Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Priorities


 Jun 23
Senate Republicans and Democrats just worked together to pass the largest military budget since the height of the Iraq War. Imagine the difference we could make if this money was spent on healthcare, education, infrastructure, and creating good-paying jobs for every American.
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Tom Arnold will always be useless

Tom Arnold's always been trash trying to ride Roseanne Barr's coat tails.

No one in the world would be stupid enough to trust him.

Well . . . no one except Bob Somerby, right?

Bob:


We were glad to see Tom Arnold on Anderson Cooper last night. As someone who knew Roseanne for a few days back in 1986, and liked her a lot, we were glad to see him raise a point we've been thinking about:


Yes, Tom Arnold calls Roseanne "crazy" and Bob Somerby's tickled and thinks Tom Arnold's needed.


Only idiots like Bob Somerby and, well, the bottom feeders of bad talk shows (Lawrence O'Donnell) would rush to prop up Tom Arnold.



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    . gave Tom Arnold 20 minutes -- close to half his show -- to let a semi-coherent Arnold babble his way into painting himself as a key player in the Trump-Cohen saga. It's transparently BS, and an attempt to promote Arnold's Vice show.
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    Tom Arnold has already embarrassed CNN () and Cohen has shot down Arnold’s blowhard claims but our leading media luminaries are so attached to their Trump fixation that they jump at the chance to get in on the debasement. An embarrassment to journalism:

    Trump's worst enemy, Tom Arnold, is now Michael Cohen's new best friend. That's enough to get me to come to work even though I had the night…
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Roseanne told a dumb joke.  She apologized.  Tom Arnold's never accomplished anything on his own his entire life but, damn, don't a lot of men want to pretend otherwise?











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Read a book?



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Readers have e-mailed us asking for more book coverage at community sites.  We've passed this request on.

So far, the book coverage includes:

"JEAN HARLOW: TARNISHED ANGEL" -- Betty.  

"UNCOMMON TYPES: Let's kill whomever taught Tom Hanks to type" -- Elaine.
"THE YELLOW WALLPAPER" -- Marcia,

"Anne Sexton: THE COMPLETE POEMS" -- C.I.


"Charlotte Chandler's MARLENE" -- Elaine.


"A sexist woman writes She's a Rebel and distorts music history" -- Ann.


"barbara ehrenreich's 'natural causes'" -- Rebecca. 


"Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook" -- Trina.


"IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS" -- Elaine.


"Blackfish City" -- Marcia.


"THE CHICKEN CHRONICLES by Alice Walker" -- Ruth.


"Harry Belafonte" -- Mike.


"THE SAME RIVER TWICE (Alice Walker)" -- Isaiah.







"Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield" -- Marcia.


"Good for Jimmy Stewart, bad for readers" -- Stan.


"Conversations with Toni Morrison" -- Marcia.

"Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream" -- Ann.


"He Ran All The Way" -- Trina.



And we'll also note Ann's "How a book store could stay alive in today's economy" about the book business.
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Perspective



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CNN's Brian Stelter falsely claims more migrant children were incarcerated under President Trump, than Obama FACT CHECK: 90,000 children were incarcerated under Obama, while only 12,000 were incarcerated under Trump


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This edition's playlist

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1) Alicia Keys' HERE.


2) Janet Jackson's UNBREAKABLE.


3) Tori Amos' UNREPENTANT GERALDINES.


4) Sting and Shaggy's 44/876.




5) Dashboard Confessional's CROOKED SHADOWS.


6)  Aretha Franklin's A ROSE IS STILL A ROSE.


7)  Sam Smith's IN THE LONELY HOUR DROWNING SHADOW EDITION.


8) Sam Smith's THE THRILL OF IT ALL.



9)  Aretha Franklin's ARETHA SINGS THE GREAT DIVA CLASSICS.


10) Aretha Franklin's SPARKLE.












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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Truest statement of the week

The fake left at the Left Forum should be distinguished from the fake left of the non-profit industrial complex. The non-profit industrial complex indeed hires fake activistsbeholden to government and corporate funders responsible for the very problems that non-profit activists oppose in the first place. Fake left activists reside in non-profit organizations such as MoveOn.org and Indivisible. The fake left I refer to in this piece are perhaps even more insidious than those paid by foundations and non-profits. This band of leftists verbally states opposition to imperialism and an embrace of socialism in theory yet behaves more like amateur soft agents of the US intelligence services in practice.
These fake leftists reside in an alphabet soup of so-called Trotskyist organizations like the International Socialist Organization (ISO). So-called “Trotskyist” organizations have a long history of supporting US imperialism. I don’t pretend to know which organization the fake leftists who protested Baraka belonged to. An attendee told me that the organizers of the protest of Baraka stemmed from the League for the Revolutionary Party. Thetrend is more important than the organization. Just days prior to the Left Forum, activists in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) wrote an opinion piece claiming that “The 2,000 US troops in Syria are not there to conduct ‘regime change.’ They are there to defend the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in North East Syria and to oppose ISIS. Trump has made that clear.” One of the authors of the piece has been active on social media denouncing Baraka and the Black Alliance for Peace for being so-called apologists for Assad. This falls in line with the ISO, which has long been known to support US-led operations in Libya and Syria in the name of “revolution.”

While claiming to want revolution, there are many activists in these organizations that choose to insult and defame every revolution that has ever occurred in history, even the Russian Revolution of 1917. According to their pro-war ideology, every socialist revolution in history has been led by despotic, self-interested authoritarians who wielded “state capitalist” formations to repress and impoverish the working class. This includes the Chinese and Cuban revolutions in addition to the Russian. And it ultimately includes any government that the US doesn’t like and wants to overthrow. As Diana Johnstone put it simply, “The trouble with these Trotskyists is that they are always “supporting” other people’s more or less imaginary revolutions. They are always telling others what to do. They know it all. The practical result from this verbal agitation is simply to align this brand of Trotskyism with U.S imperialism.”
-- Danny Haiphong, "The Fake Left at the Left Forum" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).













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Truest statement of the week II

Robert DeNiro just fired off an f-bomb at Donald Trump, but where were he and his grandstanding, liberal friends when Obama was dropping more drone bombs and “removing” more immigrants than any president preceding him? Where were they when the Clintons were pimping poverty and peddling influence through the State Department and the Clinton Foundation? DeNiro was stumping for Hillary Clinton to “prevent Tuesday [election day 2016] from turning into a tragedy .” Reading Follow the Money, Radio Voices for Peace and Justice, an anthology of 2009-2016 KPFA Flashpoints interviews, would probably discomfit him because it’s full of tragedy: oil wars, drone bombing, torture, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, police militarization, neoliberal trade agreements, poisoned water, botched executions, ecocide, and the “too-big-to-fail” bank heist that kicked off the Obama years.

-- Anne Garrison, "Follow The Money, from Obama to Trump" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).








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A note to our readers


Hey --

Tuesday night.  And we're done.


Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen, Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.


And what did we come up with?


Danny gets another truest.
And Ann gets another truest.
Iraqi lives never seem to matter in the US.  Which makes you wonder why the US government keeps insisting US troops have to stay in Iraq to 'protect' the Iraqi people.
Ava and C.I. turn in another hard hitting piece.  
He is disgusting.
Stan's up to bat.  (And thank you to reader Jamie who e-mailed to remind us it's been awhile since we did this feature.)
A look at book coverage in the community.

She has no logic.
What we listened to while writing.
Press release from Senator Patty Murray's office.
Press release from Paralyzed Veterans of America.
A look at the week's best.





See you next week.

Peace,





-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.



















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