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Weekly Alert: January 5, 2018

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Here are the stories FAIR has been working on this (abbreviated) week. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this email to friends and by sharing our stories on social media likeFacebook and Twitter. This week's episode of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin:
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    The New York Times  Editorial Board weighed in on Pentagon spending this week POGO Quoted in NYT Editorial Board Opinion The New York Times  Editorial Board weighed in on Pentagon spending this week: "Yet the ground troops who are doing the actual fighting say there is no crisis, according to the analyst Mark Thompson of the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight. Other experts say claims of a deteriorating military are exaggerated." Read More: "The Pentagon Is Not a Sacred Cow" Homeland Security Watchdog Finds Government Abuse at Detention Center A series of surprise inspections found immigrant detainees were subject to unnecessary strip searches, waited days for urgent medical care, and were placed in solitary confinement for minor infractions, among other issues. Read more As Clock Ticks Down on Warrantless-Surveillance Authority, Congress Races to the Bottom With just weeks before a controvers...
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    Unearthing The Capitalocene: Towards A Reparations Ecology

    Dear Friend, Jason W. Moore & Raj Patel coins  digs into the "Capitalocene" and suggests some solutions. They write, we argue that what changed is capitalism, that modern history has, since the 1400s, unfolded in what is better termed the Capitalocene. Using this name means taking capitalism seriously, understanding it not just as an economic system but as a way of organizing the relations between humans and the rest of nature. There is hope in world-ecology. To recognize the webs of life-making on which capitalism depends is also to find new conceptual tools with which to face the Capitalocene. As justice movements develop strategies for confronting planetary crisis — and alternatives to our present way of organizing nature — we need to think about the creative and expanded reproduction of democratic forms of life. Peer Møller Christensen writes about chinese politics after the 19th Party Congress. Also more stories from around the world.  If you don...
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    POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: ‘Vote her in next, Massachusetts’ — $15 minimum wage, paid family leave ballot questions to be dropped — KENNEDY joins hunger strike

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    ‘Vote her in next, Massachusetts’ — $15 minimum wage, paid family leave ballot questions to be dropped — KENNEDY joins hunger strike 06/27/2018 07:17 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  (ldezenski@politico.com; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths (bgriffiths@politico.com; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. NY-14'S MASSACHUSETTS CONNECTION —  A progressive woman of color, facing institutional opposition and a significant fundraising gap, wages a long-shot bid against a 10-term, scandal-free white male incumbent. Sounds a lot like Boston City Councilor  Ayanna Pressley 's campaign to unseat Rep.  Michael Capuano  in Massachusetts' 7th District, right? But those were the contours in New York's 14th District, where 28-year-old  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  decisively defeated Rep.  Joe Crowley  in the Democratic primary last night. There's even a Massachusetts connection to the winning campaign — Pressley sent her field dire...
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    Immigration & White Nationalists, White House Book, Labor & #MeToo....

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    WHITE NATIONALISTS?   Isn't that a pretense? Aren't they NAZIS?  Weekly Alert: January 12, 2018 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 . Coverage of Iran Protests Illustrated With Protests Not in Iran––Organized by Fringe Cultists In Trump Era, ‘Both Sides’ on Immigration Includes White Nationalists Wolff’s Trump Book Highlights White House Press Corps’ Access Trap MSNBC Ignores Catastrophic US-Backed War in Yemen This week's episode of FAIR's radio show  CounterSpin : Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor, Art Way on Pot Recriminalization Newly posted  CounterSpin  transcripts: ‘This Is Not a Time for False Equivalence’ ‘These Plainly Discriminatory Policies Are Really a Wholesale Attack on Immigrants’   FAIR’s ad-free, content...
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    POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: OUR REVOLUTION eyes MASSIE and no one else — Shining a light on DARK MONEY sources — ROSENBERG’s new digs

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    01/03/2018 07:09 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Rebecca Morin ( rmorin@politico.com ; @RebeccaMorin_) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.  Heat wave: It's going to climb into the 20s today ... And winter storm warnings have been posted for much of the state ahead of tomorrow's storm, with a blizzard warning all along the commonwealth's coast. Check out the  latest thinking from the National Weather Service . FIRST IN PLAYBOOK - OUR REVOLUTION EYES MASSIE OR NO ONE IN GOV'S RACE -  The Massachusetts wing of the Bernie Sanders-aligned group  Our Revolution  is weighing a gubernatorial endorsement. But it will either endorse environmental activist  Bob Massie  or stay out of the race completely, despite the fact that there are three candidates in the Democratic field. Our Revolution Massachusetts  is currently polling its members on the choice in a non-binding statewide advisory poll underway until ...
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    New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites

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    16 December 17 We Badly Need a Few Heroes We are doing everything we can to get the December fundraiser on track. The key is getting more people to step up. Half a million have visited RSN so far this month, 230 have donated. That's just not fair and it's not working. Who can donate? 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 Hands typing on a computer keyboard. (photo: hamburg_berlin/Shutterstock) New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites By Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins, The Daily Beast 16 December 17 For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters. n real life, William Ed...
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    Devin Nunes Goes Rogue

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