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News & Views | 10.08.15

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		‘We Will Stand for Ourselves’: Global Movement Takes Aim at COP21 by Deirdre Fulton “The Paris moment will be defined not by what happens in the negotiating halls, but in the streets of Paris and around the world.”

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		NATO Rattles Sabers as Russia Escalates in Syria by Andrea Germanos The defense ministers agreed to set up two NATO units in Hungary and Slovakia, and gave the ok to doubling its Response Force to 40,000.
		After Years of Backroom Secrecy, Public Will Finally Get to See Full TPP Text   by Deirdre Fulton U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman has said the text will be made available to the public at large in approximately 30 days—on or around November 7.
		Lead Poisoning Fears Finally Stir Action, But Does It Come Too Late for People of Flint? by Sarah Lazare In a city that’s over 56 percent black, and plagued with poverty and unemployment, many expressed concern that the year of inaction will have lasting impact.
		‘Big Win’ for Divestment Movement as California Public Pensions Dump Coal by Jon Queally The two largest public pension funds in the United States will now be forced to divest from any company whose primary profits are related to the mining or use of thermal coal.
		Unsealed Documents Show Pinochet ‘Directly’ Involved in Capitol Hill Assassinations  by Sarah Lazare Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt became “symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship.”
		Not Satisfied With Obama Apology, MSF Repeats Demand for Independent Probe by Sarah Lazare The pledge falls far short of what MSF is asking for: an independent investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
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		Listen to Syrians: The Media Jackals and the People’s Narrative  by Ramzy Baroud Certainly, it is already late for too many Syrians whose stories were buried with them, but it is not too late for many who are still alive.
		Welcome to a New Planet: Climate ‘Tipping Points’ and the Fate of the Earth   by Michael T. Klare Not so long ago, it was science fiction. Now, it’s hard science — and that should frighten us all.
		Why Bombing a Hospital Is a War Crime by Robert C. Koehler The hospital was not “collateral damage”; it was deliberately targeted, deliberately destroyed.
		The Trade Creature Walks Among Us! by Michael Winship Like all manmade, fantastical creatures, this TPP thing has been conceived in secret. Top secret. You could even go to jail for divulging its contents.
		Obama Boots Syrian Peace Chance   by Robert Parry President Obama thinks he can appease the neocons and liberal hawks by talking tough about Syria and Russia but – in doing so – he is throwing away a promising opportunity to resolve the Syrian conflict, plus he still gets bashed by Official Washington’s pundits.
		Grace Lee Boggs: A Century of Grass-Roots Organizing   by Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan  “You don’t choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.”
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