News & Views | 'See You in Court': With China Funding Project, Trump in Clear Violation of Constitution

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) to view this message in a browser window. [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [] [] News & Views | 5/15/18 [] Feature... [] ['See You in Court': With China Funding New Trump Resort Project, President in Clear Violation of Constitution](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI by Julia Conley, staff writer The government watchdog group that has sued President Donald Trump over his alleged ethics violations sharpened its focus this week on a Trump-linked development that is being partially financed by the Chinese government—a possible violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause. [] [] News... [] ['Beyond Shameful': Democrats Warner, Heitkamp, and Nelson Announce Support for Torturer Gina Haspel](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) 1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI by Jake Johnson, staff writer Less than 24 hours after The Intercept reported that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) cut off access to a classified memo that several lawmakers said contains "disturbing" information about the record of President Donald Trump's CIA pick Gina Haspel, Warner announced in a statement on Tuesday that he will vote to confirm Haspel despite her repeated refusal to condemn torture as immoral. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Provocative Military Ruckus': North Korea Warns US-South Korea War Games Could Derail Trump-Kim Summit](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [planes](1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Pointing to "provocative" military drills the U.S. and South Korean air forces are conducting in the region, North Korea is warning that the war games could jeopardize a highly anticipated summit scheduled to take place in Singapore next month, which is supposed to bring together the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S. President Donald Trump. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Excruciatingly Close': With Just 24 Hours Until Crucial Vote, Net Neutrality Defenders Urged to Flood Senate Phone Lines](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI by Julia Conley, staff writer Internet freedom defenders warned on Tuesday that with only 24 hours left before the Senate votes to possibly nullify the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) repeal of net neutrality, the vote is expected to be "excruciatingly close." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['This Is a Big Deal': Fearing 'Public Relations Nightmare,' Pruitt's EPA Blocked Release of a Major Water Contamination Study](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [Trump, Pruitt](1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Fearing a "public relations nightmare," President Donald Trump's White House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the reign of administrator Scott Pruitt, blocked the release of a major water contamination story, according to emails obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists and reported on by Politico. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Stop at Nothing' Plan to Destroy Nation's Union Power Includes $80 Million Koch- and Walmart-Funded War Chest](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [Janus](1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Less than a week after Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation to strengthen trade unions across the United States, a network of right-wing think tanks—funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers and the heirs to the Walmart fortune—has launched a nationwide campaign to destroy labor groups and undermine American workers' rights. --------------------------------------------------------------- ["All Those Babies Are Dead. All Those People Are Dead': Eddie Glaude Jr. Apologizes for Injecting Heartfelt "Moralizing" into MSNBC Roundtable on Gaza Massacre](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI by Jon Queally, staff writer In what seemed to at least one observer as a rare moment in which a guest commentator "overloaded the circuits of the corporate media robots," Princeton's Eddie Glaude Jr. on Monday evening struck a notably impassioned tone as he interrupted another guest during an MSNBC roundtable discussion of the Israeli massacre of unarmed protesters to remind viewers that while some may want to talk horse-race politics, it's also important to recognize that actual people were gunned down in cold blood by IDF snipers. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [] [] Views... [] [A Staggeringly Well-Funded Blowback Machine](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) 1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI by Tom Engelhardt How the U.S. military takes the world through the Gates of Hell --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘America Crossed Every Red Line’: Palestinians in Jerusalem Protest New US Embassy](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [Israeli police forces violently detain a Palestinian protester in Jerusalem (Photo: Alexi Falson) ](1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Yumna Patel, Akram Al-Wa'ra “Their celebration today shows how brutal and monstrous they are, and the racism that they practice in this land.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Government Has Information on Gina Haspel’s Torture Record. The Senate Can’t See It.](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) ["The videotapes were destroyed in complete disdain for the rule of law." (Photo: CSPAN3)](1f9d0/ct12_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Brian Tashman Every American should be wary of what Sen. Wyden has described as an “A to Z cover-up” of Haspel’s torture record. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Seventy Years of Palestinian Resistance Since the Establishment of the State of Israel](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) ["In 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) saw the state of Israel established, 750,000 Palestinians forced into exile, and over 500 Palestinian villages and towns destroyed." (Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Image)](1f9d0/ct13_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Yara Hawari The brutal cost that Palestinians in Gaza are paying is because of their resistance to Israel- a resistance that began over seven decades ago. --------------------------------------------------------------- [My Home is Beit Daras: Our Lingering Nakba](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) ["70 years later, my people are still refugees." (Photo: Che Erasmus Nche / Eras Media Productions via BDS South Africa)](1f9d0/ct14_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Ramzy Baroud The tragic way that Beit Daras was conquered by invading Zionist forces has left behind blood stains and emotional scars that have never healed. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Palestinians Be Killed? Can Israelis Kill Them? Or Do They Only “Die”?](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) ["Why is it so hard to admit that the Israeli army, and Israeli squatter settlers, routinely kill Palestinians?" (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)](1f9d0/ct15_1/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) by Juan Cole That is why Palestinians in Gaza are rallying at the fence and insisting that the world will not be allowed to forget two million stateless persons trapped and under blockade in an Israeli concentration camp. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3A9OQGJipNI) [] [] Newswire... 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