Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition

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Emails Show Monsanto Orchestrated GOP Effort to Intimidate Cancer Researchers Aug 27, 2019

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In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer researcharm,the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classifiedglyphosate,an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup,as a “probable carcinogen,” setting off a global debate about the world’s most popular weedkiller.

Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — And More Likely to Succeed Aug 26, 2019

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If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations and the politicians whose careers they bankroll, you’d get something like what Bernie Sanders unveiled today in his $16.3 trillion Green New Deal platform. That’s part of the point.

For Years, Reporters Questioned the Terror Prosecution of Hamad Hayat. Now He’s Been Freed. Aug 23, 2019

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After spending 14 years in prison on charges that he attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, Hamid Hayat was freed on August 9 following a California judge’s decision to overturn the conviction. From the start, Hayat’s case had been controversial. The government’s star witness, Naseem Khan, was a fast-food worker earning $7 per hour before the FBI enlisted him as an informant and paid him nearly $230,000 over three years.

Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate Aug 22, 2019

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A girl holds a sign that reads “pull the emergency brake” at a ceremony to commemorate the Okjökull glacier in Iceland, on Aug. 18, 2019. Photo: Felipe Dana/AP Dear Members of the DNC: Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place against a backdrop that is literally on fire. You are gathering one month after the hottest month ever recorded in human history.

Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Repressive Government Aug 21, 2019

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Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in Egypt. The move comes against the backdrop of well-documented abuses by the Sisi government against dissidents and activists, which it facilitates using mass and targeted internet surveillance, and by blocking news, human rights, and blogging websites.

To Appease Trump, Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied Palestine Aug 21, 2019

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Under pressure from President Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday thatReps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar would be barred entry to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian territories that the Muslim-American lawmakers planned to visit this weekend. Reports from Israel suggested that the decision was an abrupt reversal, taken only after theU.S.

Democrats Have An Open Senate Seat in New Mexico. Will They Elect A Progressive, or the Former Head of the DCCC? Aug 20, 2019

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In 2018, Democrats were able to not only take back the House but also bring in a wave of outspoken progressives by taking full advantage of safely blue seats. Those new freshmen representatives have helped reshape the political conversation in Washington. Until now, themobilization has been largely House-specific, but an open Senate seat from New Mexico has given the left a new opportunity.

Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right Violence Aug 20, 2019

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Portland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars announced an “End Domestic Terrorism” rally in Portland this Saturday. Its aim: the local antifa movement.

“One By One, They’re Dying”: Activists Protest Tennessee’s Fifth Execution in a Year Aug 19, 2019

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On the Saturday before Tennessee killed Stephen Michael West, the fifth man to be executed in the state’s death chamber since August 2018, some 20 people gathered in a parking lot just down the road from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. It was not yet 7 a.m., and the air was already thick with humidity. People wore hats and comfortable shoes and passed around sunscreen.

Trauma Counselors Were Pressured To Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims Aug 19, 2019

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Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen and scrub some the most gruesome, hateful, and heinous posts that make their way onto the social network and its photo-sharing subsidiary, Instagram.

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