RSN: Canadians Can't Drink Their Water After 1.3 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Flows Into Rivers

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There Is a New National Security Whistleblower

Evan Perez, CNN
Perez reports: "Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden's leaks."
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Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Gaza Start in Cairo
Karin Laub, Maggie Michael, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Israel and Hamas began indirect talks on a new border deal for the blockaded Gaza Strip as a cease-fire ending their month-long war entered its second day Wednesday."
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Feinstein Rejects CIA Torture Report Redactions Ahead of Public Release
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
Ackerman reports: "The key senator behind a landmark congressional investigation into the CIA's use of torture has rejected redactions made by the Obama administration ahead of a planned public release of the politically charged report."
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Why Do Two White Americans Get the Ebola Serum While Hundreds of Africans Die?
Arthur L. Caplan, The Washington Post
Caplan writes: "Is there a case to suspend ethical norms if lives might be saved by deploying an experimental drug?"
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Rupert Murdoch's Fox Abandons Time Warner Takeover Bid
Jennifer Saba, Soyoung Kim, Reuters
Saba and Kim report: "Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA.O) decided to pull its $80 billion offer to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) on Tuesday, abandoning plans to create one of the world's largest media conglomerates."
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Canadians Can't Drink Their Water After 1.3 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Flows Into Rivers
Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress
Valentine reports: "Hundreds of people in British Columbia can't use their water after more than a billion gallons of mining waste spilled into rivers and creeks in the province's Cariboo region."
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