August 2018

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31 Aug 2018

Reckoning With John McCain

Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain. By Timothy Patrick McCarthy Twitter August 27, 2018 photo above: John McCain in 2007. (Dennis Van Tine / MediaPunch / IPX) WN: In my view, the article highlighted below is a respectful, balanced assessment of Senator McCain, when…

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30 Aug 2018

Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs

The separation of families at the border, climate change, and various progressive causes have galvanized young Christians. By Eliza Griswold August 27, 2018 WN: I have a white Canadian Evangelical friend who expresses being fed up with white Evangelical-bashing -- in particular towards white Evangelicals south of the border. I…

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28 Aug 2018

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean August 24, 2018 Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism by Louis Proyect WN: I wrote the following in introduction to a book similar in its findings about 19th-century American capitalism to 17th-century colonial capitalism,…

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22 Aug 2018

Uri Avnery: One of My Few Heroes in the Middle East

August 22, 2018 by Robert Fisk photo above: dovblog | CC BY 2.0 excerpts: I must admit that Uri Avnery was one of my Middle East heroes – there aren’t many – and his story is worthy of a movie, though there will be no Spielbergs to direct it: writer,…

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22 Aug 2018

Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election

That’s impeachable. By John Nichols Twitter August 22, 2018 10:40 am photo above: Michael Cohen leaves his federal court hearing in New York on August 21, 2018. (Reuters / Brendan McDermid) WN: Is anyone really surprised?! The answer shouts out from the question. Yet an acquaintance, the vast majority of white…

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21 Aug 2018

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Will China Be the Next Global Hegemon?

Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents By Alfred W. McCoy image above: Visual Capitalist, from "The world’s top economy: the US vs China in five charts" WN: As usual, Dr. McCoy's trenchant analysis proves compelling, sage, hugely…

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21 Aug 2018

Trump’s War on Regulation Is Just Another Form of Trickle-Down Economics

Aug 14, 2018 by Robert Reich photo above: Economist Robert Reich. (YouTube screen grab) WN: True to expectation, an acquaintance immediately blamed California's 2018 wildfires on environmental extremists... He is an absolute climate change/anthropocentric climate disruption (ACD) denier offering not a shred of evidence but constant bombastic fundamentalist pronouncements that…

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15 Aug 2018

Trump Wouldn’t Have Let Her in the Country, But Ilhan Omar Is Likely Joining Congress

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 by Informed Comment Ilhan Omar is humane where Trump is selfish. Ilhan Omar is high-minded where Trump is in the gutter. Let's hope hers is the future — his the past. Juan Cole 13 Comments WN: Hers is a voice one could wish were dominant in the U.S. today... One can always hope... Ilhan Omar, a refugee and a Somali-heritage Muslim woman who veils, has won the Democratic primary for…

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13 Aug 2018

Why the Vatican continues to struggle with sex abuse scandals

by Chico Harlan August 12 at 6:53 PM Email the author photo above: Members of Chile's bishops conference, Luis Fernando Ramos Perez and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, give a news conference at the Vatican in May. (LUCA PRIZIA/AFP/Getty Images) WN: Pope Francis by all accounts is faltering on this, rather than…

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13 Aug 2018

How Does This All End? How Do We Come Back Together?

August 1, 2018 by Tim Suttle 8 Comments WN: In the article highlighted below, we are told -- again by this author -- that America has a wisdom problem. I have no doubt that he is right. What must be asserted however much more so is that America has an…

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