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Flint: U.S. Government Continues is Policy of Mass Murder: Emergency Action Sought in Flint, Where Some Still Can’t Get Clean Water As Donald Trump visits city, activists and environmental groups refuse to be his photo op Emergency action needs to be taken for Flint, Michigan residents, two years into its lead poisoning crisis, as many residents still don’t have access to clean water, a coalition of environmental and human rights groups said on Wednesday. By Nadia Prupis
Insatiable: the Democrats Must Attack Democracy to Serve Corporate Power by Richard Moser
Assad’s Death Warrant “Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria. by Mike Whitney
Environment:
Silent Skies: North America Lost 1.5 Billion Birds Since 1970s, Says Report Most comprehensive survey of North American landbirds to date finds stunning and dramatic population decline over past 40 years by Nika Knight, staff writer
Above the Arctic Circle, climate change closes in on the remote town of Barrow “The coastline is backing up at rates of [30 to 65 feet] per year,” says Robert Anderson, a University of Boulder geomorphologist who has studied Alaska’s landscape evolution since 1985 and who first noticed in the early 2000s how alarming the erosion was becoming. “It’s baffling.” By Adam Popescu
Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
Why Do Oil Trains Derail More Often than Ethanol Trains? This is part two in a DeSmog investigative series examining why oil trains derail at higher rates than ethanol trains. More ethanol was moved by rail from 2010-2015 than oil, but oil trains derail at a higher rate and with more severe consequences. Part one addressed train length as a potential factor in derailments. By Justin Mikulka
Anthems and Anger: Why Brandon Marshall is Right During last week’s season-opening game against the Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall knelt during the national anthem to protest racial oppression and police brutality. This week, Bronco management set up a meeting between Marshall and Denver chief of police Robert White, who is black. White says that at the meeting he offered Marshall a chance to ride along with police and observe “shoot, don’t shoot” training which, according to the chief, teaches officers to make split-second decisions. In other words, they know they will be shooting more people in the future, otherwise why the “training”? by Lee Ballinger
Georgia’s Governor Wants To Turn His Public Schools Into Post Katrina New Orleans An utterly cynical and deceptively marketed constitutional amendment is on the ballot in Georgia. It’s called the “Opportunity School District” because it’s about creating business opportunities for the charter school sugar daddies who contribute to the governor. Elite Republicans and Democrats too from the First Black President down to local mayors all want school privatization, so they’ve disguised their privatization amendment as something else entirely. A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Feet Won’t Fail You Now: Vote With Them! Whatchu do on election day might be important, our poet affirms, but it’s by no means everything. Changing the world calls for a lot more stuff before, during, after and often enough in spite of elections, candidates and campaigns. by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
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