'Putin's War on America' Is Nothing Compared With America's War on Democracy

[Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists]( Monday, July 23, 2018 Featured story politics [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( ['Putin's War on America' Is Nothing Compared With America's War on Democracy]( By Paul Street — In the wake of Helsinki, missing from "Russiagate" media hysteria is the question of who will protect us from the influence of U.S. oligarchs. [Read more]( Opinion International [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [The Arrest of Julian Assange Appears Near]( The Truthdig Staff — The Intercept is reporting that Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno is in London to "finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange," exposing him to British arrest. [Read more]( Immigration [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Immigrant Shelters Drug Traumatized Teens Without Consent]( Caroline Chen and Jess Ramirez — Whether they came to the U.S. alone, or were forcibly separated from their families at the border, despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. [Read more]( International [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, U.S. Continues Regime Change Efforts]( Kevin Zeese — The recent coup in Central America exposes the alliances working with the United States to put in place a neoliberal government that is controlled by the U.S. and serves the interests of the wealthy. [Read more]( multimedia scheer intelligence [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Seymour Hersh on America’s Capacity for Fascist Brutality (Audio and Transcript)]( By Robert Scheer — U.S. soldiers in My Lai, Vietnam, "didn't just kill babies," says the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in a wide-ranging interview. "They were throwing infants up and catching them on their bayonets." [Read more]( Cartoon [Pence Passes By]( By Jeff Danziger — [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Donate Today!]( [Follow Truthdig on Twitter]( [Follow Truthdig on Facebook]( Truthdig 1158 26th St., No. 443 Santa Monica, CA 90403-4698 This email was sent to {EMAIL}, by [email protected]( [Support Truthdig]( | [Contact Us]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Update Profile]( | [Forward To A Friend](