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William Boardman | Megadeaths From America - Yemen Is the Worst Case Among Many 

William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "As Americans get ready for Thanksgiving 2017 over-eating, their government is on the verge of successfully starving millions of Yemenis to death by siege warfare."
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Jeff Sessions Says He 'Always Told the Truth' in Describing Russia Contacts
Matt Zapotosky and Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he has 'always told the truth' in describing his knowledge of Trump campaign contacts with Russians, although he acknowledged that he now recalls an interaction with a lower-level adviser to Donald Trump who said he told Sessions about contacts who could help arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladi­mir Putin."
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Female Democrat Says at Least Two Current Members Engaged in Sexual Harassment
Cristina Marcos, The Hill
Excerpt: "In fact, there are two members of Congress, Republican and Democrat, right now, who serve, who have been subject to review or have not been subject to review, but have engaged in sexual harassment."
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When the Trump Administration Cracks Down on Asylum Claims, These Are the People Hurt the Most
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Yu Hsi Lee writes: "Ella's story is indicative of the kind of issues that asylum seekers are running into more frequently under the Trump administration."
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Roy Moore's Local Mall Reportedly Banned Him for Harassing Teenage Girls
Elizabeth Elizalde, New York Daily News
Elizalde writes: "Residents of Senate candidate Roy Moore's Alabama hometown often heard rumors that he would linger at the Gadsden Mall and was banned for flirting with young girls."
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Hanan Ashrawi Says Israel Is Attempting to 'Eradicate' Palestinians
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO's executive committee, noted that 'Israel's colonization and ethnic cleansing policies are based on theft - the theft of Palestinian lands, resources and lives.'"
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Effects of Increased CO2 Levels on Diet Hit Poorer Populations Most
Arshad M. Khan, teleSUR
Excerpt: "Rising global temperatures and the consequent extreme weather events and changes in climate patterns impact production, distribution and potential for spoilage."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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RSN; Tension Building Between Trump and Kelly

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Tension Building Between Trump and Kelly

Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month's raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence."
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Trump Letter Justifying Comey Firing Could Expose Vice President Pence to Legal Trouble
David Boddiger, Splinter
Boddiger writes: "A New York Times report about an early draft letter that Donald Trump and aide Stephen Miller allegedly wrote to justify the firing of former FBI Director James Comey could have legal consequences for Vice President Mike Pence, some legal experts say."
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David Leonhardt | Deporting Dreamers
David Leonhardt, The New York Times
Leonhardt writes: "Immigration hard-liners have the benefit of being able to make a very clear case: The United States should enforce its laws."
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Labor Activists Are Planning 400 Protests This Labor Day to Demand a $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage
Max Greenwood, The Hill
Greenwood writes: "Labor activists are targeting politicians across the country - and particularly in the Midwest - on Labor Day with protests demanding a $15-an-hour minimum wage."
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After US-Supported Airstrike in Yemen, This Little Girl Is Family's Only Survivor
Khaled Abdullah, Reuters
Abdullah writes: "Her bruised eyes still swollen shut, Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be four or five, doesn't yet know that her parents, five siblings and uncle were killed when an air strike flattened their home in Yemen's capital."
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Scorched-Earth Policy as Rohingya Flee Myanmar Soldiers
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's restive northwest in the last week, as tens of thousands more refugees fled into Bangladesh over the past 24 hours."
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Greenpeace and Indigenous Water Protectors Respond to Lawsuit Accusing DAPL Activists of Eco-Terrorism
Annie Leonard, Tara Houska and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "We examine the corporate crackdown on environmental activists challenging the fossil fuel industry and human-driven climate change. The company that owns the Dakota Access pipeline - Energy Transfer Partners - has sued Greenpeace International and other environmental groups, accusing them of inciting 'eco-terrorism.'"
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RSN: Monsanto Ground Breaking Sparks Local Backlash: 120 Jobs Not Worth 'Toxic Company in Your Backyard'

The former Southern Confederate States have fiercely clung to HATE, RACISM and perpetuated IGNORANCE, governed by REPUBLICANS to their detriment. 

NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS epitomize what the Republican Party has become. 

Even with GOP Rigged Elections, North Carolina finally managed to elect a Democratic Governor that Republicans seek to undermine. 



Judges Halt North Carolina GOP's Move to Undercut New Dem Governor and Nominated Cabinet 
Reid Wilson, The Hill 
Wilson writes: "In a brief ruling issued Wednesday, the three-judge panel of state judges placed on hold a law that would have required Gov. Roy Cooper's (D) nominees to head state Cabinet agencies to undergo confirmation hearings before the state legislature ahead of a planned hearing on Friday." 
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A DAILY STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM - Is what our work at RSN has become. It's real, it's pervasive and most people would rather not look at it. This is a pretty serious battle against some pretty serious people. A budget would be a big help. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News

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Amy Davidson | The Ninth Circuit and President Trump's Lies 
 
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker 
Davidson writes: "If there was a single question at the center of Tuesday afternoon's hearings on President Trump's executive order keeping people from seven Muslim-majority nations and all refugees out of the country, it was this: Do the courts, or the American people, have any recourse when the President lies?" 
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Activists Plan Emergency Actions Across the Country to Protest Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline 
Alleen Brown, The Intercept 
Brown writes: "The easement announcement on Tuesday is already activating pipeline opponents to return. A 'couple thousand people' are headed back to the camps, including contingents of veterans, said former congressional candidate Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the tribe, in a video posted to Facebook." 
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How Dare Trump Use My Daughter's Death to Further His Brutal Agenda 
Rosie Ayliffe, Guardian UK 
Ayliffe writes: "If I can find the strength to do this, surely some White House minion with a list to compile could take the trouble to get the facts right: Mia and Tom's deaths were not committed out of some misguided interpretation of the Qur'an." 
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Judges Halt North Carolina GOP's Move to Undercut New Dem Governor and Nominated Cabinet 
Reid Wilson, The Hill 
Wilson writes: "In a brief ruling issued Wednesday, the three-judge panel of state judges placed on hold a law that would have required Gov. Roy Cooper's (D) nominees to head state Cabinet agencies to undergo confirmation hearings before the state legislature ahead of a planned hearing on Friday." 
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The Racist History of Incarceration That Donald Trump Is Threatening to Repeat 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Yu Hsi Lee writes: "As thousands of people gathered at airports across the country to rally against U.S. immigration officials for blocking entry to people with valid visas, some Japanese Americans wondered out loud whether the U.S. government had learned anything from its history." 
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Yemen's Food Crisis: 'We Are Broken, We Die Either From Bombing or Hunger' 
Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Ahmad Algohbary, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "On Wednesday, the UN launched a $2.1bn appeal to prevent famine in the Arab world's poorest nation, where nearly 3.3 million people - including 2.1 million children - are acutely malnourished." 
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Monsanto Ground Breaking Sparks Local Backlash: 120 Jobs Not Worth 'Toxic Company in Your Backyard' 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: " Monsanto has officially broken ground on a $975 million expansion to its Luling plant in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. The facility will manufacture dicamba, a controversial herbicide used in the company's new XtendiMax weedkiller for GMO soybeans and cotton. Despite the company's promise to bring 120 new full-time jobs to the area, it seems many locals are unhappy with the project." 
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CounterCurrents: Chelsea Manning to walk free, A day to rejoice!

Dear Friend,

It is a day we all must rejoice. Whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s 35 year prison sentence was commuted by President Obama. All we can say is that at last justice is served.

If we count the US imperial wars or proxy imperial wars going on around the world, we will lose count. It's sad that we can't keep track of all of them on a daily basis. Some come to the fore when some shocking truths come to the fore. So is the case of the failed state of Yemen. The UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has said that the death toll in the Yemeni war had reached 10,000, up from the previous figure of 7,000.

Post-Truth is a cuss word thrown around everywhere without thinking about the meaning and impact of the word. Prof Ranjit Goswami throws light on the word  and argues that "post-truth does not carry the same meaning and context across the world. Each nation and each society, politically and socially, has its individual interpretation of post-truth political world and its impact on the social and the economic landscape."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the importance of ‘humour and satire’ at a memorial for the late Cho Ramaswamy.  Satya Sagar takes the cue from Modi and writes a wonderful satirical piece on demonetisation. 

Ugo Bardi interprets  growth through the life an amoeba. 

Dwelling on the same topic and connecting it with corporate greed, Emily Spence had written an article in CC on 29 June, 2007. She concluded the article thus "Whether against grievous government practices or those carried out in corporate boardrooms, critical transformations will, eventually, occur when enough people band together to resist grave wrongdoings. Let us, too, remember about what happens when we forget that we are all in these circumstances together. Martin Niemöller spelled out the consequences quite well." It's still relevant now. Do have a read http://www.countercurrents.org/spence290607.htm
And also more stories from around the world. 

If you don't mind, and if you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter here http://www.countercurrents.org/news-letter/. 

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Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/obama-commutes-chelsea-mannings-sentence/

President Barack Obama has commuted noted whistleblower Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence, and Manning will be released on May 17 of this year. Human rights defenders, government watchdogs, and LGBTQ advocates have long been pushing Obama to commute Manning’s 35-year sentence, particularly as Manning, who is transgender and is being denied appropriate healthcare in military prison, has attempted suicide twice in the past six months.





Post-Truth Is A ‘Relative’ Concept; India Experiencing It For Years
by Prof Ranjit Goswami 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/post-truth-is-a-relative-concept-india-experiencing-it-for-years/

Post-truth does not carry the same meaning and context across the world. Each nation and each society, politically and socially, has its individual interpretation of post-truth political world and its impact on the social and the economic landscape. Following Einstein’s theory of relativity, it is a relativistic term.






Modis Operandi: When India Went ‘Keshless’
by Satya Sagar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/modis-operandi-when-india-went-keshless/

The year was 2018 and in an emotional address on primetime TV, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had exhorted his countrymen to part with all their hair to ‘Save the Nation’. There was simply no precedent, in all of world history, for such a ‘barberous’ policy. The new rules were in fact announced on 8 November 2018 – exactly two years after Modi’s shocking demonetisation decree . “Mitron!Brothers and Sisters! We need every patriotic Indian to sacrifice their black hair to strike terrorism at its very roots”





Yemen War Death Toll Reaches 10,000
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/yemen-war-death-toll-reaches-10000/

The UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has said that the death toll in the Yemeni war had reached 10,000, up from the previous figure of 7,000.





Yemen: Obama’s Parting Gift To Terror
by Thomas C Mountain 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/yemen-obamas-parting-gift-to-terror/

Barack Obama saved his parting gift to terror, his worst crime, for last, the War on the Yemeni People. Obama’s last war has institutionalized a failed state and which will continue to inflict terror and suffering on 25 million Yemenis for generations to come.





Amelie The Amoeba: How Things Grow
by Ugo Bardi 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/amelie-the-amoeba-how-things-grow/

Interpreting growth through the life an amoeba 






NATO And Obsolescence: Donald Trump And The History Of An Alliance
by Dr Binoy Kampmark 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/nato-and-obsolescence-donald-trump-and-the-history-of-an-alliance/

Trump’s comments, for all their worth, will have to bear up against the views of his own appointee for Defense Secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis. As he reasoned in his Senate confirmation hearing last week, “If we didn’t have NATO today, we’d need to create it.  NATO is vital to our interests.”






The Balancing Act Is Over: What Elor Azaria Taught Us About Israel 
by Dr Ramzy Baroud

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/the-balancing-act-is-over-what-elor-azaria-taught-us-about-israel/

For some, the ‘manslaughter’ conviction – following the murder by Israeli army medic, Elor Azaria, of already incapacitated Palestinian man, Fattah al-Sharif – is finally settling a protracted debate regarding where Israelis stand on Palestinian human rights.






Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
by Ish N Mishra 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/thomas-hobbes-1588-1679/

Thomas Hobbes, a political biography






Nationalism And The Egalitarian Alternatives
by Ish N Mishra 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/nationalism-and-the-egalitarian-alternatives/

Nationalism in India and other colonies emerged as the ideology of the anti colonial movements. Thus nationalism, regardless of inequalities and exploitations, is conceived as the basis of “deep, horizontal comradeship”. Earlier blood shed through wars took place in the name of religion or faith now they take in the name of nation in the national interest, though, God is not undermined.






Still No Justice For Pakistani Shipyard Workers
by Ali Mohsin 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/still-no-justice-for-pakistani-shipyard-workers/

On November 1 of last year, a horrific fire at the Gadani shipbreaking yard in the Pakistani province of Balochistan claimed the lives of at least 32 workers, leaving scores of others with life-altering injuries, including severe burns. In the more than two months since the accident, government officials have turned a blind eye to the long-suffering workers’ demands for justice and safe working conditions. Meanwhile, several more workers have been killed at Gadani in a series of accidents over the past few weeks.






Another Adivasi Student Suicide Marks Rohith Vemula’s Death Anniversary
by Samar 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/another-adivasi-student-suicide-marks-rohith-vemulas-death-anniversary/

Exactly a year after Rohith had killed himself, another student from a marginalized community had to end his life in another premier institution of the country. Not many seemed to even notice the death of Lokesh Meena, a third year student of IIT-Kharagpur.






A Year Of Continued Denial Of Justice For Rohith Vemula
by National Alliance of People’s Movements 

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/a-year-of-continued-denial-of-justice-for-rohith-vemula/

It’s a year since Rohith Vemula gave up his life in the struggle against caste discrimination and Brahminical prejudices and practices dominating spaces of Higher education in the country. His death caused a major uproar in the country and gave strength to students coming forward resisting the same and to various ongoing agitations across the country in different universities. His words still continue to haunt and remind us of the complex social structures and deep fissures and inherent inequality in the society. He said, “… the value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing…. My birth is my fatal accident….”





Behind The Hype Of E-Commerce
by Rahul Varman

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/18/behind-the-hype-of-e-commerce/

The driving force for e-commerce is corporatisation-monopolisation of disaggregated services like retail and taxi through information technology. Technology is being deployed to make the real relations of capital vis-a-vis employees, customer, and state, invisible. The State exists primarily for disciplining labour and not disciplining capital. The commanding heights of e-commerce for all practical purposes belong to finance capital. In spite of such powerful forces promoting e-commerce, it is mired in the structural constraints of the larger Indian economy 

RSN: US Special Operations Numbers Surge in Africa's Shadow Wars

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Nick Turse | US Special Operations Numbers Surge in Africa's Shadow Wars 
 
Nick Turse, The Intercept 
Turse writes: "Africa has seen the most dramatic growth in the deployment of America's elite troops of any region of the globe over the past decade, according to newly released numbers." 
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Federal Judge Blocks Obamacare Abortion, Transgender Protections 
Steve Gorman, Reuters 
Gorman writes: "A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services." 
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Planned Parenthood Takes Texas Back to Court 
Jenni Miller, New York Magazine 
Miller writes: "Planned Parenthood and several anonymous co-plaintiffs have filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop Texas from cutting the health clinics from Medicaid's network of providers." 
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Here Are Seven Ways You Can Keep Fighting for Justice in 2017 
Ijeoma Oluo, Guardian UK 
Oluo writes: "No matter how much we'd like to hide in our homes for the next four years, we know that we cannot do that. We must fight for equality and justice. But the question is: how? What action can we take in the aftermath of such a heartbreaking defeat?" 
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A Powerful New Form of Medical Marijuana, Without the High 
David Kohn, The Washington Post 
Kohn writes: "Over decades, researchers have found that THC may help treat pain, nausea, loss of appetite and other problems, while CBD was thought to be biologically inactive in humans. But in the past 10 years, scientists have concluded that CBD may be quite useful. Dozens of studies have found evidence that the compound can treat epilepsy as well as a range of other illnesses, including anxiety, schizophrenia, heart disease and cancer." 
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One Child Dies Every 10 Minutes in Yemen As Saudi-Led, US-Backed War Continues 
Mint Press News 
Excerpt: "At least 1,219 children have died as a direct result of the war in Yemen, but a desperate lack of medical supplies, bombed-out hospitals, and missing or dead medical staff are likely to cause an additional 10,000 preventable deaths each year." 
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Hazardous 9/11 Dust Made Newborn Babies Smaller 
Erika Beras, National Geographic 
Beras writes: "Fifteen years after the collapse of One World Trade Center in New York City, researchers are still learning how the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, impacted people's health." 
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