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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, ...

Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate   Monday Hizbullah: ‘You don’t see them . . . they see you!’ By Brett Redmayne-Titley “This is not good!” cautions a new Lebanese friend in a stern tone of warning, clutching this reporters arm for emphasis. “This, where you are going. . it is their neighbourhood . . . Hizbullah’s neighbourhood. They control this completely!” A common culture makes the nation By Linh Dinh In Saigon, the foreign tourists stay mostly downtown, where they can patronize American bars, and restaurants serving Indian, Thai, Korean, Italian, Mexican and Middle Eastern food, not to mention McDonald’s, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeyes, Starbucks and Lotteria, the last a Japanese chain. Wit...

Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely  on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate   Monday There’s a White House—and GOP—fungus among us By Michael Winship Cruelty and recklessness—those are the two sins of which attorney Joseph Welch accused Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 when, having had enough of the Republican’s redbaiting smears, Welsh famously asked, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Trump’s deplorable first year in office By Stephen Lendman Last year on January 20, Donald J. Trump was sworn into office as America’s 45th president. US global standing plummets as Trump threatens human rights at home and abroad By Julia Conley The United States’ global standing has plummeted under the Trump administration, according to Human Rights Wa...