RSN: 4 Times as Many Rhinos Killed for Their Horns in 2014 Than in 2010, What Would Happen if the Int'l Criminal Court Indicted Israel's Netanyahu?,

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Dennis J. Kucinich | New Year's Resolution for America

Dennis Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "When anyone of us resolves toward self-improvement, it can impact the lives of those we love."
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Juan Cole | What Would Happen if the Int'l Criminal Court Indicted Israel's Netanyahu?
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of the Rome Statute of 2002."
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Senator Ron Wyden | Stop FBI Backdoors for Tech Products
Ron Wyden, Los Angeles Times
Wyden writes: "Most prominently, James Comey, the FBI director, is lobbying Congress to require that electronics manufacturers create intentional security holes - so-called back doors - that would enable the government to access data on every American's cellphone and computer, even if it is protected by encryption."
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New Senate GOP Chairmen Aim to Undo Obama's Policies
Stephen Ohlemacher and Donna Cassata, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, setting up potential showdowns over environmental rules, financial regulations and national security."
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Despite Experts' Doubts, Obama Sanctions North Korea Over Sony Hack
Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy
Hall writes: "The Obama administration imposed sanctions Friday on three entities and 10 individuals tied to the North Korean government in what it called the first step in a proportional response to the devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment."
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Israel Threatens to Prosecute Palestinian Leaders if They Join International Criminal Court
Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Haaretz
Fisher-Ilan writes: "An Israeli official says Palestinian leaders 'ought to fear legal steps' in the U.S. and elsewhere in the wake of their bid to join the ICC."
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4 Times as Many Rhinos Killed for Their Horns in 2014 Than in 2010
Reuters
Excerpt: "South Africa lost a record number of rhinos in 2014 as big animals across Africa were relentlessly poached to meet rising demand for horn and ivory in newly affluent Asian countries or to provide meat to fighters in the bush."
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RSN: The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria

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FOCUS: Dennis J. Kucinich | The Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria

Dennis J. Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "The fact can't be refuted: ISIS was born of Western intervention in Iraq and covert action in Syria."
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RSN: Gaza and Soweto

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Juan Cole | Gaza and Soweto

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Gaza is very much like a Bantustan of Israel, surrounded by it and kept weak and disrupted. But in this way the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced there from their original homes in what is now southern Israel can be denied citizenship in Israel."
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CIA Admits to Spying on Senate Staffers
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff."
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Dennis J. Kucinich | We Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here's How
Dennis J. Kucinich, Reader Supported News
Kucinich writes: "As someone who through 16 years in the House served with most current members of Congress, I urge you to help end the grave humanitarian crisis of death and destruction."
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Netanyahu Wants Hamas to Stay
Eli Lake and Josh Rogin, The Daily Beast
Lake and Rogin write: "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his military will not stop until it dismantles a labyrinth of tunnels often burrowed under private homes and even beneath Gaza's mosques. But Netanyahu has not called for destroying the organization that built those tunnels."
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Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby: Male Justices Don't Get It
Katie Couric News Video
Excerpt: "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her in the Hobby Lobby case have a 'blind spot' when it comes to women."
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Colorado's Now Averaging 2 Oil and Gas Spills Per Day
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "As oil and gas operations ramp up in Colorado, spills, too, are having their heyday. In the year 2014, according to a Denver Post analysis, they're occurring at a rate of two per day."
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Whole Foods Repackages for the Poor
Mark Guarino, Al Jazeera America
Guarino reports: "In the past three years, Whole Foods has opened stores in Boston's Jamaica Plain, Detroit's Midtown and New Orleans' Mid-City neighborhoods, repurposing its model of organic and locally sourced food for gentrifying areas with high crime, vacant storefronts and crumbling infrastructure."
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