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Libya remains deeply splintered by regions and factions. More than 500 militias exist throughout the country, leading to ongoing human rights abuses that resemble those under the Gaddafi regime.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Spying On Campus: New York Police Caught Monitoring Muslim Student Groups Throughout Northeast","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/21/spying_on_campus_new_york_police","date":"2012/02/21","id":8576428,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"the New York City Police Department monitored Muslim college students at schools throughout the Northeast, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. In one case, the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip in upstate New York, where he recorded students\u2019 names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed.","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"4","title":"Trapped in unemployment","url":"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57380880/a-new-jobs-program-for-people-trapped-in-unemployment/","date":"2012/02/20","id":8573326,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Meet the new underclass -- the four million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year. With every additional week out of work, their chances of finding a job dwindle. It turns out that many employers don't want to hire the currently unemployed. Enter Joe Carbone , who is determined to return the American dream to the long-term unemployed in Connecticut. And he's succeeding, one job at a time. How's Carbone doing it? Scott Pelley reports.","authors":"Scott Pelley","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"CBS News","framebuster":false,"id":"cbs_news","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"2.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"Study: Whites More Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks","url":"http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/","date":"2012/02/20","id":8574552,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.","authors":"Maia Szalavitz","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"Time","framebuster":false,"id":"time","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"2","title":"Cardinals' ascension clouded by intrigue","url":"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57380807/cardinals-ascension-clouded-by-intrigue/","date":"2012/02/18","id":8571230,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Pope Benedict XVI elevated 22 men to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican Saturday.\nBut the joyous occasion was overshadowed by difficult days for the church.","authors":"Allen Pizzey","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"CBS News","framebuster":false,"id":"cbs_news","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"2","title":"Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter","url":"http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/africa/kenya-tweeting-chief/index.html","date":"2012/02/18","id":8571229,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.","authors":"Faith Karimi","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"CNN","framebuster":false,"id":"cnn","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.1","num_reviews":"1","title":"Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/iran-nuclear-iraq-media-coverage_n_1280772.html","date":"2012/02/17","id":8569549,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Military strikes expected! Weapons inspectors called in! A murky al Qaeda connection! And Cheney says time's up for Ira... Wait. Haven't we seen this movie before?","authors":"Michael Calderone","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"1","title":"Will Chevron case take down trade pact investor-state system?","url":"http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5314","date":"2012/02/17","id":8569552,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"After having lost on the merits in Ecuador and U.S. courts, Chevron has turned to an ad hoc \u201cinvestor-state\u201d tribunal of three private lawyers to help the company avoid paying to clean up horrific contamination in the Amazonian rainforest.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"citizen.org","framebuster":false,"id":"citizen_org","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"4.4","num_reviews":"2","title":"Anthony Shadid (1968-2012): Incomparable, Pulitzer-Winning Middle East Correspondent Dies in Syria","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/17/anthony_shadid_1968_2012_incomparable_pulitzer","date":"2012/02/17","id":8571234,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid has died at the age of 43. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack on Thursday while covering the conflict in Syria. An American of Lebanese descent who spoke fluent Arabic, Shadid captured dimensions of life in the Middle East that many others failed to see. His exceptional coverage won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2010 for international reporting while covering the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Shadid has been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the past decade reporting on Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon. We air excerpts from our last interview with Shadid in April 2011, just after he returned home following his six-day capture in Libya by Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces. [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}}]