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Paul Krugman | Republican Health Care Lying Syndrome
 Paul Krugman, The New York Times Krugman writes: "Even Trump supporters don’t believe the party’s promises." READ MORE  Bernie Sanders at a November rally on Capitol Hill for economic and social justice. (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Sanders Leads Poll of Young Democrats by Double Digits
Chris Mills Rodrigo, The Hill Mills Rodrigo writes: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) holds a double-digit lead among young voters in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, according to a poll released Monday." READ MORE  Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's mayor-elect. (photo: Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/TNS/Getty Images)
Chicago Makes History Electing First Black Woman, Openly Gay Person as Mayor
Phil Helsel, Associated Press Helsel writes: "Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff for Chicago mayor Tuesday. She will be the first openly gay person and first black woman to lead the city." READ MORE  'US authorities have drawn criticism for holding groups of migrants awaiting processing - including children - underneath the Paso Del Norte Bridge in El Paso.' (photo: Getty Images)
Advocate: Toddlers Got Bruises Sleeping on Gravel When US Detained Them Under a Border Bridge
Catherine E. Shoichet, Kevin Conlon, Geneva Sands and Ed Lavandera, CNN Excerpt: "Bruises were visible on toddlers and older children who had to lay on rocks and concrete, said Taylor Levy, legal coordinator at Annunciation House." READ MORE  US army troops are ‘blacked up’ to perform as minstrels in a variety show. (photo: George W Hales/Getty Images)
'Reasserting White Power': Behind the Psychosis That Gave Rise to Blackface
Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK Lartey writes: "Blackface remains a part of the American culture – because while many things have changed, many have still not." READ MORE  Elliott Abrams. (photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
US Orgs Call on Congress to End Trump's Crusade for War in Venezuela
teleSUR Excerpt: "More than 40 organizations from throughout the United States are demanding their Congress put an end to U.S. intervention in Venezuela saying that, in particular, the illegal and 'extensive economic sanctions, imposed unilaterally by the Trump government since August 2017, have caused great hardship and loss of life' in the South American country." READ MORE  'Once a topic pushed to the side by Republicans and Democrats alike, climate change has been catapulted to the top of the political agenda in recent months.' (photo: Diana Ofoso/Daily Beast)
Cities and States Are Modeling What a Green New Deal Could Look Like
E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress Crunden writes: "Cities and states across the country have been moving forward with their own ambitious plans, showing how elements of the radical proposal could take shape at a local level." READ MORE Update My Monthly Donation |
Showing posts with label Elliott Abrams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elliott Abrams. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Paul Krugman | Republican Health Care Lying Syndrome
Monday, March 11, 2019
Adam Gopnik | The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
10 March 19
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Adam Gopnik | The Pros and Cons of Impeaching Trump
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Gopnik writes: "A point common to all the anti-impeachment arguments, though, comes right out of an old Western; as the lawmen used to say about the cattle-rustling varmint after he was caught, 'Hanging's too good for him.' In this case, impeachment is seen as too rarefied, too technical a proceeding to end Trumpism."
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
Gopnik writes: "A point common to all the anti-impeachment arguments, though, comes right out of an old Western; as the lawmen used to say about the cattle-rustling varmint after he was caught, 'Hanging's too good for him.' In this case, impeachment is seen as too rarefied, too technical a proceeding to end Trumpism."
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Elliott Abrams. (photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Elliott Abrams Threatens Still More Sanctions Against Venezuela
Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would 'expand the net' of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government."
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Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle, Reuters
Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative for Venezuela pledged on Thursday that Washington would 'expand the net' of sanctions on the South American nation, including more on banks supporting President Nicolas Maduro's government."
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Paul Manafort. (photo: Getty Images)
I'm a Public Defender. My Clients Get None of the Sympathy Manafort Did.
Rachel Marshall, The Washington Post
Marshall writes: "When I heard Paul Manafort had been sentenced to a mere 47 months in prison for eight criminal charges involving extensive tax and bank fraud, I thought back to my first client, a man I represented in 2010 through a Stanford Law School clinic that challenged life sentences imposed for minor offenses."
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Rachel Marshall, The Washington Post
Marshall writes: "When I heard Paul Manafort had been sentenced to a mere 47 months in prison for eight criminal charges involving extensive tax and bank fraud, I thought back to my first client, a man I represented in 2010 through a Stanford Law School clinic that challenged life sentences imposed for minor offenses."
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A detention center. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
More Than 2,000 Migrants Quarantined in US Detention Centers Due to Disease Outbreaks
Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
Excerpt: "In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. 'When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,' Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall."
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Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
Excerpt: "In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. 'When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,' Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall."
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Governor Gary Herbert of Utah. (photo: Fred Hayes/Getty Images)
After Gutting Conversion Therapy Bill, Utah Governor Apologizes to LGBTQ Youth
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "A group of young LGBTQ activists in Utah staged a sit-in outside the governor's office on Thursday evening to demand an apology, after a bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth died in the state legislature."
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Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "A group of young LGBTQ activists in Utah staged a sit-in outside the governor's office on Thursday evening to demand an apology, after a bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth died in the state legislature."
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Opposition protesters confronted police in Caracas ahead of the march. (photo: Reuters)
Electric Power Returns to Part, but Not All, of Venezuela as Protests Loom
BBC
Excerpt: "President Nicolás Maduro and the US-backed opposition trying to oust him have blamed each other for the outage."
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BBC
Excerpt: "President Nicolás Maduro and the US-backed opposition trying to oust him have blamed each other for the outage."
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'To the mature Thoreau, wildness was an entanglement of different realities and more of an attitude than an attribute.' (photo: Matteo Colombo/DigitalVision/Getty Images)
Thoreau's Great Insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness Is an Attitude, Not a Place
Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation
Thorson writes: "When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that 'In Wildness is the preservation of the world.' This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau first read it during a lecture in 1851. A century later, however, it had become a guiding mantra for the American environmental movement, adopted by the Sierra Club as its motto and launched into the cultural stratosphere via bumper stickers, T-shirts and posters."
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Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation
Thorson writes: "When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that 'In Wildness is the preservation of the world.' This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau first read it during a lecture in 1851. A century later, however, it had become a guiding mantra for the American environmental movement, adopted by the Sierra Club as its motto and launched into the cultural stratosphere via bumper stickers, T-shirts and posters."
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Following the Chicken Hawks
Political pundits believe that the attention span and memory of voters is short.
That's seems of doubtful accuracy.
When the drums were beat to invade the Middle East and create the chaos which we have caused, those who spoke against it were vilified, called 'Unpatriotic,' marginalized. Faux News told you all about the Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMD] and Yellow Cake even as those reports was discredited in international media.
Not one of the 'NeoCons' beating the drums has ever served in the military, has ever been under fire or subjected to military combat. They're called 'Chicken Hawks.'
Check this out for a more complete list:
Chickenhawk Hall of Shame
...a chickenhawk: choosing to “support” war, while also choosing not to serve in the military. His motto becomes: “Let’s you and him go fight; I’ll hold your coat.”
Now that we've squandered our budget surplus fighting oil wars without reason and tax cuts for the wealthy, the NeoCons slink out of the woodwork to oppose Senator Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense.
There may be reasons to oppose Chuck Hagel, but when the NeoCons villify him, just maybe he's the right guy.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
If the neocons in the GOP who brought us the Iraqi war and conjured up “weapons of mass destruction” to justify it are against Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary, Hagel gets bonus points in my book.
They’re the hawkish, bellicose bunch in the Republican Party — William Kristol, Richard Perle, and Ellott Abrams — who shaped DIck Cheney’s and Don Rumsfeld’s disastrous foreign policy.
These are also the people who have supported Israel’s rightward lurch in recent years. They don’t want a two-state solution. They eschew any possibility of talks with Hamas or Iran. They favor building more settlements in the West Bank.
Yes, it was dumb for Hagel to use the term “Jewish lobby” instead of “Israel lobby,” but that alone shouldn’t disqualify him. Everyone in official Washington knows how much power is wielded in that city by the Sheldon Adelsons of American politics who think Israel can do no wrong.
The problem is Washington pays too little attention to the large number of Americans — Jewish and non-Jewish — who think Israel is doing a lot that’s wrong, and worry that the path it’s on threatens its long-term survival.
The real question is what Hagel believes about the appropriate use of American power.
That the neocons hate him is the best sign yet that Chuck Hagel may be the right person for the job.
http://robertreich.org/post/40610140843
When It Comes to War, Bush is an Inaction Figure
That's seems of doubtful accuracy.
When the drums were beat to invade the Middle East and create the chaos which we have caused, those who spoke against it were vilified, called 'Unpatriotic,' marginalized. Faux News told you all about the Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMD] and Yellow Cake even as those reports was discredited in international media.
Not one of the 'NeoCons' beating the drums has ever served in the military, has ever been under fire or subjected to military combat. They're called 'Chicken Hawks.'
Check this out for a more complete list:
Chickenhawk Hall of Shame
...a chickenhawk: choosing to “support” war, while also choosing not to serve in the military. His motto becomes: “Let’s you and him go fight; I’ll hold your coat.”
Now that we've squandered our budget surplus fighting oil wars without reason and tax cuts for the wealthy, the NeoCons slink out of the woodwork to oppose Senator Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense.
There may be reasons to oppose Chuck Hagel, but when the NeoCons villify him, just maybe he's the right guy.
The Neocons vs. Chuck Hagel
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
If the neocons in the GOP who brought us the Iraqi war and conjured up “weapons of mass destruction” to justify it are against Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary, Hagel gets bonus points in my book.
They’re the hawkish, bellicose bunch in the Republican Party — William Kristol, Richard Perle, and Ellott Abrams — who shaped DIck Cheney’s and Don Rumsfeld’s disastrous foreign policy.
These are also the people who have supported Israel’s rightward lurch in recent years. They don’t want a two-state solution. They eschew any possibility of talks with Hamas or Iran. They favor building more settlements in the West Bank.
Yes, it was dumb for Hagel to use the term “Jewish lobby” instead of “Israel lobby,” but that alone shouldn’t disqualify him. Everyone in official Washington knows how much power is wielded in that city by the Sheldon Adelsons of American politics who think Israel can do no wrong.
The problem is Washington pays too little attention to the large number of Americans — Jewish and non-Jewish — who think Israel is doing a lot that’s wrong, and worry that the path it’s on threatens its long-term survival.
The real question is what Hagel believes about the appropriate use of American power.
That the neocons hate him is the best sign yet that Chuck Hagel may be the right person for the job.
http://robertreich.org/post/40610140843
When It Comes to War, Bush is an Inaction Figure
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