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[Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community] [Home] | [Donate] --------------------------------------------------------------- News & Views | 11.30.16 Featured...   [Who’s Really to Blame for Fake News? Look in the Mirror, America.] by Neal Gabler The American people are accessories in their own disinformation campaign.       News...   [Leading Rights Groups Launch 'Wave of Litigation' to Protect Abortion Access] by Nadia Prupis ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Center for Reproductive Rights say 'these laws are dangerous, unjust, and unconstitutional—and they will come down'         [Obama Quietly Undercutting Climate Legacy With Foreign Fossil Fuel Investments: Investigation] by Andrea Germanos Under Obama, Ex-Im Bank has gotten three times more financing than during George W. Bush's terms         [Chilling 'Professor Watchlist' Aims to 'Expose' Leftist Educators] by Deirdre Fulton 'It would be easier to dismiss this rather silly project if the United States had not just elected a president who shouts over attempts at rational discourse and reactionary majorities in both houses of Congress'         [Trump's Pick for Head of Nation's Economic Policy "A Self-Dealing, Wall Street Tool"] by Andrea Germanos Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls Steven Mnuchin 'the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis'         [Corporate Giants' "Sustainable" Palm Oil Revealed as Sham] by Nika Knight Nestlé, Kellogg's, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and others are linked to child labor and forced labor in Indonesia         [Vying for DNC Chair, Howard Dean Praises Wall Street Bailout Architect] by Jon Queally Hank Paulson, former Goldman Sachs exec who secured Wall Street bailout deal as Treasury Secretary under Bush, remembered fondly for holding it all "together" in 2008     [more news...]  Views...   [Elizabeth Warren Proposes to Strengthen Democratic Spines With a Powerful New Tool: Math] by John Nichols Noting that more Americans voted for Democrats, the senator says her party has a mandate to resist Trumpism.         [Why Professor Watchlist Gets My Teaching Values Completely Wrong] by Robert Jensen Is presenting a feminist framework to analyze a violent and pornographic culture politicizing the classroom, as the watchlist implies?         [Steve Mnuchin: Evictor, Forecloser, and Our New Treasury Secretary] by Peter Dreier Trump’s appointee is the very model of a predatory lender.         [The System IS Rigged!—The Electoral College and the 2016 Election] by Bob Wing, Bill Fletcher Jr. The Electoral College is one of the most powerful legacies of slavery in the U.S.       [Does What Happened to This Journalist at the US-Canada Border Herald a Darker Trend?] by Hugh Handeyside The recent abusive border search of a Canadian photojournalist should serve as a warning to everyone concerned about press freedom these days.         [The New Founder, Brought to You by the Koch Brothers] by Jim Hightower Koch Kollege for right-wing social engineers is peddling a status quo agenda of corporate elitism and trickle-down ideology, which the vast majority of Americans have openly rebelled against.     [more views...] Newswire... - [Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood, ACLU File Challenges to Abortion Restrictions in Three States] - [Food & Water Watch: Administration Must Admit to Political Meddling in Fracking Contamination Report, Clarify and Finalize Findings of Harm] - [People's Action: Health and Human Services Appointee Underscores Trump’s Allegiance to Profits and Corporations Over People] - [Earthrights International: Human Rights Claims against Chiquita for Funding Colombian Paramilitaries Will Proceed in U.S. Court] - [RootsAction: 15,000 Americans on Tuesday Asked President to Block the Removal of Water Protectors at Standing Rock] - [Reprieve: CIA Chief Warns Trump Against Torture—Reprieve Comments] [more newswire...] --------------------------------------------------------------- [Find us on Facebook] [Follow us on Twitter] P.O. Box 443, Portland, ME 04112 Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community. Independent, non-profit newscenter since 1997. Our Mission: To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good. [www.commondreams.org] This email was sent to {EMAIL} because you are subscribed to the Daily News & Views. [Click here to manage your email preferences.]