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William Boardman | Pure Water for the World Is a Pipe Dream Drifting Toward Reality
Students at Pakro Methodist School in Ghana try out the SlingShot. (photo: Courtesy of the Hopkins Center)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "The excellent, multi-faceted documentary film 'SlingShot' (2014) opens with an image of dirty water in a flowing stream as an unseen speaker says: 'Here's something that should hurt your brain - we could empty half of all the beds in all the hospitals in the world by just giving people clean water.'"
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Warrior Cops on Steroids: How Post-9/11 Hysteria Created a Policing Monster
Heather Digby Parton, Salon
Parton writes: "Where in the world has Eric Holder and every other officeholder who's expressed dismay these last couple of days been? This equipment didn't just materialize on its own. As we've seen, it's mostly been paid for by the federal government."
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Juan Cole | The Cruel Jest of American "Humanitarian Aid" to Iraq
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "One is happy that the US has dropped food aid for the Yezidis trapped on a mountain after they escaped the so-called 'Islamic State' of self-styled 'caliph' Ibrahim. But the US press either has a short memory or is being disingenuous when they talk about a humanitarian mission in Iraq!"
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Patriots Don't Torture: Why Excusing It Is an American Catastrophe
Falguni A. Sheth, Salon
Sheth writes: "About a week ago, for the first time ever, the U.S. government, through the comments of its chief executive no less, confirmed that 'folks were tortured.' Simultaneously, he observed that there 'was little need for sanctimony' given the heightened fears of the American public in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the enormous pressure that law enforcement officials were under to prevent future attacks."
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What You Need to Know About the Indictment Naming Texas Governor Rick Perry
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Rick Perry, Texas' longstanding Republican governor and a 2012 presidential candidate, is now under indictment. The indictment lays out two counts against the Texas governor, one for 'Abuse of Official Capacity' and the other for 'Coercion of Public Servant.'"
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US Firm Helped the Spyware Industry Build a Potent Digital Weapon for Sale Overseas
Barton Gellman, The Washington Post
Gellman writes: "According to accounts the engineer gave later and contemporary records obtained by The Washington Post, he soon fell into a shadowy world of lucrative spyware tools for sale to foreign security services, some of them with records of human rights abuse."
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Why Germany Is Backing Away From a Trade Deal That Lets Corporations Sue the Government
Alexis Goldstein, YES! Magazine
Goldstein writes: "In a move that has many on the left cautiously celebrating, Reuters reported on July 28 that Germany might reject a new trade agreement between Canada and the European Union."
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