Russia indictments: No trial, no facts, no closure?

If the 12 indicted Russians never face trial in the US, can anything be gained? [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 17 July 2018 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Editor's note Twelve Russian security agents were indicted last Friday by the U.S. for allegedly interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Legal scholar Joel Samuels from the University of South Carolina [writes that it’s unlikely they will ever face trial]( in the U.S. And that means Americans may never uncover the full story of Russia’s attempts to undermine their democracy. But, he writes, the facts could come out in other ways. Amid the social and political turmoil of 1968, Stewart Brand launched the Whole Earth Catalog, which Apple founder Steve Jobs would later call “one of the bibles of my generation.” How could a mail-order catalog have such impact? In UNLV historian Andy Kirk’s view, it offered [a positive vision of sustainable living, with humans at its center](. After their dramatic rescue from Nang Non cave in Northern Thailand, many of the boys are said to be considering becoming monks temporarily. Anthropologist Andrew Alan Johnson explains how ordaining to be a monk is the [greatest honor a person can give to another]( – in this case to the Navy SEAL who died while trying to save them. Naomi Schalit Senior Editor, Politics + Society Top stories Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announcing the indictments. AP/Evan Vucci [If the 12 indicted Russians never face trial in the US, can anything be gained?]( Joel Samuels, University of South Carolina Will 12 Russians indicted for hacking the 2016 US election ever come to trial? They may not, but the indictments themselves are an important step in the effort to determine the truth of what happened. ‘Earthrise,’ which appeared on the cover of the second and third Whole Earth Catalog, was taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders during lunar orbit, Dec. 24, 1968. NASA [Thing-makers, tool freaks and prototypers: How the Whole Earth Catalog's optimistic message reinvented the environmental movement in 1968]( Andy Kirk, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots. Thai monks pray during a cleansing ceremony and memorial service for Saman Gunan, the Thai SEAL diver who died while trying to rescue the boys trapped in the cave. 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