Thursday, February 11, 2016

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Robert Reich | What New Hampshire Tells Us 
Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "The 'extremes' are not gaining ground. The anti-establishment ground forces of the American people are gaining. Some are so fed up they're following an authoritarian bigot. Others, more wisely, are signing up for a 'political revolution' to take back America from the moneyed interests." 
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Meet the Voters Who Handed Donald Trump a New Hampshire Victory 
Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress 
Ollstein writes: "New Hampshire handed Donald Trump a landslide victory Tuesday night in the state's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. In the week leading up to his victory, Trump used sexist profanity in a speech to thousands of people, touted a health care policy favored by President Obama and Hillary Clinton, and enthusiastically endorsed the use of torture." 
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IRS Grants Nonprofit Status to 'Dark Money' Group Founded by Karl Rove 
Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis, ProPublica 
Excerpt: "Donors to the nonprofit group Crossroads GPS, founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, no longer have to worry about their identities being disclosed. Crossroads had been the most active of the nonprofits funneling cash into politics - often called dark money because the original source of the funds may be kept secret if the organizations have social welfare as their primary purpose." 
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Human Rights Watch: The Empire's Human Rights Group 
Joe Emersberger, teleSUR 
Emersberger writes: "Human Rights Watch's latest World Report is filled with imperial assumptions and misinformation." 
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Justice Department Threatens Legal Action Against Ferguson 
Aamer Madhani and Kevin Johnson, USA Today 
Excerpt: "The Justice Department said Wednesday it is exploring 'legal actions' against the city of Ferguson, hours after the city council in the St. Louis suburb called for several revisions to a tentative agreement to revamp its police department and municipal court operations." 
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US Efforts to Curb Colombia's Cocaine Trade Have Failed 
Megan Alpert, Foreign Policy 
Alpert writes: "Plan Colombia has done little to stem the nation's cocaine exports after 15 years and $10 billion in U.S. aid devoted to what was initially a counter-narcotics program." 
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How to Trap Elephant Poachers With Their Own Technology 
Drazen Jorgic, Reuters 
Jorgic writes: "New anti-poaching techniques follow work done in Kenya, where poaching rates have nosedived. Police have started concentrating on the poachers' own technology - guns and phones - and using it against them. By combining that with old-fashioned detective work, they have captured more suspects." 
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