Trump's Lesser-Known Homeland Security Adviser Espouses Anti-Muslim Policing

[t]   Sunday, January 15, 2017 [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 Water Protectors Decry North Dakota Bills That Criminalize Protests [Read the Article at NBC News]   Repealing Obamacare Could Be a Matter of Life or Death for Many Americans; Here Are Their Voices [Read the Article at the Los Angeles Times]   Across the US, Police Contracts Shield Officers From Scrutiny and Discipline [Read the Article at Reuters]   Protests Escalate Over Louisiana Pipeline by Company Behind Dakota Access [Read the Article at the Guardian US]   Donald Trump's Attack on Civil Rights Leader John Lewis, Explained [Read the Article at Vox]   Ringling Bros. Circus "Finally Bows to Public Opinion," to End Run in May [Read the Article at Common Dreams]   Canadian First Nations Sue the Government to Protect Land [Read the Article at teleSUR]     [Trump's Lesser-Known Homeland Security Adviser Espouses Anti-Muslim Policing] John Knefel, Truthout: Former Bush adviser Thomas Bossert, Trump's pick for homeland security adviser, is not very well-known. His record, however, suggests someone comfortable with the type of anti-Muslim rhetoric used by Trump. Will we see a revival of some of the Bush-era discriminatory policies against Muslims and other minorities? [Read the Article]  [The United States Has Allowed South Sudan's Government to Utilize Child Soldiers] Mark Karlin, Truthout: The US has failed the people of South Sudan by not enacting an arms embargo to prevent various factions from stockpiling weapons, says author and journalist Nick Turse. Moreover, US support has enabled the government of South Sudan to keep child soldiers in its military, utilizing loopholes to circumvent US laws against the practice. [Read the Interview]  [The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law] Kiana Herold, IC Magazine: Battles to defend nature have taken to the streets and to the courts, as well as through the development of innovative legal actions. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New Zealand, Indigenous activism has helped spur the creation of a novel legal phenomenon -- the idea that nature itself can have rights. [Read the Article]  [Breaking the Chains: Can Labor Unions Organize Retail Workers?] Seth Kershner, In These Times: Retail is the nation's largest employer, yet the sector also has one of the lowest rates of unionization in the economy -- around the 5 percent mark, under which unions have virtually no influence. In order to grow, labor unions need to step up their organizing and focus on empowering the rank-and-file in this industry. [Read the Article]  [What Pro-Choice Organizing in the Reagan Years Can Teach Us for the Trump Years] Elizabeth Schulte, Socialist Worker: Those who organized and confronted the religious right and kept them from shutting down abortion clinics in the 1980s provide important lessons for today about challenging anti-choicers and defeating the ideas they try to spread. [Read the Article]  [Gazans Struggle in 10th Year of Israeli Blockade] Lydia Noon, New Internationalist Magazine: Gaza may be uninhabitable by 2020 if current economic trends persist. Hurtling towards that deadline and Gazans' basic necessities for life -- drinking water, shelter, physical and mental health and employment -- are becoming ever more scarce. [Read the Article]  [Democrat Lobbyist's Latest Special Interest: Jared Kushner] David Halperin, Republic Report: Democratic power lawyer and lobbyist Jamie Gorelick has been hired to represent Ivanka Trump's husband, Jared Kushner, as he addresses the legal ethics issues related to him joining Donald Trump's administration. Gorelick herself is a symbol of the revolving door Washington. [Read the Article]  [While Oil Front Group Touts Cheap Fossil Fuel to Low-Income Families, Industry Negotiates Deal to Drive World Oil Prices Up] Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog: Fueling U.S. Forward, a Koch-funded oil industry PR group, spent the second half of 2016 running an on-the-ground campaign targeting Black communities and spreading a message focused on energy prices. Meanwhile, the international oil industry was negotiating a deal designed to raise the price of oil worldwide. [Read the Article]  [This Week in Speakout:] Gregory D. Foster examines how a Trump administration could change civilian control of the military; in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Beverly Bell asserts she will use revolutionary love in her activism in 2017; Rev. Nathaniel Manderson argues the evangelicals who voted for Trump are hypocrites; Ramin Farahmandpur reports that Oregon's higher education woes continue unabated; John K. Wilson looks at how far Trump will go to defend his lies; and more. [Read the Articles]  [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]