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23 December 17 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News IF YOU ARE GOING TO STAY, HERE'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE - We are not bought and sold to some wealthy interest. Everything we do is supported 100% by our Readers, 100%. People hate the fundraising but we have an impeccable reputation for honesty. Connect those two dots. If you stay with Reader Supported News it requires a minimal degree of responsiveness to the funding appeals. If that works for you great, if not take your chances with other sources. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS | Ta-Nehisi Coates v Cornel West: Black Academics and Activists Give Their Verdict    Melvin Rogers, Patrisee Cullors, Carol Anderson and Shailja Patel, Guardian UK   Excerpt: "In a blistering Guardian article last Sunday, Harvard scholar Cornel West labelled award-winning African American author Ta-Nehisi Coates the neoliberal face of the black freedom strugg

23 December 17 If You Are Going to Stay, Here's What It's Going to Take We are not bought and sold to some wealthy interest. Everything we do is supported 100% by our Readers, 100%. People hate the fundraising but we have an impeccable reputation for honesty. Connect those two dots. If you stay with Reader Supported News it requires a minimal degree of responsiveness to the funding appeals. If that works for you great, if not take your chances with other sources. Marc Ash Founder,  Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611 Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan talks during a June 24 news conference to introduce the House Republicans' tax reform proposal. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Congressional Republicans Are Laying the Groundwork for Massive Cuts to Me

23 December 17 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News A PAINFUL DECISION: It's always painful when we have to press for donations. We have supporters, many. We have many more who could be. The organization cannot function without support. It's a painful decision. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Masha Gessen | The Language of a Dictatorship    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker   Gessen writes: "Donald Trump has scored a legislative victory with staggering costs. The price of the tax bill has to be measured not only in the loss American society will face in the increase in inequality, in the impact on public health, and the growth of the deficit, but also in the damage to political culture inflicted by the spectacle of one powerful man after another telling lies of various sorts."   READ MORE Appeals Court Rules That Trump's Third Travel Ban Is Illegal   Josh Gerstein, Politico   Gerstein

Intrepid Report Newsletter Wishing you a joyous holiday season!    Monday It’s Ayn Rand’s America now: How the GOP stripped the country of its last shred of morality By Neal Gabler If you have any doubts that the phenomenon of Donald Trump was a long time a’coming, you have only to read a piece that Gore Vidal wrote for Esquire magazine in July 1961, when the conservative movement was just beginning and even Barry Goldwater was hardly a glint in Republicans’ eyes. US conservatism metamorphosing into shameful schism By Ben Tanosborn For some of us who had an upbringing in traditional, conservative homes, and who first registered to vote as members of the Republican Party, conservatism is a sad memory of old: arcane economic-sociopolitical liturgy, just like that of the Latin Mass. Towards a new Palestinian beginning By Ramzy Baroud Now that the American mask has completely fallen, Palestinians require an urgent rethink in their own political priorit

Weekly Alert: December 22, 2017 FAIR's year-end fundraising drive  will soon be coming to a close. If you can,  please donate ; thanks to all who have given so far! Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this week. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this email to friends and by sharing our stories on social media like  Facebook  and Twitter . The Two Main Ways Corporate Media Will Whitewash McCain’s Legacy NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors’ Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina J20 Judge: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy This week's episode of FAIR's radio show  CounterSpin : Suman Raghunathan on Muslim Ban Return, Bruce Stanley on Don Blankenship Newly posted  CounterSpin  transcripts: ‘It’s Because of Their Independence That They Can Get These Stories’ ‘Watching Funds Be Depleted to Pay for This Tax Bill Is Unacceptable’ ‘Whether or Not the Presidents Change, the Generals Remain