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FRIDAY,  TODAY:  MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Trump Fills The Swamp To Exploit College Students The cost of student loan debt and the malfeasance of the for-profit college industry hurt everyone by bleeding the public treasury, directing huge amounts of economic capital to unproductive ends, and diminishing opportunities for a whole generation of young adults to realize their life goals. The Trump administration is hard at work doing everything it can to make this situation worse. Spending Showdown Moves To Senate House approves short-term spending, Senate Dems may block it. WaPo: “The House passed a short-term extension of government funding late Thursday after Republican leaders, with help from President Trump, cobbled together enough GOP votes to overcome an internal revolt. Still, the possibility of a federal shutdown moved closer to a certainty after Senate Democrats rallied against the GOP proposal, announcing they would not lend their votes to a bil...

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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 Happy New Year By William Blum 2018 is going to be a fun, fun year. And to better prepare yourself for all the merrymaking here is a calendar of some of the more delightful things to look forward to. Don the Con’s excellent neocon adventure By Wayne Madsen Donald Trump, under the influence of three of the most rabid Zionists and pro-Israeli expansionists serving in the U.S. government, has adopted a foreign policy that could only have been dreamed about during the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney administration. Trump & Co.’s vile anti-immigrationism By Sheldon Richman U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna displayed an odious ho...

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   Tuesday No joy to the world this holiday season By Stephen Lendman How can there be joy with Washington and its imperial allies waging war on humanity, raping and destroying countries, responsible for millions of casualties post-9/11 alone? Does capitalism work? By Dave Alpert In the United States, one of the world’s wealthiest nations, 41 million people are living in poverty Freedom Rider: Alabama and the duopoly trap By Margaret Kimberley The electoral process has changed very little for black people. At this late date in history our highest political expectations still amount to little more than keeping hardcore racists out of office. Any other victories a...