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Showing posts with label Laura Poitras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Poitras. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2015

RSN: Hidden Problem of 'Ghost Gear': The Abandoned Fishing Nets Clogging Up Oceans, Trump's Populism Is Really Racism and Classism,




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John Kiriakou | Trump's Populism Is Really Racism and Classism 
Donald Trump. (photo: AP) 
John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News 
Kiriakou writes: "Trump's phony populism is really nothing but racism, classism, and what has become of the conservative movement in this country." 
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Clinton Had Right to Delete Personal Emails, Justice Department Affirms 
Eric Tucker, Associated Press 
Tucker writes: "Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the Justice Department told a federal court." 
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Joseph Stiglitz | It's a No-Brainer to Keep Rates on Hold 
Joseph Stiglitz, MarketWatch 
Stiglitz writes: "There is strong evidence that economies perform better with a tight labor market and, as the International Monetary Fund has shown, lower inequality (and the former typically leads to the latter). Of course, the financiers and corporate executives see things differently: Low wages mean high profits." 
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After Snowden, Filmmaker Laura Poitras Takes On Julian Assange 
James Vincent, The Verge 
Vincent writes: "The first series of shorts, made by Poitras herself, will look at the story of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, chronicling his publication of diplomatic cables and his time spent in political asylum in London's Ecuadorian embassy." 
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The Laws Targeting Campus Rape Culture 
Tyler Bishop, The Atlantic 
Bishop writes: "Between now and the time that college students pack up for Thanksgiving break, more sexual assaults will happen on campuses nationwide than during any other time of the year. The 'Red Zone,' as this period is commonly known, is a time when new students are adjusting to the novelty and freedom of college life-and are thus particularly vulnerable to sexual assault." 
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Greek Polls Point to Conservative Leader as Surprise Winner of National Elections 
Helena Smith, Guardian UK 
Smith writes: "Mustachioed, tall and in many ways resembling a Cretan warlord, Vangelis Meimarakis, the man never meant to be a leader, may emerge as the surprise winner of the Greek elections next week." 
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Hidden Problem of 'Ghost Gear': The Abandoned Fishing Nets Clogging Up Oceans 
Hannah Gould, Guardian UK 
Gould writes: "Exact numbers are unknown, but the National Marine Fisheries Service reported an average of 11 entangled large whales per year from 2000 to 2012 along the US west coast. Around the world, seals, turtles, birds and fish are also injured and killed in the same way." 
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Friday, August 21, 2015

RSN: New Trial for NOPD Officers Convicted in Danziger Bridge Shootings, Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government, Hillary Clinton's 'Crazy' Email Blunder




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Eve Ensler | Trans People Have Been Caricatures for Too Long 
Eve Ensler. (photo: Martin Argles/Guardian) 
Eve Ensler, Guardian UK 
Ensler writes: "Eleven years ago, I went up into the California mountains with a group of women who were producing and acting in the first all-transgender production of my play The Vagina Monologues. Many of the women were coming out as trans. Many had suffered terrible violence and trauma." 
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Charles Pierce | New Trial for NOPD Officers Convicted in Danziger Bridge Shootings 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "There should be a special circle of derision reserved exclusively for prosecutors who botch important cases in very stupid ways." 
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Jimmy Carter Announces Cancer Has Spread to His Brain 
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK 
McCarthy writes: "Carter told a news conference he would be undergoing radiation treatments and injections to fight the cancer, which was discovered after he underwent surgery to remove a growth on his liver, where melanoma also had been discovered, he said." 
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Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government, Hillary Clinton's 'Crazy' Email Blunder 
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "Every time I came home, there were agents at the airplane to meet me. There was a long time where I thought, 'This is never going to change,' because we've entered this new era where the rule of law doesn't apply at borders." 
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After Fatal St. Louis Shooting, Activists Slam 'Aggressive' Police Tactics 
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America 
Lewis writes: "After a night of protests Wednesday sparked by the killing of an 18-year-old black man by a white officer the same day, activists criticized the St. Louis police for 'aggressive' tactics that they said recalled the last year's protests after Ferguson." 
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Banksy's Dismaland: 'Amusements and Anarchism' in Artist's Biggest Project Yet 
Mark Brown, Guardian UK 
Brown writes: "Banksy's new show, Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-opening and occasionally breathtakingly shocking." 
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Costco and CP Foods Face Lawsuit Over Alleged Slavery in Prawn Supply Chain 
Felicity Lawrence, Guardian UK 
Lawrence writes: "Three California law firms are seeking an injunction to stop the US retail chain Costco selling prawns unless they are labelled as the produce of slavery." 
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

RSN: Why We're All Becoming Independent Contractors




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TO HELL WITH THIS 1% NONSENSE: Getting this Entire Community in the Game. That’s what I’m talking about. We are predictably sitting around accomplishing 1% of what we are capable of with 1% of our community members helping out. To hell with that. Stop being a tourist and get involved! / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News




FOCUS: Robert Reich | Why We're All Becoming Independent Contractors
Economist, professor, author and political commentator Robert Reich. (photo: Richard Morgenstein)
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's blog
Reich writes: "GM is worth around $60 billion, and has over 200,000 employees. Its front-line workers earn from $19 to $28.50 an hour, with benefits."
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Amy Davidson | Why "Citizenfour" Deserved Its Oscar
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
Davidson writes: "'Thank you to Edward Snowden for his courage,' Laura Poitras, the director of 'Citizenfour,' said as she accepted the Oscar for best documentary."
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Saturday, October 25, 2014

RSN: Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell Say Climate Change Is Real, So Why Haven't They Dumped ALEC?





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WHO WILL SELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT, THE PEOPLE OR THE PRESS? When the press becomes a public opinion manager for wealthy benefactions the will of those benefactors becomes the will of the public. Unless the public chooses a different path. Elections are a matter of human discretion, opinion. Control the opinions and you control the elections. Or you can speak truth to power. It's dangerous, but it does work. We are Reader Supported News. You are our benefactors. We speak truth to power. We need your help. In solidarity. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News




Julian Assange | Google Is Not What It Seems
A court in Sweden may drop rape charges against Julian Assange. (photo: AFP)
Julian Assange, Newsweek
Assange writes: "Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks."
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Peter Maass | A Story About Ben Bradlee That's Not Fucking Charming
Peter Maass, The Intercept
Maass writes: "Smart editors have a knack for calling bullshit on bullshit, and Bradlee was a pro at that."
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Supposedly "Free" Voter IDs Cost $8 to $25, Poll Tax Outlawed in Civil Rights Era Would Be $10 Today
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
Beinart writes: "If Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters succeed in booting C.Y. Leung from power, the city's unelected chief executive should consider coming to the United States. He might fit in well in the Republican Party."
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More Than 30 Antitrust Experts Slam Comcast Merger
Karl Bode, DSLReports
Bode reports: "According to the sixteen-page letter, the Comcast merger would give the cable giant control of 40% of the broadband market, and the leverage necessary to wage an aggressive anti-competitive war on both large and small competitors alike."
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Autopsy: St. Louis Officer Shot Myers From Behind
Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press
Zagier reports: "An 18-year-old killed earlier this month by an off-duty St. Louis police officer was shot eight times, including six times from behind, said a forensic pathologist who performed an independent autopsy Thursday."
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From Inside the Snowden Saga: How Laura Poitras Covertly Shot Her New Film, CITIZENFOUR
Matt Patches, Vanity Fair
Patches reports: "When Snowden's first e-mail arrived in January 2013, Poitras was assembling a sprawling documentary expose of America's surveillance tactics, with appearances by notable button-pushers like Julian Assange and N.S.A. whistleblower William Binney. Snowden altered the plan."
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Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell Say Climate Change Is Real, So Why Haven't They Dumped ALEC?
Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists
Negin writes: "Thanks to pressure from shareholders, unions and public interest organizations, more than 90 companies have severed ties with ALEC since 2012."
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

RSN: Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying




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BELEAGUERED BY DONOR APATHY: We have a wonderful readership, a great community and a mission that we all believe in. But are beleaguered by donor apathy. There is no way we should struggle to convince 1% of you to contribute on a monthly basis. Don’t just pay AT&T and Comcast, help support RSN more regularly. After all we oppose their abuses, quite publicly. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News




FOCUS: Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt | Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying
Edward Snowden, left, with Greenwald, second from right, David Miranda and Laura Poitras. (photo: David Miranda)
Laura Poitras and Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "In June of last year, thanks to journalist Glenn Greenwald and filmmaker Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden, a contractor for the NSA and previously the CIA, stepped into our lives from a hotel room in Hong Kong. With a treasure trove of documents that are still being released, he changed the way just about all of us view our world."
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