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Juan Cole | The Second Iran-Iraq War and the American Switch
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Iran has decided to intervene directly in Iraq and has already sent fighters to the front, according to the Wall Street Journal, based on Iranian sources."
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Tehran Willing to Work With US Over Iraq Crisis
Reuters
Excerpt: "Shia Muslim Iran is so alarmed by Sunni insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back, a senior Iranian official told Reuters."
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US Quietly Moves Detainees out of Secretive Afghanistan Prison
Missy Ryan, Reuters
Ryan reports: "The Obama administration has quietly repatriated a dozen detainees from a small U.S. military prison in Afghanistan, moving a modest step closer toward winding down the United States' controversial post-9/11 detainee system."
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Industry Group Files Lawsuit Seeking to Kill Seattle's Minimum Wage, Claiming It Violates Their Free Speech
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser reports: "Last week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D) signed a bill that will eventually raise his city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. It took eight days for a lobbying group representing major employers like McDonald's and Taco Bell to file a lawsuit asking the courts to repeal the legislation."
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Zoe Carpenter | Bowe Bergdahl and the Pathologizing of Dissent
Zoe Carpenter, The Nation
Carpenter writes: "After previously criticizing Obama for not doing enough to bring Bergdahl home, the right immediately launched a grimy campaign to prove that Bergdahl wasn't worthy of the swap; that he was the wrong kind of soldier, a deserter."
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Universities Keep Failing to Actually Punish Rapists
Abigail Bessler, ThinkProgress
Bessler reports: "This week, two universities at opposite sides of the country announced incredibly lenient punishments for male students found guilty of sexual assault: one at Stanford will have his degree withheld for two years, and another at Brandeis will simply need to attend 'sensitivity training.'"
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Poachers Slaughter 68 DRC Elephants
Al Jazeera America and Associated Press
Excerpt: "About 28 percent of Africa's elephants are in eastern Africa, but most of them - close to 55 percent - are in southern Africa. Some populations of elephants continue to face an immediate threat of local extinction."
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