June 26, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:
U.S.
- DOJ’s Defense of Drone-Killing American Alleged Terrorist Without Trial: Because War (Reason)
- Judge Declares Secretive No-Fly List Process Unconstitutional (Reason)
- House Passes Amendment Ordering Actual Restraints on NSA Searches (Reason)
- Problems with collective action (USA Today)
- Alaska earthquake 'rings the Earth like a bell' (CS Monitor)
- In growing US sex-trafficking business, majority of victims are American-born (CS Monitor)
- Mormon church excommunicates prominent US activist Kate Kelly (CS Monitor)
- Colorado suspends oil and gas wastewater disposal well after quake (Reuters)
- Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will (Pro Publica)
WORLD
- Obama Asks For $500 Million To Train, Equip Syrian Rebels (NPR)
- Global refugees highest since WWII, pointing to lack of political solutions (CS Monitor)
- Iraq government claims gain in anti-militant fight ((CNN)
- Russia's Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine (Reuters)
- Report Of Drone Crashes A 'Record Of Calamity' (NPR)
- Children being lured into Syrian civil war, suicide missions (Jerusalem Post)
- Hamas leader says terror group capable of targeting any Israeli city with rockets (Jerusalem Post)
- US drone killings: 'a secret war governed by secret law'? (CS Monitor)
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