RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2016

October 2016
How the New Zealand Labour Party's gender quota rules may cost them an electorate. Before the Flood: National Geographics documentary on the dangers of climate change and possible solutions to it. John Oliver explains why schools are more segregated in the US than ever. How the New Deal’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation practice of red lining fueled housing discrimination against African Americans. How Democrats killed their Populist soul. How the police generate false confessions. The quiet desperation of millennials. Alt right conspiracy image generator, exactly what it says on the tin. How the largest U.S. prison health care provider puts lives in danger. Prisoners should be covered under the First Amendment. [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/29/i-m-a-muslim-reformer-why-am-i-being-smeared-as-an-anti-muslim-extremist.html I’m A Muslim Reformer. Why Am I Being Smeared as an ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’?] by Maajid Nawaz. A no-fly zone in Syria isn’t a humanitarian response, it’s a call to war. Obama is trying to fix the war on drugs with clemency, but it won't make a dent in mass incarceration. The insidious, and legal, way industry infiltrated Congress. Compare the coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and it tells you a lot about the propaganda we consume. The American Blob is already oozing into Syria. How half of America lost its fucking mind. Why won't anyone admit that America is fighting 5 ground wars?

A train wreck of lies, bias, politics and stupidity: what the Brexit referendum can tell us about how to make politics less dumb Israel won't lose its Jewish identity if they let in the Palestinian refugees. How a small Virginian county used legal tricks to deny Muslims a place of worship. How a handful of Weimar émigrés came to have an outsized influence on the ideology of the American right. I won $104 million for blowing the whistle on my company, but somehow I was the only one who went to jail. Max Blumenthal responds to Gershom Gorenberg. Bob Dylan, the American Left, and what we have lost. Haiti’s natural disasters have long been exacerbated by human-made ones: imperialism and global capitalism. A quarter century after I was arrested by Turkish police, things have only got worse for Kurdistan. Why U.S. press freedom may not survive 2016. How the US government set up a trap for Black youth. How British anti-racist group infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan How the US likely assisted the Saudi bombing of a Yemeni funeral. Barrett Brown writes about how he entertains himself by playing D&D. Journalist Amy Goodman shouldn't be arrested for covering Dakota pipeline story. "Before I wrote a book on Trump, I wrote one about the Catholic priest abuse scandals. And I see a heck of a lot of similarities." Everything is probably going to be fine. How a facial recognition mismatch can ruin your life. Politicians are celebrating a decline in the poverty rate. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t really measure poverty. Former CIA detainees describe previously unknown torture tactic: A makeshift electric chair. It is time to rethink the role police play in US schools. A critical look at how adoption saffest Native Americans. Islamophobia just drove this boy and his family out of America. Occupation denial is pushing me out of my Jewish community Black African immigrants, race and police brutality in America. World War 3 Threats Loom As Putin Orders All Russian Officials To Bring Family Members Living Abroad Back Home Donald Trump Isn’t the Presidential Candidate We Should Be Worried About: The real danger is the smarter, more capable neo-fascist politician who will inevitably rise in his wake. Why Kibbutzism isn’t socialism. [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/karl-marx-yesterday-and-today? How Marx's ideas can help us to understand the economic and political inequality of our time.] A look at how activists on both sides of US-Mexico border are converging against US state violence. How U.S. torture left legacy of damaged minds. Afghanistan is an infinite quagmire. Obama could end the slaughter in Yemen within hours. The strategic considerations for each side in the latest round of minor Israeli-Gazan warfare. [http://www.onwednesdays.net/trans-girl-periods/ Trans Girl Periods. Yes, that’s right. No, I’m being serious. Just read the damn article.] War hawks are sensing an opening in Syria. How a former reporter is helping big oil and gas frack the news. Latin America is regressing back towards neoliberalism. Drudge Report’s playing down and politicizing of Hurricane Matthew was ‘deplorable’ When the cops take your urine by force. Nuclear war is becoming thinkable. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/the-not-so-wholesome-reality-behind-the-making-of-your-meal? The not-so-wholesome reality behind the making of your meal kit.] How European elites set up Greece for a fascist takeover. Inside DuPont and Monsanto's migrant labor camps. The dark truth about Theresa May's Brexit strategy: timing the process around the 2020 election rather than national interests [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/bernie-sanders-on-obamas-wall-street-legacy.html? The triumph of the oligarchs.]