Sunday, August 16, 2015

RSN: Report: Climate Change Will Cause Food Shortage, Civil Unrest, AT&T Helped NSA Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic, Jeffrey Sterling | 'Where Are You?': An Open Letter to American Civil Liberties Groups,





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James Risen | AT&T Helped NSA Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic 
AT&T. (photo: Jack Plunkett/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Julia Angwin, Charlie Savage, Jeff Larson, Henrik Moltke, Laura Poitras and James Risen, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive." 
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Jeffrey Sterling | 'Where Are You?': An Open Letter to American Civil Liberties Groups 
Jeffrey Sterling, St. Louis Post Dispatch 
Sterling writes: "Where were you? Where were you when I was faced with blatant discrimination at my job, when my employer told me I was 'too big and too black' to do the job?" 
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Sherrod Brown Blocks Obama Trade Nominee, Demands Release of TPP 
Vicki Needham, The Hill 
Needham writes: "Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Friday that he will block a trade nominee's Senate floor vote until the Obama administration makes the text of a sweeping transpacific agreement available to eligible staffers." 
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Julian Bond, US Civil Rights Activist, Dies Aged 75 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Bond died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Florida after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he was considered a symbol and icon of the 1960s civil rights movement in the US." 
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Black Lives Matter Organizers Labeled as "Threat Actors" by Cybersecurity Firm 
Brandon Ellington Patterson, Mother Jones 
Patterson writes: "Documents from a 'crisis management' report produced by the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox indicate that the firm monitored Black Lives Matter protesters during the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore earlier this year." 
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Investigations Into Planned Parenthood Are Falling Totally Flat 
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress 
Culp-Ressler writes: "Following the release of several inflammatory videos that suggest Planned Parenthood is improperly profiting from the sale of 'aborted baby parts,' GOP lawmakers have been quick to condemn the national women's health organization. However, their current strategies to attack Planned Parenthood are falling short." 
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Report: Climate Change Will Cause Food Shortage, Civil Unrest 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Climate change will make global food shortages three times more likely, which a joint U.S.-British task force cautioned could cause civil unrest in low-income countries as a result of production shocks and price hikes." 
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