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Michael Tomasky | Senator Al Franken's Resignation Is Deeply Unfair

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02 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS: Michael Tomasky | Senator Al Franken's Resignation Is Deeply Unfair    Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast   Tomasky writes: "Sometime today, Al Franken will resign his Senate seat. The Democrats are hoping for a banner year, and from all indicators it looks like they'll have one, and I hope they do - if they take back one house, this horrid Trump/GOP agenda is done for."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Bernie Sanders | What a Year It Was!

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02 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News FOCUS: Bernie Sanders | What a Year It Was!    Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News   Sanders writes: "We are seeing the American people come together, fight back and win important victories all across the country."   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS

When Insults Had Class... These glorious insults are from an era “ before” the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. A member of Parliament to Disraeli:"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.”   "That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli,"whether I embrace your policies or your mistress." "He had delusions of adequacy   ." -Walter Kerr "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." -Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictiona

[CorpWatch] Drone Inc & Verax - two new publications! (and 2018 update)

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Dear CorpWatch supporter, Happy (almost) New Year! We'd like to tell you about our two new publications, hot off the presses! Our first new report is "Drone Inc.: Marketing the Illusion of Precision Killing" - a richly illustrated 92 page publication that reveals the companies that build and manage the equipment used for targeted killed in the U.S. drone war abroad. (See  http://www.killchain.org ) Here's a link to a review from Salon:  http://bit.ly/2CeKDMV Next is a brand new graphic novel: "Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance," written by yours truly and illustrated by Khalil Bendib, our in-house cartoonist. It was just published by Macmillan. See http://www.veraxcomic.net. Here's what critics have said about it: "Vividly comprehensive and concise guide to the story of mass surveillance and its whistle-blowers (and an) expose on the technology’s connection to a larger, darker re