Opinion/Must Reads
“FBI Is Handing Out Immunity Deals Like Candy” (Total insanity, Zerohedge)
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source After Accepting Pulitzer (Epic shamelessness, The Intercept)
In Wells Fargo’s Bogus Accounts, Echoes of Foreclosure Abuses (The New York Times)
Academic Penury: Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat (Naked Capitalism)
The Courtiers and the Tyrants (Chris Hedges writing at TruthDig)
What If Evolution Bred Reality Out Of Us? (Fascinating and plausible, NPR)
Throughout History, Debt and War Have Been Constant Partners (The Guardian)
Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT’s 1967 Attack on MLK’s Anti-War Speech (Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept)
Geopolitics
Fierce Air Strikes on Aleppo After Syrian Army Declares Offensive (Reuters)
Turkey-Backed Rebels Could Push Further South in Syria, Erdogan Says (Imagine the uproar if this was Russia, Reuters)
