The Two Party Food Fight: Brett Kavanaugh and "The Torture Memos"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-10
The Torture Memos, … was a term originally applying: | "…to a set of three legal memoranda drafted by John Yoo as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States and signed by Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, head … | The post The Two Party Food Fight: Brett Kavanaugh and "The Torture Memos" appeared first on Global Research.
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No Fascist America Emergency Protest Against Kavanaugh
via Refuse Fascism | indybay.org | 2018-10-10
On October 5, street protests in the San Francisco Bay Area arose from fears that Brett Kavanaugh would be confirmed as a justice of the Supreme Court. They included a rally and march that started at 5: 30 pm from Market and Powell in San Francisco.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/08/18818096.php
No More Senate Enablers! Dance and Scream Therapy Upon Hearing Kavanaugh Confirmed
NGTIA | indybay.org | 2018-10-10
Includes photos and two videos, 20 seconds and 11 seconds. San Mateo, California.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/09/18818117.php
Pompeo visit heightens US-China rift
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-10
Testifying to the fraught state of relations, China's foreign minister publicly lambasted the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/10/pomp-o10.html
The Kavanaugh battle,danger of a fascist Supreme Court & the importance of HOW we fight
Revolution Books | indybay.org | 2018-10-10
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Unhinged Tucker Carlson Compares Democratic Criticism of Brett Kavanaugh to Rwandan Genocide
Matthew Chapman, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
Tucker Carlson is increasingly seeing a race war in everything Democrats do. | The appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has prompted a surge of anger from Democrats, based on his extremist, partisan agenda, repeated lies. . .
alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tucker-carlson-brett-kavanaugh-tom-steyer-rwandan-genocide
The Supreme Court Just Imperiled an At-Risk Senate Democrat's Re-Election — Here's What You Should Know
Matthew Chapman, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
If you live in North Dakota, especially if you're on a tribal reservation, the Supreme Court just made voting more difficult for you. | On Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied an emergency request to reverse an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that reinstated a set of draconian North Dakota voter ID restrictions — restrictions. . .
alternet.org/election-03918/supreme-court-heidi-heitkamp-voter-id-tribal-reservations
'With Kavanaugh on the Court, Checking and Balancing Is Not Going to Happen'
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2018-10-09
Janine Jackson interviewed Marjorie Cohn about the Brett Kavanaugh nomination for the October 5, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/with-kavanaugh-on-the-court-checking-and-balancing-is-not-going-to-happen/
The CIA Has Its Fingerprints on Brazil's Election
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-09
Editor's note: Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil's presidential election with 46 percent of the vote. A runoff will be held Oct. 28. | The growth of Bolsonarian fascism in the final stretch of the election campaign, turbo charged by an avalanche of fake news disseminated on the internet, is not surprising. It is an old tactic developed by American and British intelligence agencies, with the goal of manipulating public opinion and influencing political processes and elections. It was used in the Ukraine, in the Arab Spring and in Brazil during 2013. | There is science behind this man…
truthdig.com/articles/the-cia-has-its-fingerprints-on-brazils-election/
Former FBI Agent Explains Why Mueller's Russia Investigation Is Unstoppable — Even If Trump Fires Rod Rosenstein
Tom Boggioni, Raw Story | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
To begin with, there is no such thing as a single 'Russia investigation. ' | Writing for the Washington Post, a former FBI agent who specialized in counter-intelligence said that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian involvement into Donald Trump's presidential campaign is virtually unsto. . .
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Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
In 2015, India's internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying and oppressing marginalised communities, entrenching…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/food-justice-violence-and-capitalism/
Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court — worse than predicted?
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-09
peoplesworld.org/article/brett-kavanaugh-on-the-supreme-court-worse-than-predicted/
Rape Culture Finds Its All-American Poster Boy
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
I don't know if it's irony, synchronicity, or just a coincidence. Whatever it is, there it was on the front page of Saturday's New York Times. At the top of the page was the headline: "Votes Secured to Confirm Kavanaugh." Sure enough, by early Saturday afternoon, the US Senate had narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/rape-culture-finds-its-all-american-poster-boy/
Here's Why Court Packing May Be the Country's Best Hope to Reverse Trump's Corruption of the Supreme Court
Alex Henderson, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
It would be a bold move — but it's no longer unthinkable. | With Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation, the far right now has a majority on the U. S. Supreme Court–which means that everything from abortion rights and gay rights and to health care reform could be on the chopping block. The High Court already. . .
alternet.org/news-amp-politics/heres-why-court-packing-may-be-countrys-best-hope-reverse-trumps-corruption
Obama's Resistance to Investigating the Bush Administration Allowed Brett Kavanaugh to Skate Onto the Supreme Court
Eoin Higgins | theintercept.com | 2018-10-09
One of Barack Obama's first decisions after being elected president continued to haunt the country as Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in. | The post Obama's Resistance to Investigating the Bush Administration Allowed Brett Kavanaugh to Skate Onto the Supreme Court appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-bush-administration/
Growing US Hostility towards China: US Pacific Fleet Show of Force in the South China Sea. Frosty Pompeo Reception in Beijing
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-09
Deepening US hostility toward China is all about wanting to curb its growing economic, financial, and military might. | It's about Washington's imperial aims, wanting dominance over all other nations, its opposition to mutual cooperation and multi-world polarity, its rage to … | The post Growing US Hostility towards China: US Pacific Fleet Show of Force in the South China Sea. Frosty Pompeo Reception in Beijing appeared fir…
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Sports, Rape Culture, and Brett Kavanaugh
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2018-10-09
Sports, Rape Culture, and Brett Kavanaugh…
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Justices Go to Cocktail Parties and Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
The emotional outrage over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court raised numerous questions about who determines what is right or wrong. Kavanaugh's defense — superbly satirized by Matt Damon on Saturday Night Live– was an equally emotional counter-attack to defend his reputation. After Kavanaugh had passed examination of his legal qualifications, allegations…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/justices-go-to-cocktail-parties-and-brett-kavanaughs-confirmation/
Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the End of Legal Neutrality
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
One thing that the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings destroyed was the myth of legal neutrality. That may be a good thing because it is time to recognize both that the Supreme Court and its Justices are not politically neutral and that neither should be. An enduring myth of American politics is that the Supreme Court…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/brett-kavanaugh-the-supreme-court-and-the-end-of-legal-neutrality/
2017 Nobel Peace Laureate: Amid Talks with North Korea, It's Time for U.S. to Abandon Nukes, Too
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-09
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang over the weekend in talks meant to further steps toward nuclear disarmament. Pompeo hailed the meeting as a success, saying both sides were "pretty close" to agreeing to details for a second summit between Kim and President Donald Trump. He also told reporters Kim has agreed to let international inspectors into a North Korean missile engine test facility and nuclear testing site where the country conducted its six nuclear tests. However, Pompeo did not say whether North Korea would allow inspectors to visit a site where the count…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/9/2017_nobel_peace_laureate_amid_talks
Tem dedo da CIA nas eleições do Brasil
Marcelo Zero | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-09
O crescimento do fascismo bolsonarista na reta final, turbinado por uma avalanche de fake news disseminadas pela internet, não chega a surpreender. | Trata-se de tática já antiga desenvolvida pelas agências americanas e britânicas de inteligência, com o intuito de manipular … | The post Tem dedo da CIA nas eleições do Brasil appeared first on Global Research.
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Trump Calls Women Survivors of Sexual Assault 'Screamers'
David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
"The paid D. C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven't gotten their checks. " | President Donald Trump is now calling women survivors of sexual assault "screamers" in his latest offensive tweet. Barely more than 12 hours after apologizing to Brett Kavanaugh "on behalf of the nation," the president took to Twitter to once again attack women
alternet.org/trump-calls-women-survivors-sexual-assault-screamers
On the far right, neo-Nazis, racists hail Brett Kavanaugh's elevation to Supreme Court as open season on women, minority rights in America
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-10-09
To neo-Nazi-in-hiding Andrew Anglin, the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is a milestone, one that he hopes will result in an end to women's rights across the country.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/09/far-right-neo-nazis-racists-hail-brett-kavanaughs-elevation-supreme-court-open-season-women
Anarchism and Kavanaugh
Sheldon Richman | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-09
Regarding Brett Kavanaugh, I've been wondering how I can blame the state for what we've endured these past weeks. I can safely say that without the state, we would have been spared the Kavanaugh episode. Natural-law, pro-market anarchists are not utopians. To paraphrase the old hit: we beg your pardon; we never promised you a…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/09/anarchism-and-kavanaugh/
Kavanaugh's on the bench, but extreme right can still be defeated
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2018-10-09
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the scandal…
peoplesworld.org/article/kavanaughs-on-the-bench-but-the-extreme-right-can-still-be-defeated/
Voters unimpressed with Democrats' Kavanaugh performance, dashing hopes for midterm boost – poll
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
Democrats thought they would capitalize on outrage over Kavanaugh's confirmation, but they were wrong, a new poll shows.
rt.com/usa/440747-kavanaugh-democrats-independents-poll/
The Kavanaugh confirmation and the US midterm elections
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-09
The thoroughly right-wing campaign waged by the Democratic Party over the Kavanaugh nomination, focused solely on allegations of sexual assault, has set the tone for the US congressional elections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/09/pers-o09.html
Top Trump aide sought Israeli help in online manipulation during 2016 election – report
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
An Israeli private intelligence firm produced three separate proposals to manipulate social media in the US and spread misinformation for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential elections, according to a new report.
rt.com/usa/440768-trump-aide-sought-israeli-help/
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina Still Purging Voters at High Rates
Shared by candice | truthout.org | 2018-10-09
Earlier this summer, when the Brennan Center released a report examining voter purge data through 2016, we found that four million more people were purged from the rolls between the federal elections of 2014 and 2016 than between 2006 and 2008. Much of that increase came from states that were previously required under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to get election changes cleared in advance, before that part of the law was eviscerated by the Supreme Court in 2013. | Although comparable data for the two years ending in 2018 won't…
truthout.org/articles/florida-georgia-north-carolina-still-purging-voters-at-high-rates/
With Kavanaugh Victory Lap, Republicans Throw Salt in Women's Wounds
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
After by far the biggest political victory of the Trump era, all Republicans want to do is whine and cast blame. | If the bruising battle over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court cemented one new truism of American politics in the Trump era, it is that Republicans have grown insatiable. Since Donald Trump's surprise election victory nearly two years ago, the president and his followers have suffered from a "sore winner" syndrome that finds them locked in a. . .
alternet.org/kavanaugh-victory-lap-republicans-throw-salt-womens-wounds
'F*CK. YOU. ALL': Google 'design lead' wishes for Republicans to burn in hell in Twitter outburst
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
An apparent senior Google employee went on an expletive-laden rant against GOP lawmakers who'd voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court. 'F*CK. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL,' the designer wrote, before deleting the tweet.
rt.com/usa/440721-google-designer-kavanaugh-rant/
Supreme Court Silver Lining
Shared by Jared | truthout.org | 2018-10-09
Looking on the bright side of Brett. | The post Supreme Court Silver Lining appeared first on Truthout.
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Court Decision Reveals Clues About Mueller's Russia Investigation — And Shows He Still Has Secret Leads Concealed from the Public
Cody Fenwick, AlterNet | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
There's still much we don't know. | While recent reports that two of special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors have left his team after its recent successes led some to suspect that the Russia investigation is winding down, a new court decision reveals that there's still much about the investigation that the public doesn't know. In response to a petition from several media outlets to obtain the search warrants used to gather evi. . .
alternet.org/news-amp-politics/court-decision-reveals-clues-about-muellers-russia-investigation-and-shows-he
Meet Brett Kavanagh, the unfortunate Twitter namesake of the moment
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-09
With the nation's eyes glued to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's bitter confirmation fight in recent weeks, spare a thought for Brett Kavanagh, a man who shares nothing with the judge except a closely-spelled last name.
rt.com/usa/440809-man-called-brett-kavanaugh/
We Know What MAGA Is Code For — It's Not Even a Secret
Amanda Marcotte, Salon | alternet.org | 2018-10-09
"Good and Mad" Rebecca Traister explains why it's okay for women to be angry. | After all the protesting, crying, calling and suffering in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford testifying that Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, had sexually assaulted her, the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh to the court anyway over the weekend. The rage levels of feminist women, which had already been explosive after the election of the pussy-grabber himself, reach. . .
alternet.org/we-know-what-maga-code-its-not-even-secret
Kavanaugh Lied, A Truncated FBI Investigation, & Democrats Search for a Backbone
Shared by Marc Steiner | therealnews.com | 2018-10-09
Why did Democrats not push the fight to the America against Kavanaugh's appointment? What do we face in the future? What should be our response? Current Affairs politics editor Briahna Joy Gray makes some suggestions | The post Kavanaugh Lied, A Truncated FBI Investigation, & Democrats Search for a Backbone appeared first on The Real Ne…
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Organizers Say Kavanaugh Isn't "Above the Law" as Petitions to Impeach Him Surge
Shared by candice | truthout.org | 2018-10-09
Surging towards its goal of 200,000 signatures since it was launched over the weekend, a petition calling for the impeachment of newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — just one among others circulating — has already garnered nearly 80 percent of its goal in just over two days. | "Kavanaugh has been credibly accused of sexual assault and lying under oath in 2004, 2006 and at least 30 times during his Supreme Court confirmation hear…
truthout.org/articles/organizers-say-kavanaugh-isnt-above-the-law-as-petitions-to-impeach-him-surge/
Post-Kavanaugh, Republicans Throw Salt in Women's Wounds
Shared by candice | truthout.org | 2018-10-09
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"They Did Not Care": How the GOP Dismissed Assault Accusations & Confirmed Kavanaugh
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-08
Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, just hours after the Senate voted to confirm him amid massive protests outside the Capitol. He will begin hearing cases Tuesday and could vote as early as Tuesday or Wednesday on a case that tests how much power courts would wield over the executive branch. His nomination came under intense public scrutiny after accusations of attempted rape and sexual assault surfaced. We begin our coverage with Jodi Jacobson, president and editor-in-chief of Rewire, who wrote a piece this weekend headlined "A 'Titanic Fraud': Susan…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/8/they_did_not_care_how_the
Brett Kavanaugh and the Scummy System That Made Him
Sam Husseini | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
I don't often think fondly of Christopher Hitchens, but an insight of my ex-friend did brighten my eyes during the last week. Specifically, after I sent out a series of news releases effectively arguing that then-President Bill Clinton should be impeached "for the right reasons"–specifically, illegal bombings, Hitchens objected. He argued that the distinction between Clinton's…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/brett-kavanaugh-and-the-scummy-system-that-made-him/
Why Conservatives (Still) Like Kavanaugh
Matthew Johnson | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
Senator Collins should be proud of herself. She will now potentially go down in history as the woman who made the overthrow of Roe v. Wade possible — despite her allegedly pro-choice views. Her name will go down in the annals of self-hating women along with the likes of Phyllis Schlafly and Laura Ingraham. Swing-vote…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/why-conservatives-still-like-kavanaugh/
Kavanaugh's Covfefe
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2018-10-08
Kavanaugh's Covfefe…
thenation.com/article/kavanaughs-covfefe/
Yale Legacy Admission Brett Kavanaugh Is Now the Swing Vote on Affirmative Action at Universities
Eoin Higgins | theintercept.com | 2018-10-08
A decades-old policy is now facing a legal challenge from the same conservative movement that shaped the ideology of Yale graduate Brett Kavanaugh. | The post Yale Legacy Admission Brett Kavanaugh Is Now the Swing Vote on Affirmative Action at Universities appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/10/08/brett-kavanaugh-affirmative-action-at-universities/
Kavanaugh Embodies the Biggest Threat to National Security: The US Government
Eric Zuesse | mintpressnews.com | 2018-10-08
"The Government's program for bulk collection of 2 telephony metadata serves a critically important special need — preventing terrorist attacks on the United States… In my view, that critical national security need outweighs the impact on privacy occasioned by this program…" | – Brett Kavanaugh | The post Kavanaugh Embodies the Biggest Threat to National Security: The US Government appeared first on MintPres…
mintpressnews.com/kavanaugh-embodies-the-biggest-threat-to-national-security-the-us-government/250452/
Where Does #MeToo Go from Here? Women Are "On Fire" with Rage as Kavanaugh Joins Supreme Court
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-10-08
Thousands of women protested outside the U.S. Capitol and across the country on Saturday as Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, just hours after the Senate voted to confirm him. "I hope that it is deep enough that it is forming a strong, cohesive movement among people that will resonate through this country and change the culture," says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, who joined the protests. We also speak with longtime feminist activist and writer Soraya Chemaly, author of the new book, "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger." She says conservat…
www.democracynow.org/2018/10/8/where_does_metoo_go_from_here
Know Thyself: Kavanaugh and American Leaders Should Listen
Peter Crowley | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-08
Know thyself– so Socrates told his followers nearly two and a half millennia ago. This advice has been passed down throughout the history of Western civilization. Of course, one can say: what is there to know, the self is an illusion. Or that 'you are what you are' as the saying goes — therefore, how…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/know-thyself-kavanaugh-and-american-leaders-should-listen/
Obama endorses DSA's Ocasio-Cortez, along with CIA Democrats
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-08
The DSA is an instrument for boosting the right-wing, militarist Democratic Party by providing it with a "left" cover.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/obam-o08.html
Taylor Swift decides to Speak Now, endorses Dem who sided with Reps on Kavanaugh
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-08
Pop star Taylor Swift has finally voiced a political opinion and endorsed two Democrats running in Tennessee's midterms, one of whom came out in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over sexual assault allegations.
rt.com/usa/440663-taylor-swift-support-democrats/
US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-08
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh marks a further major step to the right by the highest US court.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/kava-o08.html
Five Reasons Why the GOP Rushed to Confirm Kavanaugh
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-07
After Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, Trump and the GOP leadership mounted a full-court press to ram through his confirmation before October 1, the first day of the Court's new term, for five good reasons, says… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/10/06/five-reasons-why-the-gop-rushed-to-confirm-kavanaugh/