RSN: Record Dolphin Die-Off Linked to Gulf Oil Spill, Koch Brothers Plan to Fund 'Several' GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls, Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

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Robert Reich | Whatever Happened to Antitrust?

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Last week's settlement between the Justice Department and five giant banks reveals the appalling weakness of modern antitrust."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation | The Clock is Still Running: Neither NSA Reform Nor Reauthorization Advances in Senate
Lee Tien, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tien writes: "In the wake of tonight's vote, Congress must stop stalling and address the surveillance and secrecy abuses of our government."
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The Real Memorial Day: Oliver Wendell Holmes's Salute to a Momentous American Anniversary
Malcolm Jones, The Daily Beast
Jones writes: "In 1884 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. gave a remarkable speech in which he explained how grief and memory for the fallen dead unite the nation on Memorial Day."
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Gloria Steinem Leads Women's Activists in Cross from North to South Korea
Yoonjung Seo and Anna Fifield, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A group of international women's activists made a rare crossing from North Korea into South Korea on Sunday, hailing the trip as a 'first step in the right direction' toward bridging divisions between the estranged countries."
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Koch Brothers Plan to Fund 'Several' GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls
David Knowles, Bloomberg
Knowles writes: "The world's fifth and sixth richest people say they will donate money to multiple Republican presidential candidates in the coming campaign."
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Malaysia Migrant Crisis: Police Reveal 139 Grave Sites, Some With Multiple Corpses
Beh Lih Yi, Guardian UK
Yi writes: "Dozens of suspected people-smuggling camps also discovered in north of the country on border with Thailand."
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Record Dolphin Die-Off Linked to Gulf Oil Spill
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios writes: "It was more than five years ago when the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, spewing an unknown amount of oil. The April 2010 accident was the worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. waters and it had far-reaching impacts on the region's economy and ecosystems that continue to this day."
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RSN: 6 Ways to Celebrate Endangered Species Day, As Police Torture Victims Win $5.5M in Reparations, Could Chicago Be a Model for Police Abuses Nationwide?, Ukraine Appoints US Senator McCain Presidential Aide

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Andy Borowitz | Bush Says Iraq Question Unimportant Since He Clearly Will Never Be President

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After several days of controversy over whether he would have authorized an invasion of Iraq, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said on Thursday that the question was unimportant since it is now painfully clear that he will never be President."
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As Police Torture Victims Win $5.5M in Reparations, Could Chicago Be a Model for Police Abuses Nationwide?
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Earlier this month, the Chicago City Council approved a $5.5 million reparations fund for victims of police torture. More than 200 people, most of them African-American, were tortured under the reign of Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991."
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18 Senators Call on Obama to Raise Minimum Wage to $15
18 US Senators
Excerpt: "My President, the stroke of your pen can have a transformative impact for millions of workers. As low-wage fast food, retail and federal contract workers continue to strike in growing numbers to 'fight for $15 and a Union,' we urge you to harness the power of the Presidency to help these workers achieve the American Dream."
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Ukraine Appoints US Senator McCain Presidential Aide
Agence France-Presse
Excerpt: "Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed John McCain, a hawkish US senator who has pressed Washington to send lethal weapons to war-torn Ukraine, as his advisor, his administration said."
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NSA Reform Bill Doesn't Actually Suspend Phone Spying Program
Shane Harris, The Daily Beast
Harris writes: "It was supposed to be the declawing of America's biggest spy service. But 'what no one wants to say out loud is that this is a big win for the NSA,' one former top spook says."
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Unexploded Bomb From Israel's Attack on Gaza Explodes, Injuring 50
TeleSUR
Excerpt: "Last year's 50-day attack on the Gaza strip left more than 2,100 people dead, most of whom were civilians."
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6 Ways to Celebrate Endangered Species Day
Callie Spaide, TakePart
Excerpt: "While not as well known as Thanksgiving or Christmas (or even Flag Day), Endangered Species Day has a special place for all of us."
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RSN: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Blast the Keystone Bill, The NYPD Slowdown's Dirty Little Secret,

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Matt Taibbi | Cartoons Are Worth Fighting For

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "An unspeakable tragedy in Paris has given birth to a secondary censorship controversy here at home. It was predictable that the savage attack on the French satire newspaper Charlie Hebdo would inspire a crisis of confidence in the American/Western media: what to do about the 'forbidden' images?"
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Firebombing at German Paper That Ran Charlie Hebdo Cartoons
Deborah Cole, Agence France-Presse
Cole writes: "A German tabloid that paid tribute to those killed at Charlie Hebdo by reprinting cartoons from the French satirical paper mocking the Prophet Mohammed was firebombed Sunday, police said."
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US-Led Forces Launch Air Strikes Against ISIS Targets in Syria and Iraq
Reuters
Excerpt: "American-led forces launched 19 air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria and Iraq, the US military said on Sunday. Of the 10 air strikes in Syria, nine hit Isis targets near the town of Kobani on the Turkish border, a statement said. The other Syria strike hit an Isis position near Albu Kamal, close to Iraq."
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The NYPD Slowdown's Dirty Little Secret
Jacob Siegel, The Daily Beast
Siegel writes: "The police slowdown in New York, where cops have virtually stopped making certain types of low-level arrests, might be coming to an end soon. For a lot of police officers, it'll be an unhappy moment, because they never liked making the penny ante collars in the first place."
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THINK ABOUT IT!

The NSA is collecting so much information, there is NO EVIDENCE that the NSA has prevented ANY SINGLE terrorist attack. 

If you were planning an attack, would you discuss it on the phone? on the internet?

If the NSA's methods were reasonable, the Paris Attacks could have been prevented...wouldn't they?

NSA Reform Facing Hard Sell Following Paris Terror Attacks
Julian Hattem, The Hill
Hattem writes: "The push to reform the National Security Agency isn't getting any easier. After a reform bill was narrowly blocked on the Senate floor late last year, civil libertarians hoped that an upcoming deadline to reauthorize some of the spy agency's controversial powers would give them another opportunity to force changes."
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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Blast the Keystone Bill
Katie Rose Quandt, Moyers & Company
Quandt writes: "Republicans touted the pipeline as an economy-boosting job creator that will give the US energy independence. The most striking moments came when the microphone went to Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who eloquently summed up the arguments against building a tar sands pipeline directly through the United States."
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Mark Ruffalo | President Obama Needs to Follow the Empire State's Leadership on Banning Fracking
Mark Ruffalo, Reader Supported News
Ruffalo writes: "Despite the fact that New York's decision is based on the best science, President Obama's administration had the audacity to denounce the decision."
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RSN: GOP Governors Lock Poorest Americans out of Obamacare, Alberta Caribou Habitat to Be Sold to Energy Industry, Top 5 Signs That It Is Rove Who Is Brain Dead, Not Hillary, et al

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FOCUS: William Boardman | Condi Rice, Christine Lagarde: Cowardice at Commencement

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "Students and faculty objected to Rice for her participation in lying her country into war in Iraq, and even more so for her defense of widespread American use of torture in the 'global war on terror.'"
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Juan Cole | Top 5 Signs That It Is Rove Who Is Brain Dead, Not Hillary

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Karl Rove was reported to have raised questions about Hillary Clinton's mental well-being because of her fall in late 2012. He later walked back his allegation, but not too much."
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NSA Reform: Lawmakers Aim to Bar Agency From Weakening Encryption
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "US legislators concerned about weaknesses in a major surveillance reform bill intend to insert an amendment barring the National Security Agency from weakening the encryption that many people rely on to keep their information secure online."
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Mass Funerals, Mounting Anger as Turkey Mourns Mine Workers
Ece Toksabay, Humeyra Pamuk, Daren Butler, Jonny Hogg and Nick Tattersall, Reuters
Excerpt: "Loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead and excavators dug mass graves in this close-knit Turkish mining town on Thursday, while protesters gathered in major cities."
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GOP Governors Lock Poorest Americans out of Obamacare
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Excerpt: "Despite the fact that Affordable Care Act has been in place for four years by now, more than one million low-income Americans who are dependent on community health centers are still going uninsured."
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Alberta Caribou Habitat to Be Sold to Energy Industry
Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
Weber reports: "The Alberta government is planning to sell off crucial caribou habitat to the energy industry just days after a federal scientific panel said the herds were in immediate danger of vanishing completely."
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Michael Brune | Divest From Fossil Fuels, Invest in Clean Energy
Michael Brune, EcoWatch
Brune writes: "If you're reading this article, there is a good chance you've already taken steps to stop climate disruption."
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RSN: Nothing Really Compares to the Koch Brothers' Political Empire, Recovery for Whom?, et al

Andy Borowitz | Nation Stunned to Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Millions of Americans were in a state of shock this past week after learning that Congress had accomplished something fifty years ago."
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Window Opens on Secret Camp Within Guantanamo
Ben Fox, Associated Press
Fox reports: "Attorney James Connell has visited his client inside the secret Guantanamo prison complex known as Camp 7 only once, taken in a van with covered windows on a circuitous trek to disguise the route on the scrub brush-and-cactus covered military base."
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Silicon Valley Could Force NSA Reform, Tomorrow
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "How much are internet companies like Facebook and Google helping the National Security Agency, and why aren't they doing more to stop it?"
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Paul Blumenthal | Nothing Really Compares to the Koch Brothers' Political Empire
Paul Blumenthal, Moyers and Company
Blumenthal writes: "As billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch become a focus of Democratic Party attacks for their big spending in the 2014 elections, conservatives have argued back that the Kochs' 'dark money' is puny compared to the shadowy funds spent by an array of wealthy liberal interests and individuals."
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Recovery for Whom?
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "Economic gains so far have mostly benefited those at the top of the income and wealth ladder. Worse, future growth is likely to be lopsided, because the foundation for broad prosperity is arguably the weakest it has been since World War II."
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Yes, California, Your Prison Conditions Are Still Unconstitutional
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress
Flatow writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court found that the state's prison health care was so deficient that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But California still hasn't gotten the message."
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Utah Moves to Defy Federal Law, Remove Wild Horses
Jennifer Dobner, Reuters
"A Utah county, angry over the destruction of federal rangeland that ranchers use to graze cattle, has started a bid to round up federally protected wild horses it blames for the problem in the latest dustup over land management in the U.S. West."
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