RSN: Will Climate Change Kill the Gulf Stream?, Question: When Is Shooting a 12-Year-Old Child Reasonable?, It's a Great Time for Corporate Crime

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Gloria Steinem's Life on the Feminist Frontier 
 
Jane Kramer, The New Yorker 
Kramer writes: "Gloria Steinem had been traveling for more than thirty years, speaking, advising, fund-raising, organizing, testifying, demonstrating, educating, campaigning, and, in the process, introducing millions of girls and women to the feminist cause." 
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Former US Detainees Sue CIA Torture Program Architects 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "CIA psychologists behind the U.S. intelligence agency's 'enhanced interrogation' program are guilty of torture, non-consensual human experimentation, and war crimes, three former detainees alleged in a federal lawsuit Tuesday." 
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David Sirota | It's a Great Time for Corporate Crime 
David Sirota, International Business Times 
Sirota writes: "In the lead-up to their first debate tonight in Las Vegas, the Democratic presidential candidates have been calling for a tough-on-crime stance by the federal government against major corporations. A new report documenting a precipitous decline in corporate prosecutions could intensify those demands." 
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Gyasi Ross: Why I Support Bernie Sanders & the #BlackLivesMatter Protesters Who Interrupted Him 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Bernie Sanders, although he's an amazing and progressive, and he's been on the right side of history as a candidate - that's beautiful, but he's still a white man, who has unquestionably benefited from white privilege." 
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Question: When Is Shooting a 12-Year-Old Child Reasonable? 
Vincent Warren, Reader Supported News 
Warren writes: "Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life." 
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'Playboy' to Stop Publishing Nude Images 
Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times 
Somaiya writes: "Its executives admit that Playboy has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered. 'That battle has been fought and won,' said Scott Flanders, the company's chief executive. 'You're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it's just passe at this juncture.'" 
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Will Climate Change Kill the Gulf Stream? 
Chris Mooney, The Washington Post 
Mooney: "A cool patch has appeared in the North Atlantic Ocean, where record cold temperatures over the past eight months present a stark contrast to a globe that is experiencing record warmth. Some scientists think this pattern may be a sign of one long-feared consequence of climate change - a slowing of North Atlantic ocean circulation, due to a freshening of surface waters." 
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RSN: Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings, Once Again, Corporate Crimes Result in No Jail

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Robert Reich | Once Again, Corporate Crimes Result in No Jail 
 
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page 
Reich writes: "I don't understand how corporations can be held criminally liable yet no single person be held responsible. Federal prosecutors just struck a deal with GM for $900 in 'criminal penalties' for GM's failure to disclose faulty ignition systems that may have contributed to the deaths of more than 100 people." 
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House Passes Bills to Defund Planned Parenthood Amid Shutdown Threats 
Lauren Gambino, Guardian UK 
Gambino writes: "Days away from a politically disastrous government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed two abortion-related bills in a move by party leadership to quell conservative hardliners who have threatened to defund Planned Parenthood." 
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On-Duty Police Officers Have Shot and Killed More Than 700 People This Year 
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post 
Lowery writes: "The tally of people shot and killed by on-duty police officers passed 700 on Wednesday night - a fatal milestone that is almost double the highest number of police shootings ever reported by the FBI for an entire year." 
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration 
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic 
Coates writes: "From the mid-1970s to the mid-'80s, America's incarceration rate doubled, from about 150 people per 100,000 to about 300 per 100,000. From the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, it doubled again. By 2007, it had reached a historic high of 767 people per 100,000." 
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95% of NFL Players Tested Show Signs of Disease Caused by Head Trauma 
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline 
Breslow writes: "A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation's largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury." 
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In Further Thaw With Cuba, US Relaxes Rules on Visiting, Money and Business 
Bill Chappell, NPR 
Chappell writes: "Next week, it will be easier for people, money, and goods to flow between Cuba and the U.S., which announced a new round of relaxed sanctions Friday. The changes also allow U.S. companies to provide Internet and communications services in Cuba." 
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Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings 
Jason M. Breslow, Frontline 
Breslow writes: "Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame." 
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