Daily News Digest January 16, 2019
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Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, under banner headline: “There Is No Peace”
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: 1. Austerity, 2. Scapegoating Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal Immigrants’ for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel.
Democracy?: As the Capitalist Robber Barons Steal from the 99% — Only the 1%Voted For Austerity — The 99% Should Decide On Austerity — Not Just The 1%Who Profit From Austerity! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico.
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Signe Wilkinson: Walling Off Immigrants
Eugene V. Debs
Videos of the Day:
Labour tables motion of no confidence in the government – BBC NewsThe Labour leader advised the house of the motion after Theresa May lost the vote on her Brexit deal. “Tonight’s vote is the “Greatist Defeat of a government since the 1920’s! (220 Ayes — Nos 432)
French Yellow Jacket Uprising Is a WARNING Against the Neoliberal Order
German leftists mark 100 years since Luxemburg-Liebknecht killingsSome 10,000 leftists from across Europe joined in the marches which have been going on for nearly 100 years. Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were prominent socialists and activists in early 20th century Germany.
Puerto Rico: The Perfect Storm
From EPA to TSA, Agencies Devoted to Nation’s Health and Safety Are Going Unfunded During Shutdown
U.S.:
The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic By Glenn Greenwald LAST WEEK, the New York Times reported that the FBI, in 2017, launched an investigation of President Trump “to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security” and specifically “whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.” The story was predictably treated as the latest in an endless line of Beginning-of-the-End disasters for the Trump presidency, though – as usual – this melodrama was accomplished by steadfastly ignoring the now-standard, always-buried paragraph pointing out the boring fact that no actual evidence of guilt has yet emerged:
Protecting Birth Control for Millions of Women, Judge Blocks Trump’s “Insidious” Coverage Rollback “Birth control is critical healthcare that helps millions lead the lives they want. We should be finding ways to increase access, not limit it.” By Jake Johnson
Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power? By Richard Moser I’ve been hearing about neoliberalism for a long time now and never could make much sense of it. It turns out the story we tell about neoliberalism is as contradictory as neoliberalism itself. Two currents within the critique of neoliberalism offer different analyses of the current economy and suggest different strategies for dealing with the gross exploitation, wealth inequality, climate destruction and dictatorial governance of the modern corporate order.
Environment:
Energy Department wants to ditch responsibility for its radioactive wasteThe Trump administration has proposed a plan to downplay the threat of nuclear waste so that it would not longer be responsible for cleaning it up, a move that threatens the health of residents living near facilities holding the highly radioactive materials. Under current laws, nuclear waste—leftover from nuclear bomb production by the U.S. military—must be buried deep underground. Sites, like this one in Hanford, Washington, store hundreds of storage tanks, some of which are leaking. Exposure to highly radioactive materials is about as high-risk as it gets, leading to cancer and birth defects. These toxic messes have been around for decades—and how to properly deal with them has been a long-standing conundrum for the U.S. Department of Energy. But the Trump administration’s plan to downgrade the waste and shirk its responsibility to citizens is definitely not the answer. 
FILE – In this July 11, 2016 file photo, a sign warns of radioactive material stored underground on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. Conservation groups are alarmed by the Trump administration’s proposal to rename some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to make it cheaper and easier to achieve permanent disposal. The U.S. Department of Energy is considering a change in its legal definition of high-level radioactive waste, which is stored at places like the Hanford. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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