Donald Trump Must Resign

Thursday, September 26, 2019 [| Final day -- we need your help! |]( [Donald Trump Must Resign]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout On Thursday morning, the whistleblower report inspired by Trump's efforts to have Ukraine interfere in the 2020 election was declassified and released to the public. The contents of the report are damning in the extreme, both for Trump and Attorney General William Barr. The impeachment inquiry has been handed a formidable weapon, and Trump's best course at this juncture is resignation. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism]( Henry A. Giroux, Truthout By waging a relentless war on democracy and its institutions, neoliberalism has tapped into a combination of fear and cathartic cruelty that has paved the way for an authoritarian right-wing populism. From Donald Trump, to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro to Hungary's Viktor Orbán, we are witnessing the rise of a neoliberal fascism characterized by the worst of gangster capitalism alongside fascist ideals of extreme nationalism, nativism and white supremacy. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White House Moves to Strip Free School Lunches From 500,000 Kids]( Jake Johnson, Common Dreams President Trump's proposal to reduce funding for school lunch programs could cause a half-million children to lose free school meals. The public comment period for the potentially devastating changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ended on Monday, moving the rule closer to taking effect. Meanwhile, Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has, as part of his education platform, called for the elimination of "school lunch debt." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ["Gladiator Fights" Expose Prisons to Be Genocidal Machines]( Timothy Malone, Truthout Over the last year, dozens of "gladiator fights" have been orchestrated by prison officials in California prisons where known rivals are pitted against one another, leading to injury or death. By deliberately creating conditions of psychological and material scarcity where incarcerated people are compelled to fight for resources, prison administrators have found a way to justify the existence of prisons. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Today is critical: We only have until midnight to raise the $13,000 Truthout still needs. If we are to continue being a powerful, independent voice in a world dominated by for-profit, establishment media, we need your help -- so please give what you can today! [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Massive White House Cover-Up]( Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams The released official whistleblower complaint -- at the heart of the scandal that has triggered an official impeachment inquiry against President Trump -- alleges that the controversy goes beyond a single phone call to a wider White House conspiracy to cover it up. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Snowden Condemns Trump's Treatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal]( Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! Responding to news of a whistleblower's complaint at the center of an impeachment inquiry filed against President Trump this week, famed whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks about his own decision to leak classified documents in 2013. "They want to talk about the whistleblower rather than the government's own wrongdoing," says Snowden. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Big Pharma Invests Millions as Congress Prepares Drug Pricing Bills]( Yue Stella Yu, Center for Responsive Politics Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled the Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which penalizes drug companies that do not comply with prescription drug price caps. The Senate passed legislation to lower drug costs in July. In response, Big Pharma and conservative organizations that receive funding from the industry have been funneling millions of dollars toward ads and lobbying. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Beware of Defense Secretaries Pledging Reform]( William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger, TomDispatch Like many in the position before him, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has pledged to reform the bureaucracy and spending priorities of the Department of Defense to better address the latest proposed threats. However, until profit motives are removed, it will be impossible to reform the Pentagon. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bolivian President Evo Morales's Ecocide Is a Genocide]( Manuela Picq, IC Magazine In less than two months, Bolivia's fires have destroyed a forest area equivalent to what Colombia deforests in 10 years. The most affected area is Chiquitania, home to Indigenous Ayoreo peoples living in voluntary isolation in the Ñembi Guasu reserve. If Bolivia's government does not declare a national disaster and roll back the extractive land policies responsible for the fires, it will have genocide in addition to ecocide on its hands. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [As an Autistic Femme, I Love Greta Thunberg's "Resting Autism Face"]( Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Truthout People have attacked Greta before, casting her autism in familiar tropes of pathology, but in the last few days they've upped their abuse. Michael Knowles of Fox News called her "a mentally ill Swedish child." Fox News host Laura Ingraham compared her to kids who murder adults in the horror movie Children of the Corn. I knew this would happen. The attacks on Greta are a confluence of ableism, sexism and ageism. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bans Won't Prevent the Mysterious Illness Linked to Vaping]( Mike Ludwig, Truthout Following reports about a severe lung illness linked to vaping, President Trump and politicians across the country have responded by moving to ban flavored nicotine vaporizers. But prohibition has never eliminated the supply of any drug. Instead, prohibition creates unregulated black markets where distributors have incentives to cut their drug supply with additives in order to make more money, which may be the cause of the lung illness in the first place, some suspect. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- We need 17 more people to make a sustaining, monthly donation to Truthout. Can we count on you to be one? It takes just 30 seconds to set up and any amount helps! 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