In Boston Globe op-ed, Stephen Kinzer rejects “full spectrum dominance” and “security psychosis” that leads to wars aimed at nonexistent threats….
Read Kinzer’s commentary here
--Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves bill to give Congress “review” of Iran nuclear deal
--Washington Post slams Iran for “Kafkaesque restrictions” on jailed reporter Jason Rezaian’s espionage trial
--Iraqi prime minister Hadi meets Obama at White House to demand more air strikes and weapons to “finish IS”
--US military trainers are shocked at the weak state of Iraqi forces
--former Blackwater mercenaries draw stiff sentences for Nisour Square massacre
--Chicago offers $5 million settlement to victims of police torture, Emmanuel denies abuse at Homan Square
--Elton John and Michael Stipe co-sign op-ed exposing rape and abuse of transgender prisoners
--as you scramble to file your taxes, undocumented immigrants paid $12 billion for your benefit
--in Tennessee, 90,000 have licenses suspended, compounding poverty
--angry judge slams convicted teachers and administrators with long sentences for test cheating
--Pope Francis calls slaughter of Armenians “genocide” and Turkey gets pissed
--following HBO showing of “Going Clear”, director Alex Gibney calls for ending Scientology’s tax exemption
--crooner Percy Sledge dies at age 74
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