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Remembering America’s First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Retired U.S. Army Major Danny Sjursen offers a year-ending look at what “forever war” really means in the American experience. To do so, he turns not to the wars in which he personally took part in Afghanistan and Iraq, but to one that took place almost a century before his birth … Continue reading "Remembering America’s First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists"
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Last Minute Gift Ideas To Give That Republican Who Lessens Your Quality Of Life
by NoahA couple of weeks ago, I already posted 2 lists of possible gifts you can use to send a message to any Republicans you have the misfortune to know this year but, in the interest of wait there’s more… well, there’s more, and, certainly the times require a message to be sent!So, here we go, list number 3!1. What could be better than a Voltage Tester? It’s only $19.95.
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Iraq Daily Roundup: 12 Killed; Soldiers Attacked at Checkpoint
A Baghdad checkpoint was attacked.
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Fascist Bolivian coup leader fails in DC charm offensive
On Red Lines, Anya Parampil covers the obliteration of Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho’s big event in Washington, where…
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Czech think tank funded by NATO govts calls for EU BLANKET BAN on Russian outlets like RT
‘European values’? By Nebojsa Malic | RT | December 17, 2019 A pro-NATO Czech think tank has another piece of unsolicited advice for Western governments. Now they should refuse to give access or interviews to Russian media, who are ”not real journalists”, according to the ”wise censor”. At first blush, the ‘Kremlin Watch Strategy’ paper […]
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Boris Johnson’s Britain
Britain is looking drenched at the moment; colours blue and yellow seem to be streaking through the country. The Scottish Nationalists have re-asserted control lost to the Conservatives in 2016. In the rest of the country, seats never touched by Tory Blue have are now occupied by the party of Boris Johnson. Yet again, British politics shows that the posh[Read More...]
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Remembering America’s First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
For a decade and a half, the U.S. Army waged war on fierce tribal Muslims in a remote land. Sound familiar? As it happens, that war unfolded half a world away from the Greater Middle East and more than a century ago in the southernmost islands of the Philippines. Back then, American soldiers fought not the Taliban, but the Moros,[Read More...]
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Demonetisation: Assessment Of Its Impact
Three years after demonetisation was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on November 8, 2016, people still remember it as the beginning of a very difficult period. Many have come to accept what I have been saying that the economic downturn in India began then and now the official rate of growth has come down to below five per cent.[Read More...]
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10,000 Academics, Students, Teachers and Civil Society Against Police Brutality at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University
We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the police brutality in Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, and the ongoing illegal siege and curfew imposed on Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
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Why I’m Protesting: BJP’s Citizenship Bill Mirrors Nuremberg Laws
When Nazi Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, they made it illegal for non-Germans to be citizens. Germans to prove that they had Aryan ancestry. India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill mirrors those Nazi laws. Instead of segregating people by genetics, it segregates them by religion. It makes religion the basis for citizenship. CAB is only the latest in a line[Read More...]
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Locked, In Assam
A cage grows around me each day Everyone is free they say, Wishes plummet to the bottom and gets locked in platinum vaults Everyone is free they say, A pact is signed today where the larynx is laminated they tell it is to protect all the homes, a fire is built, curfewed are all the nights just to have the[Read More...]
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Star Trek – The Hidden Meaning – Jay Dyer
#startrek #hollywood #movies In this latest film analysis, I cover the hidden themes and messages behind Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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When I Turned 40
When I turned 40, my friends threw a party for me. We had great food, drink, and music. Several good friends read messages about me aloud. It was touching. I remember thinking how lucky I was to have such a loving family and such caring friends. I also remember the enormous guilt I felt when I made it to 40.[Read More...]
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The Orange Baboon's Ass Couldn't Arrest Pelosi, Schiff And Nadler, So He Sent A Crazy Letter Instead-- Read It And Laugh... Or Cry
Sparks by Nancy OhanianThis letter seems too stupid snd illiterate for anyone with any sense to have written for him, but not stupid and illiterate enough for Trump to have written on his own. I wonder if we'll ever find out who helped him. Jared? Ivanka? Both of them? Hannity? Lou Dobbs? All those grievances, all that bragging, all that laying out of the Republican 2020 battle plan...
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The insider: How national security mandarins groomed Pete Buttigieg and managed his future
Pledging to “end endless wars,” Pete Buttigieg claims he has “never been part of the Washington establishment.” But years before…
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Study Demonstrates That Suspensions Contribute to School to Prison Pipeline
In September 2019, ColorLines reported that students attending schools with high suspension rates are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated later in life and less likely to attend a four-year college. The ColorLines article reported findings from a study titled “The School to Prison Pipeline: Long Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime,” conducted by Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen B. Billings, and David J. Deming.
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Correctional Education Programs Benefit Inmates, Reduce Recidivism
A July 2018 RAND Corporation study emphasized the importance of higher education for inmates, as Leighanna Shirey reported for Citizen Truth. Higher education serves as a form of rehabilitation. Access to higher education allows incarcerated individuals to develop new skills leading to reduced recidivism, the RAND study documented.
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US Military—A Massive, Hidden Contributor to Climate Crisis
The US military is “one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries,” Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Patrick Bigger reported for The Conversation in June 2019. By burning fossil fuels, the US military emitted more than 25,000 kilotons of carbon dioxide in 2017. If the US military were a country, Neimark, Belcher, and Bigger wrote, its fuel usage would make it “the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.”
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Significant “Production Gap” between Global Climate Goals and Projected Fossil Fuel Production
A United Nations report released in November 2019 determined that the international community will fail to curb planet-heating emissions and prevent climate catastrophe, based on projections for fossil fuel production over the next decade, Jessica Corbett reported for Common Dreams.
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How International Law Could Hold US Officials Accountable for Violating Detained Immigrant Children’s Rights
After headlines reported that thousands of children had been forcibly separated from their families by US officials, in June 2018 the Trump administration announced an end to the family separation policy, and a federal court ordered the reunification of separated families. However, as Michael Garcia Bochenek and Warren Binford reported for the America Prospect in August 2019, when they investigated, “child after child sat before us describing when and how U.S.
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Lessons from Colorado’s Voting System
Colorado state has one of the highest voter turnouts in the United States, because its vote-by-mail system allows residents to bypass long lines at polling places, Democracy Now! reported in November 2019. Colorado voting measures also include automatic voter registration with driver’s license services, the extension of voting to people on parole, and allowances for some 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections.
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Walton Family Foundation Donation to Teach for America Served the Charter School Movement
In June 2019, ProPublica published a report revealing that a much-heralded $20 million donation to Teach for America from the Walton Family Foundation came with secret strings attached. The donation, which aimed to help Teach For America recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, stipulated that the Walton Family Foundation would provide $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school—and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter school.
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Texas Legislators Pass School Finance Bill—But Lack Means to Fund It
In June, 2019, Texas legislators passed House Bill 3, an $11.6 billion dollar school finance and property tax reform package, but lawmakers failed to include a way to pay for the bill beyond the next two years, Justin Miller reported for the Texas Observer.
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An economy under occupation | Palestine Files
PTV – December 16, 2019 Press TV interviewed Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, about Israel’s occupation of Palestine and control of the Palestinian economy last night. “Israel consistently uses Palestinians as a captive, colonial market, to buy its goods, to work in its factories, and denies Palestinians the right to […]
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Colleges and Universities Question Usefulness of Standardized Testing in Admissions
An increasing number of competitive colleges and universities across the US are eliminating the requirement to submit SAT and ACT scores as part of their admissions process. By encouraging admissions officers to look beyond test scores when evaluating students, eliminating requirements for standardized tests helps to expand access to college for a more diverse range of students.
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Corporate Commitment or Corruption? Ohio’s Changing Education System
In May 2019, Citizen Truth journalist Will Bacha reported on how Ohio Excels—a coalition of corporations focused on creating policies for elementary and secondary school systems—serves the interests of big-business rather than the needs of students. His article, “Another Private Sector-Public Education Partnership Raises Eyebrows,” describes how several members of the coalition’s executive board are “affiliated with large corporations or organizations that emphasize free-market growth.”
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Education Secretary DeVos Admits To Falling NAEP Scores
It seems that the more money Betsy DeVos pours into the United States education system, the lower children’s National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test scores become. As David Badash reported for RawStory, DeVos’s answer to getting better test scores out of students is the same solution she’s been advocating since she was appointed Secretary of Education in February 2017—investing more money in vouchers, charter and private schools, and reallocating federal, state, and local taxes “ into the hands of her friends who run those programs.”
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Brazilian Students Protest “Austerity” Cuts to Education
In October 2019, millions of Brazilian students and teachers took to the streets to protest another round of budget and wage cuts to the nation’s Department of Education. Miguel Andrade, writing for the World Socialist Web Site, reported that over 25,000 Brazilian students answered the calls from the Brazilian Teachers’ Union as they congregated for two days in the streets of major cities, including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, to oppose cuts to education.
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Youth Climate Activist Autumn Peltier Continues Outreach Work Amidst School Strikes
On September 28, 2019, Autumn Peltier, a 15-year-old is a Canadian clean water activist from the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, addressed the UN’s Global Landscape Forum in Manhattan.
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Former US Government Officials Recast as Corporate News “Analysts”
US corporate media are currently inundated with former US intelligence agents who appear as expert commentators and pundits on programs broadcast by NBC News, CBS News, and CNN, AJ Nelson reported for We Are Change in October 2019. “Reborn as cable news pundits,” former national security officials continue to “carry out their imperial duties” by “propagandizing the public” on corporate news platforms, Nelson wrote.
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Mississippi Children Charged as Adults, Perpetuating Jim Crow-Era Discrimination
In Neshoba County, Mississippi, children are being charged as adults in record numbers, Ko Bragg reported for Reveal in November 2019. “Nearly 5,000 Mississippi children have been charged as adults in the last 25 years,” Bragg wrote, and “three out of every four are black.”
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Limited Accountability for Racial Bias in San Francisco’s Community Policing Programs
In October 2019, Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community–Justice 4 Mario Woods held a press conference about problems with the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing (COPS) program. Since 2016, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) has been working, in response to community concerns, to promote more racially-equitable policing practices in San Francisco.
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Stress, Overwork, and Insecurity Lead to “Pandemic” of Work-Related Accidents and Illnesses
From delivery drivers to home care providers, workers face increasing pressures to work faster and longer, making their jobs more dangerous, María José Carmona reported for Common Dreams. Carmona’s article was based data from the International Labor Organization (ILO) on work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses. According to the ILO, more than 7,500 work-related deaths occur every day around the world. But just fourteen percent of those fatalities occur on the job. Instead, most deaths are stress-related illnesses or accidents that take place when workers are not on duty.
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Tennessee’s Private Prisons Offer Latest Example of For-Profit Misery and Death
Private, for-profit prisons in Tennessee have double the number of homicides as state-run facilities, while having less than half the number of prisoners.
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US-Backed Counterinsurgency in the Philippines Targets Indigenous Land Defenders
Beginning in 2001 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, soldiers in the Philippines have undertaken an extended counterinsurgency campaign that one human rights organization has called “by far the bloodiest and most brutal” campaign unleashed on the Filipino people. According to Nick Alexandrov’s report for CounterPunch, officially the campaign aims “to reduce the capabilities of internal armed threats,” such as the Communist New People’s Army, and to clear NPA-held land of fighters.
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Very important letter from Donald Trump to Nancy Pelosi (MUST READ)
Saker commentary: this is not about picking sides, the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend. However, as Malcolm X once said, “I am for the truth no matter
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Gorbachev Blasts US for ‘Striving for Military Supremacy’ Amid INF Treaty Debacle
By Lilia Dergacheva – Sputnik – 17.12.2019 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty effectively put an end to the Cold War US-USSR tensions, becoming one of the key security pillars in the nuclear post-war world. However, with the fate of the treaty in jeopardy, the world may slide into a new arms race – something […]
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PBC News & Comment: Trump’s Senate Trial is Being Rigged in Broad Daylight
McConnell and Graham brazenly display deep bias, as Mitch and Chuck Schumer duel over witnesses and procedure before House vote…--Schumer wants to call the key witnesses Trump has blocked from House inquiry, and McConnell sharpens his considerable skills at obstruction
--House Rules Committee is working on procedure for tomorrow’s impeachment vote, GOP will bring WWE rules
--Rudy Giuliani breaks silence, brags about getting Ambassador Yovanovitch fired
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The Ochelli Effect – Burying Ledes Constantly 2019
From Ochelli.com Michael Swanson joined us on a Tuesday to let us know how he did in a poker tournament last week and relate some curious insights about some players. The isolated cycle of confirmation bias and the addiction to it as pushed by the virtual dopamine dealers in social media have become impossible to […]
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Monetary Looting
The United States has historically bragged about its free and transparent markets. But what the Fed is doing today is pulling a dark curtain around the financing of this so-called free and transparent market. The public has no idea which Wall Street firms have received this $3 trillion or why they can’t borrow it elsewhere. This kind of obfuscation by the Federal Reserve could actually stimulate distrust in the U.S. banking system.
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#PumpUpThaVolume: December 17, 2019
Media Monarchy plays Lastraw, Fair Attempts, Recondite and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for December 17, 2019. ♬
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Impeachment Managers
On Sunday, Rachel Bade reported that many Democrats, particularly freshmen, want Pelosi to name Justin Amash (I-MI) to the impeachment manager team that will present the House's case to the Senate.
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For South Sudan, the Promise of Full Dialogue Lies Ahead
People from South Sudan’s Gumbo-Sherikat neighborhood in the capital of Juba meet in a UN-led gathering to build peace, after the signing of the 2018 agreement to end the country’s civil war. So far, the pact has not been carried out, but the author describes another potential path to peace for the world’s youngest nation. ERIC KANALSTEIN/UN PHOTO
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What Everyone is Missing About the Afghanistan Papers
By Darius Shahtahmasebi | The Mind Unleashed | December 13, 2019 If you need more proof that lawmakers in the U.S. couldn’t care less about America’s woeful commitment to human rights abroad—or even care about the public who vote them into office—look no further than the recent Afghanistan papers and the reaction to the publications from Congress. According […]
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Saudi Arabia reads the riot act to Imran Khan
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | December 17, 2019 The Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 hosted by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on December 18-21 was originally conceived as a landmark event in the politics of the Muslim world. It still is, albeit on a wet wicket struggling to tackle […]
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Canada, Get Ready To Puke: Criminal Former Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Has Been Nominated To Have A Street In Israel Named After Him!
Canada is Jewish occupied territory.... Most Canadians are still asleep and not realizing that this formerly free nation is NOT their own and is indeed controlled by criminal Jewish interests... It is a fact that every government in Ottawa for at least the last 1/2 century have done nothing more than troll for Jewish interests and do everything to suck up to the psychotic state of Israel...Before that sickening Justin Trudeau was "selected" to be Canada's Prime Minister, we had the heinous and very criminal Stephen Harper in charge...
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Saudi Attack At Pensacola: Why Did Pentagon Vetting Fail?
Three died and eight were injured when a Saudi military officer went on a shooting spree at a Pensacola, Florida airbase. The Pentagon insists Saudi military officers are properly vetted, but they are revisiting their vetting process anyway. Maybe vetting is not the real issue? Watch today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
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