PBC News & Comment: Trump Assembles His Wrecking Crew

Trump’s cabinet = Wrecking Crew—Obamacare and Planned Parenthood foe Tom Price named to HHS, Mrs. Mitch McConnell to Transportation…..--Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) chairs House Budget Committee, and has written bills to kill Obamacare
--Elaine Chao is married to Mitch McConnell, and was Bush II Labor secretary; Trump names her Transportation Secretary
--DC Republicans delete plan to register women for the draft, and Texas extremists impose rule requiring burial of fetal remains—but only from abortions
--North Dakota governor orders evacuation of Standing Rock protest site, but says he won’t enforce it
--Neil Young asks Obama to end “violent aggression” at Standing Rock
--injured protesters file class action suit against sheriff and Morton County
--in only case of protester accused of violence, Red Fawn Fallis draws federal charges
--Britain enacts “snooper’s charter” with extreme surveillance measures deployed against all residents
--at Pando, Yasha Levine exposes Tor and Signal as government-backed encryption systems that are likely compromised
--Gareth Porter unveils the murky work of Syria’s White Helmets and their unskeptical portrayal in corporate media
--Thomas Frank offers Dems a powerful analysis of their weakness with working class voters
--after 5 massive weekly protests, South Korea’s President Park signals she will resign