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ROTTEN CULTURE
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JOSE GUADALUPE ARGUELLO—“Few imagined that he would become Brazil’s president. But as after Obama came Trump, so did Bolsonaro come after Lula,” the La Octava host continued. “So, it is wrong to underestimate people like Gilberto Lozano, not so much because somewhere he may have hidden grandeur, but rather because if it goes badly for this [AMLO] government, or if they are not able to meet the expectations of certain sectors such as the middle class, eventually an ultra-right, anti-system figure could grow strong, and get a stroke of luck”.
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How boogaloo members allegedly used Facebook to plot a murder
23 minutes readDARA KERR—Hours after the shooting, Underwood’s name started trending on social media with people blaming Black Lives Matter protesters for his death. President Donald Trump even mentioned it during a speech on June 1, saying, “These are not acts of peaceful protest. These are acts of domestic terror.” Those acts, however, weren’t carried out by the protesters.
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Roy Cohn, one of McCarthy’s most notorious legal henchmen, and a shady operator, political blackmailer, fixer extraordinaire, and self-hating closeted gay, is in the news again with two new documentaries about him, Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn, by Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and the sure to be more successful, the more mainstream produced and distributed Where’s My Roy Cohn?, by Matt Tyrnauer. In view of this, we thought you might want to have a look at this film
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Dissent Is Being Criminalized Right Under Our Noses
16 minutes readMIKE SIEGEL—The proposed bill would create a broad definition of “domestic terrorism” to include any attempt to “affect” or “influence” government policy or actions. And it would include property damage—even attempted property damage—as a terrorist act subject to a 25-year prison sentence. In other words, if you opposed the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock and wanted the government to revoke the pipeline permit, you might be considered a terrorist. If you painted “Black Lives Matter” on a wall to advocate against police violence, that could be terrorism, too.