Jeffrey
Epstein, a Billionaire Friend of Presidents Trump & Clinton, Arrested for
Sex Trafficking. DemocracyNow
War,
Memory and Gettysburg. ... By focusing on battlefield exploits we too often blot
out the suffering of the soldiers, the families that lost sons, brothers and husbands,
and the hundreds of thousands of children left without fathers. We ignore the
crippling physical and psychological wounds that plague veterans. TruthOut/Hedges
Noam
Chomsky: Trump Is History Repeated as Farce. TruthDig
Robert
Reich: Moderates and Centrists Are No Safe Bet TruthDig
CLICK
BAIT ‘It’s
easy to have great chemistry with like-minded totalitarian despots’ insists
Donald Trump. >
Go Trump
Praises Kim on Immigration: “No One Is Trying to Get Into Your Country”
>
Go Finished
At Last: France Finally Sent The U.S. The Statue Of Liberty’s Husband. >
Go |
'Protesters
as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime.
... Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests in at
least 18 states since 2017 that civil liberties advocates say are unconstitutional.
Guardian
Border
Patrol Is Using “Virtual Wall” Technology Israel Uses in Palestine.
TruthOut
Israel
Is Disappearing Proof That It's Oppressing Palestinians. TruthDig
Defending
the Right of Radical Dissent Is the Highest Expression of Patriotism. ... A new
book by David Maraniss captures the spirit of the Independence Day far more truly
than Trump’s parade. The
Nation
JULY
9, 2019
An
Hour with Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange
& More. DemocracyNow
Leak
of UK ambassador's US telegrams plays into wider power struggle. ... Mail on Sunday
disclosure of Kim Darroch’s criticism of Trump administration spurred calls
for his removal. Guardian
Robert
Reich: Moderates and Centrists Are No Safe Bet TruthDig
Nancy
Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and it’s With Her Own Party’s Future. Intercept
Border
Patrol Is Using “Virtual Wall” Technology Israel Uses in Palestine.
TruthOut
Where
Do You Turn When the Anti-Corruption Crusaders Are Dirty? ... Brazil’s Operation
Car Wash was supposed to overthrow the country’s culture of graft and quid
pro quo. Instead, it’s brought it into the heart of the state. NY
Times
Watch
Mike Pence pack 2 big lies about the environment into a single 20-second clip.
... Gaslighting in the service of climate denial. Vox
There
is no 'right' v 'left': it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest. ... The
president is the puppet master so Americans of all. Guardian
High
levels of arsenic found in bottled water sold at Walmart, Target and Whole Foods
CBS
JULY
8, 2019
Trump’s
amassed more firepower on the Mall for his Fourth of Me celebration than the total
military arsenal of 112 countries, including flyovers by a B-2 stealth bomber
to two F-35Cs, two Super Hornet F-18s, four Apache helicopters, two F-22 Raptors,
H-60 and H-65 helos, along with the BlueAngels and Air Force One…
Noam
Chomsky: Trump Is Consolidating Far-Right Power Globally. ... It is no easy task
to make sense of U.S. foreign policy in the current era. Trump is wildly unpredictable
and lacks any semblance of a coherent view of world affairs, appearing to believe
that all it takes is “the art of the deal” to turn “enemies”
into friends. Meanwhile, since Trump’s rise to power, the end of U.S. hegemony
has come into sight. TruthOut
The
Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power. CounterPunch
Joe
Biden, Campaign Finance Reformer, Is Now One Of Big Money’s Favorite Candidates.
... His first push in the Senate was for public financing of elections. Now, he’s
holding high-dollar fundraisers from coast to coast. HuffPost
Bernie
Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans.
Politifact
Ousted
Honduran President Zelaya: U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized My Nation Forcing Migrants
to Flee. DemocracyNow
As
Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas.
Intercept
Henry
A. Giroux: The Dismantling of Public Education Fuels Fascism. (audio) TruthOut
Joe
Biden is a Collaborator ... has actively collaborated in the extreme capitalism,
racism, nationalism, and police state-ism that enable the oligarchs’ agenda;
and while most ably empowered by their instrument, the Republican Party, between
times, it is more than adequately carried out by the Democrats. CounterPunch
Bernie
Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans.
Politifact
WEEKEND
OF JULY 5-7, 2019
Weekend
Read: Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members,
and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror - by Matt Kennard. Since
the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars ... the US military has struggled
to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative
report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang
members, criminals of all stripes, the overweight, and the mentally ill. Amazon
'Straight
Out of Orwell': While Slashing Climate Regulations, Trump Plans Speech Touting
His 'Environmental Leadership'. ... Trump "plans to go on the offensive against
criticism of his industry-friendly rollbacks of environment protections"
in an address at the White House next week, The Guardian reported. CommonDreams
Trump’s
Peace Plan Has Been Designed to Fail – Exactly Like its Predecessors. CounterPunch
When
Will Americans Realize We're Not the Good Guys? TruthDig
Amnesty
International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders.
Intercept
NY
Times admits it sends stories to US government for approval before publication...
The New York Times casually acknowledged that it sends major scoops to the US
government before publication, to make sure “national security officials”
have “no concerns.
The
Gray Zone
Outcry
after reports Brazil plans to investigate Glenn Greenwald. ... Federal police
reportedly asked money laundering unit to investigate the ‘financial activities’
of the US journalist. Guardian
Putting
the Warriors on Terror on Trial. TruthDig
Revealed:
rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat. ... Investigation
exposes how Brazil’s huge beef sector continues to threaten health of world’s
largest rainforest. ... ‘We must not barter the Amazon rainforest for burgers
and steaks’ Guardian
The
Mass Extinction No One Is Talking About.
TruthDig
‘The
coup turned Honduras into hell’: Interview with President Manuel Zelaya on
10th anniversary of overthrow by US. ... Zelaya. ... He discusses the extreme
violence, drug trafficking, economic depression, migration crisis, Juan Orlando
Hernández (JOH), WikiLeaks, Venezuela, and more.
The
Gray Zone
EPA
Move to Phase Out Animal Experiments Could Mean the End of Toxics Regulations.
Intercept
JULY
4, 2019
Kamala
Harris Says She Was a Progressive Prosecutor. Her Record Tells Another Story.
DemocracyNow
Kamala
Harris Is an Oligarch's Dream Politician. ... Harris is everything the US empire’s
unelected power establishment wants in a politician: charismatic, commanding,
and completely unprincipled. In that sense she’s like Obama, only better.
TruthDig
Democratic
Governor Considering Signing Major GOP Voter Suppression Legislation in Pennsylvania.
Intercept
The
Spot: Behind the scenes at a Colorado GOP training session with Trump supporters.
DenverPost
A
Moment in History ... Sometimes we do not know when small actions could have the
most momentous effects. Craig
Murray
Debate
Moderators Don’t Know Much About National Security. ... Candidates are seldom
pressed to discuss the biggest foreign-policy challenges a president will actually
face. The
Atlantic
Creating
a Climate for War With Iran. FAIR
They’re
Progressive, Fighting For Social Justice, And Under Scrutiny From Fellow Democrats.
... These charter school teachers are watching from the sidelines as their livelihood
faces growing criticism. HuffPost
It’s
not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even
tried. ... The tech giants use our data not only to predict our behaviour but
to change it. But we can resist this attack on democracy. Guardian/Zuboff
How
To Spot A Twitter Troll. Craig
Murray
JULY
3, 2019
How
to Properly Criticize RussiaGate.
CounterPunch
Impeachment
Inquiry Should Focus on Trump’s Actual Atrocities, Not a Russia Plot.
DemocracyNow
How
Lobbyists and Insiders Could Override Voters to Choose the Democratic Presidential
Nominee. Intercept
CLICK
BAIT OSHA
Special Ops Team Raids Local Office After Receiving Intel On Expired Fire Extinguisher.
>
Go Report:
If Earth Continues To Warm At Current Rate Moon Will Be Mostly Underwater By 2400.
>
Go ‘It’s
easy to have great chemistry with like-minded totalitarian despots’ insists
Donald Trump.
>
Go Ivanka
Comes Out Against Busing: “I Have Never Taken a Bus In My Life—They’re
Gross” >
Go |
NYT
Presents Social Security Cuts as ‘Solution’ to Problem of Social Security
Cuts. FAIR
Trump’s
Military Drops a Bomb Every 12 Minutes, and No One Is Talking About It . TruthDig
'I
could have shot you in front of your fucking kids': how cops dehumanize black
people ... Why would anyone treat someone this way? Research gives a grim answer:
some police literally think of blacks as subhuman. Guardian
Biden
and the Obama Admin Are Finally Getting the Reckoning They Deserve. ... From immigration
to tax deals, Thursday night’s debate saw the troubling records of both Biden
and the Obama administration put on trial. It’s long overdue. In
These Times
Over
One-Tenth of Global Population Could Lack Drinking Water by 2030. TruthOut
Why
You Can’t Trust Yourself ... Even when you think you know for sure, think
again..GetPocket
The
Dilemma of Vladimir Lenin. ... ladimir Lenin has two legacies. One is the brilliant
revolutionary tactician. The second is Lenin the New Czar. He was, ironically,
Russia’s most fervent champion of the very thing he eradicated—revolutionary
anarchy. TruthDig/Hedges
Brazilian
Justice Minister Sergio Moro's Moral Battle With Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept.
Forbes
On
Child Concentration Camps, What’s Needed Is Not an Argument, but Action and
Resistance.
FAIR
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez: Migrant Women Told To Drink Out Of Toilets At CBP Facility. ...
Democratic lawmakers described appalling” conditions at a migrant detention
center they visited in Texas at the U.S.-Mexico border. HuffPost
Sanders
and Omar’s Plan Would Wipe Out Every Outstanding Student Loan. TruthOut
Demanding
End to 'AIPAC-Created Status Quo,' Progressive Jewish Group. ... Pressures 2020
Democrats to Take Stand Against Israel's Brutal Occupation. CommonDreams
Israeli Court Ruling Could End Up Legalizing 2,000 Settlement Homes. ... Court
accepts that construction on private Palestinian land can be legalized retroactively
if the land had mistakenly been thought to belong to the state ¦ Ruling
to be ultimately considered by the High Court.Haaretz
The
Autocrats of the Middle East are No Longer a Global Anomaly. CounterPunch
AOC Joins
Other Progressives to Vote Against Dems on Funding Bill for DHS, Call for Abolition
of ICE, DemocracyNow
Under
Trump, Manufacturing Job Growth Slows to a Trickle. ... The average hourly
wage for manufacturing workers is, for the first time ever, slightly below the
overall average. TruthOut
In
Haiti, Washington Meddling Missed by Press. ... Tens of thousands marching in
the streets nationwide to denounce government corruption, reports of police and
gang violence and murder and a downwardly spiraling economy. Calls for the government
to step down. FAIR
JULY
1, 2019
Sydney
Ember’s Secret Sources. ... NYT reporter hides corporate ties of Sanders
critics she highlights. Fair
Political
Ploy by Mitch McConnell Blocks Attempt to Stop War With Iran. Intercept
HOW
IS THAT WAR ON DRUGS GOING? ‘Highly
mysterious’ China company owned both container ships in Philly Port drug
busts.
Mad
Cow Productions Story
of 20-ton cocaine seizure on container ship breaks down Mad
Cow Productions
BREAKING:
Massive Coverup in 16-Ton Drug Bust in Philadelphia. Mad
Cow Productions |
Supreme
Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring “Massive Election
Rigging” DemocracyNow
Josh
Gottheimer Warned Democratic Leaders He Had Votes to Block Bill Mandating Better
Conditions for Children in Detention. Intercept
The
Saudi Crown Prince Has Blood On His Hands, But You Wouldn’t Know It At G-20
.. Mohammed bin Salman shared an impish grin with Putin and Trump praised him
as his “friend.” HuffPost
Related:
Trump's toadyism to Saudi Arabia: a new moral low. Guardian
Dem
Candidates All Support Healthcare for Undocumented People, Split on Decriminalizing
Immigration. DemocracyNow
'Hell
No': Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Pelosi-Approved Vote on McConnell's Border Bill Without
New Protections for Children. ... "Under no circumstances should the House
vote for a McConnell-only bill w/ no negotiation with Democrats," said the
Democrat from New York. CommonDreams
Trump's
toadyism to Saudi Arabia: a new moral low. ... The Saudis are good customers,
Trump says – which evidently outweighs the fact they murdered and carved
up a Washington Post journalist.Guardian
So
Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans?. FAIR
A
Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’
... The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much
attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session
may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon. Rewire
.
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