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BuzzFlash
Constraints Threaten Trump's Promise of an Immigration Crackdown
Standing Rock: Department of Justice Steps Up Aggression Against Those Still Battling the Pipeline
Leaked Tape Reveals Trump Invited Club Guests to "Come Along" During Cabinet Interviews
Democrats Use Obscure 1920s Law to Try to Force Donald Trump to Release Tax Returns
Supreme Court to Set Guidelines for Trump's Treatment of Non-Citizens
Insurance Companies Take the Lead on Obamacare Replacement Ideas
Santa Monica, California, Dumps Wells Fargo Over DAPL Funding
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Michael Meurer, Truthout: The current oppressive neoliberal economic philosophy and its destructive regime of globalized capital is not inevitable. Just as the collapse of the Berlin Wall came out of small local civic movements, many powerful new political and civic movements are growing in Latin America, Europe and the US, offering a future of radical hope.
Jeffrey S. Kaye, Truthout: Guantánamo prisoner Mohammad Saleh Al Hanashi died on June 1, 2009, in an alleged "suicide." Information released under the Freedom of Information Act shows that a key computerized system for tracking prisoner actions was shut down after the body was discovered. Subsequently, other computer files also went missing, which raises serious questions.
Janine Jackson, FAIR: As with many of his other orders, the intent of Donald Trump's executive order on regulations is unclear. It remains to be seen if it can even be implemented without tangling various agencies in knots, and equally unclear how much that matters, since the intent can be plenty destructive on its own.
Sarah Anderson, OtherWords: Our nation's small businesses depend on the health of their communities. When young people don't have the opportunity to get an education and a good job, these Main Street businesses take a direct hit, whereas large US corporations are prospering.
Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News: Unless a radically novel system of regulation can be invented, we should forget about gene drives. Just as we would have been better off foregoing agricultural pesticides and fungicides because regulatory systems lacked the rigor to oversee them, gene driven organisms equally must never be released.
Barbara Krauthamer, The Conversation: Over the past few weeks, the national climate has grown increasingly tense over the issue of "sanctuary" cities and states. The conversation is hardly new, however, as there is a long history of African-American communities offering sanctuary or protection to the most vulnerable among them.
Chris Spannos, ROAR Magazine: The power of today's mass surveillance systems -- like those of the NSA, brought to light by Edward Snowden's revelations -- far exceed what previous totalitarian regimes could have imagined. Surveillance has spread like a pandemic, and it threatens to expand even further.
Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes: After a three-year battle, the American Postal Workers Union announced that the Postal Service will terminate its deal with Staples, closing down the 540 "mini-post offices" inside stores by the end of February and nixing plans to expand.
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