Marc Ash | The Strategy of the Democratic Right Is Divide and Conquer the Left

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Marc Ash | The Strategy of the Democratic Right Is Divide and Conquer the Left 

Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "So if two thirds the Democratic voters want to nominate a progressive candidate for President and Democratic leadership wants a conservative, corporate-friendly nominee, what is Democratic leadership to do?"
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Debate has raged within Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Democratic caucus over whether to begin impeaching the president. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Peter Wade | New Poll Shows 10-Point Spike In Support for Impeachment Hearings
Peter Wade, Rolling Stone
Wade writes: "The number of Americans who support the start of impeachment hearings now for President Donald Trump is up 10 percentage points since May."
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Patrick Shanahan, Acting Defense Secretary, testifying before Congress in April. (photo: Erin Schaff/NYT)

Shanahan Withdraws as Trump's Defense Pick as Domestic Incidents Resurface
Zachary Cohen, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Michael Warren, CNN
Excerpt: "President Donald Trump said Tuesday that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has 'decided not to go forward with his confirmation process.'"
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Elizabeth Lederer, left, the prosecutor in the trial of the Central Park Five in 1990, with Linda Fairstein, an assistant district attorney and chief of the sex crimes prosecution unit in Manhattan. (photo: Chester Higgins, Jr./NYT)

ALSO SEE: Trump Will Not Apologize for Calling for
Death Penalty Over Central Park Five

Trump Suggests the Wrongfully Convicted Central Park Five Are Guilty
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laughland writes: "Donald Trump has again suggested that the wrongfully convicted teenagers in the Central Park Five case are guilty, and has declined to apologize for taking out print ads in 1989 that called for their execution."
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A message from the president this week promising millions of deportations has unnerved immigrant communities across the country. (photo: Melissa Lyttle/NYT)

As Trump Threatens Deportations, Immigrant Communities Brace for New Arrests
Miriam Jordan and Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times
Excerpt: "The sight of an unmarked vehicle with tinted windows idling a few days ago near her business in a Latino enclave of New Orleans unsettled Claudia, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been parking in the community lately, her neighbors said, and everyone was wondering what they were up to."
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Women protest Quebec's new Bill 21 in Montreal. (photo: Reuters)

Quebec Bans Wearing Religious Clothing in Public Sector Jobs
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Canada's Quebec province has voted on Sunday a law to ban employees working in some public sectors from wearing religious symbols or garments at work. This legislation provoked disapproval among civil liberties organizations and Muslim groups."
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Climate scientist Steffen Olsen took this picture while traveling across melted sea ice in north-west Greenland. (photo: Steffen Olsen)

Photograph Lays Bare Reality of Melting Greenland Sea Ice
BBC News
Excerpt: "The stunning picture may seem typical enough of the Danish territory. What's beneath their feet - a shallow pool of crystal-blue water - is anything but."
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Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted view post on FAIR.org Once again the Washington Post (5/14/19) presents the United States as “drifting toward war”—this time with Iran. by Janine Jackson The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19)  had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism.” If we can still call things “surreal,” that would describe watching corporate media do the same things they did in the run-up to the Iraq War, things they later disavowed: the credulous repetition of administration claims about the supposed threat; the reliance, for interpretation  of “intelligence,”  on officials with well known records for manipulating intelligence; the stenographic reporting of ‘troubling’ actions by the enemy state, that later have to be walked back. A May 13 New York Times piece led with the statement that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan had “presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said.” As researcher Derek Davison reminds, in a piece for LobeLog (5/14/19), there is, as the Times has acknowledged on other occasions, no evidence that Iran is working on nuclear weapons, at whatever pace. Later, the piece says: Some senior American officials said the plans, even at a very preliminary stage, show how dangerous the threat from Iran has become. Others, who are urging a diplomatic resolution to the current tensions, said it amounts to a scare tactic to warn Iran against new aggressions. So that’s both sides; Iran is a dangerous threat or it needs to be prevented from “new aggressions,” though the piece doesn’t name any previous ones. Indeed, the Times quotes and leaves unremarked the claim from a National Security Council spokesperson that “the president has been clear, the United States does not seek military conflict with Iran…. However, Iran’s default option for 40 years has been violence”—a frankly mind-boggling statement that surely warranted more than frictionless transmission. At the very end of the article, Davison reports, the Times throws in that National Security Advisor John Bolton has been pushing for war on Iran since the George W. Bush administration, and has already asked the Pentagon to plan for a military strike at least once, before these new supposed “troubling” moves from the country.  But by that point, readers may have concluded that Iran is an emboldened rogue state, threatening the US and pursuing nuclear weapons—and the revelation that Bolton is trying to drum up a war with them might sound less unreasonable. Featured image: New York Times depiction of the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf (photo: US Navy).

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18 February 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News ONLY 7 DONATIONS SO FAR FOR MONDAY! - Bad day in progress. A few dozen $30 donations converts that to a good day. Need some love and attention here. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Michael T. Klare | War With China? It's Already Underway  Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch Klare writes: "As the world's top two emitters of climate-altering greenhouse gases, the U.S. and China must work together to halt global warming or all of us are doomed to a hellish future. With a war under way, even a non-shooting one, the chance for such collaboration is essentially zero." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation