Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Alyeska Pipeline, the BP-led consortium that operates the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), has implemented deep budget cuts, deferred work on a number of important maintenance and upgrade projects, failed to study how relocating engineers would impact the safe operations and long-term integrity of the pipeline and is led by a chief executive who was described by the company's five vice presidents as 'intimidating,' 'demeaning,' 'aggressive,' 'confrontational,' 'unpredictable,' 'polarizing,' 'withering,' 'edgy,' 'vulgar' and 'inappropriate.' Those are just some of the critical findings contained in a closely held report obtained exclusively by Truthout."
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Here Be Dragons: In Bed With the US Army
Ann Jones, TomDispatch: "In the eight years I've reported on Afghanistan, I've 'embedded' regularly with Afghan civilians, especially women. Recently, however, with American troops 'surging' and journalists getting into the swing of the military's counterinsurgency 'strategy' (better known by its acronym, COIN), I decided to get with the program as well. Last June, I filed a request to embed with the U.S. Army."
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FBI Continues Attack on Civil Rights, Demands Increased Powers
Shahid Buttar, Truthout: "Last week, The Washington Post concluded a two-year investigation of our government's domestic spying activities, revealing a lack of accountability pervading its far-flung and vast operations. Last week, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming that the FBI is violating the constitutional rights of Americans en masse - as it has done before."
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Protesters Demand Immigrant Rights and Condemn the Arizona Law
David Bacon, Truthout: "In San Francisco and Oakland, immigrants and community activists protested Arizona's SB 1070, which would require police and local law enforcement to check the immigration status of people they suspect might be undocumented, on the day the law took effect. A day earlier, federal Judge Susan Bolton invalidated much of the law, but demonstrations involving thousands of people took place against the law around the country nevertheless."
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Scientists Deeply Concerned About BP Disaster's Long-Term Impact
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service: "Contrary to recent media reports of a quick recovery in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists and biologists are 'deeply concerned' about impacts that will likely span 'several decades.' 'My prediction is that we will be dealing with the impacts of this spill for several decades to come and it will outlive me,' Dr. Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer, as well as a marine and oyster biologist, told IPS, 'I won't be here to see the recovery.'"
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Dean Baker | Economists Tell the Masses: "It Could Have Been Worse"
Dean Baker, Truthout: "It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the fuel for the bubble, the economists played an essential role as enablers. This was most directly true for economists in policymaking positions, like Alan Greenspan at the Fed."
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Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III | A Sad Day in Harlem
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "After a nearly two-year investigation, a House subcommittee ethics panel formally charged Charles Rangel (D-New York) with 13 ethics violations. Congressman Rangel has been charged with improperly soliciting donations for a public center and library bearing his name and omitting over $600,000 of income and assets on disclosure statements. Is this deja vu all over again?"
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News in Brief: Iraq Combat Phase to "End," but Troops Remain, and More ...
Obama is expected to announce that US combat phase in Iraq will wrap up this month; the 2011 deadline for US troops in Afghanistan will remain; fallout from UK prime minister's remark about Pakistan continues; rocket hits Jordan, killing at least one; BP static kill to start this week; Internet Explorer joins the no-privacy list; Breitbart loses RNC gig.
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Student Deported With His Family Inspires DREAM Act Amendment
Kristi Eaton, Campus Progress: "Saad Nabeel is afraid to leave his apartment. He lives in a small apartment with his parents in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Nabeel doesn't know anything about Bangladesh. He doesn't speak Bengali, the country's official language, or understand Dhaka's local culture. Even its laws are a mystery to him. Because Nabeel looks and acts American, he feels that if he were to go out alone he could be kidnapped for ransom, something that happens fairly often in Bangladesh."
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A "Welfare Queen" Answers Back
Francine Almash, Truthout: "Recently, a friend of mine asked to interview me for an article she was writing on the chipping away of subsidized day care programs across the country. The point of her article was that, for many middle-class single parents, childcare subsidies are indispensable to our survival. She chose to speak with me not only because I am a friend and single mother (as she is), but also because I have had a range of experiences with the struggle for decent childcare for my children over the past 5 years, and subsidized childcare literally saved my life."
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Student Deported With His Family Inspires DREAM Act Amendment
Kristi Eaton, Campus Progress: "Saad Nabeel is afraid to leave his apartment. He lives in a small apartment with his parents in Dhaka, Bangladesh. But Nabeel doesn't know anything about Bangladesh. He doesn't speak Bengali, the country's official language, or understand Dhaka's local culture. Even its laws are a mystery to him. Because Nabeel looks and acts American, he feels that if he were to go out alone he could be kidnapped for ransom, something that happens fairly often in Bangladesh."
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Connie Schultz | Give the Kids a Healthy Start
Connie Schultz, Truthout: "Last year, Congress attempted to strike a blow for America's children by ordering a slew of agencies and departments to recommend standards for food advertising that targets kids. Miraculously, these agencies and departments came through - and boldly so." Read Article
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