RSN: 9 Fortune 500 Companies Pledge to Go 100% Renewable, Hillary Clinton: Republicans Don't Just Oppose Abortion. They Oppose Family Planning and Contraception.

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Paul Krugman | The Rage of the Bankers 
 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "Last week the Federal Reserve chose not to raise interest rates. It was the right decision. In fact, I'm among the economists wondering why we're even thinking about raising rates right now." 
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David Sirota | Volkswagen Case Spotlights Lawmakers From Competing Auto Manufacturing States 
David Sirota, International Business Times 
Sirota writes: "The hearings would appear to be a straightforward affair, pitting U.S. legislators against a foreign conglomerate caught evading American laws. But the congressional politics may end up being far more complex, as powerful GOP lawmakers from two automobile states have competing local interests at stake." 
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Ashraf Ghani, Afghan President, Vows to Crack Down on Abuse of Boys 
Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times 
Rosenberg writes: "Addressing revulsion at the widespread sexual abuse of boys by powerful Afghan commanders, President Ashraf Ghani pledged on Wednesday that his government would do what it could to stamp out a practice that is pervasive among many wealthy and prominent men in his country." 
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Hillary Clinton: Republicans Don't Just Oppose Abortion. They Oppose Family Planning and Contraception. 
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post 
Sargent writes: "Clinton has defended Planned Parenthood before, but in the portion of the Des Moines Register interview in which she discussed the group, she telegraphed a more detailed response." 
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Think the Black Panthers Were a Hate Group? You Have More in Common With Them Than You Think 
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress 
Townes writes: "Decades after the party was formed, the Black Panthers have actually shaped the status quo, from their cop watching and stance against mass incarceration to their holistic approach to overhauling an oppressive system." 
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Hundreds Killed in Haj Stampede in Saudi Arabia 
Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters 
Al-Mughrabi writes: "At least 717 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi authorities said, the worst disaster to strike the annual haj pilgrimage in 25 years." 
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9 Fortune 500 Companies Pledge to Go 100% Renewable 
Cole Mellino, EcoWatch 
Mellino writes: "Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Salesforce, Starbucks, Steelcase, Voya Financial and Walmart joined RE100, pledging to source 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy 'to reduce CO2 emissions and seize the business benefits,' says the nonprofit The Climate Group." 
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RSN: Boston Cop Beats Unarmed Woman on Bus, Pulls Gun on Witnesses, Pope Francis's Philadelphia Prison Visit Highlights Crisis in US Justice System

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Glenn Greenwald | The Anti-Muslim Controversies of the Last Week, Reimagined

Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "Those who justify bigotry against Muslims are typically fond of cherry-picking passages from the Quran to depict Islam as an ideology of evil, as though all Muslims interpret those passages and apply them to their lives the same way."
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US Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies' Abuse of Boys
Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times
Goldstein writes: "Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene - in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records."
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Pope Francis's Philadelphia Prison Visit Highlights Crisis in US Justice System
Alan Yuhas, Guardian UK
Yuhas writes: "Some 80% of the inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility have not yet been convicted of the crime with which they were charged. Most of them are behind bars because they have not paid or cannot afford to pay bail while awaiting trial."
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Teamsters Protest as Treasury Debates Allowing Pension Cuts for 1.5 Million Retirees
Bruce Vail, In These Times
Vail writes: "About 300 angry Teamsters descended on Washington, D.C., September 10, demanding federal action to protect the pensions of union members threatened with benefit cuts."
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Boston Cop Beats Unarmed Woman on Bus, Pulls Gun on Witnesses
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress
Townes writes: "The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Department in Boston is currently under fire, after video of an officer hitting an unarmed black woman with a baton on a bus went viral Friday. When witnesses - the majority of whom were black - attempted to de-escalate the situation, the unnamed officer pulled his gun on them."
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Immigration Reform: Obama Helping Immigrants to Become Citizens and Vote Ahead of 2016 Elections
Elizabeth Whitman, International Business Times
Whitman writes: "The White House is urging 8.8 million legal U.S. residents eligible for naturalization to do precisely that: become U.S. citizens and gain the right to vote."
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Four Ways Monsanto Might Launch 'Sneak Attack' to Get DARK Act Passed in Senate
Ronnie Cummins and Alexis Baden-Mayer, EcoWatch
Excerpt: "Could Monsanto be cooking up another 'sneak attack,' similar to the one it conducted in 2013, that led to passage of the Monsanto Protection Act? Only this time, the sneak attack would be aimed at stomping out the GMO labeling movement?"
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