William Boardman | Pentagon Lies About Yemen, Says US Role in Saudi War Is "Noncombat"



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William Boardman | Pentagon Lies About Yemen, Says US Role in Saudi War Is "Noncombat" 
A house in Sanaa destroyed by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike last year. (photo: Yahya Arhab/EPA)
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "The Pentagon, having spent three years creating famine and spreading cholera on an unprecedented scale in one of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen, now lies, baldly but with lawyerly gracelessness, that the American bombs guided by American officers to targets as often as not civilian is somehow 'noncombat.'"
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John Dowd. (photo: Jin Lee/Bloomberg)
John Dowd. (photo: Jin Lee/Bloomberg)



John Dowd Resigns as Trump's Lead Lawyer in Mueller Probe
Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg
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Officials investigate the scene where a suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Austin blew himself up. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)
Officials investigate the scene where a suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Austin blew himself up. (photo: Eric Gay/AP)

The Austin Bombing Suspect Was a Homeschooled Christian Conservative
Sarah Jones, The New Republic
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Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Saturday, February 20, 2010. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Saturday, February 20, 2010. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)

John Bolton - Eyed for Trump Post - Leads Super PAC That Employed Cambridge Analytica
Carrie Levine, The Center for Public Integrity
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David Hogg and Emma González, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (photo: CBS)
David Hogg and Emma González, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. (photo: CBS)



Parkland Shooting Survivors Say NRA Is "Threatening" Them
CBS News
Excerpt: "Since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month, survivors have mobilized the #NeverAgain movement to push for school safety and stronger gun legislation."
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A Mapuche Indian sits on his horse as he waves the green, red and blue indigenous flag colors during a 'Guillatun' spiritual ceremony in Ercilla, Chile. (photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP)
A Mapuche Indian sits on his horse as he waves the green, red and blue indigenous flag colors during a 'Guillatun' spiritual ceremony in Ercilla, Chile. (photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP)

Why the Lost Kingdom of Patagonia Is a Live Issue for Chile's Mapuche People
Mat Youkee, Guardian UK
Youkee writes: "For a brief period in the early 1860s the Mapuche tribes of southern Chile were united under a French king in what was - to their minds at least - an independent and sovereign state."
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Eight million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year, much of which has accumulated in five giant garbage patches around the planet, according to a new study. (photo: AFP)
Eight million tons of plastics enter the oceans every year, much of which has accumulated in five giant garbage patches around the planet, according to a new study. (photo: AFP)

This Giant Garbage Dump Floating in the Pacific Is Now Three Times the Size of France
Chris Mooney, The Washington Post
Mooney writes: "Seventy-nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday."
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