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John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News
Kiriakou writes: "In the recent past, only rarely has anybody in a position of authority been held to account for their actions. This may be changing, though, as more and more civil suits are filed against governments and prison systems and as more and more crooked cops are brought to justice. That justice usually does not include prison time. But the trend is in the right direction."
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RSN: Watch John Oliver Argue Against 'Bad Apples' Police Defense, Spiral of Silence: Most Americans Care About Climate Change but Don't Talk About It. Why?,

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Watch John Oliver Argue Against 'Bad Apples' Police Defense 
 
Rolling Stone 
Excerpt: "On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver proved why dangerous cops in America aren't just 'bad apples' misrepresenting the profession. The host argued that metaphor was too simplistic for the complex issue. Instead, he held America's police and judicial systems responsible for disallowing positive change." 
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Feds Say They Won't Evict Sprawling North Dakota Pipeline Protest Camp 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Federal officials say they won't evict the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp, due to free speech reasons, even though it's on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers that many Native Americans believe is still rightfully owned by the Standing Rock Sioux under a nearly 150-year-old treaty." 
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45 Years After Attica Uprising, Prisoners Are Rebelling Again 
Alice Speri, The Intercept 
Speri writes: "Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions. The strike kicked off on September 9, in tribute to one of the bleakest moments in the country's history of incarceration."
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Federal Court Blocks Governor Pence's Attempt to Bar Syrian Refugees From Indiana 
Nina Totenberg, NPR 
Totenberg writes: "A federal appeals court panel Monday upheld a lower court judge in barring Pence from interfering with the distribution of federal funds to resettle Syrian refugees in his state." 
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The US Government Has Used a Section of the Patriot Act After 9/11 to Criminalize People of Color 
Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud, In These Times 
Excerpt: "FBI agents can use Section 505A of the [USA Patriot] Act to obtain personal information such as phone records, computer records, credit history and banking information on the basis of National Security Letters (NSLs), which are similar to subpoenas. The NSLs do not require judicial approval; therefore no check is in place on how the FBI gathers and uses personal information." 
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Honduran Police Repress Protests Against Highway Privatization 
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Excerpt: "Honduran police have fired tear gas at 200 people protesting a newly erected highway toll outside of Honduras' second-largest city, San Pedro Sula." 
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Spiral of Silence: Most Americans Care About Climate Change but Don't Talk About It. Why? 
Kate Yoder, Grist 
Excerpt: "A new report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication suggests we shy away from talking about the climate simply because we don't hear others discussing it." 
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RSN: Study: Scientists That Won't Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry, Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison if Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency

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Garrison Keillor | Hillary Clinton's Concrete Shoes 
 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "The woman who does not conceal her own intelligence is a fine American tradition, going back to Anne Bradstreet and Harriet Beecher Stowe and my ancestor Prudence Crandall, but none has been subjected to the steady hectoring and jibber-jabber that Clinton has." 
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Columbus Police Shoot and Kill Black 13-Year-Old, Tyree King, Who Was Holding a BB Gun 
Mark Berman, The Washington Post 
Berman writes: "Early Thursday morning, police said the person killed was 13-year-old Tyree King. Detectives processing the area where the shooting occurred found what they said appeared to be a handgun, but 'upon further inspection, it was determined to be a BB gun with an attached laser site,' according to a statement from the Columbus police." 
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Sandra Bland's Family Reaches $1.9 Million Settlement 
Merrit Kennedy, NPR 
Kennedy writes: "The family of Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a Texas jail cell in July 2015, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit, according to one of the family's lawyers." 
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Bill O'Reilly Insists Voter ID Laws Are Not a Problem, Cites His Extensive Knowledge of Black People 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "According to Bill O'Reilly, all the African Americans he knows have photo IDs, so there's no reason to worry about voter ID laws disenfranchising black voters." 
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Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison if Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency 
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Excerpt: "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered to turn himself over to the United States and serve a prison sentence if President Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010." 
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Inmates on Strike: Will It Shift the Conversation About US Prisoners' Rights? 
Ben Rosen, The Christian Science Monitor 
Rosen writes: "On the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison riots, in which inmates demanded political rights and better living conditions, prisoners across the United States staged a work stoppage that started last Friday in one of the first prison strikes ever coordinated on a national level." 
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Study: Scientists That Won't Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry 
MintPress News 
Excerpt: "Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace." 
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RSN: This Trump Advisor Might Be Even More Confused About Climate and Energy Than Trump Himself, Will Christie Whitman Follow Her 9/11 Apology With One for Her Nuke Shill Game?

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Harvey Wasserman | Will Christie Whitman Follow Her 9/11 Apology With One for Her Nuke Shill Game? 
 
Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News 
Wasserman writes: "Soon after the 9/11 terror attacks 15 years ago today, then-US EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman assured New Yorkers the air was safe to breathe. Today she has issued a 'heartfelt' apology, admitting that her misleading advice caused people to die. But will she also apologize for pushing lethal atomic reactor technologies that could kill far more people than 9/11?" 
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Edward Snowden Attacks Russia Over Human Rights and Hacking 
Robin McKie and Benjamin Lee, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticizing the Kremlin's human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks." 
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Giuliani: 'Anything Is Legal' in War 
Asawin Suebsaeng, The Daily Beast 
Suebsaeng writes: "On This Week on Sunday morning, former New York City mayor and Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani defended the Republican presidential nominee's recurring talking point that the United States should have 'taken the oil' from Iraq during the war." 
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Cast-Out Police Officers Are Often Hired in Other Cities 
Timothy Williams, The New York Times 
Williams writes: "There is no comprehensive, national system for weeding out problem officers. If there were, such hires would not happen, criminologists and law enforcement officials say." 
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Remembering Attica 
Heather Ann Thompson and Shawn Gude, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "Top officials never faced legal reprisals for the atrocities at Attica. They shielded themselves from prosecution, and did their best to squirrel away evidence about what happened on that autumn morning. Yet Attica lives." 
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Double Standards in the Headscarf Debate 
Christiane Hoffmann, Der Spiegel 
Hoffman writes: "The female body is a focal point of the battle between tradition and modernity. The liberation from the corset to the fight over trousers, the debates over miniskirts, hot pants, bikinis and headscarves: Women's clothing has repeatedly been regulated, stipulated and proscribe, with men issuing decrees and bans relating to what women wear." 
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This Trump Advisor Might Be Even More Confused About Climate and Energy Than Trump Himself 
Ben Adler, Grist 
Adler writes: "Donald Trump is prone to ridiculous, fact-free assertions on the environment and energy. That used to be attributed at least in part to his lack of policy advisors. But now he has advisors, and they're full of lies too." 
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RSN: Obama Administration Sides with Hunters, Takes Aim at Wolf Protection Ruling, People of Israel: You Should Know...

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Robert Reich | People of Israel: You Should Know...

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook
Reich writes: "People of Israel: You should know that the new-found alliance between your Prime Minister and our Republican Party, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and some wealthy right-wing Jews here (such as billionaire Sheldon Adelson), is poisoning the relationship between Israel and the United States."
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Jeffrey Toobin | A Cynical Challenge to the ACA
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "This week, the Court will hear arguments in a momentous case, King v. Burwell, a challenge to a central feature of the Affordable Care Act. But, in contrast to other landmarks in Supreme Court history, the King case is notable mostly for the cynicism at its heart. Instead of grandeur, there is a smallness about this lawsuit in every way except in the stakes riding on its outcome."
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The Fear of Ebola Led to Slayings - and a Whole Village Was Punished
Amy Brittain, The Washington Post
Brittain writes: "Nearly six months after the Womey massacre, the repercussions have been far-reaching. When the military invaded and looted the village after the killings, thousands fled their homes. More than a dozen died from malnutrition after living for months in the surrounding bushland."
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Private Police Carry Guns and Make Arrests, and Their Ranks Are Swelling
Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post
Jouvenal writes: "The number of 'special conservators of the peace' - or SCOPs, as they are known - has doubled in Virginia over the past decade to roughly 750, according to state records. The growth is mirrored nationally in the ranks of private police."
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A Brutal Beating Wakes Attica's Ghosts
Tom Robbins, The New York Times
Robbins writes: "Looming over everything at Attica is the riot. The state commission that investigated the September 1971 uprising memorably described it as the bloodiest single encounter, Indian massacres aside, between Americans since the Civil War."
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The Black Lives Matter Movement Needs the Black Panthers
Deena Guzder, Al Jazeera America
Guzder writes: "Protests over police killings of unarmed African-Americans continue to erupt across the nation, largely thanks to the organizing efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement. As Black History Month draws to a close, it's worth asking what the movement can learn from earlier organizing efforts - in particular, the Black Panther Party."
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Obama Administration Sides with Hunters, Takes Aim at Wolf Protection Ruling
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America
Lewis writes: "The Obama administration and two states plan to appeal a federal judge's order that returned legal protection to gray wolves in the Great Lakes region."
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