RSN: Israel to Deploy Machine Gun-Equipped Autonomous Vehicles Along Gaza Border, 'Officer Slam' Will Not Be Charged for Brutalizing Teenage Girl,

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Glenn Greenwald | The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton 
 
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept 
Greenwald writes: "In his New York Times column yesterday, Paul Krugman did something that he made clear he regarded as quite brave: He defended the Democratic Party presidential nominee and likely next U.S. president from journalistic investigations." 
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Fox Settles With Gretchen Carlson for $20 Million - and Offers an Unprecedented Apology 
Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair 
Ellison writes: "It has been exactly two months since Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, sued her old boss, Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment." 
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'Officer Slam' Will Not Be Charged for Brutalizing Teenage Girl 
Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress 
Shen writes: "A video of Security Resource Officer Ben Fields yanking a teenage girl from her desk and throwing her across the room shocked the internet and inspired investigations into South Carolina's use of police in schools." 
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Black Lives Matter Protesters Shut Down a Runway at a Major London Airport 
Nidhi Prakash, Fusion 
Prakash writes: "Nine Black Lives Matter demonstrators were arrested at London's City Airport on Tuesday morning after tying themselves together and lying on a runaway in a staged protest against the airport's expansion." 
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Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clear the Unexploded Bombs Dropped on Laos by the US 
Elise Labott, CNN 
Labott writes: "President Barack Obama said Tuesday that US has an 'obligation' to help Laos recover from a brutal secret bombing campaign that destroyed parts of the Southeast Asian nation." 
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Israel to Deploy Machine Gun-Equipped Autonomous Vehicles Along Gaza Border 
Middle East Monitor 
Excerpt: "Israel is set to use fully autonomous unmanned vehicles along the border with the Gaza Strip, according to a report published by FoxNews.com." 
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Only a Fraction of Oklahoma's Disposal Wells Shut Down After Quake 
The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "The 37 wastewater disposal wells to be shut down in north-central Oklahoma, where a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck this weekend, are just a fraction of the state's total number." 
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RSN: Leaker, Speaker, Soldier, Spy: The Charmed Life of David Petraeus, Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie's Toxic Algae Bloom,

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Nick Turse | Leaker, Speaker, Soldier, Spy: The Charmed Life of David Petraeus

Nick Turse, Tom Dispatch
Turse writes: "Watching the retired general in action, I was reminded of the peculiarity of this peculiar era - an age of generals whose careers are made in winless wars; years in which such high-ranking, mission-unaccomplished officers rotate through revolving doors that lead not only to top posts with major weapons merchants, but also too-big-to-fail banks, top universities, cutting-edge tech companies, healthcare firms, and other corporate behemoths."
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Comey to Testify on Clinton Email Probe Thursday
Burgess Everett, Politico
Everett writes: "The hearing will be just two days after Comey's stunning repudiation of Clinton's 'extremely careless' practice of using a private email server."
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Chilcot Report Delivers a Devastating Critique of Tony Blair's Decision to Go to War in Iraq
Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Blair called a press conference after the Chilcot report concluded that he had deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by the Iraqi regime as he sought to make the case for military action to MPs and the public in the buildup to the invasion."
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Clinton Embraces Sanders' Plan for Tuition Free College
Harper Neidig, The Hill
Neidig writes: "Hillary Clinton on Wednesday proposed a plan to eliminate college tuition for most families, a topic pushed by Democratic presidential primary rival Bernie Sanders."
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Former Fox News Host Gretchen Carlson Accuses Roger Ailes of Crude, Relentless Sexual Harassment
Andrew Kirell, The Daily Beast
Kirell writes: "The former Fox News star host claims the most powerful man in cable news repeatedly demeaned her with 'severe and pervasive' sexual harassment. And then he fired her."
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New Wave of Hate Crimes Makes Muslim-Americans Fear for the Future
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept
Hussain writes: "Recent shootings and assaults have amplified an already widespread climate of fear among Muslims."
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Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie's Toxic Algae Bloom
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie's troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years."
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