Opinion/Must Reads
“FBI Is Handing Out Immunity Deals Like Candy” (Total insanity, Zerohedge)
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source After Accepting Pulitzer (Epic shamelessness, The Intercept)
In Wells Fargo’s Bogus Accounts, Echoes of Foreclosure Abuses (The New York Times)
Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat (Naked Capitalism)
The Courtiers and the Tyrants (Chris Hedges writing at TruthDig)
What If Evolution Bred Reality Out Of Us? (Fascinating and plausible, NPR)
Throughout History, Debt and War Have Been Constant Partners (The Guardian)
Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT’s 1967 Attack on MLK’s Anti-War Speech (Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept)
Geopolitics
Fierce Air Strikes on Aleppo After Syrian Army Declares Offensive (Reuters)
Turkey-Backed Rebels Could Push Further South in Syria, Erdogan Says (Imagine the uproar if this was Russia, Reuters)
Senate Tacitly Endorses US Role in Yemen War (Despicable, Al Monitor)
Obama Vetoes Saudi 9/11 Bill, Override Could Come Next Week (Politico)
Angela Merkel Signals She May Back Down From Open-Door Refugee Policy (The Telegraph)
Putin Says Soviet Union’s Collapse Wasn’t Inevitable (Bloomberg)
European Opinions of the Refugee Crisis in 5 Charts (Pew Research Center)
Election 2016
Despite Flaws, Paperless Voting Machines Remain Widespread in the U.S. (Important article, Reuters)
Trump is Headed For a Win, Says Professor Who Has Predicted 30 Years of Presidential Outcomes Correctly (The Washington Post)
Swing-State Polls: Trump Leads in Iowa, Narrows the Gap in Colorado and Virginia (Politico)
Presidential Polls Tighten in Wisconsin (Marquette University Law School Poll)
Hillary Clinton Allies Press Donald Trump For More Transparency, While Keeping Their Own Clients Secret (International Business Times)
Obama Used a Pseudonym in Emails with Clinton, FBI Documents Reveal (Politico)
Wells Fargo Scandal Should Be Major Campaign Issue (The Hill)
GOP Senators Succumb to Trump’s War on Trade (These Republicans are so full of it, Politico)
Trump’s Puzzling Pitch to Black Voters (Politico)
Trump Is Doing Better with Hispanics Than You Think (The Hill)
Five Takeaways From the Latest Finance Reports (The Hill)
Trump Praises Autocratic Egyptian Leader (Politico)
It’s One Person’s Word Against Another on the Birther Rumor (McClatchy)
President Obama Guilt Trips African Americans to Support Hillary Clinton (Benjamin Dixon Show, YouTube)
CNN edits out Clinton reference to NY Explosion as ‘Bombing’ (The Hill)
Republican Billionaire Pledges $2M to Clinton (More billionaires for Hillary, The Hill)
Bill and Hillary Clinton Buy the House Next Door — Their Third $1 Million Home (Of course they did, The Washington Post)
Finance/Economy
China Let Up on Treasuries in July to Tune of $22 Billion (Bloomberg)
Kuroda’s Journey From Shock-And-Awe to Bond Market Fine-Tuning (Japan has lost the plot, Bloomberg)
China Facing Full-Blown Banking Crisis, World’s Top Financial Watchdog Warns (The Telegraph)
Wells Board, Tolstedt Sued by Investor Over Accounts Scandal (Bloomberg)
Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn’t Prosecute Banksters (The Intercept)
Warren Says Wells Fargo’s Stumpf Should Resign, Face Criminal Investigation (Bloomberg)
What the Hilariously Awful Testimony by Wells Fargo’s CEO Portends For His Future (BoingBoing)
What You Need to Know If You Were Harmed by Wells Fargo (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Taxpayers Subsidized Wells Fargo Executive Pay Amid Bank’s Fraud (International Business Times)
Colorado Health-Insurance Rates to Jump 20 Percent on Average For Individual Buyers in 2017 (Denver Post)
Denver’s Logjam of Homes For Sale May Be Loosening (Denver Post)
Miscellaneous
Obama-Era Surveillance Worse Than Stasi, says Oliver Stone (Yahoo)
10 Ways Local Police Are Spying on Your Community (ACLU)
Pharma Lobbying Held Deep Influence Over Policies on Opioids (AP)
Sacramento Mayor Beats Protester to a ‘Bloody Pulp’ (Yep, this is real, The Hill)
Witness to Testify in NYPD Cop’s Drug Conspiracy Trial Whacked ‘Don Corleone’-Style (NY Daily News)
Colleges Turn to Coloring Books to De-Stress Students (The College Fix)
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