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F.B.I. Director Condemns Republicans’ Move to Release Secret Memo
Christopher A. Wray, the bureau’s director, put himself at odds with President Trump, who wants to see the memo released. It is said to accuse the F.B.I. and Justice Department of surveillance abuses.
US ‘name-and-shame’ list of Russian oligarchs binned by top Trump official – expert

- List of oligarchs who had made money corruptly was withdrawn
- ‘At the last minute, somebody high up threw out the experts’ work’
A “name-and-shame” list of Russian oligarchs who made their money corruptly from their ties with Vladimir Putin was compiled by the US government agencies but then cancelled last week by a senior administration official, according to a Russia expert who was consulted on the list.
It was replaced by an all-inclusive list of rich Russians apparently copied straight from the Forbes magazine’s ranking of wealthy Russians, together with the names of some top Kremlin officials.
#Me Too is about more than stopping rape. We demand more | Jessica Valenti

People upset with #MeToo should consider whether they’re comfortable with norms that say anything short of rape is OK
There’s a modern feminist adage that women need to “ask for more”. We’ve been taught to underestimate our value – whether in salary negotiations or personal relationships – and if women just demanded what we’re really worth, we’re told, we might just get it.
But if the backlash to #MeToo has shown us anything, it’s that people don’t much like it when women refuse to settle for the bare minimum. The current criticism of the movement – sparked in earnest by accusations against Aziz Ansari – really comes down to outrage that women would dare ask for more.
Palestinian girl arrested by Israel sent to Gaza Strip – where she’d never been, activists say

Teen from West Bank was arrested after visiting Jerusalem without a permit and dropped off at crossing into Gaza, Israeli rights group says
A Palestinian teenager from the West Bank arrested by Israel was sent to the Gaza Strip despite never having been there in her life, according to an Israeli human rights group.
The group, HaMoked, said the 14-year-old girl, named only as Ghada, was arrested in Jerusalem on 13 January without a permit while visiting the Israeli-controlled city.
We are a long way from a #MeToo moment about race | Chitra Ramaswamy

Women of colour still get shouted down when they talk about race in Britain – but we won’t be silenced
What happens when a woman of colour talks about race in this country? To answer the question, which presumably white people don’t want to ask because they’re too busy debating the more pressing one of whether racism actually exists, I direct you to a particularly sneering review of Afua Hirsch’s book, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging. A review by a white British man of a book by a mixed race British woman which, inconveniently for the reviewer, confirms in its sheer nastiness everything Hirsch is saying.
Apart from the fact that this is obviously an instance of a review being cynically co-opted as an opportunity to further divisiveness as opposed to an actual conversation (“I know! Let’s get a defensive white man on this!”), it shows how far we are from a #MeToo moment about race. From, at base level, just being heard. “White privilege,” Reni Eddo-Lodge writes in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, “is a … suffocating blanket of power that envelops everything we know, like a snowy day.” And like snow, its overwhelming effect is silence: to muffle our everyday experience.
Russia is aiming to interfere in US midterm elections, warns CIA chief

Mike Pompeo says ‘I have every expectation that they will continue to try’ to meddle in House and Senate races in November
Russia is set to continue its campaign of meddling in foreign elections by targeting the congressional midterm races in America, the head of the CIA has warned.
Aid groups lash Coalition’s plan to become major weapons exporter
Forgetting meaning of shame!

The Government declares it wants Australia to be one of the world’s top 10 arms exporters, unveiling a new loan scheme for defence companies which want to sell their products overseas.
The secret love of the Auschwitz tattooist

Lale Sokolov’s journey from prisoner to chief tattooist at the Nazi’s most notorious concentration camp haunted him into old age. Yet it’s his secret love story that is truly remarkable.
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