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More in U.S. Favor Diplomacy Over Sanctions for Russia (Gallup)
Democratic Party Says It Thwarted Attempted Hack of Voter Database (Hysterical article which ended up being fake news, The New York Times)
Democrats Now Say Hacking Attempt Was Test From Within (The true story behind the fake news story above, Voice of America)
Meet the Most Insidious #Resistance Grifters (The Outline)
Facebook Is Rating the Trustworthiness of Its Users on a Scale from Zero to 1 (Please stop using this garbage platform, The Washington Post)
Facebook Removes ‘Multiple Pages’ Linked to ‘Inauthentic Behavior’ in Russia, Iran (ABC News)
Jeremy Hunt Silent as Saudi Arabia Plans Its First Execution of a Female Human Rights Activist (There’s nothing the Saudis can do that’ll get corrupt Western governments to care, The Canary)
China’s Xi Says Propaganda Work ‘Absolutely Correct’ Amid Trade Row Criticism (China continues to get increasingly aggressive with its clampdown, Reuters)
Google, Apple and 13 Other Companies That No Longer Require Employees to Have a College Degree (Wave of the future, CNBC)
Yemen School Bus Bombing ‘One of 50 Strikes on Civilian Vehicles This Year’ (Oh well, nobody cares since the Saudis buy lots and lots of bombs, The Guardian)
Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix. (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)
Looking Beyond the Millennials: A Brief Discussion with My Son Zev Weinstein at 13 (YouTube)
Shark Attack on Spear Fisherman for Yellowfin Tuna at Ascension Island (Amazing footage, YouTube)
U.S. News/Politics
To Force Billionaires Off Welfare, Sanders Tax Would Make Corporations Fund 100% of Public Assistance Their Low-Paid Workers Receive (Common Dreams)
Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy (BuzzFeed)
Tom Carper’s 40-Year Record of Defending Banks Is Being Challenged by Kerri Harris in a Democratic Primary (Lots of very interesting history here, The Intercept)
Gen Z Is Set to Outnumber Millennials Within a Year (Bloomberg)
Company Has Allegedly Implanted Microchips in 80 Employees in the Past Year (The Daily Mail)
Study: When a City’s Trashy Lots Are Cleaned Up, Residents’ Mental Health Improves (The Washington Post)
Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? (Nutty, Priceonomics)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
In Major Shift, Germany Calls for Payment Channels Independent of U.S. (Haaretz)
Bolton: U.S. Sanctions to Stay Until Russia Changes Its Behavior (Reuters)
Ukraine Has Made Progress in Efforts to Join Nato: Trump Adviser (Reuters)
Sanctions on Iran Having Effect, but Regime Change Is Not U.S. Policy – Bolton (Hard eye roll, Reuters)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Says Will Raise Defensive Capabilities (Reuters)
Facebook Kills “Inauthentic” Foreign News Accounts – U.S. Propaganda Stays Alive (Moon of Alabama)
U.S. Sanctions Shut Down ‘The Empire Files’ with Abby Martin (Media Roots)
UK Opposition Labour Proposes Tax on Tech Giants in Media Shake-Up (Reuters)
Trudeau Government Poised to Beef up Bill to Prevent Foreign Interference in 2019 Election (The Globe and Mail)
The Chimera of British Anti-Semitism…And How Not to Fight It If It Were Real (Mondoweiss)
Apparent Death Threat Against Rouhani Triggers Fierce Backlash (Al-Monitor)
Austria Says Shares EU Stance on Russia Despite Putin Visit (Reuters)
Finance/Economy/Crypto
What’s Holding Back Wages in America? (Bloomberg)
China Shows Us Why Crypto Matters (Medium)
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