{"id":21892,"date":"2016-05-19T20:07:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21892"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T03:07:50","slug":"thursday-tidbits-may-19-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/thursday-tidbits-may-19-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Tidbits May 19, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire<\/strong><\/span>
\n\tThe brilliant Andrew Bacevich tells Salon why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one war<\/strong>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/05\/15\/the_scope_of_our_failure_the_real_story_of_our_decades_long_foreign_policy_disaster_that_set_the_middle_east_on_fire\/?source=newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Daring women in the Middle East and North Africa are leading the charge for progress<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttps:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/daring-women-leading-charge-for-progress\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Where the Roads Are Paved With Coffee <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2016\/05\/15\/coffee-roads?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-05-16<\/a><\/p>\n

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Letting Kids Write and Be Weird in San Francisco’s Last Ungentrified Hood<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2016\/05\/15\/last-ungentrified-hood-san-francisco-creative-writing-center-low-income?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-05-16<\/a><\/p>\n

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Little Sweatshop of Horrors: Pop-up Store Puts Fast Fashion on Blast (hat tip Joanne)<\/strong><\/span>
\n\tThe dressing room at The Mad Rush in Amsterdam gave customers more than they bargained for.<\/strong>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2016\/05\/17\/sweatshop-horrors-pop-up-puts-fast-fashion-on-blast?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-05-17<\/a><\/p>\n

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The fortune cookie note that helped her heal after a friend was murdered.<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/the-fortune-cookie-note-that-helped-her-heal-after-a-friend-was-murdered?c=upw1<\/a><\/p>\n

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Colombian government, rebels agree peace deal to be constitutionally binding<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-colombia-rebels-idAFKCN0Y402B<\/a><\/p>\n

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Unemployment for young black grads is still worse than it was for young white grads in the aftermath of the recession<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/unemployment-for-young-black-grads-is-still-worse-than-it-was-for-young-white-grads-in-the-aftermath-of-the-recession\/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=c4f6de470f-EPI_News_05_13_165_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-c4f6de470f-58013205<\/a><\/p>\n

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You better learn about this new technology before it transforms the world<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/you-better-learn-about-this-new-technology-before-it-transforms-the-world\/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly-static<\/a><\/p>\n

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Boom Town<\/strong><\/span>
\n\tWhat happened when Wall Street reform came to Congo’s frontier mining towns<\/strong>
\n\thttps:\/\/medium.com\/@EnoughProject\/boom-town-afe0075ce163#.1v7r9f2rf<\/a><\/p>\n

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Successful Swiss Addiction Treatment Program Ignored by U.S. Congress (video)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Howard Wooldridge, an 18-year veteran police officer who has been advocating for adapting a similar program in the U.S., gets zero response from Washington lawmakers<\/strong>
\n\thttp:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16353<\/a><\/p>\n

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HuffPo: How to Make a Trump (brief video)<\/strong><\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/kpdailyfunnies.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/huffpo-how-to-make-trump.html#.VzW19hWDGko<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire The brilliant Andrew Bacevich tells Salon why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one war https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/05\/15\/the_scope_of_our_failure_the_real_story_of_our_decades_long_foreign_policy_disaster_that_set_the_middle_east_on_fire\/?source=newsletter   Daring women in the Middle East and North Africa are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}