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The New York Times reports on the Saudi-led war on Yemen and U.S. support for the campaign as the war nears the one-year mark. The article doesn’t contain that much new information for readers that have been following the conflict closely, but it is still worth reading. This section stood out to me:

Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors were poised to begin a campaign in support of Yemen’s impotent government — an offensive Mr. Jubeir said could be relatively swift.

Submitted by Andrew Korybko via OrientalReview.org,

The Law Of Hybrid Warfare

Authored by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com,

We’ve written quite a bit about P2P or, more accurately, "marketplace" lending over the years.

Most recently, we noted that write-offs for five-year LendingClub loans were coming in at between 7% and 8% as opposed to the forecast range of between 4% and 6%. “Their business is to take data and use that to underwrite risk,” Compass Point’s Michael Tarkan told Bloomberg by phone. “If you’re an investor in the loans on the platform, this creates a concern around that underwriting model.”

Authored by Eric Zuesse,

The historical significance of the 2016 U.S. Presidential contest isn’t yet generally recognized. Consider the evidence regarding this historical significance, in the links that will be provided here, and from which the argument here is constructed:

For the first time ever, a Republican campaign ad against Hillary Clinton is entirely truthful about her and focuses on the most important issue facing voters: