Thursday, February 2, 2017

RSN: It May Only Take 3.5% of the Population to Topple a Dictator - With Civil Resistance, Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Mexico




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It May Only Take 3.5% of the Population to Topple a Dictator - With Civil Resistance 
Anti-Trump protesters. (photo: Getty) 
Erica Chenoweth, Guardian UK 
Chenoweth writes: "Many people across the United States are despondent about the new president - and the threat to democracy his rise could represent. But they shouldn't be. At no time in recorded history have people been more equipped to effectively resist injustice using civil resistance." 
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Trump Threatens to Send Troops to Mexico
Vivian Salama, Associated Press 
Salama writes: "President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop 'bad hombres down there' unless the Mexican military does more to control them, according to an excerpt of a transcript." 
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As Breitbart Writer Prepares to Speak, Berkeley Utterly Erupts 
Susan Svrluga and Brian Murphy, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "President Trump raised the threat of pulling federal funds from the University of California at Berkeley on Thursday after the institution canceled a talk by provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and put the campus on lockdown after intense protests against the planned speech." 
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How Video Finally Proved That Cops Lie 
Albert Samaha, BuzzFeed News 
Samaha writes: "For much of modern American history, police officers were considered, by most judges and jurors, to be the most reliable narrators in a courtroom - professional and neutral arbiters of facts. The increasing prevalence of camera footage eroded that bedrock of the justice system, wiping out powers long held by law enforcement." 
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Trump to Focus Counter-Extremism Program Solely on Islam and Ignore White Supremacy 
Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters 
Excerpt: "The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism." 
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An 8-Year-Old American Girl Was Killed During the SEAL Team 6 Raid in Yemen 
Paul Szoldra, Business Insider 
Szoldra writes: "'She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours,' her grandfather Nasser al-Awlaki told Reuters. 'Why kill children? This is the new administration. It's very sad, a big crime.'" 
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Over 70 Arrested at Standing Rock as Dakota Access Aims to Finish Pipeline 
Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Levin writes: "North Dakota police have arrested 76 people at Standing Rock one day after federal officials suggested that the government could soon approve the final stage of construction of the Dakota Access pipeline." 
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