What Can We Learn From Standing Rock?

[Truthdig]( [Daily Headlines] Friday, March 3, 2017 Featured Story [What Can We Learn From Standing Rock?]( Truthdig correspondent Donald Kaufman met with the editorial team Thursday to discuss the Dakota Access pipeline and the next moves for the “water protectors.” [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( Ear to the Ground [Deportations Have Some Communities Questioning Their Support for Trump]( By Emma Niles — As the president’s crackdown spreads fear across the country, one Illinois town helps free a detained immigrant. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( Reports [Under Pressure, Jeff Sessions Recuses Himself From Russia Probes]( Clamor from his colleagues and the public stops the attorney general from investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 election. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Don’t Be Fooled by Trump’s Talk of ‘Unity’]( By Sonali Kolhatkar — The president played on themes of harmony in his first address to Congress, but recent incidents of violence and bigotry tell a different story. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [The Forever Prisoners of Guantanamo]( I looked forward to writing an essay highlighting the detention camp’s last 100 days. It never happened. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Bill Could Put the Amazon at Risk by Opening Huge Area to Mining]( Environmental campaigners fear that removing protection from millions of acres of rainforest will facilitate exploitation. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [The Deep State’s Hatred of Trump Is Not the Same as Yours]( By Paul Street — Do committed progressives really want to lie down in the same warmongering and pro-surveillance bed as the CIA and the Pentagon? [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [A Double-Transplant Cancer Survivor Takes On Trump Over Obamacare]( By Amy Goodman — Among the guests in the chamber during the president’s first address to Congress was Ola Ojewumi (pictured), a remarkable 26-year-old. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( A/V Booth [Why Do Some People Have Money While Others Don’t?]( Bankers rig democracy to control the institution of money, says economist Richard Wolff (pictured). [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [‘Water Protectors’ Have a Hard Time Escaping the Anger of Some Locals (Video)]( With passions running high in North Dakota, a small group of Native Americans and their supporters find themselves targets in a restaurant, and a woman is struck by an infuriated, yelling man. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( Cartoon [Unpresidented Trump (Video)]( By Mark Fiore [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Drilling Beneath the Headlines][Truthdig]( [Donate Today!]( [Follow Truthdig on Twitter]( [Follow Truthdig on Facebook]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}, by newsletter@truthdig.com [Support Truthdig]( | [Contact Us]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Update Profile]( | [Forward To A Friend](