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Matt Taibbi | On Iran, Trump Is All Talk, and Thank God
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Open newspapers this week, and you'll see hand-wringing galore. Supposedly we're about to go to war with Iran, suspected in last weekend's unmanned bombing of the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia."
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Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Open newspapers this week, and you'll see hand-wringing galore. Supposedly we're about to go to war with Iran, suspected in last weekend's unmanned bombing of the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia."
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Kiev, Ukraine, on Sept. 2. (photo: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Trump's Ukraine Call Reveals a President Convinced of His Own Invincibility
Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "When the July 24 congressional testimony of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III deflated the impeachment hopes of Democrats, President Trump crowed 'no collusion' and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with Russia in the 2016 election."
Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Rachael Bade, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "When the July 24 congressional testimony of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III deflated the impeachment hopes of Democrats, President Trump crowed 'no collusion' and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with Russia in the 2016 election."
EXCERPT:
Trump’s sense of himself as above the law has been reinforced throughout his time in office. As detailed in the Mueller report, he received help from a foreign adversary in 2016 without legal consequence. He sought to thwart the Russia investigation and possibly obstruct justice without consequence. Through the government, he has earned profits for his businesses without consequence. He has blocked Congress’s ability to conduct oversight without consequence.
Now he is alleged to have leveraged taxpayer dollars and U.S. military might to extort a foreign government for opposition research on a political opponent, and it is unclear what consequences, if any, he may face.
“We got progressively desensitized,” said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney in the Obama administration. “We’re learning progressively about wrongs, and one part gets absorbed before the next part gets revealed, so for whatever reason the public doesn’t get excited about it. It’s mystifying.”
One explanation is that Republicans in Congress have almost uniformly fallen in line behind Trump, reacting with instinctive nonchalance and blocking efforts to investigate his actions or hold him accountable.
“What we’re discovering is that the Constitution is not a mechanism that runs by itself,” Galston said. “Ultimately, we are a government of men and not law. The law has no force without people who are willing to enforce it. The ball is now squarely in the court of the Republican Party, and particularly Senate Republicans. Will they ever be prepared to say enough is enough?”
Legal experts said it is extraordinary that Trump allegedly sought political assistance from a foreign government after a tortured, nearly three-year national conversation about the illegality of doing so. Asked what the president had learned from the Mueller investigation, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said, “Nothing. Zero.”
Muslim community leader Abderraoof Alkhawaldeh (right) spoke during a press conference at the Council on American-Islamic Relations office in Dallas on Thursday. Alkhawaldeh and another Muslim community leader, Issam Abdallah (second from left), said they were profiled and discriminated against during a recent American Airlines flight in Alabama. (photo: Lynda M. Gonzalez)
Two Muslim Passengers Onboard an American Airlines Flight Say They Were Racially Profiled
Helen Coffey, The Independent
Coffey writes: "Two Muslim passengers onboard an American Airlines flight have said they were racially profiled after the service was cancelled due to 'safety and security concerns.'"
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Helen Coffey, The Independent
Coffey writes: "Two Muslim passengers onboard an American Airlines flight have said they were racially profiled after the service was cancelled due to 'safety and security concerns.'"
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New soldiers arriving for their first day of basic combat training at Fort Jackson, S.C., are 'welcomed' by drill sergeants from both the Army and Army Reserve. (photo: Sgt. 1st Class Brian Hamilton/Army)
Student Loan Crisis Helped Army Leaders Exceed Recruiting Goals This Year
Kyle Rempfer, Army Times
Rempfer writes: "Army leadership gathered Tuesday to announce that they surpassed their recruiting goal for 2019, signing up more than 68,000 active duty soldiers before the end of the fiscal year, but the long wars in the Middle East weren't exactly part of the sales pitch."
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Kyle Rempfer, Army Times
Rempfer writes: "Army leadership gathered Tuesday to announce that they surpassed their recruiting goal for 2019, signing up more than 68,000 active duty soldiers before the end of the fiscal year, but the long wars in the Middle East weren't exactly part of the sales pitch."
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On a recent day, the sidewalk school in Matamoros, Mexico, began with arts and crafts. (photo: Reynaldo Leaños Jr. /Texas Public Radio)
Sidewalk School Aims to Give Migrant Kids a Sense of Stability
Reynaldo Leanos Jr., NPR
Leanos writes: "It's back-to-school time on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, migrant children are attending a different kind of classroom."
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Reynaldo Leanos Jr., NPR
Leanos writes: "It's back-to-school time on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, migrant children are attending a different kind of classroom."
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Small groups of protesters gathered in central Cairo shouting anti-government slogans. (photo: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
Egyptian Forces Fire Teargas on Anti-Government Protesters
Ruth Michaelson, Guardian UK
Michaelson writes: "Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and other cities in rare protests against the country's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corruption."
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Ruth Michaelson, Guardian UK
Michaelson writes: "Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets in Cairo and other cities in rare protests against the country's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corruption."
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California governor Gavin Newsom. (photo: Elijah Nouvelage/EPA)
Automakers Defy Trump, Stick With California in Climate Change Standoff
Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
Kasler writes: "California officials, teeing up an epic fight with President Donald Trump's administration over climate change and air pollution rules, have potentially powerful allies in their corner: four of world's largest automakers."
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Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
Kasler writes: "California officials, teeing up an epic fight with President Donald Trump's administration over climate change and air pollution rules, have potentially powerful allies in their corner: four of world's largest automakers."
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