Jane Mayer | What Joe Biden Hasn't Owned Up to About Anita Hill

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Jane Mayer | What Joe Biden Hasn't Owned Up to About Anita Hill 

Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
Mayer writes: "Whether Joe Biden's treatment of Anita Hill, nearly three decades ago, will continue to cloud his Presidential campaign likely depends on how contrite he is. So far, the signs are not encouraging."
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Sally Yates: If Trump Was Not President, He Would Be Indicted
Reuters
Excerpt: "Former top Justice Department official Sally Yates said on Sunday that if Donald Trump were not president, he would have been indicted on obstruction charges in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation."
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Trump's Anti-Abortion Rhetoric Is Getting Out of Control
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, ThinkProgress
Varkiani writes: "His latest lie is that the mother and the doctor decide whether or not to 'execute the baby' after it's born and wrapped up in a blanket."
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Navy SEALs Tried for Months to Report Superior for War Crimes and Were Told to "Let It Go"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Navy SEALs who witnessed their platoon chief commit war crimes in Iraq were encouraged not to speak out, and told they could lose their jobs for reporting him at a private meeting with a superior officer last year."
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The scene of car crash Tuesday on El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Road in Sunnyvale, in which police say several pedestrians were struck. (photo: Cody Glenn/SF Chronicle)

Man Plowed His Car Into Crowd Because He Thought They Were Muslim
Kimberly Veklerov, The San Francisco Chronicle
Veklerov writes: "Days before Ramadan, Bay Area Muslims remained unsettled and concerned Sunday about their safety after an Army veteran drove his car into a crowd of people Tuesday in Sunnyvale in what authorities say may have been a hate crime."
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Hamilton Mourão's remarks about former astrologer Olavo de Carvalho ignited the online feud. (photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

Turf War Breaks Between Bolsonaro's Sons and Brazil's Vice President
Tom Phillips, Guardian UK
Phillips writes: "A turf war has broken out at the pinnacle of Brazilian politics, pitting a presidential son nicknamed 'pitbull' and a Steve Bannon-backed polemicist against a group of retired military chiefs led by Brazil's vice-president, Hamilton Mourão."
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Activist Merci Ferrer stands and looks at the mountain of trash at a dumpsite in Dumaguete City, Philippines. (photo: Greenpeace)

3 Reasons Why Plastic Pollution Is an Environmental Justice Issue
Kaitlin Grable, Greenpeace
Excerpt: "Turtles, seabirds, seals, and whales are well-documented victims of plastic pollution - but when was the last time you saw a video of a person suffering in the grips of the global plastics crisis?"
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Tim Dickinson | Will Republicans Send an Accused Child Molester to the Senate?

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Tim Dickinson | Will Republicans Send an Accused Child Molester to the Senate? 
 
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone 
Dickinson writes: "Roy Moore, the Republican Senate nominee in Alabama, has been accused in The Washington Post article of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl when he was 32 - and an assistant district attorney. Will the party that rode Donald 'grab 'em by the pussy' Trump to the presidency stand by an accused child molester as he runs for Senate?" 
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Sally Yates: Trump 'Embraces Putin Yet Again' in 'Unpatriotic' Comments 
Brandon Carter, The Hill 
Carter writes: "Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates blasted President Trump on Saturday, calling him 'shamelessly unpatriotic' for accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 election." 
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What's Killing America's Veterans? Here's What the Data Says 
Sy Mukherjee, Fortune 
Mukherjee writes: "This Saturday marks Veterans Day, when Americans pay respect to those who have served in the armed forces. But it also marks an opportunity to highlight the issues most important to military families - and few are quite as significant as the persistent holes in medical care and socioeconomic ills which afflict veterans' health." 
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Does Trump Want a New Middle East War? 
Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone 
Dreyfuss writes: "Does Donald Trump want a new Middle East war, pitting Saudi Arabia against Iran in a conflict that could lay waste to the world's oil region and drag the United States into a conflict that would make the war in Iraq look like a minor skirmish? It sure looks like it." 
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Meet Lee Carter, the Democratic Socialist Who Just Knocked Off One of the Virginia GOP's Legislative Leaders 
Meagan Day, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "On Tuesday, democratic socialist Lee Carter unseated Jackson Miller, the Republican majority whip of Virginia's House of Delegates. Buoyed by the enthusiasm around the Bernie Sanders campaign and backed by the Washington DC chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, Carter successfully campaigned on single-payer health care, getting money out of politics, and putting the interests of working-class Virginians above those of big donors." 
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US Execution of Mexican National Sparks Human Rights Outcry 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has condemned the execution of a Mexican in Texas, saying it violates a U.N. ruling on treatment of the Central American country's nationals in the U.S." 
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Trump's Pick for Environmental Adviser Got Grilled on Climate Change. It Was a Trainwreck 
Kate Yoder, Grist 
Excerpt: "Kathleen Hartnett White, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, stammered through her confirmation hearing on Wednesday." 
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria 
Remezcla 
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways." 
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RSN: Sally Yates | Protect the Justice Department From President Trump

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Sally Yates, The New York Times 
Yates writes: "The spectacle of President Trump's efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country. But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship with the man he supported for the presidency, there is something more insidious happening." 
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Garrison Keillor | Midsummer Party, the Norwegian Way 
 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post and Press Herald 
Keillor writes: "A splendid week in Norway and now it's good to be back home, driving around town in my old beat-up Volvo and listening to The Drifters." 
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Sally Yates: Trump Administration Behavior 'Should Be Alarming to Us as a Country' 
Max Greenwood, The Hill 
Greenwood writes: "Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday for ignoring legal and political norms, arguing that concerns about President Trump's conduct should go much deeper than whether he committed an impeachable offense." 
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White House Threatens to Sabotage Insurance of Low-Income People if Trumpcare Isn't Passed 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "During an off-camera briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer signaled that the Trump administration is willing to use low-income Americans' health insurance as a bargaining chip to persuade Congress to pass Trumpcare, which will result in tens of millions of Americans losing their health insurance." 
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Why Don't Deficit Hawks Care About the Cost of Military Adventurism? 
Adam H. Johnson, Los Angeles Times 
Johnson writes: "Crippling deficits and a nightmarish national debt are popular, recurring tropes in American politics: Every few months, politicians and the pundit class seem to recall that we're broke. While some are no doubt sincere in their concern, our pocketbook cops are wildly inconsistent." 
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GOP Healthcare Bill May Send Pregnant Women Back to Days Without Coverage 
Molly Redden, Guardian UK 
Redden writes: "In 2011, when Corey Miller was getting ready to get married, she knew it wouldn't be too long before she and her new husband would be ready to start a family." 
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Brazil's Temer Won't Resign and Says Nothing Will Destroy Him 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Brazil's President Michel Temer says nothing will destroy him, as he faces suspension and a possible impeachment." 
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Is Giant Sequoia National Monument Next on the Trump Administration's Hit List? 
Jason Mark, Sierra Club 
Mark writes: "That's the scientific name for the giant sequoia: the mammoth trees found in California's Sierra Nevada that are the largest organisms on Earth, and among the longest-lived. Biologists estimate that about half of all sequoias live in Giant Sequoia National Monument, a 328,000-acre preserve in the Southern Sierra Nevada established by President Clinton in 2000." 
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RSN: Scott Galindez | Choose the Right Tool

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Scott Galindez | Choose the Right Tool 
 
Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News 
Galindez writes: "In every toolbox, there are a variety of tools to use in various situations. As progressives, we have a variety of instruments to choose from, depending on the situation. Some devices can be used in multiple situations, while others are better for particular circumstances." 
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Monday's Russia Hearing Was a Disaster for Trump 
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress 
Rupar writes: "After acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate panel on Monday and provided troubling details about how slow the White House was to act on information its then-national security adviser may have been compromised by Russia, President Trump took to Twitter to try and tamp the whole thing down." 
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House Republicans Face Fiery Town Halls Following Healthcare Vote 
Lauren Gambino and Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "As House Republicans return to their districts after approving a controversial plan to dramatically reshape the country's healthcare system, activists on the left are mobilizing at town halls in an effort to save the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law that extended coverage to millions of Americans." 
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Show Me Your Papers, Texas-Style: Lawmakers Condemn SB4 as Greatest Legislative Threat to Immigrants 
Gregorio Casar, Rafael Anchia, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Texas is facing growing criticism after the state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, signed into law one of the nation's harshest immigration bills, SB 4. The state bans sanctuary cities and allows police officers to check the immigration status of anyone they detain." 
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ACLU Seeks Documents on Planning of Yemen Raid That Killed Navy SEAL 
Vera Bergengruen, McClatchy DC 
Bergengruen writes: "One hundred days after a Navy SEAL died during a raid on an al Qaida encampment in Yemen, the American Civil Liberties on Monday filed suit demanding that the administration make public documents explaining the legal basis for the raid and how it was planned and executed." 
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Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, lands at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Wednesday, February 1, 2017. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

ACLU Seeks Documents on Planning of Yemen Raid That Killed Navy SEAL

By Vera Bergengruen, McClatchy DC

09 May 17

ne hundred days after a Navy SEAL died during a raid on an al Qaida encampment in Yemen, the American Civil Liberties on Monday filed suit demanding that the administration make public documents explaining the legal basis for the raid and how it was planned and executed.

The Jan. 29 raid, the first covert counterterrorism operation authorized by President Donald Trump, resulted in a firefight with suspected terrorists that killed 36-year-old Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens. As many as 30 civilians also might have been killed in the raid, according to local media and medicsin the region.

“We have seen that this White House cannot be trusted to give the public accurate information, which is especially critical when the president authorizes military action that kills civilians,” said Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project. “The administration’s explanations have little credibility, and the documents we seek are essential for public accountability when civilians are killed in the name of our national security.”

The lawsuit asks a federal court to enforce a Freedom of Information Act request the group filed in March with the departments of Defense, State and Justice as well as the Central Intelligence Agency, seeking documents and records about the raid as well as the Pentagon’s assessment of civilian casualties. The Pentagon concluded that between four and 12 civilians died in the raid, but the Britain-based human rights group Reprieve, which monitors civilian casualties of drone strikes, says it has evidence of 23 civilian deaths, including a newborn and 10 children.

One of the dead was reported to be the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al Awlaki, a senior U.S.-born al Qaida leader who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011.

Despite the deaths of civilians and Owens, the Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that the raid was a “success,” saying that 14 al Qaida members were killed and valuable intelligence seized. But news reports have disputed that assessment, quoting U.S. military officials saying that “almost everything went wrong” in a botched mission that the president gave the green light to without sufficient intelligence or ground support.

Some lawmakers have also raised doubts about the operation, with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., calling it a “failure.”

The ACLU lawsuit also asks for information about any changes the Trump administration has made to the rules of engagement when it comes to avoiding civilian casualties, citing reports that it had exempted some areas in Yemen by classifying them as “areas of active hostilities.”

“The Obama administration had a poor transparency record about lethal strikes in Yemen, but it at least put in place safeguards aimed at protecting civilians from harm,” Shamsi said. “The public has a right to know about any exceptions the Trump administration is making to civilian protection rules generally and what really happened with this tragic operation specifically.”

In the weeks after the raid, the Pentagon launched three separate investigations into the operation. The review into Owens’ death was closed soon after. Gen. Joseph Votel, the commander of U.S. Central Command, said there was no evidence of “poor decision-making or bad judgment” related to the operation, and that the Pentagon had determined that there was “no need for an additional investigation.”

The civilian casualty assessment was also closed after concluding that between four and 12 civilians were killed during the raid.

The Pentagon also launched an aviation mishap investigation. An MV-22 Osprey, which had been sent in to evacuate the wounded from the hour-long firefight that left Owens dead, crash-landed after losing power and injured two more service members. The damaged $70 million aircraft was later destroyed by a U.S. airstrike so it would not fall into the hands of the militants, according to the Pentagon.

Owens’ father, William Owens, a retired Fort Lauderdale police officer, has questioned the planning for the mission and declined to meet with Trump when his son’s body was returned to the United States. The elder Owens is not a party to the ACLU lawsuit.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/43476-aclu-seeks-documents-on-planning-of-yemen-raid-that-killed-navy-seal

Violence in Mexico's US-Fueled War on Drugs Escalates 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Mexico's deadly, militarized war on drugs - which has been exacerbated alongside the U.S. opiate epidemic - is seeing the rise of smaller gangs looking to control more lands for growing strong-strain poppies, leading to an intensified crackdown by the Mexican Army." 
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CO2 Emissions Soar as Alaska Heats Up 
Climate Nexus 
Excerpt: "The Alaskan tundra is releasing an increasingly large amount of CO2 due to a warmer climate, new research shows." 
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