Bernie Sanders | President Trump Is Failing the People of Puerto Rico

18 April 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News I DO NOT WANT GOOD JOURNALISM TO DIE: I contribute $10 a month to Reader Supported News for a very simple reason: I don’t want good journalism to die. In After a 35-year career in the news business, I have a resume too loaded, and perhaps an age too high, to find a job, so I started a website and social media group called Displaced Journalists. I was overwhelmed at the talented people who follow it. This is serious. We are going to lose a pillar of our democracy if we don’t keep fighting to keep the few great operations out there in business. I find Reader Supported News to be the best source of news and commentary. It’s the site I always visit first. I don’t have a job, but I can still find $10 a month to keep RSN going. If you read RSN, why can’t you? Susan Older/Displaced Journalists - RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Bernie Sanders | President Trump Is Failing the People of Puerto Rico  Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders' Facebook Page Sanders writes: "The people of Puerto Rico have been experiencing a humanitarian crisis for over a year and a half since Hurricane Maria." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: The Daily Beast) Justin Miller and Betsy Woodruff | Mueller Finds Trump Tried to Control Investigation, Reveals New Depth of Campaign Links to Russia Justin Miller and Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast Excerpt: "Special Counsel Robert Mueller found that President Trump tried to control the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and encouraged witnesses not to cooperate - but Attorney General William Barr decided that didn't amount to a crime." READ MORE Facebook says it will delete the collected data and notify those affected. (photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA) ALSO SEE: Facebook Joining Forces With the Daily Caller for a Fact-Checking Mission Facebook Uploaded Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users Without Consent Alex Hern, Guardian UK Hern writes: "Facebook has admitted to 'unintentionally' uploading the address books of 1.5 million users without consent, and says it will delete the collected data and notify those affected." READ MORE Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times) GOP Congressman Warns Fellow Republicans: Be Careful Messing With Ocasio-Cortez Lesley Clark, McClatchy DC Clark writes: "A Kentucky Republican congressman is warning his colleagues that if they mess with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they could be inviting trouble." READ MORE ICE officers make an arrest. (photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) NY Courts: No ICE Arrests in Courts Without Judicial Warrant Deepti Hajela, Associated Press Hajela writes: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents looking to make arrests inside courthouses in New York can't do so without judicial warrants or orders, according to a directive from the New York State Office of Court Administration that took effect Wednesday." READ MORE A Palestinian man walks near a USAID billboard in the West Bank village of Badhan, north of Nablus, last August. Since January, U.S. financing for humanitarian programs serving Palestinians has been suspended. (photo: Jaafar Ashiyeh/Getty) US Aid Agency Is Preparing to Lay Off Most Local Staff for Palestinian Projects Daniel Estrin, NPR Estrin writes: "Under orders from the Trump administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development is preparing to lay off most of its Palestinian aid workers in its West Bank and Gaza mission." READ MORE In a process called mycoremediation, mushrooms have the ability to remove chemicals from soil. (photo: Enrique Díaz/7cero/Getty Images) Indigenous Communities in New Mexico Can Save the Earth With Mushrooms Deonna Anderson, YES! Magazine Anderson writes: "At the Espanola Healing Foods Oasis in Espanola, New Mexico, Pueblo dryland farming techniques are on display in a downtown public park. The garden, designed and planted by the Indigenous-led organization Tewa Women United, demonstrates how food and medicine can be grown in an environment that receives just 11 inches of rain per year." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation

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This weekend His Holiness the Dalai Lama affirmed his support for Pope Francis' call for climate action, and called for a 2 year timeframe to plan a transition off of fossil fuels.

This is getting serious:

The Hill· 

U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority amounts to roughly $400 million a year.

GOP lawmaker: Obama must 'immediately' cut aid to the Palestinians

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen said the Palestinian Authority violated the terms of a funding law.

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"Those flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage, this is about resistance to civil rights."

-Ken Burns, Filmmaker behind "The Civil War" series

Ken Burns: Flag issue is not about heritage

Burns joins Morning Joe to discuss the series and the recent calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from government locations across the South.

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TPP: 

A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter, and it's as bad as many of us feared.

Now we know why the corporations and the Obama administration want the TPP, a huge "trade" agreement being negotiated between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it's too late to stop it.

The section of the TPP that has leaked is the "Investment" chapter that includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses. WikiLeaks has the text and analysis, and the Times has the story, in "Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.":

An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment "expectations" and hurt their business, according to a classified document.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's remaining economic agenda -- would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings -- federal, state or local -- before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.

The WikiLeaks analysis explains that this lets firms "sue" governments to obtain taxpayer compensation for loss of "expected future profits."

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It's as bad as we feared.

Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From the Public

A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public.

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Congressional Democrats Introduce Ambitious New Bill to Restore the Voting Rights Act

Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the VRA. Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.

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An Inconvenient Truth

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David Attenborough makes the case for how childlike wonder for the natural world can help stop ‪#‎ClimateChange‬—and Barack Obama agrees. What an amazing conversation.

When the Voice of Planet Earth Comes to the White House, You Listen

President Barack Obama sits down with famed naturalist David Attenborough to talk conservation and climate change.

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The gathering is just over one month after Dylann Roof allegedly entered an historic church in Charleston and shot to death nine African Americans during a Bible study meeting.

KKK chapter to hold rally on South Carolina Statehouse grounds

The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s Pelham, North Carolina, chapter have reserved the Statehouse Grounds in South Carolina for a rally next month....

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You’re Fired: NBC Finally Dumps Donald Trump

Public pressure finally became too much for NBC as the network finally did the right thing and dumped Donald Trump from The Apprentice and won't televise the beauty pageants that he owns.

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RSN: Shell to Pay $83.5M for Nigeria Oil Spill, Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Kill Aid to Palestinians

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Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Kill Aid to Palestinians

Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
Riechmann writes: "Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill on Wednesday that would immediately halt U.S. aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel."
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Peter Maass | How Clint Eastwood Ignores History in 'American Sniper'
Peter Maass, The Intercept
Maass writes: "Just a few pages into 'American Sniper,' Chris Kyle used an epithet to describe the Arabs on the wrong side of his gun scope. 'A lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages,'' he wrote. 'I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.'"
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Pentagon to Request $51 Billion in War Funding
Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg
Capaccio writes: "The Pentagon will request about $51 billion in war funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1."
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House Revives CISPA, Controversial Cyber Bill, Citing Sony Hack
Cory Bennett, The Hill
Bennett writes: "A senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday will reintroduce a controversial bill that would help the public and private sectors share information about cybersecurity threats."
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Drone Rules in Afghanistan Go Unchanged, and Other Reasons the War Isn't Really Over
John Knefel, Rolling Stone
Knefel writes: "Though many Americans may not have realized it, December 28th marked what the U.S. government called the official end of the war in Afghanistan. That war has been the longest in U.S. history - but despite the new announcement that the formal conflict is over, America's war there is far from finished."
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Shell to Pay $83.5M for Nigeria Oil Spill
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Oil giant Shell has agreed to pay a Nigerian fishing community about $83.5 million for the worst oil spill ever suffered in Nigeria."
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