RSN: Oil Groups Paid $10 Million, and All They Got Was a 20-Year Pass to Frack This County, Defense Contractors Laud Themselves for Steering Candidates Toward Militarism, Wall Street, Not ISIS, Is Destroying the American Dream

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Scott Galindez | Wall Street, Not ISIS, Is Destroying the American Dream 
 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "Donald Trump and his ilk are exploiting people's frustrations and fear by blaming the boogeyman. ISIS is not depressing wages, immigrants are not taking away workers' pension plans, Mexicans are not price gouging so medications are unaffordable, and African Americans are not raising the cost of a college education. It is Wall Street and the billionaire class that are causing millions of Americans to struggle to make ends meet, and only one candidate for President gets that." 
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Anonymous Launches Operation Against Trump 
Jesse Byrnes, The Hill 
Byrnes writes: "The activist hacking group Anonymous has selected Donald Trump as its latest target in the wake of the GOP presidential candidate's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S." 
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White House Finalizing Executive Action on Guns 
Jordan Fabian, The Hill 
Fabian writes: "The White House is finalizing a new executive action that would expand background checks on gun purchases, according to one of President Obama's top aides." 
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US: Police 16 Times More Likely to Kill Mentally Ill People 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Mental illness is no longer treated by health professionals, but criminalized by the police, a has report found." 
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Defense Contractors Laud Themselves for Steering Candidates Toward Militarism 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "A group formed this year by executives and lobbyists for the defense contracting industry is taking credit for 'driving the national debate on foreign policy during the 2016 presidential election,' and in particular for getting Republican presidential candidates to call for escalating military action in Syria." 
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How the Human Rights Industry Undermines Palestinian Liberation 
Budour Hassan, teleSUR 
Hassan writes: "It has been the discourse of human rights that precipitated the move from decolonial struggle into a rights based one." 
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Oil Groups Paid $10 Million, and All They Got Was a 20-Year Pass to Frack This County 
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "Kern County, California, where 95 percent of the state's fracking takes place, is getting sued over a recent decision that did away with public notice and environmental review for oil and gas permits for the next 20 years." 
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