Dave Zirin of The Nation dismisses suggestions that FIFA bust was timed to interfere with FIFA board vote to suspend Israel ….
Read Zirin’s comments here
–Putin slams US over FIFA prosecution
–Putin decrees secrecy over deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
–IRS says Russian hackers stole 100,000 tax files in fraud scheme
–OOOPS! Pentagon shipped live anthrax to 9 US labs and airbase in South Korea
–Israel asks US for 50% increase in annual military funding
–Rand Paul blurts out the truth: GOP hawks created Islamic State
–TTP fast track approved by Senate would also fast track secret TISA internet agreement, reports Electronic Frontier Foundation
–at the Guardian, Spencer Ackerman counters the claims that parts of Patriot Act Section 215 are important to national security
–did your humble host get snookered by anti-polygraph activist Doug Williams, who mysteriously changed his plea to guilty on second day of trial? Here is blog post detailing the abrupt end to the trial
–Nebraska legislature overrides governor to abolish death penalty
–remembering John Ames, my good friend who died last week at age 81
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