Trump Threatens to Unleash Paramilitary Violence in the U.S.

Thursday, March 21, 2019 [| Help expose injustice: Support Truthout! |]( [Trump Threatens to Unleash Paramilitary Violence in the U.S.]( Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Since he first announced his candidacy for president, Trump has shown little patience for the nuances of constitutional governance. Instead he has presented himself as an autocrat with dictatorial ambitions. In a recent Breitbart interview, he even went so far as to hint that under certain circumstances he might seek to unleash mob violence from the police, military and biker gangs who are "in his corner." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Millennials Are the Most Indebted Generation. They Can Thank Joe Biden.]( Mark Provost, Truthout Between student debt and medical debt, millennials are perhaps the most indebted generation, but thanks to Joe Biden, they are not afforded recourse to bankruptcy to take control of their lives. Biden was at the center of a decades-long campaign by lenders to eviscerate consumer debt protections with a bankruptcy bill that has had tragic and far-reaching consequences for an entire generation. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Is Livid Because He Can't Fire All the Investigators]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Donald Trump has been on an unusually frantic tear this week, even by his loutish standards. Smart money says the burr under his saddle came by way of newly released court documents that underscore the sheer magnitude of the investigations into virtually all of his personal, political and business dealings. He can't fire all the investigators, and if he tries, even his Senate Republican allies may finally balk. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Help keep Truthout's hard-hitting, honest and independent journalism alive: Donate what you can to support our work! [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Let's Impeach Trump If He Continues the Yemen War]( Robert Reuel Naiman, Truthout Trump has threatened to veto the War Powers resolution to cut off U.S. military support for the war against Yemen if it passes. This presents Congress with a perfect opportunity to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump if he defies the resolution and continues the illegal war. Impeachment proceedings would also be the most effective to tie the administration's hands over continuing support for the war. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [New Zealand PM Announces Ban on Assault Rifles After Christchurch Massacre]( Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Just six days after a white supremacist gunman killed 50 people and injured dozens more at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday that the country will ban all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. Uses Several Clandestine Shelters to Detain Immigrant Children]( Aura Bogado and Patrick Michels, Reveal News The federal government is relying on secret shelters to hold unaccompanied minors, in possible violation of the long-standing rules for the care of immigrant children. A landmark class-action lawsuit reveals that the Office of Refugee Resettlement has never made the shelters' existence public or even disclosed them to the minors' own attorneys. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Amnesty International Accuses U.S. of War Crimes in Somalia]( Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! Amnesty International is accusing the United States of covering up civilian casualties in its secretive air war in Somalia. For years, the Pentagon has claimed no civilians were being killed in U.S. airstrikes, but Amnesty found that at least 14 civilians were killed, and eight more were injured, in just five airstrikes. The overall civilian death toll is likely to be far higher. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cigarettes Are Central to the History of Corporate Power]( Nan Enstad, University of Chicago Press In Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, author Nan Enstad reveals how the definitive moments in the expansion of corporate power took place through one of capitalism's deadliest commodities. Challenging the centrality of the entrepreneur to the story, Enstad instead presents a global history in which Jim Crow, jazz and empire are central to the rise of the mass-produced cigarette. [Read the Excerpt →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Florida Lawmakers Attempt to Weaken Voter Rights Restoration]( Makeda Yohannes, Brennan Center for Justice In November, Florida voters passed Amendment 4, which automatically restored the right to vote to more than 1.4 million Floridians with past felony convictions. This week, lawmakers are attempting to make the restoration of those voting rights contingent on the full payment of all fees and court costs. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Citizenship in the Age of Trump]( Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch The president and his advisers have, in an unprecedented way, refused to uphold the rights of U.S.-born citizens, let alone naturalized ones. In its urge to build walls of every sort, seen and unseen, the Trump administration has taken the global lead in creating a world in which citizenship will be ever more narrowly defined. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Science Debunks Claim That Marijuana Significantly Harms Brain]( Paul Armentano, Truthout Claims that cannabis exposure permanently damages the brain remain pervasive, but according to the findings in several recently published studies, these allegations have little basis in scientific reality. As the ongoing national debate over marijuana policy moves forward, lawmakers must reject outdated myths about the plant in favor of sound science and progressive public opinion. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Daniel Ellsberg Calls Chelsea Manning "an American Hero"]( Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Following a seven-year incarceration for exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chelsea Manning is in jail once again -- for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. Watergate-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has praised Manning for her principled stand against the secretive grand jury system, which has frequently been used to stifle dissent. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Your support keeps Truthout ad-free! But we still need 87 people to start a sustaining, monthly donation. Will you be one? [Donate Now →]( Connect With Us [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Donate]( Truthout is a reader-supported, nonprofit organization; donations are tax-deductible. 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