Wednesday, April 13, 2016

RSN: Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret, US Counterinsurgency Policing Tactics Ravage Honduras




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John Pilger | Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret 
For thousands of years, the Indigenous people of Australia have suffered the ill-effects of colonization. (photo: Reuters) 
John Pilger, teleSUR 
Pilger writes: "I had a call from Rosalie Kunoth-Monks the other day. Rosalie is an elder of the Arrernte-Alyawarra people, who lives in Utopia, a vast and remote region in the 'red heart' of Australia." 
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Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole | Inside Blackwater Founder's Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force 
Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "The conversion of crop dusters into light attack aircraft had long been part of Prince's vision for defeating terrorists and insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East. In Prince's view, these single-engine fixed-wing planes, retrofitted for war zones, would revolutionize the way small wars were fought. They would also turn a substantial profit." 
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I Am on the Kill List. This Is What It Feels Like to Be Hunted by Drones 
Malik Jalal, The Independent 
Jalal writes: "I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the 'Kill List.' I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive." 
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Tennessee's Anti-LGBT Counseling Bill Is Seriously Dangerous 
Leticia Flores, The Advocate 
Flores writes: "Last week the Tennessee legislature passed House Bill 1840/Senate Bill 1556. The bill, which has come to be known as Hate Bill 1840, will head to the governor's desk any day now." 
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Where Women Have the Most and Least Political Representation in the US 
Megan Verlee and Caroline Ballard, NPR 
Verlee and Ballard write: "Wyoming is sometimes called the Equality State - it had the nation's first female governor and was the first territory to give women the right to vote. But that legacy isn't visible on the floor of the state Senate. Just one of the 30 state senators is a woman." 
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US Counterinsurgency Policing Tactics Ravage Honduras 
Annie Bird, teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Honduran media is ablaze with the latest in the constant stream of police corruption crises. This time the Honduran newspaper El Heraldo published a leaked police investigation into the November 2009 murder of the chief of the anti-narcotics unit Julian Aristides Gonzales, and the related December 2011 murder of his advisor, Alfredo Landaverde." 
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How Climate Change Tore Apart a Native American Community in the Bayou 
Daniel Rivero, Fusion 
Rivero writes: "There used to be much more to this island. When the land was still arable, there were communal gardens. Watermelons, figs, fruit trees. A schoolhouse and a dance hall (which also served as a community center) once stood on the main avenue. Behind the houses, locals say, there used to be a forest, and the tribal elders knew which trees and shrubs to cull for medicine." 
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