Two weeks worth of links today.
Opinion/Must Reads
Aide Planted Anti-Bank Comments in One Paid Clinton Speech to Throw Reporters Off the Scent (The Intercept)
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins (The Wall Street Journal)
The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism (CounterPunch)
Trump May Not Win, but He’s Not Going Away (Bloomberg)
The Long History of the U.S. Interfering With Elections Elsewhere (The Washington Post)
The Eurasian Century is Now Unstoppable (Very interesting, New Eastern Outlook)
In the Democratic Echo Chamber, Inconvenient Truths Are Recast as Putin Plots (Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept)
A Truly Free Press Will Always Be an Inconvenience To The Government (Reason)
Elite Opinion vs the Wisdom of Crowds: The Intelligentsia’s Tendency to Get Things Wrong (Quillette)
Former CIA Officer: President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden (Time)
Wolf Richter: Millennials Blamed for Lousy Economy (Naked Capitalism)
Is Snap Inc. Building a Wearable Face Recognition Device for the NSA? (Medium)
Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs
China Paper Says U.S., South Korea Will ‘Pay the Price’ for Planned Missile System (Reuters)
Russia Says It’s Joining China to Counter U.S. Missile Defense (Bloomberg)
Boris Johnson is Accused of Fuelling ‘Russophobic Hysteria’ (This guy is a lunatic, The Telegraph)
UK’s Brexit Vote Had No Constitutional Substance, Court Hears (Reuters)
Cut Funds to States That Turn Away Refugees, Italy Urges EU (Brilliant strategy, Reuters)
Italy Watchers’ New Tool to Duck Brexit-Style Shock Flashing Red (Bloomberg)
Iraq Requests U.N. Emergency Meeting on Turkish Troops in North (Reuters)
Election 2016
Despite Gift of Trump, Democrats Struggle to Win Back Congress (Bloomberg)
Wikileaks Mystery: How Did Town Hall Question Get to Clinton Campaign? (CNN Money)
EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign’s Cozy Press Relationship (The Intercept)
Leaked Email Shows MSNBC Producer Fawning Over Clinton (This one’s particularly gross, The Hill)
Trump Campaign Manager: Members of Congress Have Assaulted Women (The Hill)
Catholic Group Demands Top Clinton Aide Resign Over Leaked Emails (The Hill)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Have More in Common Than You Think (Reason)
Clinton Shows How She Manages to Be Less Trusted Than Trump (Reason)
Jack Abramoff Goes Off On Hillary: ‘Most Corrupt Person In History Of United States To Get This Close To The Presidency’ (The Daily Caller)
Warren to Obama: Fire Your SEC Chief (The Hill)
Economics/Finance
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings (USA Today)
A Rare Glimpse Behind Saudi Arabia’s Deteriorating Finances (Bloomberg)
The Next Great Depression Is Going To Be A Collapse Of Bonds And Governments (Martin Armstrong interview, YouTube)
Investors Piling Into Junk Bonds Could Be Overlooking Warning Signs (Bloomberg)
Manhattan Apartment Rents Decline After 35% Surge in Listings (Bloomberg)
5 Years Later, Jon Corzine May Avoid Trial With $5 Million Settlement (The New York Times)
Bolt Cutters Expose Vulnerability of North America’s Oil Pipeline Grid (Reuters)
Miscellaneous
Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested Protesting North Dakota Pipeline (Common Dreams)
Documentary Filmmaker Charged With Conspiracy in Pipeline Protests (Reuters)
Subpoenas and Gag Orders Show Government Overreach (The New York Times)
Younger Adults More Likely Than Their Elders to Prefer Reading News (Pew Research Center)
Not OK, Google (TechCrunch)
Palmer Luckey Absent From Oculus Conference Keynote After Troll Scandal (TechCrunch)
Apple Messages Could Be Exposing Your Privacy When it Previews a Link (Graham Cluley)
Hundreds of Veterans Died Waiting for Care at Phoenix VA Hospital (Fox News)
Google’s Jigsaw: Undermining Alternative Media (YouTube)
Internet Trolls Targeted with New Legal Guidelines (BBC)
Liberty Blitzkrieg Partner Articles
Gun Control in America: A Historic Guide on Major State Acts (Ammo.com)
Gov’t Spends Billions In Taxpayer Money Selling And Advertising Gov’t Programs (Open the Books)
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Michael Krieger
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