25 links today. Enjoy.
Powerful NSA Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online (Must read, Washington Post)
Clinton’s Syria War Plans (VERY scary, must read, The American Conservative)
The King of ‘Political Intelligence’ Faces a Reckoning (More Washington D.C. sleaze, Wall Street Journal)
U.S. Opens Probe Into Concerns Over Health-Provider Payments (Just another slimy corporate scam, Wall Street Journal)
We Must Protect Shareholders From Executive Wrongdoing (This whistleblower is a legend, FT)
Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger (Huffington Post)
Hillary Clinton’s Fundraising Pace Accelerates (63 fundraisers planned, zero press conferences, Wall Street Journal)
Progressive Clinton Supporters: You Broke It, You Bought It (The Hill)
Searches for Green Party Surpass Dems During CNN Town Hall (The Hill)
Green Party, Stein embrace Assange (The Hill)
Assange Itching to Get Leaks on Trump (The Hill)
Manafort Tied to Undisclosed Foreign Lobbying (Tony Podesta also entangled in this, AP)
Never Seen a Liberal Defend Sharia Law? Sally Kohn Can Definitely Fix That (Bizpac Review)
‘Flash Boys’ IEX Stock Exchange, Backed by L.A. Investment Giant, Opens for Business (LA Times)
Citigroup Gets First Loss In Trademark Suit Against AT&T For Saying ‘Thanks’ (TechDirt)
Lawmakers Overseeing Wall Street Given Bigger, More Favorable Loans Than Others (International Business Times)
Withdrawals Plague Once-Mighty Hedge-Fund Firms Brevan Howard and Tudor (Wall Street Journal)
Congress And The DEA Share The Blame For Marijuana’s Mystifying Misclassification (Good primer on the idiocies of prohibition, Forbes)
Syrian Kurds Evacuate City as Battle with Assad Forces Intensifies (Reuters)
Corbyn Refuses to Say He’d Defend NATO Ally from Russia (Reuters)
Germany Treads Cautiously in Court Case to Ban Far-Right Party (Reuters)
McCain Runs Against Trump Effect in Bid for Sixth Senate Term (Nobody needs to be in the Senate for 36 years, Bloomberg)
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (Bloomberg)
FDA Issues Safety Alert for Popular Hair Care Product Over Hair Loss Complaints (CBS News)
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Michael Krieger
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