JULY
20 THROUGH 31
 July
31, 2018 Our
'Rentier Capitalism' Is One More Nail in Earth's Coffin. TruthDig
 Marxism
101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff. YouTube
Conservatives
Hate That the Mueller Probe Is Taking So (2015) Was Rudy Giuliani's father part
of the mob? Colorful and violent family history of NYC mayor famed for his zero-tolerance
approach to crime exposed in new book. Daily
Mail Amid
Deadly Israeli Crackdown on Gaza Protests, Chomsky Says U.S. Must End Support
for “Murderers”. DemocracyNow
Related:
Noam Chomsky Condemns Israel’s Shift to Far Right & New “Jewish
Nation-State” Law. DemocracyNow
Related:
Israel Arrests Italian Artists Who Painted a West Bank Mural of Ahed Tamimi. Palestinian
officials said Israeli border police arrested the two artists who crafted the
large painting, now on display at a separation barrier in Bethlehem. Haaretz
A
New Broadband Network Is Pitching Surveillance Enhancements to Cops Across the
Country.
Intercept
The
Ubiquity of Evil. Craig
Murray The
9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy. ... The class divide is already toxic,
and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem. The
Atlantic Conservatives
Hate That the Mueller Probe Is Taking So Long - but Love When Investigations Into
Police Brutality Drag on Forever. Intercept Liberal
Comfort Blankets. Craig
Murray Harvard’s
Laurence Tribe Has Become a Deranged Russia Conspiracist: Today Was His Most Humiliating
Debacle. Intercept
Accidents at Amazon: workers
left to suffer after warehouse injuries. ... Guardian investigation reveals numerous
cases of Amazon workers being treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable
to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents. Guardian
July
30, 2018 Memo:
Jimmy Carter lamented
the fact that under Trump the US has “lost its place as a human rights leader.”
Of course, the US’s place as a human rights leader has always been eclipsed
by its place as a human rights abuser.Sorry,
Bernie, We Need Radical Change.
CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Spectacular” Victory &
Growing Split in Democratic Party. DemocracyNow
Interference
in US elections has been going on for years. The reason? Voter purges. ... As
ever more voters are delisted, no part of the US is immune from purges –
but every eligible American deserves the right to vote. Guardian
Giuliani,
Bolton Repeatedly Met With Group Formerly Designated a Cult-Like Terror Organization.
TYT
Network The
Elite Fixation With Russiagate. ... Does a broader public share this sense of
crisis?
The
Nation Noam
Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered
in the Trump Era. DemocracyNow
Trump
lawyer uses government action on abortion to raise cash for own group. ... Jay
Sekulow, whose activist group has directed millions to his family, has telemarketers
cite Planned Parenthood ‘investigation’. Guardian
Trump
Doesn't Have the Skill to Pull Off His Most Nefarious Plots. ... Trump will go
down as the most dangerously corrupt and tragically incompetent president in America’s
history. AlterNet
Native
American pipeline protesters enter plea agreements to avoid long prison terms.
... Native Americans were the only protesters targeted by federal prosecutors.
ThinkProgress
Former
Obama Officials Help Silicon Valley Pitch the Pentagon for Lucrative Defense Contracts.
Intercept
Weekend
of July 27-29 Weekend
Read: The True
Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire - by
Stephen Kinzer. ... How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot
decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing
governments. Then we retreat?until the cycle begins again. Review: TruthDig
The Resurgence
of Political Authoritarianism: An Interview With Noam Chomsky. TruthOut
When
Worse is the Enemy of Bad. ... There comes a time in the decline of an empire
when–in its hubris, its arrogance–it decouples from reason and blindly
blunders toward its fate in a ludicrous ugly trance of stupidity. To paraphrase
Walter Cronkite–we are there. CounterPunch
Corporate
Democrats Plan “Counterrevolution” in the Midst of Progressive Success.
ThruthOut
Defending
Land and Environmental Rights Has Become an Increasingly Deadly Endeavor
Nafisa
Eltahir. Intercept
Trump’s
War on the Environment, from Attacking California Fuel Standards to Destroying
Public Lands. DemocracyNow
These
six species are about to be sacrificed for the oil and gas industry. ... Republican-led
changes to the Endangered Species Act put plants and animals across America at
risk. Here are the ones you should be most concerned about.
Guardian
Seymour
Hersh on America’s Capacity for Fascist Brutality. TruthDig
House
Republicans want to impose work requirements on foster kids facing homelessness
... “This is part of an effort to punish low-income people and take away
the support they need to make ends meet." ThinkProgress
Immigrant
Parents Unwittingly Signed Away Right To Reunite With Children, Lawyers Say. ...
Some signed forms thinking they would reunite with their children. Instead,
they agreed to be deported without them. HuffPost
The
Washington Post Thinks It Is a New Idea to Tell People to Worry About Mobility
and Not Inequality. CounterPunch
How
tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse. Guardian
July
26, 2018 This
‘Fox & Friends’ segment about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is beyond
parody. ... "They talk about education for your kids, health care... it was
really uncomfortable." ThinkProgress
Migrant
Children Detained in Shelters Being Drugged, Told Not to Hug, Forced to Bathe
in Sinks. DemocracyNow
Rep.
Ro Khanna’s Fight Against American Election Meddling. ... The Nation speaks
with Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) on his proposed legislation to prohibit US
election interference abroad.
The
Nation Steve
Bannon to set up 'The Movement' foundation to boost far-right across Europe. ...
Donald Trump's former chief strategist wants to 'spark a right-wing revolution'.
Independent
Elections:
More than Half of Americans Believe Fairy Tales are Real. According
to a new poll ... 51% of respondents agree (15% “strongly” and 36% “somewhat”)
with the statement “American elections are fair and open.”. CounterPunch Corporate
Democrats Plan “Counterrevolution” in the Midst of Progressive Success.
TruthOut
Reflections
on Media Gone Russia-Wild. CounterPunch
You
Can’t Vote Out Fascism… You Have to Drive It From Power!. CounterPunch
#QANON
Conspiracy Theorists Are Hunting for 'Child Sex Camps' in the Arizona Desert.
... A veteran’s charity in Arizona is hunting pedophiles in Tucson and asking
the internet for help. Motherboard/Vox
CLICK
BAITTimeline
Of The Democratic Party. Go
> Supporters
Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous
Dictators For Political Gain.
Go
> As
An ICE Agent, The Best Part Of My Job Is Getting To Work With Children. Go
> ABC
Criticized For Unrealistic Portrayal Of Racists Actually Facing Consequences.
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July
25, 2018 A Neuroscientist
Explains How Trump Supporters Are Easily Hoodwinked Because of This One Psychological
Problem. ... Those who score low on political knowledge tend to overestimate their
expertise even more when greater emphasis is placed on political affiliation.
AlterNet
By
suing WikiLeaks, DNC could endanger principles of press freedom. CPJ
Violent
Coup Fails in Nicaragua, U.S. Continues Regime Change Efforts TruthDig
Cold
as Ice (or I.C.E.) Harpers
Koch
Industries Is Staffing Up with Voter Data Scientists to Tip the November Election
to the Extreme Right. CounterPunch
This
Disgusting Scheme to Enrich Cops by Starving Prisoners May Soon Be Scuttled. ...
Alabama’s sheriffs have been getting rich off of prisoners for decades thanks
to pre-World War II statutory language. AlterNet
Trump
and Sessions Don’t Realize That Republican Policies Are Behind the Explosive
Growth of Violent Prison Gangs. ... Republicans who are applauding Trump and Sessions
for being “tough on crime” need to take a close look at the history
of prison gangs in California. AlterNet
Massachusetts
allows school to continue with electric shocks. ... The only US facility using
shocks on children with learning disabilities has fought off another legal challenge.
Guardian
With
No Evidence That #GOPTaxScam Has Benefited Most Americans, Republicans Unveil
Plan to Double Down on Corporate Tax Cuts. ... "The new line from Republicans
in Congress is that Americans are 'better off' because of last year's tax cut,
so we have to extend it. Well, some Americans are better off—people like
me who are wealthy enough to not need work—but most Americans are still struggling."
CommonDreams
Related:
Putting Common Good Over Billionaires and War Profiteers, House Progressives
Introduce "People's Budget" ... The Congressional Progressive Caucus'
plan "invests in our neglected infrastructure, ends the systematic inequality
in our tax system by making corporations pay their fair share, and stops the rising
cost of drugs." CommonDreams
July
24, 2018 U.S.
Pushes Confrontation with Iran: Trump Warns of “Consequences,” Pompeo
Likens Leaders to “Mafia”. DemocracyNow
Amazon
Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money. Forbes
REBUFF: Behold This Disastrously Bad Op-Ed Calling for Amazon to Replace
Libraries. Gizmodo
Trump’s
Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
New McCarthyism. Consent
Factory ALEC
calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy. ...
Documents reveal conservative group's anti-green agenda ... Strategy to charge
people who install their own solar panels ... Environmentalists accuse Alec of
protecting utility firms' profits. Guardian
Read
the transcript of the conversation among GOP leaders obtained by The Post ...The
conversation provides a glimpse at the internal views of GOP leaders who now find
themselves under mounting pressure over the conduct of President Trump. ... The
exchange, which was obtained by The Washington Post, shows that the Republican
leadership in the House privately discussed Russia's involvement in the 2016 election
and Trump's relationship to Putin, but wanted to keep their concerns secret. House
majority leader to colleagues in 2016: 'I think Putin pays' Trump. WaPo
Sanders'
wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it. ...
Party members and fundraisers gathered for an invitation-only event to figure
out how to counteract the rising progressive movement. NBC
News Taking
'Wrecking Ball' to Endangered Species Act, Trump Administration Opens Door for
Corporate Attack on Vulnerable Wildlife. ... If Interior Department's proposals
are approved, "Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary"
CommonDreams
Lawsuit
Challenges Trump’s Massive Offshore Drilling Sale in Gulf of Mexico. TruthOut
Reminder:
Women Migrants Are Fleeing Countries The U.S. Helped Decimate. ... The violence
driving people to seek shelter in the U.S. has its roots in American foreign policy.
HuffPost
Trump Aide Boasted He Was A Kremlin Adviser 3 Years Before Dossier. ... A
2013 letter unearthed by Time magazine appears to undercut GOP claims of FBI bias
against the president. HuffPost
July
23, 2018 FBI
conference’s keynote speech will cover ‘Radical Left-Wing Gangs’.
... Never mind the dozens of examples of far-right violence in recent years. ThinkProgress
House
GOP Blocks Funding for Election Security TruthDig
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 Fake,
misleading social media posts exploding globally, Oxford study finds. McClatchy
‘This
is it for you. You’re fu**ed.’: Inside Trump’s abuse of migrant
kids at an old Walmart. ... From holding cells nicknamed the "hielera"
or icebox, to the supposedly friendlier housing at "Casa Padre," migrant
kids describe a hellscape of cruel guards, sickening food, and psychological torture.
ThinkProgress
Related:
(1897) - Cold as Ice (or I.C.E.?) Harpers
Chaos
Prevails in Immigrant Detention Centers, With Children Under 5 Still Separated
From Parents. Intercept
Salvadoran
Mother Reunited with 3-Year-Old Son Says He Shows Signs of Trauma & Aggressive
Behavior. DemocracyNow
No
Liberal Rallies Yet for the Children of Yemen. CounterPunch
Jewish
Nation-state Law Makes Discrimination in Israel Constitutional. ... The nation-state
law is another step in the direction of annexing the territories, but in reverse:
The territories have annexed the state. Haaretz
After
Warning of 'Large and Painful Military Operation,' Israel Begins Massive Bombing
of Gaza. ... "Israeli snipers shoot and kill scores of unarmed Palestinian
protesters in Gaza, including kids, then calls it self-defense. When a Palestinian
sniper fires at one Israeli soldier, Israel bombs Gaza with F-16s and preps for
all out war." CommonDreams
Weekend
of July 20-22, 2018 Weekend
Read: America: The Farewell Tour - by Chris Hedges. Hedges, the realist and
no-holds-barred award winning journalist and war correspondent gives us the full
antidote to Trump’s and other politicians’ fantasies and sugarcoating
of what Americans are experiencing in this inverted home of the free. Hedges walks
you through the reality of this “other America” blows away the insidious
incense of the pontificating plutocrats and their toady oligarchs. Amazon
Talking
Points Memo:
Will Putin respond by indicting CIA agents for hacking into
Russian computer systems? More
Fear Than Proof of Russian Midterm Meddling—So Far TruthDig
The
USA and Russia: Two Sides of the Same Criminal Corporate Coin. ... Why, man, he
doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his
huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. - Shakespeare,
“Julius Caesar”. CounterPunch
Russiagate
Is Far Wider Than Trump and His Inner Circle. ... It isn’t just the story
of a few corrupt officials, or even a corrupt president. It’s the story of
a corrupt Republican Party. The Nation Mike
Pence Looms As Donald Trump’s Ultimate Poison Pill. HuffPost
PBS
Report from Yemen: As Millions Face Starvation, American-Made Bombs Are Killing
Civilians. Democracy
Now United
States of Arms. Video
'Absolute
Ghoul' Joe Lieberman Emerges From Political Irrelevance to Urge Third Party Bid
Against Ocasio-Cortez. ... "The Democratic Party has a choice: be the party
of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or be the party of Joe Lieberman."
CommonDreams
Here's
Why Mike Pence Is Worse Than Gerald Ford — And Why the Left Should Think
Twice About Calling for Trump’s Impeachment
“We would be begging
for days of Trump back if Pence became president," Omarosa Manigault Newman
once cautioned. AlterNet
Think
GOP Lawmakers Not Unhinged Enough to Endorse Program Called "Kinderguardians"
That Puts Guns in Hands of 4-Year-Old Kids? Watch Them. ... Sacha Baron Cohen's
new show is about to drop and exposed nut-job Republicans are not happy about
it. CommonDreams
Red
Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops. CounterPunch
Kavanaugh
Scorns International Law and Loves Executive Power. Intercept
Walmart
Patents "Big Brother-Style" Surveillance Technology to Eavesdrop on
Workers' Conversations. ... One labor expert warns "there's a lot of potential
for misuse," where a supervisor might determine, "as a cashier you're
too friendly, you're talking too much, and therefore not moving people along,
so let's penalize you." CommonDreams
The
Media Never Mention the No. 1 Cause of Climate Change. TruthDig
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