Wednesday, January 18, 2017

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Elizabeth Warren | The GOP's Strategy for Obamacare? Repeal and Run. 
Senator Elizabeth Warren. (photo: AP) 
Elizabeth Warren, The Boston Globe 
Warren writes: "For eight years, Republicans in Congress have complained about health care in America, heaping most of the blame on President Obama. Meanwhile, they've hung out on the sidelines making doomsday predictions and cheering every stumble, but refusing to lift a finger to actually improve our health care system." 
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8 Men Account for Half the World's Wealth: Oxfam 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Just eight individuals, all men, own as much wealth as half of the world's population, Oxfam said Sunday night, slamming the rich for fueling global inequality by dodging taxes, driving down wages and using their power to influence politics." 
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Health Law's Repeal Could Raise Costs and Number of Uninsured, New Report Says 
Robert Pear, The New York Times 
Pear writes: "Repealing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, while leaving other parts in place, would cost 18 million people their insurance in the first year, a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday." 
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Kansas Election Officials Threw Out Thousands of Ballots 
Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press 
Hegeman writes: "Kansas election officials threw out thousands of uncounted provisional ballots cast in November, mostly because the state had no record that those residents were registered voters." 
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The New York Times' Food Stamp Fables 
Joe Soss, Jacobin 
Soss writes: "The political mean season has returned, with all the usual slanders of social programs that protect Americans from the worst kinds of hardship and deprivation. The poors! They're behaving badly!" 
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I'm a Slacker Muslim. But Donald Trump Has Us Atheists Nervous 
Sohaila Abdulali, Guardian UK 
Abdulali writes: "On a recent return to New York after a short trip to India, I waltzed through immigration with my nice blue US passport. It says 'Abdulali', but nobody seemed to care. Will that be different next time I come back home?" 
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Rex Tillerson's Exxon Mobil Frequently Sought State Department Assistance to Push Its Interests Abroad 
Lee Fang and Steve Horn, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "Exxon Mobil under its CEO Rex Tillerson frequently pressed the U.S. State Department for help in negotiating complex business deals and overcoming foreign opposition to its drilling projects, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept." 
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