PBC News & Comment: US Tips It Can Hit Russia’s Power Grid

In apparent official, approved leak, NY Times reports that US Cybercommand has malware in Russian power grid…like Venezuela blackout?...--at ConsortiumNews, Caitlin Johnstone notes that The Times says that spooks aren’t telling Trump about it, for fear he’d leak it
--America’s credibility hits new low with unproven allegations against Iran
--Caitlin Johnstone lists 7 reasons to doubt US claims
--at MintPress, Whitney Webb cites new study that Israel has about 100 nukes, and its Dimona reactor site is leaking, and Webb comments in new in-depth interview
--Webb comments on the abusive use of anti-semitism to silence critics, and the head of Berlin’s Jewish Museum quits after tweet about BDS
--Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who was abandoned by Obama during 2013 coup, keels over and dies in courtroom
--2 years after Pentagon vowed to rout Islamic State from Afghanistan, the goal has been reduced to containment
--at ConsortiumNews, Ray McGovern uses court filings in Roger Stone case to show that FBI accepted Crowdstrike’s findings of Russian hacking of DNC, with no final report
--it’s decision time at the Supreme Court, which continues to evade decisions on gerrymandering and gay wedding cakes, but did rule on double jeopardy
--more than 500 African migrants were picked up on Mexico border last week, and the youngest child separated from his parents was 4-month old from Romania
--Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong released as protests get results
--former AL Gov. Don Siegelman is released from probation a year early