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Weekly Alert: February 23, 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. The Radical Dishonesty of David Brooks Policy Choices, Not ‘the Market,’ Produce a ‘Small Number of Very Wealthy People’ Painting an Israeli Attack on Syria as Israeli ‘Retaliation’ Next on NPR: Some Think You Should Put Out Fire With Gasoline WSJ’s Epic Distortion of Colombian and Venezuelan Refugees This week's episode of FAIR's radio show  CounterSpin : Lee Drutman on Gun Control Politics, Pat Elder on School Militarization Newly posted CounterSpin transcripts: ‘The United States Is Driving a Wedge Between the Two Koreas’ ‘This Is a Uniquely American Crisis’ EXCERPT: "..... between 1996 and 2002, Purdue Pharma funded more than 20,000 pain-related education programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During that time,  Pu

Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. As the #MeToo movement revived interest in sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump, national enterprise reporter Eli Saslow started thinking about the 19 accusers. He wondered, he said, "what the experience is like for one of the 19." Saslow — who won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for an intimate and deeply reported series about food stamps — compiled short bios of each woman and watched interviews with them. He was most intrigued by Rachel Crooks, who claimed Trump began kissing her without her consent beside an elevator in Trump Tower in 2006. At the time, she was 22, and he was 59.  "Rachel very quickly stood out," Saslow said, because she lived in a part of Ohio that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump. "There was just a lot more tension in her life and daily experience" than many of the president's other accusers. Not everyone in Crooks's own family believed she was tel

24 February 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News PAINFUL BUT STEADY PROGRESS - We getting a little bit of traction - one donation at a time. Little by little we are turning the corner on the February funding-drive. A little help now would go a long way. In solidarity. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Dana Milbank | Putin's Useful Idiots  Dana Milbank, The Washington Post Milbank writes: "Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's indictment of 13 Russians over their alleged efforts to elect Donald Trump set off a presidential paroxysm of self-exoneration." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and  Twitter Update My Monthly Donation

Democracy Dies in Darkness Most popular right now Inside the Manafort money machine: A decade of influence-peddling, lavish spending and alleged fraud Before they joined the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates made millions from foreign dictators. Now they’re accused of fraud. By Marc Fisher  •   Read more » Erik Wemple •  Opinion ‘Scripted’ controversy: CNN releases emails of correspondence with Florida student Network says a doctored version of key correspondence leading up to town-hall event had reached other news outlets. By Erik Wemple  •    Read more » Top Justice Dept. official alerted White House 2 weeks ago to ongoing issues in Kushner’s security clearance  Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein told White House Counsel Donald McGahn that there would be further delays in the background investigation of the president’s son-in-law. By Carol D. Leonnig  •    Read more » Opinion Something is deadly wrong in this coun