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RSN: BBC Protects UK's Close Ally, Saudi Arabia, With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing, Voices of Rise Up October: Quentin Tarantino, Cornel West, Victims' Families Decry Police Violence, US Releases Saudi Prince Accused of Rape, a Week Later He's Caught Smuggling 2 Tons of ISIS Drugs
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Glenn Greenwald | BBC Protects UK's Close Ally, Saudi Arabia, With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The BBC loves to boast about how 'objective' and 'neutral' it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the U.K. government's closest allies, Saudi Arabia, which also happens to be one of the country's largest arms purchasers."
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The BBC loves to boast about how 'objective' and 'neutral' it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the U.K. government's closest allies, Saudi Arabia, which also happens to be one of the country's largest arms purchasers."
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VIDEO: SC School Cop Violently Assaults Student in Class
Tom Cleary, Heavy
Cleary writes: "A South Carolina sheriff's deputy is under investigation after videos were posted online Monday showing him violently throwing a high school student from her desk in a classroom."
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Tom Cleary, Heavy
Cleary writes: "A South Carolina sheriff's deputy is under investigation after videos were posted online Monday showing him violently throwing a high school student from her desk in a classroom."
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Voices of Rise Up October: Quentin Tarantino, Cornel West, Victims' Families Decry Police Violence
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
West says: "We're here because we want to keep the families center stage. This is not the time for a speech. We know that the capitalist system is failing us. We know the criminal justice system is failing us. We know that white supremacy is a lie, but it's still alive."
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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
West says: "We're here because we want to keep the families center stage. This is not the time for a speech. We know that the capitalist system is failing us. We know the criminal justice system is failing us. We know that white supremacy is a lie, but it's still alive."
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Facebook Accused of 'Secretly Lobbying' for Cyber Bill
Cory Bennett, The Hill
Bennett writes: "Facebook has told 'several offices on the Hill' that they support the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), stated a release from Fight for the Future, the advocacy group. The bill would encourage companies to share more data on hacking threats with the government."
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Cory Bennett, The Hill
Bennett writes: "Facebook has told 'several offices on the Hill' that they support the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), stated a release from Fight for the Future, the advocacy group. The bill would encourage companies to share more data on hacking threats with the government."
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Notorious RBG: The Supreme Court Justice Turned Cultural Icon
Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "Supreme Court justices are generally robed and mysterious figures. Their faces are not emblazoned on T-shirts, painted on fingernails, tattooed on arms and shoulders, and their characters are not parodied on TV programs ranging from Saturday Night Live to Scandal."
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Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "Supreme Court justices are generally robed and mysterious figures. Their faces are not emblazoned on T-shirts, painted on fingernails, tattooed on arms and shoulders, and their characters are not parodied on TV programs ranging from Saturday Night Live to Scandal."
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US Releases Saudi Prince Accused of Rape, a Week Later He's Caught Smuggling 2 Tons of ISIS Drugs
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Excerpt: "It should come as no surprise that there is virtually no accountability for a member of the House of Saud, as they break U.S. law with impunity."
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Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Excerpt: "It should come as no surprise that there is virtually no accountability for a member of the House of Saud, as they break U.S. law with impunity."
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ast week, the Free Thought Project reported on the case of Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, 29. Abdulaziz was arrested and then let off by prosecutors in Los Angeles who claimed they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him with kidnapping and sexual assault.
These charges were dropped in spite of the fact that multiple witnesses watched a woman covered in blood scale the 8-foot walls of the Prince’s Beverly Hills mansion, screaming for help. Two other women also claimed to be held captive in his mansion and raped.
Abdulaziz is the son of King Abdullah the former ruler of Saudi Arabia, America’s unscrupulous ally in the Middle East, so this special treatment comes as no surprise. However, what authorities are saying his cousin, Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, has done is shocking.
On Monday morning, Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was about to conduct a flight from Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport on his private jet when he was intercepted by security forces.
According to AhluBayt News Agency,
Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud was detained at an airport in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while in possession of 24 bags and eight suitcases full of narcotics.
They were packed in his luggage, weighing about two tons, which aroused suspicions among the security forces and led to their discovery.
Inside the luggage, Lebanese officials found packages containing two tons of captagon pills. For those unfamiliar with captagon, it is an amphetamine-based drug ISIS fighters have been using to stay alert in battle.
Lebanese psychiatrist, Ramzi Haddad, told the Guardian that Captagon has ‘the typical effects of a stimulant’ and produces ‘a kind of euphoria – you’re talkative, you don’t sleep, you don’t eat, you’re energetic.’
According to the BBC:
The drug has helped fuel the conflict in Syria, generating millions of dollars in revenue for producers inside the country as well as being used by combatants to help them keep fighting.
NNA reported that 40 bags of Captagon pills were found by inspectors from the Gendarmerie in cases due to be put on board a jet bound for Hael, in northern Saudi Arabia.
The US government’s loyalty to Saudi Arabi is unquestioning despite their horrific and violent track record of human rights violations and beheadings.
As the Free Thought Project’s Jay Syrmopoulos pointed out last week,
It should come as no surprise that there is virtually no accountability for a member of the House of Saud, as they break U.S. law with impunity. They have figured out the formula that makes “American justice” work, having large amounts of wealth and being politically connected to powerful individuals.
Similarly to how the U.S. gave a tacit nod of approval to the ascension of the Saudis to the head of the UN Human Rights Council, despite having beheaded more people in the past 12 months than ISIS, Al-Saud was given the Saudi royal treatment by U.S. authorities.
Now we can add international drug smuggling to their long list of illegal behavior.
After Russia reportedly destroyed a large portion of IS forces in Syria earlier this month, the US immediately dropped in 50 tons of weapons.
Now, just days after the weapons resupply, the United State’s strongest ally in the region is caught with two tons of amphetamine ” ISIS fighting pills.”
It seems that stoking international war by creating and supporting terrorist groups is becoming harder to hide from the world who’s becoming weary of fighting.
Correction: It was originally reported that Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was the one who was caught trafficking the drugs. However, it was actually his cousin, Prince Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud.
American Pediatricians: Climate Change Poses Health and Safety Risks to Children
Marlene Cimons, ThinkProgress
Cimons writes: "Climate change poses significant health dangers to the world's children from such effects as natural disasters, heat stress, air pollution, infectious diseases, and threats to food and water, and pediatricians and lawmakers must find ways to protect this “uniquely vulnerable” population, according to a report and policy statement released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics."
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Monday, April 27, 2015
RSN: Justice Ginsburg Has Already Made Up Her Mind on Gay Marriage
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Justice Ginsburg Has Already Made Up Her Mind on Gay Marriage
27 April 15
uth Bader Ginsburg, the 82-year-old leader of the Supreme Court’s minority liberal wing, has cast aside her usual restraint in the past months and left little doubt where she stands on the upcoming gay marriage case.
The Supreme Court hears arguments in the case, Obergefell v. Hodges, on Tuesday, and will most likely announce in June whether states will still be allowed to ban same-sex marriage and refuse to recognize the rights of couples married in other states.
Ginsburg, aformer civil rights lawyer, has been uncharacteristically outspoken in advance of one of the most significant civil rights decisions in decades. In August, shebecame the first Supreme Court justice to officiate at a same-sex wedding. Since then, she’s highlighted the big shift in public opinion on gay marriage in interviews and public speeches, breaking from her usual reticence when it comes to talking about upcoming cases. In February, Ginsburg told Bloomberg that it “would not take a large adjustment” for Americans to accept nationwide marriage equality, given the “enormous” change in people’s attitudes about same-sex marriage. New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote in January that Ginsburg has a “strong hunch” about the way the case will turn out. “I would be very surprised if the Supreme Court retreats from what it has said about same-sex unions,” Ginsburg told Collins, referencing the 2012 decision that found the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages.
Two anti-gay-marriage groups, the National Organization for Marriage and the American Family Association, have since called on Ginsburg to recuse herself, arguing that she can no longer be impartial. They’ve also targeted Justice Elena Kagan for officiating ata same-sex marriage, asking her to step down from the case, too.
Legal experts say the calls for recusal are unwarranted, given the 2012 rulingthat the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages in states that allow them. The constitutional issue at stake in the current case is whether states can ban same-sex marriage at all. Officiating ata same-sex marriage in a jurisdictionthat already allows it does not call into question the justices’ impartiality on that question, according to Columbia Law School professor Jamal Greene.
The earlier gay rights decision gives Ginsburg more leeway to comment on the issue generally. Though the court did not find a fundamental right to marriage, the majority opinion held that same-sex marriages have an essential “dignity” like any other marriage and that the federal government does not have a good reason to discriminate against them by refusing to recognize them.
“She’s not saying anything that she hasn’t said in an opinion,” said Margo Schlanger, a former Ginsburg clerk who is now a law professor at the University of Michigan. “So it’s not like, ‘Wow, that’s a new one and the court hasn’t ruled on it since Baker v. Nelson,’” she said, referencing the 1971 case that upheld a state same-sex marriage ban.
Gay marriage and rights issues have come up often enough before the Supreme Court that it’s fairly clear where the justices stand onthe fundamental question — with the exception of Chief Justice John Roberts, who some believe may depart from his earlier stance and support a fundamental right to same-sex marriage. (Anthony Kennedy, a conservative justice who sometimes sides with the liberal wing, has consistently ruled in favor of gay rights.)
“I don’t think there’s anyone who has any doubt where Justice [Antonin] Scalia or Justice Ginsburg is going to be when they take a vote on this issue,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine. “Whether they say things in public about it or not, there’s no doubt. She’s not going to recuse herself; Justice Scalia is not going to recuse himself. We’re just in an era where some of the justices are speaking more publicly than ever before.”
It’s rare for Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves. The U.S. Code lists reasons when they should do so, but the justices themselves get to decide when the rules apply to them. The disqualifying reasons include: a personal bias against any of the people in the case, a financial stake in its outcome or independent knowledge of the facts of the case outside of their roles as justices. (Kagan, for example, has recused herself several times when she has previously worked on specific casesas solicitor general for the Obama administration.)
Nothing in the code prohibits justices from publicly airing their opinions about cases, but it’s an unspoken rule that the nine do not comment on pending cases. Occasionally, justices have recused themselves after getting too loose-lipped about their opinions, even though they’re not required to. In 2003, Scalia — by far the most outspoken justice — recused himself from a case about whether the words“under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance in school classrooms violated the establishment clause after he told a Catholic group that he believed the words should be allowed.
But Scalia has long been known for spouting his opinions in off-the-cuff remarks to groups and the media. Until recently, Ginsburg has been known more for her discretion.
“I think she’s fairly restrained,” said her former law clerk Elizabeth Porter, now a law professor at the University of Washington. “She thinks fairly deliberately about everything that she says and writes.”
Ginsburg’s public appearances have been characterized more often by prepared speeches about her passions, like the opera or the role of women in the law, than by relaxed question-and-answer sessions about the court and its upcoming cases. Her dissents as a leader of the court’s minority wing have long been fiery and feisty, but until recently, her public appearances were more muted.
“She’s a tiny bit less cautious,” Schlanger, the former clerk, said. “I think that she’s talking more freely.”
The world has noticed. Ginsburg has become something of a pop culture touchstone in the past two years, as younger women have begun to view the frail justice as a liberal crusader and women’s rights hero. In 2013, a New York University law student created the “Notorious R.B.G.” Tumblr, likening Ginsburg to rapper the Notorious B.I.G. Since then, a new generation of young female fans have celebrated her scorched-earth dissents, particularly in the Hobby Lobby birth control case and recent voting rights decision Shelby v. Holder. Notorious R.B.G. T-shirts and other merchandise abound. (Ginsburg told Katie Couric last year that she thinks the site is “wonderful.”)
Court watchers have different theories about why Ginsburg appears to have loosened up a bit in public.
“I think that some of the catalyst was her responding to those like me who suggested she should retire,” Chemerinsky said. “That’s carried over to being willing to speak more to the press and more publicly.”
Liberals started to suggest that Ginsburg should retire in President Barack Obama’s first term, to give him ample time to nominateanother liberal jurist to replace her. Ginsburg flatly refused. “All I can say is that I am still here and likely to remain for a while,” she told Couric.
Others, including Dahlia Lithwick at Slate, dated the shift to 2005, when Sandra Day O’Connor retired and left Ginsburg as the only woman on the court. Ginsburg began to see the court lean to the right and issue opinions that she believedinfringed on women’s rights, such as the ban on partial-birth abortions in 2007.
But perhaps what’s freed the justice is simply time. Ginsburg has survived two bouts of cancer, two broken ribs and the death of a beloved spouse while on the bench. She’s a survivor who loves her job and feels freed by her seniority.
“She’s 80-something years old. What’s going to happen?” Schlanger said. “She doesn’t have any further ambitions except to be the best justice she can be for a while longer.”
Saturday, November 29, 2014
RSN: How Government Spying Undermines Climate Action, Ferguson: 'We're Going to Shake the Heavens'
Elizabeth
Warren | The Fed Needs Governors Who Aren't Wall Street Insiders
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "We're concerned that the Federal Reserve - our first line of defense against another financial crisis-seems more worried about protecting Wall Street than protecting Main Street."
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News
Warren writes: "We're concerned that the Federal Reserve - our first line of defense against another financial crisis-seems more worried about protecting Wall Street than protecting Main Street."
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Amy Goodman |
Ferguson: 'We're Going to Shake the Heavens'
Amy Goodman, Common Dreams
Goodman writes: "Michael Brown's killing in August continues to send shockwaves through Ferguson, Missouri, and beyond."
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Amy Goodman, Common Dreams
Goodman writes: "Michael Brown's killing in August continues to send shockwaves through Ferguson, Missouri, and beyond."
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'Being
Homeless Is Better Than Working for Amazon'
Nichole Gracely, Guardian UK
Gracely writes: "I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon."
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Nichole Gracely, Guardian UK
Gracely writes: "I am homeless. My worst days now are better than my best days working at Amazon."
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Ruth Bader
Ginsburg Had Emergency Heart Surgery
Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate Magazine
Excerpt: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had emergency heart surgery and is recuperating, the court says."
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Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate Magazine
Excerpt: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had emergency heart surgery and is recuperating, the court says."
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AFL-CIO
Supports Black Friday Strikes Against Walmart
Doreen McCallister, National Public Radio
McCallister reports: "Bargain hunters heading to Walmart, in addition to looking for holiday deals, may find workers participating in Black Friday Strikes."
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Doreen McCallister, National Public Radio
McCallister reports: "Bargain hunters heading to Walmart, in addition to looking for holiday deals, may find workers participating in Black Friday Strikes."
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Officers Who
Shot 12-Year-Old Holding Toy Gun Refused to Give Him First Aid
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum reports: "The Cleveland officers who shot a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun then failed to give him first aid for nearly four minutes. The boy was finally administered first aid when a detective and FBI agent arrived at the scene."
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Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum reports: "The Cleveland officers who shot a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun then failed to give him first aid for nearly four minutes. The boy was finally administered first aid when a detective and FBI agent arrived at the scene."
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How Government
Spying Undermines Climate Action
Andrew Kerr, Greenpeace International
Kerr reports: "The odds are already stacked against developing countries that face the brunt of climate change impacts. Their disadvantage in protecting themselves against the 'dark arts' of electronic eavesdropping makes them even more vulnerable."
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Andrew Kerr, Greenpeace International
Kerr reports: "The odds are already stacked against developing countries that face the brunt of climate change impacts. Their disadvantage in protecting themselves against the 'dark arts' of electronic eavesdropping makes them even more vulnerable."
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
RSN: Justice Ginsburg: America Has a 'Real Racial Problem', Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in US Taxes
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Justice
Ginsburg: America Has a 'Real Racial Problem'
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court was 'once a leader in the world' in combating racial discrimination, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 'What's amazing,' she added, 'is how things have changed.'"
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "The Supreme Court was 'once a leader in the world' in combating racial discrimination, according to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 'What's amazing,' she added, 'is how things have changed.'"
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Landon Jones |
Another St. Louis Summer
Landon Jones, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "It was the time of the Midwestern gothic of the Greenlease kidnapping, but it was also a time when the quest for justice could encompass both black people and white people, operating together and freely."
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Landon Jones, The New Yorker
Excerpt: "It was the time of the Midwestern gothic of the Greenlease kidnapping, but it was also a time when the quest for justice could encompass both black people and white people, operating together and freely."
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David Sirota |
Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in US
Taxes
David Sirota, International Business Times
Sirota writes: "Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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David Sirota, International Business Times
Sirota writes: "Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission."
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Joshua Holland
| How Obama Could Help 6.1 Million Workers With a Stroke of His
Pen
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "With a Congress that's so polarized it barely can maintain the most basic functions of government, these small efforts at least represent a step in the right direction."
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Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company
Holland writes: "With a Congress that's so polarized it barely can maintain the most basic functions of government, these small efforts at least represent a step in the right direction."
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Last Tango in
Kabul
Matthieu Aikins, Rolling Stone
Aikins writes: "While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.'
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Matthieu Aikins, Rolling Stone
Aikins writes: "While war raged across Afghanistan, expats lived in a bubble of good times and easy money. But as the U.S. withdraws, life has taken a deadly turn.'
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'Hands Up,
Don't Shoot': A Call for Nation-Wide Action
Common Dreams
Excerpt: "'The murders of unarmed people in our communities has reached epidemic numbers.' This is the warning that kicks off a national call (via video) from the Dream Defenders - the group that grabbed the national media spotlight last year when its members launched protests against Stand Your Ground Laws, including by occupying the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott."
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Common Dreams
Excerpt: "'The murders of unarmed people in our communities has reached epidemic numbers.' This is the warning that kicks off a national call (via video) from the Dream Defenders - the group that grabbed the national media spotlight last year when its members launched protests against Stand Your Ground Laws, including by occupying the office of Florida Governor Rick Scott."
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Ronnie Cummins
| What's Holding Back the Organic Food and Farming Revolution
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Cummins writes: "There is growing alarm among conscious consumers and activists that our 21st Century food and farming system, and the government-corporate cabal that props it up, is spiraling out-of-control. Chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, climate-destabilizing factory-farmed and genetically engineered food and farming are destroying not only our health and our environment, but also the soil fertility, biodiversity, and climate stability that make civilization possible."
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
Cummins writes: "There is growing alarm among conscious consumers and activists that our 21st Century food and farming system, and the government-corporate cabal that props it up, is spiraling out-of-control. Chemical-intensive, energy-intensive, climate-destabilizing factory-farmed and genetically engineered food and farming are destroying not only our health and our environment, but also the soil fertility, biodiversity, and climate stability that make civilization possible."
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Friday, August 1, 2014
RSN: Gaza and Soweto
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
RSN: Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas
Andy Borowitz
| Supreme Court Majority Calls Case a Dispute Between Women and
People
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "By a 5–4 vote on Monday, the United States Supreme Court settled a dispute that Justice Samuel Alito said was 'at its core about the rights of women versus the rights of people.'"
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "By a 5–4 vote on Monday, the United States Supreme Court settled a dispute that Justice Samuel Alito said was 'at its core about the rights of women versus the rights of people.'"
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Paul Krugman |
Charlatans, Cranks and Kansas
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue."
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Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Krugman writes: "Two years ago Kansas embarked on a remarkable fiscal experiment: It sharply slashed income taxes without any clear idea of what would replace the lost revenue."
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Ginsburg's
Passionate 35-Page Dissent of Hobby Lobby Decision
Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire
Ohlheiser writes: "The divided court's 5-4 decision included a dramatic dissent from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called the majority opinion 'a decision of startling breadth.' Ginsburg read a portion of her decision from the bench on Monday."
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Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire
Ohlheiser writes: "The divided court's 5-4 decision included a dramatic dissent from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called the majority opinion 'a decision of startling breadth.' Ginsburg read a portion of her decision from the bench on Monday."
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Juan Cole |
The Arab Millennials Will Be Back
Juan Cole, TomDispatch
Cole writes: "Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state."
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Juan Cole, TomDispatch
Cole writes: "Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt's dreary police state."
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The
Bait-and-Switch Behind Today's Hobby Lobby Decision
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "For many years, the Supreme Court struck a careful balance between protecting religious liberty and maintaining the rule of law in a pluralistic society. Religious people enjoy a robust right to practice their own faith and to act according to the dictates of their own conscience, but they could not wield religious liberty claims as a sword to cut away the legal rights of others."
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Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "For many years, the Supreme Court struck a careful balance between protecting religious liberty and maintaining the rule of law in a pluralistic society. Religious people enjoy a robust right to practice their own faith and to act according to the dictates of their own conscience, but they could not wield religious liberty claims as a sword to cut away the legal rights of others."
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The Supreme
Court Deals Blow to Public Sector Unions
Brett LoGiurato, Business Insider
LoGiurato writes: "The Supreme Court on Monday limited the power of public-sector unions to compel employees to pay contributions, dealing a setback to public-sector unions."
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Brett LoGiurato, Business Insider
LoGiurato writes: "The Supreme Court on Monday limited the power of public-sector unions to compel employees to pay contributions, dealing a setback to public-sector unions."
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Peru Police,
Military Now Have "License to Kill" Environmental Protesters
David Hill, Guardian UK
Hill writes: "Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point."
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David Hill, Guardian UK
Hill writes: "Some of the recent media coverage about the fact that more than 50 people in Peru – the vast majority of them indigenous – are on trial following protests and fatal conflict in the Amazon over five years ago missed a crucial point."
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