Saturday, October 17, 2015

RSN: US Blocks Alaskan Arctic Drilling for 2 Years, Trump Rally Turns Violent as His Supporters Push and Spit on Immigrant Advocates, Intifada or Not, Something Powerful Is Going On in Palestine




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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Stop Talking About Gun Control - Enforce It 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (photo: Biography.com) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "During Tuesday night's CNN debate among Democratic candidates for president, moderator Anderson Cooper said, 'Let's move on to some of the biggest issues right now in the headlines today. We're going to start with guns.'" 
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Torture by Another Name: CIA Used Waterboard-Like Tactics on at Least 12 
Abigail Abrams, International Business Times 
Abrams: "The CIA used waterboard-like tactics on at least a dozen more people than the agency has previously disclosed, the Guardian reported Friday. The agency says it subjected just three prisoners to waterboarding, widely considered a form of torture, but new lawsuits, documents and last winter's CIA torture report by the U.S. Senate show that the technique known as 'water dousing' was used on at least 13 men." 
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Tim Dickinson | When Republicans Believed in Gun Control 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "The Republican candidates for president are running as Second Amendment fundamentalists. Donald Trump broke new ground on the presidential stage calling for a national concealed-carry law - making a permit issued in Wyoming valid in New York City. 'If we can do that for driving - which is a privilege, not a right - then surely we can do that for concealed carry, which is a right, not a privilege,' Trump wrote in his campaign platform." 
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Trump Rally Turns Violent as His Supporters Push and Spit on Immigrant Advocates 
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "Donald Trump supporters are not just passionate about his anti-immigrant rhetoric; they're also living out his outrage in real-time. A man spat in an immigrant activist's face during a campaign rally for the Republican presidential candidate in Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday night." 
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Edward Snowden: Clinton Made 'False Claim' About Whistleblower Protection 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "Hillary Clinton twice this week has insisted, contrary to the facts, that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could have accomplished his goals and avoided punishment if he'd raised his concerns through the proper channels." 
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Intifada or Not, Something Powerful Is Going On in Palestine 
Nigel Wilson, Al Jazeera 
Wilson writes: "'It's the first time in a long time that we've seen this,' he says. 'I've seen young people, old people, females, males, protesting in the streets together. You can see rich people alongside poor people too.'" 
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US Blocks Alaskan Arctic Drilling for 2 Years 
Laura Wagner, NPR 
Wagner writes: "The U.S. government is backing away from Arctic offshore oil and gas drilling on two fronts." 
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