Robert Parry | Who's to Blame for Syria Mess? Putin!
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Sen. Lindsey Graham may have been wrong about pretty much everything related to the Middle East, but at least he has the honesty to tell Americans that the current trajectory of the wars in Syria and Iraq will require a U.S. re-invasion of the region and an open-ended military occupation of Syria, draining American wealth, killing countless Syrians and Iraqis, and dooming thousands, if not tens of thousands, of U.S. troops."
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Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "Sen. Lindsey Graham may have been wrong about pretty much everything related to the Middle East, but at least he has the honesty to tell Americans that the current trajectory of the wars in Syria and Iraq will require a U.S. re-invasion of the region and an open-ended military occupation of Syria, draining American wealth, killing countless Syrians and Iraqis, and dooming thousands, if not tens of thousands, of U.S. troops."
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How Bernie Sanders Is Plotting His Path to the Democratic Nomination
Philip Rucker and John Wagner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Dismissed only a couple months ago as a fringe candidate, the self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont has proven in recent weeks that he is a contender to win the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Now Sanders is plotting his path to the nomination in what he anticipates will be a long race for delegates."
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Philip Rucker and John Wagner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Dismissed only a couple months ago as a fringe candidate, the self-described democratic socialist senator from Vermont has proven in recent weeks that he is a contender to win the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. Now Sanders is plotting his path to the nomination in what he anticipates will be a long race for delegates."
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Is Oklahoma About to Execute an Innocent Man?
Kristen Gwynne, Guardian UK
Gwynne writes: "Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip may be running out of time before Wednesday, when he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, but the attorneys fighting tooth-and-nail to convince Governor Mary Fallin to grant him a 60-day stay of execution announced this week that they have uncovered new information adding doubt to his already widely contested conviction."
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Kristen Gwynne, Guardian UK
Gwynne writes: "Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip may be running out of time before Wednesday, when he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, but the attorneys fighting tooth-and-nail to convince Governor Mary Fallin to grant him a 60-day stay of execution announced this week that they have uncovered new information adding doubt to his already widely contested conviction."
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Texas' Law-Breaking Attorney General Is Denying Gay People Equal Rights - Again
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Stern writes: "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not having a great summer. In August, Paxton was indicted on security fraud charges and illegally acting as a securities broker, denying the former but copping to the latter. Shortly after, Paxton was hit with a contempt of court hearing for barring state agencies from recognizing same-sex unions-despite the Supreme Court's mandate."
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Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Stern writes: "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not having a great summer. In August, Paxton was indicted on security fraud charges and illegally acting as a securities broker, denying the former but copping to the latter. Shortly after, Paxton was hit with a contempt of court hearing for barring state agencies from recognizing same-sex unions-despite the Supreme Court's mandate."
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The Refugee Mothers Who Risk It All to Take Their Babies to Safety
Sophie Hardach, Al Jazeera America
Hardach writes: "The shocking pictures of Alan Shenu - the drowned 3-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy (reported elsewhere as Alayn Kurdi) whose body washed up on a Turkish beach - showed, the journey can be lethal. Why then, are pregnant women and mothers of infants risking their lives on the arduous and dangerous routes to Germany from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?"
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Sophie Hardach, Al Jazeera America
Hardach writes: "The shocking pictures of Alan Shenu - the drowned 3-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy (reported elsewhere as Alayn Kurdi) whose body washed up on a Turkish beach - showed, the journey can be lethal. Why then, are pregnant women and mothers of infants risking their lives on the arduous and dangerous routes to Germany from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?"
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Is Israel Facilitating Aid to Jewish Extremists?
Creede Newton, Al Jazeera
Newton writes: "Over the past month, Israel and the Palestinian territories it occupies have been rocked by acts of violence carried out by Jewish extremists, including the stabbing of six participants in Jerusalem's annual Gay Pride march and the firebomb attack by suspected Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Duma, which took the lives of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, his father Saad and mother Reham."
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Creede Newton, Al Jazeera
Newton writes: "Over the past month, Israel and the Palestinian territories it occupies have been rocked by acts of violence carried out by Jewish extremists, including the stabbing of six participants in Jerusalem's annual Gay Pride march and the firebomb attack by suspected Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Duma, which took the lives of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh, his father Saad and mother Reham."
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Meet the New National Geographic and Weep
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox recently purchased a majority stake in the beloved science magazine National Geographic, which has done groundbreaking coverage of climate change over the years. Should you be worried? Well, maybe."
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Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox recently purchased a majority stake in the beloved science magazine National Geographic, which has done groundbreaking coverage of climate change over the years. Should you be worried? Well, maybe."
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