Saturday, August 22, 2015

RSN: The Truth About the GOP's Crusade Against 'Anchor Babies', Warnings of Jihadists Among Syria's Rebels Came Early, Were Ignored by Obama Administration, "The Iranian Threat": Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?




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Noam Chomsky | "The Iranian Threat": Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? 
Noam Chomsky. (photo: The New York Times)
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch 
Chomsky writes: "Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany." 
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US Troops Subdue Gunman on French Train 
Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post 
Birnbaum writes: "French President Francois Hollande plans to meet three Americans who foiled a suspected terrorist attack Saturday on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris."
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Joe Biden in Talks for Presidential Run 
Josh Lederman, Associated Press 
Lederman writes: "Tucked away at his family home in Delaware, Vice President Joe Biden has been huddling with longtime aides and family members, evaluating what it would take to launch a viable presidential campaign against well-funded Democratic opponents with a huge head start." 
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Black Lives Matter Unveil National Policy Demands 
Jon Swaine, Lauren Gambino and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "Leaders of influential civil rights movement release most comprehensive set of policy proposals yet calling for federal and state laws to combat police killings." 
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The Truth About the GOP's Crusade Against 'Anchor Babies' 
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "The GOP presidential campaign kicked off with real estate mogul Donald Trump's incendiary remarks about Mexican immigrants being rapists and drug dealers, and quickly evolved to endorsements of changing the Constitution to strip millions of immigrants of their citizenship." 
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Warnings of Jihadists Among Syria's Rebels Came Early, Were Ignored by Obama Administration 
Hannah Allam, McClatchy DC 
Allam writes: "In the first week of September 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before congressional hearings in hopes of drumming up support for the Obama administration's plan to retaliate militarily for the Syrian government's deadly use of chemical weapons outside Damascus." 
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Oil Companies Sit on Hands at Auction for Leases 
Clifford Krauss, The New York Times 
Krauss writes: "With oil prices collapsing and companies in retrenchment, a federal auction in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday attracted the lowest interest from producers since 1986." 
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