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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

RSN: John Kiriakou | Trump Falls for the Afghanistan Trap






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John Kiriakou | Trump Falls for the Afghanistan Trap
John Kiriakou. (photo: Washington Post)
John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News
Kiriakou writes: "Donald Trump on Monday evening fell into the same trap that presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama fell into before him. He caved in to his generals, not just to remain in Afghanistan, but to increase the US troop presence by 4,000 soldiers and to waste more billions of US taxpayer dollars."
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Police Use Tear Gas on Protesters After Arizona Trump Rally
Kurtis Lee and Jaweed Kaleem, The Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "After hours of largely peaceful protests, clashes broke out Tuesday night between police and protesters at a rally held by President Trump in downtown Phoenix."
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Carl Icahn's Failed Raid on Washington
Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker
Keefe writes: "Was President Trump's richest adviser focussed on helping the country-or his own bottom line?"
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Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica
Arnsdorf writes: "Analysts tracking Russian influence operations have found a feedback loop between Kremlin propaganda and far-right memes."
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Stop Using Mental Illness to Explain White Supremacy
Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer, Yes! Magazine
Excerpt: "White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It's terribly, terrifyingly normal."
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El Salvador Cancels Warrants for Ex-Soldiers Who Killed Priests
teleSUR
Excerpt: "A group of 17 former soldiers wanted for the notorious 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests during El Salvador's civil war were released from their arrest warrants on Tuesday by the Supreme Court."
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John Oliver Explains America's Terrifying Nuclear Waste Problem
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch
Spear writes: "According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, there is more than 71,000 tons of nuclear waste stranded at 104 reactors. 'It was a problem we should have solved in the 1980s,' Oliver said, 'much like a Rubik's Cube.'"
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