Saturday, September 6, 2014

RSN: Hillary Clinton Calls Out Climate Deniers at Clean Energy Summit, The US Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations



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Glenn Greenwald | The US Government's Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Glenn Greenwald. (photo: Salon)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Throughout the last year, the U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that it does not engage in economic and industrial espionage, in an effort to distinguish its own spying from China's infiltrations of Google, Nortel, and other corporate targets."
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Ceasefire Holds in Eastern Ukraine, Exchange of POWs Planned
Gabriela Baczynska and Aleksandar Vasovic, Reuters
Excerpt: "An uneasy calm prevailed in eastern Ukraine on Saturday after Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists signed a ceasefire as part of a drive to end a war that has triggered a deep crisis in relations between Russia and the West."
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Obama Enlists 9 Allies to Help in the Battle Against ISIS
Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Cooper writes: "President Obama escalated the American response to the marauding Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Friday, recruiting at least nine allies to help crush the organization and offering the outlines of a coordinated military strategy that echoes the war on terror developed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, more than a decade ago."
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Judge Approves Central Park Five's $41M Wrongful Conviction Settlement
Guardian UK
Excerpt: "A US federal judge has approved New York City's $41m (£25m) settlement with five men who were wrongfully convicted in the brutal rape and beating of a Central Park jogger in 1989."
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Oklahoma Governor: No Executions Without New Rules
Tim Talley, Associated Press
Talley writes: " New procedures to improve Oklahoma's execution process must be implemented before the state resumes putting prisoners to death by lethal injection, Gov. Mary Fallin said after investigators presented their findings about an April case in which the inmate writhed and moaned on the gurney."
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Hillary Clinton Calls Out Climate Deniers at Clean Energy Summit
Anastasia Pantsios, EcoWatch
Pantsios writes: "As she continues to play a game of 'will-she/won't she' regarding a potential 2016 presidential run, Hillary Clinton called out climate change deniers while delivering a keynote address at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas this week."
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