MAY 1 THROUGH 10
May 10, 2017
Pro-Trump
Sinclair Network Set to Become Nation's Biggest Broadcaster
as FCC Weakens Ownership Rules. ... Ajit Pai, Donald Trump’s
pick to head the agency, has been dismantling all kinds
of consumer protections and regulations, certainly net
neutrality, which many of us consider the First Amendment
of the internet, what protects your ability to go online,
do whatever you want, go wherever you want and download
whatever you want. Democracy
Now 
Journalists
as State Functionaries. ... The media know perfectly well
that the reason May needs protection from difficult questions
– and even advance notice of soft ones – is
that she is hopeless. Her refusal to debate Corbyn and
her car crash interview with Marr illustrate that. But
our servile media cover up for her by colluding in entirely
fake events. Craig
Murray
Trump
Uses Power of FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair Broadcasting,
Truth
Out
US
Hegemony on Korean Peninsula Challenged. Counter
Punch
Washington’s
Blind Ambition: the Monster in the Mirror. ... Today,
U.S. foreign policy is the Ogre, a narcissistic psychopath
for whom the mainstream media (MSM) is the mirror it glances
in every morning to confirm its noble visage.
Counter
Punch
Document
Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing
"Infrastructure" Nationwide. ... Documents examined
by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national
effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley
Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure"
to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
TruthOut
May 9, 2017
Anti-protest
bills would 'attack right to speak out' under Donald Trump.
... The ACLU says more than 30 bills have been introduced
amid a huge swell of activism, prompting UN intervention
over criminalization of peaceful protest. Guardian
The
US Never Stopped Training and Arming Brutal Latin American
Regimes. ... On the night of December 2, 1980, four women
from the United States, including three nuns, were murdered
in El Salvador. One of them is the subject of your book,
Sister Maura Clarke. What happened that evening?
Truth
Out
This
is the catastrophe the world has been ignoring
Venezuela is in a crisis. Think
Progress
Washington’s
Blind Ambition: the Monster in the Mirror. ... Today,
U.S. foreign policy is the Ogre, a narcissistic psychopath
for whom the mainstream media (MSM) is the mirror it glances
in every morning to confirm its noble visage.
Counter
Punch
Under
Trumpcare, Millions Will Lose Coverage, Many Will Die—and
the GOP Will Try to Blame It on Liberals. AlterNet
‘Yates
just handed Ted Cruz his ass on a platter’: Internet
celebrates Sally Yate’s brutal shutdown of GOP senator.
Raw
Story
The
Deep State. ... When a head of state who behaves impulsively,
and shows little interest in filling in the gaps in his
knowledge, becomes commander in chief of the world’s
most powerful army, there need to be plenty of safeguards..
Counter
Punch
May 8,2017
Israel’s
New Cultural War of Aggression.
Counter
Punch
Kalaratri Appears: Indigenous
Women Take-Up Arms in India. ... Uncharacteristically,
the Canadian Press omitted to report the 50 hour abduction
last month of a cyclist from Ottawa by Maoist forces in
the jungles of central India. The story was reported with
great alarm, however, in all the major Indian papers.
Counter
Punch
There’s Nothing Apple’s
CEO Cares About More Than Not Paying Taxes. Intercept
Coca-Cola Israel Donated
to Left-bashing Group Im Tirtzu .. which led campaigns
against marking the Nakba and accused human-rights activists
of being 'moles,' wanted to cover up the $14,000 donation.
Haaretz
Our Constitution Vs. the
Deep State Run by Intelligence Agencies and the Pentagon—Only
One Will Survive Western civilization itself is under
attack. AlterNet
The Great Division: the Return
of Nationalism. ... suddenly the world is full of leaders
from Theresa May to President Erdogan of Turkey claiming
to unite their countries while visibly deepening their
divisions. Denunciations of supposed threats at home and
abroad are a common feature of this new political style,
whether they are tweeted from the White House or spoken
at the podium outside 10 Downing Street. Counter
Punch
The great British Brexit
robbery: how our democracy was hijacked. ... A shadowy
global operation involving big data, billionaire friends
of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign
influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain
heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still
fit for purpose?
The Guardian
May 7, 2017
Trumpcare
Is a Transfer From the Sick and Poor to the Rich and Healthy.
Shame on every one of the 217 Republicans who voted to
repeal the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, and substitute
basically nothing. ... Trumpcare isn’t a replacement
of the Affordable Care Act. It’s a transfer from
the sick and poor to the rich and healthy. Truth
Dig
There’s
Nothing Apple’s CEO Cares About More Than Not Paying
Taxes.
Intercept
World
leaders from May to Trump to Erdogan are all promising
to unite their countries while doing the exact opposite.
... Encouraging a sense of nationalism in countries with
an imperial past is not just offensive but also counter-productive.
Independent
Unsurprisingly,
Networks Refuse To Air Donald Trump’s ‘Fake
News’ Ad Against Them Turns out inaccurately calling
mainstream media “fake” is against advertising
guidelines. Huffington
‘This
is not the story we want’: Reporters chased out of
meeting with Kushner family pitching Chinese investors.
... Reporters attempting to cover a pitch to wealthy Chinese
investors at a seminar on visas from members of Trump
son-in-law Jared Kushner’s family were abruptly ejected
from the event..
Raw
Story
May
6, 2017
WEEKEND
READ: Shadow
Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security
State in a Single-Superpower World by Tom Engelhardt.
... In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government
shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world
of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around
the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one
they knew that even the president didn't fully control.
Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible
government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing,
and far more visible. In his new book.
Amazon
Trump
administration desperate to hide new CIA appointee’s
history with ‘black site’ prisons and torture,
Raw
Story
The
Forgotten History of Cinco de Mayo: It’s Not About
Beer, It’s About Rich Countries Strangling Poor Ones.
... But the forgotten history behind Cinco de Mayo is
fascinating and remains extremely relevant today. In fact,
it’s so relevant for small countries around the world
that it’s hard not to believe that’s exactly
why it’s been forgotten.
Intercept
Federal
employees are being forced to watch Fox News, according
to leaked email
It cites “current administration administrative officials”
as the reason for the switch from CNN to Trump’s
favorite channel. Think
Progress
World
leaders from May to Trump to Erdogan are all promising
to unite their countries while doing the exact opposite.
... Encouraging
a sense of nationalism in countries with an imperial past
is not just offensive but also counter-productive.
Independent
May
5, 2017
Priebus
Says Trump Considering Constitutional Amendment to Restrict
Press Freedoms. ... According to Donald Trump’s Chief
of Staff, the White House has “looked at” using
a constitutional amendment to try and restrict the freedom
of the press in his continued attack on “fake news,”
and the media. Ring
of Fire
Alt-Right Hopes to Organize Street-Fighting Goon Squad:
Is It More Than Macho Posturing? ... Far-right fanboys
are trying to organize street gangs—and the most
effective way to fight back may be mockery. AlterNet
House
GOP Just Voted to Slash Medicaid - Which Pays for 60 Percent
of People in Nursing Homes.
Intercept
Jeff
Sessions' Department of Injustice. ... Motivated by his
deep-seated biases and those of President Donald Trump,
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pursuing a draconian
agenda on voting rights, immigration, crime, policing,
the drug war, federal sentencing and the privatization
of prisons.
Truth
Out
Killer
Cop Conviction Is an Exception: Don’t Expect Justice
From the Sessions DOJ. Intercept
Hillary
Clinton Does Not Belong in the Anti-Trump Resistance.
Truth
Dig
13
Questions That Expose Charter School Falsehoods. Naked
Capitalism
May 4, 2017
Why
Do North Koreans Hate Us? One Reason — They Remember
the Korean War. Intercept
Why Obama’s Big Cash-In Matters ... I called him
out as a corporate, neoliberal imperialist and a de facto
white supremacist (as ironic as that might sound given
his technical blackness) from the beginning of the nationwide
“Obamas” phenomenon in the summer of 2004. Truth
Dig
According
to a new report by the International Business Times, it
isn’t as expensive as you’d think to buy the
loyalty of a member of Congress. In some cases, donations
of just $1,000 were enough to change the outcome of a
vote.
The Ring of Fire
Oil,
gas and coal interests filling Donald Trump’s ‘swamp’
with cash. ... Fossil fuel giants spent millions on lobbying,
inauguration during early 2017.
Center
for Public Integrity
Former
Trump campaign manager now lobbies for Russian-backed
oil company Citgo. Raw
Story
Globalism,
Neoliberalism and the Big Questions of Our Time. ... France
is a standing affront to neo-liberals. Despite a failure
to bow down to deregulation, despite extensive worker
protections, despite complex health and safety, environmental
and building regulations, despite strong and legally entrenched
trade unions, France persists year in year out having
productivity levels 20% higher than those achieved by
unprotected, deregulated Britons. Despite the fact French
workers put in 15% less hours per week, and refuse to
be less Gallic.
Craig
Murray
May 3, 2017
Is
North Korea a diversion for a US-Jordan invasion of Syria?
... . The saber-rattling is just an attempt to divert
attention from the Syria-Jordan border where the US and
Jordan are massing troops and equipment for an invasion
of Syria. That’s what’s really going on. The
Korean fiasco is a smokescreen. Counter
Punch
Why
Do North Koreans Hate Us? One Reason — They Remember
the Korean War. :Intercept
Trump’s
Support and Praise of Despots Is Central to the US Tradition,
Not a Deviation From It. ... Since at least the end of
World War II, supporting the world’s worst despots
has been a central plank of U.S. foreign policy, arguably
its defining attribute.
Intercept
Apartheid
in the Shadows: the USA, IBM and South Africa’s Digital
Police State. ... Parkhurst (neighborhood) plans to install
infrared and heat-source cameras to track body movements.
Labuschagne says they will use “GPS technology and
so on to map where incidents occur” and determine
“what movement is considered abnormal rather than
typical movements in a neighborhood of people walking
their dogs and so on.”
Counter Punch
Study:
Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion
Over Past Decade. Center for Biological
Diversity
Report
and BLM and USFS livestock grazing
stats
5
Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals
to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves. ... A trio of academics
compare the tactics to Wall Street's raiders. AlterNet
A
Woman Is On Trial For Laughing During A Congressional
Hearing. ... Activist was arrested by a rookie cop after
laughing at a claim that Jeff Sessions treated “all
Americans equally.”
Huffington
May
2, 2017
Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the
Academy. ... The failure of administrators to curb academic
bullying and other forms of profession misconduct on the
part of faculty is the reason academic departments become
dysfunctiona
Counter
Punch
Cybersecurity
for the People: How to Keep Your Chats Truly Private With
Signal. Intercept
Berta
Cáceres' Sister Speaks Out About the Ongoing Assassinations
of Land Defenders in Honduras. ... The People’s Climate
March in Washington, D.C., also called attention to the
perilous climate for environmental justice activists worldwide,
where an increasing number of land and water defenders
are being murdered for their organizing efforts. Democracy
Now
The
NRA and Trump are teaming up to go after the media. ...
The first amendment took a back seat to the second at
the gun lobby’s annual meeting. Think
Progress
Jeremy
Corbyn is Britain’s Best Hope.
Counter Punch
Busted in Barcelona: Meet Russiagates John Dean. Russian
Peter Levashov would have fared better if his wife was
a gangster’s moll, who knew when to keep her mouth
shut. Mad
Cow Productions
5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate
Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves
A trio of academics compare the tactics to Wall Street's
raiders. AlterNet
May
1, 2017
Reign
of Idiots ... The idiots know only one word—“more.”
They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth
and resources until workers cannot make a living and the
infrastructure collapses. ... This moment in history marks
the end of a long, sad tale of greed and murder by the
white races. It is inevitable that for the final show
we vomited a grotesque figure like Trump. Europeans and
Americans have spent five centuries conquering, plundering,
exploiting and polluting the earth in the name of human
progress.
Counter
Punch/Hedges
100
Days of Trump: Why We Should Fear Him More Than Ever.
... politicians and establishment media have greeted what
they see as President Trump’s return to the norms
of American foreign policy. They welcome the actual or
threatened use of military force in Syria, Afghanistan
and North Korea, and praise his appointment of a bevy
of generals to senior security posts. Counter
Punch/Patrick .Cockburn
The
Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech NY
Times
The
Election was Stolen – Here’s How…Starting
in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting
Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under
the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State,
created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color
from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states. Greg
Palast
Also: The GOP’s secret scheme begins purge
of a million minority voters from voter rolls. Rolling
Stone
EPA
Purges Pages That Highlight Climate Change From Its Website.
... The agency says it’s making the changes to reflect
the new leadership.
Huffington
Between
Orwell and Huxley in the Age of New Authoritarianism (Video
interview) TruthOut
Who
Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why? ... here's
something going on inside the intelligence communities
in at least two countries, and we have no idea what it
is. Law
Fare
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