Tuesday, November 15, 2016

RSN: Bernie Sanders Calls for 'Fundamental Reassessment' of Democratic Party, France's Sarkozy Proposes European Carbon Tax on American Goods if Trump Pulls out of Climate Accord,




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Bernie Sanders Calls for 'Fundamental Reassessment' of Democratic Party 
Bernie Sanders. (photo: Karen Bleier/Getty Images) 
NPR 
Excerpt: "In Bernie Sanders' new book, Our Revolution, the Vermont senator tells the story of his life, his career and his run for the Democratic presidential nomination." 
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Army Corps to Engage Standing Rock Sioux on Dakota Access Pipeline 
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch 
Spear writes: "The Army Corps informed the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Energy Transfer Partners and Dakota Access, LLC, that it 'has completed the review that it launched on September 9, 2016' and 'determined that additional discussion and analysis are warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands, the importance of Lake Oahe to the Tribe, our government-to-government relationship and the statute governing easements through government property.'" 
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Gwen Ifill, Who Overcame Barriers as a Black Female Journalist, Dies at 61 
Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post 
Bernstein writes: "Gwen Ifill, who covered politics for some of the country's premier newspapers before transitioning to broadcast journalism and making her greatest mark as one of the most prominent TV anchors of her generation, died Nov. 14 at a hospice center in Washington. She was 61." 
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A Blueprint for a New Party 
Seth Ackerman, Jacobin 
Ackerman writes: "Waged by a candidate who had never run as a Democrat before and has declined to do so in the future, the Sanders campaign has revived hope that a serious electoral politics to the left of the Democratic Party might be possible." 
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US Army and CIA May Be Guilty of War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says ICC 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "US armed forces and the CIA may have committed war crimes by torturing detainees in Afghanistan, the international criminal court's chief prosecutor has said in a report, raising the possibility that American citizens could be indicted even though Washington has not joined the global court." 
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UPS Air Maintenance Workers Vote 98 Percent to Authorize Strike 
Nick Carey, Reuters 
Carey writes: "Air maintenance workers at United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against the world's largest package delivery company as contract talks remained deadlocked over health-care benefits, the workers' union said on Monday." 
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France's Sarkozy Proposes European Carbon Tax on American Goods if Trump Pulls out of Climate Accord 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "On Sunday, Sarkozy told the French television channel TF1 that he would 'demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax ... of 1 to 3 percent for all products coming from the United States, if the United States doesn't apply environmental rules that we are imposing on our companies.'" 
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