Bill McKibben Calls FBI Tracking of Environmental Activists "Contemptible"

14 December 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT TO DONATE - We tend to do better towards the end of the fundraising drives than we do at the beginning. It's a bad approach. It ensures that the fundraising drives will be longer and the stress for everyone will be greater. It never used to be this way and it doesn't need to be this way now. This is all about “reasonable donations.” #FundingMatters - Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Bill McKibben Calls FBI Tracking of Environmental Activists "Contemptible"  Steve Hanley, Clean Technica Hanley writes: "As the result of a Freedom of Information suit brought by The Guardian, the FBI has revealed it maintained an open investigation of 350.org - the climate activism group founded by Bill McKibben - and its members as part of an ongoing anti-terrorism campaign." READ MORE Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, exits the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, February 28, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty) Paul Manafort Advised White House on How to Attack and Discredit Investigation of President Trump Murray Waas, Vox Waas writes: "We now have details as to how the indicted former campaign manager worked with the president to undermine federal law enforcement." READ MORE Jazmine Headley, 23, speaks to the media after she was released from Rikers Island in New York, December 11, 2018. (photo: WABC) Police Yanked a 1-Year-Old From His Mother's Arms During an Arrest. Prosecutors Dropped the Charges. Katie Mettler and Antonia Noori Farzan, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Five days after police arrested Headley - and after an investigation into an 'appalling' video that showed police pulling her child from her arms - authorities announced plans to drop all related charges against her." READ MORE Director of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty) Kirstjen Nielsen Decides to Blame Child's Death in Border Patrol Custody on Her Family Jack Crosbie, Splinter News Crosbie writes: "Nielsen chooses to blame the girl's family." READ MORE Cady Evans (left) and her sister, Crystal Deckard, surrounded by pictures of their mother, Darlene Coker, whose lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson 20 years ago was one of the first to allege that the company's Baby Powder caused cancer. (photo: Mike Blake/Reuters) Johnson & Johnson Hid Findings of Asbestos in Johnson's Baby Powder for Decades Lisa Girion, Reuters Girion writes: "Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product. But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos." READ MORE Right-wing Israelis, mostly from settlements in the West Bank, protest outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 13, 2018. (photo: AFP) After Israeli Soldiers Killed, Netanyahu Punishes Palestinians by Approving 2,000 Illegal Settler Homes teleSUR Excerpt: "A day after two Israeli soldiers were killed in the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that his government will authorize thousands of the settler homes built illegally in the occupied West Bank, some of them decades ago." READ MORE Appalachian mountains. (photo: iStock) Court Tosses Controversial Pipeline Permits, Rules Forest Service Failed to 'Speak for the Trees' John Murawski, The News & Observer Murawski writes: "A federal appeals has thrown out another key permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, increasing the likelihood that work on the 604-mile multi-state project could be held up until this summer if not longer." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation