Saturday, April 16, 2016

RSN: Bernie Sanders Calls for a 'Moral Economy' at the Vatican, Is US-Funded Destabilization in Latin America Now Paying Off?, Fracking Wells Released Over 5 Billion Pounds of Methane in One Year




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Elizabeth Warren Has Basically Had It With Paul Krugman's Big Bank Nonsense 
Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't mention Paul Krugman by name, but it seemed she was referring to the liberal economist when she talked about 'revisionist history' of the financial crisis. (photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters) 
Zach Carter, Reader Supported News 
Carter writes: "Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared to offer a thinly veiled rebuke of liberal economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday by highlighting a 'scary' too-big-to-fail ruling from federal bank regulators." 
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Bernie Sanders Calls for a 'Moral Economy' at the Vatican 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke on economic justice alongside Latin American leaders such as Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Bolivia's Evo Morales at the Vatican on Friday." 
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The New Gilded Age: Close to Half of All Super PAC Money Comes From 50 Donors 
Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "A small core of super-rich individuals is responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic that harks back to the financing of presidential campaigns in the Gilded Age." 
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Time Magazine Is Lying to You. Here's Why. 
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress 
Pyke writes: "Time Magazine is lying to you. The cover of the venerated publication's newest issue sports a shocking warning with an all-red klaxon cover that shouts: 'DEAR READER: You owe $42,998.12.' The article in question argues that America's national debt is so large that our government must stop spending so much money. This is false." 
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ACLU Sues Bureau of Prisons Over Missing Torture Documents 
Alex Emmons, The Intercept 
Emmons writes: "The ACLU sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Thursday for documents related to its inspection of a CIA black site in 2002." 
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Is US-Funded Destabilization in Latin America Now Paying Off? 
Francisco Dominguez, teleSUR 
Dominguez writes: "Riots, street demonstrations, anti-corruption campaigns, protests about the impact of the world economic crisis, general strikes, impeachment efforts, economic sabotage, and the like, have become the battle horses on which oligarchic forces in cahoots with Washington are riding to carry out 'regime change' in various Latin American countries." 
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Fracking Wells Released Over 5 Billion Pounds of Methane in One Year 
Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist 
Chiang-Waren writes: "Frackers have used billions of pounds of cancer-causing chemicals in at least 137,000 wells from 2005 to 2015." 
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