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Monday, October 17, 2016

RSN: The Vanity of the Billionaires: Circuses and No Bread, Oil Spill Hits Peru's Amazon - Again





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Juan Cole | The Vanity of the Billionaires: Circuses and No Bread 
The cover of 'TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald' by Timothy O'Brien. (photo: Warner Books) 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "The US government offers a little bread in the form of welfare, but not much and much less than it used to. Most working people haven't recovered from 2008. Mostly nowadays we are being offered circuses by the billionaires who now rule us." 
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What Happens If Trump Supporters Believe His 'Rigged Election' Hype? 
Chas Danner, New York Magazine 
Danner writes: "Hillary Clinton has already acknowledged that defeating Trump is unlikely to counteract the influence his candidacy has had on the country." 
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Rolling Stone Heading to Trial Over Debunked Story of Rape 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "For the first time since Rolling Stone magazine's shocking story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia hit shelves two years ago, the public may hear from the young woman at the center of the now discredited article 'A Rape on Campus.'" 
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MSF Refused a Million Free Vaccines to Stand up to Big Pharma 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Doctors Without Borders said last week it had refused a donation of one million pneumonia vaccinations from the drug manufacturer Pfizer, to take a principled stand against Big Pharma's monopolistic drug-pricing policies." 
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'I'm No Threat' - Will Obama Pardon One of the World's Longest-Serving Political Prisoners? 
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK 
Pilkington writes: "Oscar López Rivera - known as the Mandela of Puerto Rico - has been in a US jail for 35 years for his part in the independence struggle." 
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Iraq Embarks on Offensive to Drive ISIS From Mosul 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR News 
Kennedy writes: "Iraq's military has launched an offensive aimed at wresting control of Mosul from Islamic State militants, according to the country's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi. In a televised speech, Abadi said he would keep an earlier promise to defeat ISIS by 2016 - and declared that soon the Iraqi flag would be raised in Mosul." 
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Oil Spill Hits Peru's Amazon - Again 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Peru's state-owned oil company, PetroPeru, faces renewed scrutiny following another reported oil spill in the Amazon, the eighth leak this year alone." 
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