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The Daily Chimp for Friday, 4 January 2019
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by Jeff Tiedrich | January 4, 2019 - 8:11am

The Daily Chimp for Friday, 4 January 2019

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Jeff Tiedrich | 18 years ago, we had a vision. Your $5 contribution today will keep that vision alive.
Hey folks, 18 years ago we had a vision: to stand up to the right-wing noise machine. To give progressive voices a place to be heard, to speak truth to conservative lies. And since December 2000, with the generous help of our readership, we've been doing just that. Your urgently-needed donation ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 8:05am

P.M. Carpenter | For Trump, No Way Out Under, or Over, the Wall
The opening days of 2019 have not been kind to Donald Trump, which suggests some sort of sublimely karmic justice. Rarely has a man so boxed himself in at his own hands of primitive ignorance and Homeric hubris. The cosmos has had quite enough of Trump's swaggering in the darkness. The bell tolls. The Washington Post's Robert Costa observes ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 8:01am

Matthew Chapman | It Increasingly Looks Like Russia Seized a U.S. Citizen to Bargain for Release of Admitted Spy Maria Butina
Earlier this week, Russian authorities seized Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who had traveled overseas for a wedding, and charged him with espionage. Whelan, who has extensive contacts with officials at Russian civil and military institutions, and is now detained in a Moscow prison, denies the allegations — and given he has a ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 7:51am

William Rivers Pitt | Trump Writes Sad Ballads as the New House Majority Arrives
After a 90-minute Cabinet meeting on Wednesday where Trump was lying or bragging or both throughout, he met with Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation to “discuss” border security, the Wall and the government shutdown. Before the delegation even had a chance to sit down, Trump deployed a pair of brazen lies about ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 7:42am

Robert Reich | What to Expect of House Democrats
Democrats are now in control of the House of Representatives, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I know and have worked with many of them. They are people of integrity who will strive to do what’ right for America. Pelosi is tough and courageous. Were it not for her insistence, Obama would not have pushed for the Affordable Care ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 7:28am

Sonali Kolhatkar | Elizabeth Warren’s Presidential Bid Leaves Questions to Be Answered
With the launch of her exploratory presidential committee on New Year’s Eve, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been among the first to jump into what is sure to be a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 nomination. In a four-minute video, she laid out in clear terms her bold, progressive agenda ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 7:19am

Stephen Zunes | Despite Everything, U.S. Troops Should Leave Syria
Donald Trump’s sudden decision to remove U.S. forces from Syria appears to have been impetuous and ill-considered — apparently a result of a conversation with Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Erdoğan. That doesn’t mean, however, that the United States should remain in that country. It’s quite reasonable ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 7:12am

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Censoring Commentary on War Crimes and Mass Starvation Is No Joke
Netflix’s decision to censor an episode of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s series, blocking access to it within Saudi Arabia, has implications that ripple far beyond the borders of the Saudi dictatorship. “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” is a comedy series produced by Netflix, featuring the young, Muslim-American comedian’s commentary on news and ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:57am

Nicolas J.S. Davies | The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire
My father was a doctor in the British Royal Navy, and I grew up traveling by troop-ship between the last outposts of the British Empire - Trincomalee, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Malta, Aden, Singapore - and living in and around naval dockyards in England and Scotland. The British naval bases where I grew up and the fading empire they supported are now ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:48am

Michael Lighty | Now That Everybody Is for Medicare for All, Opponents Say Let’s Dilute It
A strange phenomena has appeared in the US debate over universal healthcare: a big majority favors a well-known reform—Medicare for All—as the pundits, insurance and pharma lobbyists, and political insiders denied it (since 1992!), then since 2016 opposed it and all of sudden want to re-define it. The appearance of Medicare for All in the New York ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:42am

William Boardman | Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings
"No other country in the world symbolizes the decline of the American empire as much as Afghanistan. There is virtually no possibility of a military victory over the Taliban and little chance of leaving behind a self-sustaining democracy — facts that Washington’s policy community has mostly been unable to accept…."
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:28am

Christian Cayon | Preparing Medical Students for a Warmer World
The World Health Organization has called climate change “the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.” Similarly, the United Nations’ ninth Secretary-General, António Guterres, refers to climate change as “the most systemic threat to humankind.” The scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is “unequivocal” according ...
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:22am

Robert C. Koehler | A Loose Cannon for Peace?
Circle the wagons! Apparently what’s under assault is war itself, or so the Establishment believes, in the wake of the shocking announcement by the president that he plans to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops now deployed in Syria and 7,000, or half, the U.S. troops in Afghanistan. No, can’t do that! Can’t do that! This screws everything up.
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:15am

Ted Rall | Cartoon for January 4, 2019: Democrats Will Have So Many Excuses Not to Impeach Trump They’ll Make Him Look Sane
Democrats ran on an implicit pledge to impeach Donald Trump should they take the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. Now that they have, just you wait for all the excuses they’ll use not to./a>
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Posted Jan 4 2019 - 6:10am

Bill Blum | Donald Trump Will Not Go Quietly Like Nixon
“History,” as Mark Twain reputedly remarked, “doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” As we flip the calendar to a new year, Donald Trump would be well-advised to take careful heed of Twain’s maxim. Unless Trump suddenly discovers an untapped reservoir of self-restraint, he’s going to confront an impeachment ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 7:25am

Matthew Chapman | Here’s Nancy Pelosi’s Plan to Corner Trump and Trap Mitch Mcconnell Using His Own Legislation
Today, Nancy Pelosi will be sworn in as Speaker of the House. And her first immediate challenge will be how to break President Donald Trump’s childish federal government shutdown over his border wall. As it turns out, Pelosi has the perfect plan to trap Trump and the Senate GOP. On Wednesday, flanked by incoming House ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 7:15am

Thom Hartmann | The GOP’s Most Successful Scam Is About to Reboot Itself
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode and restart the scam they’ve been running since Reagan. It’ll predictably begin in the first week or two of January, probably first on “Meet the Press” and other Sunday shows that feature “serious thinkers” and only rarely challenge Republicans.
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 7:07am

P.M. Carpenter | A Moment with the Saintly Jerry Falwell Jr.
From a Washington Post interview with Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty, uh, University. This is for real — I kid you not, though I'm not sure about Falwell. "Is there anything President Trump could do that would endanger … support from you or other evangelical leaders?" "No." And that was that.
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 6:53am

Ted Rall | Death to the D.I.Y. Society
I admit it: my bias derived from self-interest. I was a bag boy. But that didn’t make me wrong when I reacted to the news that supermarkets would make customers bag their own groceries. This, I told my friends at the time, is the first brick in a road to perdition. Since the 1970s corporate efficiency experts have burdened American consumers with a ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 6:47am

Robert Reich | Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
[I wrote this for the New Yorker magazine’s issue of November 30, 1998]
It used to be that people who owned a lot of things could protect themselves and their things by erecting sturdy houses and, if necessary, putting a lock on the door. Today, it seems, that’s not enough. It’s estimated that three million ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 6:41am

John Feffer | Peak Trump
As he nears the end of his second year in office, Donald Trump has reached the high point of his influence and power. For the last two years, the president has relied on a Congress controlled by the Republican Party. He took advantage of this congressional control to appoint two Supreme Court justices. He also achieved one ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 6:28am

Zenei Cortez | 2019: The Year of Medicare for All
Early in this new year, Rep. Pramilla Jayapal (D-Wa.) will be introducing an updated version of a House Medicare for All bill, buttressed by the election in November of a number of new Medicare for all House candidates. Re-introduction of a Senate bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is also expected soon. Nurses and other health activists are already ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 6:19am

Lorraine Chow | 10 Worst-Case Climate Predictions If We Don’t Keep Global Temperatures Under 1.5 Degrees Celsius
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat. Although scientists exercise great care before linking individual weather events to climate change, the rise in global temperatures caused by human activities has been found to increase the severity, likelihood and duration of such conditions.
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 5:53am

Anthony Pahnke | Trump's Wasteful Military Venture
The media frenzy surrounding Trump’s political posturing about his wall during the latest government shutdown should not distract us from the fact that 5,000 active duty soldiers remain stationed at the border. This deployment is wasteful, not only of taxpayer dollars, but of potential, valuable experiences that the working people who are our troops ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 5:36am

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Upcoming Opportunities For The Movement
There will be important opportunities in the next few years to advance the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice as well as peace. This article will focus on three opportunities: the 2020 elections, the decline of US empire and an economic slowdown. The movement is in a stronger position than it has been in for years. The current ...
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Posted Jan 3 2019 - 5:26am



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