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RSN: Donald Trump's Dangerous Team of Crackpots Will Spread Corruption and Start New Wars in the Middle East, Trump's Dilemma: To Please His Friends by Trashing the Paris Climate Deal, or Not?




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Bill McKibben | Trump's Dilemma: To Please His Friends by Trashing the Paris Climate Deal, or Not? 
Donald Trump. (photo: Jeffrey Phelps/AP) 
Bill McKibben, Guardian UK 
McKibben writes: "It seems likely that the Paris climate accords will offer one of the first real tests of just how nuts Donald Trump actually is. For a waiting world it's a public exam, his chance to demonstrate either that he's been blowing smoke or deeply inhaling." 
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Trump Demands Apology From 'Hamilton' After Cast's Message to Mike Pence 
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post 
Wang writes: "The cast of 'Hamilton' was not going to throw away its shot. After Friday evening's performance, at which Vice President-elect Mike Pence was in the audience, several dozen of the Broadway musical's cast members zeroed in on Pence during their curtain call. Brandon Victor Dixon - the actor who played Aaron Burr - stepped forth and cut through the applause." 
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Keith Ellison Rolls Out New Endorsements in DNC Race 
Daniel Strauss, Politico 
Strauss writes: "Rep. Keith Ellison rolled out a list of 35 endorsements Friday in his bid to be elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee." 
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Small-Town "Terrorists": The Infamous Post-9/11 "Sleeper Cell" Case in California Continues to Unravel 
Abbie VanSickle, The Intercept 
VanSickle: "The first time she lost him, he was a newborn. Soon after she gave birth in her native Pakistan, her in-laws took her son, Naseem, during a contentious divorce from her husband." 
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How a Battle Over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP 
James Trimarco, YES! Magazine 
Trimarco writes: "Amid the fallout from Donald Trump's election is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After six years of negotiations, the controversial trade deal is dead." 
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Patrick Cockburn | Donald Trump's Dangerous Team of Crackpots Will Spread Corruption and Start New Wars in the Middle East 
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent 
Cockburn writes: "Isis is under pressure in Mosul and Raqqa, but it is jubilant at the election of Donald Trump." 
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COP22 Declaration Calls for 'Immediate Action and Mobilization' 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The final declaration of the UN COP22 climate negotiations, issued midnight on Friday after a full day extension of the talks, saw 196 countries agreeing to a two-year time limit for implementation of the Paris Accord and a called for a global effort to 'eradicate poverty' and 'ensure food security,' by transitioning from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources." 
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