Robert Reich | Once Again, Corporate Crimes Result in No Jail
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "I don't understand how corporations can be held criminally liable yet no single person be held responsible. Federal prosecutors just struck a deal with GM for $900 in 'criminal penalties' for GM's failure to disclose faulty ignition systems that may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 people."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "I don't understand how corporations can be held criminally liable yet no single person be held responsible. Federal prosecutors just struck a deal with GM for $900 in 'criminal penalties' for GM's failure to disclose faulty ignition systems that may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 people."
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House Passes Bills to Defund Planned Parenthood Amid Shutdown Threats
Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK
Gambino writes: "Days away from a politically disastrous government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed two abortion-related bills in a move by party leadership to quell conservative hardliners who have threatened to defund Planned Parenthood."
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Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK
Gambino writes: "Days away from a politically disastrous government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed two abortion-related bills in a move by party leadership to quell conservative hardliners who have threatened to defund Planned Parenthood."
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On-Duty Police Officers Have Shot and Killed More Than 700 People This Year
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year."
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Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, America's incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Coates writes: "From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, America's incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000."
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95% of NFL Players Tested Show Signs of Disease Caused by Head Trauma
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation's largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury."
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Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation's largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury."
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In Further Thaw With Cuba, US Relaxes Rules on Visiting, Money and Business
Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Next week, it will be easier for people, money, and goods to flow between Cuba and the U.S., which announced a new round of relaxed sanctions Friday. The changes also allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba."
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Bill Chappell, NPR
Chappell writes: "Next week, it will be easier for people, money, and goods to flow between Cuba and the U.S., which announced a new round of relaxed sanctions Friday. The changes also allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba."
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Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame."
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Jason M. Breslow, Frontline
Breslow writes: "Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame."
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