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Naomi Klein |
Climate Crimes and the Greenwashing of Big Business
Naomi Klein, Guardian UK
Klein writes: "I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I knew it was happening, sure. But I stayed pretty hazy on the details and only skimmed most news stories. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the shiny card in my wallet attesting to my 'elite' frequent-flyer status."
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Naomi Klein, Guardian UK
Klein writes: "I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I knew it was happening, sure. But I stayed pretty hazy on the details and only skimmed most news stories. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the shiny card in my wallet attesting to my 'elite' frequent-flyer status."
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Jack Shafer |
Roger Goodell, NFL's Judge and Jury, Becomes His Own Executioner
Jack Shafer, Reuters
Shafer writes: "Oh, yes, let's torch and pitchfork the NFL for its handling of the Ray Rice case and not rest until NFL Commission Roger Goodell pays for his incompetence or his bad judgment - whichever proves greater - with his resignation. Then, after a good night's sleep, let's ask ourselves why, after cementing his reputation across the league as a hanging judge, did Goodell pick the Rice case to appear insufficiently authoritarian?"
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Jack Shafer, Reuters
Shafer writes: "Oh, yes, let's torch and pitchfork the NFL for its handling of the Ray Rice case and not rest until NFL Commission Roger Goodell pays for his incompetence or his bad judgment - whichever proves greater - with his resignation. Then, after a good night's sleep, let's ask ourselves why, after cementing his reputation across the league as a hanging judge, did Goodell pick the Rice case to appear insufficiently authoritarian?"
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David Swanson
| James Foley Is Not a War Ad
David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
"To the extent that the U.S. public is newly, and probably momentarily, accepting of war - an extent that is wildly exaggerated, but still real - it is because of videos of beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. When 9-11 victims were used as a justification to kill hundreds of times the number of people killed on 9-11, some of the victims' relatives pushed back. Now James Foley is pushing back from the grave."
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David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
"To the extent that the U.S. public is newly, and probably momentarily, accepting of war - an extent that is wildly exaggerated, but still real - it is because of videos of beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. When 9-11 victims were used as a justification to kill hundreds of times the number of people killed on 9-11, some of the victims' relatives pushed back. Now James Foley is pushing back from the grave."
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Paul Waldman |
If Republicans Want Full-Scale War, They Should Say So
Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Waldman writes: "While there were a few Republicans who reacted favorably to President Obama's speech last night describing what we will be doing to combat ISIS, the reaction from most on the right was predictably negative. Which is fine - it's the opposition's job to oppose, after all. But when you hear what they have to say, you notice a yawning gap in their criticisms."
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Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Waldman writes: "While there were a few Republicans who reacted favorably to President Obama's speech last night describing what we will be doing to combat ISIS, the reaction from most on the right was predictably negative. Which is fine - it's the opposition's job to oppose, after all. But when you hear what they have to say, you notice a yawning gap in their criticisms."
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How the
Country Has Changed Under the Violence Against Women Act
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "The 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act - landmark legislation that was signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994 - comes at a particularly prescient moment, as the country is engaged in a national conversation about the NFL's responsibility to adequately respond to incidences of domestic abuse perpetrated by its football players."
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Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "The 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act - landmark legislation that was signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994 - comes at a particularly prescient moment, as the country is engaged in a national conversation about the NFL's responsibility to adequately respond to incidences of domestic abuse perpetrated by its football players."
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Even in Romney
States, More Want to Keep Obamacare Than Repeal It
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that even in the states carried by Mitt Romney, there is slightly more support for keeping Obamacare than repealing it."
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Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that even in the states carried by Mitt Romney, there is slightly more support for keeping Obamacare than repealing it."
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Republicans
Vote Down Benefits for Active Duty Service Personnel, Veterans in Same-Sex
Marriages
Human Rights Campaign
Excerpt: "HRC strongly condemned yesterday's vote by the Republican majority on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs defeating an amendment that would have extended equal benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to active duty service members and veterans legally married to someone of the same sex."
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Human Rights Campaign
Excerpt: "HRC strongly condemned yesterday's vote by the Republican majority on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs defeating an amendment that would have extended equal benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to active duty service members and veterans legally married to someone of the same sex."
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