Thursday, October 8, 2015

RSN: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: Climate Change Could Be Catalyst to Build a Fairer Economic System, Alabama Puts Up More Hurdles for Voters, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Afghan Hospital





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William Boardman | Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Afghan Hospital 
President Barack Obama. (photo: AP) 
William Boardman, Reader Supported News 
Boardman writes: "No, it's not really fair to blame President Obama personally for the waves of aerial bombing that took more than an hour on October 4 to destroy a neutral hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, Afghanistan. But it's totally fair to blame President Obama for giving the world another six years of President Bush's policy of bringing chaos and devastation to whatever part of the Middle East happens to be annoying the folks who have decided these things since 2001." 
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Hillary Clinton Now Says She Opposes TPP 
Amanda Becker and John Whitesides, Reuters 
Excerpt: "U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she does not support the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), rejecting a central tenet of President Barack Obama's strategic pivot to Asia." 
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Alabama Puts Up More Hurdles for Voters 
The New York Times | Editorial 
Excerpt: "Alabama has a long and ugly history of racial discrimination in voting. From 1965 on, at least 100 voting changes were blocked or altered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act." 
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Bernie Sanders Wants to Pass Legislation Making Forming a Union Easier 
Ned Resnikoff, Al Jazeera America 
Resnikoff writes: "Progressive legislators introduced a law on Tuesday that would speed up the process for forming labor unions and penalize companies that delay negotiating with newly formed unions - as labor allies in Congress try to preserve some of the gains they have made during President Barack Obama's second term." 
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The Gun Control Movement Needs Its Own Pro-Life Fanatics 
Alex Pareene, Gawker 
Pareene writes: "We've good reason to feel numb. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which twenty small children were murdered, a couple of pathetically limited gun control proposals went nowhere in Congress and ten states passed 17 laws weakening gun restrictions. The gun control movement in this country is a pathetic failure." 
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DC's 16-Week Family Leave Plan Would Be Most Generous in US 
Aaron C. Davis, The Washington Post 
Davis writes: "The District would become the most generous place in the country for a worker to take time off after giving birth or to care for a dying parent under a measure supported by a majority of the D.C. Council." 
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Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis: Climate Change Could Be Catalyst to Build a Fairer Economic System 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "All those years, we imagined that we had freed ourselves from nature's bonds, that we were the boss. There was a part of the story we couldn't yet see: Our machines were filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Could it be that we're not the masters, after all, that we are just guests here and that we can get evicted for bad behavior?" 
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