Новости за 14.06.2017

By Colin Jenkins Patriotism is a key tool for the owning class. To them, the quarterback’s refusal to stand for the national anthem—a nationalistic ritual—threatened to undermine the whole capitalist system.

By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams In addition to civilian deaths, the effort to retake the city of Raqqa from Islamic State “has also led to 160,000 civilians fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced.”

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch The president is attempting to lay the foundations for a world in which fossil-fuel powers will contend for supremacy with post-carbon, green-energy states.

The Princeton University professor and Pulitzer Prize winner says she plans to bring poetry events “to parts of the country where literary festivals don’t always go.”

By Robert Parry / Consortiumnews In an interview with filmmaker Oliver Stone, Russia’s president explains his perspective—which contrasts with what the American people have been allowed to hear.

Carlos Osorio / AP Repercussions of the ongoing tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich., reached the upper levels of state government Tuesday, as the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was charged with involuntary manslaughter for what he did—and failed to do—in response to the situation. The New York Times noted Wednesday that, though 13 other people have faced legal consequences for their roles, the charge against Nick Lyon is the one most connected to the human costs of the crisis... Читать дальше...

By Henry Giroux / Ragazine Rather than see the president’s actions as another sign of a crooked government unraveling, the mainstream press is largely focused on whether Trump or Comey is lying.

The Marxist thinker talks about whether the best place for the Vermont senator (pictured) to continue his work is as a left-wing voice among Democrats or on his own.

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By Steven T. Dennis, Toluse Olorunnipa, Billy House / Bloomberg Steve Scalise (pictured), the third-highest ranked House Republican, and at least four others were injured Wednesday morning in a shooting at a congressional baseball practice field in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia.

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network In southern Asia, mortality is likely to rise with the thermometer.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Saudi Arabia has gotten too big for its britches, and the oil-producing Middle East is turning even more unstable. And if you are an American, it is your fault.

By William Wan / The Washington Post As inequality in America continues expanding by many measures, smoking is a growing aspect of that divide that is a matter of life and death.

This episode deals with the incalculable human and financial costs of America’s opioid addiction epidemic. (Pictured: Hedges, right, with the best friend of a young woman who fatally overdosed.)

By Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky / The Washington Post The attorney general attempted to clear up what he claimed were mischaracterizations of his role in two controversies: Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and the firing of James Comey.

By Ray McGovern / Consortiumnews The journalist says all “17 intelligence agencies” of the U.S. government agreed on Russian guilt in alleged 2016 election hacking. Former intelligence officials claim that statement is incorrect, but it keeps getting repeated.

The author and activist offers five steps on how to recognize—and fight back against—the president’s “wildly pro-corporate policies.”