Public Pressure Could Halt US Support of Yemen War

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The Robert Mueller team dropped the sentencing paperwork for Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen on Friday, and while the redacting pen was busy, there was enough bleeding meat on the bone to send Trump into a weekend-long Twitter frenzy. His cries of "NO COLLUSION" and no "Smocking" gun make one wonder whether the actual smoking gun may be just around the corner. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trade: It's Still About Class, Not Country]( Dean Baker, Truthout While President Trump keeps taking wild shots in his trade wars, the mainstream media have been cheering him on in at least one aspect of his campaign. All the elite types agree that "we" have an interest in clamping down on China's alleged theft of our intellectual property. While some included in "we" might share that interest, most of the country does not. 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Legal Experts Disagree.]( Jon Queally, Common Dreams Legal experts and prosecutors are pushing back against the claim President Trump made early Monday morning that his secret payments to silence women claiming extramarital sexual affairs with him were nothing more than a "simple private transaction." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Demonstrators at UN Climate Summit Face Riot Police and Intimidation]( Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! At the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kuwait have blocked language "welcoming" October's landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that warned of the catastrophic effects of a global temperature increase. Meanwhile, climate activists on the ground in Poland are up against a right-wing government that sees the protesters as enemies. 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This decision threw a very real wrench into the availability of locally grown foods for low-income Americans who depended on the company to process their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [News From the Far Side of Nowhere]( Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Unbelievably enough, despite all evidence to the contrary, there are still other things going on out there somewhere, even if President Trump has thrown so much of it into shadow. This is a minimalist partial rundown on an imperial world of war, and preparations for the same, that is often dealt with as if it existed on the far side of nowhere when it should be front and center. 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