RSN: The Profitable Theatrics of Riot Control, Shell's Arctic Drilling Is Far More Risky Than the Company Is Telling Shareholders, Say Conservationists, Sanders Calls Minimum Wage a 'Starvation Wage'

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Juan Cole | US Airstrike in Syria Kills 53 Civilians, 6 Children

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The US air strike on Friday that inadvertently hit a village of non-combatants, killing members of six families, raises new questions about the Obama administration's approach to fighting Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) in Syria."
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Freddie Gray: Legal Volunteers Arrested After Defying Baltimore Curfew
Raya Jalabi, Guardian UK
Jalabi writes: "Legal observers and medical volunteers were among the roughly 50 people arrested in Baltimore on Saturday night, as another evening of protests ended in yet more clashes as protesters attempted to defy curfew restrictions."
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Sanders Calls Minimum Wage a 'Starvation Wage'
Mark Hensch, The Hill
Hensch writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday argued that the annual income provided by the minimum wage could not sustain most American families."
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The Profitable Theatrics of Riot Control
Anna Feigenbaum, Al Jazeera America
Feigenbaum writes: "Riot control is - and always has been - about criminalizing acts of disobedience by controlling people, public space and even the air we breathe."
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Charles Pierce | Judgement Day in Jersey: How Things Went From Bad to Worse for Chris Christie
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Chris Christie is still running around the country pretending to run for president. (And I think his only real shot is to get his Agnew on regarding the events in Baltimore.)"
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Islamic State Group Executes Hundreds of Yazidis in Iraq
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Islamic State group executed as many as 600 Yazidis in northern Iraq Friday, according to the ARA news agency."
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Shell's Arctic Drilling Is Far More Risky Than the Company Is Telling Shareholders, Say Conservationists
Darren Ankrom, VICE News
Ankrom writes: "A new petition filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission accuses Royal Dutch Shell of misleading investors about the risks of drilling in the Arctic Ocean and alleges the company is unprepared to handle a major oil spill."
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MoJo: Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think

Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think

On Monday, after a weekend of peaceful protests, Baltimore erupted into looting, burning, and rioting after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody. The media depicted the start of the riots as a group of kids itching for a fight all day—but according to eyewitnesses, those kids were blocked from going home by police waiting outside their schools in full riot gear.

After Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake implemented a curfew, things calmed down. But the residents still await the results of the investigation into Gray's death. Meanwhile, residents of cities across the country are taking to the streets in solidarity with Baltimoreans.

 

 

 

Bernie Sanders Has Already Taken More Press Questions Than Hillary Clinton

By Patrick Caldwell

Unlike Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders didn't use a splashy, big-budget video to announce his campaign. Instead, the Vermont senator opted for a series of one-on-one television interviews Wednesday followed by a low-key launch event outside the US Capitol Thursday morning. "I believe that in a democracy, what elections are about are serious debates over serious issues," he said Thursday. "Not political gossip, not making campaigns into soap operas. This is not the Red Sox vs. the Yankees, this is the debate over major issues facing the American people."

Pundits are already dismissing Sanders—who has, in the past, described himself as a socialist rather than a Democrat—as a long-shot candidate with little chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democrats' 2016 nomination. But Sanders is already beating Clinton on one metric: Answering questions from the press. [READ MORE]

 

 

 

 

 

RSN: Weapons Manufacturers Are Making a Fortune Off Mid-East Chaos, Poll Shows Americans Back Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal,

When George Mitchell successfully brokered the Irish Peace Agreement, during one interview, to paraphrase, he said

'Put people to work to plan for the future, give them hope and they stop fighting.'
[the quote failed to be found easily during a search]

Great words:
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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American Racism, inflamed by Failed GOP Fiscal Policies and Koch-Funded Tea Baggers, condemns people of color to poor educational opportunities, police brutality, poverty, crime, drugs, drive-by shootings, injustice, imprisonment, and tragically, death.

History repeats itself because of our failures to learn.
The Nazis focused on "ENEMIES" to distract from their FAILED POLICIES.

Empires FAIL!  It's time to invest in AMERICANS of all colors and not World Domination, the NeoCon Wet Dream.

It's time to WAGE PEACE!

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Obama Cautiously, Belatedly Cuts to the Chase on Police Violence

Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations with the police, calling for a period of soul-searching about what he said had become a near-weekly cycle of tragedy."
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Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of Redefining Marriage
Ariane de Vogue, Pamela Brown and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Excerpt: "Supreme Court justices appeared divided Tuesday during historic arguments over the constitutionality of gay marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy returning to a familiar role as the court's pivotal vote."
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Curfew Brings Pepper Balls and Tear Gas, Then Uneasy Quiet to Baltimore
Wilson Dizard, Al Jazeera
Dizard writes: "Thousands of police in riot gear and National Guard troops patrolled a few mostly poor and mostly black neighborhoods Tuesday night to enforce a curfew imposed by the mayor after the worst unrest in Baltimore since 1968."
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Poll Shows Americans Back Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal
AFP
Excerpt: "A solid majority of American voters back President Barack Obama's interim nuclear deal with Iran, a poll by Quinnipiac University showed Monday."
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Weapons Manufacturers Are Making a Fortune Off Mid-East Chaos
Tim Mak, The Daily Beast
Mak writes: "The Middle East is on a knife's edge, thanks to a lunatic ISIS and a rising Iran. For American arms-makers, that means only one thing: opportunity."
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UN Aid Worker Suspended for Leaking Report on Child Abuse by French Troops
Sandra Laville, Guardian UK
Laville writes: "A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing to prosecutors an internal report on the sexual abuse of children by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic."
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US-Mexico Water Pact Brings Life Back to Colorado River's Parched Delta
Tim Gaynor, Al Jazeera
Gaynor writes: "A single pulse flow of water reconnects the 'American Nile' with the Sea of Cortez for the first time in decades."
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