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On Asia Trip, Trump Met by Protests Calling on U.S. to Open Diplomatic Relations with North Korea; Will Trump Challenge Philippines President Duterte’s Deadly Drug War When They Meet in Manila? Bill McKibben on Future of the Paris Climate Accord & U.S. Role at COP23 Climate Talks in Germany.
In China, Trump Talks Trade & North Korea, Ignoring Climate Change & Crackdown on Human Rights; Yemeni Journalist: Saudi Arabia’s Total Blockade on Yemen is “Death Sentence” for All; Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman Consolidates Power & Purges Rivals Under “Anti-Corruption” Pretense.
Voters Reject Republican Candidates as New “Autopsy” Report Finds the Democratic Party in Crisis; Billionaire GOP Backer Robert Mercer Used Offshore Profits to Fund Breitbart & Attacks on Clinton; Trump’s Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in Russian Companies While He Oversees Potential Sanctions; Paradise Papers Expose “Cleverest Ways of Exploiting” Offshore Tax Havens by GOP & … Continued
How Domestic Violence and Militarism “Open the Floodgates” to Mass Shootings Like the Texas Massacre; As NYPD Officers Are Charged with Rape of Teenager, Advocates Call for End to Mass Sexual Violence; Acclaimed Chilean Writer Isabel Allende on Death of Pablo Neruda, the 1973 Chilean Coup & Trump; Chilean Writer Isabel Allende’s New Novel, “In … Continued
Suspect in Texas Church Massacre was Thrown Out of Air Force & Jailed for Assaulting Wife & Child; Texans Decry “Extremist” Gun Lobby & Inadequate Background Checks After Mass Shooting Kills 26; After Texas Massacre, Drexel Prof. Asks: “What Makes White Men So Prone to This Kind of Behavior?” Why Did Media Overlook Sept. Shooting … Continued
In Puerto Rico’s Highlands, Hurricane Maria Has Exploded Fault Lines of Poverty & Austerity; Yanis Varoufakis on Global Capitalism & How Trump’s Tax Plan is Class War Against the Poor; Economist Yanis Varoufakis: Puerto Ricans Deserve an Escape from “Permanent Debt Prison”; Greek Economist Yanis Varoufakis on Nazi Resurgence in Europe & Why ”ISIS Loves … Continued
“Send Him to Gitmo”: Trump Urges Execution of Saipov After Defending “Both Sides” in Charlottesville; Trump Scapegoats Immigrants, Calls to End Diversity Visa Lottery That Brought Saipov to U.S. in 2010; Trump & Media Focus on Muslims After Attack in NYC, Even as NYPD Says Islam Played No Role; Uzbekistan Cooperated with CIA Rendition & … Continued
Shocking New Investigation Links Berta Cáceres’s Assassination to Executives at Honduran Dam Company; As Elon Musk Proposes Taking Over Power Authority, Puerto Ricans Demand Community-Owned Solar Power; Puerto Rico: As Whitefish Contract Faces Scrutiny, Fluor and Other Companies Move to Privatize Water; Judge Rejects Part of Trump’s Ban on Transgender Military Members Serving Openly.
Marcy Wheeler Says Indictments in Russia Probe Further Incriminate Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz Condemns “Indefensible” Whitefish Contract & Calls for PREPA Chief’s Firing; San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz On Trump, Shock Doctrine & “Disaster Capitalism” in Puerto Rico.
Head of Puerto Rico Electrical Workers’ Union Demands Corruption Probe of Whitefish Energy Contract; Spain Charges Catalan Leaders with “Sedition, Rebellion & Embezzlement” & Implements Direct Rule; Trump Admin Continues Threats & Provocations Against North Korea, Laying Groundwork for Nuclear War.
