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Barbara McQuade | Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?' 

Barbara McQuade, The Daily Beast
McQuade writes: "Trump wanted an attorney general who would protect him, and he got one who defended him and misrepresented Mueller's report."
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John Oliver. (photo: HBO)

John Oliver Says Donald Trump Was Saved From Russian Collusion by 'Incompetence' and 'Disobedience'
Ewan Palmer, Newsweek
Palmer writes: "John Oliver, host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, said the two 'key factors' that might have saved President Donald Trump from prosecution, as revealed in Robert Mueller's long-awaited report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, were 'cartoonish levels of disorganization and incompetence' of those around him."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Supreme Court Will Decide if It Is Legal to Fire Someone for Being LGBTQ
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton County both ask whether existing federal law prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC asks the same question about anti-trans discrimination."
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Chelsea Manning speaking via video call with Peter Greste at the Antidote festival at the Sydney Opera House on 2 September. (photo: Prudence Upton)

US Appeals Court Denies Manning's Bail Request, Upholds Contempt Finding
Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters
Lynch writes: "A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request by former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to be released from jail on bail, and upheld a lower court's decision to hold Manning in civil contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury."
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White metal crosses mark graves at the cemetery. (photo: Michael Spooneybarger/Reuters)

'A Type of Justice': Florida Reform School Yields Evidence of More Graves
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "Evidence of an additional 27 'possible' graves discovered at the site of the Dozier School for Boys confirms that the final chapters of a dark episode have yet to be written."
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Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the Extinction Rebellion protest at Marble Arch in London, Britain April 21, 2019. (photo: Reuters)

Extinction Rebellion: London Climate Protesters Seek Talks With Government
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Climate change protesters who have brought parts of London to a standstill said Sunday they were prepared to call a halt if the British government will discuss their demands."
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American farmers use chlorpyrifos, a pesticide tied to brain and nervous system issues, on crops such as apples, broccoli, corn and strawberries. (photo: Stephanie Chapman/Flickr)

'Finally!': Court Orders EPA to Stop Stalling Potential Ban on Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Kids
Jessica Corbett, EcoWatch
Corbett writes: "In a ruling welcomed by public health advocates, a federal court on Friday ordered the Trump administration to stop stalling a potential ban on a pesticide linked to brain damage in children, giving regulators until mid-July to make a final decision."
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Oily Hijack: Corporate Hegemony And The Keystone Pipeline EIS

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Mass Layoffs Hit North America, Europe And Japan
By Kate Randall

http://www.countercurrents.org/randall070214.htm

A wave of layoff announcements over the past week has exposed the reality of the economic “recovery” touted by the Obama administration and governments worldwide. Deep-going job cuts are hitting the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology and retail sectors across North America, Europe and Japan


Lifting The Siege Of Yarmouk One Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination At A Time
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb070214.htm

Up to this morning, approximately 5,300 food parcels have been allowed into Yarmouk or an average of 800-1,000 food packages daily. Aid has been entering sporadically and sometimes chaotically, with perceptible but slight increases over the past week


Fukushima’s Future
By Bob Stilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/stilger070214.htm

When communities are devastated by disasters like earthquakes and nuclear explosions, how can they recover? In Fukushima, Japan, transformation may be the only option


Oily Hijack: Corporate Hegemony And The Keystone Pipeline EIS
By Joanne Knight

http://www.countercurrents.org/knight070214.htm

The oil industry has corrupted the Keystone XL environmental assessment process just as it has hijacked the climate change debate and interfered with action on climate change. Reading the Department of State Environmental Impact Statement, it is clear whose interests are served by this report. The confluence of arguments presented in the report with the arguments of the American Petroleum Institute is stunning. Environment Resource Management, the company contracted to produce the report, is being investigated by the Department of State for conflict of interest in producing the EIS


Moving Beyond The Corporate Vision Of Sustainability
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana070214.htm

In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it’s time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened and scaled up at all levels – especially at the United Nations


The Deceptions And Falsehoods Of The GMO Lobby:
Acquiesce Or Europe Will Become “ Museum of World Farming”
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter070214.htm

British Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is a staunch supporter of the GMO sector. Despite mounting evidence pointing to the deleterious health, social, ecological and environmental impacts of GMOs, Paterson has a blind spot that lets him ignore reality and allows him to lend unconditional support to the biotech conglomerates, the very concerns that regard Europe as a massive potential cash cow from which their GM crops have till now mostly been barred or restricted. Paterson recently told the Oxford Farming Conference that Europe is likely to become "the museum of world farming" because of its failure to embrace genetically modified crops


Mass Graves Discovery Gives A New Twist To The Issue Of Baloch Missing Persons
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali070214.htm

Discovery of three mass graves in Khuzdar has given a new twist to the issue of the missing persons in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The Deputy Commissioner of Khuzdar Abdul Waheed Shah on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of the three mass graves