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Matt Taibbi | For David Brooks, the Rich Are People, the Poor Are Numbers

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Matt Taibbi | For David Brooks, the Rich Are People, the Poor Are Numbers
Rolling Stone investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. (photo: HBO)

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "When David Brooks writes about rich people, he's basing his observations on personal experience, describing the wonders of modern bourgeois culture he's seen with his own eyes. But when he writes about the poor, he's pretty much always citing some scary academic study. The rich are people to him, while the poor are numbers."
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Ferguson: Two Police Officers Shot Near Protest
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "Two police officers have been shot in Ferguson, Missouri, as a small demonstration wound down in the city gripped by unrest since the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old last year."
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Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson Resigns
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "The embattled police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, is to resign a week after his department was accused of racial bias in a scathing report by the US government, he announced on Wednesday."
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Iran Rejects Republican Threats to Peace Deal
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Iran's foreign minister Tuesday dismissed a recent letter by United States Republican Senators, in which they warned Iran against any nuclear deal with President Barack Obama, and called the letter a 'propaganda ploy.'"
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Utah Lawmakers OK Use of Firing Squad for Executions
Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "Utah has passed a bill that would make it the only U.S. state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death sentence if there is a shortage of execution drugs."
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The Real Root of Knife Attack on US Ambassador to South Korea
Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor
Marquand writes: "The issue has become so emotional that, with the attack on Lippert, 'it has now come back to bite Mrs. Park, who has been encouraging these ultra-nationalist groups and waves of anti-Japanese sentiments.'"
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US Solar Energy Industry Achieves Record-Shattering Year
Rhone Resch, EcoWatch
Resch writes: "America's solar energy industry, which continues to grow at a very brisk pace, now has more employees than tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter combined. And to top it all off, 2014 turned out to be another record-shattering year!"
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