Liberty Links 7/15/17

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Must Reads

Pentagon Secretly Tested Chemical Weapons on US troops. Vets Demand to Know the Cost (I have no words to describe how despicable this is, McClatchy DC)

US and UK Acting Above the Law to Support the Saudi War in Yemen (Total lawlessness, Middle East Eye)

Begala: We Should ‘Debate Whether We Should Blow Up’ Russia (If this is “the resistance” count me out, The Daily Beast)

Trump Seen Replacing Yellen at Fed with NEC’s Cohn (Goldman Sachs positioning itself for the next bailout, Reuters)

The Return of Monopoly (Another great one by Matt Stoller, The New Republic)

Don’t Fall for Amazon’s ‘Prime Day’ (The Nation)

Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road to Meet Regular Folks—With a Few Conditions (He definitely wants to be President, The Wall Street Journal)

Visa Trying to Bribe Merchants to Stop Taking Cash (Naked Capitalism)

Twitter Guy Wants You To Think He Was This Close To Bringing Down The Trump Regime (Fame chasing fraudsters are everywhere, Deadspin)

U.S. Politics

Trump’s Low-Level Russian Connection (Great read, Bloomberg)

Be Careful How You Define Collusion: On the Veselnitskaya Bombshell and the Steele Dossier (Empty Wheel)

Hillary Plots to Revive Clintonism in 2018 Elections (The biggest fools on the planet run the Democratic Party, The Observer)

Mitchell, Williams Have No Idea DNC Solicited Info From Ukraine to Help Clinton (NewsBusters)

Exclusive: DOJ Let Russian Lawyer into US Before She Met with Trump Team (The Hill)

Lynch Distances Herself from Russian Lawyer After Trump Attack (The Hill)

Everybody Is Forgetting That Clinton Allies Did The Same Thing As Don Jr. (The Daily Caller)

The Coalition Pushing for Single Payer in California is Fracturing (The Intercept)

Oregon Bill Decriminalizes Possession of Heroin Cocaine and Other Drugs (Logical, The Washington Post)

Connecticut Just Banned Civil Forfeiture Without A Criminal Conviction (More logic, Forbes)

Hill Republicans Warn Big Tech: Tread Carefully (Axios)

Camera-Shy Cops Have No Legal Recourse (Reason)

Geopolitics/WW3

Yemen’s ‘Unfathomable Pain and Suffering’ (Al Jazeera)

Iran to US: Worry About Your Own Domestic Problems (Al Monitor)

‘But Sir, It’s an American Ship.’ ‘Never Mind, Hit Her!’ When Israel Attacked USS Liberty (Haaretz)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Congress Begins To Ask If Amazon Is Getting Too Big, Antitrust Hearing Called (Zerohedge)

Meet Trump’s Designated Driver of Wall Street Deregulation (Business Insider)

Black Homeowners Struggle as U.S. Housing Market Recovers (At least Wall Street and arms dealers did well under Obama, Denver Post)

The End of the Internet Startup (Vox)

Google Is Shelling Out Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to Academics Writing Papers About Google (New York Magazine)

Google: No, We Don’t Fund Biased Research. And Just Look Who’s Paying Our Accusers (ZDNet)

‘Bitcoin Sign Guy’ Nets Almost $15,000 After Fed Chair Appearance Goes Viral (Well done!, CoinDesk)

Crypto ₿its: Deer in Headlights, Bitcoin Sign Guy, a Messy Divorce & ICOs Puke (Crypto newsletter published by a friend, Medium)

Op Ed: Why SegWit2x Makes No Sense (Bitcoin Magazine)

Ripple’s XRP: Giving the Third-Largest Cryptocurrency a Second Look (CoinDesk)

Miscellaneous

Giant Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica (Reuters)

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