Tuesday, August 4, 2015

RSN: The Revolt Against the Ruling Class, We Stand With Planned Parenthood





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Robert Reich | The Revolt Against the Ruling Class 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "He can't possibly win the nomination,' is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. Yet as enthusiasm for the bombastic billionaire and the socialist senior continues to build within each party, the political establishment is mystified." 
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Texas Attorney General Arrested on Felony Securities Fraud Charges 
Matt McGovern, KGNS/NBC 
McGovern writes: "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been booked at a Dallas-area jail on felony charges alleging he misled investors before becoming the state's top lawyer." 
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Elizabeth Warren | We Stand With Planned Parenthood 
Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren's Blog 
Warren writes: "Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a vote on the bill to defund Planned Parenthood for 5:30pm today." 
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Desmond Tutu | Finding Our Humanity in the Face of Genocide 
Desmond Tutu, Reader Supported News 
Tutu writes: "Documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer has released two courageous films in the last three years. They're courageous not only because they take on the genocide of more than one million Indonesians in 1965 and 1966, a grisly subject that has been swept under the rug for 50 years, but also because the filmmaker dares to believe that anyone would care about the death of a bunch of 'communists' halfway around the world before many of us were even born." 
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Ghosts of Katrina Still Haunt New Orleans' Shattered Lower Ninth Ward 
Greg Allen, NPR 
Allen writes: "The flooded streets and destroyed homes of the New Orleans neighborhood known as the Lower Ninth Ward were among the most powerful and iconic images from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 10 years ago." 
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Hospital-Acquired Infections Kill Tens of Thousands of Americans Every Year 
Consumer Reports, Washington Post 
Excerpt: "You go to the hospital to get better. But too often, the opposite happens. Recent estimates show that every year 648,000 people develop infections while in the hospital. Nasty ones, too, that may not be treatable with antibiotics and that prove fatal for 75,000 hospital patients." 
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Northern California Wildfire Doubles in Size 
Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "A wildfire raging through the foothills and canyons of Northern California's coastal mountains roared into its sixth day on Monday, leaving at least two dozen homes in ruins and displacing thousands of residents after the fire more that doubled in size on Sunday." 
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