John Kiriakou | Stelios Kouloglou: Why Travel Bans Don't Work

19 December 17 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News PEOPLE USED TO COME AND DONATE, NOW THEY JUST COME - The key to our funding formula has always been reasonable response. That's gone. When we used to say we are running behind, things picked up. Now they don't. We used to finish in far less time. Now we don't finish. It was never like this. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! John Kiriakou | Stelios Kouloglou: Why Travel Bans Don't Work    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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE 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."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation