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Mike Flynn Might Be Done - but Trump's Nightmare Has Just Begun 
Michael Flynn walks down the West Wing Colonnade. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) 
Richard Wolffe, Guardian UK 
Wolffe writes: "This resignation and scandal is not a surprise. After all, we have a president who is too careless to handle a national security incident in a confidential manner." 
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Juan Cole | After Miller's Mega-Lies, Time to Rev Back Up the Reality Based Community 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "Stephen Miller, a snot-nosed kid with a bad attitude, advertised as White House senior policy adviser, delivered himself of some stern jeremiads on Sunday on Meet the Press, along with many Big Lies of which Josef Goebbels would be jealous." 
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Civil Rights Groups, Funded by Telecoms, Back Donald Trump's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "Trump's new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a former Verizon attorney, is pushing to repeal the net neutrality reform by rolling back that re-classification - and he's getting help not only from a legion of telecom lobbyists, but from civil rights groups." 
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Arrests and Harassment of Veterans at Standing Rock Begin 
Sam Levin, Guardian UK 
Levin writes: "Police have filed charges against two US veterans supporting Standing Rock, holding one in jail for several days, raising concerns that law enforcement is trying to prevent them from aiding activists at the Dakota Access pipeline." 
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Thousands March Against Trump in Mexico City: 'Pay for Your Own Wall!' 
Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times 
McDonnell writes: "Thousands of demonstrators waving Mexican flags and hoisting signs denouncing President Trump marched through central Mexico City on Sunday, the largest mobilization so far here against what many label an anti-Mexican administration in the White House." 
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Duterte Targets Philippine Children in Bid to Widen Drug War 
Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall, Reuters 
Excerpt: "On June 30, as Duterte was sworn in, they introduced a bill into the Philippine Congress that could allow children as young as nine to be targeted in a crackdown that has since claimed more than 7,600 lives. The bill proposes to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 9 years old." 
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Environmental Groups' Oroville Dam Warnings Were Ignored in 2005 
Paul Rogers, The Mercury News 
Rogers writes: "More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California's largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam - at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting the evacuation of 185,000 people - could erode during heavy winter rains and cause a catastrophe." 
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