Gaza
Cease-Fire: The Peace of the Dead
Jesse Rosenfeld, The Daily Beast
Rosenfeld writes: "People are crowding the streets of Gaza City and fishermen are back on the sea as Gazans seize the opportunity of a shaky three-day ceasefire to try to return to something like normal life."
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Jesse Rosenfeld, The Daily Beast
Rosenfeld writes: "People are crowding the streets of Gaza City and fishermen are back on the sea as Gazans seize the opportunity of a shaky three-day ceasefire to try to return to something like normal life."
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Jeremy Scahill
and Ryan Devereaux | Barack Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the
Numbers
Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept."
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Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
Excerpt: "Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept."
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Pro-Troop
Charity Misleads Donors While Lining Political Consultants'
Pockets
Kim Barker, ProPublica and The Daily Beast
Barker writes: "The charity later described the fundraising drive as a rousing success: In less than five weeks, all 800 Marines in a 1st Marine Division battalion nicknamed Geronimo were sent care packages and notes in Afghanistan, it claimed. But that couldn't have been true. The Marines of Geronimo weren't even in Afghanistan."
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Kim Barker, ProPublica and The Daily Beast
Barker writes: "The charity later described the fundraising drive as a rousing success: In less than five weeks, all 800 Marines in a 1st Marine Division battalion nicknamed Geronimo were sent care packages and notes in Afghanistan, it claimed. But that couldn't have been true. The Marines of Geronimo weren't even in Afghanistan."
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Obama Signs
$225 Million in Congressional Funding for Israeli Missile
Defense
Katie Zezima, The Washington Post
Zezima writes: "The missile shield system was developed jointly by the United States and Israel and is said to have intercepted dozens of rockets fired from Gaza during the conflict that began July 17."
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Katie Zezima, The Washington Post
Zezima writes: "The missile shield system was developed jointly by the United States and Israel and is said to have intercepted dozens of rockets fired from Gaza during the conflict that began July 17."
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Tom Engelhardt
| The Rise to Power of the National Security State
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That's bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it's just not so."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That's bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it's just not so."
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Central
African Republic Cease-Fire Ignores Justice
Lewis Mudge, Al Jazeera America
Mudge writes: "After 10 months of bloody conflict that left thousands of people dead and more than half a million displaced, rebel groups in the Central African Republic signed a cease-fire on July 23 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, promising to end violence against civilians, respect human rights and halt religious and tribal hate speech."
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Lewis Mudge, Al Jazeera America
Mudge writes: "After 10 months of bloody conflict that left thousands of people dead and more than half a million displaced, rebel groups in the Central African Republic signed a cease-fire on July 23 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, promising to end violence against civilians, respect human rights and halt religious and tribal hate speech."
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Andres Carrasco, 73, said his settlement was paid in buckets of loose change amounting to more than $21,000. (photo: KNBC TV)
Insurance Company Pays Elderly Man Settlement in Buckets of Loose Change He Can't Lift
05 August 14
n unexpected delivery of loose change has a 73-year-old man in California giving his own two cents.
Andres Carrasco filed a lawsuit in 2012 against Adriana’s Insurance Service, Inc. alleging he was physically assaulted by one of the company's employees.
After agreeing to a settlement with Andres Carrasco in June, Adriana’s Insurance decided to deliver the funds in the form of a check -- and buckets and buckets of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
The coins amount to more than $21,000, said Carrasco’s attorney Antonio Gallo.
"Adriana's Insurance, is this the way you treat everyone?" Carrasco said in a statement. "Why don't you like your clients?"
When the time to pony up for the settlement came, Carrasco’s attorney said eight of Adriana's Insurance employees arrived in a van with five-gallon containers full of coins in hand.
The employees then went to Carrasco’s attorney’s office, dropped them off in waiting room and left.
Carrasco had just had a hernia operation and wouldn’t be able to lift one of buckets, let alone the scores left by the company, Gallo said.
"I am disappointed by the way Adriana's treats their customers and the elderly,” Carrasco said in the statement. "We might be poor, but we are people too."
Officials with the insurance company did not respond to requests for comment.
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