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Robert Parry | A Neocon Admits the Plan to Bomb Iran

Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Not exactly known for truthfulness, U.S. neocons have been trying to reassure the American people that sinking a negotiated deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program would be a painless proposition."
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Obama Snubs Netanyahu and Criticizes Israeli PM's 'Divisive Rhetoric'
Paul Lewis and Alan Yuhas, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "The White House has made clear its dismay at Binyamin Netanyahu's sweeping victory in the Israeli elections with a stinging rebuke of the 'divisive rhetoric' used by the Israeli leader in the closing stages of the election."
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Homan Square: Politicians Push DoJ to Investigate 'Gestapo Tactics' at Secret Police Site
Zach Stafford, Guardian UK
Stafford writes: "Citing what he likened to 'CIA or Gestapo tactics', Boykin joined officials and human-rights groups from the nation's capital to the west side of Chicago in calling for a federal investigation into the secretive site."
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Outrage as Black Honor Student Brutally Beaten by Police at UVA
TeleSUR
Excerpt: "'(A) mass of University students bore witness to the officer's animalistic, insensitive, and brute handling of Martese. He was left with his blood splattered on the pavement of University Avenue,' a statement by the Black Studnet Alliance read."
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Ex-Wife Insists Nisman Was Killed Over Misappropriated Money
TeleSUR
Excerpt: "The allegations Wednesday that late Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was diverting money from the investigation unit examining the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish cultural center have raised more questions about the prosecutor's untimely death."
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Bill McKibben: Capitalism and the Climate Justice Movement
Trish Kahle, Jacobin
Excerpt: "They're beginning to put the fossil fuel industry on the defensive. Every month we slow down their expansion is another month for renewable energy to get cheaper and more ubiquitous. Time is not on their side."
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Obama to Seek 40 Percent Cut in Federal Greenhouse Gases
Timothy Cama, The Hill
Cama writes: "President Obama signed an executive order Thursday to cut the federal government's greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent over the next decade. The effort will save taxpayers as much as $18 billion due to energy savings, the White House said."
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RSN: State Inspector Discouraged from Citing Tennessee Lawmaker Who Dumped 500,000 Gallons of Hog Waste Into a Creek, The Oily Heart of Austerity and Tea Party Economics, Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently From His Brother

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Andy Borowitz | Bush Says He Will Harm Nation Differently From His Brother

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In an effort to distance himself from the legacy of his brother, George W. Bush, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will use a major foreign-policy speech on Wednesday to assert that, if elected President, he would harm the nation in completely different ways."
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Juan Cole | Today's Top 7 Myths About Daesh/ISIL
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "The self-styled 'Islamic State' Group (ISIS or ISIL), the Arabic acronym for which is Daesh, is increasingly haunting the nightmares of Western journalists and security analysts. I keep seeing some assertions about it that strike me as exaggerated or as just incorrect."
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The Oily Heart of Austerity and Tea Party Economics
Richard Brodsky, Reader Supported News
Brodsky writes: "We've been hearing it for over thirty years: 'Cut income tax rates for the wealthy and supply-side prosperity follows.' Call it the Laffer Curve, Reaganomics, Austerity, the Pro-Growth Agenda; it was the same argument."
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Tens of Thousands March in Buenos Aires to Protest Death of Prosecutor Investigating President
France 24 and AFP
Excerpt: "Drenched in driving rain and led by prosecutors and opposition figures, the rally is the first major public show of defiance in a murky case that has ignited a political firestorm in Argentina and piled the pressure on President Cristina Kirchner, 61, in her last year in office."
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Hezbollah Leader Says ISIS' Targets Are Mecca and Medina, Calls on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Join Fight
Abdelhak Mamoun, Iraqi News
Mamoun writes: "Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah said that Mecca and Medina are the main targets of IISS, not Jerusalem, pointing out that its caliphate cannot prevail without the Two Holy Mosques, and that the Iraqis had prevented the terrorist group from accessing the Gulf."
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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction and the War on Drugs Is Wrong
Zeeshan Aleem, Policy.Mic
Aleem writes: "What if everything about the way we thought about drug addiction was backwards? What if the war on drugs was the purest distillation of this backward thinking?"
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State Inspector Discouraged from Citing Tennessee Lawmaker Who Dumped 500,000 Gallons of Hog Waste Into a Creek
Ben Hall, News Channel 5 - Nashville
Hall writes: "A state lawmaker, who pumped more than a half million gallons of hog waste into a creek, denies he received special treatment from state regulators. But a NewsChannel 5 investigation discovered one state inspector was told by his managers to look the other way."
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RSN: Ruptured Pipeline Lies on Yellowstone Riverbed, Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones,

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Andy Borowitz | Republican Candidates Descend on Iowa

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Republican Presidential candidates descended on Iowa over the weekend, giving Iowans a rare opportunity to evaluate all thirty thousand hopefuls in one place."
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Snowden Files: Secret 'BADASS' Intelligence Program Spied on Smartphones
Micah Lee, The Intercept
Lee writes: "The document, included in a trove of Snowden material released by Der Spiegel on January 17, outlines a secret program run by the intelligence agencies called BADASS."
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Argentine Prosecutor Shot Point Blank in Forehead: Official
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "An Argentine prosecutor found dead shortly before he was about to make explosive allegations about President Cristina Kirchner took a bullet point-blank to his forehead, justice officials said Saturday."
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Jessica Valenti | The Republican Abortion Bill Shows They Still Believe Many Women Lie About Rape
Jessica Valenti, Guardian UK
Valenti writes: "During a time when sexual assault and the difficulty of reporting it is a central part of the national conversation, forcing women and girls to go to the police before they can access abortion makes Republicans seem even more out of touch with the issues women face than usual."
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'It Was Cold, Very Cold': Migrant Children Endure Border Patrol 'Ice Boxes'
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "'It was cold, very cold,' she said, through a translator. 'The lights were on all the time, and the floor was hard. I couldn't sleep.' She was fed an apple and milk for breakfast, the same for lunch, and a sandwich at night. 'I was hungry all the time.'"
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Super Bowl Champions: The NFL Needs to Rethink Marijuana
Marvin Washington, Brendon Ayanbadejo and Scott Fujita, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "The NFL should lead the way in developing a more rational and science-based approach to marijuana."
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Ruptured Pipeline Lies on Yellowstone Riverbed
The Associated Press
Excerpt: "Sonar indicates part of an underground pipeline that spilled almost 40,000 gallons of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River and fouled a local water supply is exposed on the riverbed."
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