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27 December 19
3 Ways the 2020 Election Could Go Very Wrong
Cameron Joseph, VICE
Joseph writes: "Welcome to 2020, which could be President Trump's final full year in office. But those counting down to election day should probably stop now, because there's a real chance we won't know who won until well after Nov. 3."
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Cameron Joseph, VICE
Joseph writes: "Welcome to 2020, which could be President Trump's final full year in office. But those counting down to election day should probably stop now, because there's a real chance we won't know who won until well after Nov. 3."
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Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher walks out of military court with his wife Andrea Gallagher during lunch recess on July 2, 2019, in San Diego, California. (photo: Sandy Huffaker/Getty)
Navy Seal Pardoned of War Crimes by Trump Described by Colleagues as 'Freaking Evil'
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "A Navy Seal platoon leader controversially cleared of war crimes by Donald Trump was a 'toxic' character who was 'OK with killing anything that moved,' according to fellow Iraq veterans who reported his conduct to military investigators."
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "A Navy Seal platoon leader controversially cleared of war crimes by Donald Trump was a 'toxic' character who was 'OK with killing anything that moved,' according to fellow Iraq veterans who reported his conduct to military investigators."
EXCERPT:
The explosive testimony was published Friday by the New York Times, which obtained previously unseen video interviews and text messages from several former members of an elite commando unit once led by special operations chief Eddie Gallagher.
Gallagher was convicted in July of posing with the dead body of a teenage Islamic State captive he had just killed with a hunting knife. He was granted clemency by the president in November in a decision that angered military chiefs.
In the interviews, conducted by navy investigators looking into Gallagher’s conduct during a tour of duty in Iraq in 2017, fellow platoon members told of a ruthless leader who stabbed the captive to death for no reason then forced his troops to pose for a photograph with the corpse.
At his court martial, Gallagher was acquitted of murder but demoted in rank for the lesser charge of posing with the body – a decision Trump reversed.
In a lengthy criminal investigation report, the navy detectives laid out other allegations against Gallagher, including picking off a schoolgirl and elderly man from a sniper’s roost. Members of Alpha Platoon’s Seal Team 7 alarmed by their leader’s conduct said they were initially shut down by military chiefs when they first spoke up, and told their own careers would suffer if they continued to talk about it.
Eventually, the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) began an inquiry and the platoon members were called to give evidence.
“The guy is freaking evil,” special operator first class Craig Miller, one of the platoon’s most experienced members, told investigators in sometimes tearful testimony. “I think Eddie was proud of it, and that was, like, part of it for him.”
Miller said Gallagher, who had the nickname Blade, went on to stage a bizarre “re-enlistment ceremony” over the body of the captive. “I was listening to it and I was just thinking, like, this is the most disgraceful thing I have ever seen in my life,” he said.
At his court martial, the panel heard evidence that Gallagher had emailed a photograph to a friend in the US containing a photograph of him holding up the dead captive’s head with the words: “Good story behind this, got him with my hunting knife.”
Another platoon member, medic Corey Scott, said: “You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving.”
In text messages exchanged by the group around the time of their testimony, which were also obtained by the New York Times, platoon members urged each other to speak truthfully to the investigators.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. (photo: Robyn Beck/Getty)
AOC's Work as Sanders' Surrogate Triggers Presidential Speculation
Rashaan Ayesh, Axios
Ayesh writes: "As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be a top campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders, there is increasing speculation that she may be positioned as the successor to his progressive political base for the 2024 and 2028 presidential cycles."
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Rashaan Ayesh, Axios
Ayesh writes: "As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be a top campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders, there is increasing speculation that she may be positioned as the successor to his progressive political base for the 2024 and 2028 presidential cycles."
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Protesters supporting Medicare for All hold a rally outside PhRMA headquarters on April 29, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty)
I Am a Union Worker, and I Want Medicare for All
Ashley Payne, Jacobin
Payne writes: "My union is in a perpetual battle for decent health care coverage."
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Ashley Payne, Jacobin
Payne writes: "My union is in a perpetual battle for decent health care coverage."
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Guatemalan asylum-seeker Miguel poses for a photo at a migrant shelter where he lives in Reynosa, Mexico. (photo: Veronica G. Cardenas/Buzzfeed)
Asylum-Seekers Keep Getting Sent Back to Mexico Without Their Children Based on Unreliable Information
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "As Border Patrol agents started separating Miguel from his then-12-year-old son, the indigenous Guatemalan man begged that they instead be kept together."
Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed
Flores writes: "As Border Patrol agents started separating Miguel from his then-12-year-old son, the indigenous Guatemalan man begged that they instead be kept together."
EXCERPT:
Miguel could only watch as agents marched his son, Francisco, out of sight. Neither of them cried, though tears form around Miguel’s eyes every time he recounts the moment in late August.
“Take care of yourself, son, because I don’t know what’s going to happen to me,” Miguel told him before he was taken away.
It's the last time they spoke.
Miguel, who agreed to speak to BuzzFeed News on the condition that only his first name be used, and his son are now caught in the middle of the government’s continued separation of families at the border and a Trump administration policy, known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), that has sent thousands of immigrants to wait in Mexico while their US cases are completed.
BuzzFeed News spoke to Miguel to highlight how the ongoing practice of separating families, sometimes based on incomplete or misleading information, leaves an unknown number of desperate parents and guardians at a loss to know how to get their children back while holed up in dangerous locations in Mexico.
The family separations increase the hurdles immigrants and asylum-seekers already face when they’re sent back to Mexico, as parents, most likely without the help of an attorney, try to prepare their cases while also figuring out how to reunite with their children from the other side of the border.
Chile's president Sebastian Pinera at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 24, 2019. (photo: Reuters)
Chile: Pinera Signs Decree Calling Constitutional Referendum
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday signed the decree that summons the constitutional plebiscite on April 26, 2020, which will allow Chileans to decide whether or not they want a new constitution."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Chile's President Sebastian Piñera Friday signed the decree that summons the constitutional plebiscite on April 26, 2020, which will allow Chileans to decide whether or not they want a new constitution."
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Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Variegata), Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Toamasina Province, Madagascar. (photo: Getty)
Lemurs Are the World's Most Endangered Mammals, but Planting Trees Can Help Save Them
Andrea L. Baden, The Conversation
Baden writes: "Pressure on Madagascar's biodiversity has significantly increased over the last decade."
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Andrea L. Baden, The Conversation
Baden writes: "Pressure on Madagascar's biodiversity has significantly increased over the last decade."
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