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Contrary to Spin, Trump Slashing Energy Jobs With New Executive Order “These facts make it clear that Donald Trump is attacking clean energy jobs purely in order to boost the profits of fossil fuel billionaires” by Nika Knight
Sanctuary Cities ‘Stand Resolute’ in Face of Threatened Funding Cut-Off Officials from country’s largest urban centers strategized on sheltering undocumented immigrants after White House announced plan to withhold federal aid by Nadia Prupis
Freedom Rider: Is Trump the DNC Hacker? If the Democrats are intent on living at the Vast Conspiracy Hotel, they ought to widen their list of suspects in the leaking of embarrassing Democratic documents. Roger Stone and Nigel Farage — men much closer to Donald Trump’s brand of politics than Vladimir Putin — have had curious contacts with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Stone is “the champion Republican Party dirty trickster,” while Farange, the British rightwinger, is a friend of Trump. by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley 
The Joseph Kony “Threat” was Always Fake News Fake news stories roar in like a storm, but often evaporate with time. Seven years ago, President Obama and other fake news vendors depicted Joseph Kony as the devil incarnate, a dire threat to western interests and the people of central Africa. But it was all a ruse to smooth U.S. military intervention on African soil. Obama “The Faker” played Kony for a demon and the public for a fool. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
Israel’s African Darling: Paul Kagame: An Interview with Robin Philpot Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame, who recently addressed AIPAC, in Washington DC, is Israel’s favorite African, a man the Zionists permit to use the term “genocide.” Both nations claim their wounds give them a special status in the world. “Rwanda and Uganda could be called mad dog states — they’re highly militarized, and they serve as sheriffs for the U.S. at the same time as they pursue their own interests.” by Ann Garrison 
Brother Harvey Matthews: “I’m Fighting for My Ancestors.” The Bethesda African Cemetery: Part I More than half a century ago, developers paved over a Black cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland. Now the county claims the ancestral bones may no longer be there. Some accounts from the Fifties “describe construction crews carving a ditch in the hillside and pushing countless remains into it.” Said a Black protest leader: “When the people in the Planning Office tell us that the cemetery doesn’t exist I know they are lying. I played in that cemetery.” by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo 
I’m just a patsy; Don’t let me be patsy… Some are called for the job, while others are chosen. Some folks practice and study and audition, while others stumble into it blindly. Some are coerced and some more are prepped and primed and meticulously prepared for their few minutes if infamy… by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
Top Israelis Have Warned of Apartheid, So Why the Outrage at a UN Report? In the United States, it is all but forbidden – a “slander,” a “smear,” a “despicable” and “blatant lie,” and a “new form of anti-Semitism” — to call Israel an apartheid state. Yet, numerous Israeli leaders have used the A-word to describe what the Zionist project has become. “Are they Israel bashers, too?” In the Occupied Territories and Israel “proper,” there is only one state – and it fits the definition of apartheid. by Medhi Hasan
The AFRICOM Snake Slithers into the Lake Chad Basin Ever since NATO’s 2011 regime change in Libya, the U.S. military command, AFRICOM, has had free rein in most of the continent. Boko Haram “terrorism” provides an excuse to intervene, but AFRICOM’s real aim is to secure U.S. control of African economic resources. “It took only the suggestion of potential oil reserves to inspire a U.S. military plan for the success of the oil exploration efforts of the Nigerian government” in the Lake Chad region. by Mark P. Fancher
Environment:
Rwanda Indicts French Generals for 1994 Genocide Late in 2016 the Rwandan Government indicted several senior French Army Generals for crimes against humanity including genocide for their role in the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. The Rwandan case against the French Generals is based on the French having instigated and trained the Interhamwe para military Hutu militia that was responsible for most of the killings of the minority Tutsi tribe and its supporters. This most inconvenient of facts is admitted to by the French media who are still trying to shrug off blame for the French crimes in Rwanda and deny any “smoking gun” exists. by Thomas C. Mountain
Bloodbath in West Mosul: Civilians Being Shot by Both ISIS and Iraqi Troops by Patrick Cockburn 
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