Monday, September 5, 2016

RSN: California's Native Salmon Struggling in 5th Year of Drought, Duterte Tells Obama Not to Question Him About Killings,




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Robert Reich | The Reality of Free Trade Deals 
Robert Reich. (photo: AP) 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Website 
Reich writes: "If we want the public to continue to support free trade, we've got to ensure that everyone benefits from it." 
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Today Belongs to Workers 
Tim Goulet, Jacobin 
Goulet writes: "Labor Day was born from the most radical struggles of the nineteenth century. Celebrate it." 
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Prisons Aren't the Answer on Immigration 
Editorial Board, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "Whether private prison contracts should be canceled or simply not renewed, or whether Homeland Security should contract with state or county lockups, or run its own, will need to be answered. But the administration should first be asking itself why it locks up so many immigrants who are not safety threats." 
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Hillary Clinton Has a Quietly Bold Idea to Stop Drug Price Spikes 
Jordan Weissmann, Slate 
Weissmann writes: "Hillary Clinton already had a plan to lower prescription drug costs. In fact, it was one of the first pieces of her agenda that she rolled out. But following the furor over Mylan's decision to increase EpiPen prices by some 500 percent, her campaign has released a new proposal specifically aimed at stopping 'unjustified' price spikes on pharmaceuticals." 
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Anti-LGBT Bias in Retirement Homes: 'It Was Like They Had Bubonic Plague' 
Ryan Schuessler, Guardian UK 
Schuessler writes: "A lawsuit in Chicago lays bare discrimination faced by LGBT seniors from fellow residents, each members of a generation that fought for - and against - gay rights." 
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Duterte Tells Obama Not to Question Him About Killings 
Teresa Cerjano, Associated Press 
Cerojano writes: "Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned President Barack Obama on Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or 'son of a bitch I will swear at you' when they meet in Laos during a regional summit." 
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California's Native Salmon Struggling in 5th Year of Drought 
Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press 
Knickmeyer writes: "With the drought bringing one of the driest periods in California's history, federal and state authorities increasingly have had to intervene mechanically to carry out key stretches of the life cycle of salmon, whose numbers were already declining." 
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