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BuzzFlash
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Climate Skeptic Sen. Jim Inhofe Received $10,000 From BP PAC
Judge Orders US Government to Stop Suppressing Evidence of Torture and Abuse
South Carolina Police Officers Were Exonerated in More Than 200 Shootings
Protesters March Against Austerity Measures in Madrid, Spain
President Obama: Netanyahu's Comments Make Palestinian Negotiations Harder
How a Traveling Consultant Helps the US Hide the Homeless
Paris Bans 50 Percent of Traffic Due to Heavy Smog
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Candice Bernd, Truthout: Activists are pressuring the Grapevine police to release the dash-cam video of Officer Robert Clark's fatal shooting of Rubén García Villalpando last month. A spate of police killings of Mexican immigrants reveals how undocumented people are especially vulnerable to police shootings, due to the threat of deportation.
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Author, journalist, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali tells Truthout that the modern proponents of so-called free markets "regard democracy as an encumbrance." Ali argues that we should look to South America and Mediterranean Europe for left-wing alternatives to what his new book calls The Extreme Centre.
Peter Bratsis, Truthout: The time and space that Greece and its creditors have won needs to be used to focus on the materiality of the class struggle and the concrete social activity upon which political power is founded. We must abandon the idealist fixation on political will.
Aisha Maniar, Truthout: Despite Ireland's steadfast denials, activists have gathered evidence of the country's link to US rendition and torture activities, and the US Senate torture report has made accountability unavoidable.
Michelle Chen, The Nation: The undocumented immigrants who work in every US industry are treated like disposable goods, tossed away once worn out or damaged. Before an international commission, however, workers showed the uncompensated damage wrought under a legal regime that renders them invisible.
Robin Marty, Care2: Many conservative lawmakers hide behind state rights and ape local sovereignty when they don't like whomever is in the White House. Like far too many conservative states, Arizona's GOP makes noise about loving the Constitution - it's just the federal government they can't seem to abide.
Kevin Young, North American Congress on Latin America: The US "Partnership for Growth" reflects a shift in imperial strategy and highlights the constraints facing progressive governments in Latin America. Washington has sought to mitigate the danger of elections by insulating economic policy from democratic input.
Susan Sered, Susan Sered's Blog: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has proposed budget cuts for fiscal year 2016 that go after the low-hanging fruit of government funded Medicaid (MassHealth) for the Commonwealth's poorest, sickest and most vulnerable residents.
Gavan McCormack, The Asia-Pacific Journal: A grand and massively unequal struggle over the future of Japan is underway. The prime minister's agenda is to change Okinawa into a joint US-Japan hegemon, but Japanese citizens are resisting.
Race Forward's Rinku Sen offers Starbucks and USA Today some suggestions for addressing conversations about race in the US seriously; Michelle Buggs argues we need more presidents like University of Oklahoma President David Boren, who swiftly took action to reject and correct the racist behaviors put on display there; Dan Bacher looks at how the Pit River tribe and allies are rallying to protect Medicine Lake; Danica Jorden examines the actual popularity of the movement to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Ajamu Nangwaya offers a fact sheet on police violence in the Jane-Finch community of Toronto; Joe Uehlein presents a climate protection guide to organized labor; Gary Ruskin reveals the corporate ties behind the attacks on the nonprofit US Right to Know; Kenneth Roberts questions the Second Amendment; John Geyman examines the ACA's impact on the quality of US health care; and more.
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