Juan Cole | Let's Call Bolton What He Is, a War Criminal With Terrorist Ties, Not Just "Hawkish"



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Juan Cole | Let's Call Bolton What He Is, a War Criminal With Terrorist Ties, Not Just "Hawkish" 
John Bolton speaking at the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, on April 17, 2015. (photo: Darren McCollester/Getty Images/JTA)
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "John Bolton helped lie our country into an illegal war of aggression that killed several hundred thousand Iraqis, wounded over a million, and displaced 4 million from their homes, helped deliver Baghdad into the hands of Iran, and helped create ISIL, which blew up Paris."
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Stormy Daniels. (photo: CBS News)
Stormy Daniels. (photo: CBS News)

Stormy Daniels Says Someone Threatened to Kill Her if She Didn't Stop Talking About Trump
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who says she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, alleged in an interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday that she was physically threatened to stop talking about Trump."
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Voters line up at Gordon Park Pavilion for the November 2016 presidential election. (photo: Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Voters line up at Gordon Park Pavilion for the November 2016 presidential election. (photo: Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Thousands of Milwaukee Voters Have Been Dropped From Rolls, Including Some Erroneously
Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Spicuzza writes: "Thousands of Milwaukee voters have been dropped from voter rolls - including some erroneously - through the state's registration system, city officials said Wednesday."
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Matt Jones. (photo: Getty/AP/Politico)
Matt Jones. (photo: Getty/AP/Politico)

This Liberal Sports Radio Host Thinks He Can Take Down Mitch McConnell
Adam Willis, Politico
Willis writes: "Matt Jones has made McConnell a frequent target on his show in recent years, using the senator's equivocation between the state's two rival basketball programs as a proxy attack on his character."
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks in San Jose, California, in October 2016. (photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks in San Jose, California, in October 2016. (photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Facebook's CEO Is an Unelected Oligarch. When Democrats Retake the House, We Must Hold Him Accountable.
Kaniela Ing, BuzzFeed
Ing writes: "Facebook knew tens of millions of Americans had their personal information stolen by Cambridge Analytica for the purposes of helping Steve Bannon and billionaire Robert Mercer elect Donald Trump, but only took responsibility for the breach after it became international news - two years after the fact."
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Cerrado savannah. (photo: Mongabay)
Cerrado savannah. (photo: Mongabay)

Cerrado: Traditional Communities Accuse Agribusiness of 'Green Land Grabbing'
Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance, Mongabay
Excerpt: "Like Brazil's indigenous groups, these traditional communities are recognized by the Brazilian government as having sustainable livelihoods rooted in their territories, and so are worthy of protection. Still, the geraizeiros are on the verge of being displaced by soy, corn, and cotton."
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Waves roll on to the beach at Orange Beach, Alabama. Modern agriculture, sewage and climate change have created a huge, oxygen-starved dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Waves roll on to the beach at Orange Beach, Alabama. Modern agriculture, sewage and climate change have created a huge, oxygen-starved dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico Will Take Decades to Recover From Farm Pollution
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK
Milman writes: "A new study says that even in the 'unrealistic' event of a total halt to the flow of agricultural chemicals the damage will persist for 30 years."
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