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Andrew Cockburn | The Pentagon's Real $trategy: Keeping the Money Flowing 
US Army Special Forces are seen doing training exercises at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, not unlike the kind of exercises done at military bases the world over. (photo: USAOC News Service/Flickr/Creative Commons) 
Andrew Cockburn, TomDispatch 
Cockburn writes: "These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington's military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort. Senator John McCain thunders that 'this president has no strategy to successfully reverse the tide of slaughter and mayhem' in that region. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies bemoans the 'lack of a viable and public strategy.' Andrew Bacevich suggests that 'there is no strategy. None. Zilch.'" 
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Latest CIA Torture Documents Show 'Evidence of War Crimes' & Level of Brutality That Even Shocked Bush 
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Shocking new details have been made public about the CIA's torture program as the agency has declassified dozens of once-secret documents. A portion of the new documents deal with a prisoner named Gul Rahman, who froze to death at a secret CIA prison in 2002." 
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The Democrats' 'Super-Delegate' Mistake 
Spencer Oliver, Consortium News 
Oliver writes: "Democratic 'super-delegates' - hundreds of party insiders - tilted the presidential race to Hillary Clinton though not chosen by voters, an undemocratic idea that was never intended, says Spencer Oliver who was there at the creation." 
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Florida Prosecutor Posts Racist Rant Blasting Orlando's '3rd World Miscreants' After Nightclub Attack 
Meg Wagner, New York Daily News 
Wagner writes: "A loudmouthed Florida prosecutor who once wished a happy Mother's Day to the state's 'crack hoes' was again suspended after he crassly criticized the grief-stricken city of Orlando, calling its residents '3rd world miscreants and ghetto thugs' just hours after the deadly nightclub massacre." 
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Trump Shares Photo Posing With Anti-Gay Pastor in Texas 
Jessie Hellmann, The Hill 
Hellmann writes: "Donald Trump, who has in recent days called himself the best presidential candidate for the gay community, retweeted a photo of himself standing next to anti-gay Pastor Robert Jeffress Friday." 
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Omar Mateen and the Extremist Formula 
Greg Shupak, Jacobin 
Shupak writes: "The abominable massacre in Orlando made absolutely clear that transphobia and homophobia remain major problems in Western society. The killer, Omar Mateen, was a Muslim, and so the atrocity is unsurprisingly being weaponized against Muslims, revealing how pervasive Islamophobia is in the United States as well." 
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Meet the Activist Getting Sued for Complaining About a Coal-Ash Dump 
Aura Bogado, Grist 
Bogado writes: "Esther Calhoun lives in Uniontown, a small town in Alabama where more than nine out of ten residents are black, and half live below the poverty line. Her family has been there for as long as she knows. Her parents and grandparents worked as sharecroppers on a plantation, and generations of her ancestors were buried in the town's cemetery." 
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