Common Dreams News and Views 29 May 2014

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News & Views | 05.29.14

Featured…

Norman Solomon: An Assault from Obama’s Escalating War on Journalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29

Headlines…

John ‘Man Up’ Kerry Faces Firestorm for Snowden Remarks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-1

‘Permanent Protest Vigil’ Launched to Confront First Tar Sands Mine in US
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-3

New Orleans Nearly Finished Killing Off Its Public Schools
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-2

Downed Helicopter Kills 14 as Ukraine ‘Fratricidal War’ Deepens
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29-0

Snowden: Exposing NSA Overreach an Act of ‘Civil Disobedience’
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/29

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Video…

Things You Didn’t Know About Maya Angelou
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/05/29

Extended Presence of US Military Will Not Bring An End To Violence In Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/05/29-0

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Views…

Amy Goodman: Maya Angelou, Still She Rises
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-10

Sonali Kolhatkar: From Elections to Mass Movements: How Wealthy Elites Are Hijacking Democracy All Over the World
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-9

Glen Ford: Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: US Training Death Squads
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-4

Tom Engelhardt: The Big Brotherness of It All
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-2

Cinzia Arruzza: The Left’s European Conundrum
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-7

Robert Parry: Obama’s Neoconservative Foreign Policy Vision
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/29-1

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Newswire…

Institute for Public Accuracy: Egyptian Election: ‘Farce’ or ‘Quest for Security’?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/29-1

Friends of the Earth: White House Doubles Down on ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/29-0

ROC United: 160,000 Tipped Workers Left Behind in Michigan’s New Minimum Wage Law
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/05/29

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