Monday, May 16, 2016

RSN: Climate Activists Protest Fossil Fuels, Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist 'Hate Crime', CIA Spy Tip-Off Led to Arrest of Nelson Mandela: Report




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Michael Moore Says Flint Water Crisis Is a Racist 'Hate Crime'
Michael Moore. (photo: Where to Invade Next)
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Filmmaker Michael Moore calls the Flint water crisis an issue of racism, as the mostly Black and poor residents of the town will now be faced with expensive water bills."
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CIA Spy Tip-Off Led to Arrest of Nelson Mandela: Report
AFP
Excerpt: "A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela's arrest, beginning the leader's 27 years behind bars, a report said on Sunday."
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Peter Van Buren | Poof! It's Forgotten, Five Ways the Newest Story in Iraq and Syria Is ... That There Is No New Story
Peter Van Buren, Tom Dispatch
Van Buren writes: "We've been winning in Iraq for some time now - a quarter-century of successes, from 1991's triumphant Operation Desert Storm to 2003's soaring Mission Accomplished moment to just about right now in the upbeat third iteration of America's Iraq wars. But in each case, in a Snapchat version of victory, success has never seemed to catch on."
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Senate Report on CIA Torture Is One Step Closer to Disappearing
Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News!
Isikoff writes: "The CIA inspector general's office - the spy agency's internal watchdog - has acknowledged it 'mistakenly' destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved."
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Justice Stevens Calls 2008 Voter ID Ruling a 'Fairly Unfortunate Decision'
Robert Barnes, The Washington Post
Barnes writes: "In the rapid expansion of states with voter-identification laws and the backlash of litigation that always follows, there is one constant from proponents: that the Supreme Court already has declared them constitutional."
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Brazil's Senate-Imposed Government Increasingly Isolated
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Argentine President Mauricio Macri remains the only head of state to openly state support for Senate-imposed president Michel Temer in Brazil."
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Climate Activists Protest Fossil Fuels
Reuters
Excerpt: "Hundreds of climate change activists in Washington state and New York mobilized on Saturday as part of a global protest against fossil fuels."
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