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Trump’s Financial Investments In Big Oil Threaten to Drown NoDAPL Protests Earlier today, The Ring of Fire brought you a story about how Trump’s global business interests potentially represent a massive conflict of interest, now that he is poised to take over the White House. But here at home, that conflict of interest is a lot more than potential. It turns out that both he and his energy adviser have intimate financial ties to the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). It’s something that flew under the radar for weeks, though the environmental activist organization Greenpeace posted an article on the disaster in the making. The issue also explains a great deal about why Trump was so reluctant to release his tax returns.
How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time By Naomi Zeveloff
When Your Abuser Is Elected President It feels like the world I believed in is gone today. By Jody Allard
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Freedom Rider: Obama’s Hollow Legacy Democrats used to value things like global peace and justice in the workplace. But, for decades they have given their votes to warmongers and job-exporters. This week, they are mourning the defeat of a politician they once would have despised. In January, lots of Black Democrats will cry over the exit of a president who “won by making himself palatable to white people while also taking advantage of undeserved black pride.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
War Less Imminent After Clinton Defeat Are most Americans warlike, or are they just easily misled into going along with the War Party that dominates both halves of the duopoly? In a certain sense, the distinction doesn’t matter. Most American don’t care enough about the lives of the millions of victims of U.S. empire to do much of anything to save them. And, if they voted for Hillary Clinton, they did not even have the presence of mind to save themselves from nuclear annihilation. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Federal Judge Orders Water Delivery to Flint Residents Lead kills brain cells, but it took a federal judge to order that households in Flint, Michigan, be delivered four cases of bottled water to prevent further damage to their health. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of the mass poisoning “were rewarded with blanket immunity and protection by the State.” One wonders, “How different the reaction of the Obama administration would have been had ISIS claimed responsibility for poisoning Flint?” by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo 
System Breakdown: Trump’s Chickens Come Home to Roost The crisis that has enveloped U.S. imperialism, under both Republican and Democratic rule, rocked the corporate duopoly system and opened the door for Donald Trump’s ascension to power. Decades ago, “the Republicans became the White Man’s Party while the Democrats neutralized the left.” Trump is the result. “A genuine, radical left with any vision at all would not tremble before a Donald Trump Administration or mourn a Clinton loss.” by Danny Haiphong 
Actually Existing Fascism It appears that millions of folks that have tolerated — and even cheered — Barack Obama’s Kill Lists, assassinations of whole nations, and abject service to the ruling class, are suddenly panicking at the prospect of fascism. “So where the fuck were all these protesters when Obama was actually doing what Trump says he’ll do?” They fear the fascism of their imaginations, while oblivious to fascism in the real world. by Dolores Vek
One Treaty Could Change the Fight to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline isn’t only about water rights and sacred sites; it’s also about the U.S. government’s historical refusal to honor treaties—when “they interfered with Manifest Destiny.” Washington violated its treaty with the Sioux in 1877, and later declared its power to void all Native treaties. “There are now talks of using the treaty to legally regain land rights to end the pipeline’s construction.” by Yessenia Funes 
What the Clintons Did to Haiti Bill and Hillary Clinton’s role in the “remaking” of Haiti after a devastating earthquake and foreign occupation is “indefensible,” according to the author’s article, “Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America,” from which this piece is excerpted. “Many Clinton projects “have primarily benefited wealthy foreigners and the island’s ruling elite.” Other projects simply fizzled. “The money donated and invested was extraordinary, but nobody seems to know where it has gone.” by Nathan J. Robinson
Three Federal Studies Show Fed’s Stress Tests of Big Banks Are Just a Placebo The Fed’s Stress Tests Are Like the Wizard of Oz: An Illusion to Delude the Public By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
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