Saturday, February 13, 2016

RSN; Eric Garner's Daughter Stars in Powerful Sanders Campaign Ad , The Koch Brothers' Dirty War on Solar Power, The Predators Behind the TPP,



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Michael Moore | High School Students of America: Here's How to Sneak Into My R-Rated Movie This Weekend 
Michael Moore. (photo: Dog Eat Dog Films) 
Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Web Site 
Moore writes: "Now, you might be asking yourself, 'Why did the American ratings board give my film an 'R' rating?' Well, some people would prefer you not know how teenagers in the rest of the world are treated. Bottom line: They're not treated like babies and inmates. They are treated like full-grown human beings with dignity and rights. Lots of rights." 
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Eric Garner's Daughter Stars in Powerful Sanders Campaign Ad 
Adam Edelman, New York Daily News 
Edelman writes: "Bernie Sanders has released a dramatic new ad featuring an impassioned plea by Erica Garner, the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner, for Americans to vote for the surging progressive presidential candidate." 
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Leaked Emails Claim Snyder Administration Withheld Lead Testing Results 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "In emails obtained by The Flint Journal, local health officials in Flint accuse the administration of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder of withholding the results of lead testing in the city's schools before making them public." 
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Detainee Interrogation Chief: Waterboarding Doesn't Work 
Carrie Johnson, NPR 
Johnson writes: "The director of the federal government team that interrogates key terrorism suspects has a message for people who want to see a return to waterboarding and other abusive strategies: They don't work." 
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Nicaragua and the Ghosts of Revolution 
Leonidas Oikonomakis, ROAR Magazine 
Oikonomakis writes: "Once in power, the Sandinistas set off on the herculean task of changing their country. Former members of Somoza's army, the notorious contras, funded and supported by the US, started a war against Sandinista Nicaragua, organizing raids using neighboring Honduras and Costa Rica as their bases. Thereafter, Nicaragua entered its neoliberal years." 
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The Predators Behind the TPP 
Karel Van Wolferen, The Japan Times 
Van Wolferen writes: "If signed and ratified, the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic agreements, which seek to organize business activity under one gigantic umbrella of new rules, are likely to change our living environment in ways very different from what elected officials have been misled to imagine." 
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The Koch Brothers' Dirty War on Solar Power 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "All over the country, the Kochs have been blocking solar initiatives." 
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