Sunday, August 2, 2015

RSN: The Devil Finds Work: A Killing in Mississippi, New Study Confirms That Having More Guns Doesn't Make Us Safer,




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Robert Parry | Why Russia Shut Down NED Fronts 
Russian president Vladamir Putin. (photo: AP) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "The neocon-flagship Washington Post fired a propaganda broadside at President Putin for shutting down the Russian activities of the National Endowment for Democracy, but left out key facts like NED's U.S. government funding, its quasi-CIA role, and its plans for regime change in Moscow." 
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Obama to Mandate Steeper Emissions Cuts From US Power Plants 
Josh Lederman, Associated Press 
Lederman writes: "President Barack Obama will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday, in what the president called the most significant step the U.S. has ever taken to fight global warming." 
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The Devil Finds Work: A Killing in Mississippi 
Goldie Taylor, Blue Nation Review 
Taylor writes: "In a case that has paralyzed tiny Stonewall, Miss., a deeply impoverished town that was named after Confederate General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, in early July a black man was choked to death by a white police officer." 
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New Study Confirms That Having More Guns Doesn't Make Us Safer 
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post 
Ingraham writes: "The notion that more guns are always the solution to gun crime is taken seriously in this country. But the research shows that more guns lead to more gun homicides -- not less. And that guns are rarely used in self-defense." 
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Apple Doesn't Want You to Be Able to Fix Your iPhone - Here's Why 
Kendra Pierre-Louis, In These Times 
Pierre-Louis writes: "Companies often simply urge customers to purchase a new device." 
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Anti-Torture Reforms Opposed Within US Psychology Organization After Damning Report 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "Tempers rise within American Psychological Association, which independent review recently found was complicit in brutal military and CIA interrogation." 
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Solarizing Greece Is a Way Out of Its Financial Crisis 
Kumi Naidoo, EcoWatch 
Naidoo writes: "With energy poverty emerging as one of the most dramatic symptoms of the recession-six out of every 10 households are struggling to pay their energy bills-it is high time that Greece seized upon its greatest and still largely unexploited asset: the sun." 
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