RSN: Noam Chomsky: Our Privatized US Healthcare Program Is an "International Scandal"

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Noam Chomsky: Our Privatized US Healthcare Program Is an "International Scandal" 
 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The U.S. healthcare system is an international scandal. It's roughly twice the per capita costs of comparable countries, and some of the worst outcomes, mainly because it's privatized, extremely inefficient, bureaucratized, lots of bill paying, lots of officials, tons of money wasted, healthcare in the hands of profit-seeking institutions, which are not health institutions, of course." 
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Schiff: White House Documents Will Be Shown to Intelligence Panels 
Austin Wright, Politico 
Wright writes: "The White House will soon make available to Congress controversial intelligence reports that it has portrayed as evidence of surveillance abuses by the Obama administration, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday." 
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Trump Administration Ends Funding to UN Maternal Health Arm 
Michelle Nichols, The Independent 
Nichols writes: "The State Department has said it is ending US funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the international body's agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries." 
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Syria Chemical Weapons Attack Toll Rises to 70 
Martin Chulov and Kareem Shaheen, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "At least 70 people have been killed in northern Syria after being exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, an attack that sparked comparisons to the most infamous act of the country's six-year war." 
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Bill O'Reilly: An Awful, Awful Man 
Erik Wemple, The Washington Post 
Wemple writes: "Here's an anchor who shouldn't be trusted to share space with his colleagues, nor to report on women and men. He is an awful, awful man." 
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'Our People Are Unstoppable': Chile's Jailed Indigenous Mapuche 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Recently-jailed members of Chile's Indigenous Mapuche community released a statement Saturday celebrating ongoing campaigns against police terror and land privatization." 
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Trump Kills Obama Hunting Protection for Hibernating Alaskan Bears 
Tim Devaney, The Hill 
Devaney writes: "The Obama-era rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) prohibited certain hunting tactics that target 'predator' animals likes bears and wolves while they are inside Alaska's national preserves." 
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RSN: The EPA May Have Been in Bed With Big Pesticide for Years

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Charles Pierce | The EPA May Have Been in Bed With Big Pesticide for Years 
 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "There is, at the moment, a massive lawsuit against the Monsanto company regarding Roundup, its most popular pesticide. The company is being sued by citizens who maintain that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is responsible for their cancers. On Tuesday, the judge overseeing the case unsealed some of the documents that have been filed related to the case, and nobody comes out clean-not the company and, sadly, not the EPA, either." 
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White House Installs Aides at Every Cabinet Agency to Monitor Loyalty to Trump 
Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The aides act as a go-between on policy matters for the agencies and the White House. Behind the scenes, though, they're on another mission: to monitor Cabinet leaders and their top staffs to make sure they carry out the president's agenda and don't stray too far from the White House's talking points, said several officials with knowledge of the arrangement." 
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The Pentagon Has Never Been Audited. That's Astonishing 
Thomas Hedges, Guardian UK 
Hedges writes: "Although it's required to by law, the DoD has never had an audit, something every American person, every company and every other government agency is subject to." 
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Student: Gorsuch Told Class 'Many' Women Manipulate Maternity Leave 
Daniella Silva, NBC News 
Silva writes: "A former law student of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee alleges that Neil Gorsuch told a class that 'many' women manipulate their employers for maternity benefits and that law firms should ask female interviewees about their pregnancy plans in order to protect their companies." 
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Hate Crime Laws Have Resulted in Few Convictions for Anti-Trans Violence 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "A 2009 hate crimes law meant to make federal prosecutions easier has resulted in relatively few convictions nationwide." 
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Chile's Indigenous Mapuche Protest Deadly Police Brutality 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Dozens of Chile's Indigenous Mapuche protested police terror in Temuco on Friday, calling on law enforcement to stop violence against their youth." 
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Cheerios Gave Away a Bunch of Invasive 'Bee-Friendly' Wildflower Seeds 
Clint Rainey, Grub Street 
Rainey writes: "Bees are dying globally at an alarming rate, and last week, Cheerios figured it would step in and help. There was just one tiny problem: It gave away wildflowers that can grow into bad news for certain recipients' local ecosystems." 
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