JANUARY 13 THROUGH 25
WEEKEND
OF JANUARY 24-26, 2020
Weekend
Read: Democracy
Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism -
New Edition. By Sheldon Wolin. ... what if the country is no longer
a democracy at all? ... Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly
morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and
state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent
into what the author terms “inverted totalitarianism”? Princeton
Press 
The
Trump Coup to Come. TruthDig
How
the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract. CounterPunch
Trump’s
Legal Team Is Made Up of Religious Fanatics and TV Personalities. TruthOut
The Obama
Legacy: Reform Versus Revolution. CounterPunch
ATTACKS
ON GLEN GREENWALD Glenn
Greenwald Speaks: Bolsonaro Is Trying to Silence Me. Daily
Beast Our
statement on Brazil's outrageous charges against journalist Glenn Greenwald. Freedom
of the Press Foundation Criminalizing
Reporting: Glenn Greenwald Faces Cybercrime Complaint After Exposing Scandal in
Brazil. DemocracyNow
The
Intercept Condemns Brazilian Criminal Complaint Against Glenn Greenwald as an
Attack on Free Press. Intercept
Brazil's
charges against Glenn Greenwald reek of authoritarianism .... The move to retaliate
against Greenwald, who has reported critically on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro,
is a threat to the press everywhere Guardian
|
A
Torturer Meets His Victims: CIA Psychologist Defends Brutal Methods at Guantanamo
Military Hearing. DemocracyNow
Democratic
Party Loyalty Has Always Been a Scam. TruthDig
The
Fire This Time ... In the Face of Rising White Supremacist Violence, Police Continue
to Investigate Victims and Activists. Intercept
The
Media and the Military Mindset.
CounterPunch
Is
Hillary Clinton Running for President Again? Sure Seems Like It. TruthOut
The
US’s Inalienable Right to Violence. FAIR
America's
Dangerous Inheritance From WWI
TruthDig
Warmonger
Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism. CounterPunch
Democratic
Party Backs ALEC-Tied Rep Against Progressive Challenger. ... Arizona Democrat
Rep. Tom O’Halleran is an alumnus of corporate front group the American Legislative
Exchange Council, but Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and the DCCC are helping him
beat back a primary challenge from Democrat Eva Putzova. Sludge
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JANUARY
23, 2020
Elizabeth
Warren’s Electoral Track Record Is Incredibly Worrying. Jacobin
ENVIRONMENT The
Himalayan glaciers are in rapid retreat. They are the principle water source for
more than a billion people and three nations armed with nuclear weapons. 'Scale
of This Failure Has No Precedent': Hot Ocean 'Blob' Killed One Million Seabirds.
... The lead author called the mass die-off "a red-flag warning about
the tremendous impact sustained ocean warming can have on the marine ecosystem.
" CommonDreams The
Playbook for Poisoning the Earth
Intercept
Owyhee
Initiative Wilderness and Public Lands Deal Critique: Ten Years After.CounterPunch Ozone
Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies. Intercept
The
Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster of Trump’s Border Wall. CounterPunch
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The
Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy. TruthOut/Giroux
Just
162 Billionaires Have The Same Wealth As Half Of Humanity. ... “Extreme wealth
is a sign of a failing economic system,” says a new Oxfam report on global
inequality. HuffPost
Corporations
Would Literally Kill You to Turn a Profit. Jacobin
Chip
Gibbons on FBI vs.1st Amendment. FAIR
In
Anti-Communist Fervor, FBI Built a 500-Page File on Coretta Scott King. ... The
file is a testament to the larger racist ugliness festering in the U.S., then
as now. TruthOut
‘Why
haven’t you shut down the border?’: inside Trump’s White House
Guardian
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JANUARY
22, 2020
The
US and Iran's Perpetu al Almost -War is Unsustainable - and Will End Badly.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
A
Christian Nationalist Group Is Quietly Shaping Bills for State Legislatures. TruthOut
Trump’s
Unprecedented Attack on Iran and the Rule of Law TruthDig
Shining
a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters.
FAIR
NEWS NEWS (January
2019) A Circus Then, a Circus Now TruthDig/Hedges
Facebook
Warrant Targeting Student Journalists in Puerto Rico Prompts Fears of Political
Surveillance. Intercept
WaPo
Runs Pro-War Column Without Disclosing Author’s Raytheon Board Seat. ...
For author Stephen Hadley, a heightened risk of war could mean big profits, though
this is not noted anywhere in his piece. Sludge
How
Facebook, Twitter and Google are working to Undermine News. Project
Censored 'This
Is Why No One Trusts the Media': MSNBC Slammed for Featuring 'Body Language Expert'
Who Calls Sanders a Liar. ... While the Sanders campaign demanded an apology from
the network, critics of Joy Ann Reid's morning show said the segment was "fraudulent
garbage" and a "disgrace." CommonDreams
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Trump
Showed Us Who He Was Before He Became President. CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky: Trump Is History Repeated as Farce TruthDig
Neocons
Don’t Regret the Iraq Disaster — And Now They Want War With Iran. Jacobin
Sealed
Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’
in the West Bank. CounterPunch
The
Demise of the Labour Party and the Future For UK Socialism. CounterPunch
Trump
is on trial for abuse of power – the Davos elites should be in the dock too.
... While the Senate mulls his fate, the president plans to speak to world economic
leaders every bit as impeachable as him. Guardian
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JANUARY
21, 2020
(January
2019) A Circus Then, a Circus Now TruthDig/Hedges
Joe
Biden Tried to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare for 40 Years. Jacobin
Where
is the Reporting on PetroCaribe?
CounterPunch
A
Christian Nationalist Group Is Quietly Shaping Bills for State Legislatures. TruthOut
An
Under-The-Radar SCOTUS Case Could Obliterate The Line Between Church And State.
... A Montana education program at the center of a Supreme Court case was filled
with anti-LGBTQ schools.
HuffPost
Top
Brazilian paper reveals Bolsonaro government’s terror plot against Venezuela.
... Brazil’s right-wing government attempted to attack Venezuela in a plot
to overthrow its elected president. The shocking terror operation has received
absolutely no coverage in mainstream US media. Gray
Zone Related:
Corporate Media's Venezuela Coverage Goes From Bad to Worse TruthDig
Blowing
Whistle On Business Of War In Iraq—Plus, Honduras and DOJ Cheat Whistleblower.
Shadow
Proof
Tanks
& AR-15s: Moms 4 Housing Speaks Out After Militarized Eviction from Vacant
Oakland House. DemocracyNow
The
Ministry Of Untruth ... What Donald Trump’s unending stream of lies has done
to our White House, our country and us. HuffPost
Hijacking
the Struggles of Others, Elizabeth Warren Style. CounterPunch
Elizabeth
Warren endorses Trump’s economic war on Venezuela, then soft-pedals far-right
Bolivia coup. ... In a nauseating interview on Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren
endorsed suffocating US sanctions on Venezuela, backing Trump’s strategy
to stop its “ability to have an economy” while parroting neocon regime-change
myths. She then whitewashed the far-right military coup in Bolivia. Gray
Zone
“Targeted
for Speaking Out”: Deported Activist Files Free-Speech Suit Demanding Return
to New York.
Intercept
War
Profiteering is Real. CounterPunch
Large
Military-Grade Drones Could Soon Be Flying Over Your Backyard. TruthOut
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JANUARY
20, 2020
CNN
is Trash. CounterPunch
CNN
Moderators, Alarmed by Cost of Medicare for All, Ignore Price Tag of Endless War.
... "None of the candidates who said they support keeping troops in Iraq
were asked how they were going to pay for it." CommonDreams
Facebook’s
Soleimani Ban Flies in Face of First Amendment ... News agencies, human rights
activists and influencers have had their accounts deactivated FAIR
Noam
Chomsky Makes the Case for the Lesser of Two Evils. TruthDig
Related:
Noam Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia. TruthDig
Amid
Raft of State-Level Endorsements, Sanders Leads Democrats in New National Poll.
... "It's just one poll, but it looks like Bernie is unhurt and Warren unhelped
by the brouhaha." CommonDreams
“If
the candidates can’t decide amongst themselves who’s the best, I don’t
know what they expect me to do.” ... The Secret Behind How Billionaires Make
Obscene Amounts of Money. TruthDig
The
US and Iran’s perpetual almost-war is unsustainable – and will end badly.
... Neither side wants war – but they’re going to get one unless they
end this dangerous stalemate.
Independent/Cockburn
Impeachment:
is Trump set to survive and win a second term? ... As Democrats marched
the articles to the Senate, the president basked in policy success. Many think
re-election is coming Guardian
Biden,
Buttigieg and Corporate Media Are Eager for Sanders and Warren to Clash CounterPunch
Under
US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan,
Iranian, and Syrian accounts. ... As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter,
Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts
with Washington’s pro-war narrative. The Grayzone spoke to several people
silenced in these social media purges. Gray
Zone
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WEEKEND
OF JANUARY 17-19, 2019
Weekend
Read: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things A Guide to Capitalism, Nature,
and the Future of the Planet - by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. ... Nature,
money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have
made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern
commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. ... a new approach to
analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Review: Humans
Aren’t Inherently Destroying the Planet -- Capitalism Is. TruthOut
UC
Press
Short
of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court. CounterPunch
Related: Rapper M.I.A and MBA Evening
Standard
Lying
Generals and the Lies They Tell. TruthDig
Westminster
Cannot Block Scottish Independence. ... Independence is not a matter of domestic
law. It is a matter of international law alone. Independence is the existence
of a state in relation to other states. It is gained not by any internal process
- internal process is utterly irrelevant, and in 95% of cases does not involve
a referendum – but by recognition of other states, formalised through the
General Assembly of the United Nations. Craig
Murray
WAR
PROFITS Enemies
of Peace: Preventing the Next War in the Middle East. ... lays bare the naked
greed of the war profiteers and their politicians Film
The
Members of Congress Who Profit From War. ... Here are the senators and representatives
who own stock in Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and other top defense
contractors. Sludge
“America
Exists Today to Make War”: Lawrence Wilkerson on Endless War & American
Empire. DemocracyNow
9
Iran pundits with undisclosed ties to the defense industry. Popular
Information
Iran Grifters, Election Stealers and Revolving-Door Lobbyists?? ... Your regular
summary of the most shameful corruption in politics. Sludge
TV
Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry
Intercept
Republicans
preach fiscal conservatism, yet they always find money for war. ... Costs only
become an issue when it comes to programs that run counter to Republican policy
priorities.
Guardian
|
World's
top three asset managers oversee $300bn fossil fuel investments. Guardian
BBC
Documentary Suggests Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk. Anon
News
Assassination,
Lies and the Trump Difference. CounterPunch
Obama
and Trump tie as America’s ‘most admired man’ Independent
Here’s
What Workers of the Global South Endure to Create Corporate Wealth. ... In recent
decades, as U.S. corporations shipped millions of jobs overseas to save money
on wages, GM, H&M, Apple and dozens of other companies established elaborate
supply chains in Asia, Mexico and Latin America, where workers earn pennies per
hour. TruthOut
Britain
looking at ending current defense alliance with United States because of Trump.
... Trump's decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani has resulted in another major
consequence for the U.S. ... the U.K. increasingly wants nothing to do with us.
Source
Politics
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JANUARY
16, 2020
Justice
at Last? ‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC Takes ‘Momentous Step’
in the Right Direction. ... At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion
that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening of
an investigation (into alleged war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories)
have been met”.
CounterPunch
SANDERS/WARREN
SPAT CNN’s
Sanders Hit Piece Is a Journalistic Outrage. TruthDig
Corporate
Democrats Desperately Want a Sanders-Warren Feud TruthDig
Don’t
Take the Bait, Progressive Leaders Warn, After Sanders-Warren Spat Overtakes the
News Cycle. Intercept
CNN’s
Sanders Hit Piece Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test. FAIR
Warren
Says 'No Interest' in Discussing It Further After Dropping Bombshell Accusation
of Sexism on Sanders. ... "I would concede that I could've misinterpreted
it and would call my 'good friend' for clarity before asserting something that
clearly goes nuclear on his campaign," said one observer. "Unless that
is, my intention was to go nuclear on his campaign. In which case, I'd do what
Warren did." CommonDreams
We
Need Sanders and Warren to Cooperate in the Primary. ... The real fight is for
progressive power in the Democratic Party. In
These Times |
Economic
Update: Libertarianism, Capitalism & Socialism. Democracy
At Work
The
U.S. Presidency Has Become a Weapon of Mass Destruction TruthDig
'America
exists today to make war,' says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Rabble
Demonizing
the Shia: How the West Perpetuates False Claims About Iran’s Regional Influence.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
US
Government Lists Non-Violent 'Valve Turner' Climate Activists as Threat on Par
With Murderous Neo-Nazis. ... "Apparently DHS hasn't gotten the memo that
pipeline protesters are working non-violently to ensure that the children and
grandchildren of DHS employees—and everyone else—have a habitable climate
to live in." CommonDreams
Fact
Check: Joe Biden Has Advocated Cutting Social Security for 40 Years. Intercept
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JANUARY
15, 2020
“Democracy
For Sale”: Cambridge Analytica & Big Tech’s History of Manipulating
Elections. DemocracyNow
Why
Is the Iowa Caucus So Important?
How
Stuff Works
CLICK
BAIT Prominent
Evangelical Magazine Calls For Removing Trump From Holy Trinity. >
Go Prick
defends arsehole. >
Go Trump
Sells Delaware to Sweden >
Go |
The
Fix is in. ... 2024 lookahead poll: GOP voters eye Trump dynasty. Axios
The
Weaponization of Data: Cambridge Analytica, Information Warfare & the 2016
Election of Trump. DemocracyNow
BERN
NOTICE: They Attacked Obama -- Now They're Attacking Bernie With the Same Line.
... Washington elites called Obama unelectable in swing areas -- and they are
trotting out the same line against Bernie, despite all the data to the contrary.
BernieSubstack
“Trust
Us Not to be Really Impartial”: Reflections on the Structure and Content
of the BBC.
CounterPunch
Uyghurs
& Other Muslim Minorities Forced into Labor Programs to Work in Chinese Factories.
DemocracyNow
The
War in Afghanistan Is a Fraud (and Now We Have Proof) TruthDig
Neoliberalism
and the End of Politics.
CounterPunch
In
Ohio Debate, Media Stuck to an Increasingly Rigid Script. FAIR
Iran
Will Make Huge Political Gains From This Crisis. CounterPunch/Cockburn
War
With Iran Is Nothing To Worry About, Men Who Launched Iraq War Promise 2020 is
the new 2003. HuffPost
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JANUARY
14, 2020
How
Democracies Die. ... There is no one route to the dissolution of the open society,
but the patterns are familiar, whether in ancient Athens, the Roman Republic or
the collapse of the democracies in Italy and the Weimar Republic in Germany that
led to fascism.
TruthDig/Hedges
A
Call to Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War. CounterPunch
Noam
Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia TruthDig/Scheer
ENVIRONMENT
REVIEW Mess
with the planet and
the planet messes with you. Nine
Things You Need to Know about the Unist’ot’en Blockade. ... The RCMP
moved Monday to break up a First Nations protest. Here’s how we got to this
point. The
Tyee New
Report Details How EPA Is Promoting 'Worst of the Worst Pesticides'. ... From
2017-2018, the agency approved 69 new pesticide products containing an ingredient
the EPA recognizes as a "known" or "likely" carcinogen.
CommonDreams The
War on the War on Cancer
Trump’s Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean
Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People.
Intercept
Exclusive:
Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show.
Guardian
Wilderness
for Ranchers: the Bad Owyhee Wilderness Bill. CounterPunch
White
House unveils plan for major projects to bypass environmental review. ... Plan
would help Trump administration advance projects held up over global heating concerns
such as the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Guardian
The
Global Garbage Economy Begins (and Ends) in This Senegalese Dump. ... How Dakar’s
trash depot became a battleground for Chinese industry, the World Bank, and Senegalese
organized labor. The
Nation Factory
Farm Industry Quietly Lobbies California Officials to Criminalize Animal Rescue
Activism. Intercept
The
Rocky Mountain Restorative Initiative is a Trojan Horse for More Logging. CounterPunch |
The
Media Is Waking Up to a Possible Bernie Victory. Get Ready for the Backlash. Jacobin
American
firms aren't beholden to America – but that's news to Trump. ... The president’s
agreement with China is based on a misunderstanding of the corporate mindset.
It’s time to invest in ourselves. Guardian/Reich
After
68 Days, Hunger Strikers in ICE Custody Are on the Brink of Death. TruthOut
The
End of American Empire Won't Be Pretty.
TruthDig
Capitalism
and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India. CounterPunch
OpenSecrets’
look back at money and politics in 2019. OpenSecrets
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JANUARY
13, 2020
From
Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination.
FAIR
Did
impeachment weigh on Trump’s Soleimani decision? Maybe. ... Trump reportedly
spoke to associates about feeling pressure from Republican lawmakers ahead of
his Senate impeachment trial.
Vox
Trump
Is Close to Committing a Massive War Crime in Afghanistan ... Trump’s reckless
threats to escalate the Afghan War could lead to the killing of tens of millions
of civilians. The
Nation
Assassination,
Lies and the Trump Difference. CounterPunch
“Democracy
For Sale”: Cambridge Analytica & Big Tech’s History of Manipulating
Elections. DemocracyNow
The
insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his
future. ... Pledging to “end endless wars,” Pete Buttigieg claims he
has “never been part of the Washington establishment.” But years before
he was known as Mayor Pete, an influential DC network of military interventionists
placed him on an inside track to power. Gray
Zone
We
Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism. TruthOut
/Giroux
Trump's
lawless thuggery is corrupting justice in America. ... Intimidating whistleblowers,
politicizing law enforcement, protecting rogue military officers and criminal
sheriffs – the pattern is depressingly clear.
Guardian
Israeli
Justice… a Futile Chase CounterPunch
Progressives Blast New NLRB
Union Elections Rule That 'Betrays the Workers It Is Meant to Protect'. ... The
board's only Democrat said the move "places an unjustified burden on workers
seeking to exercise their fundamental workplace rights." CommonDreams
Who’s
Behind PropOrNot’s Blacklist of News Websites. Global
Research
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