NOVEMBER 1 THROUGH 9
 WEEKEND
OF NOVEMBER 9-11, 2018 Even
the FBI Thinks Police Have Links to White Supremacists — but Don’t Tell
the New York Times. ... The problem is that the framing of the New York Times
Magazine piece ignores the deep and historic links between policing and racism.
Intercept
Related:
U.S. Law Enforcement
Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism.
Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It. ... For two decades, domestic counterterrorism
strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere
of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized. NY
Times The
Awful Reason Police Don’t Go After Right-Wing Extremists. CounterPunch
The
unsettling connection between the military and white supremacy. The
Daily Dot The
new acting attorney general wrote an op-ed slamming Robert Mueller. ... So much
for the rule of law. ThinkProgress
Trump
Following the Hungarian Model in Demonizing Refugees and Jews. CounterPunch
Hate
Speech at Homeland Security.
CounterPunch
GUNS
IN AMERICA America's
gun culture in 10 charts. BBC
How
US gun culture compares with the world in five charts. CNN
What's
the Solution to Gun Violence in America? ... Parsing the robust (if seemingly
gridlocked) debate. The
Atlantic |
House
Progressives Will Have to Fight Like Hell Against the Establishment. TruthDig
Democrats’
win of the House creates a dam that can block Trump's agenda. ... Republicans
expanded their majority in the Senate, but the Democrats’ win means they
can provide a legislative check on Trump’s presidency for the first time.
Guardian
Here
are the 5 ways Democrats could manage not to screw this all up -- and win big
in 2020. RawStory
Attorney
General has repeatedly refused to rule out prosecuting or jailing journalists.
Press
Freedom Tracker 
NOVEMBER
8, 2018 ACLU
comment on Sessions resignation: “Jeff Sessions was the worst attorney general
in modern American history."Make
Trump Great Again: Pelosi on Democra ts now running the House next year 'must
stand our ground' but will seek compromise with Trump. Chris
Hedges on Elections, “Christian Fascists,” and the Rot Within the American
System. Intercept Has
America Gone Insane? ... What does United States
of America stand for nowadays if political division is at an all time high? Is
it still the land of the free if America has the highest rate of incarceration
in the world? Are we still the home of the brave if we refuse to stand up to injustice,
because it would compromise our pocketbook? This disconnection from reality is
the definition of psychosis. TruthDig
Related:
American
Psychosis The
Midterm Results Gave Everybody Just Enough to Keep Fighting. ... The failure to
deliver a knockout blow to Donald Trump will exacerbate tensions within the Democratic
Party, torn between its progressive and centrist wings. Intercept
Noam
Chomsky on Midterms: Republican Party Is the “Most Dangerous Organization
in Human History” DemocracyNow/Chomsky
The
Complete Collapse of Congress as a Democratic Institution. TruthDig
The
CIA Democrats:
Part
One -
Part
Two -
Part
Three Someone
Paid Thousands Of Foreigners 20 Cents Each To Hide HuffPost’s Negative Coverage
Of A Democratic PAC. ... HuffPost’s story about End Citizens United dropped
to the second page of Google search results from right near the top. HuffPost
Watch
the film the Israel Lobby didn't want you t o see. Electronic
Intifada
YouTube:
Banned
Documentary part 1-2 of 4
Banded
Document ary part 3-4 of 4
(2007)
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps ... From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history
shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy
constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration
seem to be taking them all Guardian
NOVEMBER
7, 2018 Georgia
Voters File Last-Minute Lawsuit to Stop Republican Brian Kemp From Counting Ballots
in His Own Race ... "It would be improper, unfair, and contrary to the due
process of law for Kemp to have the power to certify the winners of the 2018 elections."
CommonDreams
The
Election Is Only Half the Battle: Challenges of Progressive Governance. TruthOut
The
Other Murderous Gulf. ... The disastrous regional adventurism and ruthless despotism
of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has averted Washington’s
gaze from the UAE’s own responsibility for the carnage that is roiling the
region. Carnegie
Endowment US
rebuffs Europeans over ensuring Iran sanctions exempt food and medicine. ... British,
French and German ambassadors jointly tried to persuade US to outline how humanitarian
supplies could be guaranteed. Guardian
The
only thing Trump seems to fear is running out of fear itself. ... The economy
is booming but it is less Morning in America, more Recurring Nightmare. Truly,
this is a Fox News election, Guardian
The
U.S. Military’s Empire of Secrecy. TruthDig
U.K.
Scientists Risk Prison to Urge Climate Action. TruthDig
WATCH:
Ahead of Midterms, 'Rigged' Exposes GOP's 10-Year Effort To Sabotage Democracy
by Undermining Voting Rights. ... "The suppression of American voters is
something we thought our country had moved past, and yet here we are in the 21st
century still engaged in this battle over fundamental rights."
CommonDreams
|
CLICK BAIT Trump
Turns On Fox News And Tells Aides To Make Whatever They’re Saying A Law.
Go
>> ICE
Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents
Begging Him Not To Take Their Child. Go
>> Report:
Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life.
Go
>> |
The
Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case that could nuke the separation of church
and state. ... Get ready for a whole lot more religious icons in government buildings.
ThinkProgress
Right-Wing
Groups Are Recruiting Students to Target Teachers. When the threatening
letters started to arrive, Albert Ponce stopped letting his daughter touch the
mail. TruthDig
NOVEMBER
6, 2018 Democrats
will likely win the House, and *should* win the House, given traditional midterm
voting patterns. They will then exploit that to proclaim that they're doing really
well, are structurally sound, and no fundamental changes are needed to their collapsing
party. - Glen GreenwalsA
curious condition of a republic based roughly on the original Roman model is that
it cannot allow true political parties to share in government. What then is a
true political party: one that is based firmly in the interest of a class be it
workers or fox hunters. Officially we have two parties which are in fact wings
of a common party of property with two right wings. Corporate wealth finances
each. Since the property party controls every aspect of media they have had decades
to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools
that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism. - Gore
Vidal
Scum
vs. Scum. ... One-fourth of Democratic challengers in competitive House districts
in this week’s elections have backgrounds in the CIA, the military, the National
Security Council or the State Department. Nearly all candidates on the ballots
in House races are corporate-sponsored, with a few lonely exceptions such as Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, members of the Democratic Socialists of America
who are running as Democrats TruthDig/Hedges
How
“centrists” became everything they loathed and ridiculed about the left.
Medium
The
next decade is on the ballot in 2018
To reverse Republican gerrymandering,
Democrats must win key races this fall. Vox
'Instilling
Fear in the 11th Hour': Experts Warn Trump DOJ Poll Monitors Being Sent to Intimidate
Voters, Not Protect Them. ... "Attorney General Jeff Sessions does not have
his eyes set on voter suppression but is instead exploiting this moment to push
a false narrative about voter fraud.". CommonDreams
Crisis
for American Democracy': It's 2018, in the Richest Nation on Earth, and Voting
Machines Still Distorting Elections. ... "Voting machines that flip votes
don't need to be hacked by a malicious foreign actor to undermine public confidence
in the integrity of our democracy. That's being done for Americans, by Americans."
CommonDreams
Joseph Stiglitz: 'America should be a warning to other countries'. ... In his
lead-up to his Australian visit, the renowned economist warns of the triple threat
of rising inequality, the undermining of democracy and climate change. Guardian
Socialism
and the Ballot. CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky Argues the 'Revival of Hate' Fueled by Trump's Rhetoric Extends Back to
Ronald Reagan. ... "The roots lie in what has happened to the general population
over the past 40 years." AlterNet
'One
of the Biggest Fraud Cases Ever': Trump Biographer David Cay Johnston Uncovers
Rudy Giuliani's Alleged Role In Massive $10 Billion Theft. ... The complaint is
aimed at uncovering the full details of Russian money flowing to various Trump
projects using so-called anonymous wealth companies. AlterNet
Trump
wants voters to think the US economy is booming - is it? ... From trade wars to
tax breaks, the administration is claiming credit for a booming economy ahead
of the midterm elections - could it help him win? --- But what kind of jobs have
been added? Wage growth has lagged behind jobs growth since the recession, suggesting
that the kinds of jobs the US is adding are lower-waged and that, thanks in part
of the decline of unions, employers still have the upper hand in pay negotiations
despite the tight labor market.
Guardian
'Straight-Up
Racist Incitement': Trump Campaign Ads, Warn Critics, Easily Mistaken as Neo-Nazi
Propaganda. ... "This could be a video tweeted out from a far-right, neo-Nazi
group," tweeted journalist Mehdi Hasan. "But it was tweeted out by the
president of the United States." CommonDreams
NOVEMBER
5, 2018 Noam
Chomsky Explains How 'Criminally Insane' Republicans Quietly Filed 'The Most Evil
Document In History' ... The Republican philosophy seems to be "let’s
rob while the planet burns, putting poor Nero in the shadows." AlterNet
Don’t
be fooled by Trump’s caravan rhetoric – it’s much more profitable
to incarcerate migrants than to stop them at the border. ... The multibillion
dollar private immigration detention industry has spent millions lobbying the
president and congress to make sure that the government doesn’t invest in
more efficient, effective and humane measures. Independent
What
Debate? Some Strategic Electoral Considerations. CounterPunch/Street
Noam
Chomsky: Members of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created
by the U.S. DemocracyNow
Energy
Transfer: New Name, Same Oil Spills and Violence Against Protesters. TruthOut
Religious
Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims. ... South Carolina
governor Henry McMaster moved to protect Miracle Hill and other agencies that
want to to discriminate against Jews and others and continue to receive government
funding. ReWire
News Can
ICE Legally Force Immigrants to Cheer for Donald Trump? Intercept
ENVIRONMENT Stop
biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN ... The world
has two years to secure a deal for nature to halt a ‘silent killer’
as dangerous as climate change, says biodiversity chief. Guardian
'We've
never seen this': massive Canadian glaciers shrinking rapidly. ... Glaciers in
the Yukon territory are retreating even faster than expected in a warming climate,
scientists warn. Guardian
Collapsing
Rainforest Ecosystems.
CounterPunch Humanity
has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds. ... The huge
loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilization, say
the world’s leading scientists. Guardian
How
Capitalism Stokes the Far Right and Climate Catastrophe. TruthOut
'We
Have Less Time Than We Thought': Alarming New Study Shows Oceans Have Retained
Far More Heat Than Previously Believed. ... "The planet warmed more than
we thought. It was hidden from us just because we didn't sample it right. But
it was there. It was in the ocean already."
CommonDreams
New
UN Report Warns of Impending Catastrophe as World Warms, Glaciers Melt. TruthOut
Trump’s
EPA concludes communities don’t have the right to know about potentially
toxic emissions. ... Industry supporters describe potentially toxic emissions
as "normal odors" from animal waste. ThinkProgress
|
Praising
Openly Fascist Bolsonaro as 'Like-Minded,' John Bolton Hails Brazilian Strongman
as Welcome Ally in Crushing Latin American Left. ... "This is frankly terrifying.
A wave of fascism is sweeping the globe, led by Trump and his malevolent, unhinged
cronies." CommonDreams
Related::
Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media, CounterPunch
China
is committing ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang – it's time for the world to stand
up. ... Beijing needs to be held to account. On Tuesday, a UN meeting
provides other nations with that chance Guardian
WEEKEND
OF NOVEMBER 2-4, 2018 WEEKEND
READ:
Writers
Under Surveillance - The FBI Files. Writers are dangerous. They have
ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of
them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under Surveillance
gathers some of these files, giving readers a surveillance-state perspective on
writers including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag,
and Hunter S. Thompson. MIT
Press
Trump’s
Endless Mendacity and the Dawn of American Fascism . TruthDig/Street
Global
Internet Freedom Plummets as Governments Use Censorship and Surveillance to Quash
Dissent. ... New Freedom House analysis warns that the rising popularity of China's
model of controlling information online threatens democracy worldwide CommonDreams
(2016)
How Obama’s Normalization of the Brazil Coup Prefigured Trumpism. ... The
terms he has used to describe the impending Trump presidency are pretty much the
same ones his State Department used to condone Brazil’s putsch. The
Nation Republicans
have their advertising strategy for 2018 locked down: Racism and sexism. Daily
Kos The
Trump Economy Is Not What It Appears.
TruthDig
MILITARY The
Pentagon's Cunning Plot to Militarize the Economy. TruthDig
Related:
America’s Military-Industrial Base Is at Risk - And here’s
what the White House is going to do about it.
NY
Times The
Insidious Myth of the Magical American Soldier. TruthDig
The
Military’s Justification for Sending Thousands of Troops to the Border Is
the Opposite of the Truth. Intercept
The
Sinister Reason the U.S. Persists in Waging Losing Wars. TruthDig
A
Glimpse Into the U.S. Warfare State Abyss TruthDig
Warning
Trump Making US Soldiers Props in Racist Border 'Stunt,' Veterans Call on Active-Duty
Troops to Refuse Orders to Deploy. ... "These extremely poor and vulnerable
people are desperate for peace. Who among us would walk a thousand miles with
only the clothes on our back without great cause?" CommonDreams
|
Trump’s
Love Affair With Violence in the Age of Fascist Nihilism. TruthOut/Giroux
NOVEMBER
1, 2018 The
Lessons for Western Democracies From the Stunning Victory of Brazil’s Jair
Bolsonaro.
Intercept
As
Bolsonaro Threatens to Criminalize Protests, a New Resistance Movement Is Emerging
in Brazil. DemocracyNow
As
Handful of Billionaire Families Grab Nation's Wealth for Themselves, New Report
Details How Dynasties Rig US Economy. ... "Today's extreme wealth inequality
is perhaps greater than any time in American history. This is largely the result
of rapidly growing wealth dynasties and a rigged economy." CommonDreams
Bombshell
lawsuit depicts Trump family as ‘a racketeering enterprise that defrauded
thousands of people’: NYT. RawStory
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President? ... A careful reading of court filings suggests
the special counsel hasn’t been quiet. Far from it. Politico
Tax
Havens and Other Dirty Tricks Let U.S. Corporations Steal $180 Billion From the
Rest of the World Every Year. Intercept
Neoliberalism
is dead. Now let’s repair our democratic institutions. ... It’s never
been a more exciting time to support a bigger role for government. So, what to
nationalise? Or should we think even bigger?
Guardian
Why
a Neoliberal Society Can’t Survive.
CounterPunch
What
billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest ... A new
study reveals how the wealthy engage in ‘stealth politics’: quietly
advancing unpopular, inequality-exacerbating, highly conservative policies. Guardian
Billionaires
Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History. TruthOut
|
CLICK BAIT Trump
Turns On Fox News And Tells Aides To Make Whatever They’re Saying A Law.
Go
>> ICE
Agent Decides He Wants Kids After Seeing Incredible Love And Devotion Of Parents
Begging Him Not To Take Their Child. Go
>> Report:
Students Who Take Latin Have Better Chance Of Summoning Demon Later In Life. Go
>> |
I live
among the neo-Nazis in eastern Germany. And it’s terrifying. ... Chemnitz
is the tip of an iceberg. Media equivocation and a failure to prosecute hate crimes
has made the far right stronger. Guardian
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NOVEMBER 12 THROUGH 21
NOVEMBER
21, 2018 It’s
Time for America to Reckon With the Staggering Death Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars.
The
Intercept Trump’s
Military Deployment to the US-Mexico Border Is Illegal. TruthOut
Big
Oil v the planet is the fight of our lives. Democrats must choose a side. ...
The industry has political supremacy even in left-leaning states, but immediate
action can hold off an environmental state of emergency. Guardian
Related:
The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us.
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker
around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse. Guardian
|
CLICK BAIT
High School History Textbook Concludes With Little Blurb About Last 40 Years.
Go
>> New
Study Finds Reading Comprehension Down Amongst Dumb Fucks Perusing This Headline
Go
>> Trump
Hacks Through Thick Central American Jungle In Search Of Entirely New Ethnic Group
To Demonize. Go
>> |
The
Global Extinction Rebellion Begins. TruthOut
 Al
Jazeera host corners Trump supporter on president’s lies like few American
journalists ever have.
RawStory
White
evangelicals will never dump Trump — but their power is shrinking as people
flee organized religion. RawStory
Filipino
Reporter Maria Ressa on Duterte’s Targeting of the Press & How Facebook
Aids Authoritarians. DemocracyNow
Vermont
Immigrant Rights Group Sues ICE for Monitoring, Infiltrating & “Hunting
Down” Organizers. DemocracyNow
This
is the everyday mechanical mechanism that could define consciousness. ... It sounds
like something hippies might have dreamed up. AlterNet
Related:
Navigating our thoughts: Fundamental principles of thinking. ScienceDaily
NOVEMBER
20, 2018 Are
We About to Face Our Gravest Constitutional Crisis? ... “Trump knows once
the Democrats control the House, they can subpoena the records of his administration,”
....... “He’s going to want to get this over with, even if it sparks
a constitutional crisis, while the Republicans still control the Congress. There’s
little doubt this will all come to a head before the Christmas holidays. TruthDig/Hedges
Picture
This  Pelosi’s
Deceptive Plan: Blocking any Tax Rise Could Rule Out Medicare-for-All and Bolstering
Social Security. CounterPunch
Your
Tax Dollars At Work: On the Utterly Lunatic Chimera of "Mission Enhancing
Capabilities". CommonDreams
AMAZON Amazon
Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market.
... The company is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf
those of earlier empires.
The
Nation
Related: The Scam at the Heart of New York’s Amazon Deal.
... New York is struggling with competing housing, education, and transit crises.
So why is it giving billions to a voracious mega-monopoly? The
Nation Amazon
HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What the Company
Claimed, New Study Shows. The
Intercept Amazon
headquarters auction another example of corporate welfare. Rabble
Amazon’s Long Game Is Clearer Than Ever. ... Why bother with these middling
steps in between? Let’s just fast-forward to the inevitable Amazon-led oligarchy.
Rolling
Stone Amazon
Deal: New York Taxpayers Fund World Biggest Sex-Toy Retailer. CounterPunch
|
This
2014 interview of Trump’s acting attorney general is beyond belief. ... It's
like he just started spouting random phrases he heard at a Federalist Society
convention. ThinkProgress
Donald
Trump and the Counterrevolutionary War. Intercept
Save
the U.S. Postal Service: Here's the corrupt scheme to privatize a precious American
institution — and why we have to stop it. ... It's yet another scheme to
tear down government's good works. AlterNet
NOVEMBER
19, 2018 The
War Over Words: Republicans Easily Defeat the Democrats. ... Republicans have
been winning the “war over words” for years. First, the hard core political
right wingers symbolically claimed the Bible and the American flag, turning them
upside down. To them the Bible meant anything but the Golden Rule and compassion
for the “poor,” so frequently noted in the Scriptures. They brandished
the flag as a patriotic symbol to gag dissent, as a bandanna for waging war crimes,
and as a fig leaf to hide the shame of their cruel domestic policies in the US CounterPunch/Nader
JULIAN
ASSANGE - WIKILEAKS The
DNC’S Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks Poses a Serious Threat to Press Freedom.
Intercept
Justice
Department Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: WSJ. ... DOJ
expects to soon prosecute Assange, who has been living in London, reports The
Wall Street Journal. HuffPost
WikiLeaks
Lawyer Warns U.S. Charges Against Assange Endanger Press Freedom Worldwide. DemocracyNow
Snowden
Speaks Out for Assange: 'If You Would Deny a Thing to Your Enemy, It Is Not a
Right'. ... "You cannot support the prosecution of a publisher for publishing
without narrowing the basic rights every newspaper relies on," says NSA whistleblower.
CommonDreams
The
Dangerous Rush to Judgment Against Julian Assange. TruthDig
(2011)
Wiki war: 3500 unpublished leaks destroyed forever as Assange hits out. The
Age |
NYT Investigation:
How Facebook Used a Republican Firm to Attack Critics & Spread Disinformation.
DemocracyNow
The
‘Pelosi Problem’ Runs Deep. TruthDig
The
Adelsons gave $100 million to the GOP; now Miriam Adelson is getting the Medal
of Freedom, Daily
Kos Related:
Trump’s blatantly political use of pardons and Medals of Freedom WaPo
Brexit
Chaos: With Tory Government in Shambles, Jeremy Corbyn Demands Theresa May Withdraw
'Half-Baked' Brexit Deal. ... Labour leader warns Prime Minister's deal "risks
leaving the country in an indefinite halfway house without a real say."
CommonDreams
Weekend
of November 16-18, 2018 WEEKEND
READ -
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking review
– God, space, AI, Brexit. ... This absorbing posthumous book draws
on essays, lectures, speeches and the questions the physicist was so often asked.
Guardian
Available
at $12.09 -
Book Depository Justice
Department Says It’s Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange:
WSJ. ... DOJ expects to soon prosecute Assange, who has been living in London,
reports The Wall Street Journal. HuffPost
To
beat Trump, House Democrats need to fight on policy, not just scandals. ... Trump’s
weakness is policy. Can Democrats exploit it? Vox
The
Threat to Nancy Pelosi’s Speakership Is Suddenly Serious. ... Her antagonists
have her full attention. Slate
To
Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines,' New Indivisible Guide Details How
Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense. ... "We can set the
legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness,
and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."
CommonDreams
ON
FASICISM Signs
of Creeping Fascism Are All Around Us. TruthDig/Street
The
Midterms Did Not Stop the March of Fascism, But We Can. TruthOut
As
hate crimes rise, a bill to combat the problem languishes in Congress. ... The
bill could help improve how much we know about the state of hate crimes in America.
ThinkProgress
|
Republicans
Used a Bill About Wolves to Avoid a Vote on Yemen War. ... Republican leaders
in the House of Representatives undercut a bipartisan effort to end U.S. involvement
in Yemen by sneaking a measure that would kill an anti-war resolution into a vote
about wolves. Intercept
Related:
By Blocking Yemen Resolution, House GOP Is Abdicating Its Duty to Decide
War & Peace. DemocracyNow In
the Wake of the Blue Wave: the Midterms, Recounts, and the Future of Progressive
Politics.
CounterPunch
Here’s
why you aren’t hearing about the civilians the U.S. is killing in Yemen.
... Under the Trump administration an increasing number of civilians are being
killed by U.S. drone strikes. ThinkProgress
NOVEMBER
15, 2018 Amazon's
Billion-Dollar Shakedown of America's Cities. TruthDig
Related: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon’s Corporate
Welfare. National
Review And
As Jeff Bezos Earns $191K Per Minute, Why Are NY & VA Giving Amazon
$3 Billion in Corporate Welfare? DemocracyNow
“An
Incredible Victory”: Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline Praise Judicial Order
Blocking Construction. DemocracyNow
Psychiatrist
Justin Frank on Trump’s “God complex”: He is “erotically attached
to violence”
Author of “Trump on the Couch” suggests therapy:
Trump struggles against “fear of his inner chaos,” and needs help. Salon
There
are many new signs that Donald Trump is mentally deteriorating. ... It is hard
to avoid the idea that there is a pattern to all of this. AlterNet
Israel’s
latest strikes on Gaza were deliberate attempts to prolong the suffering of Palestinians
– and the world has fallen for it. Independent
The
midterm results are challenging racism in America in ways you wouldn’t think.
... Many of the decisions made during the midterms were more vital in their effect
on people’s lives than the choice of elected representative in Congress.
Independent/Cockburn
Related:
Don't be fooled. The midterms were not a bad night for Trump Republicans
lost many races, but they still held on to most of their positions. And Trump
will see that as a victory. Guardian
Nancy
Pelosi Wants to Find “Common Ground” With Donald Trump. But Her Job
Right Now Is to Fight Fascism. Intercept
You
Probably Never Heard About These 500 Missing And Murdered Women. ... Native women
and girls disappear in life, data and the media, a new report argues. HuffPost
Millions in danger of food
insecurity due to severe Caribbean droughts. Science
Daily
NOVEMBER
14, 2018 Gaza
Is Already Unlivable: A Response to Israel’s Deadly Airstrikes Targeting
TV Station & Homes. DemocracyNow
Veterans
Resist: Deploying Art to Oppose Militarism. TruthOut
Related:
Veterans taking action
against militarism and endless wars. About
Face Should
We Do Away With Veterans Day Altogether? TruthDig
Interior
department whistleblower: Ryan Zinke hollowed out the agency. ... At first I kept
an open mind about Trump’s interior secretary. But it soon became clear he
put the oil, gas and mining industry above our mission. Guardian
This
neuroscientist details the 14 distinct cognitive flaws that lead people to become
hard-core Trump supporters. ... These people would follow Trump off a cliff. AlterNet
This
Country Is on Track to Be Run by Billionaires' Kids. TruthDig
|
CLICK BAIT Study
Finds Only 20% Of Seminary Graduates Go On To Become God Go
>> United
States Sends Laos Bill For 80 Million Undetonated Bombs Still Left In Country
From Vietnam War Go
>> Conservative
Floridian Enjoys Living Under Sharia Law More Than He Thought He Would Go
>> |
Tropical
Trump Declares War on Amazonia. ... When it comes to planetary carnage, Trump
(Amerika’s president) is facing strong competition. Brazil’s new president
Jair Bolsonaro aka “Tropical Trump” will likely outdo Amerika’s
destroy the EPA Trump.
CounterPunch
Top
Issues for Voters: Healthcare, Economy, Immigration. (Note: voters still don't
consider climate change as critical to survival) Gallup
NOVEMBER
13, 2018 Who’s
the Real American Psycho?. NY
Times Crucifying
Julian Assange. TruthDig/Hedges
Related: Killing
the Messenger: Truth in a Time of Universal Deceit. ... The murder of Jamal Khashoggi,
the case of Julian Assange, and freedom of the press CommonDreams
Military
“Service” Serves the Ruling Class. ... One cannot serve both the one
percent and the 99 percent as their interests are at odds with each other. Although
many join for righteous reasons, actions speak louder than intentions. Actions
of the U.S. military has always been death, destruction, anguish of the working
class, and entitlements for the elites. When the ruling class benefits it’s
always at the expense of the poor. CounterPunch
Badge
of Shame: the Government’s War on Military Veterans. “For soldiers
serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.”
- Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston. CounterPunch
Israel
Denounced for 'Cowardly' Attack After Late-Night Raid and Bombing of Gaza Kills
7 Palestinians. ... "Imagine if Palestinians crossed into Israel and killed
Israelis, all hell would break loose but Palestinians are expected to just accept
this." CommonDreams
American
History for Truthdiggers: Tragic Dawn of Overseas Imperialism. TruthDig
(2001)
Iraq: the great cover-up. John
Pilger Behind
Pentagon Efforts to Rewrite the Vietnam War. TruthDig
Evangelical
pastor details how he expects Trump’s foreign policy to ‘kick-start
the end times’ ... Nate Pyle also tells Newsweek that evangelicals appreciate
that Trump seems to prioritize protecting Christians’ religious liberties.
AlterNet
Republican
Operative Goons Are Trying to Pull Another ‘Brooks Brothers Riot’ in
Florida’s Recount—But So Far They Can’t Get Inside the Door. ...
Efforts to pursue a complete count of the votes cast continue in south Florida,
in spite of GOP panic. AlterNet
NOVEMBER
12, 2018 Chris
Hedges on Elections, “Christian Fascists,” and the Rot Within the American
System. Intercept
Related:
Feinstein amendment doubles down on NDAA's assault on constitutional rights ...
While US government lawyers persist in defending the menacing Section 1021 in
court, a Senate initiative makes matters worse. Guardian
and
Feinstein-Lee NDAA Amendment Passes,
But Is It Enough? New
American
and
Posse Comitatus Wiki
Why
Democrats Are So Okay With Losing. CounterPunch
Half
of white women continue to vote Republican. What's wrong with them? Some 53% of
white women voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election – the
real story of white women voters is both more grim and more complex than the figure
reveals Guradian
Half
Million Killed by America's Global War on Terror 'Just Scratches the Surface'
of Human Destruction. ... "This new body count signals that, far from diminishing,
the war is only intensifying." CommonDreams
Most
of the World Does Not Like U.S. Foreign Policy. ... But disregard for world opinion
- as well as the opinion of the U.S. citizenry - defines the U.S. government.
AlterNet
Marine
Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics. ... Patriot Front formed
after Charlottesville, and leaked messages reveal members are getting trained
like they’re in boot camp. Daily
Beast Democratic
Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: We Need to Confront Trump’s Creeping
Authoritarianism. DemocracyNow
In
'Loud and Clear' Rebuke of Factory Farming, California Passes World's 'Strongest
Animal Welfare Law'. ... While some animal rights advocates argue Proposition
12 won't prevent routine cruelty, its passage "clearly shows pro-animal-rights
voter sentiment." CommonDreams
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NOVEMBER
22 THROUGH 30
WEEKEND OF NOV.30
to DEC. 2, 2018 Weekend
Read:
Brief
History of Neoliberalism -
by David Harvey. ... Neoliberalism - the doctrine
that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all
human action - -has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much
of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, ...
tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how
it proliferated on the world stage. Powell's
Demands
for Trump Labor Secretary to Resign After 'Jaw-Dropping' and 'Enraging' Story
About a Sweetheart Deal for Billionaire Pedophile. ... "It is horrifying
that Acosta would be a member of good society again, let alone in the line of
succession to the presidency." CommonDreams
Related:
He was over 50.- They were little girls. - Their stories were almost identical.
- The evidence was substantial. Miami
Herald Ralph
Nader: Congress Belongs to Corporate Autocrats. TruthDig/Nader
Fourth
National Climate Assessment
Global
Change
Download
Summary To
Tackle Climate Crisis, Says Bernie Sanders, US Must 'Be Bold and Aggressive in
Standing Up to Greed of Fossil Fuel Industry' ... "We have got to rally the
American people. The scientific community has made it 100 percent clear... this
is a major crisis facing this country and our planet." CommonDreams
New
analysis of solar and wind should put the natural gas industry on notice. ...
Renewables to capture two-thirds of the $10 trillion the world will invest in
new generation through 2040. ThinkProgress
Julian
Assange Faces Federal Charges. But Let’s Not Forget What We’ve Learned
From WikiLeaks.... As the U.S. reportedly closes in on Julian Assange, a look
back at WikiLeaks’ biggest stories.
HuffPost
Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case. ... Forget Jim Acosta. If you’re
worried about Trump’s assault on the press, news of a Wikileaks indictment
is the real scare story.
Rolling
Stone
U.K.
and Ecuador Conspire to Deliver Julian Assange to U.S. Authorities. TruthDig
The
Politics of the Viciousness: the US After the Midterms. CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky: How the US “Politically Vulgarizes” Genocide and War Crimes.
... The US has never used the terms genocide or war crimes to define its own historical
and current actions. TruthOut
Noam
Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived. CounterPunch
Conservative
nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2
million. Washington
Post Trump
has only distributed a fraction of promised bailout funds for farmers hurt by
tariffs. ... Less than $900 million of a $12 billion bailout program has actually
been given to U.S. producers. ThinkProgress
How
America’s Perpetual Warfare Abroad Is Fueling an Increase in White Supremacist
Violence in U.S. DemocracyNow
Saudi
Arabia accused of torturing women’s rights activists with electric shocks
and flogging. ... President Trump did not respond to these developments, but did
thank Saudi for lower oil prices. ThinkProgress
The
Neo-Nazis in Canada’s Military.
CounterPunch
Members
of Migrant Caravan Are Fleeing from Misery & Horrors Created by the U.S. DemocracyNow
Here's
how the philosophers of selfishness came to use Christianity as their cover story.
... The gospel of selfishness in American Christianity.
AlterNet
Barack
von Obamenburg, Herr Donald, and Big Capitalist Hypocrisy: On How Fascism Happens.
CounterPunch
NOVEMBER
28, 2018 It
Is Possible Paul Manafort Visited Julian Assange. If True, There Should Be Ample
Video and Other Evidence Showing This. Intercept
Assange
Never Met Manafort. Luke Harding and the Guardian Publish Still More Blatant MI6
Lies.
Craig
Murray New
Law Could Give U.K. Unconstitutional Access to Americans’ Personal Data,
Human Rights Groups Warn. Intercept
CIA
chief targets WikiLeaks and Julian Assange as ‘hostile,’ vows to take
action. McClatchy
Research
predicted this wave of right-wing domestic terrorism. Republicans tanked the report.
... Then-Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) blasted Janet Napolitano for insulting "American
citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation."
ThinkProgress
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CLICK BAIT The
Hitlergate Hearings. Go
>> Facebook
Just Filled With Crazy Idiots Now.
Go
>> Jimmy
Kimmel Tricks Trump Fans Into Believing He’s Deporting Statue Of Liberty.
Go
>> |
After
Visiting Brazil’s Lula in Prison, Noam Chomsky Warns Against “Disaster”
Under Jair Bolsonaro. DemocracyNow
Brazil's
new foreign minister believes climate change is a Marxist plot. ... Ernesto Araújo
has called climate science ‘dogma’ and bemoaned the ‘criminalisation’
of red meat, oil and heterosexual sex. Guardian Friends
of the Israel Defense Forces Gala Raises Record $60 Million for Soldiers. Variety
The
Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized. Intercept
End
Times for American Liberalism.
CounterPunch
The Destruction of Higher Education Today. CounterPunch
Romanticism’s
Revenge: From Vegetarianism to Nazi Animal Rights. CounterPunch
There's
no such thing as humane meat or eggs. Stop kidding yourself. Guardian
NOVEMBER
27, 2018 Neoliberalism's
Dark Path to Fascism . ... Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity.
It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of
kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch. None of its vaunted promises
were even remotely possible. TruthDig
The
Counterinsurgency Paradigm: How U.S. Politics Have Become Paramilitarized.
Intercept
Noam
Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP’s Climate
Change Denial. DemocracyNow
Business
as Usual: Washington’s Regime Change Strategy in Venezuela. CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky destroys ‘criminally insane’ Trump administration. ... “It’s
as if we’re kind of like the proverbial lemmings just happily marching off
the cliff." AlterNet
Georgia
Senator Nikema Williams: Black, Female and Under Arrest. Greg
Palast Heil
Trump': Members of the Alt-Right Are Looking Forward to a Whiter America. ...
The alt-right's premiere think tank held a conference over the weekend to hose
some of the most famous white supremacists in the world. This is what they said.
Vice
Nationalism,
Religion and Sports Have Captivated the Working Class. Why Hasn’t Socialism?
CounterPunch
Shooting
Pepper Spray at Children Okay, Former CBP Deputy Chief Tells Fox News, Because
'You Could Actually Put It on Your Nachos and Eat It'. ... "The layers of
racism encapsulated in this short clip is extraordinary." CommonDreams
The
Price for Criticizing Israel.
Consortium
News
UK
PARLIAMENT "MOTION" That
this House is alarmed by the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as
Brazil's president; notes his support for the former dictatorship in Brazil and
his remarks that it should have killed tens of thousands of more people; further
notes his statements in favour of torture and extrajudicial police killings; expresses
its deep concern over his recent remarks for a purge of political rivals in a
cleansing the likes of which has never been seen in Brazilian history; rejects
his threatening remarks against working class organisations, women, Brazil's large
black population, homeless people, the LGBT community and non-governmental organisations;
notes that the former President Lula was favourite to win the presidential election
until he was jailed and barred from standing in a move condemned by the UN Human
Rights Committee; notes that Judge Moro who carried out that investigation into
Lula has, since the election, accepted appointment by Bolsonaro to be Brazil's
Minister of Justice; calls for Lula's release; and expresses its support with
Brazilians defending democracy, human rights and social progress |
NOVEMBER
26, 2018
WAR
- IS WHAT DEFINES US
A
March to Disaster: Noam Chomsky Condemns Trump for Pulling Out of Landmark Nuclear
Arms Treaty. DemocracyNow
The
US military prepares for global combat — while still trapped in a Middle
Eastern quagmire of its own creation. ... "It is often said that, in an Orwellian
sense, every nation needs an enemy to unite and discipline its population."
AlterNet
Costs
of War: 17 Years After 9/11, Nearly Half a Million People Have Died in Global
“War on Terror” DemocracyNow
Daniel
Ellsberg: The Cold War Was Based on a Lie. TruthDig
How
America’s Perpetual Warfare Abroad Is Fueling an Increase in White Supremacist
Violence in U.S. DemocracyNow
American
History for Truthdiggers: A Savage 'War to End All Wars,' and a Failed Peace.
... America wasn’t supposed to get in the war. When the country finally did,
it was to be a war “to end all wars,” to “make the world safe for
democracy,” one in which, for once, the Allies would seek “peace without
victory.” How powerful was the romantic and idealistic rhetoric of Woodrow
Wilson, America’s historian and political scientist turned president. None
of that came to pass, of course. No, just less than three years after the outbreak
of the Great War in August 1914, the working classes of the United States would
join those of Europe in a grinding, gruesome, attritional fight to the finish.
In the end, some 116,000 Americans would die alongside about 9 million soldiers
from the other belligerent nations. TruthDig
Despite
Apec drama, China is winning the fight for the Pacific, step by patient step. ...
The US and its would-be allies, including Australia, lack a coherent, joined-up
plan to counter Beijing’s growing sway. Guardian
Will
the new House Dems take on the War Lobby? CounterPunch
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Thieves
Like Us: the Violent Theft of Land and Capital is at the Core of the U.S. Experiment.
CounterPunch Corporate
PACs Took A Beating In The Election. Now They Want More Power. ... Courting Democrats
and veteran journalists is part of their strategy. HuffPost
WEEKEND
OF NOVEMBER 23-25, 2018 sWhere
are the voices of indigenous peoples in the Thanksgiving story? ... As we consider
history and its place in our schools, it is important to ask: how do state-mandated
history standards represent indigenous peoples in social studies education? AlterNet
This
Thanksgiving, The Trump Administration Is Taking Land From The Tribe That Welcomed
The Pilgrims. ... The Pilgrims would have died without the Wampanoag’s help.
But Trump and his administration are arguing that the tribe is not Indian enough
to keep its reservation status.
HuffPost
'Absolute
Disgrace': When No One Looking, White House Plans to Dump Major Climate Report
on Black Friday. ... The administration just announced Wednesday that the National
Climate Assessment Volume II would be released Friday afternoon. CommonDreams
With
GOP Once More Running Economy Into the Ground, Time to Start Worrying About the
Next Crash. ... Ten years after the start of the Great Recession, it’s important
to understand that the real root of the collapse wasn’t a banking crisis.
It was the growing imbalance between consumer spending and total output –
brought on by stagnant wages and widening inequality. CommonDreams
The
Biggest Threat to Free Speech No One Is Talking About. Truthdig
Lobbyist
Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare for All”.
Intercept
Romanticism’s
Revenge: From Vegetarianism to Nazi Animal Rights. CounterPunch
Related:
List of famous vegetarians Wiki Break
up Facebook (and while we're at it, Google, Apple and Amazon). ... Big tech has
ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes
the former US labor secretary. Guardian
A
Georgia nightmare: This woman was jailed for 4 months for possessing cotton candy.
... Cops said their roadside drug test said it was meth. It’s far from the
only time the cops or the test has been wrong. AlterNet
NOVEMBER
22, 2018 Noam
Chomsky: Moral Depravity Defines US Politics. TruthOut
Trump’s
Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old “U.S. Values”
and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies. Intercept
Right
on Cue, Saudi Foreign Minister Uses Trump's Remarks to Legitimize Kingdom's Denials
About Khashoggi Murder. ... "We have the president of the United States saying
the reports of the CIA report are not accurate," said Saudi Foreign Minister
Adel al-Jubier. CommonDreams
Saudi
Arabia accused of torturing women’s rights activists with electric shocks
and flogging. ... President Trump did not respond to these developments, but did
thank Saudi for lower oil prices. ThinkProgress
. Netanyahu’s
Ceasefire is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned. CounterPunch
Who's
Really Leading the Democratic Rebellion Against Pelosi? TruthDig
The
Mainstream Media Is Lying About the California Fires. TruthDig
The
Indictment of Julian Assange Is a Threat to Press Freedom. ... If the First Amendment
means anything, it is the right to obtain public-interest information from impure,
indeed hopelessly tainted, sources. The
Nation Journalist
James Risen: Trump Is Attacking Free Press 'In a Way We Haven't Seen in Modern
American History'. ... "I think the Acosta incident is... a symbol of an
attempt to discredit not only CNN but the entire press corps."
CommonDreams
‘What
lane now?’: Internet slams NRA for shooting at Mercy Hospital — after
they told doctors to ‘stay in their lane’
RawStory Donald
Trump’s fascist politics and the language of disappearance. ... Trump’s
language seems buffoonish, but he’s no clown. His rhetoric is meant to destroy
thought and democracy.
Salon/Giroux
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