By
David Corn
On
Monday, Israeli warplanes fired 182 missiles into Gaza, Israeli ships launched
146 shells into the territory, and Israeli tanks shot 721 shells, with all these
attacks striking 66 structures and killing 107 Palestinians (including 35
children), while Hamas launched 101 rockets toward Israel, and 13 Israeli
soldiers were killed. That day, the State Department announced that the United States would be
providing $47 million "to help address the humanitarian situation in Gaza." A
third of these funds would go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which is providing food, water, and
shelter to tens of thousands of war-affected Palestinians in Gaza. So once
again, US taxpayers are in an absurd place: They are partly paying for the
Israeli military action in Gaza and funding the cleanup. [READ MORE]
By
Patrick Caldwell
Could
a Carter from Georgia once again win because of a scandal-plagued Republican?
Democrat Jason Carter—grandson of former President Jimmy Carter—is challenging
first-term Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal this fall, and the incumbent Republican is
facing an ethics controversy that could imperil his reelection chances.
Deal
has been embroiled for years in a low-grade scandal regarding allegations that
his staff smothered a state ethics investigation of his campaign finances. But
the controversy has recently heated up. This spring, a former head of the
state's ethics commission won a lawsuit in which she claimed that she was
improperly pushed out of her job for digging into Deal's campaign. Her
replacement—fearing that she might also be jettisoned from the commission—has
now come forward and alleged that the governor's aides tried to interfere with
the ethics commission. [READ MORE]
THIS
WEEK'S NEWS ROUNDUP
It
looks like the child migrant surge has slowed down, and hot
summer weather in Southwestern deserts may be the cause. Meanwhile Massachusetts
Gov. Deval Patrick gave an impassioned speech on the plight of the
migrants.
In
the aftermath of the MH17 crash, we looked at other commerical airliners that have been shot
down.
Kevin
Drum pondered the great rotisserie chicken mystery and yes, the almond milk wars raged on for another week.
Happy
Friday! [READ MORE]
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