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Daily News Digest September 1, 2016
Images of the Day:
Land of the Free And the Home of the Brave?
Quote of the Day:
Anything else you want to say to America? Any final thoughts or words? Yeah! Wake up America! Your sons and daughters are dying for nothing! This war is not about freedom or stopping terrorism. Bring us home now! We are dying for oil and corporate greed. — US Soldiers to America: We’re Dying For Oil And Corporate Greed!”
Videos of the Day:
The infrastructure disaster waiting to happen — We spent the money destroying Iraq — Steel state Pennsylvania in the worst shape
Manufactured “news” straight from war zone
A harsh example of CNN enhanced lying Tearing back the curtain of spook-media lies
U.S.
U.S. The Military Industrial Complex and Professional Sports: Pentagon Paid Up To $6.8 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Pro Sports Teams For Military Tributes Honors shouldn’t be “taxpayer-funded marketing gimmicks,” senators say in new report. By Laura Barron-Lopez 
Department of Injustice: Police Still Not Reporting Deaths in Custody and New DOJ Rule Won’t Help: Groups “Police departments should report deaths in custody when they happen,” letter states. “But these regulations make it clear that DOJ would rather bend over backwards to accommodate police departments’ dysfunction or reluctance.” By Lauren McCauley 
New U.S. Policy: Kill the Kurds An incoherent U.S. policy threatens the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State. The continuing incoherence, insanity, and ultimate inanity of US policy in and around Syria was highlighted brilliantly, albeit perhaps inadvertently, by Vice President Joe Biden on a state visit to Turkey August 24, when he threatened the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State – the Kurdish militias – with American punishment if they didn’t play nice with the Turks, who have spent years supporting the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL), attacking “bad” Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and who are now attacking “good” Kurds in Syria. By William M. Boardman 
Unambiguous Acts of War, and Orwellian Acts of Doublethink Aggression.: Turkey Invades Syria, America Spins The Bottle by Jim Kavanagh 
Hey Hey USA How Many Kids Did You Kill Today!: Human Shields as Preemptive Legal Defense for Killing Civilians Human shields have been making headlines for some time. Before the recent fray between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and Iraqi army in Fallujah, the United Press International released an article entitled “Iraqi forces halt Fallujah advance amid fears for 50,000 human shields”.
Ukraine and the Dumbed-Down New York Times Columnist by Dave Lindorff
Environment:
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters:
Dakota Access Pipeline Tribal Liaison Formerly Worked For Agency Issuing Permit To Cross Tribal Land By Steve Horn
For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims “Public Benefit” in Seizing Private Lands in Pennsylvania By Larry Buhl
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Don’t Let the Russians Ruin the U.S. Elections System! (Don’t Make Me Laugh) A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Hillary Clinton isn’t simply trying to beat the hapless and disintegrating Donald Trump: she wants a mandate to rule the world as she (and her bankers) see fit. To achieve this, she must run against the dreaded Russian “threat,” which requires entangling the Russians with Trump and spreading the nonsense that Moscow is attempting to rig the elections. As if U.S. elections haven’t always been hopelessly racist and corrupt.
The Obama Legacy Part XI: The Highest Expression of Counter Insurgency by Danny Haiphong
After smashing the Black Liberation Movement, the U.S. ruling class” proceeded “to bury Black politics in the graveyard of the Democratic Party.” They met with great success in nurturing a Black misleadership class to counter the Black radical tradition. The Black caucus in Congress collaborated in mass incarceration and imperial war, offering not to slightest resistance to Wall Street’s Black servant in the White House, Barack Obama.
What Does Black Lives Matter Want? by Robin D.G. Kelley
“A Vision for Black Lives” is a plan for ending structural racism, saving the planet, and transforming the entire nation—not just black lives,” writes the author, a noted Black public intellectual. The wide-ranging document, prepared by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) with input from 60 organization, “emphasizes community control, self-determination, and ‘collective ownership’ of certain economic institutions,” as well as police violence.
The Blood-Spangled Banner: An Anthem for Slavery, Genocide and Empire by Jon Schwarz and Sam Husseini 
The U.S. was born in slavery and genocide, so it is no wonder that its anthem puts to music its claim to stolen land on behalf of the “free” – as opposed to the slave and the vanquished native. But the U.S. was also conceived as a White Man’s Empire, primed for endless expansion. Thus, the same anthem celebrates the defeat of the “turban’d head” of Muslims in North Africa. Two articles address the racist, imperial obsessions of Francis Scott Key.
Provoking Nuclear War by Media by John Pilger
Washington’s so-called “humanitarian” military intervention policy dates to its demonization of Yugoslavian socialist leader Slobodan Milosevic, who has since been judged innocent of war crimes. The corporate media is a tool of the War Party. “It is they who dispense the propaganda and videos that becomes news in the US and Europe, guarantee a one-sided ‘coverage’ of Syria,” and create a climate for war with Russia and China.
Western Corporate Media ‘Disappears’ over 1.5 Million Syrians and 4,000 Doctors by Eva Bartlett
The corporate media claim there are almost no doctors in left in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. That’s a lie. More than 4,000 doctors actively serve the 1.5 million people in government-controlled Aleppo, and the Syrian government continues to pay doctors in the terrorist-controlled eastern area. Civilians die every day from jihadist attacks, but “nobody speaks about what is happening in the western part of Aleppo.”
Unworthy Victims: Houthis in Yemen and Hutus in Burundi by Ann Garrison
The U.S. reserves for itself the right to decide which nations and peoples are worthy to exist. Washington gives thumbs down to Hutus, who make up the vast majority in Burundi and Rwanda, and condemns the Houthis, a significant part of Yemen’s population. “The U.S. and its allies have deemed the Tutsis to be ‘worthy victims,’ the Hutus ‘unworthy victims.’” The same goes for Houthis targeted for death by the Saudis.