Chomsky: Israel Response to UN Is 'Hysterical' | How Financial Stress Is Like PTSD | Trump: Most Disliked President in History

TODAY'S TOP STORIES - December 29, 2016 Stressed out by Finances? Maybe You're Suffering from Acute Financial Stress By Don Hazen, AlterNet Acute Financial Stress has many of the same symptoms as PTSD. READ MORE» Noam Chomsky: Israel's Response to the United Nation's Resolution on Palestine Is 'Hysterical' By Ken Klippenstein, AlterNet A victory for the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement. READ MORE» Donald Trump Will Be the Most Disliked President in Modern American History By Kali Holloway, AlterNet Polling reveals the president-elect is historically unpopular. Can Democrats capitalize? READ MORE» Who Are We Americans Now? By Paul Starr, The American Prospect And who will we become under Trump? READ MORE» White Supremacist Christmas! Right-Wing Media Spent the Holiday Snuggling up to Overt Racism By Amanda Marcotte, Salon Fox News and Breitbart spent the holiday weekend sliding outrageous white supremacist ideas into the mainstream. READ MORE» Weapon of Mass Distraction: Donald Trump Has Conned America into the Abyss By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com Celebrity is an instrument of exploitation, and no one wields it better than the president-elect.  READ MORE» Why We Become More Forgetful With Age—and What You Can Do About It By Vanessa Loaiza, The Conversation Exercise may prove the key to preserving your memory into your 70s and 80s. READ MORE» AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on 2016 By Tom Tomorrow, AlterNet A dumpster fire of a year.  READ MORE» Trump's China Policy is Already a Disaster By Mark Weisbrot, CounterPunch Bullying may have helped Trump in his real estate career, but it is not going to move China. READ MORE» 31 Numbers That Perfectly Capture the Insanity of the 2016 Election By Michael Beckel, The Center for Public Integrity Hillary outspent Trump by almost a quarter of a billion dollars and still came up empty. READ MORE» CIA Interrogator: At Time of U.S. Invasion, Saddam Hussein Was Focused on Writing Novel, Not WMDs By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! The CIA analyst who interrogated Saddam Hussein after his capture 13 years ago has just released a new book about the Iraq War.  READ MORE» Masturbating At Work: Why Fapping Is The New Smoke Break By Nico Lang, Ravishly Although it might seem taboo, there's evidence that masturbation is actually good for workers READ MORE» Melania Trump Wants to Champion Free Speech—While Suing Bloggers and Newspapers for Defamation By Travis Gettys, Raw Story How will Melania fight cyberbullies when she's married to one? READ MORE» Trump's Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes By Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and in some cases, wrongly, foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages. The bank had a disproportionate share of such foreclosures. READ MORE» You are subscribed as: bsamad2007.adnan@blogger.com View this mailing as a webpage. SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2015 Independent Media Institutes All Rights Reserved 1881 Harmon Street, Berkeley, CA 94703