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Centrist media drifting right

jeudi 6 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The New York Times and MSNBC are bringing in right-wing commentators to join their center-right supporters of Clinton and co. They have a few progressive commentators, but no one that explicitly supports Sanders.

The idea of the "Liberal media" is a right-wing fabrication. They call centrist politicians and media "Liberal" to make some not-so-extreme right-wing views appear to be "the center". Politicians like Sanders, that most Americans agree with, they call "extreme".

Blank check for endless war

jeudi 6 juillet 2017 à 02:00

There is bipartisan support in Congress for repealing the vague 2001 authorization for use of military force.

No new tar sands

jeudi 6 juillet 2017 à 02:00

New projects to mine Alberta's tar sands have ceased and there will probably be no more. The question is whether to let the existing projects pump every last drop of CO2 into our atmosphere.

Disappearing jobs

jeudi 6 juillet 2017 à 02:00

When many jobs in an area are lost, students there find it harder to go to college, for both economic and emotional reasons.

Smartphones reduce cognitive capacity

jeudi 6 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Having a "smart" phone nearby, even if it is (supposedly) switched off, reduces people's cognitive capacity. The phone's deleterious effect is least when the phone is in another room.