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Juan Cole | Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims
Donald Trump. (photo: AP)
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL. Another terrorist attack in the small city of Cambrils was thwarted by Spanish police."
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Bannon May Be Out, but His Racist Legacy Remains
Melanie Schmitz, ThinkProgress
Schmitz writes: "Two unnamed administration officials told The New York Times on Friday that Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon had tendered his resignation earlier in the month and was on his way out."
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How Militias Became the Private Police for White Supremacists
Casey Michel, Politico
Michel writes: "The bloody weekend in Charlottesville that began with several hundred chanting white supremacists on a torch-lit march will long be remembered for the searing image of a growling muscle car plowing through a defenseless crowd of counterprotesters."
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Donald Trump Is Winning on Immigration
Joshua Green, The Boston Globe
Green writes: "Donald Trump had been sounding the same populist notes since he first flirted with running for president, all the way back in 1987: The United States is weak and stupid, is being exploited by wily foreign competitors, and needs to negotiate better trade deals to raise wages and bring back good jobs."
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Anne Frank Center: Trump's Personal Twitter Account Amplifies Hate and Should Be Suspended
Amy Goodman and Steven Goldstein, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump continues to face outrage over his response to last weekend's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where racism and anti-Semitism were on clear display."
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Paris Police Forces Evict Nearly 2,000 Asylum Seekers From Camp
teleSUR
Excerpt: "French police violently evicted around 2,000 asylum seekers from a makeshift camp in an area north of Paris on Friday, the 35th evacuation operation to have been carried out in two years in the capital."
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Energy Transfer Partners' Rover Pipeline Sets Record for Environmental Violations
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Energy Transfer Partners' controversial $4.3 billion Rover pipeline has more negative inspection reports than any other major interstate natural gas pipeline built in the last two years, according to a new Bloomberg analysis."
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