FEBRUARY 8 THROUGH 20
February
20, 2019
Presidents’
Day Can Kiss My Ass. TruthOut
Jair
Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening
Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.. ... “The Brazilian cavalry
was very incompetent. Competent, yes, was the American cavalry that decimated
its Indians in the past and nowadays does not have this problem in their country.”
Intercept
The
First Rule of AIPAC Is: You Do Not Talk about AIPAC. CounterPunch
Resisting
the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump. TruthOut
Get
to know the Green New Deal, by the numbers. ... The plan would boost the U.S.
economy and eliminate fossil fuel use in ten years.
High
Country News
Venezuelan
Coup Democrats Vomit on Green New Deal. CounterPunch
RELIGION Here
are the 10 ways Evangelical Christianity warps your mind. AlterNet
Alabama
Executions: Strictly a Christian Affair. CounterPunch
How
the religious right gained unprecedented access to Trump. Guardian
5
Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’ ... We've used our
increased visibility, often through hashtag campaigns, to expose evangelical authoritarianism
to the broader American public, something that major media outlets have mostly
failed to do.
Rewire
News Mike
Pence and Mike Pompeo belong to a doomsday cult — and may be trying to bring
on the apocalypse RawStory
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Antisemitism
rising sharply across Europe, latest figures show. ... France reports 74%
rise in offences against Jews and Germany records 60% surge in violent attacks.
Guardian
How
the US has hidden its empire. ... The United States likes to think of itself as
a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always
see doesn’t tell the whole story.
Guardian
Miami
Herald Lists Nearly 1200 Kids Killed By Gun Violence Since Parkland Shooting.
... Many Twitter users were quick to comment that the government’s inaction
on gun control was “the real national emergency.” HuffPost
February
19, 2019
Worshipping
the Electronic Image.
TruthDig?Hedges
11
year old facing charges after refusing to stand for US pledge of allegiance in
Florida. Independent
The
Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line TruthDig
Someone
Needs to Teach These As$#oles a Lesson. CounterPunch
Western
Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt. FAIR
Noam
Chomsky: Those who failed to recognize Trump as the greater evil made ‘a
bad mistake. AlterNet
Jesus
Christ's Lesson for the 21st Century. ... The biblical story of the good
Samaritan is one that Tom Catena not only knows well, but strives to live by.
A devout Catholic and Ivy League-educated doctor, Catena realized early on that
he would dedicate his time on earth to helping those in need, though he couldn’t
have predicted the heroic path his life would take. TruthDig
Bred
to Suffer. ... Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation Intercept
Forget
Trump's border distraction – the real threat is inside the house. ...
While the government was shut down over the president’s wall, native-born
white men proved, once again, to be America’s biggest terrorist danger. Guardian
Imagine
Pleading Guilty Because You Can’t Afford to Call Your Lawyer. TruthOut
February
18, 2019
Watch:
Pence Met with Icy Silence in Munich, Praising Trump and Attempting to Bully Leaders
on Foreign Policy. ...The vice president arrived at the Munich Security Conference
ready to promote President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda --
but his demands over Venezuela and Iran were not well received. CommonDreams
Related:
Mike Pence chides US allies at Warsaw summit on Iran. ... Vice-president
tells event that EU mechanism to facilitate trade with Iran is ‘ill-advised’
Guardian
The
FBI Is Dismantling Its War Crimes Unit
TruthDig
Jair
Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening
Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities. Intercept
"It's
What Happens in a Totalitarian Regime": Capitol Police Slammed for "Disturbing"
Physical Attacks on Reporters. ... "It was insane, people were getting shoved
into walls. It was unsustainable. It was violent." CommonDreams
North
Dakota Seeks to Restrict Access to Public Records After Standing Rock Reporting
Exposed Law Enforcement Abuses. Intercept
El
Salvador massacre: forensics teams dig for remains as US envoy faces grilling.
Guardian
Neoliberalism
or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela. Intercept
Immigrant
Activists: Democrats Are Capitulating to Trump by Approving Border, DHS Funding.
DemocracyNow
Democrats
want a 'smart wall'. That's Trump's wall by another name. ... The tech ‘solutions’
Democrats are proposing to secure the US border would enrich tech and military
contractors while violating our civil rights. Guardian
Pro-Israel
donors spent over $22m on lobbying and contributions in 2018. ... The data examined
by the Guardian suggests that the pro-Israel lobby is highly active and spends
heavily to influence US policy. Guardian
Facebook
Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments.
Intercept
Pence
and the Benjamins: An Eternity of Anti-Semitism. CounterPunch
Weekend
of February 15-17, 2019
Weekend
Read: How to Read a Protest
The Art of Organizing and Resistance. by L. A. Kauffman. ... When millions of
people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable
air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement
to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can’t
be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march, and record numbers of Americans
have joined anti-Trump demonstrations, but when and why does marching matter?
What exactly do protests do, and how do they help movements win? UC
Press
The
Suffering of the Iranian People Has “Made in USA” Stamped on It. TruthOut
Related:
‘War with Iran’: Israeli prime minister tweets a terrifying message
— then quickly deletes it. AlterNet
One
Year After Parkland, 1,200 More Kids Are Dead by Gunfire—But Students Still
Fight for Gun Safety. DemocracyNow
“Capitalism
is the Number One Threat To Democracy Today”. Jacobin
Ilhan
Omar Was Dead Right About Lobbyists for Israel. TruthDig
AOC
is Under Fire Because She is Right.
CounterPunch
'Historic':
House Approves War Powers Resolution to End US Complicity in Yemen. ... "Not
only does this vote bolster hopes for a quicker end to the war and the resulting
humanitarian crisis, it also signals a timely resurgence in congressional oversight
on war." CommonDreams
VENEZUELA
UPDATE Neoliberalism
or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela. Intercept
Ilhan Omar
Grills Trump’s Venezuela Envoy Elliott Abrams on His Role in US-Backed Genocide
in 1980s. DemocracyNow
Roberto
Lovato: Elliott Abrams Is Bringing Violence of 1980s U.S. Latin America Policy
to Venezuela. DemocracyNow
Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Secretly Shipping Arms After Weapons Found on Plane
with Possible CIA Ties. DemocracyNow
Elliott
Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent
His Life Crushing Democracy. Intercept
Neoliberalism
or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela. Intercept
The
Making of Juan Guaidó: US Regime-Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s
Coup Leader. ... The Washington favorite has spent years at the forefront of a
violent campaign of destabilization.
Consortium
News Air
charter firm (21 Air), client both deny role in alleged shipment of arms to Venezuela.
McClatchy
Related:
GPS Air.com Related:
N881YV (21 Air) movements as of 2/13/19 Flight
Radar 24 |
“This
Is Just the Beginning”: Greenwald on Rising State Violence & Homophobia
in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. DemocracyNow
The
Washington Post Wants to Cut Social Security Again. CounterPunch
The
End of Ice: Dahr Jamail on Climate Disruption from the Melting Himalayas to Insect
Extinction. DemocracyNow
February
14, 2019
Venezuela
Accuses U.S. of Secretly Shipping Arms After Weapons Found on Plane with Possible
CIA Ties. DemocracyNow
One
Minute to Midnight. TruthDig
There
Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It.
Intercept
Pro-Israel
Lobby Caught on Tape Boasting That Its Money Influences Washington. Intercept
Where
Is Elizabeth Warren’s Fire in the Realm of Foreign Policy? TruthOut
Florida
Detention Center Expands, Packing In Migrant Children ‘Like Sardines’
... The temporary shelter violates child welfare standards, according to advocates
who recently toured the facility.
HuffPost
ENVIRONMENT 'We
Have Entered the Age of Environmental Breakdown': Report Details World on Edge
of Runaway Collapse. ... A new report from U.K. researchers is being praised as
"absolutely brilliant," "essential reading for policymakers,"
and "a clarion wake-up call to the world." CommonDreams
Global
Poll Reveals Surging Fear of Climate Crisis and US Power Under Trump. ... Over
the past five years, from the U.S. to Poland to Kenya, the number of people worried
about the climate crisis has risen by double-digits. CommonDreams
Climate
and economic risks 'threaten 2008-style systemic collapse'. ... Environmental
and social problems could interact in global breakdown, report says. Guardian
The
End of Ice: Dahr Jamail on Climate Disruption from the Melting Himalayas to Insect
Extinction. DemocracyNow
Plummeting
insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'. Guardian
Outcome-Based
Grazing: a Cattle Industry Public Lands Power Grab. CounterPunch
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Trump
offers socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else. ... To a conservative
mind, socialism is getting something for nothing. Yet this is what the president
promotes for the wealthy. Guardian
February
13, 2019
Glenn
Greenwald: As Bezos Protests Invasion of His Privacy, Amazon Builds Global Surveillance
State. DemocracyNow
The
“Skills Gap” Was a Lie. ... For years, capitalists and their journalistic
mouthpieces blamed joblessness on a skills gap. But there wasn’t a skills
gap. There was a gap between what society owes people and what it’s willing
to offer them at the expense of corporate profits. Jacobin
“This
Is Just the Beginning”: Greenwald on Rising State Violence & Homophobia
in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. DemocracyNow
Big
Banks Cut Jobs, Slash Lending After Billion-Dollar Tax Cut ... top financial
institutions used those savings to benefit shareholders rather than workers and
customers—just as critics of the #GOPTaxScam had warned they would.
TruthDig
Trump
offers socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else. ... To a conservative
mind, socialism is getting something for nothing. Yet this is what the president
promotes for the wealthy. Guardian
New
nonprofit tied to stealthy circle of dark money groups. Open
Secrets
The Report review – gripping, fiery drama on CIA torture investigation. ...
Adam Driver and Annette Bening give excellent performances in an utterly absorbing
film indicting post-9/11 interrogation practices. Guardian
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“No-Knock
Raid” is Just Another Term for “Violent Home Invasion” CounterPunch
Elizabeth
Warren Is Not a Socialist, But She Still Makes Wall Street Squirm. TruthOut
With
Estate Tax on Nation's Richest, Bernie Sanders' "For the 99.8% Act"
Applauded for Targeting "Tyranny of Plutocracy" ... "From a moral,
economic, and political perspective our nation will not thrive when so few have
so much and so many have so little." CommonDreams
Will
Trump Really Launch a War on Iran? CounterPunch
February
12, 2019
Peter
Jackson’s Cartoon War ... When director-producer Peter Jackson’s World
War I film, “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which miraculously transforms
grainy, choppy black-and-white archival footage from the war into a modern 3D
color extravaganza, begins, he bombards us with the clichés used to ennoble
war. TruthDig/Hedges
Trump
Says ISIS is Defeated, But He Ignores the Much Bigger and More Troubling Picture.
CounterPunch
The
Great Con of American Patriotism. ... American soldiers born decades apart in
the state of New York, Ron Kovic and Maj. Danny Sjursen, are two crucial dissenting
voices that have experienced firsthand the futility and brutality of America’s
interventionist wars. TruthDig
Siding
With 'Loan Sharks' Over Consumers, Trump CFPB Moves to Gut Payday Lender Regulations.
CommonDreams
Journalists,
Lawyers, and Activists Working on the Border Face Coordinated Harassment From
U.S. and Mexican Authorities. Intercept
Why
Ann Coulter Has Power: U.S. Politics are Authoritarian by Design. CounterPunch
Charter
Schools Are Pushing Public Education to the Brink. TruthDig
Why
Denmark dominates the World Happiness Report rankings year after year. ... The
U.S., on the other hand, ranked 18th this year, a four-spot drop from last year’s
report. AlterNet
February
11, 2019
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) dissects America's 'fundamentally broken' campaign finance
laws. YouTube video
(2013)
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To
Discredit 'Radicalizers' HuffPost
The
Supreme Court just handed down a truly shocking attack on Muslims. ... "Religious
liberty" is a sham. ThinkProgress
CLIMATE
CHANGE Promoting
'Another Puppet for Corporate Polluters,' Trump Picks Former Oil Lobbyist to Head
Interior Department. ... "The ethical questions surrounding David Bernhardt
and his commitment to pandering to oil, coal, and gas executives make former Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke look like a tree-hugging environmentalist." CommonDreams
Green
New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez unveils bold plan to fight climate change. ... Blueprint
for a carbon-neutral economy has been embraced by prominent Democrats and evokes
FDR’s famous legacy. Guardian
Plummeting
insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' ... The world’s insects are
hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse
of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review.
Guardian
The
Green New Deal Takes Its First Congressional Baby Step, as Pelosi Mocks “Green
Dream or Whatever” Intercept
2018
was world's fourth hottest year on record, scientists confirm. World 1.5F hotter
than average set between 1951 and 1980. Current five-year stretch the warmest
since records began. Guardian
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Venezuela:
The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster. CounterPunch
Western
Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt. ... administration’s
now completely overt effort to overthrow President Maduro had a very successful
public relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly echoed
its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly
withholding foreign aid FAIR
Venezuelan
Officials Say They Intercepted Arms and Ammo Delivered by US-Based Plane. ...The
country's vice minister of citizen security said weapons shipment was "financed
by the fascist extreme right and the government of the United States." CommonDreams
In
Venezuela, White Supremacy Is a Key Driver of the Coup. ... n January 23, right
after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela’s
National Assembly, declared himself president. No voting. When you have official
recognition from The Donald, who needs elections? TruthOut
Weekend
of February 8-10, 2019
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