OCTOBER 10 THROUGH 21
 WEEKEND
OF OCTOBER 19-21, 2018 Weekend
Read:
The Rats Revolt ...There is no American who has fought with
more tenacity, courage and integrity to expose the crimes of corporate power and
to thwart the corporate coup d’état that has destroyed our democracy
than Ralph Nader. Not one. TruthDig/Hedges
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Book website here How
to make a can -
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What
the Mainstream Media Aren't Telling You About Jamal Khashoggi. TruthDig
Saudi
Arabia Financed the Killers of American Troops I Commanded. TruthDig
At
the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations,
Not Governments. ... From massive inequality to the climate crisis, these powerful
corporations "are able to demand that governments do their bidding"
CommonDreams Democratic
Autopsy: One Year Later. ... Progressive momentum could lead to historic breakthroughs
in the midterms and beyond. Realizing such potential will require transforming
and energizing the Democratic Party. The
Nation Robert
Reich: The Economy Is in Much Worse Shape Than It Looks. TruthDig
As
Trump Vows "A Lot of Cutting" After Midterms, Americans Urged to Protect
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at the Voting Booth. ... With Trump's
support, the GOP "has spent the last two years doing everything they can
to reach onto our pockets, steal our money, and give it to their pay masters on
Wall Street." CommonDreams
The
Giant Corporations Behind Your Burgers And Milk Have A Terrifying Climate Secret.
,,, Together, five companies have a climate footprint bigger than Exxon, Shell
or BP, but we don’t talk about it. HuffPost
Anti-Terrorism
Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists. TruthOut
As
Facebook Shows Off Its "Election War Room," A Massive WhatsApp Scandal
Hits Brazil. ... The timing of Facebook's announcement throws into question how
serious the company is about actually fighting misinformation in Brazil's election.
BuzzFeed
As
FBI Whistleblower Terry Albury Faces Sentencing, His Lawyers Say He Was Motivated
by Racism and Abuses at the Bureau. Intercept
OCTOBER
18, 2018
SAUDI
MURDER CONTINUED The
Trail of Clues in the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. NY
Times Jamal
Elshayyal: Response to Khashoggi’s Death Will Determine Future of Saudi Arabia
& Middle East. DemocracyNow
Washington
Post told lobbyist: Quit working for Saudis or stop writing for us. Politico
BEIRUT,
Lebanon -- This summer, Saudi Arabia promised the Trump administration $100 million
for American efforts to stabilize areas in Syria liberated from the Islamic State.
... That money landed in American accounts on Tuesday, the same day
that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for discussions
with the kingdom’s leaders about the fate of a missing Saudi dissident. ...
Rest of the story here: Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance: What We Know
and Don’t Know. NY
Times Saudi
Arabia Delivers $100 Million Pledged to U.S. as Pompeo Lands in Riyadh. NY
Times The
Trump era is full of cruelty without consequence. Washington
Post Jamal
Khashoggi Wasn’t the First — Saudi Arabia Has Been Going After Dissidents
Abroad for Decades. Intercept
MBS’s
rampaging anger will not silence questions about Jamal Khashoggi. Washington
Post When
Saudi Arabia’s Credibility is Damaged, So is America’s. CounterPunch/Cockburn
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Investigation:
As U.S.-Backed War in Yemen Raged, UAE Hired U.S. Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders.
DemocracyNow
A
History of Crushing Dissent: Before Khashoggi, Saudis Targeted Feminists Demanding
Right to Drive. DemocracyNow
Why
Israel’s - and America’s - Legal Justifications for Assassinations Don’t
Add Up. ... The expansion of legal rules around targeted killings by the United
States is one of the most consequential legacies of the post-9/11 era. Under both
the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. government arrogated itself broad
rights to kill individuals far from any battlefield. Intercept
Groups
To Sue Department Of Education For Information On Issue Of Arming Teachers
They
want to know if the NRA had a hand in the agency’s decision to allow schools
to use federal funds to buy guns. HuffPost
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Administration Urges Saudis To Stick To Killing Random Yemeni Civilians. Go
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Saudis
Admit Journalist Khashoggi Died During Botched Assassination Attempt. Go
> ICE
Agent Terrified After Becoming Separated From Team During Immigrant Raid. Go
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America
Is Authoritarian by Design.
TruthDig/Street
OCTOBER
17, 2018 Political
Violence Surges in Brazil as Far-Right Strongman Jair Bolsonaro Inches Closer
to the Presidency. Intercept
Brazil:
the First Republic under threat.
Thomas
Piketty The
Washington Post, as it Shames Others, Continues to Pay and Publish Undisclosed
Saudi Lobbyists and Other Regime Propagandists. Intercept
'You
Couldn't Make This Up': A Bunch of Mops, Cleaners, and Trash Bags Delivered to
Saudi Consulate Ahead of Khashoggi Murder Probe. ... As one reporter joked, "the
way to preserve the integrity of a possible crime scene and bolster confidence
in the investigation is to bring in a bunch of cleaners through the front door
before the detectives arrive." CommonDreams
Former
Saudi Political Prisoner: Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is Sending a Gruesome
Message to Critics. DemocracyNow
Facebook
Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections. CounterPunch
Facebook
Accused of 'Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent' After Independent Media Swept
Up in Mass Purge. ... The massive shutdown affected many progressive sites devoted
to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate
media. CommonDreams
Nation
Warned That Trump's "Horrifying" Medicaid Pick Hired With "Express
Purpose to Dismember" Program. ... Mary Mayhew "destroyed Medicaid in
Maine now she will destroy it in the whole country." CommonDreams
Related:
Former Maine DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew Appointed As Federal Medicaid
Director. Maine
Public Mitch
McConnell Eyes Entitlements After Tax Cuts Failed to Pay for Themselves. ... Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the budget deficit "disturbing."
AlterNet
OCTOBER
16, 2018 American
History for Truthdiggers: Lies We Tell Ourselves About the Old West. ... “They
[the Sioux Indians] are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts and by no means
as people.” —Gen. John Pope, in instructions to his officers during
an Indian war in Minnesota (1862). TruthDig
Israel
Is Captive to Its 'Destructive Process' . TruthDig/Hedges
The
Saudi Atrocities in Yemen are a Worse Story Than the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
GOP
Lawmaker Rips Mic From Democratic Candidate’s Hands During Debate. ... When
he was done talking, Rep. Duane Quam just tossed the mic in front of her. HuffPost
Republican
Official Caught Purging Tens of Thousands of Black Voters from His Own Election
for Governor. ... Running for governor against a black woman, Brian Kemp has instituted
a new voter verification system that just happens to flag a lot of black voters.
AlterNet
Calves
in Confinement. ... Gruesome Footage of Dairy Calves Exposes a Gaping Loophole
in California’s Landmark Animal Welfare Law.
Intercept
Trump’s
Aggressive Plans to Stifle Democracy. Trump's administration is aggressively
pushing measures to restrict public protest and citizen participation.
TruthOut
Military
Officials Aren’t Supposed to Associate With Hate Groups. So Why Are These
Generals Speaking at Frank Gaffney’s Confab? Intercept
Nearly
Every Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Still Takes Corporate PAC
Money.
Intercept
Seed,
Pesticide and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm
Country. An Iowa Insurgent Hopes That Message Can Dethrone Steve King. Intercept
OCTOBER
15, 2018 When
following the news on the Main Stream Media (MSM), or better described as
Lame Stream Media (LSM), always keep in mind those talking head "experts",
"consultants", or "analyst" are probably not what they seem.
All
MSM/LSM news outlets bring on paid consultants to explain the story of the day.
Some are x-government officials, associated with one political party or the other,
corporate shills or military water-boys. For
example: The Washington Post has writers on staff who write news articles, OpEd,
and opinions and may even appear on TV as experts on particular issues. Their
job is to control the conversation on behalf of their clients In
the case of WaPo, two of those paid staff members are Ed Rogers and Carter Eskew
who do work for the Saudi government. Eskew
is Founder and Managing director of probably the biggest Saudi lobbyist firm,
Glover Park. Glover
Park was founded by Clinton aides, Joe Lockhart, Carter Eskew and others. Glover
Park firm is all about steering "... the conversation where our
client needs it to go.
Ed
Rogers is a paid registered agent of the Saudi government. He works for the BGR
Group. Rogers has a new contract worth $80,000/month. But
wait, there's more: -
Here
is the 10-person lobbying team Saudi Arabia hired at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
This crew costs $125,000/month - it includes former top aids to Senators &
Congressman of both parties, ambassadors, & even a former RNC head: 1
- Zach Pflster, former senior staffer for Representative Larry Kissell
(D-NC), Representative Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), & for Senator Evan Bayh 2
- Elizabeth Gore, former chief of staff for Senator Byron Dorgan, North
Dakota 3
- Alfred E. Mottur, Hilary Clinton fundraisers, former Senior Staffer to
Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 4
- Greta Joynes, former deputy chief of staff and legislative director for
Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) 5
- Milan Dalal, former senior economic advisor to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) 6
- David Cohen, former chief of staff at the US Customs Service 7
- Kenneth Khachigian, former National Senior Adviser to John McCain, former
chief Speechwriter and Senior White House Advisor to President Reagan 8
- Robert James Nicholson, former Chairman of the RNC, former Ambassador
to the Vatican, and former Secretary of Veterans Affairs 9
- Marc S. Lampkin, former senior advisor to House Speaker John A. Boehner 10
- Martha Ann Burke, former assistant to the Saudi Ambassador to the US
WaPo's
Carter Eskew Bonus point: Eskew just wrote a piece in the WaPo about how 'medicare
for all' is not feasible while representing healthcare giants -like CVS
Health- through the Glover Park Group. The relation between Eskew, GPG and the
healthcare industry were undisclosed, of course.
“He
May Be A SOB But He's Our SOB” - FDR OUR
SAUDI S.O.B. Saudi
Arabia Wants Trump And Congress To Forget Jamal Khashoggi. Here’s Its Likely
Playbook. ... Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, implicated in the journalist’s
potential murder, could blunt criticism using the most sprawling foreign influence
campaign in the U.S. today. HuffPost
Update: Saudi
Arabia Rejects Trump Comments, Threatens Retaliation For Any Punishment ... The
comments come the day after Trump warned of “severe punishment.” HuffPost
The
NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police. Intercept
The
New Arab Winter - The U.S. has helped nurture a new generation of Mideast dictators,
and Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance is just the latest result. Slate
Tom
Friedman Reaps What He Sows: the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
CounterPunch
Memo
to Trump: Beware Saudi Arabia's reckless crown prince. Washington
Post Trump
Says He Doesn’t ‘Like’ Jamal Khashoggi Disappearance, Won’t
Stop Saudi Arms Sales. ... The president also told “Fox & Friends”
that U.S.-Saudi relations are “excellent.” HuffPost
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Watch:
The Stunning Rise of Brazil’s Far Right and What It Shows About Western Democracies.
Intercept
'Flowering
of hate': bitter election brings wave of political violence to Brazil. ... Supporters
of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who is leading i Trump
‘poses the single greatest threat’ to our climate, bombshell UN report
makes clear
Trump team approves landmark climate report -- and then rejects
it. ThinkProgress
At
Largest ICE Detention Center in the Country, Guards Called Attempted Suicides
“Failures”
Intercept
The
Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh. ... Last week, the impetuous President
and the thoughtful Supreme Court nominee seemed very different, but they share
an agenda for the country.
New
Yorker How
Trump Voters View the President Now.
TruthDig
Trump
hints that he plans to seriously obstruct justice after the midterms. ... "I
want to get the elections over with, we'll see what happens." ThinkProgress
Dianne
Feinstein Finally Agrees to “Debate” Senate Challenger, While Ensuring
Almost No One Watches It. Intercept
Women
aren't united against Kavanaugh. That's a dangerous myth. ... Women
aren’t a singular demographic. There are myriad differences between us –
and ignoring that is harmful for our politics.
Guardian
Related:
‘Vile hatred, hero worship': Christine Blasey Ford faces an unsettling
future. ... Ford has faced aggression and ridicule, as well as support and admiration,
and the glare of unwanted notoriety is unlikely to fade anytime soon.
Guardian
Weekend
of October 12-14, 2018 Weekend
Read:
Thoughtful Pause: A Political Philosophy - by Michael G. Who could
have ever envisioned this 67 page book full of laser-beam wisdom and insights
by a former college baseball player, U.S. army careerist, former CIA officer in
the Far East, and corporate development executive? Niccolo Machiavelli, Mark Twain,
Thomas Paine, and Will Rogers would have wanted to review these hundreds of memorable
observations - so timely in today’s world. Even
in the darkest of times we have the right to some illumination. —Hannah Arendt
Trump,
Kavanaugh and the Path to Neoliberal Fascism. TruthOut/Giroux
Author
Jason Stanley on Trump and the Rise of Fascism Across the Globe. TruthOut/DN!
The
Democrats and “Socialism” CounterPunch
Rashid
Khalidi: From Iran to Palestine, Nikki Haley Put a Nice Face on Trump’s “Horrific”
U.S. Policies. DemocracyNow
The
most memorable moments of Nikki Haley’s run as UN ambassador. ... She wasn't
there for long, but, oh boy, did Ambassador Haley leave an impression. ThinkProgress
Related:
The Shameless Opportunism of Nikki Haley. TruthDig
Tom
Friedman Reaps What He Sows: the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
CounterPunch
How
Trump Voters View the President Now.
TruthDig
Dianne
Feinstein Finally Agrees to “Debate” Senate Challenger, While Ensuring
Almost No One Watches It. Intercept
Women
aren't united against Kavanaugh. That's a dangerous myth. ... Women
aren’t a singular demographic. There are myriad differences between us –
and ignoring that is harmful for our politics.
Guardian
Related:
‘Vile hatred, hero worship': Christine Blasey Ford faces an unsettling
future. ... Ford has faced aggression and ridicule, as well as support and admiration,
and the glare of unwanted notoriety is unlikely to fade anytime soon.
Guardian
GOP
Lawmaker Rips Mic From Democratic Candidate’s Hands During Debate. ... When
he was done talking, Rep. Duane Quam just tossed the mic in front of her. HuffPost
Watch:
The Stunning Rise of Brazil’s Far Right and What It Shows About Western Democracies.
Intercept
Republican
Official Caught Purging Tens of Thousands of Black Voters from His Own Election
for Governor. ... Running for governor against a black woman, Brian Kemp has instituted
a new voter verification system that just happens to flag a lot of black voters.
AlterNet
OCTOBER
11, 2018 The
Link Between Human Trafficking and Dirty Energy in Minnesota. TruthOut
How
Donald Trump weaponizes confusion: Now he wants to blame Russia scandal on Obama
Lacking
any convincing explanation, the president veers between claiming “hoax”
and false claims about Obama. Salon
Russia’s
New Missile Defense System in Syria May Change Balance of Power in Middle East.
CounterPuinch/Cockburn
Corporate
Media Is Beating the Drum of War With Iran. TruthDig
Homeless
America. TruthDig/Hedges
Bikini
Girls and Cyberwars. Craig
Murray Brazil’s
Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone
Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global. Intercept
Greenwald:
International finance markets and neoliberal monsters like the WSJ Editorial Page
& CNBC are coalescing behind (Brazil president hopeful) Bolsonaro because
- as they proved over and over - they've always been willing to sacrifice huge
numbers of Latin American lives for marginally increased profits. U.S.
Student Detained in Israel for Alleged Boycott Support. TruthDig
These
Men Staged A Peaceful Protest Against Fracking. The U.K. Jailed Them. ... “It’s
a strange society that massively rewards the fossil fuel companies responsible
for causing more climate change while jailing the campaigners trying to stop it.”
HuffPost
Related:
(Oct 3, 2018) Direct Action and the British State. Craig
Murray
CLICK
BAITExxonMobil
CEO Depressed After Realizing Earth Could End Before They Finish Extracting All
The Oil. Go
> Returning
Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall
Go
> I
May Not Agree With Everything Trump Says, But It’s My Duty As An American
To Repeat All Of His Talking Points Basically Verbatim. Go
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OCTOBER
10, 2018 “It
would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people,
women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds,” ... “Those rights
only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott,
rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.” .... ‘Equal
Justice Before the Law,’ have always been a sham.” - Howard Zinn Historian
Howard Zinn Warned Us About the Supreme Court. TruthDig
Brazil’s
Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone
Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global. Intercept
Brazil’s
Eroding Democracy: Rise of Far-Right Demagogue Follows Ouster of Dilma & Jailing
of Lula. DemocracyNow
Alleged
Saudi Murder of Washington Post Columnist Prompts Calls to Halt U.S. Relations
with Regime. DemocracyNow
Cracks
in the House of Saud. CounterPunch/Cockburn
We
have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN. ... Urgent changes
needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC. Guardian
New
UN Climate Report Dims Hope For Averting Catastrophic Global Warming. ... Keeping
temperatures from rising beyond the Paris agreement’s ambitious target will
require unprecedented social changes. HuffPost
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