Wednesday, June 25, 2014

some news and opinion later june 2014

Big news from the US Supreme Court ruling on privacy and the need for a warrant to search a cellphone today.
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The advance of ISIS in Iraq has continued . So has the talk in Washington and in the US media about Iraq and Syria. There was news of another huge bomb in Beirut. Dexter Filkins, now of The New Yorker was on Fresh Air with Terry Gross today giving a view on the state of things there. A long hour.  In addition, a strong case against 'action' and for more humanitarian aid has been put forward by Andrew Bacevich, and in a longer interview with Billl Moyers.
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Human rights advocate Salwa Bugaighis was killed in Libya.
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These men were sentenced to seven years, and one to a ten year term in an Egyptian prison for being journalists.
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The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals just released a document listing the justifications, in legal terms, that were used to kill Americans overseas with drones.


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Here's looking at some of the relative US economies in a great series of graphs with the NY Times.
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Was Goldman Sachs implicated in mortgage security failure in 2008?
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The 2014 World Cup in Brasil has been threatening to suck the oxygen out of rooms all over the world for a couple weeks now. Much time expended, many views expressed both revolving around the actual games and the people and countries involved, even the stadiums across the country accomodating the games. A nice view on local Brasilians who cheer for other futbol teams, because their ancestors immigrated from Japan, Italy was on npr. 4 min audio
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Horace Silver died a week ago. This may be his most well known song.

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