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ALL ARTICLES September 6, 2018

“Never Forget” — Feds Assured Them The Air Was Safe, Now Thousands Of 9/11 First Responders Have Cancer

  By Derrick Broze Activist Post (9/3/18) As Americans prepare for the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, nearly 10,000 first responders and New York City residents have reported 9/11-related cancers. In early August the New York Post reported on newly released numbers of reported 9/11 related illnesses, including 9,795 total case of 9/11-related cancer. The numbers were released by the federally funded World Trade Center Health Program. According to the program there have been more than 400 documented cases of death from 9/11-related cancers. However, unfortunately, the plight of the men and women who rushed into “Ground Zero” on September 11,…

ALL ARTICLES September 6, 2018

Important ‘Go Fund Me’ Campaign — Trump Sanctions Shut Down ‘Empire Files’

  For immediate release – Aug 21, 2018 As a result of the latest US sanctions against Venezuela, The Empire Files has been forced to completely shut down operations. The Empire Files, which airs on TeleSUR throughout Latin America and on Free Speech TV and The Real News Network in the United States, has been funded through a contract with the TeleSUR network. As Abby Martin’s primary broadcast, it has released over 100 documentaries, interviews and on-the-ground exposés from battlefields in Palestine, Venezuela and beyond. As a result of financial attacks by the US government on the primary source of TeleSUR’s funding,…

ALL ARTICLES, Screwing With Your Vote September 6, 2018

If It Doesn’t Have Paper Backups & Automatic Audits, It’s Not An Election Security Bill

  By Joe Mullin Electronic Frontier Foundation (8/24/18) Right now, the U.S. Senate is debating an issue that’s critical to our democratic future: secure elections. Hacking attacks were used to try to undermine the 2016 U.S. election, and in recent years, elections in Latin America and Ukraine were also subject to cyber attacks. It only makes sense to harden the security of U.S. voting machines, which are perhaps the most direct route to impacting an election’s results. But the current bill that’s advancing in the Senate, the Secure Elections Act, is no solution at all. If it isn’t strengthened dramatically, senators should vote…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor September 6, 2018

Russia Monitor: It’s Non-Stop Crazytown, Folks!

  “The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president.” — David Rothkopf, Washington Post opinion (7/4/18) ) ***** “Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit.” — Quote in Bob Woodward’s book “Fear:Trump In The White House” regarding advice from then Trump attorney John Dowd to his client regarding the wisdom of testifying before Mueller investigation.   By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (9/6/18) Dear Fellow Readers, The nod for this column goes to Watergate journalist and author Bob Woodward with his new book, ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’. The book will be officially released on September 11 but…

ALL ARTICLES September 6, 2018

Coming Together To Help Our Flooded Neighbors & Communities

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”  ― Erich Fromm Hello all, I’m sure many of you, like me, are r just sick to your stomachs about the losses our neighbors have incurred in towns like Coon Valley, Ontario, La Farge, Viola, Gays Mills, and all points in between. I live between Ontario and La Farge and got off real easy. Farmers have miles of fences destroyed, a friend of mine on 131 lost most of his flock of sheep and I know some cattle have been lost, not to mention massive crop losses. And that’s in addition…

ALL ARTICLES, Resist! September 6, 2018

Doctors Remind Trump Supporters To Take Nikes Off Before Burning Them

“Unfortunately we can’t cure stupid.” Breaking Burgh The American Medical Association (AMA) released a statement today urging those protesting Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad campaign by burning their sneakers and other athletic apparel to remove it before doing to. This follows an epidemic of burn victims, which they say is not all that surprising. “These people tend to respond instinctively in the moment, rather than forward-project the consequences of their actions like most mammals do.” … Read the Rest Watch Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad: Link to 2-Minute Video (Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2018. Open source and free for non-derivative…

ALL ARTICLES, History They Don't Want You To Know, M. Taylor Columns, Worker Notes by Tom Crofton September 3, 2018

As Union Membership Falls Almost 80% Of US Workers Struggle To Survive Paycheck To Paycheck.

All that remains of the Mirro Aluminum Company manufacturing plant in Manitowoc, Wisconsin is the front entrance. Beyond is a city block or more of broken foundations and shattered concrete slabs. When my family moved to Manitowoc in 1970 Mirro was a major employer. Whole families and generations of skilled trades workers, assembly line workers and laborers spent their entire careers at Mirro, which was founded in 1909 and shuttered and business shipped off to Mexico in 2003, as the realities of NAFTA caught up with the loyal workers. I grabbed this photo in mid-July of this year. — Mark…

ALL ARTICLES, American Socialist Tradition, History They Don't Want You To Know, Worker Notes by Tom Crofton September 3, 2018

A Labor Day Reminder From American Socialist Icon Eugene Debs

“The capitalist who does no useful work has the economic power to take from a thousand or ten thousand working men all they produce, over and above what is required to keep them in working and producing order, and he becomes a millionaire, perhaps a multi-millionaire. He lives in a palace in which there is music and singing and dancing and the luxuries of all climes. He sails the high seas in his private yacht. He is the reputed “captain of industry” who privately owns a social utility, has great economic power, and commands the political power of the nation…

ALL ARTICLES September 3, 2018

In A Great Sequence Of Videos Trump Himself Will Convince You Of His Guilt!

“He acts as just like a Mafia crime boss, except  an incredibly dumb one. The world’s dumbest mob boss, that’s who Donald Trump is.” Cenk Uygur and the crew at The Young Turks has strung together a great sequence of video clips in which Donald Trump details and spills the beans on just how guilty he is. What a fine leader of the Russpublican party! Link to 29-Minute Video

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism September 3, 2018

Ghouls: Grieving Father Denounces Right-Wing Pundits & Politicians Exploiting His Daughter’s Death To Push ‘Profoundly Racist’ Agenda

Twitter By Jake Johnson Common Drems (9/2/18) Responding to continued efforts by President Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets to exploit the horrific murder of 20-year-old Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts to push their racist, anti-immigrant agenda, Tibbetts’ father penned an op-ed on Saturday denouncing those who have “chosen to callously distort and corrupt Mollie’s tragic death to advance a cause she vehemently opposed.” “At the outset, politicians and pundits used Mollie’s death to promote various political agendas. We appealed to them and they graciously stopped. For that, we are grateful. Sadly, others have ignored our request,” Rob Tibbetts wrote in the local Des Moines Register….

ALL ARTICLES September 3, 2018

An Unexpected Upset In Florida Leads To A Showdown Between Trumputinism & Progressives

  “I believe the way we are going to win this state in November is by giving our voters a reason to go and vote for something and not just against.” — Democratic Party candidate Andrew Gillum The New York Times / The Daily (8/30/18) The Florida governor’s race was supposed to come down to a predictable face-off between the establishment Republican and the establishment Democrat. That’s not what happened. Guest: Patricia Mazzei, Miami bureau chief for The New York Times. Link to 21-Minute Audio To Learn More About Andrew Gillum & His Campaign Link to Campaign Website

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care September 3, 2018

While Billionaries Cash In On Tax Cuts: Insulin’s High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing

By Bram Sable-Smith Saturday Weekend Edition / NPR (9/1/18) Diabetic ketoacidosis is a terrible way to die. It’s what happens when you don’t have enough insulin. Your blood sugar gets so high that your blood becomes highly acidic, your cells dehydrate and your body stops functioning. Diabetic ketoacidosis is how Nicole Smith-Holt lost her son. Three days before his payday. Because he couldn’t afford his insulin. “It shouldn’t have happened,” Smith-Holt says looking down at her son’s death certificate on her dining room table in Richfield, Minn. “That cause of death of diabetic ketoacidosis should have never happened.” The price…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice September 3, 2018

Top Student Loan Watchdog Resigns Over Trump Admin Doing Bidding Of Predatory Lenders

  Democracy Now! (8/29/18) As the school year begins this week across the United States, the top student loan watchdog has resigned in protest, accusing the Trump administration of siding with powerful predatory lenders over student loan borrowers. Seth Frotman worked as student loan ombudsman under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, Mick Mulvaney. He wrote that under Mulvaney’s leadership, “the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting.” This comes as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new rules that would cut an estimated $13 billion in federal student loan relief for people defrauded…

ALL ARTICLES, FEATURE, M. Taylor Columns, Right Wing Religion September 3, 2018

Shabba rebot domda moko-dabba reboo-boo — We’re Done With Jezebel … All Praise To Trump!

Total Gibberish   By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (9/3/18) There is crazy and then there is Trump Crazy. And then there is right down the old rabbit hole evangelical Trump Crazy. The video below is a little mind boggling to watch but I urge you to because it gives a raw glimpse into an element of energized Trump support and delusion that is both real and an active part of what is going on in the nation. The video is of a recent sermon by Alabama Pentecostal Pastor John Kilpatrick of the Church of His Presence, in Daphne,…

ALL ARTICLES, Right Wing Religion September 3, 2018

How Future President Mike Pence Is Preparing To Take Over The White House

  Thom Hartmann Program (8/29/18) Michael D’Antonio, author of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence sits down with Thom Hartmann to discuss efforts by the vice president and his allies to make Mike Pence the 46th President of the Unite States. Do you think Vice President Mike Pence is going to make a presidential run? Link to 10-Minute Video (Illustration by Seth L. Taylor, 2017)

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor September 3, 2018

Russia Monitor: Trumputin & Russpublicans Continue To Test Nation’s Gag Reflex

  By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (9/3/18) Dear Fellow Readers, We’ll look at two subjects related to Trump-Russia corruption. There are several recent polls that bode poorly for Trump. But we’ll start with an update on Trump’s “witch hunt”. Before we jump in let’s take note of the handful of Trumpsters that were either disinvited or rued for their attendance at the memorial service for Sen. John McCain: Three Men Unfit To Eulogize John McCain. In another sign of the shift, Trump was not invited to speak. In fact Trump was disinvited. Instead there was this lame attempt by Pence…

ALL ARTICLES, Health Care September 3, 2018

Preparing For Post-Roe America: Roe v. Wade Will Fall. We Must Be Ready For It

  By Robin Marty, Farah Diaz-Tello & Loretta J. Ross In These Times (8/27/18) WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of conservative Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, the remaining abortion protections put in place by the Roe v. Wade decision are under dire threat. We asked three reproductive justice experts—journalist and activist Robin Marty, attorney Farah Diaz-Tello and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective co-founder Loretta J. Ross—to explain this new political reality and how we should respond. The three short essays making up the article include: BACK TO THE UNDERGROUND — Within a few years,…

ALL ARTICLES, Democrats, FEATURE, Resist! September 3, 2018

A Decade After ’08 Financial Crash, The Timid Left Has Reason To Be Full Of Regrets

  By Larry Elliot Port Side (8/31/18) Placards are being prepared. Photo-opportunities are being organised. A list of demands is being drawn up by a coalition of pressure groups, unions and NGOs. Yes, preparations are well under way for protests to mark next month’s 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers – the pivotal moment in the global financial crisis. Make no mistake, the fact that events will take place in all the world’s financial centres is no cause for celebration. On the contrary, it is a sign of failure. The banks were never broken up. Plans for a financial transactions tax are gathering dust. Politicians toyed with…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor, Trumpenstan August 30, 2018

Mob Masters Run Trumputin’s White House, But For How Long?

With Trump in the White House kissing Putin’s ring in the Kremlin, we’re being colonized by Russia’s mobster oligarchs working in sync with our own corporate oligarchs. By Harvey Wasserman Reader Supported News (8/25/18) The Mueller Wave of crony convictions and confessions has barely begun. But one thing is clear: the term “collusion” vastly understates Trump’s oneness with Vladimir Putin and the Russian Mob. Collusion implies two independent parties working together. Trump is not separate from Putin. Trump is Putin’s employee. His debtor. His servant. His baby mama. Or, in CIA terms, Putin’s asset. Since the 1980s. The tsunami of proof…

ALL ARTICLES August 30, 2018

Trumputin’s Unlikely Lefty Defenders

Head spinning! A Lot Of Liberal Dems Wonder: ‘What Happened To Alan Dershowitz? By Evan Mandary Politico (5/11/18) NEW YORK — If you wanted to feel the full force of the intellectual whirlpool that is American politics in 2018, the place to go on April 2 was the Village Underground, a nightclub beneath West 3rd Street, where Alan Dershowitz, the longtime Harvard Law professor and civil liberties lion, was debating the future of American democracy on the side of President Donald Trump. Opposing him were a National Review writer and a former FBI agent, arguing that the special investigation into ties between Russia…

ALL ARTICLES August 30, 2018

Victory In Recent DNC Superdelegates Fight Shows Grassroots Activists Can Win

  By Norman Solomon Reader Supported News (8/27/18) When members of the Democratic National Committee voted to take power away from themselves and other “superdelegates” – removing their leverage over the presidential nominating process – they took a big step toward heeding a sign that activists held outside their decisive meeting: “Democratic Party: Live Up to Your Name.” Outside that meeting at a Chicago hotel, we were holding the sign to put a spotlight on existing hypocrisy and to call for seizing an opportunity. Officials rarely decide to reduce their own power. And the Democratic Party has not made such…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism August 30, 2018

After Months Of Separation, Parents Reunite With Their Kidnapped Child: ‘What’s wrong with my son?’

  By First Amendment The Daily Kos (8/25/18) How do you feel watching this reunion of a mother and father with their now very distant child, after months of separation? It makes me feel ill and so empty inside. The ACLU is spot on here. Trump jailing and separating children from their families has caused real human destruction. The consequences of this heinous act by Donald Trump and his cronies will last a lifetime for many and devastate families. Decades of research have concluded that child separation is connected to long term trauma. According to Johanna Bick, a psychology professor who studies this subject, there is no greater threat to a child’s emotional…

ALL ARTICLES, Economic Injustice August 30, 2018

As Multi-Billionaire Bezos Forces Thousands To Rely On Food Stamps For Survival, Bernie Invites Exploited Amazon Workers To Share Their Stories

By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (8/28/18) If you are one of the thousands of Amazon employees who has been forced to rely on federal assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid to survive because CEO Jeff Bezos—the richest man in the world—refuses to pay a living wage or provide adequate benefits, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to hear your story. Just days after announcing his plan to introduce legislation that would force Amazon and other large American corporations to “get off welfare” and pay a 100 percent tax on the public assistance their low-paid workers receive, Sanders put out a call on Monday for current or former…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism, Economic Injustice, History They Don't Want You To Know, Resist! August 30, 2018

IMPORTANT INTERVIEW: Ralph Nader Interviews Chris Hedges On His New Book “America: The Farewell Tour”

Ralph Nader Radio Hour (8/18/18) Ralph spends the whole hour with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, Chris Hedges, discussing his book “America: The Farewell Tour.” Link to 63-Minute Audio ***** Resistance Radio With Chris Hedges Deep Green Resistance (8/26/18) Chris Hedges is a New York Times Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent who for two decades covered conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He returned to the United States to become a powerful social critic and critic of capitalism, and is the author of a dozen books, including War is a Force that Gives us Meaning;…

ALL ARTICLES, Media Hits & Misses August 30, 2018

Mainstream Media ‘Obit Omit’ — What The Media Leaves Out Of John McCain’s Record Of Militarism & Misogyny

  Fraudulence of American media. Democracy Now! (8/27/18) We host a roundtable discussion on the life and legacy of John McCain, the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, six-term senator and two-time presidential candidate, who died Saturday at the age of 81 of brain cancer. We speak with Mehdi Hasan, columnist for The Intercept and host of their “Deconstructed” podcast. He’s also host of “UpFront” at Al Jazeera English. He’s been tweeting in response to McCain’s death and wrote a piece last year headlined “Despite What the Press Says, ‘Maverick’ McCain Has a Long and Distinguished Record of Horribleness.”…

ALL ARTICLES, CAFOS August 30, 2018

Gulf Shrimpers Meet Wisconsin & Minnesota Farmers Trying To Save Their Downstream Catch

  By Kirsti Marohn MPR (8/28/18) August is the busy season for shrimpers along the Gulf Coast, and fishermen like Randy Skinner and Lance Nacio should be heading out in their trawlers to try to haul in a day’s catch. But instead, last week Skinner and Nacio traveled more than 1,000 miles north to central Minnesota to share stories about how what happens along the Mississippi River is affecting their livelihood. Every year, a dead zone about the size of Connecticut forms in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s caused by excess nutrients washing down the Mississippi River — and it has…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor August 30, 2018

Russia Monitor: Mafia Machinations & Russpublican Enablers

  “If Sessions won’t unrecuse and Mueller won’t clear the president, we’re the only ones. Which is the real danger … we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) speaking at a GOP fundraiser for Rep. Cathy McMorris (R-WA ) (8/18). By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (8/30/18) Dear Fellow Readers, Head of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is this edition’s poster-child for Russpublican party over country. The above quote was reported here at the time,…

ALL ARTICLES August 30, 2018

American Bombs Are Killing & Maiming Children In Yemen. But Do We Care?

  By Moustafa Bayoumi The Guardian (8/25/18) This is not a column about Donald Trump. It’s also not about Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen or Robert Mueller, and it’s certainly not about Rudolph Giuliani and his way with words. On the contrary, this is a column about the things we are not paying attention to, and why we should. On 9 August, the US-backed Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen against a Houthi-led rebellion dropped a bomb on a school bus packed with children. According to reports, the excited kids had been on a school trip marking the end of their summer classes, and…

ALL ARTICLES, Climate Change August 30, 2018

‘Hothouse Earth’ Co-Author Says ‘People Will Look Back On 2018 As The Year When Climate Reality Hit’

  By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams (8/17/18) Amid a flurry of “breathless headlines” about warnings in a new study that outlines a possible “Hothouse Earth” scenario, one co-author optimistically expressed his belief that “people will look back on 2018 as the year when climate reality hit.” In an interview with the Guardian on Friday, Stockholm Resilience Center executive director Johan Rockström declared, “This is the moment when people start to realize that global warming is not a problem for future generations, but for us now.” Rockström’s study has received an “unprecedented” amount of global attention in the past week—270,000 downloads and counting. “Yes, the…

ALL ARTICLES, Trumpenstan August 27, 2018

Trump Loses Control Of His Pecker: National Enquirer Pal Cooperating With Mueller

Trump’s Pecker Spouts Off Pecker In A Vise Pecker Problem Plagues Trump Pecker Testes Trump’s Patience ***** EXTRA, EXTRA! National Enquirer Insider Exposes All! By Maxwell Strachan The HuffPost (8/23/18) By the time David Pecker arrived at American Media Inc. in the late 1990s, Jerry George already found himself firmly entrenched in the tabloid empire. Hired by the National Enquirer’s late publisher Generoso Pope Jr. in 1985, George went on to work at the Enquirer and its parent company, AMI, for 28 years, earning the titles of senior editor and West Coast bureau chief before eventually leaving the company in…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism August 27, 2018

Far Right Extremist ‘Oath Keepers’ Announce National ‘Spartan’ Training Program Aimed At Supposedly ‘Violent Left’

  By David Neiwert Southern Poverty Law Center (8/23/18) Claiming that the “violent left” is preparing an insurrection designed to grab “illegitimate power,” the Oath Keepers’ president and founder Stewart Rhodes this week announced on their website that his group is organizing training sessions around the United States aimed at helping militiamen and “Patriots” prepare for “lethal force” at far-right events in cities targeted for right-wing protests. Appearing on Infowars with host Owen Shroyer on Monday, Rhodes explained that Oath Keepers is organizing “Spartan Training Groups” in every state with the aim of bolstering efforts to combat “antifa and the far…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism August 27, 2018

The Crawlies On Underside Of The Rock: Cenk Uygur Interviews Ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke

  The Young Turks (12/17/15) David Duke first rose to prominence in the ‘70s and ‘80s as a modern, more photogenic representative of the white supremacist movement, abandoning the Ku Klux Klan’s robe and hood in favor of business suits and trading overt racist appeals in exchange for more “acceptable” coded language that involved disparaging “welfare queens” and “racial set-asides.” Duke eventually left the Klan to found the “National Association for the Advancement of White People,” served one term as a Republican in the Louisiana state house, published two books, one on “Racial Understanding” and the other on “Jewish Supremacism,”…

ALL ARTICLES, American Fascism August 27, 2018

James Risen: Reality Winner’s Sentence Is One Of The Worst Miscarriages Of Justice In Recent History

  Democracy Now! (8/24/18) NSA whistleblower Reality Winner was handed the longest sentence ever imposed in federal court for leaking government information to the media Thursday [8/23]. She is the first person to be sentenced under the Espionage Act since President Trump took office. Winner was arrested by FBI agents at her home in Augusta, Georgia, on June 3, 2017, two days before The Intercept published an exposé revealing Russian military intelligence conducted a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software company just days before the U.S. presidential election. The exposé was based on a classified NSA report from May 5, 2017, that shows…

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ALL ARTICLES August 27, 2018

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Lays Out The Truth About Lobbying & How To Reform The Corrupt System Of Influence

End Lobbying As We Know It Back in the 1970s, there weren’t enough corporate lobbyists in Washington to fill a school bus. Now, they run the show. My new Anti-Corruption Act would end lobbying as we know it and get our government working for the people – not the rich and powerful. Link to 2+-Minute Video Join the fight to #EndCorruptionNow:elizabethwarren.com/endcorruptionnow ***** Dems Vote To Strip Power From Superdelegates, Reform Caucuses By Chas Danner New York Magazine (8/26/18) Democrats voted overwhelmingly on Saturday for the biggest reforms to its presidential nomination process in decades, including a major reduction in the power of superdelegates,…

ALL ARTICLES, Russia Monitor August 27, 2018

Russia Monitor: As McCain Passes, Trumpland Sinks Deeper In Its Messy Moral Morass

  “I looked in Mr. Putin’s eyes and I saw three letters—a K, a G, and B.” — Max Boot, John McCain Leaves The Stage When We Need Him Most (8/25/18)   By Dan Peak The Commoner Call (8/27/18) Dear Fellow Readers, The above quote is from Max Boot, a conservative never-Trumper, writing for the Washington Post. Thanks to a reader, an abridged version is here: Conservative Columnist Calls On GOP To Step Up And Fill McCain’s Shoes By Opposing ‘amoral demagogue’ Trump. Boot offered his eulogy for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who died Saturday. Boot highlighted a major difference between McCain,…

ALL ARTICLES August 27, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh’s Fellow Yale Law School Alumni Call Him ‘morally bankrupt’ In Scathing Open Letter

  By Andy Menconi Other98.c0m  Less than an hour after Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Yale Law School issued a press release praising their alumnus, Kavanaugh, in superlative language. Yale Law’s Dean, Heather Gerken, offered this breathless praise:  “I have known Brett Kavanaugh for many years. I can personally attest that, in addition to his government and judicial service, Judge Kavanaugh has been a longtime friend to many of us in the Yale Law School community. Ever since I joined the faculty, I have admired him for serving as a teacher and mentor to our students and…

ALL ARTICLES, M. Taylor Columns, War State America August 27, 2018

Don’t Let The Media’s Breathless Canonization Of John McCain Erase His Far Right Legacy Of Corporate State War & Death

  By Mark L. Taylor The Commoner Call (8/27/18) The Sunday news was filled with one somber tribute to Sen. John McCain after another. We were told of his great sense of humor and respect for colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the Senate. There were detailed stories of his horrific experience as a prisoner of war after his jet fighter was shot out of the skies over North Vietnam. Over and over he was described as the adult in the room and a respected “elder statesman” of the Senate. As a survivor of torture, he spoke out…