Saturday, December 5, 2015

RSN: [Republican] Congress Moves to Sabotage the Paris Climate Summit, US First Shields Its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them, Media Storms Apartment of San Bernardino Shooting Suspects, an 'Active Crime Scene'





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Glenn Greenwald | US First Shields Its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them 
The unveiling ceremony came just one day after Human Rights Watch released a scathing report calling for the administration of President Barack Obama to file criminal charges for Bush era CIA torture. (photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "The Obama administration has moved from legally protecting Bush-era war criminals to honoring and gushing over them in public." 
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Media Storms Apartment of San Bernardino Shooting Suspects, an 'Active Crime Scene' 
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress 
Legum writes: "Multiple news organizations stormed into the apartment of the San Bernardino shooting suspects on Friday afternoon, and footage of the apartment - showing reporters rummaging through personal effects - was broadcast on live TV." 
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Paul Street | Rahm Emmanuel, Laquan McDonald and Black Rebellion in Chicago 
Paul Street, CounterPunch 
Street writes: "Beneath a carefully constructed pretense of concern for racial justice, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has long been a dedicated corporatist 'law and order' enemy of Black America." 
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Muslim Civil Rights Group Struggles to Fight Islamophobia After Recent Shootings 
Abigail Abrams, International Business Times 
Abrams writes: "CAIR was founded in 1994, and it has worked over the past two decades to advocate for Muslims' civil rights, respond to bias incidents and do outreach and education work to increase Americans' awareness of Islam." 
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The Cult of Countering Violent Extremism 
Belén Fernández, teleSUR 
Fernandez writes: "Here's an acronym you may start hearing more of: CVE. It stands for 'Countering Violent Extremism,' and it's all the rage these days in U.S. establishment circles." 
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Latin America: The Storms That Are Coming 
Raúl Zibechi, Upside Down World 
Zibechi writes: "The recent election of Mauricio Macri as president of Argentina is a turn to the right that calls to light the flame of social conflict." 
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Congress Moves to Sabotage the Paris Climate Summit 
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker 
Kolbert writes: "Don't trust the United States: as the international climate summit in Paris grinds along, this is the message Republicans in Congress are trying to send the delegates." 
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