Daily News Digest April 14, 2016

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Daily News Digest April 14, 2016

Images of the Day:

Oil Dominates Middle East Foreign PolicyBarack (I’m Good at KillingPeople’) ObamaQuotes of the Day:

Socialist Alternative is  walking the well-traveled path of opportunism in supporting Bernie Sanders — a Democratic Party senator impersonating a “revolutionary” socialist. Their rare criticism of Sanders is presented within a supportive framework developed by the national leadership. Basically, they advise him on what he should say or do to get elected and are loyal fellow travelers. Bernie, for his part, ignores every overture. The problem with SA’s “Bernie Tactic” is that they are for Bernie and against (sort of) the capitalist party he clings to. They say they will not register voters as Democrats, but members should take part in caucuses if they can and vote for Bernie in primaries where being a registered Democrat is not required. Apparently they are under the illusion that the road to an independent working class party is through, or at least beside, the Democrats. Some in their own membership are calling this magical thinking. SA is hungry to traverse the territory between being a small propaganda group and “one with influence” and the Bernie Tactic is supposed to be smart politics. It is not. It’s criminal to confuse and/or deceive voters about the true nature of the anti-worker, pro-war Democratic Party. It’s a tactic that always fails to radicalize anyone. — Socialist Alternative’s twisted “Bernie tactic” 

Just as with the Occupy Movement of a few years ago, the task of containing and neutralizing the Movement will fall to Democratic administrations in the nation’s big cities. — COINTELPRO Alive and Well in Los Angeles

Videos the Day:

Disaster Capitalism’s Coming Use of The Lead Water Pipe Crisis

Audio : COINTELPRO Alive and Well in Los Angeles

Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy

U.S.:

The End of The American Empire By Chas W. Freeman2,500 Years of Class Hatred by Alexander Reid RossThe Security-Digital Complex by Thibault HennetonEnvironment:

Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:

Energy News:

03:31 PM EST on April 12th, 2016 | Top Official: Over 60 million Japanese irradiated by Fukushima — Nuclear Expert: 50,000 sq. miles of Japan highly contaminated… Many millions need to be evacuated… Gov’t has decided to sacrifice them, it’s a serious crime — TV: More than 70% of country contaminated by radiation (VIDEOS)

01:10 PM EST on April 11th, 2016 | Nuclear Expert in Fukushima: People’s feet turned black for years because radiation so high — Every time I turned around I saw someone who had radiation damage — Hair falling out, caughing up blood, bodies covered with boils… Officials keeping doctors from telling truth… Public being brainwashed (VIDEO)

Black Liberation/Civil Rights:

Freedom Rider: Barack, Hillary and the Libya Crime by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

• Libya COINTELPRO Alive and Well in Los Angeles A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

• cointelpro$campaigns & $elections by BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

•      2016 presidential campaign  poetryWhy Self-Defense Must be Put Back into the Movement Equation by Danny Haiphong

·     Black Panther PartyO.J.’s Journey From Super Nigger to Bad Nigger by Mark P. Fancher

• White supremacyNo Lawyers? No Jail. Judge Demands Constitution Be Respected in Louisiana Public Defender Catastrophe by Bill Quigley

• mass black incarceration Without Enchanted Followers: Eusi Kwayana’s Reconsideration of the Jonestown Fiasco by Dr. Matthew Quest

• Jonestown Panama Papers: Denials Expose More Than the Original Exposé by Farooque Chowdhury

• Rule of the Rich Labor: 

Economy:Elizabeth Warren Is Why JPMorgan Has a Living Will Problem By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

World:

South Africa: Nkandla, Guptas and splits in the ruling class – ANC in its deepest crisis ever by Ben Morken ‘Up All Night’ Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement: ‘This movement was not born and will not die in Paris…It has no limit, no border and it belongs to all of those who wish to be part of it.’ By Lauren McCauley

Health, Education and Welfare:

Think Medicine is Expensive Now? Public Health Groups Warn of TPP’s Gifts to Big Pharma: Doctors Without Borders and more than fifty other Organizations sent a letter calling on lawmakers to reject the pending trade pact by Lauren McCauley