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12Nov

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Media, Politics, USA

NPR and the Corporate Criminal Element

BY RUSSELL MOKHIBER John Lansing, CEO, NPR. Ever wonder why you rarely hear serious discussion on National Public Radio (NPR) about corporate crime and violence? For a hint as to why, pick up the most recent NPR annual report, and flip through the listing of corporate criminals and other major recidivist law violators on the corporate sponsor page. ExxonMobil (guilty plea Exxon Valdez oil spill), Lumber Liquidators (guilty plea environmental crimes), Panasonic (guilty pleas antitrust crimes) and Tyson Foods (guilty plea clean water violations). ExxonMobil, Lumber Liquidators, Panasonic, Tyson Foods — those are just some of the major corporate donors to NPR that have pled guilty to crimes. And then there are many more major corporations on the NPR sponsors list that set...

12Nov

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Politics, USA

Trump Out Now

BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 I am an author, political commentator, teacher, and historian who prefers in “normal times” to spend most of my time researching, writing, and teaching. This summer and fall, however, I’ve been out protesting with Refuse Fascism raising the demand “Trump-Pence Out Now” – out immediately. That’s because these are not “normal” times. The deadly coronavirus that has been spread by the pandemo-fascist Trump administration has already killed 220,000-plus Americans and will likely 200,000 to 300,000 more by Inauguration Day (January 20th) next year. The United States is in the middle of a related and attempted rolling coup being carried out by a White House that knows it cannot win a second term in conventional...

12Nov

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Politics, USA

Ex-President Obama: Ten Ironies

BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Jakehonig – CC BY-SA 3.0 The irony on Thursday morning cable news was too delicious not to savor. MSDNC anchor Halle Jackson could barely contain her glee over how former president Barack Obama had finally “taken the gloves off” and gone after Donald Trump by name while campaigning for Joe Biden the previous day. I have no idea if Obama really did “take the gloves off” on Wednesday. I have my doubts. But whatever he did, he may have answered the bell too late. Earlier in her broadcast, however, Jackson noted in passing that the Senate Judiciary Committee had just recommended Sente confirmation of the far-right Christian cultist Amy Coney-Barrett for the U.S. Supreme Court. The Handmaid jurist will be voted on to the appointed-for-life high c...

How Trump Killed 220,000 Americans: the First Three Months of Covid

12Nov

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Politics, USA

How Trump Killed 220,000 Americans: the First Three Months of Covid

BY T.J. COLES Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In my new book, Capitalism and Coronavirus: How Institutionalized Greed Turned a Crisis into a Catastrophe, I argue that neoliberalism exacerbated COVID-related deaths in six steps, one of which was infecting political thinking and government structures with a for-profit, cost-cutting ideology. Epidemiologists agree that early intervention is crucial for curbing the worst effects of pandemics. America’s decentralized, state-level, bureaucratic response systems needed a President willing and able to take charge. Trump did the opposite. In order to keep market confidence as high as possible, Trump kept telling the public that all was well, leaving underfunded and privatized bureaucracies to navigate through the chaos. JANUARY: ...

Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All

12Nov

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Politics, USA

Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All

BY RALPH NADER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Political analysts of all stripes have concluded that President Trump has a base of supporters who are credulous, immovable, and unpersuadable. Allow us to briefly test that hypothesis, but to ignore the skins-shirts labels — Left-Right, Democrat-Republican — that often though not always determine how a person votes. Instead, we’d like to ask sincere Trump voters whether they’d have a neighbor over for a family dinner who did any or all of the following? * He has admitted on tape to routinely abusing women as several dozen have publicly accused him of sexual assaults. And he paid substantial hush money to buy the silence of at least two mistresses. * He has cheated his workers, vendors, customers, and wives,...

10Nov

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

California university comes to defense of professor targeted by Zionist groups

Nora Barrows-Friedman Lobby Watch San Francisco State University professor Rabab Abdulhadi (YouTube) A professor at San Francisco State University has been cleared of accusations made by Israel-aligned groups of “misusing funds” by traveling to Palestine and Jordan earlier this year and meeting with Palestinian leaders and political figures. Just days ago, San Francisco State University forcefully concluded that such accusations have “no merit” and that the university “will not censor our scholars nor condone censorship by others.” In addition, the dean of the college of Ethnic Studies has admonished the accusers for their “propaganda-style tactics.” Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, a senior scholar and associate professor of ethnic studies and race and resistance studies, has been the targe...

This presidential election is a victory for the Republicans

9Nov

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Politics, USA

This presidential election is a victory for the Republicans

Dear editor, No matter who wins the presidential election, this is a victory for the Republicans. As of today, the result of the election reflects an overall rejection of Trump not only as a president but as a person. Moreover, this also reflects a lack of his ability to lead the country. Aside from the fact that all members of "The Squad" (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib) were elected for a second term, this election is still a victory for the Republicans. They have held the Senate, gained in the House, gained with minority voters. They also control the Supreme Court. Furthermore, without the Senate, Biden will have a weak House of Representatives and will not be able to lead effectively since his hands are tied. Adding to this, unemploye...

Islam doesn't tolerate the degradation of any Prophet

9Nov

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Politics

Islam doesn't tolerate the degradation of any Prophet

Dear editor, There's nothing more inflaming to the souls of Muslims worldwide than insulting the Prophet Mohammad or desecrating the Holy Quran.Islam bars any depiction of the Prophet, even a respectable one, for fear it could lead to idolatry. When France showed the insulting cartoons that ridiculed the Prophet, France argued it was free speech. However, why no one in France screamed for free speech in 2008 when Charlie Hebdo fired one of its cartoonists for mocking former President Sarkozy's son for converting to Judaism before he could marry a rich Jewish woman and that he married her only her money? That was the same magazine that published the 12 cartoons of Prophet Mohammad in 2015. The cartoonist sued his employer and was given hush money. When Christians in Pakistan demo...

When Exactly Did the AngloZionist Empire Collapse?

9Nov

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Europe, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

When Exactly Did the AngloZionist Empire Collapse?

THE SAKER I remember one evening in distant 1991, I was sitting with a few friends in the SAIS cafeteria discussing the future of the United States with a few very smart students, including a Pakistani Army Colonel, a US captain who served on aircraft carriers and a Spanish diplomat: we all agreed that “the system” was perfect, so to speak, and that the US would only collapse if a strong external shock would hit it hard. We all agreed that the combination of the best propaganda machine in history, the stupidification resulting from many daily hours of watching the Idiot Tube and, finally, a very effective repression apparatus made for a quasi perfect dictatorship: the one which only gives the illusion of democracy and people power. Years later, in 2017, I read by J.M. Greer’s bril...

8Nov

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Politics, Syria, UAE

Emirati Aid Convoy to Damascus to Fight Trump Sanctions

By VT Editors Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler’s Representative in the Al Dhafra Region, Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, a land aid convoy carrying 22 tons of medicines and medical materials arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which the authority had arranged in coordination with the Syrian Red Crescent Society. The aid to curb the outbreak of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the Syrian arena comes as part of the UAE’s global response to address the pandemic, strengthening preventive and precautionary measures, and supporting the Syrian medical sector to face the challenges in this regard. Thousands of health care workers in Syria benefit from this aid. The Secretary-General of the Emirates Red Crescent, Dr. M...