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RSN: Bernie Sanders' Historic Anti-War Speech at Westminster College





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Bernie Sanders' Historic Anti-War Speech at Westminster College
Screenshot of Senator Bernie Sanders giving his foreign policy speech. (photo: YouTube)
Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "Let me be clear: Foreign policy is directly related to military policy and has everything to do with almost seven thousand young Americans being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and tens of thousands coming home wounded in body and spirit from a war we should never have started. That's foreign policy. And foreign policy is about hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan dying in that same war."
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Manafort Offered to Give Russian Billionaire 'Private Briefings' on 2016 Campaign
Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman, Carol D. Leonnig and Adam Entous, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions."
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Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at Health Care Critics: I Won't 'Be Quiet' About Graham-Cassidy
Matt Wilstein, The Daily Beast
Wilstein writes: "For the third consecutive night on Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel railed against Cassidy and his attempt, along with his fellow Republican Lindsey Graham, to push through legislation that would strip away many of the crucial protections guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act."
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Undocumented Parents Arrested at Children's Hospital While Awaiting Their Infant Son's Surgery
Katherine Krueger, Splinter
Krueger writes: "Oscar and Irma Sanchez, both of whom are undocumented immigrants living in Texas, were arrested while awaiting a serious surgery for their two-month-old son, highlighting the excruciating human cost of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant crusade."
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Trump to Roll Back Limits on Drone Strikes and Commando Raids
Julia Manchester, The Hill
Manchester writes: "The Trump administration is set to roll back various limits on drone strikes and commando raids put in place under former President Barack Obama."
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70-Year-Old Palestinian Political Activist Rasmea Odeh Deported From US
Maudlyne Ihejirika, Chicago Sun-Times
Ihejirika writes: "The 70-year-old Palestinian immigrant, whose U.S. citizenship was revoked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for not disclosing having served time as a prisoner in Israel, didn't cry until the end, only after ICE refused her huge crowd of supporters entry into the airport."
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In the Caribbean, Colonialism and Inequality Mean Hurricanes Hit Harder
The Conversation
Excerpt: "These are not isolated instances of random bad luck. As University of the West Indies geographers who study risk perception and political ecology, we recognize the deep, human-induced roots of climate change, inequality and the underdevelopment of former colonies - all of which increase the Caribbean's vulnerability to disaster."
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