Monday, June 6, 2016

RSN: "I Refuse to Serve as an Empire Chaplain": US Army Minister Resigns Over Drone Program, Sanders Campaign Complains of Voter Suppression in Puerto Rico's Sunday Primary




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Jill Stein | All Hands on Deck! Two Ways to Build The Revolution in the CA Primary 
Jill Stein. (photo: Jill2016) 
Jill Stein, Reader Supported News 
Stein writes: "At this historic moment, as voters reject the Clinton and Trump campaigns with record high levels of dislike and mistrust, I ask not just for your vote for me, but also for your vote for Bernie." 
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Sanders Campaign Complains of Voter Suppression in Puerto Rico's Sunday Primary 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Polls have opened in Puerto Rico with voters stream to the polls to select a Democratic nominee for president, with accusations of voter suppression already coming in." 
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White Youths Yelling Racial Slurs Chase Black Teenager to His Death 
Evan Popp, ThinkProgress 
Popp writes: "After being chased through the streets of Staten Island by a group of mostly white young men who shouted racial slurs, 16-year-old black teenager Dayshen McKenzie collapsed and died last week." 
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After Years of Pushing Neoliberal Policies, IMF Admits Neoliberalism Causes Inequality 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The International Monetary Fund has admitted in a new report that neoliberalism fuels both inequality and hurts growth." 
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"I Refuse to Serve as an Empire Chaplain": US Army Minister Resigns Over Drone Program 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "As a minister, I was driven by compassion to care for the wounded; and as a citizen, driven by a sense of civic duty to carry my fair share in our nation's wars. I think I did both of those things during my time in service, but eventually began to feel a role conflict between my role as a military officer and my role as an ordained minister. And I couldn't reconcile that role conflict, so I decided to resign." 
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A Shocking Number of College Men Surveyed Admit to Coercing a Partner Into Sex 
Amy Ellis Nutt, The Washington Post 
Nutt writes: "Campus sexual assault scandals have practically become routine. The most recent one to make the news led to the firing of Baylor University's head football coach and the demotion, and then departure, of its president. A new study, published last week in the journal Violence Against Women, suggests that sexual assault by college men is an even more widespread problem than the scandals imply." 
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Al Gore: Winning the Fight Against Climate Change 
Issie Lapowsky, Wired 
Lapowsky writes: "Outside Gore's New York City office, spring has certainly sprung-early too. This March was the hottest one ever, beating the prior record set in March 2015. The same goes for February and January of this year, and, oh, the eight consecutive months before. Gore knows these statistics by heart. The fact that you might know them too is likely because of him." 
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