Friday, August 19, 2016

RSN: Baltimore Fires Attorney Defending Its Police After His White Supremacist Ties Are Made Public, Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer




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Robert Reich | Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer 
Robert Reich. (photo: Getty) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog 
Reich writes: "The best argument for a single-payer health plan is the recent decision by giant health insurer Aetna to bail out next year from 11 of the 15 states where it sells Obamacare plans." 
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Baltimore Fires Attorney Defending Its Police After His White Supremacist Ties Are Made Public 
Sameer Rao, Colorlines 
Rao writes: "Just over a week after the Department of Justice released a report describing the Baltimore Police Department's discrimination against the city's Black residents, a new report reveals that a city attorney who is defending the BPD in a wrongful conviction case was a long-time member of a White supremacist group." 
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Trump Promised Personal Donations to Charities on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' But He Didn't Pay them. 
David A. Fahrenthold and Alice Crites, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Although Khloe Kardashian could not win any more prize money, Donald Trump would give her cause a special, personal donation. Not the show's money. His own money. 'I'm going to give $20,000 to your charity,' Trump said, according to a transcript of that show. He didn't." 
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Clinton Foundation to Bar Foreign and Corporate Donations if Hillary Clinton Wins 
Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times 
Mehta writes: "The Clinton Foundation will stop accepting foreign and corporate donations if Hillary Clinton is elected president, a spokesman for the foundation said Thursday." 
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Lawsuit: A 12-Year-Old Muslim Boy With Learning Disabilities Was Forced to Confess Allegiance to ISIS by His School 
Nidhi Prakash, Fusion 
Prakash writes: "The family of a 12-year-old Muslim boy with severe learning disabilities is suing his school on Long Island after classmates allegedly called him a 'terrorist' and school authorities interrogated him and demanded that he admit to supporting the Islamic State terrorist group." 
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Does the US Ignore Its Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Syria? 
Chris Woods, The New York Times 
Woods writes: "During July, the number of reported civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes reached the highest level since the air war began in August 2014."
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"For as Long as It Takes": Native American Protesters Defy North Dakota Pipeline Construction 
Jason Wilson, Guardian UK 
Wilson writes: "Hundreds of Native American and environmental activists descend on the site where a $3.7 billion pipeline is being constructed, and 18 have been arrested so far." 
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