Afghan News Director: Kabul Bombing "Tragic & Huge," Victims Mostly Working-Class Civilians | Daily Digest 05/31/2017

Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost U.S. Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS? & The Intercept: As the U.S. Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS, Are Syrian Civilians Paying the Price? & More Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Wednesday, May 31, 2017 democracynow.org Stories Afghan News Director: Kabul Bombing "Tragic & Huge," Victims Mostly Working-Class Civilians We go live to Kabul to speak with Lotfullah Najafizada, news director for TOLOnews, Afghanistan's 24-hour news channel, about the massive bomb blast in the ... Read More → Amnesty International: Did $1 Billion Worth of Lost U.S. Weapons End Up in the Hands of ISIS? A newly declassified Pentagon audit shows the U.S. Army failed to keep track of more than $1 billion worth of weapons and military equipment sent to Iraq and ... Read More → The Intercept: As the U.S. Ramps Up Airstrikes on ISIS, Are Syrian Civilians Paying the Price? A civilian monitoring group says U.S.-led airstrikes killed more than 100 civilians—including 47 children—on Thursday and Friday in the ISIS-held town of Al ... Read More → Private Mercenary Firm TigerSwan Compares Anti-DAPL Water Protectors to "Jihadist Insurgency" An explosive new investigation by The Intercept reveals how international private security firm TigerSwan targeted Dakota Access water protectors with ... Read More → Headlines → Afghanistan: Massive Bombing in Kabul Kills 80 People and Wounds 350 Trump Escalates Feud with Germany over Trade and NATO Dues Michael Flynn to Turn Over Subpoenaed Documents to Senate Intel Committee Trump Complains About Unnamed Sources as He Retweets Article Based on Unnamed Source Report: Trump Expected to Roll Back Relations with Cuba Philippines: Duterte Tells Soldiers They Can Rape Women in Region Under Martial Law After Court Ruling, Taiwan Poised to Legalize Marriage Equality Cleveland: Officer Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Fired—But Not for Killing North Carolina: Undocumented Grandmother Taking Sanctuary in Episcopal Church Benjamin Melendez, NYC Gang Leader Who Brokered Historic Peace Deal, Dies at 65 Reports: Trump to Pull U.S. Out of Landmark 2015 Paris Climate Deal Forward this email → Donate today → Follow COLUMN Let the Media Coverage of Manchester Victims Be a Model for All Young Victims of War WEB EXCLUSIVE Full Interview with Dilma Rousseff on Her Ouster, Brazil's Political Crisis & Fighting Dictatorship 2017 SPEAKING TOUR 6/10 Chicago, IL 6/11 New York, NY More Events... 207 W 25th St — 11th Floor — New York, NY — 10001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License