PBC News & Comment: John Lindh is Freed From Federal Prison

With no last-minute intervention from Trump administration, John Lindh walks out of Terre Haute prison after 17 years of incarceration….--here’s a video interview with John’s father, Frank Lindh from 2013
--markets slide again as Trump‘s China trade war has no end in sight; Hollywood is next to feel the pain
--Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel tallies the damage in op-ed
--draconian abortion law in Georgia leads film producers to pull out of Peach State
--in extremely personal column, Michelle Alexander shares her rape at Stanford and the abortion that followed
--Alabama House passes an even more grotesque abortion bill
--as Trump considers pardons for accused and convicted military war criminals, military leaders and Pete Buttigieg raise strong objections
--Pelosi says Trump wants to be impeached and ”exonerated” by the Senate, and she is still resisting
--Trump lost another court case that attempted to block subpoena for bank records
--the banker who loaned Paul Manafort $16 million is charged with trying to trade the loans for an appointment by Trump
--former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tells House committee, in polite terms, that Trump was unprepared for meeting with Putin
--CBS News exposes death of 10-year-old migrant girls last year, which was not reported previously
--pipeline protesters are fighting new laws that criminalize pipeline protests
--Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio offers bill to end the rules that make the Post Office look insolvent
--Caitlin Johnstone notes that the US is accusing Syria of new chemical attacks as new information undermines similar claims last year in Douma
--in excellent report, Whitney Webb at MintPress reports that newly released FBI photos of “dancing Israelis” suggest Israel knew about 9/11 attacks in advance
--NY Times recently asserted that opposition to 5g wireless is driven by Russia, but US agency NOAA says 5G will interfere with critical weather forecasting