Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, the only American jailed in connection with Bush torture program, shares his powerful story…
--at Leavenworth, whistleblower Chelsea Manning is now called “she” and is due to start hormone therapy
--NY climate change protesters win acquittal after presenting “necessity defense”
--300 US troops arrive in western Ukraine as “advisors”, and Moscow reacts
--US watches as Iran steps up fighting in Iraq against Daesh
--at al Jazeera, David Cay Johnston reports on FERC, the energy regulator captive to its industries
--boosting Scott Walker’s presidential hopes, Wisconsin passes anti-union “right to work” law
--even before the email flap that broke this week, former SF Mayor Willie Brown expressed doubts about Hillary
--it’s been a year since Malaysian flight 370 mysteriously went down, and took CNN’s ratings with it
--50 years after bloody protest in Selma, Obama will lead Sunday march over famous bridge, burnishing a very weak record on racial progress
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