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of This Is Normal, State of the Union Edition. Unleashed
and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority. Greenwald: "I
realize pointing out the serial abuses, lies & lawbreaking of Comey, Mueller
& FBI shows that one loves Putin and is probably a traitor, but I still feel
this comprehensive ACLU report is noteworthy given the current attempt to sanctify
this authoritarian agency & its leaders." 2013
report ACLU Why
Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such
Grave Threats?. Intercept
Trump’s
secret assassinations programme. ... One year on from a disastrous operation in
Yemen that left 10 children dead, we take a look at President Trump’s secret
assassinations programme, its origins in the Bush and Obama administrations, and
its horrifying escalation in the last year. Reprieve
Meet the CIA: Guns,
Drugs and Money. A
Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy, ,,, Carter Page told BuzzFeed News
that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out
of Moscow’s UN office in 2013. BuzzFeed
The
Uncomfortable Truth About Whole Foods and Amazon's Grocery Monopoly. ... Late
capitalism resembles Soviet logic, especially when it comes to consumer options. | |||||||||||||||||
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FEBRUARY 9 THROUGH 18 February 28, 2018 The
Greatest Cover-Up in History ? How Imperial Britain's Racist India, Africa &
China Narrative ?Still Persists HuffPost
Wyoming
Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests. ... On
the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a
bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline
protesters. CounterPunch
Israel
Extracts “Confession” From Badly Wounded Cousin of Ahed Tamimi, Jailed
Protest Icon. Their
Meddlers and Ours. ... By the end of World War II, the United States had become
a serial meddler in the affairs of the nations of the world, friend and foe alike.
CounterPunch
Blowback:
How the Bombing of Libya in 2011 Led to Terror in Britain. Intercept
f
Democracy Makes a Comeback, White Suburban Women Will Be a Big Factor. ... Grassroots
activism among suburban women may be the key to the anti-Trump resistance. AlterNet
'Corruption,
Plain and Simple': Public Comments Show Outrage at CFPB's Corporate Turn Under
Mulvaney. ... "Mick Mulvaney is putting the interests of predatory lending
companies and fraudulent banks ahead of the interests of consumers."
|
THE CPAC NEOCON ORGYTrump
at CPAC: the invasion of the body snatchers is complete. ... Old-school Republicans
were thin on the ground in Maryland, where the conservatives gathered proved they’re
all Trumpians now. VP Pence at CPAC: "The United States of America doesn't stand with murderous dictatorships, we stand up to murderous dictatorships" ... He lies as usual: The US Supported violet dictators and war criminals (very short list): Suharto - Saddam Hussein - Ceausescu - Reza Shah Pahlavi - Pinochet - Trujillo - Mobutu - Rhee - Habré - Zia-ul-Haq - Ríos Montt - Marcos - Duvalier (1 and 2) - Castelo Branco - Somoza -Batista -Videla, etc. Trump
cpac speech Guardian Trump
went off-script at CPAC. We fact checked it. NBC
News |
Weekend of February 23-25, 2018
Weekend
Read: Fighting Fascism
How to Struggle and How to Win
by Clara Zetkin
Edited by John Riddell and Mike Taber. Clara Zetkin, an organizer of the
First International Women’s Day, presented this Report and Resolution on
fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s
executive committee. At a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon,
Zetkin’s work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism
in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.
Available
at Haymarket
Books 
Congress
and the AR-15: One NRA Stooge Too Many. CounterPunch
Death
in al Ghayil - Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s
“Highly Successful” SEAL Raid. Intercept
Roads to nowhere:
how infrastructure built on American inequality. ... From highways carved through
thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating black and white areas, US city
development has a long and divisive history. Guardian
UK
Mass Digital Surveillance Regime Ruled Illegal. CounterPunch
Citigroup
Drove Puerto Rico Into Debt. Now It Will Profit From Privatization on the Island..
Intercept
'Dirty
meat': Shocking hygiene failings discovered in US pig and chicken plants. ...
Previously unseen government records detail ‘deeply worrying’ incidents
in pork and poultry plants, raising fears of ‘dirty meat’ entering the
UK under a post-Brexit trade deal. Guardian
Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Russiagate. ... “An epidemic terror
seized upon the nations,” wrote Charles Mackay in his 1841 masterpiece, Extraordinary
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. “It was a crime imputed with
so much ease, and repelled with so much difficulty, that the powerful, whenever
they wanted to ruin the weak, and could fix no other imputation upon them, had
only to accuse them of witchcraft to ensure their destruction.”. CounterPunch
It's
time for America to embrace guaranteed income
Chris Hughes. ... We should
provide a guaranteed income of $500 a month for every working adult who makes
less than $50,000, argues Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. Guardian
Continuing
Sabotage of Americans' Healthcare, Trump Proposes Allowing Insurers to Offer 'Junk
Plans'. ... "Welcome back to: underwriting, denials, higher premiums for
being sick, and possibly...insurers leaving markets. All of this is by design."
CommonDreams
Inside
the U.S. Military Recruitment Program That Trained Nikolas Cruz to Be “A
Very Good Shot”, DemocracyNow
6
Sickening Details You Won't Read in Billy Graham's Fawning Obituaries. ... The
pastor urged Nixon to commit war crimes and called AIDS a judgment from God. AlterNet
February 22, 2018
Plumpes
Denken: Crude thinking.
CounterPunch
Trump
Blames Mental Illness for Parkland Shooting, Ignores Easy Gun Access & Loose
Background Checks. DemocracyNow
The
Gun Violence the Media Shows Us and the State Violence They Don’t. CounterPunch
NRA’s
Hold On Florida So Powerful Not Even This Tiny Bird Is Safe. ... Lawmakers killed
efforts to make the native scrub jay the state bird – simply because the
state’s top NRA lobbyist hated the creature. HuffPost
$1.74
Trillion for H-bomb Profiteers and “Fake” Cleanups. CounterPunch
Five
Months After Maria, San Juan Mayor Decries “Disaster Capitalism” &
Privatization in Puerto Rico. DemocracyNow
The
"Alt-Right" Is Building a White Nationalist Mass Movement With "Operation
Homeland"
TruthOut
The
World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony. TruthDig
February 21, 2018
"Pro-Immigrant"
Liberalism and Capitalist Exploitation: Why Corporate Democrats Do Not Support
Immigrant Justice. TruthOut
American
History for Truthdiggers: Roots in Religious Zealotry. TruthDig
Why
the Right Wing Is So Interested in Narrowing Down Education into 'Skills' ...
The politics behind the push to expand vocational education.
AlterNet
Jill
Stein Downplays Russian Meddling: Media and DNC Interfered in 2016 Election Too.
Media
ITE
Sanders
silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016. ... Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
declined to directly address Friday's revelation that Russian actors sought to
boost his presidential primary campaign and sink Hillary Clinton's in 2016, instead
insisting that the special counsel’s investigation proceed unimpeded. Politico
People
Care More About the OXFAM Scandal Than the Cholera Epidemic. CounterPunch
A Consensus
Emerges: Russia Committed an “Act of War” on Par With Pearl Harbor and
9/11. Should the U.S. Response be Similar? Intercept
Making
Mugs of Voters: Mueller’s Russia Indictments. CounterPunch
What
Do Trump and Followers Mean When They Say 'America'? TruthDig
The
NY Times’s Newest Op-Ed Hire, Bari Weiss, Embodies its Worst Failings —
and its Lack of Viewpoint Diversity. Intercept
February 20, 2018
TruthDig/Hedges
In Conversation:
Quincy Jones. ... The music legend on the secret Michael Jackson, his relationship
with the Trumps, and the problem with modern pop. Vulture
Why
Do the Democrats Take Trump’s Trolling Lying Down? CounterPunch
Americans have forgotten what 'treason' actually means — and how it
can be abused. ... We are willfully turning a blind eye to the sordid history
of treason that led to its unique treatment in the U.S. Constitution. NBC
News
Mexico’s
Zapatista rebels, 24 years on and defiant in mountain strongholds
The peasant
rebels took up arms in 1994, and now number 300,000 in centres with their own
doctors, teachers and currency, but rarely answer questions - until now. Guardian
Israel
to Deny Tax Breaks, Government Bids From Local Groups Calling for Boycott. ...
Implementation would require compiling a 'blacklist' of Israeli boycott supporters,
sources say, on top of an existing list of foreign activists and groups. Haaretz
The NRA
donated $10,000 to help train the Parkland shooting suspect to use a rifle. ..
He practiced on indoor ranges shooting at targets the size of coin. ThinkProgress
JULIAN ASSANGE - WIKILEAKSIn Leaked Chats, WikiLeaks Discusses Preference
for GOP Over Clinton, Russia, Trolling, and Feminists They Don’t Like. Intercept
|
February 19, 2018
The Security
Clearance Situation in the White House Is Bonkers. ... NBC News reported on Wednesday
that as of November, 130 political appointees working on President Donald Trump’s
staff had not yet been permanently cleared—among them White House counsel
Don McGahn. Slate
Trump’s
White House has a major security clearance problem. ... “We might be facing
a situation we’ve never faced before.” Vox
Admiral
warns US must prepare for possibility of war with China. ...Harry Harris, the
next US ambassador to Australia, says Beijing intends to control South China Sea.
Guardian
In
the Post-Truth Classroom. CounterPunch
How
Trump Is Undermining the Fight Against Mass Shootings. ... Look at the budget
numbers, not the press-conference rhetoric. The
Nation
Trump
puts public school safety and trauma counseling funding on the chopping block.
... Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says school safety is a priority, but budget
proposals tell a different story. ThinkProgress
FAR RIGHT- NAZI - FASCISMJuan
González Talks Roots of Fascism, Rise of Authoritarian Movements on the
Intercepted Podcast. DemocracyNow
Henry
A. Giroux | The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump. TruthOut/Giroux
While
the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged, ,,, If a reader
were to judge from popular media accounts, the biggest threat to university life
and public discourse would be obvious: the left-wing students on campus fighting
various forms of bigotry and other injustices. From liberal broadsheets to Breitbart.com,
commentators have taken up a strawman debate — largely shaped by the far
right — about campus free speech. Intercept
Partner
With Hard Right to Convict Trump Protesters. ... A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington
highlights a dangerous national trend. ... D.C., police and federal prosecutors
have been collaborating with notorious right-wing groups known for fascist statements
and using doctored videos to ambush their targets in an attempt to convict and
jail protesters from President Trump’s inauguration. AlterNet
Related: |
Weekend of February 16-18, 2018
Weekend
Read:
Politics of Persuasion, The: Economic Policy and Media Bias in the
Modern Era. ... Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues
in the context of competing claims about media bias. Amazon
Trump
Privatizes America. CounterPunch
The
Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck. ... The extra help unemployed people got
during the Great Recession has emboldened states to mistreat them. HuffPost
After
Destroying Iraq, U.S. Won’t Give a Dime to Reconstruction. TruthDig
What
Are We Still Doing in Syria? ... With our ongoing war efforts there,
the Trump administration is courting disaster. National
Review
Scared
of my Own Thoughts. Craig
Murray
Consumer
Protection Agency's New Mission Under Trump? Not Protecting Consumers. ...
New CFPB budget proposal, said one watchdog, further reveals president's "unwavering
loyalty to the big banks, predatory lenders, and Wall Street special interests."
CommonDreams
As
Deadly Flu Sweeps Country, Koch-Backed Group Fights Paid Sick Leave Policies
Nationwide. DemocracyNow
| EPA
The
EPA debunked Administrator Pruitt’s latest climate misinformation. ... Until
Pruitt deleted the EPA climate webpages. Guardian
Five things Pruitt
can do to cripple the EPA. ... The new administrator and President Donald Trump
are expected to move quickly to begin unraveling the agency's rules on water and
climate change. Politico
EPA's
Pruitt moves to roll back over 30 environmental regulations in record time. Trump's
infrastructure plan aims to sweep away 'inefficient' environmental reviews. ...
Trump’s plan would threaten endangered species or fragile habitats with limits
for environmental reviews. Guardian
EPA Administrator
Scott Pruitt Fails Another Senate Test. Intercept
Banned
from the banking industry for life, a Scott Pruitt friend finds a new home at
the EPA. Trump
Pick For EPA’s No. 2 Accused Of Abusing Power To ‘Bully’ And ‘Intimidate’
Opponents. ... As a Senate aide in 2005, Andrew Wheeler went after state air pollution
regulators for opposing his boss’s bill. RELATED: Trump Infrastructure
Plan Decried as 'Scam' Designed to Keep US Stuck in 'Dirty and Destructive Past'.
... "This is a plan to shore up the infrastructure of the past, rather than
invest in what we need for the future." |
February 15, 2018
“It’s
Hard to Believe, But Syria’s War Is Getting Worse”: World Powers Clash
as Civilian Deaths Soar. DemocracyNow
'Morally
Bankrupt' Budget: After $1.5 Trillion Gift to Rich, Trump Demands $1.7 Trillion
in Safety Net Cuts. CommonDreams
Do
You Like Paying Tolls? You’re Gonna Love Trump’s Infrastructure Plan.
... The proposal would allow more states to toll interstate highways. HuffPost
Congress
introduces record number of bills to prevent people from taking industry to court.
... Congress races to protect industry from lawsuits. ThinkProgress
While 'Not the Worst' of His Crimes, Israeli Police Call for Indicting Netanyahu
on Corruption Charges. ... Observers note Israel "won't put him on for war
crimes and crimes against humanity, but hey, guess it's something." CommonDreams
Netanyahu
Is Now Weak and Vulnerable and His Political Partners in Israel Know It. ...
The police sewed up Netanyahu from head to toe – a hermetic seal, at
least in the eyes of a layman - which won't suffice with a public reprimand. Haaretz
Harvard’s
Laurence Tribe Has Become a Deranged Russia Conspiracist: Today Was His Most Humiliating
Debacle. Intercept
AHED TAMIMI (Wiki) |
February 14, 2018
Hostis humani generis
"At
Its Core, Anti-Fascism Is Self-Defense": An Interview With Mark Bray. ...
this ultra-nationalist Donald Trump came to the fore because he rightly believed
that this brand of bombastic, far-right politics would sell. Under different circumstances,
he might have chosen to present himself as more of a laissez-faire "globalist,"
but the wind wasn't blowing in that direction. TruthOut
John
Kelly’s true self and ICE’s mission creep: Tyranny is spreading. ...
Darkest side of the Trump agenda: Kelly reveals his true colors and ICE seeks
to join the intelligence community. Salon
Exclusive:
Resistance Grift – How Scott Dworkin Turned the Resistance into a Personal
Payday. Progressive
Army
A
crisis for human rights': new index reveals global fall in basic justice. ...
More than 70 of 113 countries surveyed for latest Rule of Law Index report their
fundamental human rights are being eroded. Guardian
Racist Bullying? Religious School In Texas Argues Courts Can’t
Intervene. ... A religious school is being sued after it punished alleged racist
harassers with one-day suspensions. HuffPost
Food
Researcher Reveals Why She Turned Vegan After Investigating The History of Pork.
rchaeologist Dr Pía Spry-Marqués tells of how researching the relationship
between humans and pork turned her off animal products for life. Independent
John
Kelly's True Self and ICE's Mission Creep: Tyranny Is Spreading. TruthOut
Directorate
S: Steve Coll on the CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan &
Pakistan. DemocracyNow
Vietnam’s
Lessons and the U.S. Culture of Violence. CounterPunch
Jim
Risen Goes Inside the NSA’s Secret Channel to Russia. Intercept
Sweden
tried to drop Assange extradition in 2013, CPS emails show. ... UK prosecutors
tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from doing so, exchange shows. Guardian
February 13, 2018
The
Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs. ... Oligarchic rule, as Aristotle pointed out, is
a deviant form of government. Oligarchs care nothing for competency, intelligence,
honesty, rationality, self-sacrifice or the common good. They pervert, deform
and dismantle systems of power to serve their immediate interests, squandering
the future for short-term personal gain. ... The late stage of every civilization
is characterized by the sophistry of oligarchs, who ravage the decaying carcass
of the state. CounterPunch
A
Southwest water dispute reaches the Supreme Court. ... Why a fight over groundwater
has left farmers in New Mexico feeling stranded.
High Country News
The
GOP Infrastructure Plan: Worse Than Nothing? CounterPunch
Scores
of Democratic Lawmakers Join GOP to Back Budget Bill with No Protection for DREAMers.
DemocracyNow
Lawrence
Wilkerson: I Helped Sell the False Choice of War with Iraq; It’s Happening
Again with Iran. DemocracyNow
Senate
Republicans Kept Provision to Fight High Drug Prices Out of Spending Bill, Democrats
Say. Intercept
Rand
Paul and the Sleepover Shutdown: A Three-Act Farce. ... (Friday aorund 12.30am...)
The federal government shut down, the Senate passed the budget bill, the House
passed the Senate's bill, the Dreamers got screwed and the Tea Party movement
evaporated like a wholly unnoticed fart. TruthOut
California
police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show.
... Officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists and sought their help
to target counter-protesters after a violent 2016 rally, according to court documents.
Guardian
February 12, 2018
U.S.
Secretly Negotiated With Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents — and the Russians
Offered Trump-Related Material, Too.
Intercept
The
Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck
The extra help unemployed people got during
the Great Recession has emboldened states to mistreat them. HuffPost
Here
are 5 important reasons you should never agree to a police search — even
if you’re innocent RawStory
We
the People, Trumped by Constitution and Capitalism. CounterPunch/Street
Democrats
and Republicans: United on Glorifying Authoritarian Systems. CounterPunch
Why
‘Russian Meddling’ is a Trojan Horse. CounterPunch
Sorry,
Russia Is Not the Biggest Threat to Our Elections—Facebook and YouTube Are.
... Silicon Valley algorithms help spread conspiracy theories peddled by sloppy
American journalists.
AlterNet
NEXT
- THE LOOTING SOCIAL |
Weekend of February 9-11, 2018
Dark
Money Then, Trumpocalypse Now. ... it wasn’t the Russians that brought us
Trump, but the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits. TruthDig/Hedges
Citing
U.S. Prison Conditions, British Appeals Court Refuses to Extradite Accused Hacker
Lauri Love to the U.S. Intercept
U.S.
Military Launches Broad Investigation of SEAL Team 6 After Green Beret Killing
in Mali.
Intercept
In
1974 Call to Abolish CIA, Sanders Followed in Footsteps of JFK, Truman. Intercept
Trump's
interest in Afghanistan tied to heroin production. Respect
Archiving
the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Drug
War and a Phantom $500 Million: Pentagon Watchdog Calls Out Two Commands for Financial
Malfeasance. TruthOut
Fake
news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study. ... University of Oxford
project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’
on Facebook and Twitter. Guardian
Related: Why the
hysteria around the 'fake news epidemic' is a distraction. ... The biggest obstacle
to having an informed electorate isn’t fake news, but the profit-hungry media
seeking clicks and eyeballs.
Guardian
Is
the Pentagon Endorsing Trump’s War on Democratic Institutions? ... The president’s
plans for a military parade have sinister implications.
AlterNet
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