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The author of this should Google “Operation Northwoods”, “Operation Mockingbird” and “Project MKUltra.” https://t.co/i9fWsBUo4P
— Rudolf E. Havenstein (@RudyHavenstein) August 23, 2016

Samuel Oakford just penned a powerful and important Op-Ed in the New York Times titled, Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians, the U.S. Looks the Other Way.
Here are a few key excerpts:

An architect of the federal healthcare law said last year that a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” helped Congress approve ObamaCare.
He suggested that many lawmakers and voters didn’t know what was in the law or how its financing worked, and that this helped it win approval. 

This seems like a pretty big deal.
The Washington Post reports:

In the wake of Trump’s recent hiring of Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon to campaign CEO, a June article published in Vanity Fair is now receiving a lot of attention.
Here are a few excerpts from the article, Is Donald Trump’s Endgame the Launch of Trump News?
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We’ve all heard the rumors of lifelong Democrats who support Trump in 2016. It’s time to meet a few of them.
The Washington Post reports:

It pleases me that I can finally report some good news on a topic that has been near and dear to me for many years: private prisons.

This is a pretty genius move by Zephyr Teachout.
First, some background, via the Huffington Post:

*2014 Time Magazine Cover
Years ago, when I was an exchange student in the Soviet Union, a Russian friend explained how he got his news. 
“For news about Russia, Radio Liberty,” he said. “For news about America, Soviet newspapers.” He smiled. “Countries lie about themselves, tell truth about others.”

Investigators discovered this month that at least four U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic allegedly paid girls as little as 50 cents in exchange for sex.