Facebook’s
war on free will. ... How technology is making our minds redundant. Guardian
Beware
the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship. ... The social network is too big and
broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more
problems. Rolling
Stone
No
One Voted for Facebook and Apple to Deal With Alex Jones. ... Whatever they do
with conspiracy theorists, placing the distribution of information in the hands
of a few tech companies will remain a very big problem. Slate
The Blowup
With Canada Is the Latest Saudi Overreach. Will They Ever Pay a Price? Intercept
CLICK
BAIT
Sessions Vows To Protect All Deeply Held Religious Bigotry. Go
> First
Amendment Experts Warn Facebook Banning InfoWars Could Set Completely Reasonable
Precedent For Free Speech. Go
> Americans
Finally Recognize Own Country Again After President Does Half-Assed Job Walking
Back Humanitarian Crimes Go
> Recently
Uncovered Passage From Book Of Revelation Shows That Prophet Foresaw ‘Violent
Reign Of Red-Headed Boy-King’ Go
> |
New
Scorecard Shows Only 12 House Democrats Have Fully Embraced Game-Changing Progressive
Agenda. ... "In today's tumultuous world, it is important for all Americans
to know exactly who in Washington is standing up for our most essential needs:
a clean, livable environment, quality universal healthcare, and a more just, equitable
society for all.
CommonDreams
Green
Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs For 8 Hours After Trying to Enter
Hofstra Debate. DemocracyNow
Detaining
immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry for private contractors Post
Gazette
August
8, 2018
Facebook
Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments.
Intercept
Related: [()ct 2016] Facebook ‘deliberately targeting’ Palestinian
accounts after meeting with Israeli government, rights groups say. Independent
Social media giant accused of disabling accounts of activists and journalists
following talks with Israeli ministers last month on how to tackle ‘incitement’
on the platform
Meet
Ahed Tamimi, 17-Year-Old West Bank Activist Jailed for 8 Months for Slapping Israeli
Soldier. DemocrachNow
'Poverty
Is Criminalized, Wealth Is Immunized': Report Shows Corporate Crime Enforcement
Has Plummeted Under Trump. ... "The message to big business couldn't be more
clear: Feel free to run roughshod over rules that protect the air we breathe,
the water we drink, and the food we eat." CommonDreams
Netanyahu
Cons Druze and Incites Jews to Protect Controversial Nation-state Law. ... For
prime minister’s minions, the protest against the controversial law transforms
Druze from blood brothers to backstabbing leftists. Haaretz
SPLC-named
hate group calls students ‘terrorists’ in campus posters. Trfts
Daily
Police
violence, cliques, and secret tattoos: fears rise over LA sheriff 'gangs'. ...
Investigation faces skepticism amid concerns that groups, linked to a history
of attacks on inmates, are resurgent. Guardian
Denouncing
'Centrist, Corporate Democrats,' Cynthia Nixon Declares: 'This Is a Time to Fight'.
... "This is not a time to settle for the way things are," the New York
gubernatorial candidate says at progressive conference. CommonDreams
In
Europe, Hate Speech Laws are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints.
Intercept
When
the far right targets books, it should ring alarm bells for us all. ... The violent
attack on my bookshop Bookmarks at the weekend could never have happened without
Trump, and Britain’s ‘hostile environment’. Guardian
Journalism
in the Age of Trump: What’s Missing and What Matters. ... Has the preoccupation
with the president pushed aside other urgent stories?
The
Nation
August
7, 2018
In
great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote
from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the
war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the
exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the
small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those
which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied
with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand
visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the
war. - Adam Smith
Yemen:
US allies spin deals with al-Qaida in war on rebels. AP
Green
Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs For 8 Hours After Trying to Enter
Hofstra Debate. DemocracyNow
The
American Sea of Deception. TruthDig
Related:
Fifty Great United States Lies.
Paul
Street
A
New Wave Of Hardline Anti-BDS Tactics Are Targeting Students, And No One Knows
Who’s Behind It.
Forward
Part 2: Canary Mission’s Threat Grows, From U.S. Campuses To
The Israeli Border.
Forward
11
Warning Signs of Gaslighting ... a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And
it works too well.
Psychology
Today
Police
violence, cliques, and secret tattoos: fears rise over LA sheriff 'gangs'. ...
Investigation faces skepticism amid concerns that groups, linked to a history
of attacks on inmates, are resurgent. Guardian
Related: Memphis
police accused of using fake accounts to surveil black activists. ... Documents
appear to show police kept dossiers on dozens of Memphis-area activists along
with lists of their associates.
Guardian
August
6, 2018
CLIMATE NEWSClimate
Scientist: California Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier & Will Continue
to Intensify. DemocracyNow
Another
Year, Another Warning The Earth Is Screwed. ... The planet bombed its “annual
physical” with another year of record heat and rising seas.
HuffPost
Capitalism
Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” Intercept
“Losing
Earth”: How Humanity Came to Understand Climate Change & Failed to Act
in Time. DemocracyNow
Extreme
Weather Is Exploding Around the World. Why Isn’t the Media Talking About
Climate Change? DemocracyNow
'An
Insult to Our National Wildlife': Trump Reverses Ban on GMOs and Bee-Killing Pesticides
in Refuges. ... "Industrial agriculture has no place on public lands dedicated
to conservation of biological diversity and the protection of our most vulnerable
species." CommonDreams
|
NYT
columnist warns ‘cruel bigot’ President Pence would be worse than Trump:
‘From a kleptocracy to a theocracy’ RawStory
Denouncing
'Centrist, Corporate Democrats,' Cynthia Nixon Declares: 'This Is a Time to Fight'.
... "This is not a time to settle for the way things are," the New York
gubernatorial candidate says at progressive conference. CommonDreams
Revealed:
Ice teams up with Nicaragua even as US decries Ortega’s crackdown. ... White
House condemns Daniel Ortega’s ‘indiscriminate violence’ while
countries join forces to deport Nicaraguans from US.
Guardian
Chomsky
on Regime Change in Nicaragua. CounterPunch
A
Threat to Global Democracy: How Facebook & Surveillance Capitalism Empower
Authoritarianism. DemocracyNow
'Revolting': Betsy DeVos Unveils Proposal to Make It Harder for Students Defrauded
by Predatory Schools to Get Loan Relief. ... Plan slammed as looking "more
like a roadmap for institutions seeking to abuse students and avoid accountability
and transparency rather than a plan to protect students and taxpayers." CommonDreams
“Bring
the War Home”: The Long History of White Power and Paramilitary Violence
in the United States. DemocracyNow
Weekend
of August 3-5, 2018
Weekend
Read: Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five - by Miko Peled.
... In July 2004, federal agents raided the homes of five Palestinian-American
families, arresting the five dads. The first trial of the “Holy Land Foundation
Five” ended in a hung jury. The second, marked by highly questionable procedures,
resulted in very lengthy sentences—for “supporting terrorism” by
donating to charities that the U.S. government itself and other respected international
agencies had long worked with. Amazon
Neoliberal
Fascism and the Echoes of History. ... The nightmares that have shaped the past
and await return slightly just below the surface of American society are poised
to wreak havoc on us again. America has reached a distinctive crossroads in which
the principles and practices of a fascist past and neoliberal present have merged
to produce what Philip Roth once called “the terror of the unforeseen.”
TruthDig/Giroux
Former
Obama Officials Help Silicon Valley Pitch the Pentagon for Lucrative Defense Contracts.
Intercept
Trump’s
Two Largest Creditors?—?Ladder Capital Finance & Deutsche Bank. ... The
mainstream media has reported on Deutsche Bank, but has barely covered Ladder
Capital Finance, so below is a chart and article with some key highlights on the
company that holds a substantial amount of Trump debt. Medium
Worker
wages remain stagnant as wealthy executives are rolling in cash. ... CEOs are
using corporate share buybacks to enrich themselves. ThinkProgress
Over
400,000 people living in 'modern slavery' in US, report finds. ... The report,
by the Global Slavery Index, also estimates most victims live in Asia, with North
Korea the highest globally. Guardian
Russiagate
Can’t End Well for the Left. Jacobin
Amazon
Promises “Unwavering” Commitment to Police, Military Clients Using AI
Technology.
Intercept
Twitter
Rains Hell On Jeff Sessions’ New Religious Liberty Task Force. ... From the
same administration that brought you the Muslim travel ban, the attorney general
wants the Justice Department to look to heaven. HuffPost
Koch-backed
study finds ‘Medicare for All’ would save U.S. trillions. ... An estimated
cost of $32.6 trillion over 10 years is less than the US would spend over the
next 10 years under the current system.
ThinkProgress
As
Death Toll Rises in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha on Her Fight to Expose Lead
Poisoning in City. DemocracyNow
Advocates:
Israel’s Jewish Nation-State Law Constitutionally Enshrines Racism Against
Palestinians. DemocracyNow
Beware
the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship. ... The social network is too big and
broken to properly function, and these “fixes” will only create more
problems. Rolling
Stone
August
2, 2018
The
Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat. ... The most ominous danger we face comes
from the arginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts,
academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations and the press, that once
ensured that civil discourse was rooted in reality and fact, helped us distinguish
lies from truth and facilitated justice. TruthDig
Socialism
on the Rise as Americans Seek Out Bold, Humane Alternatives to the Brutality of
Trump and Capitalism. ... "Socialism is no longer a dirty word in the U.S."
CommonDreams
'Putin's
War on America' Is Nothing Compared With America's War on Democracy. TruithDig
CLICK
BAIT
Senate Passes Bipartisan Resolution Preventing Themselves From Stopping Trump.
Go
> Picky
Refugee Just Expects To Be Reunited With Exact Same Family As Before. Go
> Taking
Responsibility: Mark Zuckerberg Has Announced That Any Articles Posted On Facebook
Will Now Go Through Strict Vetting To Make Sure They Align With The Company’s
Tireless Commitment To Generating Massive Amounts Of Revenue. Go
> Confession
of a Putin-Nazi Denialist. Go
> |
ICE:
The Making of an American Gestapo.
TruthOut
“Quiet
Skies”? Boston Globe Exposé Reveals TSA Is Secretly Surveilling Thousands
of U.S. Travelers. DemocracyNow
Trump-endorsed
radio show has promoted ex-CIA agent’s call for right-wing rebellion. RawStory
‘A
second chance before the end times’: Evangelical Christians struggle to defend
‘sinner Trump’ in stunning interviews. RawStory
Corporate
Democrats Plan “Counterrevolution” in the Midst of Progressive Success.
TruthOut
August
1, 2018
NEOCON AND KOCH NETWORK INFLUENCE ON
THE DNC
The Koch Network Finally Has GOP-Controlled Government. They’re Not Satisfied.
... They want to do more than own the libs. HuffPost
Trump turns against 'total joke' Koch brothers after North Dakota snub. ... Conservative
billionaires won’t back Republican in Senate race. ... President: ‘I
made them richer. Their network is overrated’ Guardian
The
Next Act of the Neocons. NY
Times With
New D.C. Policy Group, Dems Continue to Rehabilitate and Unify With Bush-Era Neocons.
Intercept
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Noam
Chomsky: U.S. Must Improve Relations with Russia and Challenge the Expansion of
NATO. DemocracyNow
Related:
Noam Chomsky on RussiaGate. YouTube
The
Silence of the Whores. Craig
Murray
Almost
80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck. Here's why. ... America doesn’t
have a jobs crisis. It has a ‘good jobs’ crisis – where too much
employment is insecure, and poorly paid.
Guardian
RNC
Chair complains about internet bias on Fox News after Republicans killed net neutrality.
... Ronna Romney McDaniel needs to go back and read her party's platform. ThinkProgress
Noam
Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life is at Risk Due to Climate Change &
Nuclear Weapons. DemocracyNow
Ripping
'Greedy Wall Street Vulture Funds' Profiting From Misery, Warren and Sanders Introduce
Bill to Cancel Puerto Rico's Debt. ... "It is time to end Wall Street's stranglehold
on Puerto Rico's future, return control of the island to the people of Puerto
Rico, and give the territory the debt relief it so desperately needs to rebuild
with dignity." CommonDreams
MSNBC
Has Done 455 Stormy Daniels Segments in the Last Year -But None on US War in Yemen.
... Why is the supposed network of the anti-Trump #resistance totally ignoring
the president’s most devastating war? AlterNet
Mar
7, 2018 Special Interview Noam Chomsky.
YouTube
Franklin
Graham Tells Evangelicals to Lay Off President Trump or God Won’t Be Happy.
... The right-wing Christian leader's hypocrisy is stunning.
AlterNet
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