Noam Chomsky: With Trump Election, We Are Now Facing Threats to the Survival of the Human Species
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "For the young people among you, a special word: You'll be facing problems that have never arisen in the 200,000 years of human history - hard, demanding problems. It's a burden that you can't ignore. And we'll all - you, in particular, and all the rest of us - will have to be in there struggling hard to save the human species from a pretty grim fate."
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "For the young people among you, a special word: You'll be facing problems that have never arisen in the 200,000 years of human history - hard, demanding problems. It's a burden that you can't ignore. And we'll all - you, in particular, and all the rest of us - will have to be in there struggling hard to save the human species from a pretty grim fate."
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Outcry After Republicans Vote to Dismantle Independent Ethics Body
Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "House Republicans have gutted an independent ethics watchdog, putting it under their own control, in a secret ballot hours before the new Congress convened for the first time."
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Julian Borger, Guardian UK
Borger writes: "House Republicans have gutted an independent ethics watchdog, putting it under their own control, in a secret ballot hours before the new Congress convened for the first time."
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Bryan Stevenson: "I Don't Think We're Free in America"
Alice Speri, The Intercept
Speri writes: "Aiming to confront and reclaim history, the Equal Justice Initiative, led by civil rights attorney and author Bryan Stevenson, launched its 'Lynching in America' initiative, a years-long effort to compile the most comprehensive record of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950."
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Alice Speri, The Intercept
Speri writes: "Aiming to confront and reclaim history, the Equal Justice Initiative, led by civil rights attorney and author Bryan Stevenson, launched its 'Lynching in America' initiative, a years-long effort to compile the most comprehensive record of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950."
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Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
Excerpt: "ProPublica's analysis of bias against black defendants in criminal risk scores has prompted research showing that the disparity can be addressed - if the algorithms focus on the fairness of outcomes."
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Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
Excerpt: "ProPublica's analysis of bias against black defendants in criminal risk scores has prompted research showing that the disparity can be addressed - if the algorithms focus on the fairness of outcomes."
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When the NRA Calls the Shots: Inside the 'Reasonable Killing' of a 13-Year-Old Boy
Mike Spies, Rolling Stone
Spies writes: "McDade had used an illegal gun to shoot at three unarmed kids some 70 feet away from his home, killing one of them. In other places, and at other times, this would be the kind of reckless behavior that could at minimum lead to a charge of manslaughter."
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Mike Spies, Rolling Stone
Spies writes: "McDade had used an illegal gun to shoot at three unarmed kids some 70 feet away from his home, killing one of them. In other places, and at other times, this would be the kind of reckless behavior that could at minimum lead to a charge of manslaughter."
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Israel Made 2016 Deadliest Year for Palestine in a Decade
teleSUR
Excerpt: "More than 111 Palestinian were killed in 2016, almost all of them at the hands of Israeli forces, according to a tally by the Palestinian Ma'an news agency which also reported that the past year has been the deadliest for Palestinian children in more than a decade."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "More than 111 Palestinian were killed in 2016, almost all of them at the hands of Israeli forces, according to a tally by the Palestinian Ma'an news agency which also reported that the past year has been the deadliest for Palestinian children in more than a decade."
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China Says It Will Shut Down Its Ivory Trade in 2017
Christopher Joyce, NPR
Joyce writes: "The biggest source of demand for ivory has been China."
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Christopher Joyce, NPR
Joyce writes: "The biggest source of demand for ivory has been China."
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