Sunday, July 5, 2015

RSN: For Donald Trump, Forgetting to Use Racial Code Words Was an Expensive Mistake, Der Spiegel Files Criminal Complaint After Revealing NSA Targeted Reporters,




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Juan Cole | For Donald Trump, Forgetting to Use Racial Code Words Was an Expensive Mistake 
Donald Trump. (photo: Gage Skidmore/Huffington Post) 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "Donald Trump is seeing short-term gains from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, but his recent behavior will have a fatal impact on his presidential ambitious." 
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How One US Soldier Blew the Whistle on a Cold-Blooded War Crime 
William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair 
Langewiesche writes: "William Langewiesche dissects the murder of four Iraqi prisoners, the military's response, and how one warrior fought to become a better man." 
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Tom Engelhardt | The Age of American Exceptionalism Is Long Over 
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch 
Engelhardt writes: "The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries." 
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Der Spiegel Files Criminal Complaint After Revealing NSA Targeted Reporters 
Dell Cameron, The Daily Dot 
Cameron writes: "Spiegel reports that in the summer of 2011, a CIA station chief in Berlin secretly disclosed to a high-ranking Chancellery official that a German intelligence employee was leaking sensitive information to the press." 
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Obama Plans Broader Use of Clemency to Free Nonviolent Drug Offenders 
Peter Baker, The New York Times 
Baker writes: "Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century." 
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US Isolated as UN Resolution Condemns Israel War on Gaza 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Perpetrators of Gaza war crimes must face prosecution and be stripped of immunity, according to U.N." 
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Environmentalists Go All In to Stop Arctic Drilling 
Timothy Cama, The Hill 
Cama writes: "Environmentalists are racing against the clock to stop Royal Dutch Shell from drilling in the Arctic Ocean, using a wide assortment of tactics to accomplish what has become one of the movement's top priorities - and biggest cash cows."
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