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Naomi Klein | Oligarchy and Climate Change: A Catastrophic Coincidence

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Naomi Klein | Oligarchy and Climate Change: A Catastrophic Coincidence
Best selling author/activist Naomi Klein. (photo: Anya Chibis/Guardian UK)

Naomi Klein, The Guardian
Klein writes: "It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s."
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Thousands March in Selma as Obama Calls for Voting Rights Protections
Tom McCarthy and Kayla Epstein, The Guardian
Excerpt: "Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama on Sunday to reprise one of the most powerful acts of the civil rights era."
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Britain Announces More Troops to Iraq
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The British government announced Sunday that it will deploy 70 more army personnel to Iraq, following the 350 troops announced in December 2014."
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Israel Marks International Women's Day With Brutality
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Over a thousand women demanding the end of the occupation were met with violence."
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Unions Oppose Trade Agreements' Assault on Workers
Vicki Needham, The Hill
Needham writes: "Labor unions and other groups opposed to free-trade policies are ramping up a spring offensive against the White House and congressional Republicans with new trade legislation set to emerge in the coming weeks."
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Saudi Arabia, US Ally, Becomes World's Top Arms Importer
RT
Excerpt: "Saudi Arabia has become the world's biggest importer of weapons and defensive systems, overtaking the previous record holder, India, according to a new report which examined the arms trade across 65 countries last year."
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Oversight Needed for CIA Drone Killings and Arming of Syrian Rebels
Ken Dilanian, AP
Dilanian writes: "The Senate report on the CIA's post-Sept. 11 interrogations shows how a rigorous examination of a secret agency can expose misconduct, incompetence and bureaucratic spin, even to those who question the investigation's assertion that torture did not work."
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