Daily News Digest March 29, 2016

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Image of the Day:

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Quotes of the Day:

Obama made a speech in which he uses the most sweetened words to express: “It is time, now, to forget the past, leave the past behind, let us look to the future together, a future of hope. And it won’t be easy, there will be challenges and we must give it time; but my stay here gives me more hope in what we can do together as friends, as family, as neighbors, together.” I suppose all of us were at risk of a heart attack upon hearing these words from the President of the United States. After a ruthless blockade that has lasted almost 60 years, and what about those who have died in the mercenary attacks on Cuban ships and ports, an airliner full of passengers blown up in midair, mercenary invasions, multiple acts of violence and coercion? Nobody should be under the illusion that the people of this dignified and selfless country will renounce the glory, the rights, or the spiritual wealth they have gained with the development of education, science and culture. I also warn that we are capable of producing the food and material riches we need with the efforts and intelligence of our people. We do not need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, as this is our commitment to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet. — Fidel Castro, Brother Obama: We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.

Videos the Day:

The system is clearly not working — The crisis of dog-eat-dog style capitalism: But in the US, it’s total “radio silence” on this subject

Bernadette McAliskey on the centenary of the Easter Rising

U.S.:

US ground troops are back in Iraq as Iraqi division hides in the mountains: Isis killed and injured US Marines whom the Pentagon said were not in Iraq as they defended a front line base abandoned by Iraqi troops By Patrick CockburnPatrickCockburn050 Years Ago I was On this Demonstration: New York’s Fifth Avenue on March 26, 1966, demonstration against the US intervention in Vietnam. AP DemonstrationThe Trillion Dollar Question the Media Have Neglected to Ask Presidential Candidates: The American people will be footing the bill — but, by and large, they haven’t heard much about our country’s planned trillion-dollar nuclear weapons upgrade. By Lawrence WittnerTrillionDollar?CIA Photographed Detainees Naked and Bound Before Extraditing Them for Torture: ‘Stripping suspects, taking humiliating photographs of them, sending them around the world into the hands of torturers: these sound like the actions of a crazed dictatorship’by Nika KnightCIA

Does The United States Still Exist? By  Paul Craig RobertsPaulCraigRoberts

Chopping the Bill of Rights http://www.mitchellteachers.org/USHistory/Constitution/BillofRightsLesson.html

Subsidized to the End: Not Even Corporate Welfare Can Save Big Coal By Ben Jervey BigCoal

Environment:

Climate Disruption in Overdrive: Submerged Cities and Melting That “Feeds on Itself” By Dahr JamailClimateDisruption Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:

Happy Anniversary! Three Mile Island Disaster – March 28,1979

Nuclear Power Plants: Pre-Deployed WMDs by Karl GrossmanKarlGrossman

 Black Liberation/Civil Rights:

 Labor:

 Economy:

World:

Fidel Castro: Cuba Needs No Gifts from United States

Protests in Yemen against Saudi-led coalition on air strikes anniversary YemenIsis may have lost the battle of Palmyra, but it’s not lost the war: The successful advance of the army marks an important moment for Assad, but it will be difficult for to them to gain much ground further east  Patrick CockburnPatrickCockburnPakistan: When terrorism becomes a strategic asset! by Adam PalPakistan

Health, Education and Welfare:

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