Wednesday, July 6, 2016

RSN: Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model 'Clean Coal' Project, Despite What Media Says, TPP Isn't About Free Trade - It's About Protecting Corporate Profits




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Bernie Sanders Scores Big Wins With Democratic Platform
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Mark Peterson/Redux)
Steve Benen, MSNBC
Benen writes: "After the Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses wrapped up last month, Bernie Sanders and his campaign team had a decision to make: pick the next goal. Despite months of chatter about the senator urging party insiders to overturn voters' will, Team Sanders didn't seriously consider such an approach, knowing it wouldn't work anyway."
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David Sirota | Making Deals in the Dark
David Sirota, International Business Times
Sirota writes: "Four days before California's public hearing about Anthem's proposed acquisition of Cigna, state regulators sent the corporate giants what seemed like a routine request: Could the companies provide their board resolutions and financial projections about the merger."
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Despite What Media Says, TPP Isn't About Free Trade - It's About Protecting Corporate Profits
Ziad Jilani, The Intercept
Jilani writes: "The news media and advocates of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement have repeatedly described opponents of the deal as 'protectionist' or opposed to trade itself."
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Questionable Tax-Free Payments to Trump Staffers Raise 'Red Flags'
Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC
LaRocco writes: "A series of filing anomalies point to a Donald Trump camp that is either unaware of campaign finance law, or is actively funneling donors' cash to insiders, according to several experts interviewed by CNBC."
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This Is How Many People Police Have Killed So Far in 2016
Celisa Calacal, ThinkProgress
Calacal writes: "In the first half of 2016, police have killed 532 people - many of whom were unarmed, mentally ill, and people of color."
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Life After the Massacre: A View From Oaxaca
Eric Larson, NACLA
Larson writes: "'I thought that it was raining,' education students wrote the day after police killed as many as 12 and injured dozens at protests in the majority- indigenous southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on June 19. 'But Oaxaca is crying.'"
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Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model 'Clean Coal' Project
Ian Urbina, The New York Times
Urbina writes: "A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama's climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay."
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