Новости за 14.07.2017

By Bruce Dixon / Black Agenda Report The “Our Revolution” campaign led by Bernie Sanders appears to have pocketed the movement credibility of Jackson, Miss., without giving Jackson or its principals a thing.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Escaping the Washington feeding frenzy, the president and his French counterpart discuss cooperation on Syria and Iraq.

Conrad Bakker / CC 2.0 Truthdig covers politics on many fronts, not only in regard to electoral contests, parties and the perpetual struggle over resources and power in government. We also examine politics as they relate to gender, culture, race, identity, class, consumerism, food ... the list goes on. Gender politics have made headlines in the U.S. in recent years, stoked by right-wing attempts to turn debates over transgender rights into wedge-issue fodder. These developments have been followed... Читать дальше...

In this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with Goldberg about the political impact of psychedelic music in the 1960s and the authenticity of commercial music today.

Hundreds of demonstrators are marching from the National Rifle Association headquarters in suburban Virginia to the Justice Department building in Washington, D.C., in response to a controversial NRA recruitment video.

By Danny Goldberg The counterculture movement championed the fight for civil rights, the protests against the Vietnam War and spiritual values above and beyond fame and fortune.

Director Alejandro Jodorowsky creates an unpretentious surrealism, the kind that came naturally to Federico Fellini and Seijun Suzuki.

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Flickr / CC 2.0 President Trump may have promised to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists in Washington, but six months into his administration it seems the swamp is winning. A new report published in The Guardian exposes how tobacco companies are gaining significant political victories under Trump, due to lobbying efforts and the fact that tobacco business insiders have been appointed to top positions in the president’s administration. Jessica Glenza explains: America’s largest cigarette manufacturers... Читать дальше...

America’s Voice, an immigrant reform group, at a 2015 protest in New York against Donald Trump. (Kathy Willens / AP) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday to discuss immigration. After the meeting, CHC member Rep. Luis Gutiérrez, D-Ill., warned immigrants with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) or TPS (Temporary Protected Status) to “prepare for the worst,” the website Latino Rebels reports. “They actually... Читать дальше...

By William Astore / TomDispatch A former Air Force software engineer writes about his time living underground in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, America’s nuclear command center, and wonders why America is so focused on doomsday.