Monday, September 21, 2015

RSN: Tim DeChristopher: Demand End to All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands and Oceans, Aqsa Crisis: Netanyahu Wants Israeli Forces to Use Live Fire Against Rock Throwing Demonstrators




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Andy Borowitz | Poll: Guy Who Asked Trump Muslim Question Leads GOP Race 
Donald Trump. (photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Two days after asserting that President Barack Obama was a foreign-born Muslim, a guy who asked Donald Trump a provocative question at a New Hampshire rally is now the front-runner in the Republican race for President, according to a new poll." 
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Juan Cole | Aqsa Crisis: Netanyahu Wants Israeli Forces to Use Live Fire Against Rock Throwing Demonstrators 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has announced that he wants to authorize Israeli forces to use live fire against Palestinian rock-throwing demonstrators. (Most such rock throwers are children and teenagers)." 
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Clinton Calls for US to Accept 65,000 Syrian Refugees 
Bradford Richardson, The Hill 
Richardson writes: "Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says the U.S. should accept more refugees fleeing war-torn Syria." 
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Ben Carson Says No Muslim Should Ever Become US President 
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK 
Pengelly writes: "The Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said no Muslim should be president of the United States of America." 
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In Unit Stalked by Suicide, Veterans Try to Save One Another 
Dave Phillips, The New York Times 
Phillips writes: "Almost seven years after the deployment, suicide is spreading through the old unit like a virus. Of about 1,200 Marines who deployed with the 2/7 in 2008, at least 13 have killed themselves, two while on active duty, the rest after they left the military." 
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The Supreme Court Might Make the Hobby Lobby Decision Even Worse 
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress 
Millhiser writes: "On Thursday, an entirely Republican panel of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed down the first federal court of appeals decision allowing religious objectors to refuse to comply with the administration's current rule." 
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Tim DeChristopher: Demand End to All New Fossil Fuel Leasing on Public Lands and Oceans 
Democracy NOW! 
Excerpt: "A coalition of more than 400 organizations have called on the White House to stop issuing new fossil fuel leases on public lands and oceans. More than 67 million acres of public land and ocean are already leased to the fossil fuel industry." 
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