Friday, December 11, 2015

RSN: In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure, Muhammad Ali Hits at Trump and 'Misguided Murderers' Sabotaging Islam




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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | What Donald Trump and ISIS Have in Common 
Donald Trump. (photo: AP) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Trump's latest enemy du jour are Muslims. He's the schoolyard bully rallying classmates to make fun of the skinny kid with glasses." 
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A Year After Torture Report, CIA and Its Accomplices Still Free 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "A year ago the United States Senate published the product of a five-year investigation into the torture tactics employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. One year later, nothing has happened." 
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Where Justice Scalia Got the Idea That African Americans Might Be Better Off at 'Slower-Track' Universities 
Yanan Wang, The Washington Post 
Wang writes: "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, no stranger to controversy, drew fire Wednesday after suggesting that African American students might be better off attending 'slower-track' universities." 
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Muhammad Ali Hits at Trump and 'Misguided Murderers' Sabotaging Islam 
M. Alex Johnson, NBC News 
Johnson writes: "Like the champion fighter he is, Muhammad Ali took jabs Wednesday at 'so called Islamic Jihadists' and those who would 'use Islam to advance their own personal agenda.'" 
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bell hooks: Feminism Is the Social Change Movement That Has Been Most Honest With Itself 
George Yancy and bell hooks, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "We cannot have a meaningful revolution without humor. Every time we see the left or any group trying to move forward politically in a radical way, when they're humorless, they fail. Humor is essential to the integrative balance that we need to deal with diversity and difference and the building of community." 
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Terrorists Want You to Be Very Afraid. So Don't Be. 
Gershom Gorenberg, The American Prospect 
Gorenberg writes: "The original meaning of words is washed away by overuse. So a reminder: Terrorism is intended to make you feel terror, to make fear flood your mind and keep you from thinking straight. That's true whether it takes place in Paris, San Bernardino, or Jerusalem. The first step in defeating terrorism, therefore, is to chill out." 
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In Greenpeace Sting, Professors Agree to Produce Research for Fossil Fuel Industry Without Disclosure 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "'How much have you taken from Peabody Coal?' That was the question Greenpeace researcher Jesse Coleman asked prominent climate change skeptic and Princeton physicist William Happer in a Senate hearing room Tuesday afternoon, just as Happer was preparing to testify before Senator Ted Cruz's Commerce subcommittee." 
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