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Trump and Climate Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
The alarm bells are ringing. The climate-change denialism of the Trump administration, coupled with its goal of maximizing fossil-fuel extraction and consumption at all costs, constitutes, in the words of Noam Chomsky, “almost a death knell for the human species.” As noted climatologist Michael E. Mann has declared, “I fear that this may be game… Continue reading
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Trump Bans Muslims from Entering the United States, Launches “Holy War against Radical Islam” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Trump’s Executive Order to ban Muslims from entering the US, will have devastating consequences both in the US and internationally. It also has a bearing on America’s military agenda in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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This week the issue is not Trump. It is ourselves By John Pilger
Today, false symbolism is all. “Identity” is all. In 2016, Hillary Clinton stigmatised millions of voters as “a basket of deplorables, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. Her abuse was handed out at an LGBT rally as part of her cynical campaign to win over minorities by abusing a white mostly working-class… Continue reading
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NYT Ignored Reality at 2001 Bush Inauguration; Now Ignorance Is History
19 January 2017 — FAIR It was much harder for TV than for newspapers to downplay the reality that George W. Bush was greeted in 2001 by massive protests. Discussing the security challenges posed by the inauguration of Donald Trump, the New York Times (1/18/17) reported: Those numbers are quite likely to be larger than… Continue reading
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Campaign to Destabilize the Trump Presidency By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Obama has formally accused Moscow of interfering in the US elections on behalf of Donald Trump. These are serious allegations. Whereas the sanctions are directed against Russia, the ultimate intent is to undermine the legitimacy of president-elect Donald Trump and his foreign policy stance in relation to Moscow. Continue reading
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Kinda Kute By S. Artesian
Kinda Kute, isn’t it, watching the president of the United States whimper and moan about Russian “intervention” in the 2016 election? Kinda precious, isn’t it, watching the titular head of a government that has intervened before, during, and after elections, and with lawyers, guns, money, and drugs, in countries around the world and across decades,… Continue reading
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Can We Make Sense of Trump? By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
A month has passed since Donald Trump was declared president-elect soon to be the 45th president of the United States. Since his win, pundits, analysts, and experts continue to debate the victory – a surprise to most. While the reason/s for this victory depend on one’s perspective, most agree on one thing: Trump is unpredictable.… Continue reading
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FYI: It’s the Russkies Wot Did It?
13 December 2016 — CLG News [It remains to be seen just how accurate the stories below really are. WB] Breaking: Administration is now actively questioning the legitimacy of Trump’s election victory | 12 Dec 2016 | Hillary Clinton’s top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an effort by members of the… Continue reading
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Constitutional Crisis, Movement to Undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s Accession to the White House? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global capitalism is by no means monolithic. What is at stake are fundamental rivalries within the US establishment marked by the clash between competing corporate factions, each of which is intent upon exerting control over the incoming US presidency. In this regard, Trump is not entirely in the pocket of the lobby groups. As a… Continue reading
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The Next Frontier: Trump and Space Weapons By Karl Grossman
It is highly likely that the Trump administration will move to have the U.S. deploy weapons in space. If this happens, it will be profoundly destabilizing, setting off an arms race and, also likely, leading to war in space. Continue reading
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Media: Naureckas: Trump Son-in-Law’s Paper Outlines ‘a Complete Crackdown on Dissent’
Trump’s son-in-law’s paper calls for “a thorough probe of the protests—to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts”—that “continue to mar the presidential election’s aftermath.” Continue reading
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Media: Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist?
The Washington Post (11/24/16) last week published a front-page blockbuster that quickly went viral: Russia-promoted “fake news” had infiltrated the newsfeeds of 213 million Americans during the election, muddying the waters in a disinformation scheme to benefit Donald Trump. Craig Timberg’s story was based on a “report” from an anonymous group (or simply a person,… Continue reading
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Media: Corporate Welfare Will Bring Back Jobs vs. Jobs Will Never Come Back
The Carrier company’s announcement that, after exhortations from Donald Trump, it was going to move a thousand jobs overseas—rather than the 2,000 that it had previously planned to move—led New York Times reporter Nelson Schwartz (11/29/16) to declare that “Mr. Trump is a different kind of Republican, willing to take on big business, at least… Continue reading
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If We Care About the Constitution, Trump Has to Sell His Empire
Donald Trump is about to become president and immediately begin violating the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly prohibits the president from taking payments and gifts from foreign governments. (Can we stop using the term “emolument“? No one has used it for a hundred years. We want to be clear on what the Constitution means.) Continue reading
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‘People Can Protect the Rights of Everyone in Their Community’
Janine Jackson: Watching social media, interest and energy around issues seems to swell and dissipate. But moving toward a functioning, inclusive democracy requires sustained work: building institutions, organizing, so that in times of acute crisis we have structures, or at least models of ways to respond. Continue reading
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A Note on the Taboo Subject of Stolen Elections
Back in the spring of 2016, an intrepid ACLU voting rights expert in California named Lori Shellenberger was able to help inform state legislators of the dangers of a new computer program against voter fraud called Interstate Crosscheck. The program claimed to identify people who were voting in more than one state. What it really… Continue reading
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Media: Lashing Out at ‘Identity Politics,’ Pundits Blame Trump on Those Most Vulnerable to Trump
21 November 2016 — FAIR Over the past two weeks, pundits from all ends of the spectrum have been scrambling to explain Clinton’s unexpected loss, with reasons spanning from the plausible to the highly dubious; WikiLeaks, Bernie Sanders, fake news, Jill Stein, Russia, bad algorithms and the FBI have all been accused of having sole… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 