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Seriously,
How Dumb Is Trump? TruthDig
How
the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica’s Electoral Psyops Campaign.
CounterPunch
Students
Await Judgment in Suit Over Fordham University Banning of Pro-Palestine Club. Kushner
Under Fire for Receiving $30M From Israeli Firm While Shaping Middle East Policy.
... "Are you comfortable with having Jared Kushner be the beneficiary of
huge amounts of Israeli financing at the same time he's overseeing U.S. foreign
policy on Israel?" CommonDreams
Israel
Step Closer to Making Jerusalem Jewish-Only City. CounterPunch
A
Reminder for the Left: Trump Is a Fig Leaf for the GOP's Horrific Policies. TruthOu
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Rather have
Pence than Trump? Mike
Pence Is the Koch Brothers’ Manchurian Candidate. PodCast/Intercept
|
Should We Be Wary
of Algorithms?
NPR/Ted
Talk 
Related: “Black Mirror” Reveals Our Fear of Robots and Algorithms
We Can’t Control. Intercept
Global
debt: Why has it hit an all-time high? And how worried should we be about it?
... Who has all this debt? Who is it owed to? What does this level of indebtedness
mean? Independent
“An
Idiot Surrounded by Clowns”: Why Trump (Still) Sits in the White House. CounterPunch
he
God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion’s Fatal Flaw. Religion
Dispatches
The Palestine
Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US. ... This report,
released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September
2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian
human rights advocacy in the United States.
Center
for Constitutional Rights
The Biggest
Secret. ... My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror.
Intercept
Weekend of January 5-7, 2018
Weekend
Read:
The Nixon Effect, The Money Cult, Ratf**ked
“The Nixon
Effect: How Richard Nixon’s Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics,”
a book by Douglas E. Schoen; “The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and
the Unmaking of the American Dream,” a book by Chris Lehmann; “Ratf**ked:
The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy,”
a book by David Daley, all reviewed by Allen Barra. Amazon
Start the year of right: What is Beauty? NPR
Sea
Level Rise Projections Double, Painting Terrifying Picture for Next Generation.
TruthOut
The
CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American
Writers
“They drank the Kool-Aid and thought they were saving freedom."
AlterNet
'There
Will Be Bloodshed': Warnings as Israel Tightens Grip of Occupation. ... "What
was winked and nodded about before is now being acknowledged publicly: 'We have
no intent of sharing this land with anybody else except as a barely tolerated
minority.'" CommonDreams
Fordham
Students Sue over Free Speech Rights to Establish Students for Justice in Palestine
Group. DemocracyNow
Florida
anti-union bill targets teachers, but not law enforcement. ... The bill would
decertify unions where less than 50 percent of members don't pay dues. ThinkProgress
Bombs
in your backyard. Military
Pollution
Trump Jr. slams liberal universities in speech.
The
Hill
Donald
Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign. Tom
Hartmann
Proposal by France's Macron to Ban "Fake News" Denounced as Recipe for
Disaster. ... Calling the term one ripe for "abuse," a warning that
French president is "exploiting it to obtain government control over the
internet" CommonDreams
January 4, 2018
Glenn Greenwald on Trump-Russia Probe: Be Skeptical of Spy Agencies with History of Lying & Deceit. DemocracyNow
Is Facebook
Operating as an Arm of the Israeli State by Removing Palestinian Posts? DemocracyNow
Hundreds
of Smart Phone Apps are Monitoring Users Through Their Microphones.
Independent
How
the Interrogation of Reality Winner Reveals the Deceptive Tactics of “Exceedingly
Friendly” FBI Agents. Intercept
America's
Health Care System Is an International Disgrace, and It's Only Getting Worse.
... Until we confront this reality, we can expect more preventable deaths and
unnecessary suffering. AlterNet
Acting
ICE director wants to ignore Constitution, arrest local leaders for sanctuary
city policies. ... Tom Homan might want to do some legal research.
ThinkProgress
January 3, 2018
Are the Wars in Syria and Iraq Finally Coming to an End? CounterPunch
American Consumers
Are Dead Meat With The New Judiciary. Ring
of Fire
Student
Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young. TruthDig
This
Is What Pseudo-Democracy Looks Like. ... Oligarchy prevents democracy. That explains
the gist of why the United States became more undemocratic in 2017. TruthDig
With
New D.C. Policy Group, Dems Continue to Rehabilitate and Unify With Bush-Era Neocons.
Intercept
Judge
orders biggest corporate bribery trial in history against Shell, Eni, CEO and
executives.
Global
Witness
Against
Identitarian and Generational Divide and Rule. CounterPunch
Trump plan to shrink ocean monuments threatens vital ecosystems, experts warn.
... Ryan Zinke has recommended three major marine monuments be reduced to allow
greater commercial fishing, prompting anguish from environmental groups. Guardian
January 2, 2018
The
Visionless Society.
Chris
Hedges
Tax bill
and your tuition: Here's what to expect.
CNN
‘Trumpism’
is ingrained in white America. When he goes, it will remain. ... The Republican
party’s leader is no anomaly, he’s a voice for its deep-seated radicalised
base who suddenly find themselves in the mainstream. Guardian
How Sweden
Became a Thriving Base of neo-Nazi Ideology. ... While
Nazi criminals were hanged or committed suicide in their cells, a secret network
operating out of Malmo made sure the Nazi idea stayed alive. Haaretz
Should
White Supremacists Be Allowed To Practice Law? ... The legal profession is supposed
to weed out people who aren’t morally fit to be lawyers. But they let neo-Nazis
in. Huffy
$180bn
investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge. ... Colossal funding
in manufacturing plants by fossil fuel companies will increase plastic production
by 40%, risking permanent pollution of the earth. Guardian
Concerns
Raised About $1 Billion Facial Scan Program with High Error Rate at Nine U.S.
Airports. DemocracyNow
As
Trump Attacks Media with “Fake News” Claims, a Record 262 Reporters
Are Jailed, 46 Killed in 2017. DemocracyNow
January 1, 2018
Help for Struggling Millionaires is on the Way. CounterPunch
Facebook Says
it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments.
... In September of last year, ... Facebook representatives were meeting with
the Israeli Government to determine which accounts of Palestinians should be deleted
on the ground that they constitute “incitement.”
Intercept
Seymour
Melman and the New American Revolution: a Reconstructionist Alternative to a Society
Spiraling into the Abyss. CounterPunch
Lorde's
stand on Israel does her credi.
New
Zealand Herald
Saudi
Arabia Pressured Lebanese Prime Minister To Resign: Report. ... The high-stakes
gambit backfired amid international uproar. Huffy
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights, ,,, A tutorial from policy aide
Brian Hook followed the secretary of state's controversial remarks about balancing
U.S. values. Politico
With
New D.C. Policy Group, Dems Continue to Rehabilitate and Unify With Bush-Era Neocons.
One of the most under-discussed yet consequential changes in the American political
landscape is the reunion between the Democratic Party and the country’s most
extreme and discredited neocons. While the rise of Donald Trump, whom neocons
loathe, has accelerated this realignment, it began long before the ascension of
Trump and is driven by far more common beliefs than contempt for the current president.
Intercept
Trump’s
interior secretary seems to be a nexus between shady government deals, private
spies and white supremacists, RawStory
Jill
Stein in the Crosshairs: the Russia Investigation Shifts to Clinton’s Political
Rivals.
DemocracyNow
.
.
|
JANUARY 11 THROUGH 21 
Weekend of January 18-21, 2017
“It’s
Even Worse Than You Think”: David Cay Johnston on Trump’s First Year
in Office. DemocracyNow
Twitter
Rock Star Obama’s Silence Must Delight Trump. CounterPunch/Nader
Pentagon Reportedly
Weighing Using Nukes In Response To ‘Large Cyberattacks’ . ... A draft
of the Defense Department’s new nuclear strategy says the U.S. could respond
to certain “non-nuclear attacks” with nuclear weapons. HuffPost
Tillerson Calls For Indefinite US Military Presence In Syria To Remove Assad.
... In a speech at Stanford University, the secretary of state spelled out a US
plan to advance a political transition in Syria to oust Bashar al-Assad. BuzzFeed
The
Business of Bullshit. CounterPunch
National
Security Insanity. TruthDig
Trump's
Inauguration Money Is Still Missing One Year Later: Report. ... A number of charities
have yet to receive the funds they were promised. AlterNet
FBI
investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump. McLatchyDC
Lazy
Liberals and “the Trump Effect”. ... Liberals and other Democrats are
getting dumber by the day. I keep running into them and hearing the same story
over and over: things are bad because Trump is the president. CounterPunch
|
THUMPER THE CLOWN'S LOOT |
The
Right-Wing Scandal Machine Is Now Targeting Mueller and the FBI. ... And that
poses a serious threat to the separation of powers and the rule of law.
The
Nation
Americans
have enormous faith in the military, very little in public schools. The
Week
Pentagon
Reportedly Weighing Using Nukes In Response To ‘Large Cyberattacks’
... A draft of the Defense Department’s new nuclear strategy says the U.S.
could respond to certain “non-nuclear attacks” with nuclear weapons.
Huffington
These
18 Senate Democrats Just Voted to Hand Trump Mass Spying Powers. ... "Members
of both parties who voted in favor of this legislation should be sharply rebuked
for supporting a bill that is in flagrant violation of the rights enshrined in
the Constitution." CommonDreams
January 17, 2017
Democrats'
bewildering decision to hand President Trump more surveillance powers. The
Week
Centrist
Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight
White Man in Power. Intercept
‘Is
whistleblowing worth prison or a life in exile?’: Edward Snowden talks to
Daniel Ellsberg. Guardian
Notes
From a “Shithole” Superpower. ... The Democrats, it should be noted,
have signed on fully to Trump’s increase in U.S. military spending. CounterPunch
The
Way We Live Now. Craig
Murray
Dawn of
the Dead: Why American Politics Can’t be Reformed. CounterPunch
Trump
Administration Skews Terror Data to Justify Anti-Muslim Travel Ban. Intercept
The
Justice Department Helped a County Prosecutor Target the Facebook Records of Anti-Pipeline
Activists.
Intercept
January 16, 2018
Yesterday’s
‘Shithole Countries’ Can Become Classy Places Donald, and Vice Versa.
CounterPunch
Beyond
Reform, Toward the End of Policing: An Interview With Alex Vitale TruthOut
After
bonus announcement, Walmart fires thousands of co-managers, replaces them with
cheaper workers. ... The move comes after the mass closure of its Sam's Clubs
stores. ThinkProgress
Democrats
and the End(s) of Politics.
CounterPunch
"Fascism and the Rise of Trump." YouTube
Centrist
Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight
White Man in Power. Intercept
Bibi’s
Son (Or Three Men in a Car). CounterPunch
Does Racist Donald Trump Believe That Black People Are inferior To White People? Tom Hartman/YouTube
Typewriters
Still Smoking? An Interview with Underground Press Maven John Campbell McMillan.
CounterPunch
January
15, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wiki
Official Government
website
"I Am Not Your Negro"- about James
Bladwin
(Also on many PBS stations)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 speech in New
York. In this speech, he opposes violence and militarism, particularly the war
in Vietnam. YouTube
What
Trump has undone. WaPo
Hedges
and (sociologist) Derber on the Failures of the American Left. Text and Video
Glen Greenwal: I'm excited to see which Dem. Senators who have spent the year calling Sessions a corrupt racist & Trump a treasonous Kremlin-loyal authoritarian will now provide the key votes to empower them to domestically spy with no safeguards. See two articles below:
Secret
Evidence and the Threat of More Warrantless Surveillance. ... US Government Is
Pushing for Law But May Be Hiding Its Impact. Human
Rights Watch
US:
Secret Evidence Erodes Fair Trial Rights. ... Government Hides Investigative Methods
from Accused.
Human Rights Watch
“Gaza:
An Inquest into Its Martyrdom”: Norman Finkelstein on the Many Lies Perpetuated
About Gaza.
DemocracyNow
TORTURE DOCUMENTS RELEASEDFrom the National Security Archive Background
- (Sources Glen Greenwald and NSA): In 1964, the US helped overthrow Brazil's elected left-wing govt & replaced it with a brutal military dictatorship that ruled for 21 years. That US-supported regime murdered & tortured dissidents (including Dilma Rousseff - another left-winger). US lied for years about its coup role. Documents slowly released over the last decade show that the torture techniques used against dissidents by the US-supported military dictatorship in Brazil were far more extreme and brutal than previously known. Many died in prisons. Now, a new book is being released by a Brazilian historian that uses newly discovered documents to show that it was the UK Govt that played the key role in training the Brazilian military dictators how to use the worst torture techniques. The worst part of this horrific story is what these documents prove were UK's motives in training Brazil to torture: 1) it would help UK weapons manufacturers to sell arms and weapons to Brazil and 2) they used Brazilians as guinea pigs to learn how best to torture N. Ireland militants. The book - titled ""Secrets of State: The British Government and Torture in Brazil (1969-1976)", by professor João Roberto Martins Filho, is based on correspondence at the highest levels of the UK Govt. It shows the real face of the UK (and US) in the world. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Torture techniques revealed in declassified U.S. Documents. ... DIctatorship-era
records given by Vice-President Biden to President Rousseff detail "Psychophysical"
systems of torture, secret executions.. ... 43 State Department records made public
by Brazilian Truth Commission. More
Here Declassified
documents show US roll in overthrow of Brizilian president Joao Goulart ("left-wing"
president of Brazil until US sponsored coup in 1964). ... President Johnson urged
taking "every step that we can" to support overthrow of Joao Goulart.
... US Ambassador Requested Pre-positioned Armaments to aid Golpistas; Acknowledged
covert operations backing street demonstrations, civic forces and resistance groups.
More
Here “We
Don’t Consider You (Nick Turse) a Legitimate Journalist” — How
I Got Blacklisted by the Pentagon’s Africa Command. Intercept (For the previous
two months - after The Intercept revealed that Cameroonian troops tortured prisoners
at a remote military base also used by U.S. personnel and private contractors
for drone surveillance and training missions - AFRICOM had ignored my emails and
phone calls) |
Weekend of January 12 - 14, 2018
No
More Worshiping of the Military. CounterPunch
As ICC
Considers Probing Israel for War Crimes, U.S. Moves to Defund U.N. Palestine Refugee
Agency.
DemocracyNow
THE WRECKING CREWDonald
Trump’s man on the Hill ... Trump's pick to lead his legislative efforts
in Congress is a soft-spoken, self-effacing Hill operator - in short, the opposite
of his brash and bombastic boss. Politico
Internal
document reveals Trump's strategy on ObamaCare changes. ... An internal Trump
administration document shared with Republican lawmakers last year shows officials'
plans to change ObamaCare through administrative actions, in what Democrats say
is evidence of “sabotage” of the health law. The
Hill The
Administration Plan to Sabotage the ACA
How the Government Hides Secret Surveillance Programs. ... Cops create an alternative
story for how they found information to hide surveillance techniques from public
scrutiny and would-be criminals. Wired
|
Taking
Short Break From Denouncing Trump Authoritarianism, House Dems Join With GOP to
'Violate the Privacy Rights of Everyone in United States'. ... "Democratic
leadership in the House—who say that Trump is currently abusing his power
to go after his political enemies—just helped him pass dangerous domestic
surveillance powers." CommonDreams
Trump
Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa. NY Times. ... President
Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would include protections
for people from Haiti and African countries, demanding to know at a White House
meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather
than people from places like Norway, according to people with direct knowledge
of the conversation. NY
Times
Walmart
Pulls 'Diabolical' and 'Devious Two-Step' By Pairing Wage Hikes With Mass Layoffs.
..."Politics at its most cynical" is how one analyst described Walmart's
attempt to claim wage hikes were a result of the GOP tax plan. CommonDreams
January 11, 2018
Challenging
Trump's Language of Fascism
TruthOut/Giroux
OPRAH - ARE YOU SURE?Oprah
Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers. ... Oprah is
appealing because her stories hide the role of political, economic and social
structures in our lives. They make the American dream seem attainable. Guardian
Get
a grip, people. Oprah should not run for president. WaPo
Celebrity
politicians are a sign of our political decline - Oprah Winfrey isn’t the
first celebrity to be floated as a presidential candidate. And she won’t
be the last. Guardian
Oprah
could run. Oprah could win. Is America going insane or coming to its senses? ...
America woke up Monday (after the Golden Globes) with a crazy idea in its addled
brain: Oprah Winfrey could be the next president of the United States.WaPo
Oprah
Winfrey for president? The idea reveals an uncomfortable truth. ... During the
2016 elections, Democrats insisted that competency is essential in any presidential
candidate. That is sounding more than a little hypocritical now. Guradian
Oprah
for President? ... Winfrey's inspiring Golden Globes speech has many wondering
if she'll run in 2020 – a notion that shouldn't be rejected out of hand.
Rolling
Stone |
Divided,
We Stand: Golden Globes Sets the Tone for Faux Feminism in 2018. CounterPunch
Israel
Sets Up Secret Firm With Top Ex-generals, Envoys for Online 'Mass Awareness' Campaign
'To Fight Delegitimization' ... Among the shareholders are former UN ambassador
Dore Gold and ex-generals Amos Yadlin and Yaakov Amidror. The new initiative will
not be subject to the Freedom of Information Law. Haaretz
January 10, 2018
When
Are Journalists Foreign Agents? (Video)
TruthDig
Capitalist
Fluctuation and the Partisan Presidential Praise and Blame Game. CounterPunch
Trump
Booed at Davos After Tirade About 'Mean, Vicious, Fake' Media. ... According to
one reporter in attendance, it was a group of foreign journalists that kicked
off the booing. CommonDreams
Constitutional
Q&A: The Legality of Stop and ID Procedures. Rutherford
“Show
Me Your Papers!” Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card. CounterPunch
#BailoutCaucus:
These 11 Senate Democrats Are Joining GOP in Effort to Dismantle Wall Street Regulations
... "This breakaway #BailoutCaucus may think their support of this bill will
fly under the radar—only noticed by bank executives and lobbyists giving
campaign contributions. They are wrong.". CommonDreams
INFRASTRUCTURENational
links: Trump’s leaked infrastructure plan makes local governments do the
heavy lifting. Leaked
Trump Infrastructure Plan Ripped as Thinly-Veiled 'Assault on the Environment'.
... "The memo reveals an infrastructure plan that is essentially a giveaway
to corporations at the expense of the American people and our environment."
CommonDreams
Trump’s
leaked infrastructure plan would deepen urban inequality in the US. QZ.com
Trump’s
Leaked Infrastructure Plan Suggests A Future Sell-Off Of Public Land. ... The
president and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have both said they are against transferring
control to states. 'Make
America Christian Again' TruthDig
|
| JANUARY
22 THROUGH 31 January 31, 2018Obama
Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
Intercept
ACLU
to Obama: You Can’t Just Vaporize Americans Without Judicial Process. Mother
Jones UK
mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful. ... Judges say snooper’s
charter lacks adequate safeguards around accessing personal data. The People
vs. the Democratic Establishment: The Coming Attack on Progressive Candidates.
Jay
Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), listens
to a question during an interview at the Securities Industry And Financial Markets
Association (SIFMA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, ...
Oct. 24, 2017. Clayton said the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
are working together on Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)
and swaps rules. ... The Man From Sullivan & Cromwel Under Trump’s SEC,
Wall Street Secrecy Expands as Enforcement Shrinks. Intercept
Instead
of detention, these students get meditation. CNN
|
CALL
IT WHAT IT IS: |
Weekend of January 26-28, 2018
Weekend
Read: The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism
(Critical Interventions) by Henry A Girox. This is one of the first books to thoroughly
critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and globally.
One of the world’s leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of
Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including
the rise of right-wing populism, the threat of planetary peril, anti-intellectual
fervor, the war on youth, a narrowing political discourse, deepening inequality
and disposability, authoritarianism, the crisis of civic culture, the rise of
the mass incarceration state, and more. Amazon
DEVIN
NEUNES THE TRUMP STOOGE |
Democrats Have Hijacked
the anti-Trump Resistance. CounterPunch
After
Spending $20 Million to Pass #GOPTaxScam, Koch Bros to Save More Than $1 Billion
This Year. ... "That's not a bad return on investment: what's $20 million
when you're looking at a billion or more in tax breaks?"
CommonDreams
Release
of Trump infrastructure plan may slip past January. Politico
Related: Leaked Trump
Infrastructure Plan Would Put Onus on States. ... At a time when many state transportation
officials are clamoring for more financial help from Washington, an outline of
the president’s infrastructure plan depends heavily on an influx of state
and private funds.
Governing
Trump
Willing to Answer Special Counsel’s Questions
U.S. President Donald Trump
says he is willing to answer any questions under oath as part of special counsel
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“I am looking forward to it,” Trump told reporters at the White House,
adding, “I would love to do it.”
Media Bias Fact Check
Donald
Trump's tariffs on panels will cost US solar industry thousands of jobs. ... Trump’s
decision to impose a 30% tariff will cost the US around 23,000 jobs and risks
slowing the growth of clean energy, advocates warn. Guardian
Trump’s
solar tariff backfires: It hits red states and U.S. taxpayers harder than China.
... "Southern states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina among
the most impacted." ThinkProgress
Cashing in on Water Crises: Public-Private Partnerships Are Not the Solution.
TruthOut
January 25, 2018
US air
wars under Trump: increasingly indiscriminate, increasingly opaque. ... Lack of
transparency over looser rules of engagement is hallmark of administration.
Guardian
David Cay Johnston:
Trump is Determined to Provoke War to Draw Focus from Racist & Erratic Behavior.
DemocracyNow
Leading
Putin Critic Warns of Xenophobic Conspiracy Theories Drowning U.S. Discourse and
Helping Trump. Independent
Zionist
Censorship on Facebook. Craig
Murray
Nine
Humanitarian Activists Face Federal Charges After Leaving Water for Migrants in
the Arizona Desert.
Intercept
DuPont
vs. the World: Chemical Giant Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination
Across Globe.
emocracyNow
After
"Multi-Billion Dollar Windfall" From #GOPTaxScam, Kimberly-Clark Announces
5,000 Layoffs. ... The personal care company plans to cut about 13 percent of
its workforce a month after the Republican plan lowered its tax rate.
CommonDreams
Robert
De Niro Accused of Exploiting Hurricane Irma to Build Resort in Barbuda. Intercept
Jared
Kushner Is China’s Trump Card
How the President’s son-in-law, despite
his inexperience in diplomacy, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.
The
New Yorker
The
Dead Enders
Candidates Who Signed Up to Battle Donald Trump Must Get Past
the Democratic Party First. Intercept
January 24, 2018
This
is how democracies die. ...Defending our constitution requires more than outrage.
Guardian
With
a Shutdown Surrender, Democrats Left Millions of People Behind. ... Community
health centers that serve millions are in serious danger. The
Nation
Preacher
Pence's Speech to Israel's Knesset Had Everything but Fire and Brimstone. ...
Between the heavenly prophecies and the Christian symbolism, Pence delivered a
more earthly message on status quos and 'required compromises' to achieve peace.
Haaretz
Groundbreaking
Study Maps 'Insidious' (and Alarmingly Successful) Strategy of Anti-Choice Movement.
... The far-right religious fringe "has spent decades building the political
infrastructure they need to attack abortion access from all sides." CommonDreams
'Billionaire
Boom': While World's Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half
Got Zero, Zilch, Nada. ... A new billionaire was created every two days last year
and now, according to Oxfam, just 42 individuals own as much wealth as the world's
poorest 3.7 billion people. CommonDreams
Are
the Supremes About to Give Trump a Second Term?. CounterPunch
Blowback: How U.S. Drones,
Coups, and Invasions Just Create More Violence. Intercept
Democratic
Party Faces Reckoning for Purging Sanders Supporters. DemocracyNow
Israeli
Judge Denies Bail to Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Soldier. DemocracyNow
Key
Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion.
Intercept
The
Trump Administration's Attacks on Public Lands and Waters Will Cause Irreparable
Harm. TruthOut
January 23, 2018
Related:
- The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! Craig Murray
- From 2014: The CIA’s Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication.
Intercept
- The U.S. Media Suffered Its Most Humiliating Debacle in Ages and Now Refuses All Transparency Over What Happened.
Intercept
- L.A. Times Disowns Reporter Outed as a CIA Collaborator. Huffy
Forget
religion — voucher schools are teaching kids what can only be described as
right-wing propaganda.
RawStory
It’s Time to Call
Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes. CounterPunch/Cockburn
A
white guy allegedly detonated 2 IEDs at a mall and the pro-
Trump media shrugged....
But, What would Trump be tweeting if a Muslim did it? ThinkProgress
Trump's
New Health Division Embodies Institutional Oppression,
Not "Religious
Freedom" DemocracyNow
Boss
Tweet’s Generals Already Run the Show.
CounterPunch
The “Big Lie”
About Gaza is That the Palestinians Have Been the Aggressors. DemocracyNow
Palestinian
Teenager Remains Imprisoned Because She "Has No Fear" TruthOut
Related:
Empire Files: Abby Martin Meets Ahed Tamimi -- Message From a Freedom Fighter.
TruthOut
The Amount of
Money America Wastes on Covert Warfare Will Shock You. ... The year in special
ops. AlterNet
Of “Shitholes” and Liberals. CounterPunch
Force
of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir. CounterPunch
Elizabeth Warren Wants
to Know Why a Banned Banker Is a Senior Adviser at the EPA. ....“Given your
troubled financial history, as well as your lack of experience in environmental
policy and regulation, I am concerned that you served as Chairman of the Superfund
Task Force and that you continue to serve as a Senior Advisor at the EPA,”
Warren wrote in the letter.
Intercept
The
New York Times' Latest Effort to Appease Trump Voters Is Its Most Embarrassing
Yet. ... The Grey Lady should hang her head in shame. AlterNet
Dawn
of the Dead: Why American Politics Can’t be Reformed. CounterPunch
January 22, 2018
The
Fake Feminism Of The #MeToo Backlash We’ve been here before. Huffy
No,
Aziz Ansari’s Accuser Is Not Breaking Up #MeToo — The Divisions Have
Been There All Along. Intercept
With
government shutdown, Republicans reap what they sow. It takes a special type of
hypocrite to accuse your opponents of hypocrisy for following in your footsteps.
Guardian
Government
shutdown 2018: what we know so far
The government officially shut down Friday
at midnight, but the House and Senate are still in session this weekend. Vox
Related: Trump official says it’s “kind of cool” to be in charge
of the government shutdown. ... Office of Management and Budget Director Mick
Mulvaney seems strangely excited about his newly-discovered power. Vox
Ten
members of Congress with most to gain or lose from a shutdown. ... Voters have
made it clear for years they’re fed up with Washington’s chaos, and
nothing better illustrates the capital’s disarray than a down-to-the-wire
fight over government spending. McClatchy
The truth about the
new ‘top secret’ memo Republicans can’t stop talking about. ...
Yes, please, release the memo.
ThinkProgress
London Mayor
Sadiq Khan on Donald Trump: He Sounds Like ISIS. ... “It’s either a
hug or an apology,” says Sadiq Khan, recounting how Americans react when
they meet him for the first time. “‘Thank you for standing up to Trump,’
they say, or ‘We are really sorry for Trump.’”.
Intercept
What
is a “Shithole Country” and Why is Trump So Obsessed With Haiti? CounterPunch
The
U.S. Has Treated Poor Countries Like Sh*tholes for Decades. ... Trump's racist
remarks are offensive. The brutal excesses of U.S. foreign policy are worse. AlterNet
CHARTER SCHOOLS
Charter Schools Are Reshaping America’s Education System for the Worse. ...
Charter schools have been hailed as the antidote to public-school dysfunction
by everyone from tech entrepreneurs to Wall Street philanthropists. But a critical
autopsy by the advocacy group Network for Public Education (NPE) reveals just
how disruptive the charter industry has become—for both students and their
communities. NPE
Releases Charters and Consequences: An Investigative Report. .... The Network
for Public Education releases Charters and Consequences, a 48 page report that
is the result of investigations, visits and interviews over the course of a year.
From San Diego, California to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, NPE learned about the consequences
of loosely regulated charter policy and the effects that charters are having on
democratically controlled, true public schools. NPE
Charter
Schools Are Reshaping America’s Education System for the Worse |
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