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A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) to view this message in a browser window.  [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [] [] News & Views | 4/5/18 [] Feature... [] [Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [Shell](1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Royal Dutch Shell's scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files. [] [] News... [] [Not 50 Million, Not 87 Million... Facebook Admits Data From 'Most' of Its 2 Billion Users Compromised by 'Malicious Actors'](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [Facebook](1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Buried in Facebook's announcement that Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered data from up to 87 million users—rather than the previously reported 50 million—was the stunning admission that "malicious actors" exploited the social networking site's search features to collection information from "most" of its 2 billion users. --------------------------------------------------------------- [50+ Artificial Intelligence Scholars Launch Boycott of University Over Fears of 'Killer Robot' Weapons Lab](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul by Julia Conley, staff writer More than 50 artificial intelligence researchers and experts from nearly 30 countries around the world announced a boycott on Thursday of a South Korean university whose new defense partnership, they fear, could lead to the development of "killer robots." --------------------------------------------------------------- [With Call to Block 'Extremely Dangerous' Merger, Ad Campaign Will Target Sinclair on... Sinclair](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [Sinclair Ad](1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer As Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation's largest television owner, faces mounting scrutiny for its mandatory scripted segments and pending merger with Tribune Media, a consumer advocacy watchdog is targeting the company with a week-long advertising campaign on several of its own stations. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Calls for EPA Chief's Ouster Grow as Inspector General Launches New Probe of 'K Street B&B Patron' Scott Pruitt](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) 1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul by Jake Johnson, staff writer With Scott Pruitt already struggling mightily—even on such favorable terrain as Fox News—to explain away the mountain of impropriety he has accumulated during his tenure as EPA chief, a White House ethics official made his problems even worse on Wednesday by walking back an earlier conclusion that Pruitt's room rental from the wife of an energy lobbyist didn't violate federal rules. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Study Details How IEA's Rosy Outlook for Fossil Fuels Is Driving World Towards Climate Disaster](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul by Jon Queally, staff writer A new groundbreaking report out Thursday details how one of the most influential organizations in the world when it comes to the global energy system, the International Energy Agency (IEA), is holding back governments from making the necessary transition away from fossil fuels and towards the kind of rapid transition to renewables that scientists say is necessary to ward off the worst-case scenarios of global warming and the climate crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['I'll Say No': Oregon Governor Will Reject Any Request from Trump to Deploy National Guard to Border](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul by Julia Conley, staff writer Should President Donald Trump follow through on his plan to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to deter migration from Mexico and Central America, he won't be able to count on Oregon's 5,800 soldiers. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [] [] Views... [] [Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) ["50 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, the same racial injustices still confront the nation." (Photo: Poor People's Campaign/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Lewis M. Steel The movement looks to rebuild the cross-racial civil rights alliance that disintegrated during a half-century of counter-revolution. Their radical vision is more necessary than ever. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Missing Link in the Gun Debate](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [Members of the Patch High School drill team compete in the team exhibition portion of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill meet at Heidelberg High School April 25. (Photo: Kristen Marquez, Herald Post/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Greta Zarro The culture of war is pervasive in our society, through military-funded Hollywood films and video games, the militarization of the police, and JROTC and ROTC programs in our schools. --------------------------------------------------------------- [If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start with Big Pharma](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) ["Insys Therapeutics, a company whose founder was indicted for allegedly bribing doctors to write prescriptions for fentanyl (a substance 50 times stronger than heroin), spent $500,000 to stop marijuana legalization in Arizona in 2016." (Photo: Charles Williams/flikr/cc) ](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Domenica Ghanem Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Striking Teachers Are Fighting for Communities](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) ["A recent poll conducted by the Oklahoma association of teachers found, “93 percent of Oklahomans believe the state legislature has not done enough to increase funding for Oklahoma students and public schools." (Photo: @StepUpOklahoma/Twitter)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Jeff Bryant Not only have governing policies made teachers an unappreciated, underpaid workforce, but lawmakers have forced teachers into becoming first responders on the front lines of communities that are being disinvested and decimated. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Price Of Murder: Stop Funding the Israeli Military](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) ["As the world watches, the United States has blocked a draft statement in the UN Security Council calling for an investigation into the use of deadly force on protesters." (Photo: Jordi Bernabeu Farrús/Flickr/cc) ](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Huma Yasin The US continues to fund the Israeli war machine with little regard for human life. Then it wonders why Palestinians, and supporters of Palestine, aren't fond of it. --------------------------------------------------------------- [US Shootings: Gun Industry Killing More People Overseas](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) ["It's hard to estimate how many deaths the US is responsible for overseas, especially indirect ones and those that have resulted from illegal gun trading." (Photo: Chayak / Flickr)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) by Tamara Pearson In every measurable way, the U.S is head honcho of the global violence industry. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3AFhDoHP4ul) [] [] Newswire... 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