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RSN: Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party, US Making a Deadly Mistake in Afghanistan, Says Former Diplomat





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Robert Parry | Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party 
President Barack Obama addresses military personnel at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. (photo: Charles Dharapak/AP) 
Robert Parry, Consortium News 
Parry writes: "For nearly a half century - since late in the Vietnam War - the Democrats have been the less warlike of the two parties, but that has flipped with the choice of war hawk Hillary Clinton." 
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Half of All California Ballots Remain Uncounted 
John Myers, Los Angeles Times 
Myers writes: "More than 2.5 million ballots were left uncounted on election day across California, a process that could take several days or longer and leave close races in limbo." 
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Donald Trump Has No Platform. Paul Ryan Isn't Helping. 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "House Speaker Paul Ryan spent the past week announcing policy plans designed to fill the void left by the party's presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, who has virtually no detailed policy proposals save for outrageous propositions like building a giant wall on the U.S.-Mexico border at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer." 
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How Ousting the Judge in the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Could Impact Future Cases 
NPR 
Excerpt: "The six-month jail sentence of Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault last week, has sparked an outcry." 
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US Making a Deadly Mistake in Afghanistan, Says Former Diplomat 
Charles Davis, teleSUR 
Davis writes: "The war that Barack Obama promised to end two years ago is instead being expanded again, with reports of more airstrikes and ground combat to come, and a former top State Department official who resigned the last time the U.S. president surged in Afghanistan says all the latest escalation will achieve is a longer war with a lot more dead." 
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World's Largest Cemetery Receives '100 Bodies a Day' From Fighting in Iraq 
Alex McDonald, Middle East Eye 
McDonald writes: "As far as the eye can see, gravestones, tombs and Shia icons stretch out amid the baking summer heat. This is the Al-Salam Valley cemetery, the largest in the world, in Iraq's Najaf province." 
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We Are Fleeing the World's Coasts 
Kate Yoder, Grist 
Yoder writes: "As if beaches weren't already scary (think: Shark attacks! Seagulls swooping in to snatch a sandwich from your hands! And [gulp] beach body season!), you may have heard that climate change is ushering in even greater terrors. We're talking intense hurricanes, tidal flooding, and sea-level rise of three or four feet by 2100." 
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