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Fake Government & Politics News? What the Mainstream Media Is Not Telling You, Week Ending July 29, 2017

Mon, 07/24/2017 - 14:01 — Dave Culver

If you solely rely on the Western media for enlightenment, your acquired knowledge is plain ignorance. You will never learn the truth because they simply manipulate the news. Learn the truth in our selection of articles below.

Chomsky: Trump is a Distraction, Used by the Deep State to ‘Systematically Destroy’ America
It’s Not About Hating Trump: It’s About Regaining Comity
Trump Enablers: You’re The F*cking Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things
It's Time for Jared and Ivanka to Go, Jackie Speier

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Chomsky: Trump is a Distraction, Used by the Deep State to ‘Systematically Destroy’ America, Noam Chomsky, The Free Thought Project

Smashing the two party paradigm Noam Chomsky called out deep state democrats and republicans alike for using Trump as a distraction to destroy America.

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It’s Not About Hating Trump: It’s About Regaining Comity, Jim Moore, Huff Post

07/20/2017 | Comity has virtually disappeared from the White House.

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Trump Enablers: You’re The F*cking Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things, Jesse White, Goose in the Gallows

July 21, 2017 | You’re fucking up America, it truly is your fault, it’s not politics as usual, and when the shit hits the fan, you’re on your own. You are why we can’t have nice things. You don’t need “elitist liberals” and their fancy “civil rights” and “government protections.” You’re winners. You win bigly.
The sad part is I’m starting to believe the only way America will likely ever be great again, or even functional again, is if we let this train wreck play out to its grisly conclusion, casualties be damned.

It's Time for Jared and Ivanka to Go, Jackie Speier, Cosmopolitan

Jul 19, 2017 |

Their conflicts of interest are not just unfair and unethical, but potentially dangerous.
Nepotism is something more closely associated with dictatorships or puppet regimes, but it’s now been accepted with a shrug by Republicans as just how the Trump administration does business.

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Donald Trump’s war on journalism has begun. But journalists are not his main target …

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 13:18 — Dave Culver

Reporters near the West Wing of The White House in Washington on May, 15, 2017, following news reports that President Trump revealed classified information to visiting Russian officials. Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux

[Snowden] fled because if you are indicted under the Espionage Act, as he was, you are not allowed to present a public-interest defense — meaning, you are not allowed to justify the crime of leaking by arguing it was done to disclose to the public even greater crimes the government was committing.
Related: Australian Journalist’s Devastating Take On Trump At G-20 Goes Viral

Peter Maass, The Intercept / Rise Up Times

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June 5, 2017 | Wars are rarely announced in advance, but President Trump provided an abundance of warning about his intention to wage an assault on journalism. During the election campaign, he called journalists an “enemy of the people” and described media organizations he didn’t like as “fake news.” You can pretty much draw a direct line between his words and the actions we’ve seen lately — which include journalists physically prevented from asking questions of officials, arrested when trying to do so, and in a now-famous example from Montana, body-slammed to the ground by a Republican candidate who didn’t want to discuss his party’s position on healthcare.

This is most likely a prelude. From virtually the moment Trump took the oath of office, a deluge of irritating leaks has poured forth about, for instance, his private complaints against senior aides and his late night habits when he is upstairs at the White House without a tweet-blocking retinue of aides. Matters of crucial substance have also been leaked, such as his own disclosure of highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister, and his obstruction-of-justice-worthy request to James Comey that the FBI restrain its investigation of Michael Flynn. Just a few days ago, there was another leak that wasn’t even Trump-centric, disclosing information about the British investigation into the suicide bombing in Manchester.

Peter Maass has written about war, media, and national security for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The U.S. president “managed to diminish his nation and to confuse and alienate his allies,” Chris Uhlmann says.
Related: Henry A. Giroux | War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Trump
Related: Corporate Media to US: Trump Teasing Mika Brzezinksi is Worse than Him Killing Children

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Thu, 07/20/2017 - 11:39 — Dave Culver

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Marian Kamensky | Trump in Paris / media.cagle.com

Sun, 07/16/2017 - 18:27 — Dave Culver

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Gutting EPA’s Budget And Staff Would Endanger The Health Of Millions Of Americans

Sun, 07/16/2017 - 18:01 — Dave Culver

President Trump promised to “promote clean air and clean water” during his recent speech before Congress, but he reportedly plans to dramatically cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget.
Related: The World Is Better Off if We Leave the Paris Agreement

Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists / Huffington Post

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03/02/2017 | During his nationally televised speech before Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump vowed to “promote clean air and clean water.”

Is that right, Mr. President? Then why is your administration proposing to slash as much as 25 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s current budget and cut its staff by 20 percent? That would cripple environmental safeguards, jeopardize public health, and put future generations at risk.

Elliott Negin, Contributor, Huffington Post; Senior Writer, Union of Concerned Scientists

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"Misery Index"

Will America finally realize that we are no longer the world leader we think we are?
Donald Trump is the only world leader who isn’t sure if climate change is real.
Related: 4 Pathways to Our Climate Future—Which Will We Choose?

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A Definitive Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump

Sat, 07/15/2017 - 12:39 — Dave Culver

Profiles in Cowardice | House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Mike Pence, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Photo Illustration by Matt Chase.

From Paul Ryan to John McCain, Sarah Ellison takes a look at the men—and the motives—that are propping up a Donald Trump presidency.
Meet the Washington insiders enabling Donald Trump in the video.
Related: Fools and hucksters are governing this country based on Ronald Reagan lies

Sarah Ellison, Vanity Fair

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Either you will pay in cash or you will pay with your civil liberties, your rights and your way of life. The corporate press will not participate in any process that brings about the downfall of the corrupt system they depend on. Will. Not. Happen.

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June 29, 2017 | Blame for the ongoing destruction wrought by the Trump administration will always attach to Donald Trump. But Trump cannot help himself. He is a pathogen, doing what pathogens do, and as surprised as anyone to have found himself replicating in the nation’s bloodstream. Equal blame will attach to a small group of experienced and seemingly rational politicians who knew exactly what Trump was like; who had cause to loathe and distrust him; who understood firsthand that he knew nothing about government and did not care to know anything; who could see clearly that he was dangerous, brutal, and corrupt; and who nonetheless decided, after occasional protests, to help him achieve and hold power. These are people who have been repeatedly belittled and mocked by Trump, who have sometimes been forced to voice their disgust at his words and actions, and who—for reasons that range from ambition and fear to denial and moral blindness—not only have declined to stand in his way but continue to prop him up. One or more of them may ultimately decide to defy him, but nothing will absolve them of the damage already done.

Sarah Ellison is an American writer and journalist. She spent ten years as a reporter.

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Fools and hucksters are governing this country based on Ronald Reagan lies, Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Part 1: Fools and hucksters are governing this country.

Their very presence in the White House is a daily debasement of the values and traditions that once made America great.

Part 2: Ending the Ronald Reagan lie

A small group of wealthy interests has hijacked the federal government, driving policies that are strongly against public opinion and the public good.

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Fools and hucksters are governing this country based on Ronald Reagan lies.

Thu, 07/13/2017 - 12:20 — Dave Culver

Part 1: Fools and hucksters are governing this country

Their very presence in the White House is a daily debasement of the values and traditions that once made America great.

Part 2: Ending the Ronald Reagan lie

A small group of wealthy interests has hijacked the federal government, driving policies that are strongly against public opinion and the public good.

Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

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Part 1: Fools and hucksters are governing this country

Donald Trump with son Donald Trump Jr. during the Republican National Convention, in Cleveland, last July. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Their very presence in the White House is a daily debasement of the values and traditions that once made America great.

Michael A. Cohen, Boston (MA) Globe

July 12, 2017 | On Tuesday, America entered a new political world — one in which we now possess incontrovertible evidence that those around the president of the United States (and perhaps the president himself) sought to conspire with a foreign government to win a presidential election. The only thing left to figure out is how deep this goes and whether laws were broken.

But no matter the legal fallout, this is an American tragedy. Not for Donald Trump or his son Donald Trump Jr., or his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, all of whom have consistently shown themselves to be contemptuous of the rule of law, America’s political traditions and values, and the American people themselves. They will get what they deserve. The tragedy is that a man of such ill repute could ever have been elected president and will — with the complicity of gutless congressional Republicans — remain there for the foreseeable future.

Michael A. Cohen’s column appears regularly in the Globe.

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Part 2: Ending the Ronald Reagan lie

lucy naland for the boston globe

The stunning result is this: A small group of wealthy interests has hijacked the federal government, driving policies that are strongly against public opinion and the public good. Legislation is drafted in secret, pushed without deliberation, and if possible, adopted without regard for the voters. This is obviously the case with the Obamacare repeal, but it’s also true regarding climate change, environmental protection, tax cuts for the rich, antitrust enforcement, and foreign policy.

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Boston (MA) Globe

July 11, 2017 | As they return from the July Fourth break, the Republican leadership is twisting in agony on the Obamacare repeal and it couldn’t happen to a more miserable bunch. President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have been trying to jam through a deeply unpopular and cruel piece of legislation, but for once the public is being heard over the lobbyists. And the public is shouting a loud and hopefully decisive “no.” But the problem is deeper than health care, and goes back to Ronald Reagan’s great lie.

Our current political travails can be traced to Reagan. In his jovial way, Reagan would quip, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” With his sneering disrespect for government, Reagan ushered in nearly four decades of tax cuts, deregulation, and rising inequality that now threaten to devour our future. Trump, Ryan, and McConnell are the scheming and vacuous politicians at the end of a long process of decline.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, and author of “The Age of Sustainable Development.”

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From Paul Ryan to John McCain, Sarah Ellison takes a look at the men—and the motives—that are propping up a Donald Trump presidency.
Meet the Washington insiders enabling Donald Trump in the video.
Related: Fools and hucksters are governing this country based on Ronald Reagan lies

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David Horsey | He's My Pest / editorialcartoonists.com

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Pence Leads GOP's Under-the-Radar Attack on Unions

Sun, 07/02/2017 - 11:49 — Dave Culver

Pence leans over an executive order in the Oval Office. Pence leads the assault on workers in the Executive Branch. | AP

Part 1: Pence leads under-the-radar attack on unions

Pence working hard on a strategy to make “right to work” national law.

Part 2: Things Are About to Get Really Ugly for the Labor Movement

Unions were finally on an upswing. Now, they’re staring down the barrel of the GOP’s gun.

Related: Time to Build a Resistance in More Than Name Only

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Part 1: Pence leads under-the-radar attack on unions

As of today 28 states, a majority of the states in the country, have “right to work” laws on the books. And we have Vice President Pence working hard on a strategy to make “right to work” national law.

John Wojcik, People's World

May 22, 2017 | Since he took office, Vice President Pence has been working with high-level Trump backers to develop a comprehensive strategy to weaken labor unions. The strategy he is developing revolves around so-called “right to work” laws that have already been rammed through numerous state legislative bodies. Among the GOP bright lights attending the closed-door sessions with Pence have been Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Pence’s role as architect of a new federal assault on unions is one of the topics tackled recently in an excellent article* in the March/April issue of The Voice of the ILWU, published by the union’s local 142 in Hawaii. The article, entitled “Trump backs attack on union,” delves into the history of “right to work” and how it has been used to bash workers and their unions.

John Wojcik is editor in chief at Peoplesworld.org. He started as labor editor of the People's World in May, 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There he served as a shop steward, as a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee, and as an activist in the union's campaign to win public support for Wal-Mart workers. In the 1970s and '80s he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.

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Part 2: Things Are About to Get Really Ugly for the Labor Movement

Unions were finally on an upswing. Now, they’re staring down the barrel of the GOP’s gun.

Justin Miller, The American Prospect

Vice president-elect Mike Pence watches as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night rally in New York. (Photo: AP/Evan Vucci)

November 15, 2016 | The nation’s union movement is suffering from collective whiplash. As the Rust Belt states fell late last Tuesday night, so too did labor’s hopes for a Democratic president who had promised to lift up working people. Instead it was forced to confront the reality of an explosive faux-populist taking power in tandem with a pro-business GOP Congress that has been waiting for its chance to dismantle a beleaguered, but recently rising, labor movement. The promising signs of a rejuvenation for workers’ interests and rights in recent years have all come under a dark cloud of uncertainty and dread.

For starters, with Trump promising to be a regulatory “reformer,” Republicans and their business lobbyist colleagues hope to roll back every single one of President Obama’s labor initiatives that were, slowly but surely, tilting the regulatory system more in favor of worker power. “This is going to be a president who will be the biggest regulatory reformer since Ronald Reagan,” Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore, told The New York Times. “There are just so many regulations that could be eased.”

Justin Miller is a writing fellow for The American Prospect

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Time to Build a Resistance in More Than Name Only, Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Part 1: The So-called Resistance, by James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler asks a critical question: what would a real resistance (as opposed to the crybaby resistance currently wailing) look like?

Part 2: Time to Build a Real Resistance!

The mass protests against (Trump's) reactionary policies have been inspiring, but they will inevitably ebb and flow because ultimately, protests will not be enough to stop him and the class he represents.

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Marian Kamensky | Trump in Paris / media.cagle.com

Gutting EPA’s Budget And Staff Would Endanger The Health Of Millions Of Americans

A Definitive Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump

Fools and hucksters are governing this country based on Ronald Reagan lies.

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