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Workers End Strikes in Kenya, Continue Actions in Tunisia, Egypt and South Africa

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Workers End Strikes in Kenya, Continue Actions in Tunisia, Egypt and South Africa

Rubio & Cotton: U.S. Must Make Putin Pay for His Actions

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, both Republicans, have a new op-ed at CNN calling on the United States to punish Russia economically and to aid Ukraine militarily if Russia does not back down:  

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Rubio & Cotton: U.S. Must Make Putin Pay for His Actions

Incognito: "My Actions Were Coming From A Place Of Love"

Incognito: "My Actions Were Coming From A Place Of Love"
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In his first interview since the Miami Dolphins suspended him, Richie Incognito says his words to Jonathan Martin sound harsh, but that’s not the way he meant them.

“My actions were coming from a place of love,” he told Fox NFL Sunday. “No matter how bad and how vulgar it sounds, that’s how we communicate, that’s how our friendship was, and those are the facts and that’s what I’m accountable for.”

Incognito if you remember was suspended indefinitely for allegedly sending threatening messages that included racial slurs to Martin, his younger teammate, who left the NFL after he faced harassment that his lawyer said went “beyond locker-room hazing.”

The story surfaced a conversation about bullying, race and the culture inside the NFL.

Incognito told Fox that he was “not a racist” and that this has nothing to do with bullying.

“This is an issue of my and Jon’s relationship, where I’ve taken stuff too far and I didn’t know it was hurting him,” Incognito said.

What’s more. Incognito said he texted with Jon after the news broke and Jon allegedly told him that he didn’t blame Incognito and the Dolphins players instead “it’s just the culture around football and the locker room got to me a little.”

“When I see that voicemail, when I see those words come up across the screen, I’m embarrassed by it,” Incognito said. “I’m embarrassed by my actions. But what I want people to know is, the way Jonathan and the rest of the offensive line and how our teammates how we communicate, it’s vulgar. It’s, it’s not right. When the words are put in the context, I understand why a lot of eyebrows get raised, but people don’t know how Jon and I communicate to one another.”

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Main Street Wants Actions on Jobs, Not Blunders on Syria

CHAMPION, Pa. – Tracey loaded three large cardboard boxes with tomatoes, peaches, green beans, cucumbers and fleshy beets for a young couple about to embark on their first adventure in the art of canning.
Rows of perfectly presented vegetables lined the shelves of her family’s farmers market, where State Route 31 meets the base of a mountain.

The young couple peppered her with questions about “putting up” their produce as they recalled watching their parents filling cellars with canned vegetables and fruits that lasted from autumn through spring.

They also chatted about jobs and ways to cut corners; all three expressed worry about an economy that has not improved for more than a half-decade.

Behind them in line, a group of young people discussed the possibility of war with Syria – all of them astonished that this is what the White House is focused on.

“We keep waiting for the White House to talk about jobs in a meaningful, constructive way so that our families, communities and schools stop crumbling,” said one young woman as she contemplated buying fresh honey.

Americans are suffering in ways Washington doesn’t grasp.

If you drive the 140 miles from this spot into the nation’s capital, the first 125 miles look about the same – farms, small towns and remnants of a once-thriving industrial livelihood barely holding on, creating a ripple effect for schools, police and fire forces facing steep budget cuts because of lost tax bases.

The moment you enter Rockville, Md., and eventually exit onto Connecticut Avenue toward the heart of Washington, your senses are drenched in prosperity; shops overflow with people, every off-street is gentrified, construction is everywhere – and good luck finding a decent place to eat without an hour’s wait.

Organic-food stands mimic Tracey’s Somerset County farmers market – except that the prices are tripled and her warm service is replaced with a polite but vacant exchange.

Down the cross-section of numbered avenues to the White House, President Barack Obama is beating the war drums on Syria; he has reset, walked back or waivered over striking that war-torn country because of its regime’s alleged chemical attack on its own people.

His message has been weak, vacillating and downright confusing not only to Congress and to international allies but, by their own admission, to his staff.

Historian David Peitrusza believes this bottomless disconnect with Americans’ needs and the president’s naked indecisiveness on war is shockingly unparalleled. And historians are rarely, if ever, stumped for historical parallels.

“Obama’s ill-conceived, badly executed, unnecessary and profoundly unpopular Syrian adventure remains without precedent in American history,” said Peitrusza, “There is finally something new under the sun and, while it is not anything demanded by or of any utility to the American people, it may prove to be of some genuine value to them in facing this White House’s shortcomings.”

Back at the farmers market, a brilliant American flag dances in the slightly cool breeze that signals summer is escaping and fall is around the corner.

In fact, the length of Glades Pike Road – the old name for Route 31, back when it was an artery of the “underground railroad” – is lined with farms graced by flags posted alongside natural-gas wells that help many small family farms survive in southwestern Pennsylvania.

On a back-road, a handmade sign jutting from the weeds declares, “Stay out of Syria” – a reminder of what national polls show: Americans passionately (by 63 percent, in a recent Pew survey) oppose Obama’s plan to intervene in that country.

They are equally dissatisfied with his handling of the economy: His approval plummeted to 35 percent (in a Gallup survey) long before news that, for a fifth year, there was no “summer of recovery” and the percentage of Americans working or looking for work has fallen to its lowest level since 1978.

Those who work in or report on the White House live in a protective bubble humming with commerce; they don’t understand why folks out here are restless and unsatisfied, unhappy with the thought of another war, weary of the lack of backbone on the economy.

The folks outside Washington want action – just not the kind that this blundering White House is trying to sell. 

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page columnist. E-mail her at szito@tribweb.com

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Main Street Wants Actions on Jobs, Not Blunders on Syria

Main Street Wants Actions on Jobs, Not Blunders on Syria

CHAMPION, Pa. – Tracey loaded three large cardboard boxes with tomatoes, peaches, green beans, cucumbers and fleshy beets for a young couple about to embark on their first adventure in the art of canning.
Rows of perfectly presented vegetables lined the shelves of her family’s farmers market, where State Route 31 meets the base of a mountain.

The young couple peppered her with questions about “putting up” their produce as they recalled watching their parents filling cellars with canned vegetables and fruits that lasted from autumn through spring.

They also chatted about jobs and ways to cut corners; all three expressed worry about an economy that has not improved for more than a half-decade.

Behind them in line, a group of young people discussed the possibility of war with Syria – all of them astonished that this is what the White House is focused on.

“We keep waiting for the White House to talk about jobs in a meaningful, constructive way so that our families, communities and schools stop crumbling,” said one young woman as she contemplated buying fresh honey.

Americans are suffering in ways Washington doesn’t grasp.

If you drive the 140 miles from this spot into the nation’s capital, the first 125 miles look about the same – farms, small towns and remnants of a once-thriving industrial livelihood barely holding on, creating a ripple effect for schools, police and fire forces facing steep budget cuts because of lost tax bases.

The moment you enter Rockville, Md., and eventually exit onto Connecticut Avenue toward the heart of Washington, your senses are drenched in prosperity; shops overflow with people, every off-street is gentrified, construction is everywhere – and good luck finding a decent place to eat without an hour’s wait.

Organic-food stands mimic Tracey’s Somerset County farmers market – except that the prices are tripled and her warm service is replaced with a polite but vacant exchange.

Down the cross-section of numbered avenues to the White House, President Barack Obama is beating the war drums on Syria; he has reset, walked back or waivered over striking that war-torn country because of its regime’s alleged chemical attack on its own people.

His message has been weak, vacillating and downright confusing not only to Congress and to international allies but, by their own admission, to his staff.

Historian David Peitrusza believes this bottomless disconnect with Americans’ needs and the president’s naked indecisiveness on war is shockingly unparalleled. And historians are rarely, if ever, stumped for historical parallels.

“Obama’s ill-conceived, badly executed, unnecessary and profoundly unpopular Syrian adventure remains without precedent in American history,” said Peitrusza, “There is finally something new under the sun and, while it is not anything demanded by or of any utility to the American people, it may prove to be of some genuine value to them in facing this White House’s shortcomings.”

Back at the farmers market, a brilliant American flag dances in the slightly cool breeze that signals summer is escaping and fall is around the corner.

In fact, the length of Glades Pike Road – the old name for Route 31, back when it was an artery of the “underground railroad” – is lined with farms graced by flags posted alongside natural-gas wells that help many small family farms survive in southwestern Pennsylvania.

On a back-road, a handmade sign jutting from the weeds declares, “Stay out of Syria” – a reminder of what national polls show: Americans passionately (by 63 percent, in a recent Pew survey) oppose Obama’s plan to intervene in that country.

They are equally dissatisfied with his handling of the economy: His approval plummeted to 35 percent (in a Gallup survey) long before news that, for a fifth year, there was no “summer of recovery” and the percentage of Americans working or looking for work has fallen to its lowest level since 1978.

Those who work in or report on the White House live in a protective bubble humming with commerce; they don’t understand why folks out here are restless and unsatisfied, unhappy with the thought of another war, weary of the lack of backbone on the economy.

The folks outside Washington want action – just not the kind that this blundering White House is trying to sell. 

Salena Zito is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial page columnist. E-mail her at szito@tribweb.com

RealClearPolitics – Articles

Main Street Wants Actions on Jobs, Not Blunders on Syria

U.S. says actions of WikiLeaks soldier show "arrogance"

U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) arrives at the courthouse for a motion hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland, May 21, 2013.

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By Ian Simpson

WASHINGTON | Mon Jun 3, 2013 11:29am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The American soldier accused of providing more than 700,000 secret documents to the WikiLeaks website went on trial on Monday charged with the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, is an intelligence analyst who faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted for the 2010 leak that outraged the United States government.

Manning wore a dress black uniform and sat at the defense table between his lawyers at his court-martial in Maryland, where he faces 21 counts, including the most serious one of aiding the enemy, and prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917.

The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, said last month she would close parts of the trial to the public to protect classified material.

Lind on Monday began the trial by asking Manning a number of procedural questions, including whether he was willing to have the case decided by a judge rather than a jury and whether he was satisfied with his defense team.

“Yes, your honor,” replied Manning, who was arrested in May 2010 while serving in Iraq.

He was charged with downloading intelligence documents, diplomatic cables and combat videos and forwarding them to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy website. WikiLeaks began exposing the secrets the same year, stunning diplomats and U.S. officials who said the leaks endangered lives.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange denies the allegations.

Manning pleaded guilty in court in February to 10 lesser charges that he was the source of the WikiLeaks release. He said he had released the files to start a domestic debate on the military and on foreign policy in general.

Prosecutors rejected the pleas and are pursuing their original charges.

Civil liberties groups have argued that the court is restricting access to the case by withholding court documents and other information about proceedings from the public.

Manning’s court-martial at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 30 miles northeast of Washington, is expected to run until at least late August. Prosecutors have said they expect to call more than 100 witnesses.

The courtroom, which can seat about 40 people, was crowded on Monday with media and onlookers, including Cornel West, a civil rights and political activist who has taught at Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.

“I’m here to have solidarity with my devoted brother Bradley Manning,” West said outside the courtroom. “I’m going to be here as often as I can. My spirit will be here. He is a courageous young brother.”

Also at Fort Meade, WikiLeaks stationed a truck in the parking lot with a sign reading, “Mobile information collection unit.”

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Grant McCool)

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