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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Scientists Warn: Paris Climate Agreement Needs Massive Improvement

The current text doesn’t even mention “fossil fuels” and lacks strong language on human rights.

MARK HERTSGAARD

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Nearly 400 Anti-Abortion Bills Were Introduced Across the Country This Year

Forty-seven new restrictions passed, including clinic regulations, mandatory waiting periods, and measures aimed at Planned Parenthood.

ZOË CARPENTER

For These Refugees, Trump’s Threats Are Already a Reality

For one group of Bangladeshi asylum seekers, the threat of “banning Muslims” is far from hypothetical.

MICHELLE CHEN

Eric Holder on Voting Rights, Black Lives Matter, Karl Rove and Tupac

The country’s first black attorney general candidly discusses the state of civil rights in America.

ARI BERMAN

Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem

On this week’s podcast, Laila Lalami on ISIS and American Muslims, Joan Walsh on our distorted gun politics, and Amy Wilentz and Tom Lutz on Chernobyl.

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Washington to Whomever: Please Fight the Islamic State for Us

Why the Gulf States, the Kurds, the Turks, the Sunnis, and the Shia won’t fight America’s war.

PETER VAN BUREN

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This One Suit Could Take Down Oklahoma’s Oil And Gas Industry

Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma city cop, was found guilty last night on multiple counts of rape. While it's not uncommon for cops to be accused, it's quite rare for the crimes to be prosecuted. All of the victims are women of color. And, while Trump has whipped the party into a frenzy, it's worth remembering: Republicans weren't always the party of Islamophobia. Take it from George W. Bush.

Former Cop Found Guilty Of Raping Multiple Women, Faces 263 Years Behind Bars

Ted Cruz Challenged Science At His Climate Change Hearing. Science Won.

“Facts matter, science matters, data matters. That’s what this hearing is about.”...(read more)

Democratic Congresswoman Makes Offensive Claim About Muslims

This One Suit Could Take Down Oklahoma’s Oil And Gas Industry

How Republicans Became The Party Of Islamophobia

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Friday, December 11, 2015

It Can’t Happen Here?

Ron Briley: While some politicians are taking advantage of the terrorist threat to foster fear among the American people, they are abetted by the news media which feeds a twenty-four hour news cycle with images of death and destruction amid reports of possible further attacks.

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Extinction Is Forever

Robert J. Burrowes: Recent estimates indicate that 200 species of life are driven to extinction each day. Every day. This rate exceeds that during the last mass extinction event, when the dinosaurs vanished 65 million years ago.

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Haiti Election Aftermath: Fraud, Apathy, or Organized Chaos?

Regine Barjon and Georgianne Nienaber:Politicians in Haiti need to start behaving like true leaders in a democracy that is obviously struggling.

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The Best Preventative Measures Against HIV/AIDS

Rosemary Jenkins:What is beautiful and amazing about this drug is that, in a recent clinical study, 100% of participants in the at-risk group have remained free of infection.

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Why Voting Is Key for KPFK’s Survival

King Reilly: KPFK’s Board of Directors Election is ongoing untilJan. 4th, 2016. If enough voters don’t vote, KPFK will not have an elected Board of Directors and will continue its death spiral.

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The Inside Story of Shell’s Arctic Assault

Dec 9th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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A months-long investigation shows how the energy giant pressured the Interior Department during the company’s gung-ho Arctic push—and got most of what it wanted (except oil).

By Barry Yeoman: December 08, 2015

Last May, four months before the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell suspended exploration in offshore Alaska, Christopher Putnam needed to get something off his chest.

Putnam is 44, originally from Texas, a trained wildlife biologist who also served as an Army infantry sergeant during the Iraq War. For almost six years he has worked in Alaska for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, protecting marine mammals. It has been his job to ensure that Shell’s plans to drill more than 60 miles offshore in the Chukchi Sea—the wild Arctic water between Alaska and Siberia—wouldn’t harm Pacific walruses, particularly the juveniles, calves, and nursing mothers that dominate the Chukchi during the drilling season.