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John Kiriakou | Stelios Kouloglou: Why Travel Bans Don't Work 
John Kiriakou. (photo: The Washington Post) 
John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News 
Kiriakou writes: "Two months ago, I was invited to address the European Parliament on national security whistleblower issues. The invitation came from Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek member of the European Parliament (MEP) and a member of Greece's governing Syriza party." 
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Cornyn Pipeline Amendment Enriches GOP Lawmakers; Language Inserted as Cornyn's Former Aide Lobbied on the Issue 
Jay Cassano, Josh Keefe and David Sirota, International Business Times 
Excerpt: "Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, inserted language into the final tax bill that would enrich three different constituencies: fossil fuel firms, Republicans' major campaign donors and a handful of Cornyn's GOP congressional colleagues including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and two other Texas lawmakers in the House." 
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Roy Moore Hasn't Conceded and Is Still Fundraising a Week After the Election That He Lost 
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress 
Ford writes: "Roy Moore (R), who was twice removed as Alabama Supreme Court Justice for violating federal court orders and who has been accused by multiple women of sexually abusing them when they were teenagers, still refuses to concede the Senate Alabama election to his opponent Doug Jones (D). His latest claim is that voter fraud must have rigged the election against him." 
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GOP Tax Bill Will Turn US Into 'World Champion of Extreme Inequality,' Says UN Poverty Investigator 
Carlos Ballesteros, Newsweek 
Ballesteros writes: "Economic inequality in the United States is so wide that it has severely undermined American democracy - and the Republican tax bill expected to pass this week is going to make it worse, a United Nations poverty and human rights investigator has determined." 
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The US Admitting It Studies "Anomalous Aerospace Threats" Doesn't Validate Conspiracy Theories 
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post 
Wootson Jr. writes: "For decades, Americans were told that Area 51 didn't really exist and that the U.S. government had no official interest in aliens or UFOs. Statements to the contrary, official-sounding people cautioned, were probably the musings of crackpots in tinfoil hats." 
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Honduras: 3 Confirmed Dead in Under 24 Hours 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "During demonstrations on Monday, 26-year-old Cristian Funez was shot and killed in San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras." 
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The Arctic Will Never Be Frozen Again 
Eric Holthaus, Grist 
Holthaus writes: "Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more." 
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