Weekend
of May 11-13, 2018
' 
This
Is the Moment to Fight': FCC Announces Net Neutrality Will Officially Die on June
11. ... "The FCC thinks it can close the book on net neutrality on June 11.
Show them they're wrong—let's ramp up the Red Alert call for Congress to
preserve the open internet!" CommonDreams
Jeremy
Scahill: Obama Paved Way for Haspel to Head CIA by Failing to Hold Torturers Accountable.
DemocracyNow
Binding
U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture. ... The new Attorney
General just said that Bush officials authorized torture. A treaty signed in 1988
by Ronald Reagan compels the U.S. to prosecute those who authorize torture. What’s
the way out of that? Salon
The
NRA Helped Promote a Gun from Russia That Can Pierce U.S. Soldiers' Body Armor.
.. The organization's moral bankruptcy knows no bound. AlterNet
The
American Deep State. ... An Interview with Peter Dale Scott. Project
Censored
New
NRA President Oliver North slanders anti-gun violence protesters as violent thugs.
... Moments later, the former Iran Contra scandal figure complained that he is
being slandered by the media. ThinkProgress
With Chance to Denounce Torture, Why Have These Democrats Not Said They Are
a "No" on Haspel?. ... "What kind of #Resistance refuses to stop
an actual torturer chosen by Donald Trump from being promoted to head the most
powerful spy agency in the world?" CommonDreams
Half
a Million Pounds of Taxpayers’ Money Bails Out Criminals Jack Straw and Sir
Mark Allen. Craig
Murray
10
Craziest Things in the Senate Report on Torture. ...From 'Rectal Feeding' to mock
executions, the most horrifying revelations about how we abused prisoners after
9/11.
Rolling
Stone
U.S.
Hypocrisy Creates Perpetual Enemies and Forever War. TruthDig
White
House won't rule out banning press for 'negative' coverage. ... Press secretary
declines to back down from Trump’s threat to strip reporters of credentials
if he doesn’t like what they write. Guardian
May
10, 2018
Stranger
than fiction: Deep State, Homeland and post-truth TV. ... With a news cycle that’s
increasingly hard to believe the post-9/11 paranoia of ‘shocking’ shows
like Homeland and Deep State lose some of their punch. Guardian
I Was Targeted
by Black Cube in Dirty Ops Effort Attacking Supporters of Iran Deal.
DemocracyNow
Related: Black
Cube
Trump
kills the Iran deal, and we'll regret it.
Chicago Trib.
Trump
is completely neglecting the agency that enforces sanctions against Russia, North
Korea and Iran. RawStory
Trump’s
Act of American Hubris.... if the US fails to prevent Europe and Asia’s burgeoning
trade with Iran – and I think they will fail – this moment will be seen
by historians as a key marker in US decline as a world power. Craig
Murray
The
U.S. Quietly Released Afghanistan’s “Biggest Drug Kingpin” From
Prison. Did He Cut a Deal? Intercept
De-escalation
With North Korea, Escalation With Iran. CounterPunch
Why
a moron could successfully run Trump’s game plan. WaPo
Switching
Sides: Whitewashing History in the Age of Trump. TruthOut
Junot
Diaz and the Rot That is Bourgeois Culture. CounterPunch
The
NRA Helped Promote a Gun from Russia That Can Pierce U.S. Soldiers' Body Armor.
... The organization's moral bankruptcy knows no bound. AlterNet
May
9, 2018
Trump
Violates the Iran Nuclear Deal — Ignoring U.S. and Israeli Generals Who Support
It.
Intercept
Bibi's
Information Warfare Operation Against America. TruthDig
Karl
Marx as Activist. CounterPunch
The
Blurred Line Between War and Business. TruthDig
What is the true cost of eating meat? ... As concerns over the huge impact on
the environment, human health and animal welfare grow, what future is there for
the meat industry, asks Bibi van der Zee. Guardian
Deep
State 101: A Primer and Prescription. CounterPunch
Trump's
Shameful Choice of 'Bloody Gina'
TruthDig
At
a range rights gathering, the press was in the crosshairs. ... In the era of social
media, far-right activists aim to subvert mainstream journalists.
High Country News
'They
don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour. ... A mother
on the tour told authorities the young men were ‘creepy’ and ‘really
stand out’, causing them to miss the rest of the event. Guardian
Ten
Journalists Were Just Killed in Afghanistan. Please STFU About the White House
Correspondents’ Dinner. Intercept
May
8, 2018
The
Danger of Leadership Cults.
TruthDig/Hedges
Meet
the 2018 Teacher of the Year Honored by Trump Who the White House Doesn’t
Want You to Hear. ... the press was barred from her speech, and President Trump
did not mention who she teaches: immigrant and refugee children.
DemocracyNow
Trump
and Netanyahu May Not Want War With Iran, But They May Fall Into One Anyway.
CounterPunch Related:
Bibi's Information Warfare Operation Against America
CounterPunch
Revealed:
Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal. ... Israeli
agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal
with Tehran. Guardian
Nearly
90,000 Hondurans May Be Deported to Danger and Poverty as Trump Ends Their Protected
Status. DemocracyNow
In
Kurtz’s World. ... Joseph Conrad and the violence of civilization. The
Nation
Writer
Arundhati Roy on Impunity for Rape in India & How Violence Is Used as a Tool
of the State. DemocracyNow
The
Cult of Hunting and Its Timely Demise. CounterPunch
May
7, 2018
“Creating
Wealth” Through Debt: the West’s Finance-Capitalist Road. CounterPunch
Marx's Relevance in Today's World: A Reflection on His 200th Birthday. TruthOut
Making
Finance Pay TruthOut
How
The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today’s Nightmare Politics. ... Breitbart led the
charge, but Democrats delivered the killing blow. Has anyone really learned? HuffPost
Noam
Chomsky and Daniel Ellsburg Discuss the Increasing Threat of Nuclear War -- and
the Disturbing Result of the Syria Strikes Corporate Media Is Ignoring. ... 'A
chronicle of human madness' AlterNet
The
CIA has a long history of torture. Gina Haspel will be perfect for the job. ...
Gven the CIA’s sordid past, the question is not if Haspel rises to the caliber
of the agency but rather if she descends to the dark levels that mark its history.
Guardian
British
Neo-Nazis Are on the Rise — and They’re Becoming More Organized and
Violent.
Intercept
Koch-Backed
Groups Are Selling Trump’s Tax Cuts Door-to-Door Ahead of the Midterms. ...
They’re spending $20 million to convince voters of the benefits of the GOP’s
central achievement. Bloomberg
Weekend
of May 4-6, 2018
Weekend
Read:
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.
... how the seismic aftershocks of the Vietnam War gave rise to a white power
movement whose toxic admixture of violent bigotry, antigovernmental hostility,
and racial terrorism helped set the stage for Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing,
and, yes, the presidency of Donald Trump.” Amazon
New Bipartisan
Bill Could Give Any President the Power to Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military
Detention Forever. Intercept
There's An Uncovered Beltway Story Hiding in Plain Sight -- With Trillions
of Dollars In Play. ... What you are about to read is not about Russia, the 2016
election, or the latest person to depart from the White House in a storm of tweets.
AlterNet
This
bank was under investigation until Trump got elected — and now it’s
involved in multiple Kushner deals. RawStory
"Freedom"
and "Liberty" Were Only for Whites in Settler Colonialism. TruthOut
May
Day 2018: A Rising Tide of Worker Militancy and Creative Uses of Marx. TruthOut
How
to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica.
... It's not easy, but it can be done. AlterNet
May
3, 2018
Probable
Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning. Craig
Murray. Related:
Where They Tell You Not to Look. Craig
Murray
Robert
Mercer and the Tax-Evading Hedge Fund Giving Millions to Republicans and Democrats.
TruthOut
The
Crime of Being Poor and Black. TruthDig/Hedges
Border
patrol violence: US paid $60m to cover claims against the agency. ... Exclusive:
analysis of more than a decade of official data reveals government paid settlements
after deaths, alleged assaults and wrongful detention. Guardian
An
Attack on Immigrant Rights and Press Freedom. TruthDig
Detained
and Then Deported: U.S. Human Rights Lawyers Barred from Entry into Israel. DemocracyNow
Netanyahu:
Don’t Look Here, Where We’re Shooting Children—Look at Iran TruthDig
Proving
Eager to 'Get the War Started,' Pompeo Ramps Up Anti-Iran Rhetoric in Israel and
Saudi Arabia. ... "Less than three years after Iran signed the Iran Deal
and began dramatically cutting back its nuclear program, Israel, Saudi, and the
U.S. are fast coordinating a military attack on Iran." CommonDreams
Uncle
Sam, the Human Rights Hypocrite.
TruthDig
A
Civilization in Collapse, the Dawn of a New Order? CounterPunch
May
2, 2018 Why
dumb people think they know everything. Illawarra
Mercury
“You
Really Should Resign:” Lawmakers Slam EPA’s Scott Pruitt over Mounting
Ethics Scandals. DemocracyNow
Mueller
Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction.
NYTimes
Why
Do So Many Denounce Authoritarianism From Trump and Putin -but Not Israel’s
Benjamin Netanyahu? Intercept
Nuclear
deal: Netanyahu accuses Iran of cheating on agreement. ... Israeli prime minister
claims ‘new and conclusive proof’ shows Iran hid nuclear weapons, though
evidence had been seen by UN watchdog. Guardian
Related: De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran. CounterPunch
Proving
Eager to 'Get the War Started,' Pompeo Ramps Up Anti-Iran Rhetoric in Israel and
Saudi Arabia. ... "Less than three years after Iran signed the Iran Deal
and began dramatically cutting back its nuclear program, Israel, Saudi, and the
U.S. are fast coordinating a military attack on Iran." CommonDreams
Many
Americans Prefer A ‘Higher Power’ To The God Of The Bible, Study Finds.
... But only 10 percent say they don’t believe in any spiritual force.
HuffPost
Here
is how right-wing religious nationalists plan to create a new Christian America.
RawStory
May
1, 2018
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