SEPTEMBER 11 THROUGH 21
 September
21, 2017
Republican Healthcare
Bill Will Get Less Than 2 Minutes Of Debate Time. ... Due to a manipulation of
Senate rules, Republicans have created a healthcare bill that will only be open
for debate on the Senate floor for about 90 seconds – possibly as long as
2 minutes if things get crazy. This bill could strip more than 30 million of their
health insurance coverage and destroy Medicaid, and the best the Republicans are
willing to give us is 2 minutes.
Ring
of Fire  Hillary
Clinton Will Never Understand What Happened. Splinter
Government
by Goldman ... Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted From
the Trump Administration. The
Intercept Trump's
'election integrity' group is waging war on the right to vote. Guardian
Trump
administration removes links to taxpayer-funded climate data on USGS website ...
You paid for U.S. Geological Survey climate data, but the White House is making
it disappear. ThinkProgress
Only
two countries think Trump is doing a better job than Obama did. RawStory
A
handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country dry — and
destroying American democracy.
RawStory
Income
inequality and offshore tax dodging: The rich are richer than we thought. Journalist's
Resource Like
it or not, the far right is heading for Germany’s Bundestag ... The AfD party
has become increasingly nasty – and more popular too. That nationalists will
have a voice in the German parliament once again is disturbing. The
Guardian How
Netanyahu’s Son Became the Poster Boy for White Supremacists. ... The eldest
son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found himself an unlikely
poster boy for David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, and the neo-Nazi website
Daily Stormer. CounterPunch
We
Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village. CounterPunch
Read
All About the Biggest Snowden Reveal.
TruthDig
A Sense
of Proportion - The Establishment is fast losing its grip on the loyalty of the
populace. That decline in the respect of the population for their masters has
coincided with the rise of the importance of the internet and social media, and
the corresponding decline in consumption of traditional print and broadcast news
and current affairs media. Craig
Murray 
September
20, 2017House
passes spending bill ‘full of giveaways to polluters’ and big cuts to
EPA... The bill also cuts a number of programs intended to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions or streamline the transition to clean energy. ThinkProgress
US
Says No Money for Social Programs, But '$700 Billion to Kill People? Yeah That
We Have' ... "Note 'where will the money come from?' deficit trolls will
be silent on this $700 billion defense spending bill." CommonDreams
Beyond
Harvey and Irma: Militarizing Homeland Security in the Climate Change Era. TruthOut
Saudi security forces clamp down on dissent
Academics and clerics held as
Riyadh acts to silence criticism. Financial
Times South
Carolina teacher suspended after asking 5th graders to come up with reasons for
joining the Klan.
RawStory
The
GOP’s on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its
entirety. ThinkProgress
To
Make Our Democracy Functional, We Must Confront Economic Inequality. ... The United
States is a plutocratic disaster. In this exclusive interview for Truthout, renowned
political scientist Larry Bartels, author of the already classic work Unequal
Democracy, provides a sweeping look at the state of our dysfunctional society.
TruthOut
Robert
Reich: A Handful of Ultra-Rich Families Are Bleeding the Country Dry. ... Taxing
dynastic wealth is an absolute necessity if we hope to restore our democracy.
AlterNet/Reich
St.
Louis Cops Taunt Demonstrators with Chilling Chant After Clearing Streets. ...
Officers in riot gear were heard bellowing "whose streets, our streets."
AlterNet
Donald
Trump starts first UN speech by promoting one of his buildings just across the
street . ... Several people with connections to the former Soviet Union own condos
in the building. Independent
A
Major Jewish Philanthropist Just Published A Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians.
... A far-right faction within Israel’s Likud-led governing coalition has
endorsed a plan for Israel to annex the entire West Bank and encourage the Palestinian
residents to emigrate to neighboring Arab countries. Forward
Donald
Trump’s lawyers fail at basic lawyering: Privacy. ... Rule 1 of law: Don't
discuss private matters in public, right in front of a New York Times. Salon
September 19, 2017 Naomi
Klein: We Are Seeing the Shock Doctrine in Effect After Hurricanes Harvey &
Irma.
Democracy
Now/Naomi Klein The
Silencing of Dissent. ... The ruling elites, who grasp that the reigning ideology
of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual
credibility, have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given to their
critics. The attacks within this campaign include blacklisting, censorship and
slandering dissidents as foreign agents for Russia and purveyors of “fake
news.” TruthDig/Hedges
Shadows
of Secrecy Spread Across Federal Government. ... There are cracks in the curtains
President Donald Trump tried to draw around the government early in his presidency,
but the slivers of light aren’t making it easier to hold federal officials
accountable for their actions. TruthDig
Sean
Spicer Is Honored Because, As Bush Officials Showed, D.C. Elites Always Thrive.
The
Intercept The
Growing Danger of Dynastic Wealth,
TruthDig/Reich
After Failing
to Prosecute Bankers, Obama Cashes In With Wall Street Speeches. ... The former
president is reportedly raking in $400,000 per speech to massive financial firms.
CommonDreams
Logging
Won’t Stop Wildfires. ... A number of politicians have promised to weaken
environmental laws and increase logging, supposedly to stop forest fires. Here’s
what they aren’t telling you.
CounterPunch
'Red
Alert' Sounded: Trumpcare Is Back, More Brutal and Deadly Than Ever. .. Sen. Bernie
Sanders called the new Obamacare repeal plan "yet another disastrous Republican
proposal to throw millions of people off health insurance. CommonDreams
September
18, 2017The
GOP Is Plowing Ahead with an Audacious Effort to Hijack the Vote and Rig Elections.
... From Trump’s “election integrity” commission to Mitch McConnell,
the GOP targets the levers of power.
AlterNet
How
JPMorgan Chase Is Cashing in on Private Prisons. ... For its stance on human rights
to have real meaning, Chase must divest from the private prison system. AlterNet
Government
by Goldman - Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It Ever Wanted From
the Trump Administration. The
Intercept Destructive
Stock Buybacks–That You Pay For.
CounterPunch
The
Forgotten Americans: Why Did U.S. Media Ignore U.S. Virgin Islands Devastated
by Irma?
Democracy
Now The
Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets. CounterPunch
Barack Obama 'rang with reassurance for May' on election night. ... Former president
said Labour was expecting losses and Andrew Marr told Tories results of exit poll
early, book claims. The
Guardian
Race
v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates. CounterPunch
Anthony
Lamar Smith: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know.
Heavy
Israel
Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History of Rights Abuses. The
Intercept Shaun
King on Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick, and White Supremacy. ... Since the beginning
of the Trump presidency, white-supremacist groups, including self-described neo-Nazis,
have increasingly and boldly appeared in public. They have killed counterprotesters,
beaten people, and fired guns into crowds.
The
Intercept Lawsuit’s
FBI evidence suggests Saudi Arabia funded 9/11 ‘dry run’: report. RawStory
'Will
the 9/11 Case Finally Go to Trial?': Andrew Cockburn on New Evidence Linking Saudis
to Attacks. ... Saudi Arabia is already trying to change the law so that they
can’t be sued.
Democracy
Now Coca-Cola
Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water. TruthOut
The
Forgotten Americans: Why Did U.S. Media Ignore U.S. Virgin Islands Devastated
by Irma?
Democracy
Now Has
The New York Times Gone Collectively Mad? ... For those of us who have taught
journalism or worked as editors, a sign that an article is the product of sloppy
or dishonest journalism is that a key point will be declared as flat fact when
it is unproven or a point in serious dispute—and it then becomes the foundation
for other claims, building a story like a high-rise constructed on sand. TruthDig
Weekend of September 15-17, 2017
Endless
War Continues as Senate Kills Effort to Repeal 2001 Authorization. ... "No
one with an ounce of intellectual honesty believes these authorizations allow
current wars we fight in seven countries," Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said. CommonDreams
Myanmar:
new footage reveals scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya. ... Government accused
of systematic strategy in Rakhine state as Rohingya claim soldiers torched their
homes and fired on them after urging them to leave. The
Guardian
For America’s
Generals, Failure Is the New Success.
TruthDig
Silent
and Deadly: Industry Eyes a Sneaky and Dangerous New Revenue Stream. ... Republicans
hide a rollback on the regulation of gun silencers inside an otherwise innocuous
federal lands bill.
AlterNet
Why
Are US Universities Arming Themselves With Grenade Launchers? TruthOut
‘We
send a report every morning to ICE’: Motel 6 reportedly outing guests to
immigration officials. .. "Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the
audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE."
ThinkProgress
Welfare
for Wall Street: Fees on Retirement Accounts. TruthOut
"The
Occupation of the American Mind": Documentary Looks at Israel's PR War in
the United States.
DemocracyNow
Sloppy
U.S. Spies Misused a Covert Network for Personal Shopping — and Other Stories
from Internal NSA Documents. The
Intercept
ISRAELI
SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE AND FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN MINDThe
Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets. CounterPunch
Roger
Waters Criticizes Senate Bill Criminalizing BDS & Radiohead's Recent Concert
in Tel Aviv. Democracy
Now Pink
Floyd Founder Roger Waters: BDS is One of "Most Admirable" Displays
of Resistance in the World.
Democracy
Now |
September
14, 2017"Will
the 9/11 Case Finally Go to Trial?": Andrew Cockburn on New Evidence Linking
Saudis to Attacks. DemocracyNow/Cockburn
Senate
Intel slips sentence into bill that could lead to spying on US citizens. McClatchy
FBI gets
Sputnik emails, critics see 'red line for media' crossed in Russia probe.
Washington Examiner
The
Terrifying Power of Internet Censors.
NYTimes
Background
Checks for Voting?: Inside the Trump Election Commission's Contentious Second
Meeting. DemocracyNow
Coca-Cola
Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water. TruthOut
White
Christians Are Now a Minority—But They're Getting More Isolated and Less
Tolerant. ... Religious homophobia is driving away young people, but evangelical
leaders double down on anti-LGBT bigotry. AlterNet
ALL
TOO COMMON‘Whip
you like the slave you are’: Trump fan sent threats before execution-style
killing of black man. RawStory
6
Cruel Moves Made by Local Governments Against the Poor. ... Republicans in the
federal government aren't the only ones who punish people for being poor. AlterNet
Nashville
woman shot homeless man who asked her to move her Porsche — then left him
to die: police. RawStory
‘You
should see pictures of her’: Lawyer argues 13-year-old rape victim to blame
for being a ‘temptress’. RawStory
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September
13, 2017The
Great Flood. ... How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston,
coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms
lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation
and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal
dead zones? Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the
fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and
radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life?
TruthDig/Hedges The
Hodor Effect that Paralyzes the US. ... Could you briefly explain the events that
took place in Charlottesville and help put them in context?
CounterPunch
Documenting
Hate. ... Hate crimes and bias incidents are a national problem, but there’s
no reliable data on the nature or prevalence of the violence. We’re collecting
and verifying reports to create a national database for use by journalists, researchers
and civil-rights organizations..
ProPublica
Don’t
assume the militias at the Charlottesville rally were white supremacists. This
is what they believe now. WaPo
New
Mexico in Depth - White Supremacists. ... Many belong to new organizations like
Vanguard America, Identity Evropa, the Traditionalist Workers Party and True Cascadia,
which have seen their numbers expand dramatically in the past year. Most of these
groups view themselves as part of a broader “alt-right” movement that
represents the extreme edge of right-wing politics in the U.S.
NM
Indepth Berkeley
Republicans Hope More Left-Wing Riots Will Create “Pedestal” For Conservative
Movement.
The
Intercept
The Pentagon's
New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion. TruthOut
Scientists:
Climate Change May Wipe Out a Third of World's Parasites, with Disastrous Ripple
Effects. DemocracyNow
September
12, 2017How
Donald Trump Is Trying To Blow Up The Iran Nuclear Deal. The
Intercept Lords
of Misrule. ... How the legal profession became Wall Street’s helpmeet. ...
In 1937, future Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson gave a toast at the New York
State Bar Association on the civic responsibilities of the legal profession. “No
other people have submitted so generally to lawyer leadership,” he said.
Yet, he argued, “There is no constitutional protection for our lawyer monopoly.” Jackson
was referring, in a tone of populist outrage, to the new wave of big law firms
that were then vehemently opposing Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and its
crackdown on Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 crash. “We must rely solely
on the record of a trust well fulfilled to perpetuate lawyer control.". TheBaffler
The
West might hardly believe it, but it now seems the Syrian war is ending –
and Assad is the victor. ... While we’re all waiting for Trump to start World
War Three, we’ve not spotted that the military map of the Middle East has
substantially, bloodily changed. It will be years before Syria and Iraq (and Yemen)
are rebuilt – and the Israelis may have to go to Putin to clear up the mess
they’re now in.
Independent
Why
Verrit, a pro-Clinton media platform, is doomed to fail. ... The website has been
blasted for its unsubtle propaganda. There is a reason it works for Republicans
and not Democrats.
The
Guardian Complaining
About Hillary's Campaign Book Is a Huge Waste of the Progressive Movement's Time.
... Why aren't they focusing on the anti-democratic practices that split the Democratic
Party?
AlterNet
I’ve
Seen the Reality of What Happens After Disasters Like Irma. CounterPunch
How
Monsanto Is Devastating Thousands of Farms Across 20 States. ... Monsanto's GE
cotton and soybeans were made to be resistant to an herbicide that drifts to nearby
crops. AlterNet
Cultural
Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe in India. ... Foreign capital is dictating
the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures
with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness,
food processing and retail concerns (see this). The plan is for a fraction of
the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large
chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically
altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded
soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought
resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security. CounterPunch
Spaceport
America, 10 years on. NM
Indepth SANTA
Fe: 12 Arrested Protesting Conquistador Celebration on Stolen Pueblo Land.
CounterPunch
September 11, 2017 Lawsuit’s
FBI evidence suggests Saudi Arabia funded 9/11 ‘dry run’: report. RawStory
I’ve
seen the reality of what happens after disasters like Hurricane Irma – it’s
different to what you’ve been told. ... Because of an over-focus on empty
gestures and a queasiness about money, the response to natural disasters in the
US is all too often inadequate. The army and the National Guard are on standby
in South Florida – but if Hurricane Andrew taught us anything, it’s
that they aren’t as much use as you’d think. Independent
The Violence
of the ’60s Is Nothing Like What We Are about to Face. ... The late ‘60s
and early ‘70s were crazy, but we’re looking wilder.
Alternet. ‘These
people need to be protected’: Police won’t release info on lynching
of 8-year-old biracial boy.
RawStory
Straight
out of The Handmaid’s Tale’: Insiders claim CIA director Pompeo is turning
agency into a Christian hotbed. ... According to an investigation by Foreign Policy
into changes in the intelligence community under President Donald Trump, the CIA
has set aside plans to diversify and has become more white and more Christian
under new director Mike Pompeo. RawStory
A Definitive
Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump. ... From Paul Ryan to John
McCain, Sarah Ellison takes a look at the men—and the motives—that are
propping up a Donald Trump presidency.. Vanity
Fair The
case for Trump-Russia collusion: We’re getting very, very close. WaPo
GOP
operative soliciting Russian hackers was bagman for ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’.
... The GOP operative leading a team looking for Hillary Clinton’s 33,000
missing emails—the same ones Donald Trump had publicly implored Russia to
find—was active as a Republican bagman in what Hillary Clinton famously called
the “vast right-wing conspiracy” during the Bill Clinton-era Troopergate
sex scandals. MadCow
Your
Worst Fears About Fox News Are Confirmed By New Study. ... Everyone knows the
news outlet serves as a virtual propaganda tool, but new research shows just how
effective they are at it.
CommonDreams
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