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Defending Backpage, Sex Workers Say Removing Online Ads Does Them More Harm
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t will do more harm than good.
Twenty-Five Years After Exxon Valdez, Kayakers Take to the Sea to Defend th=
e Arctic
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aldez-kayaks-charge-against-arctic-drilling-and-climate-change
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al groups gathered in San Francisco in solidarity with "kayaktivists" in th=
e Pacific Northwest and Alaska, who have been expressing outrage against Sh=
ell and the lack of leadership exhibited by President Obama.
Ex-IAEA Official Uses Misleading Claims to Attack Iran Deal
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laims-to-attack-iran-deal
Gareth Porter, Truthout: Foes of the US-Iran nuclear deal are leaning heavi=
ly on the opinions of a deeply compromised "expert," but the pattern of fal=
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El Salvador's Draconian Abortion Laws Are a Miscarriage of Justice
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gareth Porter, Truthout:</strong> Foes of the US-Iran nuclear deal are leaning heavily on the opinions of a deeply compromised "expert," but the pattern of false and misleading statements by former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Olli Heinonen indicates that it is going to be difficult to criticize the deal without stumbling over the facts.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dhSbR%2F5qR7ufVugcg6wWQ%2FE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>FDA Examines Whether MRI Drugs Accumulate in Brain Tissue</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jeff Gerth, ProPublica:</strong> The Food and Drug Administration announced it is investigating the risk of brain deposits for patients who are given repeated MRIs using imaging drugs that contain a heavy metal. Recent studies found that the metal, gadolinium, can remain in the brain even in patients whose kidneys function normally.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=odDFTSaFmIUJdfkv%2F4fxVBt71qy%2FE6hg"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Msb6vzkeqOlmC3qT%2FVeUKvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>A Supreme Threat to US Democracy</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jamie Raskin, OtherWords:</strong> If a future Republican president replaces even a single liberal justice with a conservative, we could wind up with a democracy of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. This is a critical threat to US democracy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r4ODir2WvoZxgRpFJuFv1%2FE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K1Gwc0a2iH0DiWzUjQkfjvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Clean Water Is Another Victim of Syria's War</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kanya D'Almeida, Inter Press Service:</strong> Throughout Syria, some 15 million people are dependent on a limited and vulnerable water supply network. Families pushed into poverty by the conflict have been forced to cut back on their water consumption, and international health agencies are stepping up efforts to stave off epidemics of water-borne diseases.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DaJ4BFqerX25QdPhF%2BDGCPE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=o044TCBNmbqGL%2B5NT15Y%2FPE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>How UK Anti-Terror Guidance Could Violate Children's Human Rights</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Stephanie Petrie, The Conversation:</strong> There are enormous dangers in the way child protection legislation in the UK intersects with the government's anti-radicalization program. There are only a few legal steps between the suggested interventions and the possibility of a child being removed from their home because their family's political views are unacceptable and don't adhere to "British values."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ei52x4zAccUCvDBjg88CNPE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fr3%2BBiy9ZZbNNNwAJI0%2FePE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Clinton and the Coup: Amid Protests in Honduras, Ex-President on Hillary's Role in His 2009 Ouster</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!:</strong> While the US publicly supported former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's return to power after being ousted, newly released emails show Hillary Clinton was attempting to set up back-channel communications with Roberto Micheletti, who was installed as Honduran president after the coup.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HRc0npXwPmZmUn4hRRCc0fE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=g53OxBeQ76N6%2BuaBMNynLvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Grocery Chain A&P's Financial Meltdown Could Leave Thousands of Union Workers Jobless</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Bruce Vail, In These Times:</strong> Plans to dismember the A&P supermarket chain were revealed in a federal bankruptcy court in New York this month, with dire results predicted for more than 15,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kRhNGnjkqAYVOHOMhHKnH%2FE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FkvxMQR17iqZLXkQCTjR%2B%2FE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>El Salvador's Draconian Abortion Laws Are a Miscarriage of Justice</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Avender and Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK:</strong> An overwhelming number of women in El Salvador - particularly poor, unmarried, uneducated women - face outrageous human rights violations as they are denied autonomy over their bodies. The country has one of the strictest and most archaic anti-abortion laws in the world.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=slP05ctqTF3EWK3KwpSbNvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f080%2Bkjjkx36l3MPZEtuvvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Blood, Manipulation and Lies: Press Freedom in Mexico</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Sofia Rada, Council on Hemispheric Affairs:</strong> A journalist in Mexico was assaulted every 26.7 hours in 2014. Under the Enrique Peña Nieto administration, assaults on the press have nearly doubled. Attacks against communicators are rising and, in most cases, impunity prevails, with more than half of the perpetrators linked to the state.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FlpB7RTZi8OCA2%2BGZ1DgYvE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bb66Vwq%2BGeljMGY0QOIZJPE%2BDDXHxc10"><strong>The Balance of Power in the Middle East Just Changed</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch:</strong> The nuclear accord between the United States and Iran binds the two nations to years of engagement and leaves the door open to a far fuller relationship. Understanding how significant that is requires a look backward into the history of hostility between the two countries.</p>
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