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Juan Cole | Bannon Must Go, but After That, Protesters Should Listen to Bernie
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Of course Trump needs to fire Bannon, whose propaganda for the Far Right in the past decade led directly to the Vanilla ISIS car-killing in Charlottesville. But more importantly, the people with genuine grievances about lack of jobs and lack of opportunity and lack of dignity need to be taught how to get those things in a positive way."
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Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Of course Trump needs to fire Bannon, whose propaganda for the Far Right in the past decade led directly to the Vanilla ISIS car-killing in Charlottesville. But more importantly, the people with genuine grievances about lack of jobs and lack of opportunity and lack of dignity need to be taught how to get those things in a positive way."
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CEO Kenneth Frazier Resigns From White House Council, Cites Trump’s Silence on White Supremacy
Bill Chappell, NPR News
Chappell writes: "Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier is leaving President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, saying, 'I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.'"
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Bill Chappell, NPR News
Chappell writes: "Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier is leaving President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, saying, 'I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.'"
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For Media, Driving Into a Crowd of Protesters Is a ‘Clash’
Adam Johnson, FAIR Media
Johnson writes: "The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as 'clashes.'"
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Adam Johnson, FAIR Media
Johnson writes: "The Washington Post, Boston Globe, AOL News, The Hill, BBC and Sky News UK all chose to frame the ramming of a car into anti-fascist protesters as 'clashes.'"
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Why Are Drug Prices so High? These Politicians Might Have the Answer
David Sirota, Josh Keefe and Lydia O'Neil, The International Business Times
Excerpt: "Why do Americans continue to pay the highest prices for medicine in the world? The answer lies in the fact that lawmakers have sculpted specific policies, often not found in many other nations, that boost pharmaceutical industry profits. Meanwhile, the drug industry has spent $61 million on state elections and nearly $67 million on federal elections since 2010."
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David Sirota, Josh Keefe and Lydia O'Neil, The International Business Times
Excerpt: "Why do Americans continue to pay the highest prices for medicine in the world? The answer lies in the fact that lawmakers have sculpted specific policies, often not found in many other nations, that boost pharmaceutical industry profits. Meanwhile, the drug industry has spent $61 million on state elections and nearly $67 million on federal elections since 2010."
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Fox News Host Delivers Speech Arguing America Isn’t Racist—Seconds Later, He Proves Himself Wrong
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "On Sunday’s edition of Watters World, the eponymous host launched into a lengthy argument defending Trump’s silence on the white supremacists. Watters claimed the President was simply 'looking at this from a big picture perspective in the large context of hatred in America.' According to Waters, Trump was under no obligation to call out white supremacists, even after a woman was murdered, because the bigger problem is 'left-wing radicals who have terrorized this country.'"
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Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "On Sunday’s edition of Watters World, the eponymous host launched into a lengthy argument defending Trump’s silence on the white supremacists. Watters claimed the President was simply 'looking at this from a big picture perspective in the large context of hatred in America.' According to Waters, Trump was under no obligation to call out white supremacists, even after a woman was murdered, because the bigger problem is 'left-wing radicals who have terrorized this country.'"
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Latin America Rejects US Military Threat in Venezuela
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Several Latin American nations have come out strongly against US President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention to solve the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela."
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Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "Several Latin American nations have come out strongly against US President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention to solve the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela."
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Sierra Club Sues US Energy Department Over Power Grid Study
Timothy Gardner, Reuters
Gardner writes: "Environmental group the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Energy Department on Monday in hopes of forcing it to reveal the groups it has consulted in conducting an eagerly awaited study on the electricity grid."
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Timothy Gardner, Reuters
Gardner writes: "Environmental group the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Energy Department on Monday in hopes of forcing it to reveal the groups it has consulted in conducting an eagerly awaited study on the electricity grid."
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