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Should Obama Go to Tehran? How a U.S.-Iran “Grand Bargain” Could Help the Crisis in Iraq; Can the President Strike an American Anywhere in the World?: Drone Memo Raises Troubling Questions; Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands. HeadlinesJune 24, 2014 Court Releases Redacted … Continued
“Journalism in Egypt is a Crime”: Global Outcry After 3 Al Jazeera Reporters Sentenced to 7-10 Years; “Baghdad is a Frightened City”: As ISIS Gains Ground, Iraqi Capital Gripped by Fear & Uncertainty; Pressuring Israel, Presbyterian Church Divests From Firms Tied to Occupation of Palestinian Land. HeadlinesJune 23, 2014 Al Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to … Continued
NYC’s $40M Central Park 5 Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse; Rep. Colleen Hanabusa Proposes Ban on U.S. Military Deployment in Iraq Without Congressional Backing; Iraq’s Next PM? Ahmed Chalabi, Chief Peddler of False WMDs, Meets U.S. Officials as Malaki Falters; A Plan Only Banksters Will Love: WikiLeaks Reveals Trade Deal Pushing … Continued
Meet the Navajo Activist Who Got the Washington Redskins’ Trademark Revoked: Amanda Blackhorse; “A Neo-Liberal Trojan Horse”: Dave Zirin on Brazil’s Mass Protests Against World Cup Displacement; Argentina Alleges Extortion After Supreme Court Sides With Vulture Funds Preying on Sovereign Debt. HeadlinesJune 19, 2014 Report: U.S. Conditions Iraq Military Intervention on Maliki Resignation Iraqi … Continued
Will Iraq or Syria Survive? UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Sectarian War & the Disastrous ’03 Invasion; “Colonialism is Inhuman”: Diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi on the Lessons of Algeria’s Independence Struggle. HeadlinesJune 18, 2014 Sunni Militants Seize Iraq’s Main Oil Refinery Rouhani: Iran “Will Not Hesitate” to Protect Shiite Sites in Iraq Report: Obama Admin … Continued
Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion; 50 Years Later, How a New Freedom Summer Could Mobilize the South’s Disenfranchised People of Color; “The Last Magazine”: One Year After Death, Michael Hastings’ Lost Novel Satirizes Corporate Media. HeadlinesJune 17, 2014 U.S. to Deploy 275 Military Personnel … Continued
As Obama Considers Drone Strikes in Iraq, Could U.S. Military Action Worsen Sectarian Conflict? Dave Zirin on the World Cup You Won’t See on TV: Protests, Tear Gas, Displaced Favela Residents. HeadlinesJune 16, 2014 U.S. Considers Talks with Iran over Widening Iraq Crisis Manning Criticizes Limits on Media Coverage of U.S. Wars Kenya: Gunmen … Continued
Children on the Run: U.S. Detains Thousands of Young Migrants Seeking Safety, Family Reunification; Report from Iraq: U.S. Invasion in 2003 Helped Set Path for Crisis Pulling Nation Apart. HeadlinesJune 13, 2014 Iraq Crisis Deepens as ISIS Militants Gain Ground Letters Reveal Bergdahl’s Complaints About Conditions in Afghanistan Brazil: Protests Erupt on Opening Day … Continued
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
