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Chelsea Manning has filed an appeal against her conviction for passing more than 700,000 documents to Wikileaks in 2010 which landed her with a 35-year prison sentence under the Espionage Act. On Thursday lawyers for the whistleblower called her conviction “grossly unfair and unprecedented” arguing that “no whistleblower in American history has been sentenced this harshly.” The Intercept reports: Manning was convicted of six counts of espionage by a military court in 2013 and is currently serving a 35-year sentence in military prison.

With Trump going after billionaire-funded media in America, and Italy facing probes over its banking-system-controlled media, it is perhaps no surprise that yet another generally corrupt nation - Greece - is facing a parliamentary committee investigation into spuriously large 'bank loans' and highly-concentrated advertising spend made to various political parties and media groups in 2015.

In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative “principles” of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade. But when did free trade become dogma in the Party of Lincoln?

As early as 1832, young Abe declared, “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank … and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles.” Campaigning in 1844, Lincoln declared, “Give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest nation on earth.”

Washington Appoints Its Agent President Of Brazil

Ukraine all over again

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/05/20/wikileaks-brazil-new-unelected-president-us-informant.html

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As the Clinton campaign turns its attention to Donald Trump (or tries to at least), it is encountering one of the many things that makes running against 'The Teflon Don' difficult: With everything he has said and done, how is it possible to focus on only a few key things to attack him on.

"Our problem is a target-rich environment" said one Clinton ally, noting that nearly every day there is a news cycle with damaging headlines about Trump.