Robert Reich | How Trump Is Preparing for War
 27 March 18 PM
Robert Reich | How Trump Is Preparing for War
 Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog Reich writes: "What's worrying isn't that Trump is now getting advice about policy from fanatics like John Bolton and Lawrence Kudlow. Trump has never cared about policy." READ MORE  Photos of Alton Sterling, along with flowers and mementos, at a makeshift memorial in front of the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, after his death in July 2016. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)
Baton Rouge Police Officers Won't Be Charged in Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling
Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Authorities in Louisiana said Tuesday that the Baton Rouge police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling will not face criminal charges, a decision announced nearly two years after his death prompted intense protests." READ MORE  Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association's executive vice president and chief executive officer, sits next to President Donald Trump at the White House, February 1, 2017. (photo: Martinez Monsivais/AP
NRA Admits It Receives Foreign Funds
Tim Mak, NPR Mak writes: "The National Rifle Association acknowledged that it accepts foreign donations but says it does not use them for election work - even as federal investigators look into the role the NRA might have played in Russia's attack on the 2016 election." READ MORE  Linda Brown Smith, date and location unknown. Smith was a third grader when her father started a class-action suit in 1951 of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. (photo: AP)
Linda Brown, Whose Case Ended Segregation in US Schools, Dies
VOA News Excerpt: "Linda Brown, who as a girl in the 1950s was at the center of the lawsuit that struck down racial segregation in U.S. schools, died Sunday at the age of 76." READ MORE  Neighbors sit on a couch outside their destroyed homes as the sun sets in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, September 26, 2017. (photo: Gerald Herbert/AP)
The US Betrayal of Puerto Rico
Danny Vinik, Politico Vinik writes: "As Hurricane Maria unleashed its fury on Puerto Rico in mid-September, knocking out the island's electrical system and damaging hundreds of thousands of homes, disaster recovery experts expected that only one man could handle the enormity of the task ahead: Mike Byrne." READ MORE  This year alone, 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted. (photo: Reuters)
Facebook Deletes Gaza-Based News Agency Safa's Account Hosting 1.3 Million Followers
teleSUR Excerpt: "Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as part of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts considered 'inciteful.' The agency is allegedly affiliated to the Palestinian political party Hamas; a claim Safa denies." READ MORE  'Wake up to the climate crisis.' (photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Teens Are Marching for Justice Around the World. Next Up: Climate Change.
Zoya Teirstein, Grist Excerpt: "Thousands of people marched for gun control this past weekend - a movement energized, organized, and realized by America's youth. Now, teenagers are taking on the ticking time bomb that disproportionately affects the world's youngest generations. You know the one." READ MORE |
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