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Charles Pierce | If Hillary Clinton Seeks (or Accepts) an Endorsement From Henry Kissinger, She's Lost My Vote 
 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "Kissinger is a bridge too far. He is responsible for more unnecessary deaths than any official of a putative Western democracy since the days when Lord John Russell was starving the Irish, if not the days when President Andy Jackson was inaugurating the genocide of the Cherokee. He should be coughing his life away as an inmate at The Hague." 
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Donald Trump Appears to Encourage Gun Rights Advocates to Shoot Hillary Clinton 
Adam Edelman, New York Daily News 
Edelman writes: "Donald Trump appeared to encourage Second Amendment supporters to shoot Hillary Clinton - prompting lawmakers and gun-control advocates on Tuesday to call for the unhinged GOP nominee's exit from the presidential race." 
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Car Hits Protester, Gunfire Briefly Erupts at Ferguson Protest 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "Gunfire broke out during a demonstration in Ferguson, Missouri, on the second anniversary of Michael Brown's death, disrupting what had been a peaceful gathering Tuesday night but apparently wounding no one." 
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Justice Department Report: Baltimore Police Routinely Violated Civil Rights 
Del Quentin Wilber and Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun 
Excerpt: "Police practices overwhelmingly affected the city's black residents in low-income neighborhoods, according to the 163-page report. In often scathing language, the report identified systemic problems and cited detailed examples." 
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Over 1,500 Civilians Killed by US Coalition in Iraq and Syria 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Monitoring group Airwars said the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group has killed more than 1,500 people as the operation turns two." 
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Brazil's Olympic Calamity 
Jules Boykoff, Jacobin 
Boykoff writes: "It might not be captured on primetime Olympic coverage, but Brazilians are welcoming the Games with mass protest." 
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Deadly Bacteria Spread Across Oceans as Water Temperatures Rise 
Umair Irfan, Scientific American 
Irfan writes: "Deadly bacteria are spreading through the oceans as waters warm up, and are increasing infection risks, according to a new study." 
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RSN:FBI Encouraged ISIS Shooter to 'Tear Up Texas', Greenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste, The Repression Lists: How No-Fly Lists and Other Watch Lists Are Used as Instruments of Political Repression

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Paul Krugman | No Right Turn 
 
Paul Krugman, The New York Times 
Krugman writes: "All the experts tell us not to pay too much attention to polls for another week or two. Still, it does look as if Hillary Clinton got a big bounce from her convention, swamping her opponent's bounce a week earlier." 
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Donald Trump Admits He Gets Confused and Makes Things Up After Watching Fox News 
Robert Mackey, The Intercept 
Mackey writes: "Donald Trump admitted on Friday that a story he has been telling audiences at rallies on Wednesday and Thursday - that he had seen a video shot and distributed by the Iranian government showing the world a 'top-secret' American shipment of cash arriving in Iran - is completely false." 
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FBI Encouraged ISIS Shooter to 'Tear Up Texas' 
Katie Zavadski, The Daily Beast 
Zavadski writes: "Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. 'Tear up Texas,' the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday." 
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LAPD Officers Claim They're Being Discriminated Against for Shooting an Unarmed Black Man 
Carimah Townes, ThinkProgress 
Townes writes: "Two years after police gunned down Ezell Ford, an unarmed black man who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, the officers involved sued the city of Los Angeles for racial discrimination. According to Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officers Sharlton Wampler and Tony Villegas, who are Caucasian and Latino, respectively, they've been "benched" because of their race." 
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The Repression Lists: How No-Fly Lists and Other Watch Lists Are Used as Instruments of Political Repression 
Chip Gibbons, Jacobin 
Gibbons writes: "In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress, an organization closely affiliated with the Communist Party (CPUSA), drew up a petition to deliver to the United Nations (UN). Entitled 'We Charge Genocide,' the 237-page document laid out, with extensive corroboration, the lynchings, wrongful executions, and voter suppression African Americans endured." 
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Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, says protests highlighting racial and economic injustice are expected from athletes attending the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, such as tennis champion Serena Williams and players from the NBA, WNBA and other countries. Polls show more than 60 percent of Brazilians think hosting the Games will hurt their country." 
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Greenland Ice Melt Could Expose Hazardous Cold War Waste 
Andrea Thompson, Scientific American 
Thompson writes: "When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials. They expected the detritus would be safely entombed in the ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, buried ever deeper under accumulating layers of snow and ice." 
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