JANUARY 14 THROUGH 23
 JANUARY
23, 2019 Henry
Giroux Interview: Trump’s Enabling of Violence and Hate Is a Form of State
Terrorism.
TruthOut
 Call
for Global Ban as Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Opposition to 'Horrifying' Killer
Robots. ... Weapons that require no input from humans in selecting and killing
targets undermine "the right to life and other human rights," critics
say CommonDreams
Many
2020 Democrats Silent On Trump’s Afghanistan, Syria Withdrawals. ... HuffPost
contacted a dozen likely presidential candidates to ask where they stand. HuffPost
Interview
with Alex Winter, Director of Relatively Free. Field
of Vision Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez rejects Aaron Sorkin's call for new Democrats to grow up. ... Congresswoman
takes issue with the The West Wing creator’s suggestion that the fight for
equality is a trend. Guardian How
Tre Arrow Became America’s Most Wanted Environmental “Terrorist”.
CounterPunch
Uncommon
U.S. Justice: The 100th Anniversary of a Tough Lefty’s Victory. CounterPunch
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Sentenced To Generating $80,000 To $100,000 In Profits For Private Prison >
GO Ethan
Hawke’s Body Found Dumped In Laurel Canyon As 2019 Oscar Race Heats Up.
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GO The
War on Populism. >
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Entertained For 5 Minutes By Plastic Toy That Will Take 1,000 Years To Biodegrade
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The
Little Brett Kavanaughs from Covington Catholic High. ... how two years of Donald
Trump have legitimized hatred and given license to racist, bigoted, and misogynist
rhetoric and vituperative of the worst kind. CounterPunch
JANUARY
22, 2019 Confronting
the Culture of Death. ... The issue before us is death. Not only our individual
death, which is more imminent for some of us this morning than others, but our
collective death. TruthDig/Hedges (2013)
MLK's vehement condemnations of US militarism are more relevant than ever. ...
His vital April 4, 1967 speech is a direct repudiation of the sophistry now used
to defend US violence and aggression. Guardian/Greenwald
How
Muslims won the American War of Independence. AlterNet
Here
are the 5 biggest right-wing outrages of the week: Republicans basically do everything
except reopen the government. AlterNet
What’s
Next for Public Education in 2019.
TruthOut
Born
Disposable: Trump’s War on Youth.
TruthOut
'The
goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism. Guardian
Beyond
BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump/Russia
Story. Intercept
The
Next Recession: What It Could Look Like. CounterPunch
As
New Analysis Shows Global Elite's Wealth Surge, Davos Forum Urged to Address Climate
Crisis. ... "No global gathering should take place without those in attendance
committing to do everything in their power to meet this opportunity to hold climate
warming to below 1.5 degrees." CommonDreams
JANUARY
21, 2019 Trump's
$440 billion weapon. ... The president-elect appears set on becoming personally
involved in the contracting process. How far can he actually go?
Politico Leaked
Memo Reveals Trump Administration's "Immoral" Plan to "Traumatize"
Migrant Children. ... "It appears that they wanted to have it both ways—to
separate children from their parents but deny them the full protections generally
awarded to unaccompanied children.". CommonDreams
Arizona:
Four women convicted after leaving food and water in desert for migrants. ...Federal
judge finds activists guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a
permit to give aid to migrants.
Guardian
Thousands
more migrant children separated under Trump than previously known. ... Damning
government report says ‘thousands of separated children’ put in care
up to a year before policy became public. Guardian
The
latest front in Russian infiltration: America’s right-wing homeschooling
movement. ... This is the latest connection between Russia and the American religious
right. ThinkProgress
Who
Killed Marielle Franco? An Ex-Rio de Janeiro Cop With Ties to Organized Crime,
Say Six Witnesses in Police Report. Intercept
Donald
Trump is the perfect Republican: A party built on lies has found a liar to lead
them. ... It’s hard to put your finger on the foundational lie of the modern
Republican Party, there are so many contenders. But I would date it back to Ronald
Reagan and… AlterNet
Time
to Break the Silence on Palestine. ... Martin Luther King Jr. courageously spoke
out about the Vietnam War. We must do the same when it comes to this grave injustice
of our time. NY
Times Bernie
Sanders, Israel and the Middle East.
CounterPunch
Pentagon recruits rejected scientist for massive pollution fight. ... Michael
Dourson has a reputation for minimizing the risks of toxic chemicals. Critics
say DoD is turning to him to dodge contamination responsibility. Politico
The
Bystander Effect: Neuroscientist shows how our brains dehumanise homeless people
- video.
Guardian
The
West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong.
TruthDig
WEEKEND
OF JANUARY 18-20, 2019 Weekend
Read: The World as It Is review: Ben Rhodes' Obama legacy defence has weak
spots. ... The former White House aide has written a memoir and a justification
which is compelling but too much on Obama’s side. Guradian
Related: The Blob
- Ben Rhodes and the crisis of liberal foreign policy. The
Nation Could
Trump’s Attorney General Pick William Barr Be “Worse Than Jeff Sessions”
on Civil Rights? DemocracyNow
This
Is How American Democracy Ends.
TruthDig
Now
More Than Ever, It’s Clear the FBI Must Go. CounterPunch Now
More Than Ever, It’s Clear the FBI Must Go. CounterPunch
The
Fox in Charge of the Henhouse: Activists Decry Trump’s EPA Pick, Coal Lobbyist
Andrew Wheeler. DemocracyNow
DEMOCRATIC PARTY UPDATE Who
Are the Top 10 Democratic Presidential Contenders for 2020? Intercept
Democratic
2020 hopefuls pay lip service to the left. Don't be fooled. ... Likely candidates
are begging for Wall Street’s support – and reminding us who really
owns American democracy. Guardian
This
paragraph perfectly explains why everyone in DC is so afraid of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
RawStory
The
Limits of Social Democracy Will Test the US Left. ... While Americans are bitterly
divided on many things, there is one concept where there has long been agreement:
Most the country thinks the economy favors the rich at the expense of everybody
else. TruthOut
Exasperated
Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez. ... The effort is part carrot, part stick.
But it's far from clear the anti-establishment political novice can be made to
play ball. Politico
The
Democratic Party’s 2018 View of Identity Politics Is Confusing, and Thus
Appears Cynical and Opportunistic. ... The 2016 presidential election was the
peak, at least thus far, for the tactics of identity politics in U.S. elections.
In the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton’s potential status as the first
female candidate was frequently used not only to inspire her supporters but also
to shame and malign those who supported other candidates, particularly Bernie
Sanders. Intercept
Elizabeth
Warren Wants Grassroots Money To Be A Litmus Test For 2020 Democrats. ... Self-funders
and super PACs will have to justify themselves to progressives. HuffPost
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Let's
Expose Congress Members for the Warhawks They Are. TruthDig
As
Trial Starts for Border Humanitarian Volunteers, New Documents Reveal Federal
Bureaucrats’ Obsession With Stopping Activists. Intercept
Richard
Wolff: The Next Economic Crisis Is Coming TruthDig
The
Hague Comes of Age. Craig
Murray
JANUARY
17, 2019 New
U.S. Oil And Gas Drilling To Unleash 1,000 Coal Plants’ Worth Of Pollution
By 2050. ... The great American fracking boom threatens to undermine efforts to
avoid climate catastrophe in this century. ... By 2050, the country’s newly
tapped reserves are projected to spew 120 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide
emissions into the atmosphere.
HuffPost
Refugees
Are in the English Channel Because of Western Interventions in the Middle East.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
The
Faux Political System by the Numbers. CounterPunch
Has
the Ruling Class Finally Had Enough of Trump? TruthDig
Brexit
Bluster: a Sorry Tale About a Country that Wanted to ‘Take Back Control’.
CounterPunch
The
New Cold War Has Turned Journalism Into Satire. John
Pilger
RELIGION ‘Brought
to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration. ... The influence
of evangelical Christianity is likely to become an important question as Trump
finds himself dependent on them for political survival.
Guardian
A
neuroscientist explains why the belief that Trump is the messiah is rampant and
dangerous. AlterNet
Religion
has a smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith.
RawStory
Atheists
Take Heart (and Office): New Poll Shows Major Support for Nonreligious Candidates.
... According to the data, among pro-choice and pro-LGBTQ equality voters, a candidate's
religious identity is virtually immaterial. Atheists have a good chance to gain
seats in the coming years. Rewire
News |
For
Owners of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching
Too.
Intercept
The
term ‘eco-terrorist’ is back and it’s killing climate activists.
Grist
(2014)
The Contradictions of the American Electorate. CounterPunch
JANUARY
16, 2019 How
illegal drugs actually get into the United States
The notion that a border
wall will stem the flow of narcotics into the U.S. is ignorant of the facts and
overly simplistic, experts warn. ThinkProgress
Four
Reasons Corporate Media Refuse to Talk About What Matters. TruthDig
New
Analysis Shows Why Democrats Are Wrong to Fear Bold Embrace of Medicare for All.
... "November's election results show that universal, higher-quality, lower-cost
health care through Medicare for All is all moral upside -- without political
downside." CommonDreams
The
Faux Political System by the Numbers. CounterPunch
American
History for Truthdiggers: From Isolationism to a 2nd World Conflagration. TruthDig
A
Reckless Advocate of Military Force': Demands for John Bolton's Dismissal After
Reports He Asked Pentagon for Options to Strike Iran". ... Make no mistake:
Bolton is the greatest threat to the security of the United States!" CommonDreams
Mike
Pompeo Lied About the U.S. and the Middle East. Here’s the Truth. Intercept
Trial of El Chapo Guzman Governments,
Gangsters, & the Trial of El Chapo Guzman.
MadCow The
Lie at the Heart of the Trial of El Chapo Guzman. MadCow
The
Secret Trial of 'El Chapo' Guzman. MadCow
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The
Bystander Effect: Neuroscientist shows how our brains dehumanise homeless people
- video. Guardian
Brexit
Bluster: a Sorry Tale About a Country that Wanted to ‘Take Back Control’.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
U.S.
News Headlines on Israel-Palestine Show Systemic Bias: Study. ... "It calls
to attention the need to more critically evaluate the scope of coverage of the
Israeli occupation and recognize that readers are getting, at best, a heavily
filtered rendering of the issue." CommonDreams
Expanding
the Limits of Jewish Sovereignty: A Brief History of Israeli Settlements. ...An
unsettling new Breaking the Silence tour focuses on the history of the occupation.
Every Israeli and visitor who cares about what’s happening here should take
it.
Haaretz
JANUARY
15, 2019 Five
Forces Driving the Rise of Fascism in 2019. ... We start out 2019 with neo-fascists
and assorted other “populists” and ethnonationalists holding office
in 11 European nations and scoring recent double-digit vote tallies in Finland,
Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark
and the Netherlands. TruthOut
The
‘Private Governments’ That Subjugate U.S. Workers ... Corporate dictatorships—which
strip employees of fundamental constitutional rights, including free speech, and
which increasingly rely on temp or contract employees who receive no benefits
and have no job security—rule the lives of perhaps 80 percent of working
Americans. TruthDig/Hedges
Related:
Happiness Consultants Won't Stop a Depression. Hedges
Trump
is using the government as a bargaining chip -- like a dictator would. ... Trump’s
entire presidency to date has sacrificed the means of democracy to preserve his
personal power, and the shutdown over the border is no different. Guardian
The
US Media has Lost One of Its Sanest Voices on Military Matters. CounerPunch
The
Real Threat to Our Safety Has Nothing to Do With Our Southern Border. TruthDig
The
Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924. Intercept
Here’s
the truth behind the ‘National Police Association’—and its shady
ideology. AlterNet
“Free
Trade” Is Today’s Imperialism by the 1 Percent. TruthOut
Richard
Dearlove Helped Blair Kill Millions. The Security Services are a Danger to Our
State and Society. Craig
Murray Related:
(How to handle a dissident) The UK Government Manufacture of False Sexual
Allegations Craig
Murray AG
Nominee William Barr Endorsed “More Incarceration”. TruthOut
JANUARY
14, 2019 U.S.
Senate’s First Bill, in the Midst of the Shutdown, Is a Bipartisan Defense
of the Israeli Government From Boycotts Intercept
How
‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of Liberals.
Intelligencer
As
Democratic Elites Reunite With Neocons, the Party’s Voters Are Becoming Far
More Militaristic and Pro-War Than Republicans. Intercept Return
of the Neocons. NYR
Daily The
'Liberal' Foreign Policy Establishment's Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds. TruthDig
Exposing
the Corporate Bribery Network - White Collar Crimes are Human Right s Crimes.
TruthDig
Bordering
on Fascism: Scholars Reflect on Dangerous Times. CounterPunch
Trust
the Rich Less, Trust Each Other More. Means of Production, the film collective
from Detroit that made Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s hit campaign ad, is about
to launch a left streaming platform -- Netflix for socialists. Jacobin
Study:
US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
BBC
Related:
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.
2014
- Cambridge University Study 2018
Democracy Index The
Economist United
States Doesn't Even Make Top 20 on Global Democracy Index. ... Nation classified
"flawed democracy" CommonDreams
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