continues, many have marveled at Germany's chutzpah. It received, in real terms, one of the largest bailout and debt reduction in history and unconditional aid from the U.S. in the Marshall Plan. And yet it refuses even to discuss debt relief for Greece." 
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Sanders to Jeb Bush: Americans Need Better Wages Not Longer Hours 
Tim Devaney, The Hill 
Devaney writes: "Bernie Sanders says Americans already work longer hours than employees in most other countries and shouldn't be forced to 'work even longer hours than they currently do'" 
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GOP Leaders Fear Damage to Party's Image as Donald Trump Doubles Down 
Karen Tumulty, Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency." 
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Warren, McCain Introduce Bill to Bring Back 
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill 
Cirilli writes: "Elizabeth Warren and John McCain are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices." 
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All the Due Process Money Can Buy 
Mary Turck, Al Jazeera America 
Turck writes: "On June 8, California's Judicial Council, which governs the state's court system, ordered judges to stop requiring people to pay bail in order to contest minor traffic tickets." 
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Death, Lies, and Ghost Schools: A Look at the Amazing Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan 
Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News 
Khan writes: "The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student." 
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Exxon Knew of Climate Change in 1981, Email Says - But It Funded Deniers for 27 More Years 
Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian UK 
Goldenberg writes: ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change - seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm's own scientists. Despite this the firm spent $30 million over the next 27 years to promote climate denial." 
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