Sunday, September 20, 2015

RSN: The Climate Wars Are Coming - And More Refugees With Them, Our High-Priced Mercenaries in Syria




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Robert Reich | Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, New York Times 
Reich writes: "Conservatives and liberals interminably debate the merits of 'the free market' versus 'the government.' Which one you trust more delineates the main ideological divide in America." 
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Bernie Sanders on Colbert: Socialism, Super Pacs and Why 'Liberal' Is No Insult 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "'I don't support the agenda of corporate America or the billionaire class,' he said. 'I don't want their money.'" 
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Our High-Priced Mercenaries in Syria 
Robin Wright, The New Yorker 
"The U.S. campaign to create a new ground force to fight the Islamic State appears to be a flop. The program, designed to train some fifteen thousand Syrians in the course of three years-at a cost of five hundred million dollars-has only a handful of fighters in Syria. 'We're talking four or five,' General Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday." 
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Head Investigator: Bergdahl Shouldn't Go to Prison 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The officer who led the investigation into U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's disappearance and capture in Afghanistan six years ago said he doesn't think Bergdahl should go to prison." 
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Democrats Demand More Debate Time as Intra-Party Rift Reaches Boiling Point 
Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK 
Gambino writes: "When the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz took the stage at a party convention in New Hampshire this weekend, her speech was drowned out with a resounding chant of 'we want debates.'" 
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Obama to Nominate First Openly Gay Military Service Secretary 
Laura Wagner, NPR 
Wagner writes: "President Obama has nominated Eric Fanning as secretary of the Army, which could make him the first openly gay leader of one of the U.S. military branches." 
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The Climate Wars Are Coming - And More Refugees With Them 
Paul Hockenos, Al Jazeera America 
Hockenos writes: "Global warming is responsible for longer-lasting droughts, more violent storms and rising sea levels that worsen the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people. Its fallout, Juncker warned, will trigger massive and increasing refugee flows - unless the EU and its international partners get serious about reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." 
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