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22 THROUGH 30
APRIL
30, 2019
Trump
withdraws from UN arms treaty as NRA crowd cheers in delight. ... Democrats condemn
Trump’s ‘myopic’ decision to withdraw... President at NRA summit
vows to defend second amendment.
Guardian 
Related:
“A Shameful Week for the U.S.”: Trump Admin Guts U.N. Resolution
to End Rape as Weapon of War. DemocracyNow
From
LBJ to Robert Moses: Robert Caro on Writing About Political Power & Its Impact
on the Powerless. DemocracyNow
New
Report Shows How World Bank Enables Corporate Land Grabs. At the World Bank’s
annual meeting this month, the Bank’s new president and former Trump adviser,
David Malpass, ignored research that concludes the Bank’s policies are driving
large-scale corporate land grabs across the Global South, with devastating consequences
for the poor. TruthOut
Unanswered
Questions in the Mueller Report Point to a Sprawling Russian Spy Game. Intercept
NSA
Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program. ... The program, created after
9/11, has encountered compliance challenges and questions about its efficacy in
recent years. ... The National Security Agency has recommended that the White
House abandon a surveillance program that collects information about U.S. phone
calls and text messages, saying the logistical and legal burdens of keeping it
outweigh its intelligence benefits, according to people familiar with the matter.
WSJ
(Note:
They quit, if it's true, because it was a pain in the ass, not because it was
illgal and unethical)
The
Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose
is to Serve the Neoliberal Order by Peter Bolton. CounterPunch
The
US agreed to pay North Korea $2 million for its ‘care’ of dead American
Otto Warmbier: report. AlterNet
Trump’s
Attacks on Census Go Well Beyond Citizenship Question. TruthOut
A
Shameful Week for the U.S.”: Trump Admin Guts U.N. Resolution to End Rape
as Weapon of War. DemocracyNow
Police
Shoot at a Black Couple Near Yale, Prompting a Week of Protests. ... The police
released video footage in response to calls for transparency over last week’s
shooting in New Haven by a Yale officer and a Hamden, Conn., officer. NY
Times
Corbyn
launches bid to declare a national climate emergency. ... Labour will attempt
to force Commons vote as it is revealed that the government has failed to spend
anti-pollution cash. Guardian
Enough
White Tea Cups: a documentary that examines solutions for global challenges. Design
in Daba
APRIL
29, 2019
So
Where is the Swedish Warrant? ... What is the point of demanding Assange
be extradited to Sweden when there is no extradition request from Sweden? What
is the point in demanding he face justice in Sweden when there are no charges?
Where are the charges from Sweden? Craig
Murray
Joe
Biden Is a Fraud, Plain and Simple.
CounterPunch
Joe
Biden Launches Presidential Bid With Fundraiser Filled With Corporate Lobbyists
and GOP Donors. Intercept
Joe
Biden: An Imperial Corporatist Wrapped in the Bloody Flag of Charlottesville. CounterPunch
From
Crime Bill to Iraq War Vote, Biden’s Legislative History Under Scrutiny as
He Enters Race. DemocracyNow
Investigative
journalist does a deep-dive into Biden’s Role during Anita Hill’s testimony
— and we should all know it. AlterNet
Being
Rupert Murdoch: How the Founder of Fox News Spreads His Brand of Destruction.Intercept
With
Jailed Asylum-Seekers on the Rise, Detention Contractors Reap Profits. TruthOut
Jane
McAlevey on How To Organize for Power
Current
Affairs
Facebook's
Hire of Patriot Act Co-Author Raises Questions on Company's Commitment to Privacy.
... "What could go wrong?" CommonDreams
Israel
Uses Animal Rights to Distract From War Crimes. TruthOut
Do
Democrats Prefer Trump in the White House? TruthDig
Democratic
Refusal to Impeach Could Be Disastrous. CounterPunch
America's
new voting machines bring new fears of election tampering. ... Many jurisdictions
will offer voters a paper trail in 2020. But the systems involved are far from
foolproof. Guardian
(Part
2) 'They think they are above the law': the firms that own America's
voting system. ... How a few private companies that have little oversight and
keep information secret run US elections. Guardian
Johns
Hopkins Students Enter Week 4 of Sit-In Protesting ICE Contracts & Plan for
Armed Campus Cops. DemocracyNow
Melting
permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact ... Study shows how destabilised
natural systems will worsen man-made problem.
Guardian
BLM
Grazing Decision Will Damage the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness. CounterPunch
Weekend
of April 26-28, 2019
Weekend
Read: The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State
Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump. ... by Max Blumenthal.
Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion
of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since
sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.
The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and
Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle
East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought
foreign conflicts home to American soil.
Politics
& Prose Book Store
Navy
SEALs Tried for Months to Report Superior for War Crimes and Were Told to “Let
It Go” DemocracyNow
Kushner
Talks of 'Accountability' for Crown Prince Just as Saudis Offer 'Egregious Display
of Brutality' With Mass Beheadings. ... Washington's Gulf Institute director Ali
Al-Ahmed called the killings "the largest mass execution of Shiites in the
kingdom's history." CommonDreams
Benjamin
Netanyahu Plans to Honor Donald Trump By Putting His Name on Something Awful.
Intercept
Republican
discussed violent attacks and surveillance with rightwingers. ... Washington state
representative Matt Shea exchanged messages with far-right figures, chat records
obtained by the Guardian reveal.
Guardian
The
Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep — And Law Enforcement Is Part
of It. Intercept
Economist
Joseph Stiglitz: Capitalism Hasn’t Been Working for Most People for the Last
40 Years. DemocracyNow
Related:
Joseph Stiglitz: Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders Want to Make the
Economy Work for All Americans.
DemocracyNow
Robert
Reich: Mitch McConnell’s long-term strategy of packing the Supreme Court
in order to entrench the Republican Party is becoming an obscene reality. AlterNet
Caravan
paranoia is tearing the border militia movement apart. SPLC
The
misogynist trolls attacking Katie Bouman are the tip of the trashpile. ... Trolls
latched on to Bouman’s achievement of the first black hole image with a vitriol
that, in a saner world, would be shocking – but is par for the course for
women. Guardian
The
Best Chance for Israeli Right's Dream of Annexing the West Bank: The Palestinians.
... With Netanyahu victory, left's dream of a plan that would force concession
on Israel seems more distant than ever. Haaretz
APRIL
25, 2019
Nancy
Pelosi’s Drug-Pricing Talks With the Trump Administration Are About Mediating
Fights Between Corporate Interests. Intercept
Jimmy
Carter: US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’. CounterPunch
Who
Are the Real Terrorists in the Mideast?
TruthDig
'Unprecedented':
UN Finds US-Backed Forces Killed More Afghan Civilians Than Taliban and ISIS Did
So Far in 2019. ... "A shocking number of civilians continue to be killed
and maimed each day." CommonDreams
RussiaGate
happened on a Gangster Planet.
MadCow
The
‘Russiagate’ Conspiracy Theorists Just Can’t Let Go. TruthDig
interview
Federal
Appeals Court Denies Chelsea Manning’s Bail Request. ... The former U.S.
Army intelligence officer has been detained since March for refusing to testify
in the government’s Wikileaks case.
HuffPost
US
threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say. ... Exclusive:
US warns it will reject measure over language on sexual health in latest example
of hardline abortion stance. Guardian
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Announce Plans To Give Baby Up For Adoption.
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Jared Kushner
Claims That Russian Interference Less Damaging To U.S. Democracy Than Saudi Arabia,
Nepotism, Israel, Cambridge Analytica, UAE, Illicit Donations, Erik Prince, Bill
Barr, And Financial Entanglementsl >
Go Diversity
Fail: Admissions Statistics Show That More Than 90% Of Harvard’s Incoming
Freshman Class Is Made Up Of Nerds. >
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Impeachment
is the wrong way to beat Trump. ... The way to defeat a rightwing political coalition
is through leftwing politics, not political theater. Guardian
Half
of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. ... Research by author
reveals corporations and aristocrats are the biggest landowners.Guardian
Liberals
Sold Their Souls to the War Machine on Russia. TruthDig
APRIL
24, 2019
Republican
discussed violent attacks and surveillance with rightwingers. ... Washington state
representative Matt Shea exchanged messages with far-right figures, chat records
obtained by the Guardian reveal. Guardian
US
Slides Down Annual Press Freedom Ranking, With Watchdog Calling Nation 'Problematic'
for Reporters' Rights. ... "Never before have U.S. journalists been subjected
to so many death threats or turned so often to private security firms for protection."
CommonDreams
Stephen
Moore Gets Something Right: It’s Capitalism vs. Democracy. ... Capitalism
is a lot more important than democracy. I’m not even a big believer in democracy.
- – Stephen Moore, a potential future member of the Federal Reserve Board.
CounterPunch
CLICK
BAIT Suspicious
New WikiLeaks Document Dump Exposes How Awesome And Trustworthy U.S. Government
Is. >
Go Computer
Scientists Say AI’s Underdeveloped Ethics Have Yet To Move Beyond Libertarian
Phase. >
Go Pete
Buttigieg Stuns Campaign Crowd By Speaking To Manufacturing Robots In Fluent Binary.
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How
to Stop Grazing on Public Lands: Buy Out the Permits. CounterPunch
Aldo
Leopold’s Land Ethic and the Need for a New Approach to Managing Wildlife. CounterPunch
Extinction
Rebellion: Meet the Famed Climate Attorney Who Superglued Herself Outside Shell’s
U.K. HQ. DemocracyNow
20
years after the Columbine shooting, its brutality is routine. ... Have school
shootings become part of the American psyche? HCN
APRIL
23, 2019
Trump's
immigration moves are straight from the dictator's playbook. ... Demonising the
‘other’, confecting a crisis to entrench power and using cruelty to
spread fear are all part of an assault on democracy. Guardian
The
NYTs Tries to Rehabilitate Bloody Gina Haspel. CounterPunch
Israeli Soldiers Shoot Bound, Blindfolded Palestinian Teen Trying to Flee. ...The
minor was detained for suspected stone throwing in the West Bank, then shot in
the groin. Palestinians managed to evacuate the suspect to receive medical treatment
after arguments with the soldiers. Haaretz
Noam
Chomsky - Why They Hate the West. YouTube
American
History for Truthdiggers: Vietnam, a U.S. Tragedy. TruthDig
Is
the American Psychological Association Addicted to Militarism and War?
CounterPunch
The
Destruction of the Palestinians Will Be Israel’s Undoing. TruthDig
The
Chief review: John Roberts and the decline of American democracy ... The chief
justice presided over Citizens United, gutting voting rights and more. An admiring
biography leaves a bitter taste
Guardian
Pentagon
Spending Set to Hit Near-Record Levels, But 'Establishment Says We Can't Afford'
Progressive Policies. CommonDreams
Trump’s
Veto on Yemen War Is a Sign That the Strongmen in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are
Winning. Intercept
Church
Membership Has Dropped Sharply Over The Past 2 Decades: Gallup. ... Even Americans
who identify with a specific religion aren’t necessarily choosing to join
a church, synagogue or mosque. HuffPost
APRIL
22, 2019
Noam
Chomsky on Trump-Russia Collusion YouTube
Nancy
Pelosi shows no restraint in disparaging young progressive women. ... The House
speaker refused to comment on Trump while traveling, but has been openly critical
of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. Guardian
The
Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction
& More. DemocracyNow
After
Mueller Report, Progressives Say 'Begin Impeachment Hearings Now'. ... "Politicians
in Washington must not continue to conduct business as usual." CommonDreams
NEW
MEXICO VIGILANTES Videos
appear to show armed militia detaining migrants at US-Mexico border. ... The American
Civil Liberties Union is calling the actions a ‘kidnapping’ and a flagrant
violation of the law. Guardian
New
Mexico Governor Demands Right-Wing Militia Stop Illegally Holding Migrants. ...
Armed vigilantes in camouflage rounded up about 300 immigrants, many of them children,
in a video posted by the United Constitutional Patriots. HuffPost
Update:
FBI Arrests Leader Of Right-Wing Anti-Immigrant Militia In New Mexico
“This
is a dangerous felon who should not have weapons around children and families,”
New Mexico’s attorney general said after the arrest of Larry Mitchell Hopkins.
HuffPost Armed
civilians living off the grid to catch migrants illegally crossing the border.
... The group doesn't consider themselves vigilantes or a militia, and says their
mission is simply "to document the crisis on the border." KTVB
‘An
armed fascist militia organization’: ACLU calls for investigation of far-right
‘vigilantes’ who ‘kidnap’ immigrants at the border. AlterNet
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Stephen
Moore Gets Something Right: It’s Capitalism vs. Democracy. CounterPunch
Dear
Democrats: Mueller Just Handed You a Road Map for Impeachment. Follow It. Intercept
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