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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

FOCUS: Michael Moore | Everything From Trump and Cronies About Iran Is a Lie




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FOCUS: Michael Moore | Everything From Trump and Cronies About Iran Is a Lie
Michael Moore. (photo: The New York Times)
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Moore writes: I'm telling you, this Soleimani was planning no attack on America. It's all made up by Trump."

he retaliation by Iran has begun. I pray that our sons & daughters in the armed forces are ok. I trust and expect that Iran will keep its promise and kill no American civilians.
Remember—everything you hear from Trump and his cronies about Iran, like everything else he says, is a lie. Thankfully many in the media tonight are saying the same thing regarding his lies about this war. We must resist. We must speak out. We must NOT repeat the lies.
It amazes me that Iran has never attacked this country, never bombed or blew up anything in our country, never killed Americans on this soil, never tried to destroy us — CONSIDERING WHAT WE HAVE DONE TO THEM, an absolute and utterly devastating 70-year history of the USA orchestrating a coup to overthrow the DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED government of Iran (1953), our CIA installing a dictator, whom we anointed as the “Shah of Iran”. He ruled for 25 years as a brutal thug - torture, murder, prisons were filled with the opposition. The people finally rose up in revolution in 1979, they overthrew our puppet Shah and held US hostages for a year. But didn’t kill them. Released them one minute after Reagan was inaugurated. A year later we helped our ally, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, invade Iran. After eight years of war, we had helped Iraq kill nearly a million Iranians. Afterwards we put sanctions and embargoes on the Iranian people, making them suffer even more. They had OUR oil and we were never going to stop putting the screws to them. When we invaded Iraq in 2003, though, Iran saw that they were next, so they jumped in to help the Iraqis kill the invaders — just as we would if Iran invaded Canada. We would send our General Soleimani to Canada and kill as many Iranians as possible. That’s what the real Soleimani did in Iraq — help kill the invaders, the Americans. As would we do. I’m not excusing or justifying anything, I’m just speaking common sense. If you illegally invade another country and kill its civilians, expect to be killed yourself by anyone in the neighborhood because you have no goddamn right to be there.
I’m telling you, this Soleimani was planning no attack on America. It’s all made up by Trump.






Wednesday, January 1, 2020

FOCUS: Michael Moore on Trump, 2020 and Why “the Old, Angry White Guy” Doesn’t Represent the Working Class





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FOCUS: Michael Moore on Trump, 2020 and Why “the Old, Angry White Guy” Doesn’t Represent the Working Class
Michael Moore. (photo: The New York Times)
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "The majority of the working class in this country are women. The majority are of color, and they are young."

His comments prompted President Donald Trump to respond on Twitter, “He made [the] same prediction in 2016. Nobody ever said Michael was stupid!” But Moore’s comments went further than Trump’s tweet alluded to. He said the working class in the United States is mostly women, people of color and young people — all groups who tend to vote Democratic. Moore, who supports Bernie Sanders, said Democrats can win if they focus on these voters and on bold proposals like Medicare for All.












Sunday, December 29, 2019

Michael Moore: Sanders Can Beat Trump in 2020




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Michael Moore: Sanders Can Beat Trump in 2020
Filmmaker Michael Moore. (photo: Sacha Lecca)
Marina Pitofsky, The Hill
Pitofsky writes: "Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, a frequent critic of President Trump, believes Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) can defeat the president heading into the 2020 election."
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U.S. aluminum producers have seen their costs rise thanks to the tariffs. (photo: Bryan Woolston/Reuters)
U.S. aluminum producers have seen their costs rise thanks to the tariffs. (photo: Bryan Woolston/Reuters

Fed Study Finds Trump Tariffs Backfired
Greg Robb, MarketWatch
Robb writes: "President Donald Trump's strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week."
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Voters in Georgia. (photo: Mike Stewart/AP)
Voters in Georgia. (photo: Mike Stewart/AP)

Georgia Does Not Have to Put 100,000 Voters Back on Rolls, Judge Rules
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Georgia doesn't have to put almost 100,000 voters back on its rolls, a federal judge ruled Friday."
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From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, Rep. llhan Omar, D-MN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-MA. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, Rep. llhan Omar, D-MN, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-MA. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

The Progressive Caucus Doesn't Want to Just Be a Social Club Anymore
Addy Baird, BuzzFeed
Baird writes: "In January 2019, newly elected progressives stormed into the halls of Congress, demanding that the Democratic Party move to the left on health care, economic and racial justice, and climate issues."
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Migrant looking over the Rio Grande river on International Bridge 1 Las Americas, a legal port of entry which connects Laredo, Texas, in the U.S. with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. (photo: Marco Ugarte/AP)
Migrant looking over the Rio Grande river on International Bridge 1 Las Americas, a legal port of entry which connects Laredo, Texas, in the U.S. with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. (photo: Marco Ugarte/AP)

Congolese Woman Dies After Entering US Border Custody
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "A Congolese woman seeking asylum died on Christmas Day in United States government custody shortly after she entered a border station in South Texas, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has said."

Deaths in CBP custody
At least 11 people died this year after entering CBP's custody, according to statements posted on the agency's website.


Family of victims of the Rio Negro massacres of the early 1980s in Guatemala take part in a Mayan ceremony outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, before a trial in 2012. (photo: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty Images)
Family of victims of the Rio Negro massacres of the early 1980s in Guatemala take part in a Mayan ceremony outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, before a trial in 2012. (photo: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty Images)

As Guatemala Pursues War Criminals, a Dark Secret Emerges: Some Suspects Are Living Quiet Lives in the US
Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post
Sieff writes: "For years, Francisco Cuxum Alvarado lived a quiet life outside Boston, working as a landscaper, part of a large and well-regarded local Guatemalan community."

“In the 1990s to the mid-2000s, Guatemala was the land of impunity,” Burt said. “There were very few investigations into war crimes, and there was no sharing of information with the United States government about who was accused of what.”
It was during that period that many alleged Guatemalan war criminals fled to the United States. Some, such as Cuxum Alvarado and Samayoa Cabrera, applied for asylum and were denied but remained in the United States illegally afterward.
The United States backed the Guatemalan military during the civil war, which raged from 1960 to 1996, viewing it as a nearby front in the Cold War. Tens of thousands of Guatemalans were killed. When the conflict ended, Washington did little to support nascent efforts to create a war-crimes tribunal.
In 1979, the U.S. Justice Department created an office of special investigations to locate and deport former Nazis. The unit expanded to search for other alleged war criminals who had entered the United States.
But information about the Guatemalans remained limited until the 2000s, when the Central American country began holding its own trials of former military commanders. By then, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had created its own unit to hunt down foreign fugitives in the United States, including Cuxum Alvarado.
But while Cuxum Alvarado worked as a landscaper in Waltham, two separate cases were forming against him in Guatemala. One was brought by 36 women, who accused him and about a dozen other men of mass rape of indigenous Maya Achi women in and around the municipality of Rabinal. Another involved the killing of indigenous people in the same area.
The case of sexual assault advanced through the courts first. In court testimony, four women said they were raped by Cuxum Alvarado. Two said he participated in brutal gang rapes.
One woman interviewed by attorneys said Cuxum Alvarado took her “to a military house and raped her while threatening that if she resisted she would hang from the bloodied ropes that had been used to hang the men from Rio Negro” — referencing the massacres of indigenous Guatemalans by security personnel during the war.
The woman was pregnant at the time.

A koala. (photo: Getty Images)
A koala. (photo: Getty Images)

Thousands of Koalas Feared Dead in Australia Wildfires
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia's iconic marsupial, while the fire danger accelerated Saturday in the country's east as temperatures soared."

“Up to 30 percent of their habitat has been destroyed,” Environment Minister Sussan Ley told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “We’ll know more when the fires are calmed down and a proper assessment can be made.”
Images shared of koalas drinking water after being rescued from the wildfires have gone viral on social media in recent days.
“I get mail from all around the world from people absolutely moved and amazed by our wildlife volunteer response and also by the habits of these curious creatures,” Ley said.
About 12.35 million acres of land have burned nationwide during the wildfire crisis, with nine people killed and more than 1,000 homes destroyed.








Saturday, December 28, 2019

FOCUS | Michael Moore: Trump Could Win in 2020 (The Sequel)





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FOCUS | Michael Moore: Trump Could Win in 2020 (The Sequel)
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Excerpt: "We will win when we put somebody on that ballot that excites the base - women, people of color, young people."









Monday, December 23, 2019

FOCUS: Michael Moore | The Billionaire Class Is VERY, VERY Upset




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FOCUS: Michael Moore | The Billionaire Class Is VERY, VERY Upset
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Moore writes: "I experience daily amusement at the billionaire class and its media working overtime to ignore the fact that Bernie is at or near the top of every single poll in this race."

The LAST thing they want the general public to hear is that Bernie has been #1 in polls for young adults and Latino voters, and in just the last month has been #1 in Iowa, #1 in New Hampshire, #1 in Nevada and now #1 in California.
They are very, very upset...
Because it used to be that those were the people who determined winners and losers. It was just the way it always was. A bunch of rich people would get into a room, share expensive food and drinks, and determine who would have the resources needed to win a presidential primary.
Those days are over, and they HATE it.
They hate that working people now have the power to come together and collectively ensure campaigns like Bernie’s — campaigns that actually fight for them — can out-raise them.
And the billionaire class wants to take that power back to ensure Democrats nominate someone who will represent their interests, as if they don’t have it good enough already.
Well, we can’t let them. We have to keep fighting. We have to keep exercising OUR power. Because if we do, Bernie is going to win.
There’s always been obscenely wealthy people in this country who have extraordinary power, but they won’t have the ability to pull the strings here once we understand that we actually hold the true power.
We build this power through volunteering, through talking to your friends and family, and through your contributions.
Thank you for reading.
In solidarity,
Michael Moore