Trending Now #18, 2.16-22.18

NYT news new york times media Monopoly Media

Net Neutrality++

https://www.benton.org/newsletter/daily-digest-2212018-net-neutrality-update

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/22/pais-net-neutrality-repeal-published-internet-defenders-prepare-hell-fight

NSA/CIA++

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/16/nyts-really-weird-russiagate-story/

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43070555

https://www.washingtonpost.com/?utm_term=.8913489f3fdf

https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-and-russia-have-long-endured-massive-threats/5629315

https://theconversation.com/was-jeremy-corbyn-a-communist-spy-the-evidence-says-no-91962

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/technology/indictment-russian-tech-facebook.html

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/harvards-laurence-tribe-has-become-a-deranged-russia-conspiracist-today-was-his-most-humiliating-debacle/

https://www.justsecurity.org/52591/decoding-russians-indictment-potential-trump-campaign-liability/

https://www.justsecurity.org/46583/unsealed-documents-special-counsel-mueller-investigation/

https://www.justsecurity.org/52610/charging-mystery-russia-indictments-and-indication-mueller-investigation/

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/20/pers-f20.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63832/mueller-indictment-part-of-cycle-of-information-warfare-and-election-meddling-between-us-and.html

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wapo-finally-admits-election-russian-propaganda-was-actually-american-and-it-was-factually-accurate/

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/16/result-muellers-investigation-nothing/

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/374233-russians-charged-with-interfering-in-us-elections

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/16/result-muellers-investigation-nothing/

http://www.ianwelsh.net/muellers-russian-indictment/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/world/europe/prigozhin-russia-indictment-mueller.html

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/374305-five-things-to-know-about-the-russian-indictments

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/17/rosenstein-mueller-running-cover-leaving-brennan-exposed/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/bitter-john-brennan-reacts-mueller-indictment-13-russians-election-meddling-plot/

http://benton.org/newsletter/daily-digest-2202018-russian-meddling

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/parkland-russia-mueller.php

C.H. Smith http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48836.htm

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/a-consensus-emerges-russia-committed-an-act-of-war-on-par-with-pearl-harbor-and-911-should-the-u-s-response-be-similar/

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/19/mutually-assured-contempt-at-2018-munich-security-conference/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/19/mueller-russia-and-oil-politics/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/us/politics/russian-operatives-facebook-twitter.html

http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/thirteen-russians-ands-ham-sandwich/

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/19/david-nunes-president-ray-mcgovern-cia-director/

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48824.htm

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/four-observations-latest-mueller-bombshell-russiagate/

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/russiagate-skeptics-go-far.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63892/robert-muellers-13-russian-trolls-indictment-is-a-copy–paste-job-from-2015-ukrainian-radio-free.html

Charles Blow’s Bulllshit http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/21/blow-f21.html

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/21/video-glenn-greenwald-and-james-risen-debate-the-trumprussia-investigation/

https://www.justsecurity.org/46583/unsealed-documents-special-counsel-mueller-investigation/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/22/bond-villain-in-the-world-economy-latvias-offshore-banking-sector/

Oh Probably http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48842.htm

Mueller’s Horseshit http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48841.htm

Demonization Blues http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48845.htm

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/18/confessions-of-a-russiagate-skeptic-217024

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/21/russiaphobia-is-out-of-control/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374372-ex-cia-director-us-meddles-in-foreign-elections-for-a-good

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374444-trumps-anger-boils-over-with-russia-probe

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-russia-trump-alternative-financing

https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-russiagate-is-a-sham/5629634

https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/12/nunes-memo-six-degrees-separation-reality/

Inciting Russian War http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48815.htm

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/16/the-peculiar-business-of-being-russian-american-in-trumps-usa/

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/18/russiagate-deception-mueller/

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/mueller-indictement-the-russian-influence-is-a-commercial-marketing-scheme.html

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/cia-argues-the-public-cant-see-classified-information-it-has-already-given-to-favored-reporters/

Fighting Honduran Censorship http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/hond-f16.html

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63833/shocking-new-evidence-maidan-snipers-confess-they-were-under-orders-from-coup-leaders-to-shoot.html

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005889-from-disruption-dystopia-silicon-valley-envisions-city-future

‘Shadow Government’ CIA Revelations http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48822.htm

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/19/pers-f19.html

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/robert-parry-when-independent-journalism-meant-something/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ex-CIA-Agent-Admits-US-Meddled-in-Other-Countries-Elections-20180218-0009.html

Grassroots Media & Culture

https://theconversation.com/how-21-artists-graffitied-one-mans-property-made-it-famous-sued-him-when-he-knocked-it-down-and-won-6-7m-91933

Mozart Violin Sonata E Minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhnfWzOCMo

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-city-investigates-disappearance-of-radio-journalist-idUSKCN1G40EP

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/02/hangmen-martin-mcdonaghs-dark-mystery-raises-questions-of-justice/

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/39117/1/dis-magazine-bernadette-corporation-print-video-rip

https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/02/junk-explains-wall-street-corruption-better-than-most-newspapers-do/

https://hyperallergic.com/428088/college-art-association-feminism-and-the-state/

http://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/39001/1/greta-gerwig-lady-bird-saoirse-ronan

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/fbi-black-bookstores/553598/

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/585535355/artists-and-criminals-on-the-cutting-edge-of-tech

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

‘1,000 Fans’ Tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=i1cmnizKPlk

http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/39128/1/how-to-live-according-to-artist-marina-abramovic-sean-kelly-early-works-new-york

Marina Video Mini-Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlZjFGriLw

https://hyperallergic.com/427776/william-greaves-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one/

https://hyperallergic.com/427502/missing-klimt-drawing-museum-secretary-closet/

https://hyperallergic.com/427732/the-symbolism-and-bigotry-of-a-supposedly-satirical-cartoon-about-dreamers/

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/robert-parry-when-independent-journalism-meant-something/

https://hyperallergic.com/427544/swoon-the-canyon-1999-2017-contemporary-arts-center/

Literature+

https://granta.com/american-maniac/

https://lithub.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-writing-group/

https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/02/hangmen-martin-mcdonaghs-dark-mystery-raises-questions-of-justice/

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/david-mamet-chicago.html

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/doreen-st-felix-on-entering-the-world-of-criticism/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/08/philip-roth-agonistes/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/frankenstein-one-of-humanitys-oldest-monster

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dissolving-identities-on-cristina-rivera-garzas-the-iliac-crest/

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-is-my-name-a-conversation-with-vievee-francis/

Submissions

https://mailchi.mp/1865d932e1e7/alternate-roots-receives-funding-to-support-activists-and-artists-in-the-south?e=611346ea09

https://www.freedomwithwriting.com/freedom/uncategorized/200-for-personal-essays-published-by-narratively/

https://www.freedomwithwriting.com/freedom/uncategorized/4926/

http://www.publicseminar.org/submit-to-public-seminar/

http://www.creative-capital.org/content/email_graphics/archives/2018/application-open-02.html

http://www.southernstudies.org/content/job-announcement-program-coordinator-southern-strategies-program

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-priceonomics-data-content-bootcamp-tickets-42505537206

https://mailchi.mp/ladyswagger/were-connected?e=3f6bf2e778

https://lithub.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-writing-group/

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

Mediation Generally

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/dont-want-robot-replace-study-tolstoy.html

https://www.quantamagazine.org/scant-evidence-of-power-laws-found-in-real-world-networks-20180215/

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-philosophers-problem-when-and-why-thinking-can-be-harmful-6ce260c51e78

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/i-have-forgotten-how-toread/article37921379/

https://www.utwente.nl/repository/utwente-data/ut_central/en/press%20department%20-%20widgets %20bij%20news%20items/2017/volume-1-essays-on-msi-themes-ut-class-2016-17-jan-2017.pdf

https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophers-have-much-to-learn-from-the-great-filmmakers

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tools-i-wish-i-had-known-about-when-i-started-coding-57849efd9248

https://gizmodo.com/the-mess-at-meetup-1822243738

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/585535355/artists-and-criminals-on-the-cutting-edge-of-tech

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63939/the-copyright-office-is-spending-the-year-deciding-technologys-future-but-the-future-doesnt-get-a.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/583682937/the-father-of-the-internet-sees-his-invention-reflected-back-through-a-black-mir

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a34nm4/ai-report-oxford-malicious-weapons

https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/13/john-perry-barlows-last-words/

Elections/Ruling Class P.R. & Propaganda

http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/politics/no-sanctuary-for-voters-gillum-corcoran-debate-florida

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/16/had-hillary-won-what-now/

http://bostonreview.net/us/founding-fathers-founding-villains-william-hogeland

https://bostonreview.net/mark-schmitt-all-about-barack-obama-books-review

https://www.facingsouth.org/2018/02/institute-index-how-citizens-united-continues-transform-money-politics

https://www.facingsouth.org/2018/02/states-can-%E2%80%94-and-should-%E2%80%94-rein-unlimited-money-politics

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/parkland-russia-mueller.php

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/14/illuminati-running-world-not-mad-idea-questioning-hidden-power-elites-sane

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-rahm-protest-0218-chicago-inc-20180216-story.html

http://trueorganicandfree.com/high-level-judge-fmr-trump-campaign-chair-pleads-guilty-21-counts-child-trafficking/

Political Economy+

http://www.newgeography.com/content/005884-inclusionary-zoning-flops-portland

https://www.quantamagazine.org/scant-evidence-of-power-laws-found-in-real-world-networks-20180215/

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-problem-with-oxfam-isnt-just-a-few-dirty-men/21113

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Oxfam-Chief-Exec-Under-Investigation-to-Be-Grilled-by-MPs-20180220-0007.html

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirteen-even-4q-cost-cuts-uber-lost-4-5-billion-2017.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63794/profits-above-the-law-congress-introduces-new-set-of-bills-to-limit-the-right-to-seek-justice.html

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/the-new-capitalism-why-workers-cant-get-a-raise/

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/moodys-to-ford-we-are-the-bosses/

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/total-control-abolishing-cash-to-control-everybody-everywhere/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/16/are-modern-cities-sustainable/

http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race/mehrsa-baradaran-bad-check-black-america

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/free-market-threat-democracy.html

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/gaius-publius-obama-energy-secretary-named-board-utility-giant.html
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/michel-raptis-pablo-self-management-in-the-struggle-for-socialism-1972/

Markets & Marx Now http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/17/marx-f17.html

https://mronline.org/2018/02/13/not-a-matter-of-if-but-when/

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/davos-alive-or-dead.html

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/law-professor-proposes-bringing-back-indentured-servitude.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-goes-to-war-over-the-va

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2018/trumps-fy2019-budget-request-has-massive-cuts-nearly-everything-military/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43582-there-s-an-alternative-to-the-top-down-capitalist-corporation

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2018/02/alarm-bells-sounded-on-wall-streets-derivatives/

https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-115-ba16-wstate-agreen-20180214.pdf

Parsing Trump’s War on Workers http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168159

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/wolf-richter-blockchain-stocks-completely-disintegrate.html

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/james-altucher-cryptocurrency-get-rich-quick.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63836/no-chance-of-cryptocurrencies-replacing-fiat-money-.html

https://aeon.co/essays/the-financial-world-and-the-magical-elixir-of-confidence

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/trumps-bogus-infrastructure-plan-takes-u-s-road-rentier-capitalism.html

https://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/david-moscrop-will-automation-set-us-free

http://bostonreview.net/forum/walter-johnson-to-remake-the-world

http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/39136/1/imagining-a-future-where-machines-have-taken-our-jobs

https://theconversation.com/huge-pension-fund-deficits-are-a-global-crisis-in-waiting-88420

http://www.epi.org/publication/states-with-joint-employer-shield-laws-are-protecting-wealthy-corporate-franchisers-at-the-expense-of-franchisees-and-workers/

http://www.epi.org/publication/black-women-will-be-most-affected-by-janus/

STS+

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/dont-want-robot-replace-study-tolstoy.html

https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-universal-law-20141015/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/smart-swarms-of-robots-seek-better-algorithms-20180214/

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/

https://arcdigital.media/the-republic-by-plato-116752c137d1

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-philosophers-problem-when-and-why-thinking-can-be-harmful-6ce260c51e78

https://jhiblog.org/2018/02/16/jhi-791-available/

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/inside-the-chilling-proliferation-of-artificially-intelligent-drones/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5110787/Elon-Musk-says-10-chance-making-AI-safe.html

https://thebulletin.org/ai-and-climate-%E2%80%9Cbleeding-edge%E2%80%9D-pioneering-researcher11508

https://www.fs.blog/garrett-hardin/

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/bill-gates-asks-does-saving-more-lives-lead-to-overpopulation/

https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-left-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree-91993

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/02/19/scientific-peer-review-sham/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=StGaabirH4s

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/543105/the-bloop-loudest-sound-ever-recorded-cara-cusumano/?utm_source=eb

https://jhiblog.org/2018/02/19/anthropologia/

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/585535355/artists-and-criminals-on-the-cutting-edge-of-tech

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63933/glyphosate-residues-discovered-in-almond-milk-bread-and-veggie.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63936/watch-a-human-try-to-fight-off-that-dooropening-robot.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63937/top-researchers-write-100page-report-warning-about-ai-threat-to.html

https://maliciousaireport.godaddysites.com/

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tools-i-wish-i-had-known-about-when-i-started-coding-57849efd9248

https://www.ecowatch.com/bottled-water-sources-tap-2537510642.html

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63939/the-copyright-office-is-spending-the-year-deciding-technologys-future-but-the-future-doesnt-get-a.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/20/583682937/the-father-of-the-internet-sees-his-invention-reflected-back-through-a-black-mir

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a34nm4/ai-report-oxford-malicious-weapons

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plundering-the-planet-coca-cola-and-nestle-to-privatize-the-largest-reserve-of-water-in-south-america/

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/02/21/wi-fi-devices-increase-mercury-release-from-dental-amalgams/

https://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/david-moscrop-will-automation-set-us-free

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/kareem-abdul-jabbar-travels-court-classroom-highlight-history-african-american-inventors-180968179/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dubious-science-genetics-based-dating-180968151/

Education

https://portside.org/2018-02-17/statewide-walkout-announced-wv-school-teachers-and-employees

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63943/this-is-what-extreme-security-in-americas-safest-school-looks.html

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/education-startups-free.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-rahm-protest-0218-chicago-inc-20180216-story.html

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/dont-count-on-a-government-student-loans-bailout/

tribe women maori

Women & Sexuality/Family++

https://hyperallergic.com/425593/lucy-cahill-grey-area-now-i-wanna/

https://hyperallergic.com/426222/johanna-breiding-anna-goldi-angels-gate-cultural-center/

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374108-trumps-stormy-daniels-problem-gets-worse?rnd=1518779181

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/is-romantic-kissing-a-human-universal/

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/16/metoo-movement-will-produce-victims/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/02/14/dear-li-werner-heisenberg-love-letters/

Berlinale http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/20/berl-f20.html

https://hyperallergic.com/428088/college-art-association-feminism-and-the-state/

http://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/39099/1/authenticity-porn-social-media-amateur-webcamming

https://aeon.co/videos/how-a-family-feud-threatens-to-tear-apart-the-oldest-interracial-newlyweds-in-the-us

https://lithub.com/the-spiritual-sisters-of-simone-de-beauvoir/

https://www.propublica.org/article/midwives-study-maternal-neonatal-care

https://theconversation.com/sexting-a-modern-crime-that-could-be-on-a-childs-police-record-for-life-91453

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/famous-porn-star-reportedly-attending-top-law-school/

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/widespread-problem-of-police-sex-trafficking-women-exposed-in-las-vegas/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dubious-science-genetics-based-dating-180968151/

Ideology+

https://jhiblog.org/2018/02/19/anthropologia/

https://arcdigital.media/the-republic-by-plato-116752c137d1

https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-philosophers-problem-when-and-why-thinking-can-be-harmful-6ce260c51e78

https://jhiblog.org/2018/02/16/jhi-791-available/

https://hyperallergic.com/426222/johanna-breiding-anna-goldi-angels-gate-cultural-center/

https://theconversation.com/steven-pinker-lauds-reason-but-people-need-freedom-this-might-not-end-well-91928

http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/02/neoliberalisms-populist-bastards/

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20901/YDSA-teen-Socialism-Millennials-high-school

http://bostonreview.net/us/founding-fathers-founding-villains-william-hogeland

https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/

https://www.fs.blog/garrett-hardin/

https://www.fs.blog/2018/02/winning-battle-losing-war/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/02/14/dear-li-werner-heisenberg-love-letters/

https://aeon.co/ideas/the-provocation-of-national-self-determination

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

https://theconversation.com/civilisations-bbc-reboot-of-kenneth-clarks-1960s-classic-is-more-diverse-but-is-it-less-challenging-91942

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/john-reed-how-the-soviets-were-really-functioning-in-the-beginning/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43598-the-alt-right-is-building-a-white-nationalist-mass-movement-with-operation-homeland

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-was-the-beguiling-spell-of-jungs-collective-unconscious

http://www.ianwelsh.net/how-to-be-happy-in-bad-times/

https://www.fastcompany.com/40527184/everyones-miserable-heres-why-and-what-we-can-do-about-it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/14/illuminati-running-world-not-mad-idea-questioning-hidden-power-elites-sane

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/21/billy-graham-an-old-soldier-fades-away/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/

Migration/Refugees+

https://www.cicnews.com/2018/02/canada-committing-440-million-to-immigration-over-next-three-years-0210201.html#gs.JE_F72s

https://www.socialeurope.eu/free-movement-migration

http://chieforganizer.org/2018/02/21/pity-the-poor-immigrant/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43581-as-long-as-rights-are-trampled-there-will-be-forced-migration

Health/Mental Health/Pharma+

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-fox-news-cuts-off-reporter-links-psychotropic-drugs-florida-shooter/

Biostitutes++ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=170&v=giVY-Qnqd5Q

https://theconversation.com/comfortably-numb-why-some-older-people-turn-to-cannabis-for-pain-relief-91350

https://aeon.co/essays/dread-accompanies-me-through-life-but-it-is-not-without-consolation

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/02/21/wi-fi-devices-increase-mercury-release-from-dental-amalgams/

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63849/from-prozac-to-parkland-are-psychiatric-drugs-causing-mass.html

Activism/Class Conflict/Fascism

https://aeon.co/ideas/drunk-on-genocide-how-the-nazis-celebrated-murdering-jews

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/free-market-threat-democracy.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=o9bXo1f5r0I

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63883/since-standing-rock-56-bills-have-been-introduced-in-30-states-to-restrict.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/photos-since-standing-rock-56-bills-have-been-introduced-in-30-states-to-restrict-protests/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43598-the-alt-right-is-building-a-white-nationalist-mass-movement-with-operation-homeland

WV Strike https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/19/teac-f19.html

https://apnews.com/5da1b55b96ba47b88e77c405bf45b16e

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-we-fight-fascism/

http://www.nukeresister.org/2018/02/22/hundreds-of-french-police-smash-nuclear-dump-protest-camp-raid-support-house-and-arrest-opponents/

https://ourfuture.org/20180221/a-pledge-to-transform-the-resistance-and-america

https://portside.org/2018-02-21/massive-labor-rights-rally-set-feb-24

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/

http://www.sinnfein.ie/mary-lou-mcdonald

https://hyperallergic.com/427732/the-symbolism-and-bigotry-of-a-supposedly-satirical-cartoon-about-dreamers/

Drugs/War on Drugs/Police State

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/crime-2016-updated-analysis

https://granta.com/american-maniac/

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43555-oklahoma-sheriffs-judges-let-company-extort-people-over-court-debts

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/early-release-prison-good-behavior

https://theconversation.com/comfortably-numb-why-some-older-people-turn-to-cannabis-for-pain-relief-91350

http://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/just-uber-eats-driver-accused-shooting-customer-faces-murder-charge-surrenders/GVkkgbsa1LQTroVUp9GWUN/?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/mass-incarceration-for-profit-the-dual-impact-of-the-thirteenth-amendment-and-the-unresolved-question-of-national-oppression-in-the-united-states/5629726

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/fbi-black-bookstores/553598/

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63938/new-report-details-how-americans-who-have-debt-held-by-collection-agencies-can-get-thrown-in.html
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/widespread-problem-of-police-sex-trafficking-women-exposed-in-las-vegas/

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/not-guilty-self-defense-police-officer/

https://globalvoices.org/2018/02/11/an-introduction-to-metoo-in-japan/

Florida

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gun-violence/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43081361

http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/politics/no-sanctuary-for-voters-gillum-corcoran-debate-florida

http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-southern-perspective/schooling/eighteen-is-enough-parkland-florida-school-shooting

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63807/school-shooter-claims-he-heard-voices-telling-him-to-massacre-the.html

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/pers-f16.html

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-fox-news-cuts-off-reporter-links-psychotropic-drugs-florida-shooter/

https://portside.org/2018-02-16/florida-high-school-students-stage-walkout-protest-gun-violence

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/five-major-facts-mainstream-florida/

http://prospect.org/article/who-was-marjory-stoneman-douglas

https://thesouthlawn.org/2018/02/21/how-to-succeed-in-organizing-a-high-school-walkout-while-really-trying/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/heres-what-its-like-at-the-headquarters-of-the-teens

http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/39151/1/us-teenagers-florida-shooting-walkouts-protest-gun-control

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/columbine-armed-guards_n_2347096.html

https://hyperallergic.com/427336/kate-kretz-mothers-nightmare/

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-united-statess-sacred-gun-problem/

https://fee.org/articles/former-narcotics-detective-blows-whistle-on-the-justice-system/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u0Ink_5cSiU

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/korryn-gaines-lawsuit-36m/

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63943/this-is-what-extreme-security-in-americas-safest-school-looks.html

https://aeon.co/videos/court-fees-and-minor-fines-are-leading-to-debilitating-cycles-of-incarceration-in-the-us

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/86024-2/

https://www.aclu.org/report/pound-flesh-criminalization-private-debt

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mexican-cartels-are-becoming-a-hemispheric-threatwith-trumps-help

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq3n7/the-next-democratic-president-will-legalize-weed

War/Antiwar/Empire

https://www.quantamagazine.org/smart-swarms-of-robots-seek-better-algorithms-20180214/

Munich Conference http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/msco-f16.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba

https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/has-the-us-military-really-lost-the-art-of-killing/

https://taskandpurpose.com/no-cant-kill-way-victory-despite-2-misguided-lieutenant-colonels-might-think/

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/inside-the-chilling-proliferation-of-artificially-intelligent-drones/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5110787/Elon-Musk-says-10-chance-making-AI-safe.html

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_military_industrial_complex_strikes_again_war_spending_will_bankru

https://bostonreview.net/world/chomsky-galbraith-letters-vietnam-jfk-kennedy

http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/jonathan-kirshner-niall-ferguson-henry-kissinger

https://www.fs.blog/2018/02/winning-battle-losing-war/

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/02/is-the-us-intentionally-killing-russians-in-syria.html

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176388/tomgram%3A_danny_sjursen%2C_buttering_up_the_pentagon/

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63882/russia-warns-us-to-stop-playing-with-fire-in-syria-immediately-leave-area-it.html ivis

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/19/mutually-assured-contempt-at-2018-munich-security-conference/

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/world-will-not-mourn-decline-u-s-hegemony/

https://hyperallergic.com/428164/modern-art-imperial-plunder-ariella-azoulay-cooper-union/

Germany’s Return http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/21/germ-f21.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-islamic-state-caliphate-project-and-the-global-war-on-terrorism/5389530

https://mailchi.mp/rutherford/commentary-merchants-of-death-americas-toxic-cult-of-violence-turns-deadly?e=798f08cf09

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176389/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_america%27s_wars%2C_a_generational_struggle_%28in_the_classroom%29/

Funding war machine https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R45110.pdf

European American Splits http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/22/pers-f22.html

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/21/billy-graham-and-the-gospel-of-fear/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/operation-pacific-eagle-in-the-philippines-washingtons-new-colonial-war/237281/

Incipient Trade Wars http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/19/usch-f19.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-munich-security-report-once-again-no-solution-to-arms-control-issues/5629514

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/do-the-united-states-prepare-a-world-war/

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/374329-pentagon-budget-euphoria-could-be-short-lived

Inciting War http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48815.htm

https://www.thedailybeast.com/robotic-gunner-screened-human-soldiers-in-us-army-war-game

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html

Nukes/Nuclear Weapons/Energy Generally

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/15/us-nuclear-bomb-risks-security-report

https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/federal-watchdog-upholds-aecom-involved-srs-liquid-waste-contract-protest/article_917cbb8e-1350-11e8-9cf5-bbcdc659c191.html

https://thebulletin.org/2018-doomsday-clock-statement

https://origins.asu.edu/events/dialogue-william-perry

https://theconversation.com/anthropocene-began-in-1965-according-to-signs-left-in-the-worlds-loneliest-tree-91993

https://thebulletin.org/better-direction-low-dose-radiation-research11500

http://www.nukeresister.org/2018/02/22/hundreds-of-french-police-smash-nuclear-dump-protest-camp-raid-support-house-and-arrest-opponents/

https://nuclear-news.net/2018/02/19/france-must-come-clean-and-admit-that-it-has-an-exceptionally-dangerous-nuclear-waste-problem/

https://theconversation.com/meet-the-new-renewable-superpowers-nations-that-boss-the-materials-used-for-wind-and-solar-91680

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/16/us-renewables-account-18-energy-mix-hot-heels-nuclear/

https://bittersoutherner.com/a-pipeline-in-the-sand-atlantic-coast-lumbee-tribe

https://www.rmi.org/news/davos-need-renewables-shared-future/

South/Race

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/14/the-soul-of-w-e-b-du-bois/

http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race/mehrsa-baradaran-bad-check-black-america

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/21/blow-f21.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/fbi-black-bookstores/553598/

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/

https://aeon.co/videos/how-a-family-feud-threatens-to-tear-apart-the-oldest-interracial-newlyweds-in-the-us

https://theconversation.com/frederick-douglass-the-ex-slave-and-transatlantic-celebrity-who-found-freedom-in-newcastle-90886

http://bostonreview.net/forum/walter-johnson-to-remake-the-world

http://bostonreview.net/race/christopher-lebron-black-panther

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/kareem-abdul-jabbar-travels-court-classroom-highlight-history-african-american-inventors-180968179/

http://www.epi.org/publication/black-women-will-be-most-affected-by-janus/

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/this-is-my-name-a-conversation-with-vievee-francis/

https://www.facingsouth.org/2018/02/states-can-%E2%80%94-and-should-%E2%80%94-rein-unlimited-money-politics

https://portside.org/2018-02-17/statewide-walkout-announced-wv-school-teachers-and-employees

WV Strike https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/19/teac-f19.html

Latin America+

Fighting Honduran Censorship http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/hond-f16.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Why-Bolivia-Fights-US-Imperialism-But-Chile-Does-Not-20180216-0014.html

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Great-Concern-Chile-Calls-on-Israel-to-Release-Ahed-Tamimi-20180217-0003.html

https://nacla.org/newsletter/events/our-winter-issue-launch-party-and-more-exciting-events-nacla

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Venezuela-Decides-to-Hold-Presidential-Elections-the-Opposition-Chooses-to-Boycott-Democracy-20180220-0011.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-city-investigates-disappearance-of-radio-journalist-idUSKCN1G40EP

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-mexican-cartels-are-becoming-a-hemispheric-threatwith-trumps-help

Latin ‘Silk Road’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48837.htm

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Argentina-Government-Media-try-to-Suppress-Workers-Activists-Protest-Against-Austerity-20180221-0011.html

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/40000-workers-marched-for-basic-rights-in-argentina/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bolivia-Massive-Rallies-Launch-Evo-Morales-Reelection-Bid-20180222-0010.html

http://www.thedawn-news.org/2018/02/16/if-lula-is-arrested-civil-disobedience-is-the-way-calls-mst-leader-joao-pedro-stedile/

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/plundering-the-planet-coca-cola-and-nestle-to-privatize-the-largest-reserve-of-water-in-south-america/

Venezuelan Resistance http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48839.htm

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/there-is-no-humanitarian-crisis-in-venezuela-says-un-expert/

Europe Generally

https://aeon.co/ideas/drunk-on-genocide-how-the-nazis-celebrated-murdering-jews

https://theconversation.com/was-jeremy-corbyn-a-communist-spy-the-evidence-says-no-91962

Munich Conference http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/msco-f16.html

https://www.socialeurope.eu/troubling-legal-political-uncertainty-facing-catalonia

Germany’s Return http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/21/germ-f21.html

http://chieforganizer.org/2018/02/19/the-personal-cost-and-lifestyle-adjustments-of-the-greek-financial-crisis/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pensioners-Protest-Spanish-Public-Policies-20180219-0013.html

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/08/yanis-varoufakis-modern-greek-tragedy/

http://www.nukeresister.org/2018/02/22/hundreds-of-french-police-smash-nuclear-dump-protest-camp-raid-support-house-and-arrest-opponents/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/22/bond-villain-in-the-world-economy-latvias-offshore-banking-sector/

http://www.sinnfein.ie/mary-lou-mcdonald

French Militarism http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/19/mele-f19.html

http://chieforganizer.org/2018/02/18/pedestrian-right-of-way-becomes-interesting-tactic/

Africa

ANC Analysis http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/17/pers-f17.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/day-zero-looms-cape-town-water-crisis-may-signify-new-normal-180968128/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/17/world/africa/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html

Israel/Palestine

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/president-association-following/

http://mondoweiss.net/2018/02/security-palestinians-terrorists/

https://mailchi.mp/1337e58b51ed/war-on-lebanon-the-geopolitical-battlefield-mounting-tensions-with-israel

Israeli Soldier Video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48810.htm

Asia/Geopolitics+

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/15/korean-olympic-diplomacy-moves-forward-despite-u-s-intransigence/

https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-and-russia-have-long-endured-massive-threats/5629315

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63833/shocking-new-evidence-maidan-snipers-confess-they-were-under-orders-from-coup-leaders-to-shoot.html

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/02/is-the-us-intentionally-killing-russians-in-syria.html

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/john-reed-how-the-soviets-were-really-functioning-in-the-beginning/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Russia-UN-Syria-Resolution-Aims-to-Overthrow-Government-20180222-0011.html

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-islamic-state-caliphate-project-and-the-global-war-on-terrorism/5389530
https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/14/major-powers-mingle-syria-explosive-mix/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Plane-Crash-Iran-66-Feared-Dead-20180218-0006.html

Iran part 3 http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/16/maz3-f16.html

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Turkey-Offers-Joint-Deployment-With-US-Troops-in-Syrias-Manbij-20180216-0005.html

https://thesaker.is/escalation-in-syria-how-far-can-the-russians-be-pushed/

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/turkey-natos-rogue-member-state/

https://mailchi.mp/1337e58b51ed/war-on-lebanon-the-geopolitical-battlefield-mounting-tensions-with-israel

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/will-lebanon-be-the-next-energy-war/

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ICC-Gets-over-1-Million-Testimonies-from-Afghans-Suing-US-CIA-Govt-over-War-Crimes-20180217-0004.html

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/17/why-are-we-in-afghanistan/

https://www.justsecurity.org/52511/impunity-u-s-funded-warlords-afghanistan-case-abdul-raziq/

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/AFG/INT_CAT_COC_AFG_27463_E.pdf

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/inspections/SIGAR%2017-47-IP.pdf

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/22/time-to-admit-the-afghan-war-is-nonsense/

Latin ‘Silk Road’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48837.htm

https://www.mintpressnews.com/operation-pacific-eagle-in-the-philippines-washingtons-new-colonial-war/237281/

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