Saturday, August 1, 2015

RSN: Coal Companies Are Cheating US Taxpayers out of Billions, Is the FBI's Counterterrorism Program Targeting Americans With Mental Illness and Cognitive Limitations?, Julian Assange: The Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice




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John Pilger | Julian Assange: The Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice 
Julian Assange. (photo: Getty) 
John Pilger, CounterPunch 
Pilger writes: "The persecution of Julian Assange is about to flare again as it enters a dangerous stage." 
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Talks for Pacific Trade Deal Stall at a Critical Step 
Jonathan Weisman, The New York Times 
Weisman writes: "Trade negotiators from the United States and 11 other Pacific nations failed to reach final agreement on Friday, with difficult talks on the largest regional trade agreement ever deadlocking over protections for drug companies and access to agriculture markets on both sides of the Pacific." 
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WikiLeaks: US Spied on Japanese Government and Corporations Since 2006 
WikiLeaks 
Excerpt: "35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, together with intercepts relating to US-Japan relations, trade negotiations and sensitive climate change strategy." 
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Bernie Sanders and the Crisis of Affordable College Education 
Michael Sainato, Observer 
Sainato writes: "On May 19, 2015, Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to make all 4-year public college tuition free. Under the proposed legislation, the $70 billion a year awarded in assistance in the form of federal student loans and grants would be paid for through taxes on Wall Street transactions." 
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Newly Revised US History Standards Brush Over Issue of Racism 
Zoe Schlanger, Newsweek 
Schlanger writes: "Passages that previously cited racial attitudes, stereotyping, and white superiority in early American history have been rewritten or deleted, and some passages that previously implicated early European colonists in racism and aiding in destructive Native American warfare have been softened and replaced with more passive language." 
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Is the FBI's Counterterrorism Program Targeting Americans With Mental Illness and Cognitive Limitations? 
Trevor Aaronson, The Intercept 
Aaronson writes: "The news spread quickly when federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday night that FBI agents had foiled an Islamic State-linked plot to bomb a beach in Key West, Florida." 
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Coal Companies Are Cheating US Taxpayers out of Billions
Clair Moser, ThinkProgress 
Moser writes: "Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Wednesday launched the first high-level review of the federal government's coal program in more than three decades, noting concerns with the program's environmental impacts and fairness to taxpayers." 
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