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Andy Borowitz
| Bush Creates Painting of What He Imagines Iraq Is Like Today
Andy Borowitz, The New
Yorker Borowitz writes: "Talking to
reporters at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, the
President said he did not read the news before composing his latest
work." READ
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US House Backs
Limits on Obama's Authority Donna Cassata, Associated
Press Cassata writes: "The
Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $570 billion defense
bill that halts any Guantanamo transfers for a year in the furor over the
American-for-Taliban swap and pulls back government spying." READ
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Pakistani
Woman Raped, Killed and Hanged from Tree: Police Reuters Excerpt: "A 20-year-old woman has been gang-raped,
killed and hanged from a tree in Pakistan in a case with a chilling resemblance
to a double rape and murder that caused outrage in neighbouring India last
month." READ
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Albuquerque
Protesters Put Police Chief 'On Trial' Associated Press Excerpt: "Hundreds of protesters, including some who
brought children, marched from Roosevelt Park with signs and a makeshift coffin
inscribed with names of people killed by Albuquerque officers in recent
years." READ
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50 Years On,
Mississippi Still Burns Dexter Mullins, Al Jazeera
America Mullins writes: "Saturday marks
50 years since James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered
while trying to help African Americans in Mississippi register to vote during
the 'Freedom Summer' of 1964." READ
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5 Links
Between Higher Education and the Prison Industry Hannah K. Gold, Rolling Stone
Gold writes: "American universities do a fine
job of selling themselves as pathways to opportunity and knowledge. But follow
the traffic of money and policies through these academic institutions and you'll
often wind up at the barbed wire gates of Corrections Corporation of America
(CCA) and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the United
States." READ
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Oil Wells
Linked to Oklahoma's Stunning Increase in Earthquakes Polly Mosendz, The Wire
Mosendz writes: "Between 1978 and 2008,
Oklahoma had just two earthquakes with a magnitude over 3.0. In 2014, thus far,
there have been around 200 such earthquakes there, more even than the highly
unstable state of California." READ
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