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

November 2016
American labor unions are about to die. A Moroccan ex-Muslim on being branded a "native informant" by American liberals. 'FGM happened to me in white, midwest America'. The mothers in US prison. A still-shameful harvest: The fight goes on for New York's farm workers. Why Israeli leaders are welcoming rise of anti-Semitism in US. Turkey has become a destabilizing force in the Near East. When borders close. Amazon's take over of the economy is the real threat to American jobs. How a Syrian White Helmets leader played Western media. Amid government ignorance and equivocal science, Flint residents mold their lives around perpetual crisis and endless unanswerable questions. Donald Trump’s looming mass criminalization. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-david-petraeus-avoided-felony-charges-and-possible-prison-time/2016/01/25/d77628dc-bfab-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html? How David Patraeus avoided felony charges.] Arrests of journalists at standing rock test the boundaries of the first amendment. The Washington Post's blacklist story is shameful and disgusting. Donald Trump's victory has legitimized the alt-right and we know that their agenda is that of White nationalism. If we continue to call this agenda "alt-Right", we will end up [https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/28/keep-calling-the-alt-right-the-alt-right-soon-it-wont-be-a-euphemism-anymore/? normalizing it with this euphemism] so here are some ways you can write about them. There is no conflict between identity politics and class politics. Ben Shapiro has a broken clock moment vis-a-vis the nature of the [[Alt-right], its relationship to Breitbart as an organisation and Steve Bannon personally.] Really worth a read! [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/21/obama-deportation-mcahine-damage-trump Obama created a deportation machine. Soon it will be Trump's.] No, Trump has not changed his mind about torture. Why the world needs Wikileaks. Curing fake news by encouraging corporations to censor their user's news feeds is worse than the disease. Gin and Tacos: "Nobody gives a shit about Hillary Clinton, and the fact that we are in the current predicament casts that fact in high relief. But we wanted to believe that our neighbors, our families, our fellow citizens were better than this, and now we can't." Michael Flynn’s radical anti-Muslim group. "...human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They’re going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump." On Donald Trump's rise to power: "Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue." Trump's plan to repair our infrastructure is a scam that gives massive tax breaks to large companies & billionaires. A guide to spotting fake news. [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/home-abortions-emails-secret-world? Inside the murky world of DIY abortions.] Appalachia has always given more to America than it has received. Dear American liberals, I would love to share in your incredulity. The White working class narrative is nothing but a racist dog whistle. Lashing out at Identity Politics, pundits blame Trump on those most vulnerable to Trump. HyperNormalisation: Adam Curtis explains why global geopolitics appear to be FUBAR. (Video) Betrayed, surveilled, but not giving up: Arab and Muslim Americans after Trump. The end of identity liberalism. Michael Flynn’s warped worldview and Trump’s foreign policy. Is Jeff Sessions really a racist? When the Devil enters: Article covering trying to find a cause for multiple unexplained fires hitting a small Italian town over the course of a decade. The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. How Bannon flattered and coaxed Trump on policies key to the alt-right. Give Steve Bannon a chance. Why private prison stocks are soaring after Trump win in the election. The rise of the police state in India. What so many people don’t understand about the U.S. working class. [http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php? Inside the Koch brother's war on climate science.] Mike Pence, Trump's Vice President, may be the most powerful Christian supremacist in US history. The Nazis kept a list of powerful American friends in Los Angeles. A critique of Vox. Autocracy: rules for survival. Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans. The true scandal of 2016 was the torture of Chelsea Manning. The closing of the liberal mind. "Welcome to Many People Have Been Asking Me": A 21 minute Cracked video about Trump's 2011-14 vlog that seemingly nobody analyzed after he announced his candidacy on 16 June 2015 (which Cracked didn't post until 36 hours before the polls closed in the Pacific Time Zone.) Today’s understanding of the British Empire has been shaped by state secrecy and the destruction of historical records. A constellation of influencers: Behind the curtain at Teneo. Forced to divorce by Israel. [http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/did-robert-caruso-con-the-washington-press-or-is-that-w-1788510128? How Robert Caruso conned the Washington press.] My 22-year-old daughter died because she told the ER she didn't have health insurance. What Trump’s Golf Course Management Tells Us About How He’d Be President How the US judicial system is stacked against the poor and non-English speakers. The case for medical reparations. How the Workers’ Project in Indiana has been uniting undocumented immigrants with White union workers despite the xenophobic rhetoric of the 2016 election. On immigration, the road to the noxious nativism of Donald Trump was paved by centrist Democrats and moderate Republicans. At Trader Joe’s, good cheer hides complaints. Debating escalation of the war in Syria. Charter schools are full of fraud, lack transparency, exclude unwanted kids, and fire teachers for switching schools. Three new scandals show how pervasive and dangerous mass surveillance is in the West. Even pro-Trump fake news is foreign-made now The internet is actively destroying the truth Western journalists can’t admit that Venezuela’s opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful. 6 reasons why a new civil war in the US is possible and terrifying. Too Smug to Jail: The Economist issues a myopic defense of the white-collar criminal. The ACLU has put out a warning on “How Unchecked Spying Corrodes Democracy Around the World” which provides a collection of cases from around the world, including from where democracy is taken for granted. Without even asking about him at all, a study finds that many British scientists dislike Richard Dawkins, thinking that he misrepresents science and his views on religion are too extreme. (Keep in mind that this study involves religious scientists and is funded by the Templeton Foundation, which opposes the works of Dawkins.) Syria and the reemergence of McCarthyism.