Thursday, August 11, 2016

RSN: Tom Engelhardt | The Greatest Show on Earth: How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016, Exxon's Latest Campaign to Stymie Climate Action, How the US Spies on Medical Nonprofits and Health Defenses Worldwide




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Robert Parry | Hillary Clinton's Turn to McCarthyism 
Hillary Clinton. (photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "Hillary Clinton's campaign is engaging in over-the-top Russia-bashing and guilt-by-association tying Donald Trump to the Kremlin, a McCarthyism that previously has been used on Democrats, including Bill Clinton." 
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Tom Engelhardt | The Greatest Show on Earth: How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016 
Tom Engelhardt, Tom Dispatch 
Engelhardt writes: "Look on the bright side: the Republican and Democratic conventions are in the rearview mirror and a mere three months of endless yakking are left until Election Day." 
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Jenna McLaughlin | How the US Spies on Medical Nonprofits and Health Defenses Worldwide 
Jenna McLaughlin, The Intercept 
McLaughlin writes: "As part of an ongoing effort to 'exploit medical intelligence,' the National Security Agency teamed up with the military-focused Defense Intelligence Agency to extract "medical SIGINT" from the intercepted communications of nonprofit groups starting in the early 2000s, a top-secret document shows." 
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Woman Fatally Shot by Florida Officer Role-Playing as 'Bad Guy' During Citizen Police Academy 
Katie Mettler and Kristine Guerra, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Lethal force simulations are usually safe, acted out with either fake or empty weapons. But on Tuesday, when an officer's gun was fired, Mary Knowlton - a mother, wife and career librarian - was hit with live ammunition." 
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The Media's Olympics Coverage Reminds Us Just How Taxing It Is to Be a Female Athlete 
Claire Landsbaum, New York Magazine 
Landsbaum writes: "The Summer Olympics - that series of sporting events that whips spectators into a patriotic frenzy every four years - started just four days ago, but several media outlets have already reminded us exactly how taxing it is to be a female athlete." 
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Brazil Senate Votes for Dilma Rousseff Impeachment Trial 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The process which has been widely condemned as a parliamentary coup continues to move forward, despite protests and international condemnation." 
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Exxon's Latest Campaign to Stymie Climate Action 
Elliott Negin, EcoWatch 
Negin writes: "Recent press accounts report that ExxonMobil is now actively promoting a carbon tax. If true, that's big news. It would mean that, after nearly 20 years of blocking action on climate change, the world's biggest energy company has finally come to its senses. Is this anything more than a PR ploy?" 
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