Daily Archives: July 14, 2020

2020-07-14: News Headlines

Gerald Sussman (2020-07-13). The Russiagate Spectacle: Season 2? counterpunch.org If it's an election year, there must be a Russiagate story. The Clintons and their neoliberal progeny, including the current standard bearer for corporate liberalism, have turned the Democratic Party into a branch office of the Deep State Inc., whose propaganda drones, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC act like hired guns for the Office of War Information.

John Hawkins (2020-07-13). Mirror, Mirror on the World Who's the Darkest of Them All? dissidentvoice.org Dunbar's number, the famous estimate of how many relationships you can meaningfully maintain in life, is just 150. — Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019) I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together — The Beatles, "I Am The Walrus," (1967) Dot-Dash. Here-Gone. Off-On. In-Out/Out-In. One-Zero. 2B or …

Staff (2020-07-11). Racism of Policing Resulted in the Torture and 18-Year Incarceration of My Son. truthout.org When I first started sharing the story of my son's unjust 18-year incarceration, I felt confident that many people — particularly white people and people with political power — would not care at all about the situation of a Black woman and her son. | I still fear this will be the case over the long term. | But in this moment, following the horrific police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others, people across the country seem to be listening as never bef…