RSN: The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower, One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times, Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem

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Noam Chomsky | One Day in the Life of a Reader of the New York Times

Noam Chomsky, The Noam Chomsky Website
Chomsky writes: "A front-page article is devoted to a flawed story about a campus rape in the journal Rolling Stone, exposed in the leading academic journal of media critique. So severe is this departure from journalistic integrity that it is also the subject of the lead story in the business section."
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Federal Investigation Leads to Strict Rules for Cleveland Police
Kristen Gwynne, Rolling Stone
Gwynne writes: "After a 21-month investigation and five months of negotiations, the City of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice have reached a consent decree enacting some of the strictest policing rules in the country."
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AFL-CIO Leader Warns It Could Sit Out 2016 Fight Over Trade
Ben Kamisar, The Hill
Kamisar writes: "AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka warned Hillary Clinton that his powerful labor union coalition might not endorse her presidential campaign if she comes out in support of the controversial trade deal making its way through Congress."
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Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement - It Isn't.
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future
Johnson writes: "This is a message to activists trying to fight the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Stop calling the TPP a 'trade' agreement. TPP is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a trade agreement."
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Michael T. Klare | The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower
Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch
Klare writes: "Take a look around the world and it's hard not to conclude that the United States is a superpower in decline. Whether in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East, aspiring powers are flexing their muscles, ignoring Washington's dictates, or actively combating them."
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Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem
David Freedlander, The Daily Beast
Freedlander writes: "To many, Olio's case points to a changing culture around education, one in which teachers are on a hair trigger vulnerable to losing their livelihoods due to declining union protections and the rise of high-stakes testing."
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Moby on California Drought: 'The Way We're Living Is Stupid'
Brooke Jarvis, Rolling Stone
Jarvis writes: "As a record-setting drought expands in his state, the California resident has taken an interest in another part of the food system: the way the state's increasingly scarce water supply is allocated to state agribusinesses."
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RSN: Oil Company Bosses' Bonuses Linked to $1tn Spending on Extracting Fossil Fuels, NYT Trumpets US Restraint Against ISIS, Ignores Hundreds of Civilian Deaths

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Glenn Greenwald | NYT Trumpets US Restraint Against ISIS, Ignores Hundreds of Civilian Deaths

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "The New York Times this morning has an extraordinary front-page article claiming that the U.S. is being hampered in its war against ISIS because of its extreme - even excessive - concern for civilians."
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Cleveland Reaches Settlement With Justice Department Over Police Conduct
Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post
Horwitz writes: "The Justice Department has reached a settlement with the city of Cleveland over the conduct of its police officers, according to a Justice official, the latest case in which the Obama administration has investigated excessive use of force and the violation of constitutional rights by a local department."
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Congress Pursues Deal on Phone Data Collection in Rare Talks During Recess
Jonathan Weisman, The New York Times
Weisman writes: "Senior lawmakers are scrambling this week in rare recess negotiations to agree on a face-saving change to legislation that would rein in the National Security Agency's dragnet of phone records, with time running out on some of the government's domestic surveillance authority."
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Oakland Police Arrest Demonstrators Marching Against Protest Clampdown
Associated Press
"Police made arrests as demonstrators marched in downtown Oakland on Sunday, against the city's new get-tough policy for monitoring street protests. It was the second such gathering in as many days."
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Hip-Hop, and Other Things the Right Blames for Declining Christianity
Amanda Marcotte, Rolling Stone
Marcotte writes: "Christianity's demographic death grip on the United States continues to loosen its hold, new polling data from the Pew Research Center shows."
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Two Thirds of Yemen Without Clean Water, as Outbreak of Disease Looms, Oxfam Reports
Rori Donaghy, Middle East Eye
Donaghy writes: "Oxfam said on Tuesday that the Saudi-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against Houthi rebels has contributed to an extra three million Yemenis being denied drinking water."
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Oil Company Bosses' Bonuses Linked to $1tn Spending on Extracting Fossil Fuels
Simon Bowers and Harry Davies, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Bosses at the world's big five oil companies have been showered with bonus payouts linked to a $1tn (£650bn) crescendo of spending on fossil fuel exploration and extraction over nine years, according to Guardian analysis of company reports."
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