Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died

MH-17 Case Slips into Propaganda Fog By Robert Parry
	Instead of a transparent investigation seeking justice, the case became a propaganda game of finger-pointing, with the CIA withholding key evidence all the better to blame Russia - Continue

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Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World By Paul Craig Roberts
	This is a bull*hit report written by neocons in order to foment war with Russia. - Continue

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Those Who Pretend to Sleep By John R. Hall
	Here in the belly of the beast, among the zombie-fascist, gun-totin’, flag-wavin’ hordes of fellow Americans I spend my days in fearless loathing. - Continue

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Dick Cheney Should — and Eventually Will — Be Tried As A War Criminal: Former International Court Judge By Travis Gettys
	Thomas Buergenthal, who served as a judge at the International Court of Justice, said he believes the former U.S. vice president could be brought before the International Criminal Court - Continue

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Will Greece’s Tsipras Squander Precious Capital? By Finian Cunningham
	The new plans include commitments to implement economic reforms on pensions and taxes. - Continue

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Threats and Bullying, But Greece Stood Firm By Nigel Farage
	Nigel Farage tells Alex Tsipras: "Your moment has come -lead the Greek people out of the euro with your head held high". - Continue

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Call for Sanity on Sixtieth Anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto By Emanuel Pastreich
	Sixty years after Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell issued their manifesto about the growing threat of world war, the globe continues to face the prospect of nuclear annihilation. - Continue

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Clinton Continued Funding For Honduras Coup Regime By Bill Conroy
	The “2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya … opened the door to a free-for-all of criminality in Honduras.” - Continue

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Are Big Banks Using Derivatives To Suppress Bullion Prices? By Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
	Obviously fraud and price manipulation are at work, but no heads roll. - Continue

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Donald Trump: Narcissist in Chief By Jim Wallis
	He's selling racism, and he's winning. - Continue

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Iraqi Officials: Bombs in Baghdad, Iraqi Town Kill 16 People: A series of bombings in Iraq, including a car bombing in Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital, killed 16 people on Thursday, officials said.

Iraq police and militiamen clash in Baghdad: An interior ministry officer said around 15 gunmen from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) force stormed an unfinished health ministry building in the Zayyounah neighbourhood overnight.

U.N. says Yemen's warring factions agree to humanitarian truce: The pause in the fighting will last about a week until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and aims to allow the delivery of assistance to some of the 21 million Yemenis in need.

New Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen urges attacks on United States: The newly appointed leader of Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch called for attacks on the United States, as the U.N. announced the start of a weeklong truce in the war-torn country

Iran says Western powers backtracking as nuclear deadline expires:  Iran accused major powers Friday of backtracking on previous pledges and throwing up new "red lines" at nuclear talks, after the deadline to reach an agreement in time to receive expedited scrutiny from the U.S. Congress expired with no deal.

U.S. refuses to back down on Iran sanctions relief: “While the Iranian team is showing flexibility, the Americans are refusing to accept Iran’s obvious right, particularly on sanctions,” Fars quoted an unnamed source as saying.

Tunis: 5 Islamist militants killed : Tunisian security forces have killed five Islamist militants in clashes in the mountains near the central town of Gafsa, a security source said on Friday.

3 killed as Cameroon repulses Boko Haram attack: Cameroon's army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three of the Nigerian Islamist militants in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesman said on Thursday.

Egypt: Nearly 250 ISIS terrorists killed in Sinai, over 60 arrested: Fighting still ongoing between Egyptian army and Islamic State militants in Sinai, with Cairo presenting high numbers of enemy casualties to reporters, in attempt to win propaganda battle.

Russia's Cutting Edge Submarine Fleet to Receive 'Aircraft Carrier Killer': Russia plans to expand its nascent high-end submarine fleet with two new fifth generation nuclear-powered watercraft, known only as an "aircraft carrier killer" and an "underwater interceptor" at the moment.

Greece seeks 53.5B euros in new bailout package: Greece's government has agreed to longstanding demands by creditors to impose sweeping sales tax hikes and cuts in state spending for pensions.

The Greek reform proposals : Pension reform: The Authorities recognise that the pension system is unsustainable and needs fundamental reforms. This is why they will implement in full the 2010 pension reform law (3863/2010), and implement in full or replace/adjust the sustainability factors for supplementary and lump-sum pensions from the 2012 reform as a part of the new pension reform

3 reasons the average American may be worse off than Greece: Americans actually have more debt relative to income earned

Pope calls for new economic order, criticizes capitalism: Pope Francis on Thursday urged the downtrodden to change the world economic order, denouncing a "new colonialism" by agencies that impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the "sacred rights" of labor, lodging and land.

Pope begs forgiveness for crimes of church against indigenous of America: History's first Latin American pope "humbly" begged forgiveness during an encounter in Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales.

Latinos surpass whites as largest ethnic group in California: Latinos have officially become the largest ethnic group in California, making it the third US state without a white majority. Texas is expected to reach the same milestone by the end of the decade.

FBI and DOJ Target New Enemy In Crypto Wars: Apple and Google: The FBI and Department of Justice on Wednesday targeted a new set of threats to national security and law enforcement: not ISIS, or pedophiles, but Apple and Google.

Who believes this nonsense? FBI: U.S. Authorities Thwarted July 4 Terrorist Attacks: In the past four weeks, authorities have arrested at least 10 people who were allegedly inspired by ISIS and planned to carry out terrorist attacks against the country earlier this month, Comey told reporters.

This is the USA? Judge: Man charged with IS support to be held indefinitely: A federal judge has ordered the indefinite detention of a 19-year-old North Carolina man accused of plotting a series of American deaths to show his support for the Middle East group calling itself the Islamic State.

US: More than 21 million affected by government data breach: Hackers stole Social Security numbers, health histories and other highly sensitive data from more than 21 million people, the Obama administration said Thursday, acknowledging that the breach of U.S. government computer systems was far more severe than previously disclosed.

South Carolina governor signs bill to remove Confederate flag: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation on Thursday to permanently remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, following an emotional debate spurred by the massacre of nine black churchgoers last month.

Rotten to the core: Marco Rubio is bought and paid for by the biggest education scam in America: The Republican presidential hopeful is campaigning for, and with the backing of, the for-profit college industry

Russia is Top U.S. National Security Threat - U.S. Gen. Dunford By Reuters
	Russia presents the greatest threat to U.S. national security and its behavior is "nothing short of alarming,"- Continue

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When It Comes To ‘Islamic State,’ The West Just Doesn’t Get It By Abdel Bari Atwan
	Atrocity is part of IS strategy, a deliberate, planned policy which was first outlined ten years ago in a Salifi-jihadi ‘treatise’ entitled The Management of Savagery. - Continue

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The Secrecy of Torture: What Happens When Survivors' Memories Are "Declassified"? By Adam Hudson
	Khan, whose account became public last month, said he was subjected by the government to a form of anal rape called "rectal feeding." He said that guards hung him naked from poles and held his head underwater. - Continue

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Tony Blair and the Self-Exalting Mindset of the West: in Two Paragraphs By Glenn Greenwald
	Tony Blair took a little time off from serving the world’s despots in order to exploit the 10th anniversary of the July 7 London train bombing. - Continue

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34 IS militants killed in Syria clashes: At least 34 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Thursday in clashes with Kurdish forces and US-led international coalition airstrikes in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.

Attacks kill 19 people in Syria's Aleppo; Fifteen of the dead, among them four of the children, came in the barrel bomb strike on a rebel-held district of the divided northern city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

13 rebels, one Hezbollah fighter killed in Zabadani clash: Hezbollah and Syrian army forces Wednesday advanced further into a northwestern region of a Syrian border town which has been the scene of fierce fighting over the past week, a source told The Daily Star.

Syria army 'battles IS outside Palmyra': Government troops were now some five kilometres (three miles) west of the city and engaged in fierce clashes with forces from the extremist group.

Syria Kurds hunt jihadists after retaking town near IS bastion: The town, only 50km (30 miles) north of Raqqa, is of strategic importance.- “Ain Issa was liberated and IS fighters were driven out”, the Kurdish People s Protection Units (YPG) said on Twitter.

40 killed in clashes, airstrikes against IS in Iraq: At least 40 people were killed on Thursday in clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants and airstrikes by Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft in the Iraqi provinces of Anbar and Salahudin, a government statement and provincial security sources said.

Six killed, 17 injured as attacks rock Baghdad: “Three homemade bombs went off in public areas in Baghdad’s Taji, Tarmiya and Al-Aamel neighborhoods,” a local police captain, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Anadolu Agency.

36 rebels killed in south Yemen attacks, airstrikes: Yemeni fighters allied with exiled President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi killed 15 rebels in a Thursday attack on their checkpoints in the country's southern Abyan province, a military source said.

UN calls for humanitarian truce in Yemen as of Friday: A humanitarian truce will go into force in Yemen Friday to allow for urgently needed aid to reach civilians, the U.N. spokesman said. The pause will go into effect at 23:59 local time (2059 GMT) Friday until the end of Ramadan on July 17, he said.

Kerry: We will not rush into nuclear deal with Iran: US Secretary of State John Kerry says, however, he is prepared to walk away if tough decisions are not made soon.

Report: Obama puts Iran deal odds at 'less than 50-50': "He said the chances he thought were less than 50-50 at this point and that he wouldn't agree to something he thought was weak or unenforceable," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,

Russia wants Iran's arms embargo 'lifted as soon as possible' : Russia wants to see a United Nations arms embargo against Iran lifted "as soon as possible" but it is up to Tehran to accept the terms of a final nuclear deal, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.

Israeli PM warns Hamas over two Israelis 'held in Gaza': Israel said it believes one, an Ethiopian Israeli, was being held by Hamas. An Israeli Arab is also being held in Gaza, defence officials say.

From his office in cloud cuckoo land: Mike Huckabee: “There’s Really No Such Thing As A Palestinian” - That’s been a political tool to try and force land away from Israel.”

S. Arabia manipulating world media with petro-dollars – Reporters Without Borders: To paint a better picture of the Kingdom, Riyadh has been paying media across the globe as well as setting plans to ban reporters critical of the government from working in the country, Reporters Without Borders concluded after digging into WikiLeaks.

Former Saudi FM Prince Saud al-Faisal dies: Prince Saud, appointed in 1975, was the world's longest serving foreign minister when he retired in April.

Libya: 23 civilians and soldiers killed in 3 days following clashes in Benghazi: Libya's national army, aligned to the country's Tobruk-based government, has reported 15 of its troops have been killed in the fighting. Eight civilians, four of them brothers from the same family, were killed when a shell landed on a house in a built up area in central Benghazi.

Libya's recognized government warns tankers away from Ras Lanuf port: Libya's recognized government warned its security forces would seize any tankers approaching the Ras Lanuf terminal without permission, saying any attempt to make oil deals with the rival government in Tripoli would be "piracy".

22 killed in Algerian ethnic clashes: At least 22 people have been killed in ethnic clashes between Arab and Amazigh communities around the Algerian desert town of Ghardaia, with several businesses and homes burned down, medical sources and state media said on Wednesday.

3,000-strong Ethiopian force crosses into Somalia: According to eyewitnesses in Dolo town, 450km southwest of Mogadishu, the military force proceeded to Luq town, 350km southwest of the Somali capital.

Will Germany admit to genocide in Namibia?: 100 years after the end of colonial rule in modern-day Namibia, the German government has yet to acknowledge the killings of tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people as ‘genocide.’ Now it looks like there might be movement on the issue

Afghan spy agency says third Islamic State commander killed in drone strike: Shahidullah Shahid, a former member of the Pakistani Taliban who defected to the Islamic State and was operating in Afghanistan, was killed along with five militants on Tuesday, an official said.

Afghans, Taliban agree ‘to meet again’ following Pakistan talks: Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif hailed the meeting as a breakthrough, though the Taliban show no sign of easing up on their bloody summer offensive, launching two suicide attacks in Kabul on Tuesday as talks were about to get under way.

Pro-ISIS Airline Pilots Tracked by Law Enforcement in Southeast Asia: “Both [pilots] appear to be influenced by pro-IS elements including extremist online propaganda by well-known radical Indonesia outlets and a suspected Indonesian foreign terrorist fighter who is likely to be in either Syria or Iraq,” the report states.

China bars 'big' shareholders from selling their stocks: China's market regulator has barred major shareholders and executives of listed companies from selling their shares for the next six months, it said in a statement, the latest government action to stem a slide in the markets.

EU's Tusk urges debt relief as part of Greek deal: The European Union's chairman joined growing international calls for Greece to be granted debt restructuring as part of any new loan deal if it delivers convincing reforms to avert imminent bankruptcy.

Germany's Schaeuble: Greece needs debt haircut but we can't help: Germany's finance minister conceded for the first time on Thursday that a write-off of some of Europe's loans to Greece might be needed to get the country's debt to a manageable level, but in the same breath ruled out such a step.

British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials: New research, has revealed that British military aircraft dropped thousands of kilos of a chemical of ‘largely unknown toxic potential’ on British civilian populations in and around Salisbury in Wiltshire, Cardington in Bedfordshire and Norwich in Norfolk.

WikiLeaks: NSA Targeted German Chancellery, Merkel Aides: WikiLeaks on Wednesday published a new list of German phone numbers it claims showed the U.S. National Security Agency targeted phones belonging to Chancellor Angela Merkel's close aides and chancellery offices for surveillance.

Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More: One of Hacking Team’s key corporate partners is Nice Systems, an Israel-based company with close links to Israeli military and intelligence agencies.

Spying on the Internet is Orders of Magnitude More Invasive Than Phone Metadata: The NSA’s phone metadata program is being ended. But XKEYSCORE and mass internet surveillance almost certainly continues — and is more outrageous.

FBI chief wants 'backdoor access' to encrypted communications to fight Isis: Experts warn that ‘magical thinking’ of a security flaw only the US government could exploit could easily be utilized by hackers, foreign spies and terrorists

Chris Christie: Fears Over NSA Spying Powers 'Ridiculous': Chris Christie called for strengthening U.S. intelligence gathering capabilities and downplayed the privacy concerns expressed by some of his Republican colleagues during a national security address

Exxon Mobil Knew of Climate Change in 1981 but Funded Deniers : An email by a former leading climate scientist at oil giant Exxon Mobil suggested the company knew about the risks fossil fuels exploration posed for climate change back in 1981 and yet the company instead spent million on supporting climate change deniers.

BRICS Announces New University for the South : ?Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday the BRICS group of nations will create their own university. “Member states of the bloc have agreed to coordinate their efforts in (the area of) information security, including on the Internet. There will be a network of community universities to bolster scientific and technological exchange

Expect the Barometer to Rise in Mexico: Over 90 percent of Mexicans have lost faith in their political parties. What comes next?

Rotten to the core: Mexicans Spread Disease, Says Trump : Donald Trump claims the Mexican government is behind a conspiracy to expel disease-ridden criminals, rapists and other “worst elements” to the United States.

Rotten to the core: Presidential hopeful Bush tells overworked Americans ‘work longer hours’: Speaking in Hudson, New Hampshire, Bush said he would be looking to improve the economy, if elected in November 2016, but in order to achieve this, people would have to work even more hours.

S. Carolina lawmakers vote to remove Confederate flag: South Carolina legislators voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from the monument on capitol grounds. All amendments to the proposal were defeated in a 15-hour debate, and the 94-20 vote took place shortly after 1am local time.

Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists By Robert Parry
	It appears that no combination of violent extremists is too wretched to celebrate as long as they’re killing Russ-kies. - Continue

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War Without Mercy in Yemen Towards the End of Saudi Arabia? By Sayed Hasan
	It announces with certainty the inevitable fall of the House of Saud, whose Wahhabi ideology and foreign policy have been the cancer of Islam and of the Arab world for decades. - Continue

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Is There a Human Right to Kill? By Neve Gordon
	Human rights serve as the justification for killing and thus transform killing into a right. - Continue

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Nuclear Agreement With Iran By Paul Craig Roberts
	If Iran survives, it will be a miracle. - Continue

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The Anglo-American Empire is Preparing for Resource War By Nafeez Ahmed
	Under the guise of promoting peace and stability, the new military strategy is in fact simply a blueprint for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of the rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals. - Continue

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We Own The World Noam Chomsky on American Empire Video
	Is this empire worth building – and at what cost? - Continue

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Throughout History, Debt and War Have Been Constant Partners By Giles Fraser
	As Greece’s spending on weapons shows, it’s not pensions or benefits that cripple economies, it’s the military-industrial complex. - Continue

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Greece: The Pearl Cast Before Swine By Israel Shamir
	A really decisive government would leave the EU and NATO, turning the tables completely. Refusing the bailout is good but not enough.. - Continue

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The Financial Attack on Greece: Where To From Here? By Michael Hudson
	While pushing the world economy into a state of war internationally, high finance also is waging a class war against labor – and ultimately against governments and thus against democracy. - Continue

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Austerity Has Failed By Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis
	Five leading economists warn the German chancellor, “History will remember you for your actions this week.” - Continue

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Iraqi army, Shia fighters kill 109 Daesh militants: Iraqi government soldiers killed 36 ISIL militants and destroyed three cars belonging to the terrorists as they thwarted an ISIL onslaught on Fatha district, located 35 kilometers (21 miles) northeast of the strategic northern city Tikrit.

Isis 'kills four children' as it 'destroys' ancient church in Iraqi city of Mosul: Members of the group blew up a church which had been standing for thousands of years. Isis fighters inadvertently killed four children who were near the church at the time, Saeed Mamuzini, a spokesman for the Mosul arm of the Kurdistant Deomcractic Party told the Rudaw Kurdish news website.

13 Syria rebels, 1 Hezbollah fighter killed in Zabadani clash: Hezbollah and Syrian army forces Wednesday advanced further into a northwestern region of a Syrian border town which has been the scene of fierce fighting over the past week, a source told The Daily Star.

Syria ratifies fresh $1 billion credit line from Iran: The agreement was between two state-owned banks, the Syrian Commercial Bank and Export Development Bank of Iran, it said. Syria signed a previous $3.6 billion credit line with Iran in July 2013 which has been used up mostly for oil imports, bankers have said

30 soldiers killed in mutiny at Yemen army base: Saudi-led coalition jets, which have bombed Yemeni rebel positions since March, intervened when "dozens of soldiers defected and announced their support" for Shia Huthi rebels yesterday, prompting clashes with pro-government troops, the military source said.

Yemen crisis: Dozens of soldiers killed in air strike: One military source said the soldiers were loyal to the exiled president and that the facility was hit in error. But another source claimed the strike was called in to stop the soldiers defecting to the Houthi rebel movement.

'Real risk' of famine in Yemen as death toll passes 3,000: The situation is "clearly deteriorating by the day," said Antoine Grand, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen, with food shortages making famine a "real risk", and electricity and fuel increasingly scarce.

Iran says makes new proposal in nuclear talks, West unimpressed: Kerry and Zarif were involved in a tense exchange over U.N. sanctions on Monday night, diplomats said. Tehran says conventional weapons and missiles have nothing to do with the nuclear issue and embargoes should therefore be removed.

4 Reasons Why Sheldon Adelson Anti-BDS Campaign Will Backfire: And so, the great irony of Israel continues: Those who hold themselves out as Israel’s staunchest defenders are often, in fact, its worst enemies.

Death toll in Jos, Nigeria attacks now 51: relief agency: Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out Sunday night's attack, which saw a mosque hit with bullets and a rocket-propelled grenade, and a restaurant targeted within minutes of each other.

Nigeria: 30 are Killed in Kaduna, Borno : There appears to be no end in sight to the guerilla warfare in Northern Nigeria, as no fewer than 25 people lost their lives while 32 others sustained injuries when a bomb was detonated in Zaria, Kaduna State yesterday.

15 killed in Arab-Berber violence in Algeria: news agency: The agency, citing hospital and local officials, said dozens of other people were hurt in Tuesday's violence between Chaamba Arabs and Mozabite Berbers in the M'zab region on the edge of the Sahara desert

5 Egyptian civilians killed in Sinai mortar attack: Five Egyptian civilians were killed on Wednesday when a mortar round hit a house in a North Sinai village where the army is battling jihadist insurgents, security officials said.

Afghanistan: 66 insurgents killed, 53 injured in operations: Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Police (ANP) has conducted clearance operations against insurgents in different areas of Kandahar, Uruzgan, Maidan Wardak, Nangarhar, Baghlan and Paktiya provinces. In these operations 32 rebels were eliminated and 20 others injured.

Chinese shares continue to slide: The Shanghai Composite index plunged 8% on opening, taking the drop in share values to 30% since their June peak.

China unveils new measures to prop up stocks: China's government on Wednesday told state companies and corporate executives to buy shares, raised the amount of equities insurance companies can hold and promised more credit to finance trading.

The really worrying financial crisis is happening in China, not Greece: China looks like it is heading for its version of the 1929 stock market crash

Russia: Upper house approves first list of 12 ‘undesirable’ foreign groups: Russia’s Federation Council has released a list of foreign organizations it plans to declare ‘undesirable’. The 12 entries in the document include the Soros Foundation and the US National Endowment for Democracy.

Putin: Russia and China can overcome any difficulty together: Welcoming China's leader to two summits in the Russian city of Ufa, President Vladimir Putin says Russia and China can overcome their countries' difficulties by working together.

Greece seeks three-year loan, pledges to enact reforms next week: Greece promised to implement pension and tax reforms as early as next week as the first step to securing a three-year rescue loan to cover debt obligations, according to a letter requesting the funding from European partners on Wednesday.

IMF Slams Germany, Says Greece "Needs Debt Restructuring": IMF chief Christine Lagarde reiterates that Greece's massive debt will need restructuring, something Germany is resisting. "Greece is in a situation of acute crisis, which needs to be addressed seriously and promptly," she tells the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington.

Britain slashes spending in new austerity drive: "We found savings of £12 billion from welfare and £5 billion from tackling tax evasion, avoidance, planning and imbalances in the tax system. "The other half will largely come from government departments through savings and cuts."

Britain commits to NATO 2 percent defense spending target for next 5 years: "Committing today to meet the NATO pledge to spend 2 percent of our national income on defense. Not just this year, but every year of this decade." Shares in BAE Systems, Britain's biggest defense contractor, traded up 2.9 percent after the news, making the company one of the top risers on Britain's bluechip index.

NSA spied on German Chancellors for 10 yrs, tapped 125 govt phone numbers - WikiLeaks: Washington has been tapping the phones of the political offices of the last three German chancellors – Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schröder (in office 1998–2002) and Helmut Kohl (chancellor from 1982 to 1998), the whistleblowing site said in a report Wednesday.

NSA Intercepts 98% Of South American Communications: Assange: “Ninety-eight percent of Latin American communications are intercepted by the NSA while passing through the United States to the world,” Assange said in an interview with the publication.

New York Stock Exchange Grinds to a Halt : The New York Stock Exchange has suddenly stopped trading. The New York Stock Exchange suspended all trading Wednesday, after reports of technical glitches. Officials at the NYSE say the situation is being resolved, and there is no sign the incident was caused by a cyber attack.

Rand Paul: ‘Very Good Chance’ Hillary Lied To Congress About Benghazi [VIDEO]: According to a new report, the government knew about arms being sent to the Libyan rebels at the time, which Paul says is “an important issue” because many of those who ended up with the arms “are not friends of America.”

To Help US Veterans Charity, George W. Bush Charged $100,000: Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.