Wednesday, April 5, 2017

RSN: Noam Chomsky: Our Privatized US Healthcare Program Is an "International Scandal"





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Noam Chomsky: Our Privatized US Healthcare Program Is an "International Scandal" 
Noam Chomsky. (photo: Graeme Robertson) 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The U.S. healthcare system is an international scandal. It's roughly twice the per capita costs of comparable countries, and some of the worst outcomes, mainly because it's privatized, extremely inefficient, bureaucratized, lots of bill paying, lots of officials, tons of money wasted, healthcare in the hands of profit-seeking institutions, which are not health institutions, of course." 
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Schiff: White House Documents Will Be Shown to Intelligence Panels 
Austin Wright, Politico 
Wright writes: "The White House will soon make available to Congress controversial intelligence reports that it has portrayed as evidence of surveillance abuses by the Obama administration, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday." 
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Trump Administration Ends Funding to UN Maternal Health Arm 
Michelle Nichols, The Independent 
Nichols writes: "The State Department has said it is ending US funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the international body's agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries." 
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Syria Chemical Weapons Attack Toll Rises to 70 
Martin Chulov and Kareem Shaheen, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "At least 70 people have been killed in northern Syria after being exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, an attack that sparked comparisons to the most infamous act of the country's six-year war." 
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Bill O'Reilly: An Awful, Awful Man 
Erik Wemple, The Washington Post 
Wemple writes: "Here's an anchor who shouldn't be trusted to share space with his colleagues, nor to report on women and men. He is an awful, awful man." 
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'Our People Are Unstoppable': Chile's Jailed Indigenous Mapuche 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Recently-jailed members of Chile's Indigenous Mapuche community released a statement Saturday celebrating ongoing campaigns against police terror and land privatization." 
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Trump Kills Obama Hunting Protection for Hibernating Alaskan Bears 
Tim Devaney, The Hill 
Devaney writes: "The Obama-era rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) prohibited certain hunting tactics that target 'predator' animals likes bears and wolves while they are inside Alaska's national preserves." 
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