Tuesday, September 15, 2015

RSN: West 'Ignored Russian Offer in 2012 to Have Syria's Assad Step Aside', Bees Win Big in Court, EPA's Approval of Toxic Pesticide Overturned




The story below of Russia offering to resolve Syria's crisis peacefully, much as other nations did in Iraq should make one consider the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex creating ENDLESS WARS.  


Daily Kos's photo.
This says it all.
Thanks to The Middle Class is Drowning for the graphic.

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Thomas Piketty | In Migrants Crisis, a Chance to Revitalize Europe's Economy 
Syrian migrants arrived on the island of Lesbos, Greece, after crossing from Turkey aboard a dinghy on Thursday. (photo: Petros Giannakouris/AP) 
Thomas Piketty, The Boston Globe 
Piketty writes: "By opening themselves up to the world, by jump-starting the economy and investments (housing, schools, infrastructure), by fighting off deflationary risk, the European Union could easily return to its precrisis immigration levels." 
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Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of 'Super PACs' 
Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times 
Confessore writes: "Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of 'super PACs' that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the 2016 campaign through such groups."
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West 'Ignored Russian Offer in 2012 to Have Syria's Assad Step Aside' 
Julian Borger and Bastien Inzaurralde, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, could step down as part of a peace deal, according to a senior negotiator involved in back-channel discussions at the time." 
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Burden of Mass Incarceration Falls on Families, Report Shows 
Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America 
De Bode writes: "With more than 2.4 million people incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons, the burden of mass incarceration falls on their families, many of whom are unable to pay off thousands of dollars in debt after paying court-related fees and other costs, according to a report published Monday."
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Refugee Crisis: EU Governments Set to Back New Internment Measures 
Ian Traynor, Guardian UK 
Traynor writes: "European governments are aiming to deny the right of asylum to innumerable refugees by funding and building camps for them in Africa and elsewhere outside the European Union." 
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Slavoj Zizek | We Can't Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism 
Slavoj Zizek, In These Times 
Zizek writes: "The ultimate cause of refugees is today's global capitalism itself and its geopolitical games, and if we do not transform it radically, immigrants from Greece and other European countries will soon join African refugees." 
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Bees Win Big in Court, EPA's Approval of Toxic Pesticide Overturned 
Taylor Hill, TakePart 
Hill writes: "A federal court has overturned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of sulfoxaflor, a pesticide linked to the mass die-off of honeybees that pollinate a third of the world's food supply." 
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