The Heresy of White Christianity.  ... There are, as Cornel West has pointed out, only two African-Americans who rose from dirt-poor poverty to the highest levels of American intellectual life—the writer Richard Wright and the radical theologian James H. Cone. TruthDig/Hedges  

Here's why Americans know so much about sports but so little about world affairs. ... The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway to influence the real world.  AlterNet/Chomsky  

ENVIRONMENT EPA Withdraws Proposed Safety Rules for In-Situ Uranium Mining. NM Enviromental Law Center EPA’s New Water Rule Will Gut the Clean Water Act. Intercept   US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge. ... Move shocks delegates at UN conference as ministers fly in for final week of climate talks. Guardian   US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait Launch 'Ludicrous' Effort to 'Sabotage' Support for Key UN Climate Study. ... Politicians, activists, and experts sharply condemned the move, emphasizing that "we are talking about the future of the world."  CommonDreams

The GOP's Plot to Destroy Our Democracy Is Coming Into View.  TruthDig  

The Bomb that Did Not Detonate: Julian Assange, Manafort and The Guardian. CounterPunch  

Life at Trump Speed Is About Viciousness and Distractions.  TruthOut  

How George H.W. Bush Rode a Fake National Security Scandal to the Top of the CIA.  The Intercept  

White Supremacy Apologists Are Having a Field Day.  TruthOut  

December 10, 2018
1977 On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Union places 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world.

As France was ailing economically, President Macron, like in the U.S., decided the fix was was to make France more attractive to investors and investment. So, he cut taxes on the wealthy and reduced labor protections. Sound familiar? (BTW - what happened to all those auto jobs promised after the industry got massive welfare payments?)

How many of our representatives support any of the demands of the "Yellow Jackets" protesting in France?  Yellow Jacket Demands.  

French Police Crack Down on ‘Yellow Vests’ With Tear Gas and Over a Thousand Arrests.  NY Times  

Republicans are undermining democracy state by state.  As Michigan and Wisconsin pass bills stripping newly elected Democrats of power, we need legislative solutions to show the country it’s not business as usual.  Guardian    Related:  Republicans Around The Country Are Working To Declare Democrats Unconstitutional. ... The lame-duck power grabs in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina are part of a larger effort by Republicans to delegitimize any opponent.  HuffPost  

Wall Street's Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom.  TruthDig  

Progressive International: Yanis Varoufakis & Bernie Sanders Launch New Global Mvt Against Far Right.
DemocracyNow  

A Brutal AP Fact Check Exposes Trump's Intellectual Laziness and Hostility Toward the Truth.  DailyKos

In Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints.
The Intercept  

The McCain and Bush Death Tours: Establishment Rituals in How to be a Proper Ruler.  CounterPunch

The Deadly Cost of Pipelines in Native Land: Winona LaDuke on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.  DemocracyNow  

WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 7-9, 2018
2008 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by Obama.

Happy 90th Birthday Noam Chomsky!!
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's really an easy way:
Stop participating in it."

Weekend Read:
Deterring Democracy - by Noam Chomsky. ... From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the preeminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan ad more recently from newly prosperous countries elsewhere. In Deterring Democracy, the impassioned dissident intellectual Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this new imbalance.  
Good Reads     Wiki Review

Meet the progressives elected after Trump: America’s new political coalition. ... A year after Trump’s victory, Montana elected its first black mayor, New Jersey elected its first Sikh mayor and Charlotte elected its first black female mayor. Guardian  

'Lobbyists Are Here. Goldman Sachs Is Here. Where's Labor? Activists?' Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez Pull Back Curtain on Corporate-Sponsored Freshman Orientation. ... "One of the best parts of Ocasio-Cortez's arrival in D.C. as a new leader is that she notices, and is revolted by, the corrupt, corporatist rituals that are so embedded in D.C. culture that most politicians and journalists barely notice them." CommonDreams  

Brain scans reveal why Trump supporters are easily manipulated by his fear mongering.  RawStory 

The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology.  Aeon  

U.S. Military Says It Has a “Light Footprint” in Africa. These Documents Show a Vast Network of Bases.  Intercept  

“The Silence of Others”: New Film Warns Against Spain’s Fascist History Repeating Itself.  DemocracyNow  

All eyes are on Mueller but here is the list of crimes we already know Donald Trump has committed.
 RawStory  

How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia Election. ... Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor’s office against the Democratic Party’s candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went through the list name by name and found at least 340,134 voters had never moved. You’re talking a third of a million voters who were canned — with no notice.  GregPalast   
 Related:  North Carolina election still undecided amid absentee ballot fraud inquiry.... The state board of elections has refused to certify the Republican candidate’s narrow victory in the ninth congressional district.  Guardian  

These companies claimed the GOP tax bill would ‘boost jobs.’ Now they’re laying off employees. ... The businesses who led the charge for a massive cut in the corporate tax rate still claim it is working great.  ThinkProgress  

December 6, 2018
1922 Benito Mussolini threatens Italian
newspapers with censorship if they keep
reporting “false” information.
Socorro Electric Cooperative water grab augustin plains r

America Is Headed for Military Defeat in Afghanistan.  TruthDig    Related:  All That's Left for the U.S. to Do in Afghanistan Is Lose. TruthDig  

Every wonder why one of the most brutal and oppressive reigms is also one of the largest donors to the Center for American Progress, a major Democratic Party
"think tank"? and PAC.  Hint: United Arab Emerats. Why is that?  Clinton donor list.

Nationalisation Without Compensation.  ... When slavery was abolished in the British Empire, taxpayers paid huge sums in compensation to slave owners for the loss of their “property”. No compensation was ever paid to the slaves for the loss of their freedom.  Craig Murray  

Can you put a dollar value on nature?  WeForum  

Yemen ceasefire resolution blocked at UN after Saudi and UAE 'blackmail'. ... Britain had drafted resolution to avert famine... Security council threatened with boycott of Stockholm talks.  CommonDreams  

'It Is Time for Progressives of the World to Unite': Sanders-Varoufakis Issue Open Call for New Global Movement. ... "Our Progressive International will reclaim our communities, our cities, our countries, and our planet with a bold International New Deal that we will work, together, to deliver."   CommonDreams  

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June 26, 2018 -
Attend a rally in opposition to the Gila River diversion and then join us to make public comment at the NEPA scoping meetings scheduled for 4pm to 7 pm.
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New Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern Arizona Wildlife Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. NM Wild Or PDF file  

June 4, 2018-
Importance of Gila National Forest For Mexican Wolf Recovery. Wildlands Network  

Standoff Over Mexican Gray Wolf Continues in Southwestern U.S. NatureNow  

New Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern Arizona Wildlife Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. New Mexico Wild  

April 6, 2018 -
20th anniversary of release of Mexican wolves in wild. Chieftain    .pdf  
     

(East Mountain) Water dispute has statewide implications. Mountain View Telegraph

The Gila National Forest has released their Draft Wilderness Inventory maps, and the public is invited to submit comments. The draft maps total more than 1.2 million acres. New Mexico Wild volunteers have worked for the last four and half years helping to influence these draft maps. Public input is critical to ensure that these areas make it into the Final Wilderness Inventory, and your personal experiences and comments are essential to making that a reality.The Wilderness Homepage for the Gila National Forest 

September 2, 2017 -
Thousands weigh in on wolf recovery plan ... Just hours before the Tuesday night deadline approached for the public to weigh in on a proposed federal management plan for the endangered Mexican gray wolf, more than 9,000 comments had been posted online. Thousands more had been submitted to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by mail — most opposing a wolf recovery plan that many criticized as too restrictive to allow the species to thrive.
New Mexican