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Charles Pierce | President Trump Hears Mueller Knocking 
 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "The president* seems to be vigorously polishing whatever shiny objects are at hand. He's hearing footsteps again, and ABC News may know why." 
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Eight Women Say Charlie Rose Sexually Harassed Them - With Nudity, Groping and Lewd Calls 
Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "For all of the women, reporters interviewed friends, colleagues or family members who said the women had confided in them about aspects of the incidents." 
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Donald Trump Can't Stop Tweeting About Black Athletes for Some Reason 
Alex Shephard, New Republic 
Shephard writes: "President Trump spent his Sunday tweeting about how black men are insufficiently grateful to him and to America." 
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US Announces End to Migration Benefit for Haiti, Requires Haitians to Leave Country 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The Government of the United States announced on Monday the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti as of July 2018. The 58,706 beneficiaries will have 18 months to return to their country or look for another alternative." 
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The "Redneck Revolt" Is Showing Up at Gun Shows and KKK Rallies to End White Supremacy 
Zenobia Jeffries, YES! Magazine 
Jeffries writes: "Our best hope for changing deep-rooted attitudes that perpetuate racism and White supremacy is for people from similar backgrounds to work together toward that end. Conversations between people with shared life experiences could perhaps more effectively change minds and, ultimately, behaviors." 
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2.5 Million in Yemen Have No Clean Water as World's Worst Single-Year Cholera Epidemic Threatens to Spread 
David Leestma, EcoWatch 
Leestma writes: "On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that some 2.5 million Yemenis lack access to clean water." 
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How Donald Trump Is Normalizing Nuclear Weapons 
Michael T. Klare, MintPress News 
Klare writes: "U.S. war planners and weapons manufacturers have set out to make that arsenal more 'usable' in order to give the president additional nuclear 'options' on any future battlefield." 
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Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal 'Will Get Donald Elected' 
 
Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "A business associate of President Trump promised in 2015 to engineer a real estate deal with the aid of the president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, that he said would help Mr. Trump win the presidency." 
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Sessions Speech on Militarizing Cops Shows Deadly Misunderstanding of What Public Safety Actually Is 
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress 
Pyke writes: "The most striking thing in a speech riddled with falsehoods was Sessions' presentation of the thinking behind the administration's move - dismissing police reform efforts as harmful to public safety." 
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White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville 
George Joseph, ProPublica 
Joseph writes: "Leaked chat room conversations reveal expectations of violence - along with detailed planning and intelligence gathering on left-wing adversaries." 
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How ICE Uses Secret Police Databases to Arrest Immigrants 
Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project 
Thompson writes: "Recent lawsuits claim the agency is targeting people for deportation based on spurious allegations of gang connections." 
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"The Society We Are Fighting for Has to Be Free From All Oppression": An Interview With Kshama Sawant 
Jacobin 
Excerpt: "Three years before Bernie Sanders entered the national stage with his 2016 bid for the Democratic primary, Kshama Sawant brought socialism back to the American vocabulary by becoming the first open socialist in nearly a century to win a citywide election in Seattle, Washington." 
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War, Hunger and Now Cholera: Yemen's Crisis Worsens 
Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post 
Raghavan writes: "Today, the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has reached half a million and nearly 2,000 people have died, the WHO recently reported. It is now the largest cholera epidemic in the world." 
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People Keep Building in Flood-Prone Places Like Houston 
Nathanael Johnson, Grist 
Johnson writes: "We're doing the same thing along the Atlantic seaboard - rebuilding rather than retreating after Hurricane Sandy. Without regulations in place to force people to plan for floods (or wildfires or hurricanes) they often don't." 
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In Your Name: Where's the outrage?

The article below was published by RSN - Where's the outraged over the Illegal War being conducted in Yemen?

WHITE PHOSPHOROUS and CLUSTER BOMBS, supplied by the US have been used against civilians.  

This defines the Moral Bankruptcy of a nation committed to building American Empire, failing astoundingly and destroying itself in the process.

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William Boardman | Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "Since March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states."
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Chemical/biological warfare is the term used to describe the use of chemical or biological agents as weapons to injure or kill humans, livestock, or plants. Chemical weapons are devices that use chemicals to inflict death or injury; biological weapons use pathogens or organisms that cause disease. Pathogens include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and toxins (poisons produced by animals or plants).

– Library of Congress, Science Reference Services

ince March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states. To be most effective, cholera must be spread through water supplies. That’s what’s happening in Yemen now. More than two years of bombing has largely destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure, water and sewage systems are destroyed, hospitals and clinics are destroyed, and the population of about 25 million has almost no protection against the spread of cholera. The UN says Yemen’s cholera epidemic is “the largest ever recorded in any country in a single year since records began.”

This may not be literal biological warfare, but it is certainly biological warfare by other means. This is biological warfare in reality, if not in law. This is biological warfare in one of the world’s poorest countries, supported across two American administrations, with no sign of letting up. US slaughter of civilians has been ratcheting up in recent months, not only in Afghanistan but in places like Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqa). This is what empires do, especially as their authority begins to wane..

And in Yemen, the US continues to support and participate in this panoply of criminal acts with little objection from Congress, most news media, or the general public. Few seem to care about the deliberate spread of a toxin that affects mostly children and that “causes a person’s intestines to create massive amounts of fluid that then produces thin, grayish brown diarrhea.” Where treatment is unavailable or impossible, cholera can be lethal in a matter of days. As a NOVA program on bioterrorput it, “because cholera is readily treated with proper medical attention, it is less likely to be used as an agent of terror in the United States.” And since rehydration is essential to recovery, cholera is most effectively deployed in a place like Yemen where the water and sewage systems have been bombed into a state of high lethality..

There are laws against all this, not that it matters much..

At present, 124 nations are member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC), established by international treaty (the Rome Statute) to have jurisdiction over the international crimes of aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The United States is not among the member states, having signed the original treaty and then withdrawn its signature. Sudan, Israel, and Russia also signed the original treaty, then withdrew. Yemen voted in 2007 to ratify the treaty, then re-voted to retract ratification. There are 41 other countries, including India, Pakistan, Turkey, and China, that have rejected the treaty..

The US did not sign the war crimes treaty until December 31, 2000, when President Clinton was a lame duck who had not asked the Senate to ratify the treaty. On May 6, 2002, John R. Bolton, the Bush administration’s Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, communicated the US position to the UN. Here is the full text of the letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan:.

This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on July 17, 1998, that the United States does not intend to become a party to the treaty. Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000. The United States requests that its intention not to become a party, as expressed in this letter, be reflected in the depositary’s status lists relating to this treaty..

There was a time when the US, lacking “legal obligations” not to commit war crimes, might still have felt some moral obligation not to do so (as well as the capacity to overcome it, for example, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Now our national interests, usually undefined, put us in the company of thuggish police states like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait in their unprovoked, savagely genocidal assault on a defenseless Yemeni population whose Houthi minority had the effrontery to want to be left alone and was willing to fight for that right..

There was a time, before there was a United States, that this country fought for the same right. We’ve long since become a country that doesn’t want to leave anyone else alone. Now we have a president who demands complete personal loyalty, and who’s more than happy to molest anyone who even appears to fall short, which happens to include the majority of Americans. This can’t end well.

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William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre, radio, TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years in the Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers Guild of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont Life magazine, and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.

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RSN: Bernie Sanders | Now Is the Time for Bold Action

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Bernie Sanders | Now Is the Time for Bold Action

Bernie Sanders, The Des Moines Register
Sanders writes: "When I look out into our country today, I see our great middle class, once the envy of the world, in a 40-year decline, with millions of Americans working longer hours for lower wages."
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Revised Senate Health-Care Bill Still Lacks the Votes to Pass
Sean Sullivan, Kelsey Snell and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The Senate GOP's latest attempt to rewrite the Affordable Care Act showed few signs of gaining traction Thursday, further imperiling the party's quest to overhaul Barack Obama's 2010 health-care law."
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Justice Department Releases Sessions' Disclosure Form, a Day Late
Mark Katkov and James Doubek, NPR
Excerpt: "A day late, the Justice Department complied this morning with a federal court order and released part of a security clearance form dealing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with foreign governments."
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The Dept. of Education's Top Civil Rights Officer Is Really Very Sorry She Said 90 Percent of Campus Rape Accusations Were Not Rape
Katie McDonough, Fusion
McDonough writes: "Life comes at you fast. For me, for you, and for Candice Jackson, deputy assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights."
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Trump Election Group Backs Away From Its Request for Voter Data After Outcry
Andrew Gumbel, Guardian UK
Gumbel writes: "The Trump administration is backing away from its extraordinary attempt to gather voters' personal information, following a barrage of legal challenges, an outcry from state officials, and a rash of voter registration cancellations by people concerned about their privacy."
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'Cholera Is Everywhere': Yemen Epidemic Spiraling out of Control
Saeed Kamali Dehghan, Guardian UK
Dehghan writes: "As the area grapples with both the cholera epidemic, which began to spread in April, and the impact of the country's civil war, the life of the qat harvester has become harder and harder."
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Nation's Largest Utility Wants Customers to Pay for Coal Ash Cleanup
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
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CounterCurrents: US-Backed War In Yemen Sparks Deadly Cholera Outbreak

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On top of all the sufferings inflicted on Yemen by the imperialist forces an epidemic is killing people. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,500 Yemenis have died in a deadly cholera epidemic which has infected some 250,000 people since April. Children account for a quarter of the deaths and half of all infections.

Taj Hashmi reflects on two disasters that hit two different parts of the world, The Chittagong hills in Bangladesh and the Grenfell Tower in London. 

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US-Backed War In Yemen Sparks Deadly Cholera Outbreak

by Niles Niemuth 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/07/04/us-backed-war-in-yemen-sparks-deadly-cholera-outbreak/

According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,500 Yemenis have died in a deadly cholera epidemic which has infected some 250,000 people since April. Children account for a quarter of the deaths and half of all infections.

Unite And Rule: EU As NATO’s Auxiliary Economic Alliance

by Nauman Sadiq 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/07/04/unite-and-rule-eu-as-natos-auxiliary-economic-alliance/

According to a recent infographic [1] by New York Times, 79,000 US troops have currently been deployed in Europe out of 210,000 total US troops stationed all over the world, including 47,000 in Germany, 15,000 in Italy and 17,000 in the rest of Europe. By comparison, the number of US troops stationed in Afghanistan is only 8,400 which is regarded as an occupied country. Thus, Europe is nothing more than a backyard of corporate America

Will You Remember?

by Bhuwan Thapaliya 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/07/04/will-you-remember/

“I shall never be hopeless …

whatever you may say.

I shall rhyme my life with the

rhythm of God’s chime, and

row my boat of love over the human’s core

until the stream of abhorrence runs dry,”

sang the infant to the world.

But, my child said the world,

“Will you remember these words, when you grow old?”

What Does War Generate?

by Kathy Kelly

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War profiteers and self-marketing politicians have no interest in helping U.S. people understand that war itself is a tyrant, that the sound of nearby gunfire or a drone attack is as much of an order to flee one’s home as any command from a Taliban warlord. Children displaced by war, living in the relative safety of Kabul’s refugee camps find scant protection from hunger, disease, and the harshest winters, while mothers repeatedly tell us that if it weren’t for the children bringing scraps of food scavenged at the market place and working as child laborers in the streets, the families would starve. When will the U.S. end, when will it depose, this war that it has made into a ruler of Afghanistan?

Reflections On Canada At 150

by Jim Miles 

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Yesterday, July 1st, 2017, was Canada’s sesquicentennial, its one hundred fiftieth birthday. A youngster in comparison to many, not an elder statesman to any. The Canadian maple leaf flag hung on our porch rail, not for pride in our government, but for the realization that by pure chance we live in a remarkable region of the world geographically with a diverse landscape ranging from Atlantic to Pacific and northward to the Arctic oceans. The cultural geography is equally important, representing a large diversity of peoples, from the original indigenous occupants through the colonial-settler immigrants of mostly white European extraction, but including many Chinese, Japanese, east Indians as cheap labour to build the railways and roads. ‘Modern’ immigrants continue with this but also includes war refugees from South Asia, Latin America, and the greater Middle East.

Weed Out The Rogues In Uniform Rather Than Trivialising Rape

by Samar 

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It is high time for the Indian state to stop trivialising rapes and identify such rogues and weed them out with exemplary punishment.

Two Disasters-Two Countries-Two Peoples: Britain And Bangladesh

by Taj Hashmi 

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Consecutively on 13th and 14th June, major disasters hit Bangladesh and the United Kingdom. On the morning of 13th, landslides killed more than 150 people, and four army personnel, in Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts districts of Bangladesh. And in the early hours of the 14th, a fire in a 24-storied apartment complex, the Grenfell Tower, killed around 80 people in London. Both the disasters killed poor and marginalized people. In Bangladesh, the dirt-poor victims were “nameless” as well.

Musings From My Twilight

by Mirza Yawar Baig 

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Marcus Aurelius was a stoic and a man of great wisdom; very unusual in a ruler. So, I present my musings to you as something from my perspective and not “The Truth”.

The Hangman And The Noose

by Sheshu Babu 

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Sun! Rise

With the hope of a just society

Where reform replaces revenge

And humanity replaces executions

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