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Trump's FCC Chairman Threatens Net Neutrality
Post Date: 2017-02-11 08:52:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s FCC Chairman Threatens Net Neutrality by Stephen Lendman With major media featuring fake news, Net Neutrality is key to keeping the Internet free and open, letting users access all content without restrictions, limitations, or discrimination, an online level playing field for everyone. First Amendment rights depend on it. Without Net Neutrality, consumer choice will be lost, stolen by corporate predators, making the Internet look like cable TV, letting communication giants decide what web sites, content and applications are available at what cost. Net Neutrality is essential to assure no content is favored over others. Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) legal ...
Trump Suggests New Travel Ban Order Coming
Post Date: 2017-02-11 08:35:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Suggests New Travel Ban Order Coming by Stephen Lendman His access to America travel suspension targeting seven Muslim-majority countries was rejected at the district and appeals court levels. Instead of cutting his losses and moving on, Reuters reported he’s “considering a new executive order,” possibly “exclud(ing) green card holders, or permanent residents (to) alleviate some concerns expressed by the courts,” according to an unnamed source. His alternatives are to try getting the judicial rulings against him overturned by the full Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court in an emergency hearing. Either choice may result in further defeat. ...
Melissa Dykes: 5 Signs We're Living in an Orwellian Police State (Now More Than Ever)
Post Date: 2017-02-11 01:21:09 by Horse
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Appeals Court Rejects Trump's Travel Ban Suspension
Post Date: 2017-02-10 09:01:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Travel Ban Suspension by Stephen Lendman On Thursday, a US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals three-judge panel unanimously ruled against Trump’s access to America suspension, solely affecting seven majority-Muslim countries. The issue is by no means settled. The Justice Department may either ask the full appeals court to rule on this issue or petition the Supreme Court directly for an emergency ruling. Congress could get involved legislatively, making Trump’s executive order, or a version of it, the law of the land. Legal actions against it could go back to the Supreme Court. This issue could drag on longer-term. It’s unclear how things ...
Trump's Get Tough on Immigration and Civil Liberties Agenda
Post Date: 2017-02-10 08:48:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Get Tough on Immigration and Civil Liberties Agenda by Stephen Lendman His immigration and travel suspension (now in limbo following its judicial rejection) was politicized, not about protecting America’s borders or national security. Designated Muslim countries alone are affected, not Judeo/Christian ones - adversaries, not allies. They’re mostly nations America owes restitution to for lawless aggression, for mass slaughter and destruction, for creating appalling chaos and human misery. Instead, further punishment is being inflicted on people so grievously harmed by Washington’s imperial agenda. Individuals targeted are human beings, not terrorists. The ...
Boris Johnson Renounces U.S. Citizenship The British foreign secretary had previously complained about a U.S. tax bill.
Post Date: 2017-02-09 14:12:17 by noone222
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Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary and former London mayor, has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to recently released tax data. Though thoroughly British -- a member of Parliament and educated at Oxford -- Johnson was born in New York. At the time of his birth, his father, British author Stanley Johnson, was studying at Columbia. RELATED CONTENT LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 04: American passport lays on a wet pavement after it was burnt at the demonstration outside the US Embassy on February 04, 2017 in London, England. Thousands of people take part in a protest against Donald Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from seven ...
Completion of Dakota Access Pipeline Approved
Post Date: 2017-02-09 13:21:10 by Stephen Lendman
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Completion of Dakota Access Pipeline Approved by Stephen Lendman On Tuesday, the Army Corps of Engineers filed court documents, saying it intends granting easement for completion of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). It’s been contested for months by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members and supporters. The project’s final leg to be constructed under Lake Oahe endangers sacred ancestral land, water and wildlife habitat, along with communities, farmland and other sensitive areas. Oil and gas pipelines constitute huge environmental hazards. They’re leak-prone, contaminating land and waterways, endangering human health, welfare and lives. At best, they create ...
Neocon Elliot Abrams for Deputy Secretary of State?
Post Date: 2017-02-09 08:18:42 by Stephen Lendman
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Neocon Elliot Abrams for Deputy Secretary of State? by Stephen Lendman Trump is considering him for the department’s number two position - perhaps an especially powerful one while Rex Tillerson transitions from Big Oil to diplomacy. Trump transition advisor James Carafano believes Abrams is “pretty close to being named” - best known for his role in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. It involved covertly selling arms to Iran to fund Contra anti-Sandinista terrorists in Nicaragua. The Boland Amendment prohibited it. For his role in the scheme, Abrams was indicted for lying to Congress, pled guilty to two lesser offenses of withholding information from Congress to avoid a trial, ...
Senate Aims to Block Trump From Lifting Sanctions on Russia
Post Date: 2017-02-09 08:05:28 by Stephen Lendman
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Senate Aims to Block Trump From Lifting Sanctions on Russia by Stephen Lendman In late January, Senate Republicans John McCain and Rob Portman strongly opposed lifting sanctions on Russia, McCain saying: “I hope President Trump will put an end to this speculation and reject such a reckless course. If he does not, I will work with my colleagues to codify sanctions against Russia into law.” Portman absurdly claimed lifting them would damage US leadership and credibility. After 24 years under the Clintons, Bush/Cheney and Obama, they’re damaged beyond repair. US sanctions on Russia were illegally imposed for political reasons, no others - part of longstanding US Russia ...
Trump Intends Guantanamo Expansion
Post Date: 2017-02-09 07:34:04 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Intends Guantanamo Expansion by Stephen Lendman Obama lied, promising the infamous torture prison’s closure during his first year in office. The vast majority of its detainees committed no crimes. Claims otherwise were fabricated. According to The New York Times, a draft executive order it obtained dropped earlier language relating to reopening CIA black sites. It “kep(t) language that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the wartime prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba,” permitting them to be held at “other facilities.” America created the terrorist group, actively supports it. Trump said he wants to smash it. Whether rhetoric ...
Appeals Court Panel Dubious About Trump's Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-02-08 08:19:22 by Stephen Lendman
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Appeals Court Panel Dubious About Trump’s Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman Tuesday’s high legal drama was seen live-streamed on television and via You Tube. A three-judge panel heard arguments by the Justice Department and state of Washington. At least two judges were skeptical about DOJ arguments. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether to uphold or reject US District Court Judge for the Western District of Washington James Robart’s temporary restraining order (TRO), staying Trump’s denial of access to America suspension, affecting seven predominantly Muslim countries until a follow-up ruling decides up or down on making it permanent. A Ninth ...
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Post Date: 2017-02-07 13:42:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos by Stephen Lendman Long ago, inner city kids like myself had wonderful public schools with dedicated teachers, preparing us for higher education when even top colleges and universities were affordable. No longer. Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Obama's Race to the Top (RTTT) wrecked public education the way it used to be. It was deplorable before they made a bad system worse - polar opposite how it was decades earlier. NCLB leaves most kids behind. RTTT is a race to the bottom. Both agendas reflect schemes to destroy a nearly four century tradition. Public schools in America don’t teach. They’re institutions of intimidation and ...
CAN YOU TAMPER WITH A JUROR IF THERE'S NO JURY?
Post Date: 2017-02-07 10:29:55 by Ada
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State Supremes get pointed question about 1st Amendment image: If a citizen hands out a pamphlet on the issue of jury nullification in front of a courthouse to people who haven’t yet been sworn in as jurors can they the citizen be charged with improperly influencing a jury? That’s the question being posed to the Michigan Supreme Court in a First Amendment case that erupted in late 2015 when a judge in Mecosta County, a magistrate, a prosecutor and a deputy worked together to threaten a man handing out that information, arrested him and ordered him held on an exorbitant $150,000 bond. And now the case has moved to the highest levels of the state courts in Michigan. Attorney ...
Relentless NYT War on Trump and Russia
Post Date: 2017-02-07 07:44:27 by Stephen Lendman
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Relentless NYT War on Trump and Russia by Stephen Lendman The self-styled newspaper of record is a lying machine, a national disgrace - all the news most important to report suppressed, fake news substituting. On February 7, The Times blasted what it called “bromance” between Trump and Putin, calling it “a source of puzzlement and alarm in the West, (now) even more disturbing.” Fact: Russia threatens no other nations, hasn’t attacked any - in contrast to forever US imperial wars, responsible for millions of casualties Times reports never explain. Fact: Putin is a preeminent world leader, overwhelmingly supported by Russians, a world peace and stability champion ...
Trump on NATO and Ukraine
Post Date: 2017-02-07 07:28:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump on NATO and Ukraine by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, Trump spoke with US-installed NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. According to a White House statement, he expressed “strong support for the” alliance, indicating he doesn’t consider it “obsolete” as stated earlier. He stressed getting “all NATO allies to meet their defense spending commitments” - at a time when so-called threats are fabricated, including terrorism in one sense. Defeating ISIS and likeminded groups requires ending support. Without it, they can’t operate. With it, their scourge won’t be easily eliminated by Russia or any other country. Trump and Stoltenberg ...
Polls Show Anti-Russia Propaganda Works
Post Date: 2017-02-07 07:12:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Polls Show Anti-Russia Propaganda Works by Stephen Lendman Given unrelenting anti-Russia propaganda, ongoing for so long, during much of Obama’s tenure, continuing by Congress and media scoundrels, public hostility toward Russia is no surprise. Most Americans think Moscow interfered in last November’s election to help Trump defeat Hillary - despite no evidence suggesting it, baseless accusations alone claiming it. According to a mid-January Reuters/Ipsos poll, 82% of Americans consider Russia a threat - up from 76% last March. Only North Korea ranked higher at 86%. A Russian poll showed slightly more than half of respondents believe relations with America will improve ahead. ...
Jews in Ukraine Endangered
Post Date: 2017-02-06 12:05:55 by Stephen Lendman
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Jews in Ukraine Endangered by Stephen Lendman Xenophonic, ultranationalist, fascist anti-Semites run Ukraine, courtesy of US policy under Obama - Trump so far doing nothing to halt them waging war on their own people. Nazi symbolism is openly displayed in Kiev. Ultranationists parade through the city, honoring Nazi- era collaborator/mass murderer Stepan Bandera. State-sponsored murder targets Donbass residents and anyone critical of regime power and practices. Press freedom was abolished, independent journalists endangered. So are Ukrainian Jews. The nation has a disturbing history of anti-Semitism, notably after the 1917 Russian revolution and during the Nazi era in Germany. ...
Trump's Hostility Toward Iran
Post Date: 2017-02-06 07:14:23 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump’s Hostility Toward Iran by Stephen Lendman His tough talk on Iran and administration actions so far are disturbing, reflecting longstanding US hostility since its 1979 revolution. It’s all about its sovereign independence, deference to Israel, and all that oil America covets. Its reserves are the world’s fourth largest. During his interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, aired Sunday, Trump repeated longstanding US/Israeli disinformation on Iran, disgracefully saying “(t)hey have total disregard for our country.” “They are the number one terrorist state. They’re sending money all over the place and weapons, and you can’t do ...
Americans: The World's Most Over-Entertained, Uninformed Know-Nothings
Post Date: 2017-02-05 13:16:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Americans: The World’s Most Over-Entertained, Uninformed Know-Nothings by Stephen Lendman What more appropriate topic than on Super Bowl Sunday. The National Retail Federation estimates around 189 million Americans tuning in, myself not among them. On Monday, they’ll know all about “the game,” nothing about the major issues of our time, hugely affecting their lives, welfare and futures. It’s why America gets away with murder on an unimaginable scale time and again, permanently at war at home and abroad, humanity’s survival endangered by its recklessness. Too few Americans understand, more focused on who wins “the game,” mindless about what ...
Is US Rapprochement with Russia Possible?
Post Date: 2017-02-05 13:01:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Is US Rapprochement with Russia Possible? by Stephen Lendman After a century of US hostility, except for time-out during WW II to defeat Nazism, it takes a giant leap of faith to think Trump, a businessman making his first foray into politics, can achieve what none of his predecessors accomplished since Woodrow Wilson’s era. Virtually the entire Congress, media scoundrels, and dominant public opinion are anti-Russia. Even if Trump is sincere, for whatever reasons, he’s up against these forces opposing rapprochement. His hostility toward China, Iran, Venezuela and perhaps other Russian allies makes improved relations all the harder to achieve, maybe impossible. Still it’s ...
Trump’s Alt.Right Movement Joins Soros in Russia-Bashing
Post Date: 2017-02-05 10:50:42 by Ada
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In one of the most blatant double-crosses by the extreme right-wing since Nazi Germany broke its non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1941 and launched a sneak attack on Russian territory, President Donald Trump’s so- called «alt.right» cadres have lined up to blame Russia for interfering in U.S. electoral politics. During the 2016 campaign, it was fashionable for Democrats, backed financially by George Soros’s network of nongovernmental organizations, to accuse Russia of hacking into Democratic Party computers and «fixing» the vote to enable Trump’s election victory. Trump and his team had called for better U.S. relations with Russia during ...
Does This Anti-Trump Hysteria Help Him Somewhat? A Lot? or A WHOLE LOT?
Post Date: 2017-02-05 10:39:47 by Ada
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There was no abatement of Lefty hysteria in this, the second week of the first Trump administration. The principal eruptions were: mobs of demonstrators at airports protesting a change to Customs and Immigration procedures; Main Stream Media denunciations of Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court; Hollywood airheads going Hitlery-Hitlery-Hitler at some glitzy awards ceremony; an antifa riot on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In Radio Derb, I give over a segment to each of those issues. Here I’ll just pass comment on the anti-Trump hysteria in general. The most interesting political question about it all is: How much does it help Trump? I’m going to take ...
Justice Department Appeals Blocked Travel Ban
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:59:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Justice Department Appeals Blocked Travel Ban by Stephen Lendman A blizzard of Trump tweets addressed the issue. See below. His entry into America suspension, targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries created an international firestorm. It was a terrible move, unconstitutional, politically motivated, unrelated to its stated purpose. Instead of backing off, he’s contesting to get a judicial stay overruled on appeal, a case likely heading for Supreme Court resolution. Or perhaps not with only eight justices. If the Court divides four - four, the lower court’s ruling stands, defeating Trump’s effort to reverse it. US District Judge for the Western District of ...
Ukraine an Obstacle to Lifting Sanctions on Russia
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:46:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukraine an Obstacle to US Lifting Sanctions on Russia by Stephen Lendman Ukraine is a fascist police state, its putschist regime installed by Washington, waging war on its own people since usurping power in February 2014. Trump’s UN envoy Nikki Haley outrageously “condemn(ed) Russian actions” in Ukraine, ignoring flagrant Kiev aggression, shamefully claiming Ukrainian people “suffered for nearly three years under Russian occupation and military intervention.” Her disgraceful misrepresentation of hard facts shows improving US/Russian relations may be wishful thinking - except perhaps in combating terrorism, but even that’s uncertain given longstanding US ...
Defense Secretary Mattis' Anti-China Saber-Ratting
Post Date: 2017-02-05 07:33:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Defense Secretary Mattis’ Anti-China Saber-Rattling by Stephen Lendman On an official visit to Tokyo, Mattis said Washington stands “100% shoulder to shoulder with Japan” in its dispute with China over territory known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, what Beijing calls the Diaoyu archipelago - in its own South China Sea waters, also claimed by Taiwan. Mattis belligerently said Washington will support Japan militarily if an attack occurs on territories it claims as its own, stressing: “I made clear that our longstanding policy on the Senkaku Islands stands. The US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such, Article 5 of the US-Japan ...
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