Saturday, March 5, 2016

RSN: Tribe Says Drilling Project Would Have 'Heartbreaking' Consequences, UN: Israel Demolished 41 Palestinian Homes, a School in 1 Week, Clash of Republican Con Artists




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Reader Supported News | 05 March 16

February Was a Victory of Time Over Money
We didn't raise more money in February - we finished the drive earlier. That was the all important victory. For March we are not off to nearly as good a start.
Finishing these funding-drives more quickly could not be more important.
With urgency from the onset.
Marc Ash 
Curator, Reader Supported News



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Paul Krugman | Clash of Republican Con Artists
Paul Krugman. (photo: Gawker Media)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain."
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Truth and Fiction in the Age of Trump
Michael Brenner, CounterPunch
Brenner writes: "The national disgrace that is the Republican contest for the Presidential nomination, carrying with it the potential for national tragedy, has been brewing for some time."
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NSA Is Mysteriously Absent From FBI-Apple Fight
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept
McLaughlin writes: "Notably missing from the FBI's argument was any mention of whether it had consulted spies and sleuths from the government's intelligence community - particularly the National Security Agency."
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City Takes a Stand Against Treating Homeless Camps Like Crime Rings
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress
Pyke writes: "When homeless people cluster and set up stable tent camps, most American cities eventually send garbage men, cops, and social workers to tear the camps down, kick out the occupants, and even destroy their belongings. But in Indianapolis, such encampments are now protected from the sudden, destructive approach that so many other cities use to break up unsightly homeless communities."
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Speculating a Better Future: New Literature for Social Justice
Mark Soderstrom, Jacobin
Soderstrom writes: "In the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode 'Crossover,' characters Kira and Bashir experience operational difficulties on their way home. Upon arriving at the eponymous space station, they find it to be a strange and terrible place."
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UN: Israel Demolished 41 Palestinian Homes, a School in 1 Week
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The demolition took place in a Palestinian village called Khirbet Tana, which is home to approximately 250 people who rely on herding and agriculture for their livelihood, according to the U.N. report."
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Tribe Says Drilling Project Would Have 'Heartbreaking' Consequences
Corin Cates-Carney, NPR
Cates-Carney writes: "A few miles outside Glacier National Park in northwest Montana is land known as the Badger-Two Medicine, the ancestral home of the Blackfeet tribe."
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