Friday, August 15, 2014

RSN: Unarmed Black Man, Ezell Ford, Shot, Killed by Police in Los Angeles, Ignoring Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers




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Robert Parry | Ignoring Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers
The Wolfsangel symbol of Adolf Hitler's SS on a banner in Ukraine. (photo: unknown)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "You might think a story about modern-day Nazi storm troopers attacking a European city without mercy would merit front-page coverage in the U.S. press."
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Report: White House in the Dark Over Arms Supplies to Israel
Adam Entous, The Wall Street Journal
Entous reports: "White House and State Department officials...were caught off guard last month when they learned that the Israeli military had been quietly securing supplies of ammunition from the Pentagon without their approval."
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Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman | NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman, The Intercept
Greenwald and Fishman report: "With this report, Temple-Raston seriously misled NPR's millions of listeners."
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Matthew Harwood | To Terrify and Occupy
Matthew Harwood, TomDispatch
Harwood writes: "The cancer of militarized policing has long been metastasizing in the body politic."
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Unarmed Black Man, Ezell Ford, Shot, Killed by Police in Los Angeles
Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root
Crockett reports: "While the country is still reeling from the news and aftermath of the fatal shooting by police of unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown, KTLA is reporting that a 25-year-old mentally challenged man was shot and killed in Los Angeles while lying on the ground."
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Wages in U.S. Down 23 Percent Since 2008
Cliff Pinckard, Northeast Ohio Media Group
Pinckard reports: "While 8.7 million jobs have been regained since the 2008 recession, they are paying much less, by an average of 23 percent."
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Feds Ignore Science, Imperiling Wolverines
Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams
Fulton reports: "Despite evidence that climate change threatens their habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it was withdrawing a proposal to list North American wolverines as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act."
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