Dahr Jamail | Trump's Defense Secretary Is a War Criminal: I Know Firsthand

[t]   Tuesday, 6 December 2016 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters] [Tell a friend about Truthout!] [Donate Today!]   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.   BuzzFlash Trump's Baseless Voting Charges and the Post-Truth Age [Read the Article at BuzzFlash]   Angela Merkel Calls for Burqa Ban "Wherever Legally Possible" in Germany [Read the Article at The Independent]   Nearly Four Weeks Later, North Carolina Governor Concedes Race to Democratic Challenger [Read the Article at The Associated Press]   How Castro and Cousteau's Legendary Friendship Preserved Cuba's Waters [Read the EcoWatch Article at BuzzFlash]   US Elections: Broken Machines Could Throw Michigan Recount Into Chaos [Read the Article at the Guardian US]   An Anti-LGBTQ Hate Group Is Wielding Growing Power on Trump's Transition Team [Read the Article at Media Matters]   Six Weeks Left for President Obama to Approve Clemency for US Army Whistleblower Chelsea Manning [Read the Article at World Beyond War]     [James Mattis Is a War Criminal: I Experienced His Attack on Fallujah Firsthand] Dahr Jamail, Truthout: Trump's choice for secretary of defense has shown a callous disregard for human life. I was in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004 and witnessed the effects of Mattis' leadership: the brutal murder of thousands of civilians. [Read the Article]  [The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Doctrine of Native Genocide] Tim Scott, Truthout: The treatment of Native Water Protectors at Standing Rock harks back to white settler attitudes predating Columbus. While there was some enslavement of Indigenous peoples, the primary goal of US settlers was elimination of Native populations. Genocide is the foundation, not an aberration of US democracy. [Read the Article]  [Money Trumps Expectations: Investment Politics in 2016] Rob Larson, Truthout: Trump's victory surprised those who expected the better-funded Clinton to win. But the indirect process of steering a republic via investor coalitions is a tricky one. After the 2010 elections, corporate funders realized that anti-government sentiment can sometimes turn against the very public bodies corporations rely upon. [Read the Article]  [GOP's Health Reform Strategy Amounts to ACA Repeal Without Replacement] Judith Solomon, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Republican congressional leaders plan to move quickly in January to repeal the bulk of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- without enacting a replacement plan to prevent the millions of people who have gained coverage through the ACA from becoming uninsured. [Read the Article]  [Judge's Unprecedented Exxon Ruling Could Turn the Legal System Upside Down] David Halperin, Republic Report: If the ExxonMobil lawsuit goes forward, it would give a green light to wealthy corporations of all kinds to seek out sympathetic federal judges and pursue expensive legal proceedings aimed at derailing state law enforcement investigations. [Read the Article]  [From Climate Change to Nuclear War, Noam Chomsky Warns of Literal Threats to Our Survival] Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "The threats that we now face are the most severe that have ever arisen in human history," says Noam Chomsky. "They are literal threats to survival: nuclear war, environmental catastrophe.... They have to be faced directly, and soon, if the human experiment is not to prove to be a disastrous failure." [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]  [Why Private Prison Company GEO Group Backed Donald Trump] Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center for Justice: GEO Group may not be a household name, but they had everything to gain from a Donald Trump victory. Political quid pro quos are often troubling; but when the beneficiary is a private prison company, it could be downright ugly. [Read the Article]  [EPA's Fracking Study Edited at Last Minute, Downplaying Risks, Newly Uncovered Documents Show] Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog: Just before the US Environmental Protection Agency released its high-profile study on fracking, the agency planned to announce that the draft "study shows potential vulnerabilities to drinking water from hydraulic fracturing process." But that wasn't the message the public heard the next day. [Read the Article]  [New Memo Reveals the Trump Administration's Energy Plan] Nick Surgey, PR Watch: A new memo prepared by Trump's energy transition head Thomas Pyle outlines 14 policies to be expected from President-elect Trump, which collectively amount to a fossil fuel industry wish list. These policies would be devastating for attempts to slow climate change. [Read the Article]  [Buffalo Hospital Workers Get Their Money and Staffing Back] Patrick Weisansal and Ann Converso, Labor Notes: After giving something up in a previous contract, is it possible to win it back? It took a massive effort, but hospital workers in Buffalo, New York, proved it can be done. Here is how unionized employees organized to take back their power. [Read the Article]  [Pulling the Lever for Doomsday: How Donald Trump Changed Everything] John Feffer, TomDispatch: The new dystopian novel Splinterlands reads less like futuristic fiction and more like a vivid journalistic report on the latest developments in our distressed universe. In this standalone piece of speculative fiction, a central character from the book looks back from the year 2050 on the planet that Donald Trump's election helped produce. [Read the Short Story]  [This Week's Progressive Pick: How Will Capitalism End?] Growth is declining, tools for regulation have collapsed, inequality is rampant and oligarchy has replaced democracy. Political and economic analyst Wolfgang Streeck argues that the global capitalist system as we know it is on the verge of collapse. [Get the Book With a Donation to Truthout]  [Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation ] Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe] | [Unsubscribe] [Privacy Policy]   [The Newspaper Guild]