Saturday, April 2, 2016

RSN: A Bird, a Plane? No, It's Superdelegates!, How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America




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Michael Winship | A Bird, a Plane? No, It's Superdelegates! 
Confetti falls as Barack and Michelle Obama and Joe and Jill Biden gather at the end of the Democratic National Convention in 2008. (photo: Stan Honda/Getty) 
Michael Winship, Moyers & Company 
Winship writes: "The Democratic Party's special class of entitled and unelected VIP delegates helps explain what's wrong with the way we choose our presidential candidates."
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The Controversial Reason Tens of Thousands of People Just Lost Their Food Stamps 
Max Ehrenfreund and Roberto A. Ferdman, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "As many as 1 million Americans will stop receiving food stamps over the course of this year beginning on Friday, the consequence of a controversial work mandate that has been reinstated in 22 states as the economy improves." 
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Bernie Sanders Surprises Stephen Colbert During New York City Campaign Stop 
Alex Garofalo, International Business Times 
Garofalo writes: "Bernie Sanders spent Thursday in New York campaigning in the Bronx for the state's April 19 primary. Between rallies, the Democratic presidential candidate found time to pay a visit to the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan and say hi to comedian Stephen Colbert." 
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Fast Food Workers Join Forces With Teachers to Fight for Better Pay 
Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress 
Quinlan writes: "Fast food workers joined teachers during a one-day strike in Chicago on Friday. The two groups are joining forces to push for more equitable financial policies in the city." 
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The US Wasted 7 Years and $86 Million on a Plane That's Never Flown 
Christopher Woody, Reuters 
Woody writes: "The US government spent $86 million over seven years developing a counternarcotics surveillance aircraft for Afghanistan, but the plane has never carried out a mission and is sitting idle in Delaware, a watchdog said on Wednesday." 
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The Cowards' Wars 
Luciana Bohne, CounterPunch 
Bohne writes: "Tell me one crime of aggression the 'international community,' the dogs of war, has not committed with impunity since the downfall of the Soviet Union in their unopposed quest for recolonizing the world?"
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How Montanans Stopped the Largest New Coal Mine in North America 
Nick Engelfried, YES! Magazine 
Engelfried writes: "The defeat of what seemed unstoppable - Arch Coal's Otter Creek mine - marks an encouraging shift in the fight against Big Coal." 
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