Wednesday, December 9, 2015

RSN: Back to Basics: Clearing the Fog of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Video Shows Chicago Police Repeatedly Using Taser, Then Dragging Suspect From Cell, Look Who's Buying American Democracy




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Robert Reich | Look Who's Buying American Democracy 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and Republican presidential candidates - $176 million - has come from just 158 families, along with the companies they own or control." 
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Another Chicago Police Shooting, This Time With No Charges 
David A. Graham, The Atlantic 
Graham writes: "It's another week in Chicago with prosecutors releasing a video of police shooting a black man in the back. But unlike the killing of Laquan McDonald, the death of Ronald Johnson won't result in any charges, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said Monday." 
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US Seeks to Avoid Ground War Welcomed by Islamic State 
Rukmini Callimachi, The New York Times 
Callimachi writes: "As the debate on how best to contain the Islamic State continues to rage in Western capitals, the militants themselves have made one point patently clear: They want the United States and its allies to be dragged into a ground war." 
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Trump Says "Closing That Internet" Is a Good Way to Fight Terrorism 
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica 
Brodkin writes: "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he wants to talk to Bill Gates about 'closing that Internet up in some way' in order to prevent Islamic terrorist group ISIS from recruiting kids." 
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Video Shows Chicago Police Repeatedly Using Taser, Then Dragging Suspect From Cell 
Stacy St. Clair, Steve Mills and Todd Lighty, Chicago Tribune 
Excerpt: "Amid a growing crisis over the Chicago Police Department's use of force, the city late Monday released a video that shows officers in a Far South Side police lockup repeatedly using a Taser on a University of Chicago graduate and dragging him out of his cell in handcuffs." 
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Back to Basics: Clearing the Fog of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 
Sami Al-Arian, CounterPunch 
Al-Arian writes: "Oftentimes Israel and its enablers in the political and media arenas try to obfuscate basic facts about the nature and history of the conflict. Despite these attempts, however, the conflict is neither complicated nor has it existed for centuries." 
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Uranium Contaminates Water in the West 
Ellen Knickmeyer and Scott Smith, Associated Press 
Excerpt: "In a trailer park tucked among irrigated orchards that help make California's San Joaquin Valley the richest farm region in the world, 16-year-old Giselle Alvarez, one of the few English-speakers in the community of farmworkers, puzzles over the notices posted on front doors: There's a danger in their drinking water." 
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