Thursday, January 19, 2017

RSN: Student Loan Company Navient Cheated Millions, According to New Lawsuits, Isidro Baldenegro López, Prize-Winning Environmental Activist, Murdered in Mexico





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Obama Rejects Clemency for Leonard Peltier 
Leonard Peltier. (photo: Unknown) 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The Office of the Pardon Attorney has announced President Obama has denied clemency to imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier is a former member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a shootout on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. He has long maintained his innocence." 
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Russia Extends Snowden's Asylum by 'a Couple More Years' 
Mary Pascaline, International Business Times 
Pascaline writes: "Moscow slammed former acting CIA Director Michael Morell's suggestion that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'gift' former National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden to President-elect Donald Trump for his Jan. 20 inauguration." 
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Protest Group #DisruptJ20 Vows "Massive Showing of Resistance" at Trump Inauguration 
Lacey Johnson and Ian Simpson, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Leaders of an ad hoc group of protesters enraged by Republican Donald Trump's election as president of the United States vowed on Wednesday to disrupt his inauguration this week by blocking public access to the event." 
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Student Loan Company Navient Cheated Millions, According to New Lawsuits 
Andrew Khouri, Samantha Masunaga, The Los Angeles Times 
Excerpt: "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the nation's largest servicer of student loans Wednesday, alleging that Navient Corp. cheated borrowers, resulting in higher payments for Americans struggling to pay back their student loans." 
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Protesters, LGBT Activists Hold Dance Party in Front of Mike Pence's DC Home 
Amy Joyce and Victoria St. Martin, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "About 200 protesters shimmied and sashayed their way through the Chevy Chase neighborhood Wednesday night toward the house temporarily rented by Vice President-elect Mike Pence to protest what they consider his anti-gay views." 
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Robert Fisk | A Two-State Solution in Israel and Palestine Is Now Impossible 
Robert Fisk, The Independent 
Fisk writes: "Anyone who's visited the West Bank these past few years, looked at the Jewish colonies built on stolen Arab land, witnessed the occupation and the filth of Gaza and observed its brutal Hamas militia leaders - and realised that Netanyahu will soon be the most left-wing member of his increasingly racist government - knows very well that the 'two-state solution' vanished long ago." 
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Isidro Baldenegro López, Prize-Winning Environmental Activist, Murdered in Mexico 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Isidro Baldenegro Lopez, an award-winning Indigenous environmental activist who fought against deforestation in Mexico, was assassinated last weekend, Proceso reports." 
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