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Chelsea Manning Is Jailed for Refusing to Testify in WikiLeaks Case

Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who provided archives of secret military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge found her in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury that is investigating the antisecrecy group.

Judge Claude H. Hilton of Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Ms. Manning must stay in civil detention until she testifies. Ms. Manning had vowed not to cooperate in the investigation even though prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia granted immunity for her testimony.

In a statement posted on Twitter after she was arrested, Ms. Manning said she had ethical objections to the secrecy of the grand-jury system and “will not comply” with the subpoena.

The case is part of a long-running criminal inquiry into WikiLeaks and its leader, Julian Assange, that dates to the Obama administration and which the Trump administration revived. Ms. Manning said on Thursday that prosecutors on Wednesday had asked her a series of questions about WikiLeaks before the grand jury, but she had responded to every question by saying it violated her constitutional rights.  www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/chelsea-manning-wikileaks-jail.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

After the sellout–Oakland teachers strike over, but tough issues remain unresolved

Last week, teachers shut down two scheduled board meetings by holding demonstrations outside the elementary school, La Escuelita on Second Ave., where the meeting was planned. During the second shutdown, on Friday, the atmosphere outside La Escuelita grew hostile and, some say, violent.

In a video clip shared widely on social media, Jumoke Hinton-Hodge, a school board member for 10 years, is seen in the middle of a mob outside the school with her hand apparently on the throat of a woman who’s been identified as a teacher. Hinton-Hodge didn’t respond to my requests for comment, but in a statement she said that as she tried to enter the school she was pushed to the ground and became “briefly disoriented.” As she got up, she “was inadvertently pushing up against a teacher’s neck.”…

That’s why Lara Trale, a teacher at Oakland High School, said she and others held the line. The union told them to back off after the tentative deal was struck later that day, but teachers didn’t budge.

“It just seemed super messed up that we would allow the board to make these cuts that we had, repeatedly, insisted as a union that we were not OK with,” she said.

Some teachers feel the union didn’t push hard enough at the bargaining table. Shannon Carey, a teacher at MetWest High School, said she voted for the contract because she felt the strike was losing its momentum.

I’d heard teachers were staying home instead of picketing. And some were concerned that teachers might’ve crossed the picket line this week if a deal hadn’t been made.  www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Oakland-teachers-strike-over-but-tough-issues-13668738.php

With Kentucky’s largest school district shut down for a second straight day – this time joined by three smaller districts – some are questioning how far the teacher “sickouts” will spread.

And how long they will last.

“We don’t want to go any longer,” said Carrie Thompson, a teacher for Jefferson County Public Schools. “But we feel like we have to stand up.”

Thompson said she and hundreds of other educators chose to protest at the Capitol on Thursday because they’re worried about legislation that “could affect kids for years to come.”

By mid-morning, hundreds of teachers clad in red flooded the Capitol’s granite hallways, with a line stretching across the building’s length of educators trying to enter the House gallery. A crowd below chanted intermittently, “Teachers united!”  www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-legislature/2019/03/07/kentucky-teacher-sickout-educators-flood-capitol-for-second-day-in-row/3092466002/

AFTER the sellout–Denver Public Schools begins cutting 150 central office positions to pay for teacher raises

Denver Public Schools began the process this week of cutting more than 150 administrative positions from its central office, which will free up $17 million for raises for teachers and other district employees, as well as additional money for special education services.

The Denver district has far more administrators than others in Colorado, and Superintendent Susana Cordova has said repeatedly that the district needs to have fewer initiatives and focus on doing a smaller number of things well.

“We have too many priorities, too many people working on those priorities, and not enough impact coming out of that,” Cordova told union negotiators at a bargaining session before the teachers strike. “I am 100 percent committed to right-sizing what the central office looks like.”

Over the course of negotiations before and during the strike, Cordova committed to even larger cuts than she originally laid out in order to put more money into teacher compensation. She also eliminated bonuses for many administrators.  www.denverpost.com/2019/02/28/denver-public-schools-job-cuts/

After the Sellout: San Diego Unified’s board approves job reductions

Facing a projected budget shortfall for the coming school year, the San Diego Unified School Board voted at its meeting Tuesday to eliminate the equivalent of more than 200 positions and give lay-off notices to dozens of employees.

The board voted 4 to 1, with member Kevin Beiser opposed, to eliminate 97 certified employee positions and 116 classified positions.

However, district staff said at the meeting they plan to create 112 new classified positions, but they offered no details about what the new positions would be.

Eliminating positions is expected to result in layoff notices to 33 certified teachers and four certified district administrators.

Also as many as 66 classified employees could also be laid off, including preschool assistants, school health assistants, classroom assistants and clerical employees. The total layoff number has not been decided, according to board records.

The district has approximately 10,000 employees, officials said.

As of December, the district was projecting a $1.4 billion budget for the coming school year and a $37-million shortfall,www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sd-me-school-layoffs-20190306-story.html

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Erie Locomotive Plant Workers Strike against Two-Tier

At a sprawling locomotive manufacturing complex a mile long and a mile wide in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1,700 workers walked off the job early Tuesday morning to fend off their new employer’s efforts to impose a raft of concessions, including two-tier wages.

Temperatures are below freezing, so at the dozen picket lines ringing the plant, burn barrels are fired up. Pickup trucks periodically drop off wood. Hundreds of members of the Electrical Workers (UE) are on the line, making life difficult for any non-union employees who try to drive through the gates.

Many of the picketers are dressed in camo. Some are wearing stickers that say “102 days,” a reference to 1969, the last time workers at this plant walked out.

On Monday, the former GE Transportation plant formally became a part of Wabtec (Westinghouse Airbrake Technologies), which bought the $4 billion-a-year division from the industrial conglomerate last year.  portside.org/2019-03-05/erie-locomotive-plant-workers-strike-against-two-tier

Roger Waters Backs Julian Assange

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Schools getting more police but at the expense of counselors, nurses: Report

About 14 million students attend schools across the U.S. where they walk the halls alongside police officers but don’t have access to counselors, nurses, psychologists or social workers, according to an ACLU report released Monday.

And of the schools that do provide students access to mental health professionals, about 90 percent fail to meet minimum staff-to-student ratio, which the report found can mean one counselor is responsible for more than 400 students.

But the increasingly popular decision to fund police officers in schools, combined with a lack of mental health experts available, has had a disproportionate effect on both students of color and students with disabilities, the report found. Nationwide, these marginalized students were subject to more discipline bias and overcriminalization than their peers, according to a review of 2015-2016 data from the Department of Education.

While arrest rates were higher across the board for schools with police compared with schools without police, students with disabilities were arrested almost three times more than peers, and in certain states were 10 times as likely to be arrested. Black students were arrested at a rate three times higher than white students, and sometimes eight times higher, the report found.  abcnews.go.com/Politics/students-color-students-disabilities-arrested-school-police-report/story?id=61454820 

Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools are unconstitutional.

In 2018, on the 64th anniversary of that ruling, a lawsuit filed in New Jersey claimed that state’s schools are some of the most segregated in the nation. That’s because, the lawsuit alleged, New Jersey school district borders are drawn along municipality lines that reflect years of residential segregation.

The idea that school district borders carry years of history is the premise of a new report from the nonprofit EdBuild, which studies the ways schools are funded in the U.S.

The report starts with a number: $23 billion. According to EdBuild, that’s how much more funding predominantly white school districts receive compared with districts that serve mostly students of color.

“For every student enrolled, the average nonwhite school district receives $2,226 less than a white school district,” the report says.

EdBuild singles out 21 states — including California, New Jersey and New York — in which mostly white districts get more funding than districts composed primarily of students of color.

More than half of students in the U.S. go to segregated or “racially concentrated” schools, according to the report. Those are schools in which more than three-quarters of students are white, or more than three-quarters are nonwhite.

Researchers found that high-poverty districts serving mostly students of color receive about $1,600 less per student than the national average. That’s while school districts that are predominately white and poor receive about $130 less.  www.kpbs.org/news/2019/feb/26/why-white-school-districts-have-so-much-more-money/

Sweetwater may release up to 87 assistant principals, other administrators from positions

The Sweetwater Union High School Board voted unanimously during a closed-door meeting Saturday to release up to 87 administrators from their positions – including potentially all of the district’s assistant principals – to help narrow the school district’s budget shortfalls.

The board’s vote doesn’t necessarily mean it will lay off all those administrators, though the board now has the ability to do so. The vote also gives the district the ability to re-assign those employees to different administrative positions or to non-administrative jobs.

In addition to all of the district’s 69 assistant principals, the board voted to potentially release five school psychologists and 13 central office administrators.

Generally, each of Sweetwater’s 13 high schools have four assistant principals, while its 11 middle schools typically each have two. Assistant principals help with a schools’ daily operations including student discipline, school spending and communications between students, parents and teachers. Sweetwater has at least 64 central office staff positions, according to the district’s organization chart.  www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-sweetwater-release-vote-20190304-story.html

A College Chain Crumbles, and Millions in Student Loan Cash Disappears

An immigrant Bosnian city teacher who complained of horrific racial, sexual, and physical abuse from students has settled a lawsuit against the Department of Education, The Post has learned.

Aida Sehic and the DOE agreed to resolve the case this week for an undisclosed but “substantial” sum, according to her attorney, Bryan Glass.

Sehic’s Manhattan federal suit said students in Bronx and Manhattan schools cracked her nose with a bag of metal rulers, stabbed her with a mechanical pencil, routinely demanded sex acts, overturned her classroom and frequently called her a “white bitch.”

Sehic said she repeatedly sought relief from a range of sources, including school administrators, her union and even cops.

But there was little interest in her woes – and Sehic said she was instead targeted for termination because of her complaints and hit with disciplinary charges in 2016.

Sehic’s suit contended that her campus assailants were never removed from class and rarely punished….

After filing her suit in September, Sehic told The Post that she empathized with kids in her classes who were eager to be educated but suffered from the classroom chaos.

“Some kids wanted to learn but there were those who wouldn’t let them,” she said. “You can’t kick the kids out and the administration blames you. What can you do as a teacher?”

Glass told The Post that the city settled her case unusually quickly and that Sehic – who is still a city teacher – was relieved to have put the matter behind her.  nypost.com/2019/03/07/teacher-gets-substantial-settlement-over-student-abuse-at-her-schools/?fbclid=IwAR33VZ0WgnwwxWIqyKrwHoU45rSdsamORJAjHBo4AuhkABpBRxtr814gb-s

Corruption endemic in Capital’s schools: Former LAUSD food services head admits forging signature, illegally OKing contracts

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor

As in USA–This May Be the World’s Deadliest Job. But There’s ‘No Choice Except to Join.’

Janat Bebe sent a son and two grandsons to the Afghan National Police force to fight the Taliban. All three returned home last year in coffins, borne up to a cemetery high above their mountainside village of mud and stone.

The village, Shemal, has only about 3,000 residents, but it has lost nearly 60 police officers and soldiers in combat, at once devastating and impoverishing the hamlet.

“They had no choice except to join, because we have no other way to earn a living here,” Ms. Bebe said of her son and grandsons. They left behind 17 children whom she must now feed, clothe and educate.

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Afghanistan’s war is killing at a staggering rate. President Ashraf Ghani said in January that 45,000 soldiers and police officers had died in combat since late 2014. In recent months, the pace has been 30 to 40 deaths a day, a toll that one senior American commander described to Congress as “not sustainable.”  www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-casualties-police-army.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

How ISIS Is Rising in the Philippines as It Dwindles in the Middle East

Across the islands of the southern Philippines, the black flag of the Islamic State is flying over what the group considers its East Asia province.

Men in the jungle, two oceans away from the arid birthplace of the Islamic State, are taking the terrorist brand name into new battles.

As worshipers gathered in January for Sunday Mass at a Catholic cathedral, two bombs ripped through the church compound, killing 23 people. The Islamic State claimed a pair of its suicide bombers had caused the carnage.

An illustration circulated days later on Islamic State chat groups, showing President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines kneeling on a pile of skulls and a militant standing over him with a dagger. The caption on the picture sounded a warning: “The fighting has just begun.”

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A SEAL and a Marine Raider seek plea deals in Green Beret murder case

The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor

From $22 an hour to $11: What the GM layoffs mean for workers

The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement and The War on Reason

Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Government Tracking Journalists and Immigration Advocates Through a Secret Database

Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.

At the end of 2018, roughly 5,000 immigrants from Central America made their way north through Mexico to the United States southern border. The story made international headlines.

As the migrant caravan reached the San Ysidro Port of Entry in south San Diego County, so did journalists, attorneys, and advocates who were there to work and witness the events unfolding.

But in the months that followed, journalists who covered the caravan, as well as those who offered assistance to caravan members, said they felt they had become targets of intense inspections and scrutiny by border officials.

One photojournalist said she was pulled into secondary inspections three times and asked questions about who she saw and photographed in Tijuana shelters. Another photojournalist said she spent 13 hours detained by Mexican authorities when she tried to cross the border into Mexico City. Eventually, she was denied entry into Mexico and sent back to the U.S.   www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Source-Leaked-Documents-Show-the-US-Government-Tracking-Journalists-and-Advocates-Through-a-Secret-Database-506783231.html

Frontline for those following the Russia Threads: Trump’s Showdown

Trump’s Showdown

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff’s Sexual Abuse of Detainees

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All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government impose criminal liability on correctional facility staff who have sexual contact with people in their custody. These laws recognize that any sexual activity between detainees and detention facility staff, with or without the use of force, is unlawful because of the inherent power imbalance when people are in custody. Yet, one immigration detention center is trying to avoid responsibility for sexual violence within its walls by arguing that the detainee “consented” to sexual abuse.

E.D., an asylum-seeker and domestic violence survivor from Honduras, was sexually assaulted by an employee while she was detained with her 3-year-old child at the Berks Family Residential Center in Pennsylvania. At the time of the assault, E.D. was 19 years old.

She filed suit against the detention center and its staff for their failure to protect her from sexual violence, even though they were aware of the risk. The record in the case, E.D. v. Sharkey, shows that her assailant coerced and threatened her, including with possible deportation, while the defendants stood by and made jokes.

Although the employee pled guilty to criminal institutional sexual assault under Pennsylvania law, the defendants contend that they should not be liable   www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/ice-detention-center-says-its-not-responsible?fbclid=IwAR0KTAeH9A9-pUkdDCHdE0aM23g9OSmSHnZZnR_3kUds89Cfv7KPDs93Scc&redirect=blog%2Fwomens-rights%2Fwomen-and-criminal-justice%2Fice-detention-center-says-its-not-responsible-staffs

Booze, Nazi salutes and a swastika: Newport Beach and Costa Mesa teens ‘made a big mistake’

At the house party in Costa Mesa, the high school students were playing a drinking game with red Solo cups and pingpong balls. At some point in the night, the plastic cups ended up in the shape of a swastika.

It’s not clear how many people helped form the symbol, but a parent of a student who was at the party said that as cups were added and moved around, someone noted that it was starting to look like a swastika and completed the image. When it was done, a dozen or so teenagers crowded around the display and posed for photos, their arms raised in a Nazi salute.  www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-nazi-newport-party-outrage-20190304-story.html

A US Marine veteran built a massive cocaine pipeline as a Mexican drug kingpin, prosecutors say

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Marine veteran who rose to power as a reputed Mexican drug kingpin has been named in a massive cocaine-trafficking indictment in San Diego.

The investigation into Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr.’s organization revealed “an unprecedented level of corruption within the Mexican government, local police departments, federal police agencies and military,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in a recent court filing.

More than 41 people have been charged in the case, which has yielded 5,000 kilograms, or about 11,000 pounds, of seized cocaine and more than $9 million in drug proceeds.

Dominguez’s organization sourced cocaine from Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, up through Central America and into Chiapas, Mexico, according to prosecutors. Transportation cells would move the cocaine into Mexico using boats, aircraft and commercial vehicles, then over the California and Texas borders for distribution into the United States, the court filing says.

The organization also used a reverse pipeline to move drug proceeds from the U.S. back south, according to the indictment, which was partially unsealed this week.

Dominguez, arrested in Mexico in 2016, is awaiting extradition to San Diego. (Task and Purpose)

Solidarity for Never

IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE JANUS. THE LAWSUITS AREN’T OVER YET: The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the case that ended mandatory union dues for public workers, one year ago last week. But that ruling hasn’t answered the question of how workers, unions and public employers relate. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed across the country, seeking, for instance, back payment of now-illegal dues or an end to limits on when dissenting employees can withdraw their union membership. Though the ruling doesn’t seem to have taken a huge toll on union membership rolls and coffers just yet, these pending lawsuits could have a big impact, experts say. A lawsuit seeking repayment of dues just for home health aides in Illinois, for instance, would cost the union $32 million.

Union Report Exclusive: Internal Report Shows NEA Losses of 17,000 Members and 87,000 Fee Payers Since Janus Decision

The National Education Association is feeling the first effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus ruling, which ended the practice of public-sector unions charging fees to nonmembers. New membership numbers obtained by Union Report show that NEA now stands at 3,001,570 total members — a decline of 17,000 since the last report in April. This erased much of the membership increase the union saw in 2017.

More damaging to the union’s coffers is the loss of its more than 87,000 former agency fee payers nationwide after the court’s ruling. The percentage losses are comparable to those of the Maryland State Education Association, reported here two weeks ago.

NEA already cut its budget in anticipation of these losses, but it is looking for additional ways to reduce expenditures. The first proposal is to cut the number of days at its annual convention by two, saving $1 million. The Representative Assembly itself, where the union’s delegates debate and vote on policies, endorsements, and the budget, would continue to last four days; some pre-RA activities, which previously ran for about a week, would be eliminated or consolidated.

The open hearing on the union’s strategic plan and budget, previously conducted in person the day before the RA opened, would be converted to a virtual meeting.  www.the74million.org/article/union-report-exclusive-internal-report-shows-nea-losses-of-17000-members-and-87000-fee-payers-since-janus-decision/

Spy versus Spy

Disputed N.S.A. Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says (or not)

The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The agency has not used the system in months, and the Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of the year, according to the aide, Luke Murry, the House minority leader’s national security adviser.

In a raw assertion of executive power, President George W. Bush’s administration started the program as part of its intense pursuit for Qaeda conspirators in the weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks, and a court later secretly blessed it. The intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden disclosed the program’s existence in 2013, jolting the public and contributing to growing awareness of how both governments and private companies harvest and exploit personal data.

The way that intelligence analysts have gained access to bulk records of Americans’ phone calls and texts has evolved, but the purpose has been the same: They analyze social links to hunt for associates of known terrorism suspects.  www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

The Magical Mystery Tour

God Offers People of Alabama New Bibles to Replace Ones Trump Signed

(The Borowitz Report)—God has offered to give the people of Alabama brand new Bibles to replace the ones that Donald J. Trump signed during his visit to the state on Friday.

In a rare public statement from the famously mysterious deity, God said that He was furious at Trump “for defacing My book,” calling Trump’s signature “a wanton act of vandalism.”

“Where was Mike Pence in all of this?” God asked. “These people can’t do anything right.”

God added that He was “dumbfounded” that Trump had taken it upon himself to sign his name on a book to which he had “no relationship whatsoever.”

“I’ve got news for Trump: the Bible is not ‘The Art of the Deal,’ ” God said. “Of course, he didn’t write that book, either.” www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/god-offers-people-of-alabama-new-bibles-to-replace-ones-trump-signed?fbclid=IwAR0E6hmZQKayM_JDIoZ1mDkEnox8XogJeNeQwuBd1Uuf_kybpL0W-ZH6MPA

Portland Bans Discrimination Against Atheists And Agnostics

The Portland, Oregon, City Council has approved a measure extending civil rights protections to atheist, agnostic and other nonreligious residents.

The council’s unanimous vote on Wednesday ensures that nonreligious people are explicitly protected from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation.

“By passing this ordinance, we’re sending a message that we value nonbelievers and affirm that protections of our civil rights code extends to them,” Commissioner Amanda Fritz said during the council meeting. “With this declaration, perhaps more nonbelievers will feel less fearful of being themselves in the open.”

The vote amends the definition of religion in Portland’s city code to include atheism, agnosticism and other forms of nonbelief.

Fritz said she thinks the only other U.S. city to adopt similar protections for nonreligious people is Madison, Wisconsin.

The proposal was initiated by Portland’s chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national organization that promotes the separation of church and state. Oregon’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and local secular groups also supported it.   www.yahoo.com/news/portland-bans-discrimination-against-atheists-001501163.html

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Michigan joins 20 other states in suing Trump over Planned Parenthood defunding

Michigan is among 21 states participating in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rules for the Title X family planning program, according to the Michigan attorney general’s office.

The rule changes could shift millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood to faith-based clinics, and also could have implications for county health departments that get Title X funding.

The law is expected to be filed today, March 5, in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore. The national lawsuit is being led by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and New York Attorney General Letitia James.  www.mlive.com/news/2019/03/michigan-joins-20-other-states-in-suing-trump-over-planned-parenthood-defunding.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1whv0gSG_JQa6XnY93aYx1t6tIURW9tf_pfu3IcdJw3PD3jOF-W1fO67I

‘SNL’ Shares Hilarious Video On Dianne Feinstein That Was Cut From Broadcast

Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times

As a “big S” Socialist, my reading habits often surprise liberals. I’m a writer, though my biggest audience comes from the listenership of Chapo Trap House, a popular leftist comedy podcast. This makes me something of a curiosity among my colleagues at traditional media institutions—staffed largely by liberals—so I often find myself explaining my preference for the pink paper of liberal capitalism over the Gray Lady of cultural liberalism. The answer is simple: by literally any measure, the Financial Times is just a better paper. It covers the world as it is—a global battle not of ideas or values, but of economic and political interests. www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-the-new-york-times.php?utm_source=CJR+Daily+News

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So Long

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