From Wednesday’s Files
Ian Welsh’s Warning Not to Underestimate Trump
An Opium Eater’s Biographical Essay
Fascist SOP Border Protocols – http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/30/does-what-happened-journalist-us-canada-border-herald-darker-trend
A Monopoly Digital Media ‘Manifesto’
Politico founder publishes new manifesto for digital journalism
Insider Self-Promoting ‘Manifesto’ Bullshit – https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/11/30/lifelong-beltway-media-guy-jim-vandehei-calls-media-a-scam/
A Briefing: Imperial Anti-Indigenous Backgrounder – http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38549-from-smallpox-tainted-blankets-to-the-nodapl-evacuation-the-lie-of-colonial-concern
A Briefing: Imperial Anti-Indigenous Backgrounder – http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38549-from-smallpox-tainted-blankets-to-the-nodapl-evacuation-the-lie-of-colonial-concern
Times Public Editor on an Op-Ed Conflict of Interest – http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/public-editor/facebook-jessica-lessin-liz-spayd-public-editor.html
Fascist Police State Pretense of ‘Concern’
Society’s Spectacular Phase – https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Guy Debord on Chance – https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/1957/chance.htm
Standing With Standing Rock in the Clinch
Twain on American English – http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3276/
Ruling Class Splits Re Afghanistan+++ – http://fortunascorner.com/2016/11/30/did-i-help-create-a-monster-tom-ricks-on-ltg-michael-flynn/
Fake News Fakery Deconstructed – https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/30/the-fake-news-about-fake-news/
What a ‘Registry’ Would Mean – http://bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/christopher-petrella-preservation-white-race
Hoping For Hope, ‘Liberally’ – https://bostonreview.net/politics/ronald-aronson-new-politics-hope
An Important Disquisition From Pepe Escobar
Wa-Po’s Mockingbird/CIA Oversight, Redux
The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
NeoCon & NeoLib War Conjunction
‘Liberal Global Order’: How Bush’s Neocons Crafted Obama’s Policy Of Endless War
Malaise Against Capital: Trump’s False Curative
Middle America’s malaise helped Trump to victory, but he has no cure