ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, One Percenters November 11, 2019

After Trump Tax Giveaways The Richest 1% Close To Topping Wealth Of Entire Middle Class

  By Mary Papenfuss HuffPost (11/9/19) As the wealth gap in the U.S. continues to widen, the top 1% of Americans are close to amassing more wealth than the entire middle class, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve, Bloomberg reports. Part of that growing divide is fueled by President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and his relentless drive for lower interest rates. The top richest Americans had assets of about $35.4 trillion in the second quarter. That’s just short of the $36.9 trillion held by the tens of millions of Americans who make up the middle and upper-middle classes…

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'Just-Us' System, ALL ARTICLES November 11, 2019

Clarence Thomas: The Surprising Worldview That Lies Within The Silent Supreme Court Justice

[Editor’s Note: This is a fascinating interview that goes a long way to explaining the conservatism of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He has been seen as an enigma by the left, but it also appears the right has not understood him properly either. Those on the far, far right might be surprised to find how much he agrees with them. — Mark L. Taylor] On The Media / WNYC (11/8/19) Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hardly the quietest member of the bench. In hundreds of opinions authored during his tenure — longer than any of his present colleagues’ —…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor November 11, 2019

Russia Monitor: Getting Ready For Wednesday Impeachment Extravaganza

  By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (11/11/19) Dear Fellow Readers, Wednesday November 13 we will see the first House hearings to Impeach Trump. I offer two news articles that confirm the entirety of Trump-Russia-Ukraine 2016-2019. We’ll see former Trump senior advisor Steve Bannon testifying at long-time Trump advisor Roger Stone’s trial that Stone was the Trump campaign ‘access point’ to WikiLeaks to not only know of Julian Assange’s plans to leak Dem communications to influence the election in favor of Trump, but also coordinate the timing of releases. Russia hacked the Dems, used Assange and WikiLeaks to handle the…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America, War State America November 11, 2019

‘Simply Barbaric’: Trump Administration Proposes Charging Asylum Fee For Refugees Fleeing Violence & Poverty

By Julia Conley Common Dreams (11/10/19) The Trump administration this coming week will formalize a proposal that could make it one of just four countries in the world that charge asylum-seekers for entry. As the New York Times reported late Friday, the administration plans to publish in the Federal Register a proposal to require a $50 application fee for asylum-seekers as well as a $490 charge for work permits. “It’s an unprecedented weaponization of government fees,” Doug Rand of the immigrant assistance company Boundless Immigration told the Times. Currently, the only countries in the world that charge asylum-seekers—who are often fleeing war, persecution, or violence in…

ALL ARTICLES, Trumpenstan November 11, 2019

Comedy Group Replaced The Covers Of Trump Jr.’s Whiny New Book

Daddy, Please Love Me: How everything I do is to earn my father’s love By Walter Einenkel Daily Kos (11/8/19) A New York City Barnes & Noble was the site of a prank performed by comedy group The Good Liars. The release of the greasiest Trump’s new memoir (which spends most of its ghost-written pages complaining about being a victim) seems to have inspired the fun. To add more context, the books were placed in a Young Adult display section at the store. I suspect most Young Adult readers and authors will be justifiably offended by the proximity of such trash writing, but the point being…

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ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Deep State, Documentaries, FEATURE, History They Don't Want You To Know, War State America November 11, 2019

Sheldon Wolin & Inverted Totalitarianism: Don’t Call It Democracy. Putting Understanding To What America Has Become

A corporate war state cannot be a democratic state. By Chris Hedges TruthDig (11/2/15) Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary political theorist, died Oct. 21 [2015] at the age of 93. In his books “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and “Politics and Vision,” a massive survey of Western political thought that his former student Cornel West calls “magisterial,” Wolin lays bare the realities of our bankrupt democracy, the causes behind the decline of American empire and the rise of a new and terrifying configuration of corporate power he calls “inverted totalitarianism.” Wendy Brown, a political…

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ALL ARTICLES, Good News November 11, 2019

Joining The Mosque I Planned To Destroy

He could have been one of America’s most notorious mass murders. Heart & Soul / BBC (11/8/19) Richard McKinney has made an extraordinary life journey – from a US veteran who planned to bomb a mosque, to a d Muslim who prays devoutly at the very Mosque he planned for 2 years to blow up. A veteran of the US Marines, Richard returned traumatised from combat in Afghanistan. That turned into a deep hatred of Islam. At his home in Muncie, Indiana, Richard was producing a device to blow up the town’s Mosque which he hoped will kill 200 people….

ALL ARTICLES November 11, 2019

‘The Answer Is Not Joe Biden’: The Nation Magazine Issues Official Anti-Endorsement

By Jon Queally Commoner Call (11/7/19) While claiming it’s still too early to make a choice between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, The Nation—among the oldest amd most widely-circulated progressive magazines in the U.S.—went public early Thursday morning with its “anti-endorsement” of the third top-tier candidate in this year’s Democratic primary race: former Vice President Joe Biden. “Biden’s long record of poor judgment—on everything from the 1994 crime bill that fueled mass incarceration to his botched handling of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas to his defense of Bill Clinton’s brutal welfare cuts to his support for the Iraq War to his…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Media Hits & Misses November 11, 2019

‘All of us are in danger’: Journalist John Pilger Delivers A Chilling Warning For Us All From Julian Assange

“The moment we fall silent it is over.” RT (9/2/19) Journalist John Pilger has delivered a stark warning from WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who said that his persecution is intended to kill dissent. “Speak up now,” Pilger said, or face “the silence of a new kind of tyranny.” Assange is currently serving a 50 week sentence in Belmarsh Prison for skipping a bail hearing in 2012. US authorities are seeking his extradition for his role in publishing classified documents, accusing him of espionage. Speaking at a rally outside the Home Office in London on Monday, Pilger passed on a message…

ALL ARTICLES November 11, 2019

Beijing Declares The Chinese Will Decide Who The Dalai Lama’s Successor Will Be

  Morning Edition Sunday / NPR (11/10/19) Thousands of Buddhists from all over the world made a pilgrimage this fall to a monastery high in India’s Himalayas. Orange-robed monks with shaved heads huddled cross-legged on the floor, as Tibetan opera singers in multicolored gowns teetered under the weight of giant silver headdresses. They carried fruit baskets as offerings and chanted in unison, all praying for the same thing: the Dalai Lama’s longevity. Tibetan Buddhists believe their spiritual leader, now 84 and ailing, will be reincarnated when he dies. He is the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism’s traditional high priest — the same…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, Rethuglicans November 7, 2019

Behind Closed Doors Wimpy Little Republicans Offer NO Defense Of Trump In Released Impeachment Depositions

Trump’s Cowardly Lions Of The Far Right. MSNBC (11/4/19) In the first batch of transcripts released from the impeachment investigation depositions, House Republicans make no attempt to defend Trump and fail to undermine the expert witnesses who testified. Link To 8-Minute Video (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2019. Open source and free for non-derivative use with link to www.thecommonercall.org ) ***** Impeachment Transcripts Expose The Shameful Truth: House Republicans Don’t Give A Damn About Protecting America By David Cay Johnston Raw Story (11/5/19) Transcripts of closed-door testimony in the Trump impeachment investigation show a disturbing pattern of behavior…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans November 7, 2019

Evangelical Money Hustler Paula White Has New White House Job & New Book, Says God Used Her to Get Trump Elected

White used Jewish holy days such as Passover and Yom Kippur this year to promise people access to special divine blessings in return for sending her money.  By Peter Montgomery Right Wing Watch (11/5/19) Just two weeks before it was revealed that President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White had officially joined the White House staff, White’s most recent book became the latest evangelical offering to portray Trump’s election as part of a divine plan. White is a prosperity gospel preacher who tells supporters that they can access divine blessings by sending money to her ministry. Her new memoir, “Something Greater: Finding Triumph Over Trials,” seems designed to humanize White by…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, FEATURE, One Percenters November 7, 2019

McDonald’s Fired CEO Is Getting Cushy $42 Million Pay Out While Many Of His Workers Depend Upon Welfare To Survive

More than half of fast-food workers rely on public assistance programs like food stamps. By Alina Selyukh NPR (11/6/19) Former McDonald’s CEO Stephen Easterbrook is getting an exit package of almost $42 million after his relationship with an employee was found to violate company policy. The size of his compensation puts a new focus on the widening gap between the pay at the top and the bottom of the corporate ladder. According to an analysis by executive-compensation experts at Equilar, Easterbrook’s exit package totals $41.8 million, which includes six months of severance pay, shares he can cash out in the future and…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan November 7, 2019

Milwaukee Mayor Blames Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric & Policies For Acid Attack Against Hispanic Citizen

    By Julia Conley Common Dreams (11/4/19) Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett said Monday that President Donald Trump is responsible for violent hate crimes like an acid attack which left a 42-year-old man with second-degree burns in the city on Friday. Mahud Villaluz told CNN affiliate WISN that a man confronted him over a parking spot, called him “an illegal,” and told him to “go back to [his] country” before throwing battery acid at him. The incident was caught on surveillance video and a 61-year-old man was arrested in connection with the crime on Monday. “My concern is that more and more people feel that…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change November 7, 2019

Warning Of Untold Human Suffering Scientists Declare A Climate Emergency

“We declare, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.” By Kyla Mandel HuffPost (11/5/19) More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries have declared a climate emergency, warning in a new report that “untold human suffering” is “unavoidable” without drastic action. The climate crisis reaches an “emergency” level, according to the study, when “business as usual” — the current action being taken (or not) by society, corporations and governments — is not enough to match the scale of what’s needed to address the situation. In order to avoid a “hothouse Earth” where runaway temperature increases beget further warming,…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor November 7, 2019

Russia Monitor: In Trump World Your Admission Of Guilt Is ‘just your opinion’.”

Trump: “If you lose, it sends a really bad message …you can’t let that happen to me.” @eddluxe: THANK YOU KENTUCKY! — Kentucky Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beshear leads Republican incumbent Matt Bevin by 5,300 votes; Trump’s comment was made at a Kentucky rally for Bevin. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (11/7/19) Is every election now a vote for/against Trump? If so, it was not a very good Tuesday for Trump, given results in Kentucky, Virginia and even Mississippi. It was also not a good Impeachment day for Trump. Trump’s EU Ambassador Ed Sondland, one of Trump’s ‘3 Amigos’ extorting Ukraine for Trump…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans, Trumpenstan November 7, 2019

Wired? Could This Explain The Highs & Lows Of Trump’s Behaviors & Impulsive Decision Making

  David Packman Show (10/7/19) Shocking pictures appear to confirm Donald Trump’s likely use of “uppers” after boxes of Sudafed [a formulation not sold in the United States] were photographed during the 2016 campaign in his Trump Tower office desk. Link To 5-Minute Video ***** MASH-UP: Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech Jimmy Kimmel Live (10/28/19) When Barack Obama went on TV to announce they killed Bin Laden, he spoke for nine and a half minutes. Trump yesterday, when he announced they killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did for 48 minutes. So, for further comparison, we thought it might…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats November 7, 2019

If Progressives Don’t Wake Up To Just How Awful Obama Was, Their Movement — And The Nation — Will Fail

If you’re an actual, real progressive and not just a latte-sipping NPR listener with a sense of self-righteousness and a pro-choice bumper sticker, you’ve got no business regarding Obama with anything but disgust. [Editor’s Note: This article was written a couple years ago and will undoubtedly piss off many dems, but they really need to read and absorb it’s message. If the dems once again elect a neoliberal progressive pretender who will blithely promise one thing and deliver the opposite we will have probably lost our last chance of redemption and survival. Feel good campaign slogans are not enough. — Mark…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Deep State, History They Don't Want You To Know, Media Hits & Misses, Police State America, Surveillance State, War State America November 7, 2019

Chris Hedges: The Enemy Within Is Deep Indeed

The deep state, incapable of reform and determined to retain its grip on power, will morph under the threat of popular unrest into a corporatized fascism. By Chris Hedges TruthDig (11/4/19) Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats and technocrats—is intent on salvaging the brand. It is hard to trumpet yourself as the world’s guardian of freedom and liberty with Donald Trump blathering on incoherently about himself, inciting racist violence, insulting our traditional allies along with…

ALL ARTICLES November 7, 2019

Facing Sexual Assault Allegations Richland Center Police Chief Resigns

By Amy Reid News8000 (11/4/19) RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. – Richland Center Police Chief Lucas Clements resigned from the city police department on Monday. The police commission approved the move at its meeting the same night. Clements was charged with three counts of sexual assault and one count of theft on Tuesday for an incident in June, when he was accused of groping a bartender and stealing her tips. Clements has been on paid leave with the department since late June. … Read the Rest and 35-Second Video  

ALL ARTICLES, Quotes November 7, 2019

Notably Quotable: “Today’s neoliberal Democrat is ideologically closer to yesterday’s Republican…”

  “Today’s neoliberal Democrat is ideologically closer to yesterday’s Republican, and Republicans?  Well, they’re the new know-nothing party, immune to facts, impermeable to truth, and consumed by hate, fear, greed, anger, xenophobia and racism.” — John Atcheson, The Revolution Is Here: Democrats Ignore It at Their Peril. ***** “At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can’t do it. I just can’t do it.” — Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle on why he would not go to the White House when the World Series champions went to meet Donald…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, FEATURE, Police State America November 4, 2019

Cuccinelli Open About Trump Admin Casual Cruelty To Sick Immigrant Infants & Children

MSNBC (10/30/19) Rachel Maddow reports on acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli, being open in his answers to Congress about the cruelty of the policy he implemented, threatening extremely ill immigrant kids and their families with deportation. Link To 5+-Minute Video Five-Year-Old Boy Facing Deportation From Australia Because Of Mild Disability — A five-year-old boy born in Australia is facing deportation to Bangladesh with his family after their visa applications were refused because his “mild disability” would be a burden on the medical system. Dr Mahedi Hasan Bhuiyan arrived in Australia on a student visa in…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice, FEATURE, One Percenters November 4, 2019

Not To Worry, We’ll Just Put It On Your Tab: Trump Treasury Moves To Eliminate Rules Against Corporate Tax Cheating

Companies will avoid taxes on $235 billion in profits each year going forward. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (11/1/19) President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department on Thursday took the first step toward eliminating remaining regulations designed to prevent corporations from avoiding U.S. taxes by storing profits overseas, a move critics decried as yet another harmful giveaway to big business. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive, said in a statement that the 2017 GOP tax law—which disproportionately benefited the rich—rendered Obama-era rules against offshore tax avoidance “obsolete” by significantly reducing the corporate tax rate. “The corporations that got a massive taxpayer handout are getting another gift…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Media Hits & Misses November 4, 2019

Police State War On The Press: Journalist Max Blumenthal Arrested On False Charge In DC

Pushback With Aaron Maté (11/3/19) The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal speaks out on his arrest months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence at the DC embassy. Blumenthal was seized from his home by a group of officers and held for two days in cells and cages. His arrest warrant labels him as “armed and dangerous.” Blumenthal says the charges are false and a retaliation against The Grayzone’s journalism on the US-backed coup in Venezuela and corrupt members of the right-wing Venezuelan opposition carrying it out. Link To 22-Minute Video ***** Max Blumenthal Arrest Exposes Hypocrisy Of Western Media & Supposed…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Police State America November 4, 2019

Never Underestimate The Viciousness Of the State: The Battle For People’s Park, Berkeley 1969

When Vietnam came home. By Clara Bingham The Guardian (7/6/19) On 4 May 1970, the Ohio national guard shot at hundreds of students protesting against the invasion of Cambodia, wounding eight and killing four. Kent State was seared into the national consciousness. The US government had authorized the killing of its own (white) children. But what many might not know is that a year earlier in Berkeley, California, police opened fire with buck and bird shot on a large crowd of young protesters seeking to keep open People’s Park, an impromptu community garden on land UC Berkeley wanted to use. Fifty people were hit….

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, Resist! November 4, 2019

Cornel West On Hope & Resistance In The Age Of Trump: We must “find joy in the struggle”

What would Malcolm say? What would Martin say? What would Fannie Lou Hamer say? What would Ida B. Wells say? What would Toni Morrison say? All of these warriors who have passed away, we have to be true to them. By Chauncey Devega Salon (11/3/19) Donald Trump’s presidency is a stress test for American democracy, the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. The enduring strength of American democracy has long been prefaced on the assumption that the country’s leaders — especially the president — had some basic respect for democracy. Moreover, the president was assumed by both elites and the…

ALL ARTICLES, Resist! November 4, 2019

Henry David Thoreau: “If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior…”

“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can old man — you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind — I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all of that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 (p.5).

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor November 4, 2019

Russia Monitor: A Criminal Returns To The Scene Of The Crime … And Repeats The Crime

  House approved guidelines for the public phase of the Impeachment Inquiry: 232-196. By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (11/4/19) Dear Fellow Readers, I am amazed at the latest wave of news confirming Trump-Ukraine-Russia as ‘one story, 2016-2019’. Yes there is much confirmation of Trump’s recent pressure on Ukraine to produce dirt on a political opponent, but there is also a great deal of information on Trumpster pressure on Ukraine for similar reasons going back to 2016. And yes, all the names we’re familiar with: Trump; Trump clown-lawyer Giuliani; convicted former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort were on the play list…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know November 4, 2019

Pardon Me, Please, Mr. President

Reveal / the Center For Investigative Journalism (11/2/19) As the House of Representatives continues its impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, we go back in time to the Nixon administration, when the threat of impeachment and a presidential pardon changed the course of history. We then examine the pardons system and learn why it has stopped functioning as originally intended. We begin our show by finding parallels between Trump and former President Richard Nixon. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election documents instances in which pardons were offered to members of Trump’s administration…

ALL ARTICLES November 4, 2019

Controversial ‘Neonic’ Pesticides Are Suspected Of Not Only Killing Pollinators But Also Starving Fish

  By Dan Charles NPR (11/2/19) There’s new evidence that a widely used family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, already controversial because they can be harmful to pollinators, could be risky for insects and fish that live in water, too. The evidence comes from Lake Shinji, which lies near Japan’s coast, next to the Sea of Japan. Masumi Yamamuro, a scientist with the Geological Survey of Japan, says the lake is famous for its views of the setting sun. “It’s amazingly beautiful,” she says. Lake Shinji was also the site of thriving fisheries. People harvested clams, and eels, and small fish…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, History They Don't Want You To Know, Progressive History November 4, 2019

Thom Hartmann & Chris Hedges Talk About The Collapse Of American Liberalism

  [Editor’s Note: This interview is was done nine years ago but is a timely as today’s news. In fact, it helps to explain how we wound up with much of today’s news! — Mark L. Taylor] The Big Picture / RT (12/20/10) In this week’s conversations with Great Minds Thom Hartmann talks with Chris Hedges, journalist and author of “The Death of the Liberal Class”. Chris Hedges says, “The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product…

ALL ARTICLES, Right Wing Religion November 4, 2019

Right Wing Religion News Round-Up: Fake ‘Christian’ Leaders Laid Hands On & Prayed For Trump Ahead Of Impeachment Vote

[Editor’s Note: The hypocrisy and Orwellian levels of sycophancy of these evangelical charlatans and hustlers zooms off the chart into crazy land. — Mark L. Taylor] By David Badash Raw News (11/1/19) President Donald Trump’s evangelical Christian supporters laid hands on and prayed for the president this week in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, just days before the House of Representatives voted to pass impeachment inquiry procedures. Among those in attendance, hate group head Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; Former GOP Congresswoman and failed presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann; Fox News contributor, and anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic, and Judaism Dallas megachurch…

ALL ARTICLES, Rethuglicans October 31, 2019

Hey, GOP, Here’s Some Scary Halloween Advice From Conservative Charlie Sykes On How To Survive Your Impeachment Horror Show

Imagine six months of Giuliani butt-dials. By Charlie Sykes Politico (10/30/19) To: Senate Republicans By now it should have dawned on you that there is no escape. You are going to have to render a verdict not just on Donald’s Trump’s policies, but on his personal conduct. For just the third time in U.S. history, the Senate will hold a trial on the impeachment and removal of a president. The first step to saving your life is to recognize what the monster feeds on. In this case, it’s your fear of standing up to him. You’ll have to vote up…

'Just-Us' System, ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE, Resist! October 31, 2019

The Revolution Is Here Democrats: Ignore It At Your Peril

By John Atcheson Common Dreams (10/29/19) Despite the yammering by the mainstream media and the neoliberals running the Democratic Party—not to mention Republicans and Fox News—the overwhelming majority of voters support progressive issues on a case-by-case basis, and the majority support the candidates who espouse them. Doubt that? See here, or here, or here, or any poll based the issues, not on political labels that—as a result of a four decades long branding effort funded by the oligarchy—have ceased to represent any real political perspective. As for the majority supporting the progressive candidates, Sanders’ and Warren’s combined share of the voters exceeds Biden’s by a factor of two,…

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ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change October 31, 2019

Has The Climate Crisis Made California Too Dangerous To Live In?

As with so many things, Californians are going first where the rest of us will follow. By Bill McKibbin The Guardian (10/29/19) Monday morning dawned smoky across much of California, and it dawned scary – over the weekend winds as high as a hundred miles an hour had whipped wildfires through forests and subdivisions. It wasn’t the first time this had happened – indeed, it’s happened every year for the last three – and this time the flames were licking against communities destroyed in 2017. Reporters spoke to one family that had moved into their rebuilt home on Saturday, only to…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change, War State America October 31, 2019

US Military Fears Societal & Economic Collapse Due To Effects Of Rapidly Evolving Climate Crisis

    The Damage Report / The Young Turks (10/25/19) “According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes. The senior US government officials who wrote the report are from several key agencies including the Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA. The study called on the Pentagon to urgently prepare for the possibility that domestic power, water, and food systems might collapse…

ALL ARTICLES October 31, 2019

Russia Monitor: Trump & Close Aide ‘Mark Esperanto’ Serve Up Sadistic Autocracy, Kleptocracy & Kakistocracy

President Trump to be Impeached by the US House of Representatives By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (10/31/19) Dear Fellow Readers, The US House of Representatives is scheduled to hold a vote on Thursday (today) on the rules and procedures for the Impeachment Inquiry of Donald Trump. The rules will govern public hearings over whether Trump should be charged, Articles of Impeachment, and whether he will face trial in the Senate. The procedural vote is likely to closely follow party lines and with a Dem majority, rules will be in place and public hearings will commence. At some point the…

'Just-Us' System, ALL ARTICLES, Police State America, Screwing With Your Vote, Surveillance State, Trumpenstan, War State America October 31, 2019

Trump’s Giant Loophole: Executive Control Of The Judicial Branch Is The Final Step To Tyranny

What happens when the judiciary is captured — and the bad guys are true fascists? Well, they turn the law itself into an instrument of violence. [Editor’s Note: This is an extremely important article to read and consider. Few people really understand the most dangerous moment we are facing in this nation. Whether by bumbling stupid luck or strategic calculation, Donald Trump has pushed the nation to the abyss of totalitarian fascism and time is short. — Mark L. Taylor] By Umair Haque Medium (10/25/19) In case you didn’t notice, yesterday [10/24] was an especially dark day for America democracy….

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition October 31, 2019

Poll Sponsored By Anti-Communists Discovers 70% Of US Millennials Ready To Ditch Capitalism For Socialism

Considering the damage the U.S. capitalist system has done to millions of families during their lifetime, wrote Oliver Willis of Shareblue, “I’m surprised the support for socialism isn’t higher.” By Julia Conley Common Dreams (10/28/19) A survey released Monday revealed that 70 percent of U.S. millennials—those between the ages of 23 and 38 in 2019—would support a socialist candidate for president, a result which a number of progressives viewed as an outgrowth of the damage wrought in recent decades by neoliberal capitalism and the ruling corporate order. Among those slightly younger, voters between the ages of 16 and 22, the…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, One Percenters October 31, 2019

Former NYC Medical Examiner Says Evidence In Jeffrey Epstein Death Indicates Homicide — Not Suicide

  [Editor’s Note: Note how this story has disappeared from the mainstream media. Jeffrey Epstein had a list — a bipartisan list — of powerful friends. You will only find stories about the Epstein sex scandal in the alternative media. It is an important story we need to keep track of. — Mark L. Taylor] By David Badash The New Civil Rights Movement (10/30/19) A former New York City medical examiner and forensic pathologist says the evidence in the Jeffrey Epstein case points not to suicide – as has been officially declared – but homicide. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was awaiting…