Monday, September 21, 2015

RSN: The Teflon Toxin Goes to Court, Concentrated Poverty Is the New Urban Panic, Donald Trump Has Fired Up His Base: Birthers and Xenophobes




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Scott Galindez | Obama Enters 2016 Debate With Visit to Iowa 
President Barack Obama speaks at North High School in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday Sept. 14, 2015, with US secretary of education Arne Duncan. (photo: Rodney White/The Des Moines Register) 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "Obama is wise to not take sides at this point, especially in his party's contest. Using the bully pulpit to weaken the other side, however, is his duty as the outgoing leader of the Democratic Party." 
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Charles Pierce | Donald Trump Has Fired Up His Base: Birthers and Xenophobes 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "I'd underestimated the extent to which birtherism was the pure dark energy beneath the Libidinous Visitor's puzzling burst of national appeal." 
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Pope Meets Fidel Castro, Warns Against Ideology on Cuba Trip 
Philip Pullella and Daniel Trotta, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Pope Francis and Fidel Castro discussed religion and world affairs just hours after the pope warned Cubans of the dangers of ideology and the lure of selfishness as their Communist-ruled country enters a new era of closer ties with the United States." 
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Alex Tsipras to Be Sworn In Again as Prime Minister 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Leftist Syriza leader Alex Tsipras will be sworn in this Monday and will have 48 hours to form a coalition government after his party won the Sunday elections with over 35 percent of the vote which gives them 145 seats in the 300-member parliament." 
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The Teflon Toxin Goes to Court 
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept 
Lerner writes: "DuPont went to court this week, defending its use of C8, the chemical that spread from the company's Parkersburg, West Virginia, plant into the drinking water of some 80,000 people in West Virginia and Ohio." 
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Concentrated Poverty Is the New Urban Panic 
Susan Greenbaum, Al Jazeera America 
Greenbaum writes: "Residential clustering of very poor families, especially of ethnic minorities, is increasing." 
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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Why It Could Be President Bush and VP Kasich 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News 
Excerpt: "Yes, this is conspiracy theory. But anyone who doubts the conspiracy has not closely looked at the selections of 2000 and 2004." 
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