A MUST READ! RSN: Nick Turse | Win, Lose, or Draw, US Special Operations Command Details Dismal US Military Record

“In order to evaluate our recent military history and the gap between the rhetoric and the results,” says Andrew Bacevich, “the angle of analysis must be one that acknowledges our capacity to break things and kill people, indeed that acknowledges that U.S. forces have performed brilliantly at breaking things and killing people, whether it be breaking a building -- by putting a precision missile through the window -- or breaking countries by invading them and producing chaos as a consequence.” 

SOCOM’s briefing slide seems to recognize this fact.  The U.S. has carried out a century of conflict, killing people from Nicaragua and Haiti to Germany and Japan; battering countries from the Koreas and Vietnams to Iraq and Afghanistan; fighting on a constant basis since 1980.  All that death and devastation, however, led to few victories.  Worse yet for the armed forces, the win-loss record of this highly professionalized, technologically sophisticated, and exceptionally well-funded military has, since assuming the mantle of the finest fighting force in the history of the world, plummeted precipitously, as SOCOM’s Intelligence Directorate points out. 

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Nick Turse, TomDispatch 
Turse writes: "Winning: it's written into the DNA of the U.S.A. After all, what's more American than football legend Vince Lombardi's famous (if purloined) maxim: 'Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.'" 
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CLG: As American Infrastructure Crumbles, U.S. Announces $38 Billion Israel Military Aid Package, Israel has '200 nukes all pointed at Iran', former US secretary of state Colin Powell, Authorities admit they are concerned an active terror cell is operating in New York and New Jersey says in leaked email that has Washington on edge,

 News Updates from CLG
19 September 2016

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Previous edition: Furious Russia accuses US of supporting ISIS after airstrike kills 62 Syrian troops [Which Google relegated to the sp_m bin. Here are the key stories that Google didn't like:  

Furious Russia accuses US of supporting ISIS after airstrike kills 62 Syrian troops  18 Sept 2016; 

Israel has '200 nukes all pointed at Iran', former US secretary of state Colin Powell says in leaked email that has Washington on edge 16 Sept 2016; 

As American Infrastructure Crumbles, U.S. Announces $38 Billion Israel Military Aid Package  13 Sept 2016;  

Massive sinkhole leaks more than 200 MILLION gallons of RADIOACTIVE water from fertilizer plant into Florida's main source of drinking water 17 Sept 2016.

 

Authorities admit they are concerned an active terror cell is operating in New York and New Jersey --Five terror suspects questioned as a bomb explodes at New Jersey train station: FBI stops men in SUV 'packed with weapons' on New York bridge as cops blow up IED that was planted hours earlier --Authorities have admitted they are concerned an active terror cell is operating in NY and NJ --Five people were apprehended on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn near to New York's Verrazano Bridge --They were heavily armed according to the FBI who also said they discovered bomb making equipment --Police and FBI said that three pipe bombs and two smaller explosive devices were found in Elizabeth, NJ --All Amtrak and NJTransit trains were being held in Penn Station in Manhattan after the discovery at station | 19 Sept 2016 | A bomb was detonated by a police robot at a New Jersey station on Sunday night as the FBI conducts a manhunt for a suspected terrorist cell behind the Manhattan bomb blast on Saturday night. The robot accidentally cut the wrong wire on one of five IEDs dumped in a trashcan at the train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey late on Sunday night, resulting in a huge explosion. Hours earlier, the FBI stopped an SUV with five armed men inside on New York's Verrazano bridge in connection with Saturday's Manhattan bomb. They are currently questioning those men but say there could be more suspects at large and a terror cell may exist in the area.

 

'There will be more': Mysterious 911 caller 'threatened further explosions immediately after Manhattan blast' --The male, unidentified caller said he was a block up from Saturday's blast --He promised there would be more explosions just after the bomb went off --A note was also supposedly found with a second, undetonated bomb --It was said to contain writing that is partly in Arabic | 18 Sept 2016 | An unidentified caller told a 911 operator to expect more explosions straight after a bomb shook the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea Saturday night, it has been reported. According to unnamed sources who spoke to the NY Post, thecaller claimed to be stood at the corner of 23rd Street and 7th Avenue, one block up from the explosion, which went off near the corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. 'I'm looking at the explosion down the block,' the caller said. 'There will be more.'

 

Blast heard at scene of 'possible live bomb' at Elizabeth, NJ, train station | 19 Sept 2016 | An explosion was heard at the Elizabeth train station early Monday, where local and federal authorities were investigating a suspicious package. The blast went off as a bomb robot was examining a device inside a backpack under the train tracks around 12:40 a.m. at Morris Avenue and Julian Place, a law enforcement source told NJ Advance Media. The explosion was not a controlled blast, the source said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. After the blast, press and bystanders were moved back because police suspected other devices inside the backpack may still be live.

 

5 Possible Explosive Devices Recovered, 1 Detonated in Elizabeth, NJ | 19 Sept 2016 | An explosive device detonated during a police attempt to disarm it in Elizabeth, New Jersey early Monday, in the third New York City area incident involving what appear to be improvised bombs. A call came into Elizabeth authorities at 8:47 p.m. after two men found a suspicious backpack in a garbage can, mayor Chris Bollwage said in a press conference. The men took it around the corner thinking there was something of value in it, but notified police when they saw wires and a pipe inside the bag. Police immediately brought in the bomb squad.

 

Officials probe bombings, stabbings in three U.S. cities in a 12-hour span | 18 Sept 2016 | Police believe the two devices that were detonated in New Jersey and New York were made by the same person, a law enforcement source told Fox News on Sunday, as authorities move forward with investigations into the incidents as well as the ISIS-backed stabbing rampage in Minnesota -- separate incidents that have cemented fears the United States is still a prime terror target. As of Sunday afternoon, officials have not said publicly there was a common link between the two bombing incidents, according to New York City Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill...The trio of dangerous episodes began Saturday when a pipe bomb exploded inside a plastic garbage can in New Jersey's Seaside Park at 9:30 a.m. Investigators eventually found several devices "wired together" that did not detonate in the same garbage can.

 

National Guard troops and 1,000 police officers to be deployed across NYC in wake of Chelsea explosion | 18 Sept 2016 | Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that 1,000 additional New York State Police officers and National Guard troops will be deployed across New York City following an explosion in Chelsea. The stepped-up security is "just to err on the side of caution," Cuomo said. As the United Nations prepares to host world leaders arriving for the General Assembly, a spokesman told The Associated Press that the organization is assessing security...Metropolitan Transportation Authority: The MTA has increased its patrols and surveillance in order to provide heightened protection across all its agencies.

 

All FIVE bombs that were found in the New York area used flip phones as a detonator: Fears grow of link between failed New Jersey attack and IED blast in Manhattan that injured 29 --Three devices found in New Jersey and two in New York have used cell phones as detonators --The pipe bombs in New Jersey used flip phone timers and as did pressure-cooker device found in Chelsea --It's believed home-made bomb that exploded also used old-school flip phone as a detonator | 18 Sept 2016 | Three pipe bombs found in New Jersey and two IEDs that terrorized New York City on Saturday all have one thing in common - cell phones. An old-school flip phone was used as a timer in all five home-made bombs. Authorities said they still have not found any indication the incidents in New Jersey and New York are related, but in both cases flip phones were used as timers to detonate the explosives. All phones used as detonators were similar in design, according to PIX 11.

 

'Number of individuals' in custody after authorities stop 'vehicle of interest' in Chelsea bombing | 19 Sept 2016 | Federal authorities conducted a traffic stop of a "vehicle of interest" in the Chelsea bombing Sunday night in Brooklyn. A law enforcement source told Fox News that a "number of individuals" who are possibly connected to the explosion were taken into custody. Law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that at least 5 men were being questioned.

 

FBI detains five people in Chelsea bombing connection | 19 Sept 2016 | The FBI took five people with possible links to the Chelsea explosion into custody Sunday night in Brooklyn as authorities shut down a busy New Jersey rail station after finding multiple pipe bombs in a garbage can, police and New Jersey officials said. The weekend trail of terror continued along the Belt Parkway where federal agents nabbed several people of interest with a weapons stash inside an SUV, according to law enforcement sources. The five taken into custody had come over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island.

 

Family identifies attacker behind 'potential act of terrorism' in St. Cloud --The attacker, whose father identified him as Dahir A. Adan, wounded 9 inside the mall was shot and killed by an off-duty officer. | 18 Sept 2016 | The attack in St. Cloud's main shopping center that left nine people with stab wounds is being treated as an act of terror, federal authorities said Sunday. In a media briefing after midnight Sunday, Police Chief William Blair Anderson said an off-duty officer from another jurisdiction confronted and fatally shot the suspect Saturday night inside Crossroads Center. He said the man -- dressed in a private security uniform -- reportedly asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim before assaulting them, and referred to Allah during the attacks.

 

Identity of St. Cloud, Minnesota Mall Attacker Revealed as Dahir Adan - Reports | 18 Sept 2016 | Dahir Adan’s father, Ahmed Adan, says that police identified his son as the slain attacker. Ahmed Adan told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that police told him Saturday night that his son, Dahir A. Adan, died at Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud...The Saint Cloud Times is reporting Dahir Adan, a member of the local Somali Community, was the man who attacked nine people at a local mall Saturday while shouting about "Allah."  A short time earlier, St. Cloud Somali-American community members identified the deceased suspect as Dahir Adan.

 

UN Security Council meets after US-coalition air strike 'accidentally' kills dozens of Syrian soldiers | 17 Sept 2016 | The United Nations Security Council has convened at the behest of the Russians after dozens of Syrian soldiers were 'accidentally' killed in a US coalition bombing raid. It met within hours of the Obama administration expressing its regret at the strikes on Jabal Therdeh, southwest of the Deir Ezzor airport in eastern Syria. According to Russian estimates 62 soldiers were killed in in the strikes, which the US said were aimed at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [Yeah, right!] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 83 soldiers lost their lives in the attacks.

 

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Bill McKibben | It’s Time to Break Free From Fossil Fuels 
 
Bill McKibben, EcoWatch 
McKibben writes: "This May, people will be joining hands in a new way to step up that fight on the front lines. This May, we’re breaking free from fossil fuels across the globe." 
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Police Raid Law Firm at Center of Panama Papers Scandal 
Melanie Eversley, USA Today 
Eversley writes: "Authorities on Tuesday raided the law firm connected to the Panama Papers global corruption scandal. Police officers guarded the perimeter of the offices while prosecutors worked inside." 
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Cable News Devotes 30 Seconds to Mass Arrests on Capitol Hill 
Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "During daytime and afternoon news segments, CNN did not devote any coverage to the Democracy Spring actions. MSNBC mentioned the protests for approximately 12 seconds, while Fox News mentioned the arrests and discussed the protests for about 17 seconds." 
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The US Is Dropping Bombs Quicker Than It Can Make Them 
Stephen Snyder, Public Radio International 
Snyder writes: "Ongoing air wars in Middle East have caused an unexpected dip in the Pentagon’s stockpile of air-to-ground munitions." 
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Bill O'Reilly: Many African-Americans 'Are Ill-Educated and Have Tattoos on Their Foreheads' 
Hanna Trudo, Politico 
Trudo writes: "Bill O’Reilly interrupted Donald Trump’s claims about how he would create jobs for African-Americans on Monday night to make a louder point: That many of them are 'ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads.'" 
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Elections and Undocumented Immigrants in the United States 
Ilka Oliva Corado, teleSUR 
Oliva writes: "In the United States, undocumented immigrants are as indispensable as cheap labor, but excluded as human beings. They are denied employment benefits and their human rights are abused. Come presidential election time, they become the most precious fodder for the Democratic and Republican parties." 
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Top Climate Denier Turns Down $20k Bet From Bill Nye
Graham Readfearn, EcoWatch 
Readfearn writes: "Bill Nye said he was willing to bet Marc Morano, one of America’s most outspoken climate change deniers, that 2016 would be one of the 10 hottest years on record. He also offered a bet the current decade would be the hottest on record." 
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CounterCurrents: Capitalism And Global Agribusiness: From Ford To Monsanto, It's For Your Own Good, Obama Deceives World Over State Terrorism, Non-state Terrorism, Apartheid Israeli Nuclear Threat And US Nuclear Terrorism, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseyuk Resigns, US Deploys B-52s For Bombing In Syria, Iraq

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Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseyuk Resigns
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse110416.htm

On Sunday, April 10th, Arseniy Yatseyuk, finally officially resigned, though his actual service as Ukraine’s Prime Minister ended in the very closing days of December 2015. He had been selected by U.S. President Obama’s agent on Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, on 4 February 2014, to lead Ukraine as that country’s new Prime Minister — to lead it as soon as the Obama-planned Ukrainian coup overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych would be completed (which happened 22 days later). As this reporter had noted on 15 January 2016, “Yats” (as Nuland affectionately called him) had been effectively ousted from power by Petro Poroshenko


US Deploys B-52s For Bombing In Syria, Iraq
By Patrick Martin

http://www.countercurrents.org/martin110416.htm

The US Air Force sent B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf Saturday and plans to use them for bombing raids on targets in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon and the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East. An undisclosed number of bombers will be stationed at Al Udeid air base in Qatar


Obama Deceives World Over State Terrorism, Non-state Terrorism, 
Apartheid Israeli Nuclear Threat And US Nuclear Terrorism
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110416.htm

American President Barack Obama recently hosted and addressed the 4th Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) that is aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism. However an endlessly mendacious Obama ignored the failure over long-term storage of nuclear waste, the unconscionable US Alliance dispersal of depleted uranium in US war zones around the world, and the massive reality of state nuclear terrorism in which Humanity is existentially threatened by the nuclear terrorism of 9 nuclear weapons states, specifically (with upper estimates of nuclear weapons in brackets) the US (7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK (250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea (less than 10)


Jakob von Uexküll And The World Future Council 
By John Scales Avery

http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110416.htm

Jakob von Uexküll and the World Future Council remind us that the threat of climate change is an extremely severe emergency. Quick action is needed or else our future will be lost


Capitalism And Global Agribusiness:  From Ford To Monsanto, It's For Your Own Good
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter110416.htm

In capitalism, private commercial entities are legally obliged to maximise profit, thereby serving shareholder interests ahead of any notion of the public good. According to the description of liberal democracy in textbooks, the state will act to protect the public interest. What is missing from the term ‘liberal democracy’ is the word ‘capitalist’. In capitalist liberal democracies, the state serves the interest of private capital, first and foremost, and does its best to convince the public that commercial interests and the public and national interest are one and the same


The Disneyfied Narrative Of The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia 
By Milan Djurasovic

http://www.countercurrents.org/djurasovic110416.htm

Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990’s—disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country


What Do They Know Of Cricket Who Only Cricket Know?
By Ali Abbas

http://www.countercurrents.org/aa110416.htm

Three incidents that happened lately remind us of the importance of the question that CLR James asked. Gayle dancing with Afghanistan team after they beat his team, Sachin playing cricket with William and Kate , Harsha Bhogle being sacked as a commentator from IPL


Prafulla Samantara Attacked By Vedanta Goons
By Campaign for Survival and Dignity(CSD) Odisha

http://www.countercurrents.org/csdo110416.htm

On 6th April 2016 PrafullaSamantra was assaulted by about 10 goons of Vedanta Company while he was returning from a meeting from Village Masiput inKoraput district. He said that the hired goons of Vedanta company tried to kidnap him forcefully but failed as the villagers rushed to the spot after getting information


Sri Lanka : Why Investigations Into Mass Graves Failed So Far 
By Basil Fernando

http://www.countercurrents.org/fernando110416.htm

Every mass grave is a symbol of the grave yard of criminal justice in Sri Lanka


India: MNREGA Budget Cut In The Times Of Drought
By Asian Human Rights Commission

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahrc110416.htm

The devastating that has hit India is affecting more than half of India’s 676 districts. Welfare schemes, like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) end up as the only way out for millions of rural poor to subsist. And, the government now wants to deny them even that. The Supreme Court of India observed the same while hearing a petition by Swaraj Abhiyan, an activist group, which sought relief for drought hit regions in the country. The Court examined the data provided to it by the union government and curtly told the government that the funds allocated for MNREGA are not enough to alleviate the rural crisis, worsened by the drought that is affecting more than 10 states

Dear Ms. Steisand: Ya got it WRONG! RSN: More Than 500,000 Americans Stand to Lose SNAP Benefits on April 1st

Dear Ms. Steisand: 

Ya got it WRONG! 

Hillary Clinton is just another Bought & Paid for candidate that has nothing to do with her gender. 

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's record SUCKS!  Hillary Clinton is nothing more than Neo Con Lite. 

You wrote: 

"....Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the acclaimed biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, said of Hillary Clinton, ‘I don’t think there is a First Lady who has been treated as rudely and meanly except for Eleanor Roosevelt.’” Both of these women boldly risked the scorn of “those threatened by the image of a woman carrying the fight for social justice into the public arena.”..."

OH? How about Michelle Obama? 

When Chicken Hawk War Profiteer, Neo-Con Co-Founder of PNAC Kagan endorsed her, didn't that give you pause? 

His wife is Victoria Nuland, Asst. Secretary of State who publicly acknowledged engineering the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Ukraine -- replaced with NAZIS. 

Hillary Clinton behaves like a child playing video games, ignoring the human cost of killing and bombing nations to rubble. 

She was offensively gleeful at Ghadaffi's death, ignoring the terrorist breeding ground that was created. 

If you support ENDLESS WARS feeding the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, Hillary Clinton is your candidate! 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34830-focus-hillary-clinton-seeks-neocon-shelter

Hillary Clinton has never met a country she doesn't want to invade, destabilize, bomb to rubble or dabble with their government to create chaos. 



Instead of supporting a POOR CANDIDATE simply because of her gender, Ms. Streisand, Please review Hillary Clinton's record. 

These are but a few articles recently written:

This Is How Corruption Works: A Hillary Clinton Example

http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini141215.htm

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-elizabeth-warren-helped-sanders-deflate-clintons-massive-political-apparatus

http://www.eurasiareview.com/13022016-ralph-nader-hillary-clinton-sugarcoating-her-disastrous-record-oped/#.VtO_wvmu5Vs.facebook

What future do you want?

http://middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2016/01/what-future-do-you-want.html

RSN: The Deposer in Chief: Hillary in Honduras

Robert Parry | Hillary Clinton Seeks Neocon Shelter

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34830-focus-hillary-clinton-seeks-neocon-shelter

When Bernie met Hillary

Hillary Clinton: Bought & Paid For!How will Hillary Clinton “Eliminate the Criticism” that Unions Protect Bad Teachers?

RSN: Robert Parry | Hillary Clinton's Failed Libya 'Doctrine'

Bernie Sanders Opposes Perpetual War. Trump and Clinton Could Usher Another Military Draft...et al

RSN: Clinton Foundation Received Subpoena From State Department Investigators

RSN: Want Endless War? Love the US Empire? Well, Hillary Clinton's Your Choice

Green group endorses Hillary Clinton, and feels the Bern, the Dysfunctional Clinton Family on display, et al

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Barbara Streisand | The Sexism in American Politics

Barbara Streisand, Reader Supported News
Streisand writes: "Why is it that today even a woman as impressive as Hillary Clinton is judged not by her merits and extensive resume alone, but held to a pernicious double standard?"
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President Obama Shortens Prison Sentences for 61 Drug Offenders
Associated Press
Excerpt: "President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders on Wednesday including more than a third serving life sentences, working to give new energy to calls for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system."
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Beyond San Bernardino: FBI Now Helping Law Enforcement Hack iPhones to Collect Evidence in Other Cases
James Queally and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
Excerpt: "The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial, just days after the agency managed to hack an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terror attacks, a local prosecutor said Wednesday."
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More Than 500,000 Americans Stand to Lose SNAP Benefits on April 1st
Eillie Anzilotti, City Lab
Anzilotti writes: "On April 1, at least half a million Americans will wake up no longer eligible for the food assistance benefits that have, for decades, been a crucial lifeline for the poor in a harsh economic landscape."
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Meet the Muslims Suing the Cops for Their Own Surveillance Records
CJ Ciaramella, VICE
Ciaramella writes: "Both men are suing the NYPD for surveillance records on themselves in what transparency advocates say is an unprecedented case about government secrecy. Public records experts believe the suit is pivotal because the cops will neither confirm nor deny whether the records Hashmi and Abdur-Rashid seek even exist."
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The US Leads the Charge to Condemn Assad's Crime's in Syria, but Ignores Saudi Arabia's Abuses
Sarah Leah Whitson, Los Angeles Times
Whitson writes: "Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels - 106 versus 34 - the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they've ignored most of the 150 indiscriminate aerial attacks reported by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in the last year."
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More States Are Investigating Whether Exxon Misled the Public About Climate Change
Reuters and Fortune
Excerpt: "The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands said on Tuesday they will investigate whether Exxon Mobil Corp misled investors and the public about the risks of climate change."
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