Liberty Links 07/01/17

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Must Reads
Australia Announces Plan to Ban Working Cryptography at Home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada (Total madness, BoingBoing)
Donald Trump is Reckless on Syria. It’s His Most Dangerous Foreign Policy Folly (Very important, USA Today)
How Inequality Makes Our Government Corrupt and Our Democracy Weak (Important read by Matt Stoller, The Washington Post)
CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat (Great article on the fake news industry, Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept)
The Rise of the Thought Leader (Really interesting, The New Republic)
Dad Beats the Crap Out of Good Samaritan Who Was Trying to Help His Lost Kid (Very disturbing, Reason)
Twitter is Looking for Ways to Let Users Flag Fake News, Offensive Content (This would be the end of Twitter, The Washington Post)
Special Report: How the Federal Reserve Serves U.S. Foreign Intelligence (The financial arm of empire, Reuters)
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence (Welcome to the new Feudalism, The New York Times)
U.S. Politics
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