Wednesday, August 3, 2016

RSN: Glenn Greenwald | As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More





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Glenn Greenwald | As Israel Prospers, Obama Set to Give Billions More in Aid While Netanyahu Demands Even More
Hillary Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo: Abir Sultan/AP)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "For all the chatter about animosity between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post reports that 'a senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest military aid package the United States has ever given any country and that will last more than a decade after President Obama leaves office.'"
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Federal Judge Bars North Dakota From Enforcing Restrictive Voter ID Law
Michael Wines, The New York Times
Wines writes: "A federal judge on Monday barred North Dakota from enforcing the state's strict voter identification-card law, adding to several recent federal court rulings that such laws may disenfranchise minority voters."
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Frida Berrigan | Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead! Children, Toy Guns, and the Real Thing
Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch
Berrigan writes: "It was a beautiful evening and the kids - Madeline, two; Seamus, almost four; and Rosena, nine - were running across a well-tended town green. Seamus pointed his rainbow flag with the feather handle at his sisters and 'pow-powed' them, calling out, 'Yous are dead now, guys. I shot yous.'"
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Black Mother Killed in Her Home by Baltimore Police, Child Shot
teleSUR
Excerpt: "A woman identified as Korryn Gaines, 23, was shot dead by Baltimore police Monday afternoon after a standoff in front of her house, according to local police and media, with local reports saying her 5-year-old son was also shot."
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Federal Judge Slays Mississippi's Anti-LGBTQ "Religious Liberty" Law in a Single Paragraph
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
Stern writes: "Mississippi's viciously anti-LGBTQ Christian supremacist 'religious liberty' law - which would legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people in housing, employment, public accommodations, schooling, marriage licensing, and health care - is brazenly unconstitutional."
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Massachusetts to Adopt Equal Pay Law to Break Pattern of Unfair Pay for Women
Susan Zalkind, The Guardian
Zalkind writes: "Massachusetts is set to adopt a first of its kind equal pay law - one that it's supporters are lauding as the most thorough in the nation."
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Panama's Garbage Pumping Into the Ocean Seen as a Problem
Ohigginis Arcia Jaramillo, La Prensa
Jaramillo writes: "An estimated 30 percent of the garbage that is produces daily in Panama City, some 700 tons, is dumped in the ocean, according to the United Nations Program for the Environment (UNEP) and the Ministry of the Environment."
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