TDB Top 5 International Stories: Saturday 10th September 2016

5: Wolf Blitzer Is Worried Defense Contractors Will Lose Jobs if U.S. Stops Arming Saudi Arabia

SEN. RAND PAUL’S expression of opposition to a $1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia — which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now — alarmed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday afternoon.

Blitzer’s concern: That stopping the sale could result in fewer jobs for arms manufacturers.

“So for you this is a moral issue,” he told Paul during the Kentucky Republican’s appearance on CNN. “Because you know, there’s a lot of jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling war planes, other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there’s going to be a significant loss of jobs, of revenue here in the United States. That’s secondary from your standpoint?”

Paul stayed on message. “Well not only is it a moral question, its a constitutional question,” Paul said. “Our founding fathers very directly and specifically did not give the president the power to go to war. They gave it to Congress. So Congress needs to step up and this is what I’m doing.”

The Intercept

4: Facebook reverses decision on ‘Napalm girl’ photo

Social media giant reverses decision to censor iconic Vietnam War image in face of mounting public criticism.

Aljazeera

3: Inside the fight to reveal the CIA’s torture secrets

The first part of the inside story of the Senate investigation into torture, the crisis with the CIA it spurred and the man whose life would never be the same.

The Guardian

2: In Rare Move, DOJ, Army & Interior Dept Intervene in Pipeline Standoff; Ask Dakota Access to Halt Some Construction

In a dramatic series of moves late Friday afternoon, a federal judge rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s injunction against the U.S. government over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Then the Army, Department of Justice, and Department of the Interior responded with an announcement that the Army will not authorize drilling under the Missouri River until the Army Corps reevaluates its permits:

Democracy Now!

1:  The ‘Great Wall of Calais’ Is a Useless, Expensive Pat on the Back for Little Englanders

Britain is, quite famously, an island. Across Europe, xenophobes can put up fences on their borders; spending millions on razor wire to slice up some of the world’s most destitute people – but here, our wall was built by God and geography, leaving us to stew in our own smug liberalism, letting us pretend that it was our great national fortitude that saved us from the Nazis instead of miles of open water, culturing that parochial, bounded little mentality that makes Britain such a generally miserable place in which to live.

Vice