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Iraq in Crisis: Militant Advance Sparks Mass Displacement as “Failed” U.S. Experiment Disintegrates; In Sisi’s Egypt, Leading Dissident Gets 15-Year Term as Al Jazeera Reporter Languishes Behind Bars. HeadlinesJune 12, 2014 Iraq Faces Disintegration as Militants Seize More Towns U.S. Resumes Drone Strikes in Pakistan, Killing 14 Egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Sentenced to … Continued
Eric Cantor Suffers Historic GOP Primary Loss in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Corporate Backlash; Debate: Is Human Rights Watch Too Close to U.S. Gov’t to Criticize its Foreign Policy? HeadlinesJune 11, 2014 Cantor Loses GOP Primary in Historic Upset Graham Wins South Carolina Primary Student, Gunman Dead in Oregon High School Shooting Obama: Congress “Should Be Ashamed” … Continued
As Right-Wing Shooting Rampages Grow, U.S. Revives Domestic Terror Unit Shelved After 9/11; As Taliban Attacks Karachi Airport Again, Could Pakistan Fall Into Civil War With Militants? As Obama Moves to Cap Student Debt Payments, Activists Push For Broader Write-Off of Crushing Loans; Is College Worth It? New Doc “Ivory Tower” Tackles Higher Ed’s Unsustainable … Continued
Remembering Maya Angelou: Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey Pay Tribute to Legendary Poet; Freed From Prison, Bahraini Activist Nabeel Rajab Urges U.S. to Stop Backing Regime’s Crackdown. HeadlinesJune 9, 2014 Pakistani Taliban Claim Responsibility for Deadly Airport Attack Ex-Military Leader Sisi Sworn-In as Egyptian President 5 Dead in Las Vegas Shooting Rampage Bergdahl … Continued
The Inside Story of Bowe Bergdahl: Afghan War Vet Matthew Farwell on “America’s Last POW”; As U.S. Frees Five Taliban Members, Questions Remain Over Future of Guantánamo. HeadlinesJune 6, 2014 Report: Bergdahl Tried to Escape Taliban Captors Twice Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Slaughter Hundreds of Villagers Canada: Man Kills 3 Police in Shooting Rampage … Continued
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Idaho Hometown Cancels “Welcome Home” Celebration as Backlash Grows; Veteran: Politicians Using Freed POW Bowe Bergdahl as “Chess Piece to Win Political Matches”; Seattle’s Socialist City Council Member Kshama Sawant Hails Historic Vote For $15/Hour Minimum Wage; EPA Moves to Cut Coal Pollution, But Critics Say Plan Falls Short on Real Emissions … Continued
“There Were No Good Options”: Bergdahl Should Get Honorable Discharge, Says Lawyer for Deserters; Is Bowe Bergdahl a Deserter? If Freed POW Left Post, He Joins Ranks of Soldiers Moved by Conscience; 5 Years After Dr. George Tiller’s Murder, A Doctor Braves Threats to Continue Abortions in Wichita. HeadlinesJune 4, 2014 Military to Probe … Continued
Father of Freed U.S. Soldier: “Nobody Can Relate to Guantánamo Prisoners More Than Our Family”; Reporter: Bowe Bergdahl’s Fellow Soldiers Questioned Afghan War More Than He Did; Former Guantánamo Chief Prosecutor Defends American POW-Taliban Prisoner Swap; After Supreme Court Rejects Appeal, Will Obama Jail New York Times Reporter James Risen? HeadlinesJune 3, 2014 Obama … Continued
Former Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: U.S. Drone Program Under Obama “Got Out of Hand”; Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Committed War Crimes. HeadlinesJune 2, 2014 Lone Known U.S. POW in Afghanistan Released in Taliban Prisoner Swap Hagel Rejects GOP Criticism of Prisoner Deal Report: Bergdahl Turned Against Afghan War EPA Seeks … Continued
