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Glenn Greenwald | What's Behind Barack Obama's Ongoing Accommodation of Vladimir Putin? 
 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "When a major party cynically espouses a set of beliefs as a tactic for winning an election, those beliefs get entrenched in popular discourse and often endure well past the election, with very significant consequences." 
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Senate Investigator Breaks Silence About CIA's 'Failed Coverup' of Torture Report 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "The man at the center of the US Senate's landmark investigation of the CIA torture program has gone public for the first time about an experience that led to the CIA spying on him as part of what he calls a 'failed coverup.'" 
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Dakota Access Pipeline Builder Spends Millions to Influence Elections 
Kit O'Connell, MintPress News 
O'Connell writes: "The corporation behind the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline also operates its own political action committee that has a record of donating to the campaigns of candidates who support the company's pro-corporate, pro-fossil fuels agenda in Congress." 
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Muslim Women and Children Attacked in Alleged Hate Crime 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "A Brooklyn woman was arraigned on Friday for allegedly attacking two Muslim women while they pushed their children in strollers through the city." 
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Physician Who Cares for Torture Survivors: How US Detains Refugee Women and Children Is a Disgrace 
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Allen Keller and Bridget Cambria, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Well, how long is too long for a child to be held in detention? We turn now to look at an ongoing protest by mothers and their children who have been held indefinitely in a family detention center - in some cases for more than a year." 
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What Aleppo Is and Is Not 
Robert Mackey, The Intercept 
Mackey writes: "Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, responded to a question Thursday morning about the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo by looking puzzled and asking, 'And what is Aleppo?'" 
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The Planet Is Going Through a 'Catastrophic' Wilderness Loss, Study Says 
George Dvorsky, Gizmodo 
Dvorsky writes: "A disturbing new report shows that 1.3 million square miles of the Earth's wilderness has been lost since the 1990s - an area half the size of Australia. The researchers say this 'catastrophic loss' highlights the need for an international agreement to protect our planet's invaluable forests." 
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