Saturday, November 17, 2018

Julian Assange, DSA, Amazon, Julia Roberts, Peter Jackson, CIA in the US House

An e-mail asks why I'm not noting WSWS?  When they cover Iraq, I do try to note them in the snapshot.  In addition, we're on the mailing list and that always goes up here unless it's an event and I don't see it until after the event is over.  

Due to the e-mail, we'll note this from the front page of WSWS currently (it's is not the entire front page).


 


Perspective

Defend Julian Assange against US charges!

17 November 2018
The relentless persecution of Assange is intended to intimidate and silence all critical and independent journalists and media organisations, as well as would-be whistleblowers.

Featured Commentary

A terrorist network inside the German Army

By Peter Schwarz, 17 November 2018
The right-wing extremist conspiracy inside the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) is tolerated, covered up and supported by the highest authorities inside the state and politics.

At least 200 soldiers in German Army neo-Nazi terror network

DSA-backed “progressive Democrats” drop phony opposition to Trump’s attacks on immigrants

By Will Morrow, 17 November 2018
The Democrats “progressive” caucus, including DSA member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is calling for a more “humane” and “effective” American immigration Gestapo.

Ocasio-Cortez holds climate change stunt to boost Pelosi

DSA calls US midterm elections the “rebirth of the American socialist movement”

Trump demands end to Florida recount in new attack on voting rights

After midterm elections, Democrats call for bipartisan unity with Trump

The government’s $4.6 billion handout to Amazon
Why Amazon should be expropriated

By Tom Carter, 17 November 2018
The billions in subsidies granted to Amazon for its new headquarters demonstrate the prostration of the entire political establishment before this massive conglomerate.

Arts Review

Web television series Homecoming: Everything about America’s wars, corporate elite is “rotten” …
… And two much weaker series, Maniac and Wanderlust

By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, 17 November 2018
Homecoming, a compelling, disturbing 10-episode web television series, concerns itself with a facility in Florida that supposedly helps Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old: A devastating depiction of the horrors of war


By Paul Bond, 15 November 2018                    



I'm also pulling this over because it's the latest in a story WSWS has led on:


                                                Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats

By Patrick Martin, 17 November 2018
The influx of former military commanders, CIA agents and civilian war planners is unprecedented for the Democratic Party.