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Black Struggle Is Not a Sound Bite: Why I Refused to Meet With
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ate Crimes
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inistration-s-failure-to-prosecute-corporate-crimes
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Sanders shouldn't criticize President Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren release=
d a report criticizing the president's failure to prosecute corporate crimi=
nals effectively. Warren's report reads like a subtle endorsement of Sander=
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Black Struggle Is Not a Sound Bite: Why I Refused to Meet With President Ob=
ama
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ite-why-i-refused-to-meet-with-president-obama
Aislinn Pulley, Truthout: As a radical, Black organizer, I do not feel that=
a handshake with the president is the best way for me to honor Black Histo=
ry Month or the Black freedom fighters whose labor laid the groundwork for =
the historic moment we are living in.
Why Iowa and New Hampshire Should No Longer Start the US Election Process
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ld-no-longer-start-the-us-election-process
Andrew Jones, Truthout: It's time for states that reflect the country's cha=
nging demographics to kick off the campaign season. Iowa and New Hampshire =
are hardly representative of the growing diversity of the US electorate.
The Elite of the Deep State Pull the Strings of the Marionette Theater in W=
ashington
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state-pull-the-strings-of-the-marionette-theater-in-washington
Mike Lofgren, Viking Books: I have come to call the United States' shadow g=
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re pressuring their state senators to vote against Senate Bill 318.
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earth would anyone want to be Exxon's partner?
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ot-out-of-the-woods-yet
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a 5-4 ruling in the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association s=
eemed guaranteed.
Scalia's Ghost Can't Save Oil, Gas and Coal
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The Empire's War on the Border
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Abby Martin, teleSUR: Why are there thousands of bodies on the US-Mexico bo=
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Multiple Hospitals Attacked in Northern Syria, UN Envoy Arrives Unannounced
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Kevine Boggess, Equal Voice: A Eurocentric curriculum leads many young peop=
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nstrates that ethnic studies - a curriculum that reflects the experiences o=
f students of color - has a positive impact on student academic engagement,=
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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>Mike Lofgren, Viking Books:</strong> I have come to call the United States' shadow government the "Deep State." The term was actually coined in Turkey, and is said to be a system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime.</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=tHHp2cg23W1S1ZMwW9hi2TJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Read the Book Excerpt</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=u43tj1AGrGSZYgcN9EG3kn9zA%2F98t4WW"><strong>ALEC-Tainted Legislation Designed to Block Local Control Over Fracking Bans in Florida</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>Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog:</strong> An industry-friendly bill in the Florida Statehouse designed to nullify existing fracking bans and sharply curtail local control over oil and gas drilling activity is facing pushback. Floridians are pressuring their state senators to vote against Senate Bill 318.</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=MtoRp9g07AcGCV8FL5%2F66jJS5Um0Wddh"><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=TX0OMMNlTEBWFfKh5vb8NTJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Apple vs. the FBI: Inside the Battle Snowden Calls "the Most Important Tech Case in a Decade"</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, Democracy Now!:</strong> A major debate over privacy and online encryption has erupted after the computer giant Apple announced it will resist a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from one of the San Bernardino shooters.</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=K0nNVTBQJ87%2By7VPL5E0UDJS5Um0Wddh"><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=1pTOKIu0VjSu8IYKYIm02DJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Exxon's Never-Ending Big Dig: Flooding the Earth With Fossil Fuels</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>Bill McKibben, TomDispatch:</strong> While we're waiting for the various investigations to play out, there's lots of organizing going on at the state and local levels when it comes to Exxon. The question is: Why on God's not-so-green earth would anyone want to be Exxon's partner?</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=XkCcxn5YeUiaKa5liFZCRH9zA%2F98t4WW"><strong><i>Friedrichs</i> Reprieve, but We're Not Out of the Woods Yet</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>Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes:</strong> Yes, we dodged a bullet - for now. But any union that takes the Supreme Court shakeup as a cue to go back to business as usual will be making a mistake. Before Justice Antonin Scalia's death, a 5-4 ruling in the case of <i>Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association</i> seemed guaranteed.</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=0ypx8hn1QQRY6m4rGDjEgTJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Scalia's Ghost Can't Save Oil, Gas and Coal</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>Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords:</strong> The Clean Power Plan now has a 75 percent chance of surviving, says lawyer Brian Potts, who represents companies on environmental regulatory issues. Between the Supreme Court stay and the arch-conservative justice's death, Potts had pegged the odds of the Clean Power Plan's enactment at only 10 percent.</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=jl26Lb0kFxFB9Nw8olSe4jJS5Um0Wddh"><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=NeGVw%2Fki1DrAOXgo3PxE7zJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>The Empire's War on the Border</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>Abby Martin, teleSUR:</strong> Why are there thousands of bodies on the US-Mexico border? Discover the sinister tactics of a bloated Border Patrol, and what is not only a shockingly high body count, but a humanitarian crisis manufactured by the US government.</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=k4Rx%2BGLufwSJcfIQDebFkTJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Watch the Video</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=MVlD65gbWRLyHLNDfTRypzJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Multiple Hospitals Attacked in Northern Syria, UN Envoy Arrives Unannounced</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>Shannon Young, Free Speech Radio News:</strong> The United Nations envoy to Syria made an unannounced visit to Damascus this week ahead of planned negotiations for a temporary cease-fire. Just hours ahead of his arrival, missiles struck at least four medical facilities and two schools, killing close to 50 people.</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=bddF%2BqFIzfZQq14mesontDJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>Listen to the Interview 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=wZmZ8lXlMZL2rBxxJS0p1n9zA%2F98t4WW"><strong>No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut</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>Belén Fernandez, teleSUR:</strong> This week, the prominent Israeli newspaper Haaretz ran an opinion piece by Amitai Etzioni, titled "Should Israel Flatten Beirut to Destroy Hezbollah's Missiles?" Who, you may ask, is the fellow who has taken it upon himself to ponder this important matter?</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=UIwyZ%2BGzP%2FZSNsZLFuoBhjJS5Um0Wddh"><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=BB8WjB4BdD4TPCTJ5pDydjJS5Um0Wddh"><strong>The Case for Ethnic Studies in All Schools</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>Kevine Boggess, Equal Voice:</strong> A Eurocentric curriculum leads many young people to disengage from their academic experience. But extensive research demonstrates that ethnic studies - a curriculum that reflects the experiences of students of color - has a positive impact on student academic engagement, achievement and empowerment.</p>
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