Robert Fisk: Saudi Prince Busted With 40 Suitcases of Drugs: "He Will Be Freed - That I Can Promise You"
Carol Off and Jeff Douglas, CBC
Excerpt: "Earlier this week, Saudi Prince Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud was arrested in Lebanon. According to reports, the prince and four other Saudis were attempting to fly out of the Beirut airport in a private jet - chalk full of drugs."
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Carol Off and Jeff Douglas, CBC
Excerpt: "Earlier this week, Saudi Prince Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud was arrested in Lebanon. According to reports, the prince and four other Saudis were attempting to fly out of the Beirut airport in a private jet - chalk full of drugs."
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Sanders Worries US Is Being Drawn Into "Quagmire" in Syria
John Wagner, The Washington Post
Wagner writes: "Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders voiced concerns Friday about President Obama's decision to dispatch a small number of Special Operations troops to northern Syria, saying through a spokesman that he fears the United States could be drawn into 'the quagmire of the Syrian civil war.'"
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John Wagner, The Washington Post
Wagner writes: "Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders voiced concerns Friday about President Obama's decision to dispatch a small number of Special Operations troops to northern Syria, saying through a spokesman that he fears the United States could be drawn into 'the quagmire of the Syrian civil war.'"
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Joseph Hickman | Released From Gitmo, Shaker Aamer Confronts New Challenges
Joseph Hickman, Al Jazeera America
Hickman writes: "As for all the people who advocated for Aamer's release, their work should not stop now that he is home. As the past cases of freed detainees show, he needs their support now more than ever."
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Joseph Hickman, Al Jazeera America
Hickman writes: "As for all the people who advocated for Aamer's release, their work should not stop now that he is home. As the past cases of freed detainees show, he needs their support now more than ever."
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Scott Walker and the Kochs Make Wisconsin Corruption-Friendly
Justin Miller, The American Prospect
Miller writes: "Now that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has abandoned his presidential bid, he and a network of powerful conservative allies with close ties to the Koch Brothers are exacting what critics say is blatant political vengeance on his in-state critics, by targeting the laws that have effectively deterred or punished political corruption."
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Justin Miller, The American Prospect
Miller writes: "Now that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has abandoned his presidential bid, he and a network of powerful conservative allies with close ties to the Koch Brothers are exacting what critics say is blatant political vengeance on his in-state critics, by targeting the laws that have effectively deterred or punished political corruption."
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Nick Turse | Why Are US Special Forces Operations Expanding Across the Globe?
Nick Turse, In These Times
Turse writes: "They're some of the best soldiers in the world: highly trained, well equipped, and experts in weapons, intelligence gathering, and battlefield medicine. They study foreign cultures and learn local languages. They're smart, skillful, wear some very iconic headgear, and their 12-member teams are 'capable of conducting the full spectrum of special operations, from building indigenous security forces to identifying and targeting threats to U.S. national interests.'"
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Nick Turse, In These Times
Turse writes: "They're some of the best soldiers in the world: highly trained, well equipped, and experts in weapons, intelligence gathering, and battlefield medicine. They study foreign cultures and learn local languages. They're smart, skillful, wear some very iconic headgear, and their 12-member teams are 'capable of conducting the full spectrum of special operations, from building indigenous security forces to identifying and targeting threats to U.S. national interests.'"
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This year alone, U.S. Special Operations forces have been deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries—75% of the nations on the planet.
The Border War on Birthright Citizenship
Eric Benson, Rolling Stone
Benson writes: "The first time that Maria was told that she couldn't get a birth certificate for her Texas-born infant daughter, she shrugged it off. The 41-year-old mother of five had arrived at the state registrar's office late in the afternoon, and the clerk seemed harried. 'When you're at work all day and you're tired and frustrated, you don't want to deal with people, so you just say, 'No, come back later,'' Maria reasoned. 'I thought that's what it was.'"
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Eric Benson, Rolling Stone
Benson writes: "The first time that Maria was told that she couldn't get a birth certificate for her Texas-born infant daughter, she shrugged it off. The 41-year-old mother of five had arrived at the state registrar's office late in the afternoon, and the clerk seemed harried. 'When you're at work all day and you're tired and frustrated, you don't want to deal with people, so you just say, 'No, come back later,'' Maria reasoned. 'I thought that's what it was.'"
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Climate Change Is Forcing People to Migrate and the World Doesn't Have a Plan to Handle It
Aura Bogado, Grist
Bogado writes: "How should governments treat people who are forced to migrate due to climate change? That question is on the working agenda for the upcoming Paris climate talks, at least sort of - and that's a good thing."
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Aura Bogado, Grist
Bogado writes: "How should governments treat people who are forced to migrate due to climate change? That question is on the working agenda for the upcoming Paris climate talks, at least sort of - and that's a good thing."
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