Reader Supported News | 20 February 16
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These numbers are - far - below what we normally can depend on. We have to confront this head-on.
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The situation is quite bad.
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Glenn Greenwald | Hillary Clinton With Little Notice, Vows to Embrace an Extremist Agenda on Israel
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Is it even physically possible to 'strengthen the U.S.-Israel alliance' beyond what it already entails: billions of dollars in American taxpayer money transferred every year, sophisticated weapons fed to Israel as it bombs its defenseless neighbors, blindly loyal diplomatic support and protection for everything it does?"
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Is it even physically possible to 'strengthen the U.S.-Israel alliance' beyond what it already entails: billions of dollars in American taxpayer money transferred every year, sophisticated weapons fed to Israel as it bombs its defenseless neighbors, blindly loyal diplomatic support and protection for everything it does?"
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Karl Rove's Super-PAC Spin-Off Has the Same Tax Designation as the Red Cross or Humane Society
Leo Gerard, In These Times
Gerard writes: "One percenters have it all, extra houses, extra cars, even an exclusive legal defense if they kill, 'affluenza,' to keep them out of jail. But until last week, they felt unfairly denied access to the benefits of social welfare organizations, United Way, Habitat for Humanity and the like. Now, these are rich people, so they wanted special social welfare groups, ones that would solely benefit rich people. And that's exactly what they got."
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Leo Gerard, In These Times
Gerard writes: "One percenters have it all, extra houses, extra cars, even an exclusive legal defense if they kill, 'affluenza,' to keep them out of jail. But until last week, they felt unfairly denied access to the benefits of social welfare organizations, United Way, Habitat for Humanity and the like. Now, these are rich people, so they wanted special social welfare groups, ones that would solely benefit rich people. And that's exactly what they got."
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Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Author, Dead at 89
Todd Leopold, CNN
Leopold writes: "Harper Lee, whose debut novel, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' immortalized her name with its story of justice and race in a small Southern town and became a classic of American literature, has died. She was 89."
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Todd Leopold, CNN
Leopold writes: "Harper Lee, whose debut novel, 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' immortalized her name with its story of justice and race in a small Southern town and became a classic of American literature, has died. She was 89."
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'Black Sludge' Pours out of Texas Town's Faucets Days After FBI Arrests Nearly Every City Official
Alex Zielinski, ThinkProgress
Zielinski writes: "Oily black liquid is coming out of residential faucets in the rural Texas town of Crystal City, and no one is sure who to alert. That's because twelve days ago, the FBI arrested all but one the top elected officials in town for their involvement in an illegal gambling ring and immigrant smuggling."
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Alex Zielinski, ThinkProgress
Zielinski writes: "Oily black liquid is coming out of residential faucets in the rural Texas town of Crystal City, and no one is sure who to alert. That's because twelve days ago, the FBI arrested all but one the top elected officials in town for their involvement in an illegal gambling ring and immigrant smuggling."
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'Angola 3' Inmate Albert Woodfox Ordered Released After More Than 40 Years in Prison
Kiran Chawla, WAFB
Chawla writes: "One of the men suspected of killing an Angola prison guard decades ago pleaded no contest to lesser charges Friday morning and was ordered to be released from prison."
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Kiran Chawla, WAFB
Chawla writes: "One of the men suspected of killing an Angola prison guard decades ago pleaded no contest to lesser charges Friday morning and was ordered to be released from prison."
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Being a Journalist in Mexico Is Getting Even More Dangerous
Javier Garza Ramos, The Washington Post
Garza writes: "Anabel Flores, a 27-year-old mother of two toddlers, was kidnapped by armed men who stormed her house in the early hours of Feb. 7 in the Mexican city of Orizaba, state of Veracruz. The facts are dramatic, but it's also an old story: Flores was a reporter, and her fate was similar to that suffered by more than 100 journalists in the past 15 years."
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Javier Garza Ramos, The Washington Post
Garza writes: "Anabel Flores, a 27-year-old mother of two toddlers, was kidnapped by armed men who stormed her house in the early hours of Feb. 7 in the Mexican city of Orizaba, state of Veracruz. The facts are dramatic, but it's also an old story: Flores was a reporter, and her fate was similar to that suffered by more than 100 journalists in the past 15 years."
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The Slow Violence of Climate Change
Sara Nelson, Jacobin
Nelson writes: "The spectacle of international climate negotiations shows that climate justice won't come through existing institutions."
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Sara Nelson, Jacobin
Nelson writes: "The spectacle of international climate negotiations shows that climate justice won't come through existing institutions."
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