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The History of the ‘Home of the Brave and the Land of the Brave’
Quotes of the Day:
It’s Personal: Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War Since 9/11, it’s been a way of life. Let’s start with the basics. In an era when the U.S. seemed to have no great power rivals on the horizon, its national security state was expanded to monstrous proportions and given the “right” to commit acts ranging from kidnapping to torture, surveillance of its citizenry toassassination, based on the horrific events of a single day and on a single danger: the slaughter of September 11th and the threat of terrorism. In those years, before Donald Trump even began stirring the pot, Americans were already consumed by fears of a danger that, in the United States at least, couldn’t have been more minor. In the process, we essentially terrorized ourselves into a new world. By Peter Van Buren
The War For An Oil Pipeline Through Syria: Instead of ISIS, US-Led Bombing Kills Nearly 100 Syrian Soldiers Fighting Them Deadly airstrikes on key unit battling Islamic State militants described as perhaps “single biggest blunder of the entire U.S. war in Syria” by Jon Queally, staff writer
Army Corps of Engineers Confirms Native Protesters Are Right — There Is No Written Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline by Jeremiah Jones
Another Link to the Trail of Broken Treaties: Mining Leaves a Wisconsin Tribe’s Hallowed Sites at Risk Modern boundaries complicate — and stymie — the Menominee Tribe’s effort to protect burial grounds. By Brian Bienkowski
The Genocide of Native Peoples: The Road from Standing Rock to Gaza is a Straight Line by Stanley L. Cohen
Environment:
Environmental Concerns — and Anger — Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana In the aftermath of the 1000-year flood that hit southern Louisiana in August, environmental and public health concerns are mounting as the waters recede. Residents want to know why many areas that never flooded before were left in ruin this time, raising questions about the role water management played in potentially exacerbating the flood. The smell of mold lingers on streets where the contents from flooded homes and businesses are stacked in piles along the curbside, as well as in neighborhoods next to landfills where storm debris is taken. By Julie Dermansky
Mass Fish Die-Offs Are the New Normal: Climate Change Shuts Down a Montana River Early in the morning on August 19, 2016, Chad Jacobson, a 36-year-old Montanan, lifelong fisherman and soon-to-be father received a text message from a friend who is one of Montana’s many fly-fishing guides. “Can you believe they shut down the Yellowstone?” By Alexis Bonogofsky
Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
Economy:
Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Revolution in Banking? Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are exploring the concept of issuing their own digital currencies, using the blockchain technology developed for Bitcoin. Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest rates (we pay the bank to hold our deposits rather than the reverse). by Ellen Brown
The Debate Is Over: Banking Has Become a Criminal Enterprise in the U.S. Tomorrow the U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing to take testimony from Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf and Federal regulators to understand how this mega bank was able to get away with opening more than two million fake customer accounts over a span of years. The accounts and/or credit cards were never authorized by the customer and were opened solely by employees to meet sales quotas, get bonuses or to avoid getting fired for failing to meet sales targets. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Health, Science, Education, and Welfare:
World Be Damned!: How Big Pharma’s Industrial Waste Is Fueling the Rise in Superbugs Worldwide by Pharmaceutical companies are fuelling the rise of superbugs by manufacturing drugs in factories that leak industrial waste, says a new report which calls on them to radically improve their supply chains. By Madlen Davies