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TODAY'S TOP STORIES - December 30, 2017 5 of the Worst Fox News Lies and Errors Repeated by Donald Trump By Kali Holloway, AlterNet There are plenty more where these came from.  READ MORE» How the GOP Tax Cut Will Also Shrink Your Paycheck By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet When Republicans cut taxes, wages go down or stay flat for working people. READ MORE» Trump Is Exporting America's Travel Ban with Thousands of TSA & DHS Agents in 70 Countries By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! One German politician is saying DHS's interrogations and detentions at foreign airports constitute an extrajudicial travel ban. READ MORE» Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand for Debtors' Prisons By Nusrat Choudhury, ACLU A wave of attention spurred the Justice Department to address debtors' prisons in 2016, but things could change for the worst. READ MORE» Legal Pot Begins in California, Already the World's Largest Marijuana Marketplace By Phil Smith, AlterNet When the calendar flips over, the world's largest legal marijuana marketplace gets underway.  READ MORE» Can the Community Rights Movement Fix Capitalism? By Thomas Linzey, In These Times With all of the capitalism post-mortems conducted by activists and academics alike, is wholesale replacement necessary or is there another solution?  READ MORE» 'Trumpism' Is Ingrained in White America -- When He Goes, It Will Remain By Cas Mudde, The Guardian The Republican party's leader is no anomaly, he's a voice for its deep-seated radicalized base who suddenly find themselves in the mainstream. READ MORE» Why Is the State of Israel So Afraid of 16-Year-Old Ahed Tamimi? By Ariel Gold, Taylor Morley, AlterNet Support for Ahed is a condemnation of the state of Israel.  READ MORE» NBA Coach Steve Kerr Says Trump Is No Patriot and Poses a Threat to US 'Core Values' By David Ferguson, Raw Story "I think if you have a voice, you've got to use it." READ MORE» Citizens Begin Reclaiming Coal Country After Decades of Corporate Land Grabs By Emma Eisenberg, YES! Magazine But figuring out who owns abandoned mines in Appalachia is harder than you'd think.  READ MORE» How Terry Crews Is Shifting the Image of Survivors By Rachel Leah, Salon The public has been slow to embrace survivors when they're not famous and white, but Crews is changing that.  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