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Seymour Hersh Interview: New Book Disputes US Account of Bin Laden Killing

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Hersh says: "A great deal of money was sent by the Saudis to the Pakistani leadership. The motive, the only rational motive we can think of, is they didn't want us to get access to bin Laden."
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Teacher Protests Close 90 Percent of Detroit Schools Again Tuesday
Emma Brown, The Washington Post
Brown writes: "Almost all Detroit public schools were closed again Tuesday as union leaders called on teachers not to report to work, continuing a protest over pay that forced the closure of nearly all of the city's schools Monday."
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Families of LA Serial Killer's Victims Still Await Closure
Kirk Siegler, NPR
Siegler writes: "For 25 years, the alleged 'Grim Sleeper' killed mostly poor, black women in South Central LA, some of whom were prostitutes. His trial is close to wrapping up, but it hasn't been getting much attention - a situation observers say is fitting because for years, neither did the killings themselves."
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The Little-Known Farmworkers Who Sparked the Biggest Labor Movement in US History
Alexa Strabuk, YES! Magazine
Strabuk writes: "There would be no Cesar Chavez without the Filipino manongs of Delano, California, whose decision to strike set off the most significant labor movement the United States has ever seen."
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Vermont Lawmakers Will Vote This Week on Legalizing Marijuana
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Vermont lawmakers are set to vote on a bill this week that would legalize the recreational use and growth of marijuana, potentially making it the first U.S. state to do so by way of legislation rather than a popular referendum."
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Strategy of Terror: The Suicide Bombing Girls of Boko Haram
Nicola Abé and Andy Spyra, Spiegel
Excerpt: "No other terror organization - not al-Qaida and not Islamic State - has murdered as many people since 2009 as has Boko Haram. The total is thought to be as high as 27,000."
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Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low
Nina Heikkinen, Scientific American
Heikkinen writes: "Climate change is doing more than warming the world's oceans. It's also making it harder for marine life to breathe."
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RSN: It's Time to Stop Fox News: "The Right Wing Wants to Destroy Everything Great About This Country"

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Caroline Kennedy | Thoughts on Father's Day

Caroline Kennedy, Reader Supported News
Kennedy writes: "When my father was interviewed back in 1957, he was already thinking about the society of the future built on equality and opportunity for all citizens: men and women, black and white."
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Tom Hayden | Behind the Madness in Iraq
Tom Hayden, Common Dreams
Hayden writes: 'The U.S. had no business invading Iraq. We toppled a dictatorship on a false 9/11 rationale, which plunged Iraq into a sectarian civil war inside a war with the United States. We left behind a vengeance-driven Shiite regime aligned with Iran."
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Ralph Nader | Can Progressives Learn From Eric Cantor's Defeat?
Ralph Nader, The Nader Page
Nader writes: "The stunning upset defeat of House Majority Leader, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) by Professor David Brat, an economist from Randolph-Macon College, in Tuesday's Republican Primary has several takeaways for progressives besides envy and shame over why they do not directly take on the corporate Democrats."
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Robert Fisk | Iraq Crisis: Created by Bush & Blair and Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia
Robert Fisk, The Independent
Fisk writes: "So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia's latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit - and Raqqa in Syria - and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama."
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The US Government Doesn't Want You to Know How the Cops Are Tracking You
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "All across America, from Florida to Colorado and back again, the country's increasingly militarized local police forces are using a secretive technology to vacuum up cellphone data from entire neighborhoods - including from people inside their own homes - almost always without a warrant."
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It's Time to Stop Fox News: "The Right Wing Wants to Destroy Everything Great About This Country"
Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Rosenberg writes: "During the 2012 election, President Obama spoke hopefully that his reelection might break the fever in the GOP, so that something might be accomplished in his second term. By now, that hope is pretty much gone, which is why we belatedly have the EPA's global warming regulations, and rumblings about executive action on immigration policy."
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Harvey Wasserman | Fukushima's Children Are Dying
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch
Wasserman writes: "Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal."
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ICH: Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia et al

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Capture of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate

By Patrick Cockburn

If the Isis advance takes more towns and villages, then the territory lost to the government may become too large to reconquer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38791.htm

Sunni Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia

By Robert Fisk

The jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis - and by Kuwaiti oligarchs - now rule thousands of square miles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38798.htm

Iraq in Hell: Blame the Necons!

The secret history of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Joseph Cannon

Even fighters for the rival Nusra front -- the Syrian rebels who eat hearts and desecrate churches -- temporarily broke with ISIS, on the grounds that ISIS is too extreme.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38792.htm

America's Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq

By Tony Cartalucci

With the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria, creating a long desired "buffer zone" within which to harbor, arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38793.htm

How The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict

By Tyler Durden

The clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38799.htm

Bowe Bergdahl, Barack Obama, and the Horror of America

By Paul Street

"'The governor said that the villagers have brought two tractor trailers full of pieces of human bodies to his office to prove the casualties that had occurred,'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38800.htm

A Coup? Nonsense!

By Uri Avnery

Israel: "Not a state that has an army, but an army that has a state".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38797.htm

The Duality

From My Lai to Abu Graib

By David Chicoine

The military has the allure of power which has attracted young men to it for ages as some kind of macho crucible.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38795.htm

Capitalism's Bullets in Latin America

Invisible Empires, State Power and 21st Century Colonialism

By Benjamin Dangl

Friends of empire and capital are found at the heights of power among Latin America's political leaders.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38796.htm

The Origins of Social Violence

By Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson explains why social violence in unequal societies is not just a case of the poor attacking the rich.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38794.htm

Hard News

Iraq : 1,700 Killed In Mass Executions Of Civilians and Soldiers in Mosul, Say UN:

A UN spokesman says the number of killings could run into the hundreds. Unconfirmed reports say 1,700 Shia soldiers have been executed. "We've also had reports suggesting that the government forces have also committed excesses, in particular the shelling of civilian areas.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-crisis-isis-carried-out-executions-civilians-soldiers-mosul-say-un-1452511

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