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30 December 19
Mehdi Hasan | Ivanka Trump Is a Senior Adviser to the President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions.
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept
Hasan writes: "The mornining after Donald Trump became only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, his senior adviser Ivanka Trump - who also doubles as his eldest daughter - sat down for a rare interview with CBS 'Face The Nation' host Margaret Brennan."
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept
Hasan writes: "The mornining after Donald Trump became only the third president in U.S. history to be impeached, his senior adviser Ivanka Trump - who also doubles as his eldest daughter - sat down for a rare interview with CBS 'Face The Nation' host Margaret Brennan."
EXCERPT:
Back in March 2018, I described Norah O’Donnell’s CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known by his initials MBS, as a “crime against journalism.” It was, I argued, soft, superficial, and fawning.
But Brennan’s fact-free, kid-glove approach to Ivanka on “Face the Nation” this past weekend makes O’Donnell’s sit-down with MBS look like an interrogation.
So what is wrong with these highly paid, high-profile TV journalists and their bosses over at CBS News? Has their obsession with access, and with ratings, made them abandon the very concept and purpose of political journalism? Of TV interviews?
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised. Remember what then-CBS executive chairman and CEO, Les Moonves, said about the rise of Trump in February 2016? “It may not be good for America,” he declared, “but it’s damn good for CBS.”
A migrant child looks out the window of a bus carrying migrant children out of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Detention Center on June 23, 2018, in McAllen, Tex. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The Washington Post | The Trump Administration's Cruel Use of Children for Leverage
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Keeping children in detention has the effect of traumatizing them - a form of abuse that interferes with brain development and leaves lasting mental and emotional scars."
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Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Keeping children in detention has the effect of traumatizing them - a form of abuse that interferes with brain development and leaves lasting mental and emotional scars."
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Bernie Sanders during a menorah lighting on Sunday night in Iowa said: 'If there was ever a time in American history where we say no to religious bigotry, this is the time.' (photo: Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock)
Democratic Candidates Decry Hanukah Attacks: 'We Must Fight Flames of Hatred'
Edward Helmore, Guardian UK
Helmore writes: "Democratic 2020 presidential candidates have condemned a spate of antisemitic attacks and incidents over the holiday period, with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders telling a crowd at a Menorah-lighting ceremony, 'If there was ever a time when we say no to divisiveness, this is that moment.'"
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Edward Helmore, Guardian UK
Helmore writes: "Democratic 2020 presidential candidates have condemned a spate of antisemitic attacks and incidents over the holiday period, with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders telling a crowd at a Menorah-lighting ceremony, 'If there was ever a time when we say no to divisiveness, this is that moment.'"
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Greta Thunberg attends the Fridays For Future Strike on December 13, 2019, in Turin, Italy. (photo: Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images)
Why America Loves - and Hates - Outspoken Young Women
Anna North, Vox
North writes: "Women like Greta Thunberg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were leaders in the 2010s. And they were vilified for it."
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Anna North, Vox
North writes: "Women like Greta Thunberg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were leaders in the 2010s. And they were vilified for it."
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Georgia Rep. John Lewis said he is 'clear-eyed' about his situation. (photo: Riccardo S. Savi/Getty Images/U.S. Postal Service)
Rep John Lewis Battling Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer
Rishika Dugyala and John Bresnahan, Politico
Excerpt: "Doctors discovered the Georgia Democrat's condition in a routine December medical visit and subsequent tests."
Rishika Dugyala and John Bresnahan, Politico
Excerpt: "Doctors discovered the Georgia Democrat's condition in a routine December medical visit and subsequent tests."
.@RepJohnLewis, we are all praying for you following this diagnosis. John, know that generations of Americans have you in their thoughts & prayers as you face this fight. We are all praying that you are comfortable. We know that you will be well.
If there’s one thing I love about @RepJohnLewis, it’s his incomparable will to fight. I know he’s got a lot more of that left in him. Praying for you, my friend.
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Chilean people protest against the government of President Sebastián Piñera on December 20, 2019 in Santiago, Chile. (photo: Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)
Chile Needs a Political Revolution
Denis Rogatyuk, Jacobin
Excerpt: "After weeks of popular protests, Chilean authorities have promised to rewrite the constitution inherited from the Augusto Pinochet regime. But the millions-strong mobilization behind the protests wants to totally undo the country's neoliberal order."
Denis Rogatyuk, Jacobin
Excerpt: "After weeks of popular protests, Chilean authorities have promised to rewrite the constitution inherited from the Augusto Pinochet regime. But the millions-strong mobilization behind the protests wants to totally undo the country's neoliberal order."
EXCERPT:
HG: There is no doubt that the United States will always be a force behind events in Latin America. For the United States, we are its “backyard.” So, it always has Condor Plans up its sleeve, to resolve social conflicts somewhere on the continent or to push things back toward the right if the people give their electoral backing to the Left.
Indeed, we have seen a sophisticated set of operations at work, to take back control of the continent. Much of this is a matter of ideology and conservative religiosity — posing the question of political control as a crusade waged by God’s people. Media manipulation and political patronage have set up a religious populism that has penetrated the political class and the armed forces. I’ve no doubt that this was thought up in some Pentagon or CIA meeting room.
This is a new type of dictatorship — one where political responsibility lies more with the political class than with the armed forces, which operate only as institutional enforcers for these fundamentalist elements. We have seen this in Brazil, in Ecuador, and Bolivia — a neoconservative restoration on the terrain of morality, in order to appropriate the national wealth through the total liberalization of the markets. Doubtless, there is coordination and a plan, whose main beneficiary is the United States.
Goundfish trawlers. (photo: AP)
Rare Conservation 'Home Run' as West Coast Fishery Rebounds
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press
Flaccus writes: "After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen - who use nets to catch deep-dwelling fish - are making a comeback, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry."
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press
Flaccus writes: "After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen - who use nets to catch deep-dwelling fish - are making a comeback, reinventing themselves as a sustainable industry."
excerpt:
What went wrong
Groundfish is a catch-all term that refers to dozens of species that live on, or near, the bottom of the Pacific off the West Coast. Trawling vessels drag weighted nets to scoop up as many fish as possible, but that can damage crucial rocky underwater habitat.
By the 1980s, bottom trawling was booming, with 500 vessels in California, Oregon, and Washington. Groundfish became an economic backbone for ports.
But in the late 1990s, scientists began to raise concerns about dwindling fish stocks.
Just nine of the more than 90 groundfish species were in trouble, but because of the way bottom trawlers fished — indiscriminately hauling up millions of pounds of whatever their nets encountered — regulators focused on all bottom trawling.
By 2005, trawlers brought in just one-quarter of the haul of the 1980s. The fleet is now down to 75 boats, said Brad Pettinger, former director of the Oregon Trawl Commission who was key in developing the plan to reopen fishing grounds.
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