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Archives for July 2016

Father Of Fallen Muslim Soldier To Trump: ‘You Have Sacrificed Nothing’

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan’s infantry unit was guarding the gates to their base in Iraq 12 years ago when a suspicious vehicle approached. Khan, a Muslim-American soldier, took 10 steps toward the car before it exploded, killing him. Khan’s sacrifice, posthumously awarded with a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, was on full […]

NBC News
By NBC News
Captain Humayun Khan is a decorated war hero who died defending members of his unit in Iraq.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPg1aPFCk64 PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan's infantry unit was guarding the gates to their base in Iraq 12 years ago when a suspicious vehicle approached. Khan, a Muslim-American soldier, took 10 steps toward the car before it exploded, killing him. Khan's sacrifice, posthumously awarded with a

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Centcom Report Claims Only 14 Civilians Killed In US Strikes Over Past Year

Recently expanded authority to strike ISIS targets permits strikes with the potential to kill or wound several civilians if those attacks prevent fighters from causing greater mayhem.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Afghan MSF medical personnel treat civilians injured following an offensive against Taliban militants by Afghan and coalition forces at the MSF hospital in Kunduz.

Centcom’s latest undercount of the number of civilians killed in US airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria was released today, claiming only 14 civilians killed between July of 2015 and the end of April, bringing the official “overall” toll to 55 killed in the entire war. Centcom’s toll included three civilians killed in the April 5 airstrike

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7 Arrested As Tensions Rise & Protesters Breach Security Fence At DNC 2016

While protests started peacefully on Wednesday with a ‘fart-in’ to expose corruption in the American democratic system, they intensified as conflicting groups clashed and protesters breached the massive security fence erected outside the Wells Fargo Center.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell

PHILADELPHIA --- From passing gas to burning flags to breaching a massive security fence, activists expressed their outrage at the Democratic Party on Wednesday night. Dozens of police crowded around the entrance to AT&T Station, the subway stop closest to the site of the Democratic National Convention, to prevent a “fart-in” protest to

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Intelligence Official Overseeing Whistleblowing Cases Blows Whistle Himself

McClatchy says claims “add to a barrage of allegations that the federal government’s handling of whistleblower cases is flawed.”

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
Whistleblower

An official charged with investigating whistleblower cases within the U.S. intelligence community is himself blowing the whistle on alleged "public corruption," according to new reporting by McClatchy. Journalist Marisa Taylor describes Daniel Meyer as "the Obama administration's top official overseeing how intelligence agencies handle

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Turkey Warms To Russia; Pipeline, Sanctions To Be Discussed, Qatar Blames KSA, UAE For Coup

While it is still too early to tell who organized the coup or even to fully analyze Erdogan’s behavior afterwards, these recent developments are notable.

Brandon Turbeville
By Brandon Turbeville
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, centre, Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, second left, National Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli, left and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim look on at the start of their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, July 25, 2016.

It’s been over a week since the Turkish coup has taken place and still no one definitively knows what happened, who was behind it, and who was originally meant to benefit. It is rather obvious now that, since the coup did not succeed, Erdogan will find himself in a much safer position domestically than before it took place by virtue of the massive

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Federal Judge Green Lights Government Use Of Hidden Mics In Public

A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement may continue to place recording devices in public places because it does not violate the constitutional guarantee against warrantless searches and privacy protections. 

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
A sign for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in Washington, DC.

On Friday July 22, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton issued a 17-page ruling which found the practice of placing recording devices on the steps of courthouses in Oakland and Martinez, California to be “unsettling,” but not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The four defendants in the federal criminal fraud case are accused of rigging real

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