Friday, June 5, 2015

RSN: Israeli War Planes Bomb Gaza, WikiLeaks Releases Documents of TISA, the TPP's Big Brother, New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying





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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Turn Left on Main Street 
A recent Bernie Sanders rally in Minneapolis, MN, held on May 31, 2015. (photo: Sanders for President Campaign)
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company 
Excerpt: "A trade agreement that favors multinational corporations over working people? Cutting 'entitlement programs' such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, worker's compensation? Letting Wall Street off the hook for crashing the economy and costing millions of Americans their jobs and homes? These are Republican policies, bought and paid for by plutocrats." 
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WikiLeaks Releases Documents of TISA, the TPP's Big Brother 
Sam Thielman and Phillip Inman, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "WikiLeaks on Wednesday released 17 different documents related to the Trade in Services Agreement (Tisa), a controversial pact currently being hashed out between the US and 23 other countries - most of them in Europe and South America." 
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New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying 
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson and Henrik Moltke, ProPublica and Charlie Savage, New York Times 
Excerpt: "Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents." 
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Dolores Huerta and the Struggle 
Dennis J. Bernstein, Consortium News 
Bernstein writes: "Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of the United Farm Workers and 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, says the causes of economic and racial justice for which she has devoted her life require truly independent media as well as a recognition of the challenges that previous generations of activists have faced and overcome." 
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Israeli War Planes Bomb Gaza 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Israel conducted a series of bombing raids on Gaza Thursday, hitting at least three sites in the coastal enclave." 
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St. Louis Eyes $15 Minimum Wage: 'If We Can Win Here, We Can Win Anywhere' 
Jana Kasperkevic, Guardian UK 
Kasperkevic writes: "St Louis could be the next city to raise its minimum wage significantly, if Mayor Francis Slay has his way." 
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Released From Prison, Anti-Nuclear Activist Nun Megan Rice Speaks Out 
Lisa De Bode, Al Jazeera America 
Excerpt: "We don't use the word 'break in' because we didn't break in. We entered the Y-12 facility, legally. And I'd just like to make the statement that all citizens are required to expose and oppose known crimes, equally responsible, according to their ability, and according to their situation. And we had known well of the crime of nuclear weapons." 
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