{"id":22160,"date":"2018-10-28T00:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=22160"},"modified":"2018-10-28T00:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T08:21:17","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-having-long-noted-the-rise-of-popular-structural-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-having-long-noted-the-rise-of-popular-structural-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Having Long Noted the Rise of Popular, Structural, Fascism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Congratulations on the publication of:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41uBdF-aqyL._SX313_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260px\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41uBdF-aqyL._SX313_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[315,499],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41uBdF-aqyL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[219,346]}\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"comp-jdz8l142\" class=\"txtNew\" data-packed=\"true\">\n<h2 class=\"font_2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Women&#8217;s March\u00a0on the Pentagon<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font_2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">October\u00a020-21,\u00a02018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"comp-jncmvfynimgimage\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/278565_e31de04a6d3247fca1d3751b5d5efb51~mv2.gif\" alt=\"billie.gif\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Women&#039;s March on the Pentagon 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvwZHRBWt2U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-article-smarttitle\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-smarttitle field-type-text field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nnomy.org\/images\/marchonthepentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"408\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/26\/the-least-important-election-in-history\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Least Important Election in History<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/jasholl0129\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">JASON HOLLAND<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>The US midterm elections are almost upon us, but this is a needless bit of inconsequential trivia. It really doesn\u2019t matter, all the Republicans can win or all the Democrats, either way it means about as much as a fart in a category 5 hurricane. The net result of actions taken,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/itsallpolitics\/2013\/11\/11\/243973620\/when-lobbyists-literally-write-the-bill\">legislature composed<\/a>, or honesty with the populace will be inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p>The primary difference between the two parties, who are merely playing a game of good cop\/bad cop, is only if you\u2019d prefer to see a rapid more authoritarian style ecological collapse or if you\u2019d prefer one with a soothing dulcet voice reassuring you everything will be fine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebulletin.org\/2018-doomsday-clock-statement\/\">at two minutes to midnight.<\/a>\u00a0Neither have a workable plan on the table to get the US in a sustainable ecological state before it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/oct\/08\/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report\">all comes crashing down<\/a>, nor do they have any notion of creating such a plan.<\/p>\n<p>The best the Democrats offer are conciliatory gestures in policy shifts, but they have not the wisdom, fortitude, or honest intent to stop the devilish system at the heart of the matter. During Obama\u2019s presidency there was a time when the Democrats controlled the senate and the house and they showed their true motivations. They did nothing to pass policies to assuage the damage being done and stop the plunder of Earth for profit, or to end the wars, or to quell mass incarceration system. Even with total control we know what the Democrats offer amounts to platitudes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Golden-Rule.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Golden-Rule.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And keep in mind, even if the entirety of congress, SCOTUS, and POTUS were controlled by Democrats we still would not find ourselves in a sustainable society, as again, no workable sustainability assessment and plan of transition has ever been done by the party, nor do they care to do something which might lead to such blunt truths. Because those truths would mean decentralization of power and reduction of economic influence for the neoliberal class. Monied elites know the game, and their egos immediately nix any solution set that doesn\u2019t focus the onus of power and attention directly on them.<\/p>\n<p>So what are we doing here in this system? We don\u2019t have a pragmatic solution on the table to avoid ecological collapse, which is accelerating much faster than most think. Meanwhile the people are simultaneously being told by proponents of faux democracy that by not voting for one of the major political parties one is wasting a vote, and not voting at all is akin to a crime by their measures.<\/p>\n<p>What such people either don\u2019t know or won\u2019t admit to is that we are stuck in a system where a financial gun is held at the head of the people at all times. This communicates to the people that if you change the elites will pull their money out of markets and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Going%20Galt\">go Galt.<\/a>\u00a0The powers that be will make sure you suffer for your insolence to stand against them. They\u2019ll make finding a livable wage impossible and thus threaten the plebs housing, supply of food, and ability to get healthcare for no other reason than a puerile egotistical insistence that they get their way.\u00a0They simply don\u2019t care what happens to the people or mother Gaia. Their self interests are why they sought out power to begin with and they\u2019ve devoted their lives to it, and they aren\u2019t surrendering anytime soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/26\/the-least-important-election-in-history\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/26\/the-least-important-election-in-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS.jpg 714w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS-372x500.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/UTLA-DEMANDS-500x672.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Faculty Plea: Put Books Back in the Bookstore<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-custom pane-9\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">Unhappy with a new online-only book ordering system, professors at Middlebury College are calling for books to be put back on the shelves of their college bookstore.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/server_files\/styles\/large-copy\/public\/media\/Bookstore-Photo-Hope-Allison.png?itok=36l8D9RL\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/college\/230959\/middlebury-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middlebury College<\/a> bookstore doesn&#8217;t look much like a bookstore anymore. The textbooks that once lined its shelves were cleared out earlier this year, making room for more Middlebury-branded sweatshirts, T-shirts and coffee mugs.<\/p>\n<p>The bookstore, like many others at colleges across the country, had suffered from declining sales and stiff competition from large online retailers such as Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Bookstore manager Erin Jones-Poppe said it simply didn\u2019t make sense for the store to keep stocking books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot afford to continue in our current trajectory,&#8221; she told the student newspaper, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/middleburycampus.com\/36484\/news\/bookstore-announces-move-to-online-delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Middlebury Campus<\/a><\/em>, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring the bookstore switched to an online-only book ordering system, offered through MBS Textbook Exchange &#8212; a company that was <a href=\"https:\/\/next.bncollege.com\/barnes-noble-education-acquires-mbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired<\/a> by Barnes and Noble Education in 2017. Under the new system, students can still pick up their books from the bookstore &#8212; they just have to order them online first. The system is supposed to provide better value for students. But faculty members at Middlebury say they want the old system back.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/middlebury-professors-call-books-be-returned-campus-bookstore?fbclid=IwAR2l2jLZYv7sMff-3HfcuoP9E6NMNDSecc93M0EQUCJl46tE9rZmw-6gZqM\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/middlebury-professors-call-books-be-returned-campus-bookstore?fbclid=IwAR2l2jLZYv7sMff-3HfcuoP9E6NMNDSecc93M0EQUCJl46tE9rZmw-6gZqM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back-352x500.jpg 352w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nau-fight-back-500x710.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"dfm-title\">Why The NYT NOW HAS A WAR Section<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Dear New York Times,<\/p>\n<p>I know you wonder what I, Richard Gibson, think. So, I will tell you my thoughts of the day regarding your newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>As you surely remember, I have subscribed to the print edition for more than 25 years, making me, like, important.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I am an emeritus professor: proof of smart.<\/p>\n<p>First and above all, I want a War Section. I want maps, charts, troop deployments, lines of march, costs in blood and money on all sides&#8211;the grand strategy, strategy, and tactics. Sure, it can be a few weeks delayed to protect people, but since the USA is engaged in perpetual war, a fully militarized society, I would like to know about the wars.<\/p>\n<p>I like the opinion pages, even if I think most of the opinions are stupid or trivial.<\/p>\n<p>Pages two and three are a waste. Perhaps put the wars, or opinions, there.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want a Food Section. Luckily, I can eat.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want a goddamned \u201cPets\u201d section. Are you insane?<\/p>\n<p>I do not want a Style Section (I do not give a flying fuck about Dapper Dan).<\/p>\n<p>I rather like, but could easily live without, a Travel Section.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22183\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gibson-Rouge-Sign-July-2012-NEA-RA-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gibson-Rouge-Sign-July-2012-NEA-RA-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gibson-Rouge-Sign-July-2012-NEA-RA-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gibson-Rouge-Sign-July-2012-NEA-RA-1-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gibson-Rouge-Sign-July-2012-NEA-RA-1-360x500.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If the New York Times Magazine is going to be a comic book, then I never, ever, want it.<\/p>\n<p>I like the book review section but you could poll readers, asking who gives a shit about the fiction section. I don\u2019t, so give me the non-fiction section and save the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I do like the obits, mostly, but I do not give a good god damn about who marries who. Stop that. I do not know any of those people and I was not invited.<\/p>\n<p>I know enough about Arts and Leisure to take care of that myself; especially Leisure.<\/p>\n<p>I want a full Monday paper. Well, the basic Monday paper I am suggesting. You, like me, should work on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>I do not need, nor want, a thick glossy magazine aimed at Southern California, attempting to sell me $4 million homes which make me want to puke.<\/p>\n<p>A God Section would be good, investigating the various religions\u2019 histories, showing that people make gods. Gods don\u2019t make people.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want a Sports Section as you only seem to cover New York sports and I am from Detroit and live in San Diego, making me on the one hand hate all New York sports teams and on the other hand, I am a long way away. And add this: golf is not a sport. Basketball is not a sport. Football is obsolete. Cage fighting and boxing are for barbarians. Baseball is a sport. So, a year around Baseball Section would be cool. Cover Little League.<\/p>\n<p>I would like a Racism section. Maps on segregation, life expectancy, income, inherited wealth, child death rates, murder rates, petty theft, rebellions, tribalism, etc. Nice!<\/p>\n<p>I would like a Work Section (perhaps replacing the Business Section), since most of us have to do that. Sure, cover the Quisling unions, but cover who works, for what, and who rules that work. Who collects the value of labor?<\/p>\n<p>And an Inequality section, rather expanding on the chart the NYT produced on CEO pay. What kind of taxes do they pay? Show me their homes, their cars, their mistresses, their kids, favorite drugs, hookers, and where, by the way, do they live? Addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your sincere attention and please do these minimal fixes as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Richard Gibson<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IllusionFactory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IllusionFactory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IllusionFactory.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IllusionFactory-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Report: $174 million unclaimed to feed local students<\/h1>\n<p>A report released Wednesday from the San Diego Hunger Coalition found more than $174 million in federal dollars that could go toward feeding students in local school and nonprofit centers goes unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Called the first of its kind during a news conference at the Copley-Price Family YMCA in City Heights, the 2018 Hunger Free Kids Report said the federal funds were enough to provide 70 million meals to county youths.<\/p>\n<p>Feeding San Diego CEO Vince Hall said the report describes the scope of the problem and a range of solutions that already were being implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Those solutions include shifting free and reduced-price breakfast to a later time, potentially serving 140,400 more students and bringing in $34 million, and finding more places to participate in afterschool supper programs, potentially serving 214,000 more students and bringing in $118 million.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing summer meal participation could serve meals to 213,000 more students and bring in $22 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>In another solution, the report said universal free breakfast and lunch should be served at all high-poverty schools. About 55,000 students miss out on the meals because they attended one of 74 high-poverty schools that are eligible but not participating the programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHunger is a severe problem for San Diego children<\/strong>, affecting about one out of every six kids, and there are huge federal resources to solve that problem that are being left on the table,\u201d Hall said. \u201cWe\u2019re paying our federal taxes, but we\u2019re not using the avaiable federal resources to solve the problem of child hunger.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/homelessness\/sd-me-hunger-children-20181024-story.html#nws=true\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/homelessness\/sd-me-hunger-children-20181024-story.html#nws=true<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sweetwater Superintendent Addresses Budget Debacle<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capitalist-school-hogwash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capitalist-school-hogwash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capitalist-school-hogwash.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capitalist-school-hogwash-150x49.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Capitalist-school-hogwash-500x162.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><b>From Will Huntsberry:<\/b> After weeks of attributing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/news\/after-budget-miscalculations-sweetwater-must-id-millions-in-cuts-within-weeks\/\">a sudden $30 million deficit<\/a> to unpredicted budget fluctuations, Sweetwater Union High School District Superintendent Karen Janney admitted at a board meeting Monday night \u201cthere were mistakes made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janney specifically acknowledged Sweetwater doesn\u2019t have an integrated position control system. Position control allows various school departments to be able to access the same information about how many people are on staff, how much they are paid, how many positions are unfilled and how many workers are leaving the district. A 2015 audit first obtained by Voice of San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/before-budget-crisis-sweetwater-trustees-okd-raises-despite-a-warning-from-state-officials\/\">indicated Sweetwater should institute position control<\/a> as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The report also said Sweetwater needed to raise revenue or cut costs in order to remain fiscally solvent. As we\u2019ve reported, the Board of Trustees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/before-budget-crisis-sweetwater-trustees-okd-raises-despite-a-warning-from-state-officials\/\">gave raises<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/sweetwater-central-office-staff-climbed-as-enrollment-dropped\/\">increased central staff<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur budget situation has been described as serious, significant, challenging, difficult, even a crisis,\u201d said Janney at the meeting. Janney didn\u2019t say how she would describe the problem, but said responsibility for the mistakes rests with her office. \u00a0https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/news\/morning-report-how-sure-you-can-be-on-those-added-soccercity-promises\/<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">How History Class Divides Us<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thriftbooks.com\/api\/images\/l\/ce1685eda000e27ffa5f31df01a6a25a2d66a116.jpg\" alt=\"Paperback Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Book\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\">Americans are increasingly polarized and public distrust in government is at record levels. What if the inability of Americans to agree on our shared history\u2014and the right way to teach it\u2014is a cause of our current polarization rather than a symptom?<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"break-text\"><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n September in a room where someone had conspicuously placed a Confederate flag for at least part of the proceedings, the Texas board of education sat through two days of public hearings on a \u201cstreamlining\u201d of its 2010 social studies standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Panels of teachers had proposed hundreds of changes, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/politics\/texas\/article\/Board-signals-that-heroic-Alamo-defenders-13221959.php\">the most controversial was to delete a line of the standard on the Alamo<\/a>referencing \u201call the heroic defenders who gave their lives there.\u201d Swift condemnation from politicians and the public followed, forcing the panels to restore some of that language even before the hearings concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been written about the Alamo\u2019s relative historic importance in the story of the United States, but that wasn\u2019t even the point of this debate. What was truly at stake were the underlying values proponents felt it signaled: What defines American thought and action? What can students take pride in?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to lose sight of the connection between what students learn in history and the civic ideals and values those topics communicate, especially since they tend to be treated as different disciplines in K-12 education.<\/p>\n<p>But the Texas debate reminds us that history and civic values are deeply intertwined, and gives rise to this interesting question: What if the inability of Americans to agree on our shared history\u2014and on the right way to teach it\u2014is a cause of our current polarization and political dysfunction, rather than a symptom? It\u2019s a question that gets right to the issues of what constitutes facts, how to interpret them, and how they inform contemporary debates, all of which are key themes as America experiences a kind of civic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Public trust in the government is near its historic low. And in 2017, Americans were far more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/215210\/partisan-differences-growing-number-issues.aspx\">politically polarized on topics like immigration and healthcare<\/a>\u00a0than in the early 2000s, according to Gallup. Journalists are now routinely assailed by politicians. The bruising confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court led The Washington Post to speculate that even \u201cour least damaged institution\u201d might now be viewed with increasing levels of skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this polyglot country doesn\u2019t have a set of ideals and a broad narrative, we don\u2019t have much of a hope,\u201d said Sam Wineburg, a professor of education and history at Stanford University,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Learn-History-When-Already-Phone\/dp\/022635721X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1539979379&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=why+study+history+when+it%27s+on+your+phone\">whose recent volume<\/a>\u00a0attempts to connect the dots between history education and citizenship. \u201cIt is not popular to talk about in an era of identity politics, but history teaching in school has a civic purpose, not only a disciplinary purpose&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.slideplayer.com\/18\/6072973\/slides\/slide_2.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for flag lesson third grade\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subhead\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Most States Require History, But Not Civics (politics not economics)<\/h3>\n<p>High school students spend far more time in school learning about America\u2019s history than they do learning about its civic values, according to a 50-state survey by\u00a0<i>Education Week<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A selection of the survey results are below.\u00a0<b>For the full state-by-state breakdown,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/section\/multimedia\/data-most-states-require-history-but-not.html\">click here<\/a>.<\/b>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/projects\/how-history-class-divides-us.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&#038;M=58649777&#038;U=1666178&#038;UUID=1077d6867cfb1e9eaaaa4a81b0c3ab4b\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.edweek.org\/ew\/projects\/how-history-class-divides-us.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1&#038;M=58649777&#038;U=1666178&#038;UUID=1077d6867cfb1e9eaaaa4a81b0c3ab4b<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Second Shift What Teachers Are Doing<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">to Pay Their Bills<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rad-lazy media-viewer-candidate ll-init ll-loadstarted ll-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/02\/magazine\/09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ\/09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-jumbo.png\" data-pattern=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/02\/magazine\/09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ\/{{file}}\" data-widths=\"{&quot;master&quot;:[{&quot;size&quot;:180,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-master180.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:495,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-master495.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:675,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-master675.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:1024,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-jumbo.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:2048,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-superJumbo.png&quot;}],&quot;square&quot;:[{&quot;size&quot;:75,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-thumbStandard.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:150,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-thumbLarge.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:320,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-square320.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:640,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-square640.png&quot;}],&quot;threeTwo&quot;:[{&quot;size&quot;:75,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-videoThumb.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:190,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-thumbWide.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:225,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-mediumThreeByTwo225.png&quot;},{&quot;size&quot;:768,&quot;filename&quot;:&quot;09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-videoLarge.png&quot;}]}\" data-master-ratio=\"0.75\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/02\/magazine\/09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ\/09mag-secondjobs-slide-E2OQ-superJumbo.png\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracey Tevis&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/em&gt; &lt;br \/&gt;28, single&lt;br \/&gt;Coventry Oak Elementary School, Lexington, Ky.&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Class:&lt;\/strong&gt; Fourth grade&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salary:&lt;\/strong&gt; $48,000&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Years on the job:&lt;\/strong&gt; 5&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second job:&lt;\/strong&gt; Theater manager, Cinemark Fayette Mall&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weekly hours during the school year:&lt;\/strong&gt; 10-15&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;During the summer:&lt;\/strong&gt; 20-25&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hourly pay:&lt;\/strong&gt; $12&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third job:&lt;\/strong&gt; Sales associate, Disney Store&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weekly hours during the school year:&lt;\/strong&gt; 5-10&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;During the summer:&lt;\/strong&gt; 10-15&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hourly pay:&lt;\/strong&gt; $10&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monthly expenses:&lt;\/strong&gt; $1,100-$1,200&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;em&gt;\u201cMovie theaters don\u2019t close. I work Thanksgiving, Christmas and holidays, and I miss out on family events. It\u2019s not unheard-of for me to work a full calendar month before I have a day off.\u201d&lt;\/em&gt;\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Brian Ulrich for The New York Times\" data-safe-area=\"{&quot;top&quot;:0,&quot;right&quot;:0,&quot;bottom&quot;:0,&quot;left&quot;:0}\" data-mobile-square=\"false\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rad-header-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"rad-caption-text\"><em><strong>Tracey Tevis<\/strong><\/em> 28, single<br \/>\nCoventry Oak Elementary School, Lexington, Ky.<br \/>\n<strong>Class:<\/strong> Fourth grade<br \/>\n<strong>Salary:<\/strong> $48,000<br \/>\n<strong>Years on the job:<\/strong> 5<br \/>\n<strong>Second job:<\/strong> Theater manager, Cinemark Fayette Mall<br \/>\n<strong>Weekly hours during the school year:<\/strong> 10-15<br \/>\n<strong>During the summer:<\/strong> 20-25<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Some teachers devote 60 hours a week to the classroom, then go to work elsewhere. The hours can be long, the labor physical, the pay close to minimum wage. Teachers across the country are now baristas, Amazon warehouse employees, movie-theater managers and fast-food grill cooks. They\u2019re entering the gig economy in off hours and struggling to stay awake during school days. Here are some of the things they do, the 16 percent of American teachers who have second jobs, to make ends meet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rad-byline-pubdate\"><span class=\"rad-byline\">Photographs by BRIAN ULRICH<br \/>\nText by JAIME LOWE<\/span> <time class=\"rad-pubdate\">SEPT. 6, 2018<\/time><\/p>\n<p><em>Some teachers devote 60 hours a week to the classroom, then go to work elsewhere. The hours can be long, the labor physical, the pay close to minimum wage. Teachers across the country are now baristas, Amazon warehouse employees, movie-theater managers and fast-food grill cooks. They\u2019re entering the gig economy in off hours and struggling to stay awake during school days. Here are some of the things they do, the 16 percent of American teachers who have second jobs, to make ends meet.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/09\/06\/magazine\/teachers-america-second-jobs.html?mc=aud_dev&#038;ad-keywords=auddevgate&#038;subid1=TAFI&#038;dclid=CNOkvafVmd4CFfQKfQodKwYJpQ\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/09\/06\/magazine\/teachers-america-second-jobs.html?mc=aud_dev&#038;ad-keywords=auddevgate&#038;subid1=TAFI&#038;dclid=CNOkvafVmd4CFfQKfQodKwYJpQ<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Russia voices alarm at US increasing nukes in military planning<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/m3YRPtr9N7v_I1iCqU1OREaihek=\/1200x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/VXUL4AKVKRH6FDFA4YVQZRU6XQ.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">A senior Russian official voiced concerns Monday that Washington is increasing the role of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pentagon\/2018\/10\/19\/us-reportedly-poised-to-abandon-key-arms-control-treaty-with-russia\/\">nuclear weapons<\/a>\u00a0in its military planning as part of a stepped-up campaign by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/10\/21\/bolton-faces-tense-talks-with-russia-over-nuclear-treaty\/\">the Trump administration<\/a>to ensure \u201cU.S. military superiority over the rest of the world,\u201d while he also denied U.S. allegations that Moscow has violated an arms treaty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Andrei Belousov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry\u2019s Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, told the U.N. General Assembly\u2019s disarmament committee that Russia is \u201cespecially concerned\u201d at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/nuclear-arsenal\/2018\/10\/22\/did-the-us-botch-its-withdraw-from-the-inf-treaty\/\">Trump administration\u2019s Nuclear Posture Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The p<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2018\/02\/02\/nuclear-posture-review-puts-russia-firmly-in-crosshairs\/\">olicy review<\/a>, released in early February, provides for \u201cthe creation of low-yield nuclear weapons that would lower the threshold of the use of nuclear weapons,\u201d Belousov said. He said it \u201calso envisages a return to the concept of a \u2018limited nuclear war.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">&#8220;In essence, the U.S. military thinking in (the) nuclear field has rolled back a half a century when it was believed that a nuclear war was admissible and could be won,&#8221; he told the committee&#8217;s session on nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Belousov said Russia has repeatedly called for &#8220;appropriate conditions that would allow us to take practical measures to free the world from nuclear weapons.&#8221; But he said Moscow must take into account &#8220;the existing strategic realities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">In addition to beefing up its nuclear arsenal, Belousov said, the U.S. is developing a global ballistic missile defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">He said the Trump administration is also refusing to abandon the potential deployment of weapons in outer space..<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/23\/russia-voices-alarm-at-us-increasing-nukes-in-military-planning\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb-10-24&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/23\/russia-voices-alarm-at-us-increasing-nukes-in-military-planning\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb-10-24&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container l-article\">\n<header class=\"l-article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header\">\n<h1 class=\"article-header__headline\">How to Avoid an Avoidable War<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3Nq4bj73eRbPTyl1Kx_17WreosGxBxyTP5rFNgxfEIMVRJBriDQ\" alt=\"Image result for no war\" width=\"304\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article-header__deck\">Ten Questions About the New U.S. China Strategy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-header__byline-container\"><span class=\"review--authors\">By\u00a0<a class=\"article-header__byline init-author-bios-processed\" title=\"More articles by Kevin Rudd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/authors\/kevin-rudd\">Kevin Rudd<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"l-article-column \">\n<div class=\"top_content_at_page_load \">\n<div class=\"continue-reading expanded\">\n<div class=\"inner article-dropcap-body\">\n<p>This November, we will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of what was called \u201cthe war to end all wars\u201d between the great powers of the early twentieth century. Of course, the war to end all wars turned out to be anything but. Because of a catastrophic series of unintended consequences, more wars followed in its wake, and the geopolitical map of the world has been redrawn three times since then.<\/p>\n<p>When future generations look back on 2018, it could well be as the year in which the relationship between the two great powers of the twenty-first century\u2014the United States and China\u2014shifted from peaceful coexistence to a new form of confrontation, although its final trajectory remains far from certain.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/events\/1610-vice-president-mike-pence-s-remarks-on-the-administration-s-policy-towards-china102018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a>\u00a0at the Hudson Institute earlier this month, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence accused China of unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, increasing military aggression, and interference in the United States\u2019 domestic politics. The vice president\u2019s speech is the latest in a long line of authoritative statements and policies from the Trump administration redefining future U.S. strategy toward China. These include the U.S. National Security Strategy published last December, January\u2019s new U.S. Defense Strategy, last month\u2019s Department of Defense report on the future of U.S. defense manufacturing and, of course, the initiation of the trade war with China in June.<\/p>\n<p>This series of doctrinal statements by the United States has formally declared an end to a 40-year period of U.S. strategic engagement with China, and its replacement with a new period of strategic competition. All rest on the assumption that engagement has failed; that China\u2019s domestic market has not opened up sufficiently to foreign export and investment penetration; that, rather than becoming a responsible stakeholder in the global rules-based order, China is now developing an alternative international order with Chinese characteristics; and that instead of becoming more democratic in its domestic politics, Beijing has now decided to double down as a Leninist state.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s decision to push back against Chinese foreign policy and economic strategy is an inevitable structural response to the fact that China\u2019s aggregate military and economic power has now begun to challenge U.S. global dominance. This radically new approach to U.S. declaratory policy toward China also appears to have attracted widespread support across U.S. government agencies, from the U.S. Congress, and from a wide cross-section of U.S. businesses. But as U.S. strategists think through its operational implications, they will need to anticipate and deal with a number of potential unintended consequences\u2014including the possibility of a rapid escalation from strategic competition to decoupling to confrontation, containment, and, <strong>perhaps, ultimately, to armed conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>TEN QUESTIONS ABOUT STRATEGIC COMPETITION<\/h3>\n<p>The United States and its partners and allies around the world will need to consider a number of critical questions as Washington undertakes the translation of this fundamental change in declaratory strategy into operational policy. First, what is the United States\u2019 desired endpoint? What does the United States do if China does not acquiesce to the demands outlined in the vice president\u2019s speech\u2014including a \u201cfair and reciprocal\u201d trade deal, and ends to \u201cthe theft of American intellectual property\u201d and \u201cthe predatory practice of forced technology transfer\u201d\u2014but instead explicitly rejects them?\u00a0https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/china\/2018-10-22\/how-avoid-avoidable-war?cid=nlc-fa_twofa-20181025<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-6b73ef0d\" class=\"css-3z2kw2 ejekc6u0\">The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia\u2019s War<\/h1>\n<div class=\"g-cover-sum\">\n<p><b>Amal Hussain, 7, is wasting away from hunger.<\/b> The Saudi-led war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suchtv.pk\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/6119ef76dbfcea81f248c51dce0146ef_XL.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for starving child yemen\" width=\"304\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t for a lack of food in the area: The stores outside the hospital gate were filled with goods and the markets were bustling. But Mr. Hajaji couldn\u2019t afford any of it because prices were rising too fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">\u201cI can barely buy a piece of stale bread,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why my children are dying before my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/10\/20\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-invisible-war-yemen.html\">devastating war in Yemen<\/a> has gotten more attention recently as outrage over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-turkey.html\">the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-turkey.html\">killing of a Saudi dissident<\/a> in Istanbul has turned a spotlight on Saudi actions elsewhere. The harshest criticism of the Saudi-led war has focused on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/28\/world\/middleeast\/un-yemen-war-crimes.html\">airstrikes that have killed thousands<\/a> of civilians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/23\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-wedding-bombing.html\">at weddings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/09\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-saudi-arabia-houthis-rebels.html\">funerals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/09\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-airstrike-school-bus-children.html\">on school buses<\/a>, aided by American-supplied bombs and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">But aid experts and United Nations officials say a more insidious form of warfare is also being waged in Yemen, an economic war that is exacting a far greater toll on civilians and now risks tipping the country into a famine of catastrophic proportions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi-led coalition and its Yemeni allies have imposed a raft of punitive economic measures aimed at undercutting the Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen. But these actions \u2014 including periodic blockades, stringent import restrictions and withholding the salaries of about a million civil servants \u2014 have landed on the backs of civilians, laying the economy to waste and driving millions deeper into poverty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Those measures have inflicted a slow-burn toll: infrastructure destroyed, jobs lost, a weakening currency and soaring prices. But in recent weeks the economic collapse has gathered pace at alarming speed, causing top United Nations officials to revise their predictions of famine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">\u201cThere is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great, big famine engulfing Yemen,\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/10\/26\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-war-yemen.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/10\/26\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-war-yemen.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"top_content_at_page_load \">\n<div class=\"continue-reading expanded\">\n<div class=\"inner article-dropcap-body\">\n<h1 id=\"link-6b73ef0d\" class=\"css-3z2kw2 ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">For Over a Decade, This Base Has Housed American Soldiers Rotating Through Afghanistan<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"css-1bb6k3o ewc5vgb0\">The transformation of Camp Dwyer in Helmand Province reflects the shifting strategy for troops fighting in Afghanistan, where on Oct 4. the 2,414th American was killed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/22\/us\/22dc-military\/merlin_144938604_8e176633-c30f-471b-a74e-6d14bc319a9a-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/22\/us\/22dc-military\/merlin_144938604_8e176633-c30f-471b-a74e-6d14bc319a9a-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/22\/us\/22dc-military\/merlin_144938604_8e176633-c30f-471b-a74e-6d14bc319a9a-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/22\/us\/22dc-military\/merlin_144938604_8e176633-c30f-471b-a74e-6d14bc319a9a-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsletters\/at-war?module=inline\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330\">At War is a newsletter<\/em><\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330\"> about the experiences and costs of war with stories from Times reporters and outside voices.\u00a0 <strong>AFTER 18 years of demands for a &#8220;War Section&#8221; this is finally it!!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Specialist James A. Slape <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/22\/world\/middleeast\/james-slape-death-afghanistan.html?module=inline\">died in southern Afghanistan<\/a> on Oct. 4, three days before the 17th anniversary of the start of the war there. He was 23 years old when he stepped on a roadside bomb in a stretch of desert that turned to green shrub and stray trees as it approached the Helmand River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Slape was a bomb-disposal technician with the North Carolina National Guard, assigned to an infantry company that had drawn the task of protecting an installation called Camp Dwyer in Helmand. The base had been there for more than a decade. It was cut into the sand with barbed wire and guard towers in 2007 as a British firebase. The war was six years old then, and Slape was 12. The base was named after a British soldier: Lance Bombardier James Dwyer, who was 22 years old, a year shy of Slape\u2019s age, when his vehicle ran over a mine two days after Christmas in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">In 2008, the base had rudimentary showers and a small cross made of artillery shells in its center. At the bottom was a wreath of plastic poppies and a plaque that said, \u201cMemory of the Fallen.\u201d The British burned feces at Dwyer at the time and ate their food in a small tent next to a fryer, a grill and a stove called Hell Man\u2019s Kitchen. Half-dressed British soldiers sat idly next to their howitzers, smoking until they had to fire the 105-millimeter gun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">The base was built when British forces were fighting a resurgent Taliban that had slowly reformed in the years after the initial American invasion in 2001. The American military had not yet committed to the volatile province. It was a bloody campaign, and Dwyer was a small outpost. It wasn\u2019t until the spring of 2008 that United States Marines started to show up in force. Before this, American Army units visited only sporadically for brief missions. With a few tents, most American Marines and soldiers would sleep outside. Some armored vehicles couldn\u2019t fit inside the perimeter. They were the first of what would turn into the next iteration of the Afghan strategy, in which tens of thousands of American troops spread across the country, building small outposts and expanding the ones that already existed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">In 2009, Dwyer grew, and the Marines started a spat of offensives. The base changed from Forward Operating Base Dwyer to Camp Dwyer.\u00a0 Engineers plowed the dirt and paved a new airfield. Troops bled and died in the surrounding farmland. By 2010, the number of American service members in Afghanistan climbed toward 100,000; a few laps around Camp Dwyer\u2019s perimeter could easily equal 10 miles. There were two mess halls staffed by foreign contractors, a phone center with computers and a trailer where soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen could use phone cards to call home. A line of medical evacuation helicopters sat on Dwyer\u2019s tarmac. There white and red crosses silhouetted on their black airframes.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/26\/magazine\/camp-dwyer-afghanistan-soldiers.html?action=click&#038;module=Briefings&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/26\/magazine\/camp-dwyer-afghanistan-soldiers.html?action=click&#038;module=Briefings&#038;pgtype=Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Days Later, Pentagon Says U.S. General Among Wounded In Kandahar Attack<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/22\/ap_18292395629869-1c2cebfe8dd489e0b1c97be4d394d66463928080-s1700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. military command in Afghanistan has acknowledged that an American general was wounded during a deadly insider attack in the southern city of Kandahar last week. Initially, the command described him only as an &#8220;American service member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was in a meeting at the Kandahar governor&#8217;s compound with senior American and Afghan officials. Just before the meeting broke up, an Afghan guard suddenly turned his weapon on those present.<\/p>\n<p>The guard shot Kandahar&#8217;s police chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq, serveral times, killing him. Then he sprayed the room with bullets. Smiley was hit twice in his limbs, said a Pentagon source, and is being treated at a military hospital in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Cmdr. Grant Neeley, an American military spokesman in Kabul, confirmed to NPR that Smiley was shot but said there would be no other details at this time, adding, &#8220;We will provide updates when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News that Smiley was wounded was first reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2018\/10\/21\/us-general-wounded-attack-afghanistan\/?utm_term=.eaad9025b83a\">The Washington Post<\/a>. The American command said it did not release the general&#8217;s name because of what it called privacy concerns. The general is in charge of training and advising the Afghan security forces in Kandahar.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/22\/659603915\/days-later-pentagon-says-u-s-general-among-wounded-in-kandahar-attack\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/22\/659603915\/days-later-pentagon-says-u-s-general-among-wounded-in-kandahar-attack<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"top_content_at_page_load \">\n<div class=\"continue-reading expanded\">\n<div class=\"inner article-dropcap-body\">\n<h1 class=\"headline___CuovH f8 f9-m fw3 mb3 mt0 founders-cond lh-none f10-xl\">Inside the remote U.S. base in Syria central to combating ISIS and countering Iran<\/h1>\n<div class=\"articleDek dekSummary___GcgCT f4 f5-m f6-l f7-xl publico-hed lh-copy fw3 ls-normal mb3 mb6-m\"><em>Al Tanf, visited by journalists for the first time Monday, has no paved roads and many of its buildings are pocked with bullet holes.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2018_43\/2614671\/101022-ny-20181022-d127-centcom-us-led-international-coalition-al-tanf-syria-military-base-broll-feed_frame_22345-ac-554p_f31c865cd76a4a933ddbd9ac93d0e237.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Image: al-Tanf base along the border with Jordan and Iraq\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">The roads are unpaved. Many of the buildings still standing are riddled with bullet holes. But this secretive U.S. base, located near Syria&#8217;s eastern border with Jordan and visited by journalists for the first time Monday, is now seen as a crucial bulwark against\u00a0<a class=\" vilynx_listened\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/investigations\/trump-administration-has-new-plan-drive-iran-out-syria-n919596\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Al Tanf garrison was established to help local forces eliminate the Islamic State terror group. But with the Islamic State in decline and on the run, the base is now playing a critical role in the\u00a0<a class=\" vilynx_listened\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/trump-s-u-s-led-airstrike-syria-won-t-stop-n866046\">American effort<\/a>\u00a0to diminish Iran&#8217;s influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">NBC News joined Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East, on a trip to Al Tanf where he acknowledged the base&#8217;s strategic importance in countering the sway of Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a counter Iranian mission here. We have a defeat ISIS mission,&#8221; Votel said Monday. &#8220;But I do recognize that our presence, our development of partners and relationships down here does have an indirect effect on some malign activities that Iran and their various proxies and surrogates would like to pursue down here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"medium___16lj6\"><picture class=\"theimg___1sY8s\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2018_43\/2614661\/181022-ny-20181022-d127_centcom-us-led-international-coalition-al-tanf-syria-military-base-broll-feed_frame_41129-ac-553p_f31c865cd76a4a933ddbd9ac93d0e237.fit-560w.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2018_43\/2614661\/181022-ny-20181022-d127_centcom-us-led-international-coalition-al-tanf-syria-military-base-broll-feed_frame_41129-ac-553p_f31c865cd76a4a933ddbd9ac93d0e237.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Image: al-Tanf base along the border with Jordan and Iraq\" \/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption___fMPAB f3 lh-copy grey-100 publico-txt caption___1mNth mt4\"><span class=\"mr3\">US General Joseph Votel speaks at al-Tanf base along the border with Jordan and Iraq.<\/span><span class=\"f2 ls-tight gray-80 ws-tight founders-mono dib\">NBC News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">The American forces use the remote outpost to train Syrian opposition fighters known as Maghawir al Thawra, or MaT, formerly the Free Syrian Army.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The MaT has roughly 300 soldiers working out of Al Tanf, conducting patrols in the region outside the base&#8217;s walls as part of the effort to drive out ISIS. The territory is home to roughly 100,000 people including Bedouins and refugees living in the Rukban camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The base is located along a critical road that stretches from Tehran to Baghdad to Damascus. Known as the Baghdad Damascus Highway, it was once a busy thoroughfare for smugglers transporting both legal and illegal goods, including weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The area that now houses the base sustained major damage when it was under Islamic State control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But since 2015, the base has served as a key outpost in the fight against ISIS. U.S. forces, with the aid of Syrian opposition fighters, have driven ISIS out of an area that stretches roughly 35 miles from the Jordanian border in what is known as a &#8220;deconfliction zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;ve been able to do is ensure that this area, the <strong>deconfliction<\/strong> zone that we have around Al Tanf, does not support freedom of movement for ISIS,&#8221; Votel said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2018_43\/2614666\/181022-ny-20181022-d127_centcom-us-led-international-coalition-al-tanf-syria-military-base-broll-feed_frame_12954-ac-552p_f31c865cd76a4a933ddbd9ac93d0e237.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Image: al-Tanf base along the border with Jordan and Iraq\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Al Tanf&#8217;s location is also central to its role in preventing the Iranians from gaining a firmer foothold in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The base sits in the heart of what Iran hopes will be part of a &#8220;Shia Crescent,&#8221; a continuous land bridge linking Iran through Iraq and Syria to Lebanon.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/military\/inside-remote-u-s-base-syria-central-combating-isis-countering-n922991?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb%2025.10.18&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nbcnews.com\/news\/military\/inside-remote-u-s-base-syria-central-combating-isis-countering-n922991?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=ebb%2025.10.18&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-headline \" style=\"text-align: center;\">Military work is a lightning rod in Silicon Valley, but Microsoft will sell the Pentagon all the AI it needs<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-750-375.jpg\" sizes=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-160-80.jpg 160w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-320-160.jpg 320w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-480-240.jpg 480w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-640-320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-750-375.jpg 750w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-960-480.jpg 960w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-1136-568.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-1334-667.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-1536-768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-1920-960.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-2560-1280.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5bd3be4e9e1e11474b4f7513-2732-1366.jpg 2732w\" alt=\"Satya Nadella\" \/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"summary-list \">\n<li><strong class=\"\">Microsoft announced Friday that it plans to sell artificial intelligence technologies to the military.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"\">The military is looking into using more artificial intelligence for its defense, as the Chinese government has set goals in surpassing the U.S. military.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"\">In Silicon Valley, whether tech companies should become involved in projects with the military and federal law enforcement has flared up controversy among employees.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner article-dropcap-body\">\n<div>\n<h1 id=\"link-6d9a5d60\" class=\"css-17stvrt ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Marine F-35s Grounded Again As Yet Another Frickin\u2019 Thing Needs To Be Replaced<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/desktop__1486_x_614\/public\/main_images\/andisraeliairforcef35flyingaround.jpg?itok=59STMA5o\" alt=\"Image result for f35 plane\" width=\"304\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trouble continues for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the aircraft with more bugs than\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Rx8_vjbXX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Klendathu.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A \u201ccouple dozen\u201d Marine Corps F-35Bs were grounded to repair two fuel tubes,\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2018\/10\/25\/some-f-35s-grounded-again-for-new-round-of-inspections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Defense News and Marine Corps Times first reported on Thursday,<\/a>\u00a0the second time so far this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-interstitial_link\">\n<div class=\"element element-interstitial-link\">\n<article class=\"story-item story-teaser story-teaser-normal\">\n<header class=\" header-spacer\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-3\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"lazy-wrapper promo-img-container\">\n<ul>\n<li>On Oct. 11, the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Program Office that oversees the F-35\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/pentagon-f35-grounded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered all of the planes to suspend flight operations<\/a>\u00a0in order to replace a different fuel tube that was identified as a problem as part of an\u00a0ongoing investigation into the Sept. 28 crash of an F-35B in South Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of the F-35\u2019s engine determined that the two other fuel tubes needed to be replaced even though they had not failed, said JPO spokesman Joe DellaVedova, adding that the repairs \u201ccan be completed on the flight line by line maintainers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cWhen a part is available, we anticipate replacements can be completed in less than 48 hours,\u201d DellaVedova told Task &amp; Purpose on Thursday. \u201cParts are in the supply line and Pratt &amp; Whitney is working to expeditiously further ramp up supply. The exact number of engines that may require replacement fuel tubes speaks to operational security and readiness status of the fleet, and will not be released by the JPO.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/marine-f-35s-grounded-again\/?bsft_eid=6bf83495-323c-4e87-a849-2a6f864fd212&#038;bsft_pid=0468cc6b-f3e1-4657-abe0-0c35f1b76746&#038;utm_campaign=tp_daily_thursday_pm&#038;utm_source=blueshift&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&#038;bsft_clkid=fd76de2c-6c75-4e1b-8532-edb2d0bf9c40&#038;bsft_uid=7c674a6c-ae11-4ec4-84f1-aef0c34e44e5&#038;bsft_mid=56f69bd6-cf57-4570-bc46-05bc035a980a&#038;bsft_pp=2\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">taskandpurpose.com\/marine-f-35s-grounded-again\/?bsft_eid=6bf83495-323c-4e87-a849-2a6f864fd212&#038;bsft_pid=0468cc6b-f3e1-4657-abe0-0c35f1b76746&#038;utm_campaign=tp_daily_thursday_pm&#038;utm_source=blueshift&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&#038;bsft_clkid=fd76de2c-6c75-4e1b-8532-edb2d0bf9c40&#038;bsft_uid=7c674a6c-ae11-4ec4-84f1-aef0c34e44e5&#038;bsft_mid=56f69bd6-cf57-4570-bc46-05bc035a980a&#038;bsft_pp=2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/valupak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/valupak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/valupak.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/valupak-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/valupak-500x430.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-355440c1\" class=\"css-1a8ugfg ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Signs of Economic Trouble We Shouldn\u2019t Ignore <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/26\/opinion\/25econ-edit\/merlin_142754184_7b47f38d-8c37-4084-b9ad-d5000f862c71-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/26\/opinion\/25econ-edit\/merlin_142754184_7b47f38d-8c37-4084-b9ad-d5000f862c71-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/26\/opinion\/25econ-edit\/merlin_142754184_7b47f38d-8c37-4084-b9ad-d5000f862c71-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/08\/26\/opinion\/25econ-edit\/merlin_142754184_7b47f38d-8c37-4084-b9ad-d5000f862c71-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz euv7paa0\">To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Re \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/24\/business\/stock-market-today.html?module=inline\">Worries Add Up as Stocks Plunge<\/a>\u201d (front page, Oct. 25):<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">The stock market is now starting to reflect what has been true for some time but few want to acknowledge. The \u201csurging economy, low interest rates and fast-growing corporate profits\u201d are no longer operative, and they never really were all they were cracked up to be. Profits continue to rise for some, but mainly because of cost-cutting, new technologies and reductions in labor. Profits resulting from such reductions and \u201cefficiencies\u201d do not necessarily bode well for a growing economy or a rising stock market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Then there are the realities of Main Street, reflected by a growing number of retail store closures and softness in the real estate market. Just walk the streets of New York. There are retail stores for rent on almost every block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">We have seen a surge in consumer buying over the past few years, but it was mainly a function of easy credit, low interest rates, and endless sales and discounts. However, the days of easy credit and low-cost borrowing are over for both consumers and developers. With interest rates rising and consumers already overextended, we are very likely to see a slowing or reduction in spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">On top of all this, business is now beginning to feel the effects of the Trump tariffs and trade wars. The cost of raw materials and other goods on which producers rely are on the rise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">With political discontent at home and abroad, Washington polarized, midterm elections approaching and destabilizing events around the world (such as the Khashoggi assassination), is it any surprise that the stock market is roiling?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">We are without doubt in for a major correction, one that may last for a very long time. It is impossible to time the correction. But it is inevitable if history and recent events are any judge, and the signs are there now for all to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Jeffrey R. Zuckerman<br \/>\nNew York<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Detroit grapples with &#8216;devastating&#8217; impact of black male homicides<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/0e50de473128508fbf8486d0b6e35de54429a294\/c=337-0-5678-4016\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/07\/23\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/636679455033731462-2018-0721-mo-walker311.jpg?width=540&amp;height=405&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"Aufelia Palmer (center), mother of Antonio Walker,\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/07\/23\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/636679455033731462-2018-0721-mo-walker311.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4044b1e7645488621f157de466cf1a990870caa2\/r=500x333\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/07\/23\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/636679455033731462-2018-0721-mo-walker311.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Lorease\u00a0Mumford believed\u00a0as a mother, she had done everything right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">She moved her family from Detroit to a safer suburban neighborhood, sent her son to private school at the University of Detroit Jesuit and, above all, she instilled in him the difference between right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But all of Mumford\u2019s safekeeping and parenting weren\u2019t enough to save her son, Steven Hill,\u00a0from a violent ending\u00a0nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hill, 26,\u00a0was shot to death<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Dec. 1, 2016, not far from her former job at Sinai Grace Hospital and his grandparents&#8217; home on Detroit&#8217;s northwest side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">He was approached by two men and shot outside a home in the 17000 block of Snowden shortly after leaving his grandparents&#8217; home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">As a certified surgical technologist, Mumford often witnessed the grief of mothers and fathers who lost their children to violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cI never thought I would be one of those parents,\u201d she said. \u201cNever, never, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Mumford is still reeling from the loss of her only son, whose killing remains unsolved. She is not alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">African-Americans die from homicide at much higher rates than other racial groups, especially in Michigan and its largest city, Detroit, and black men are especially at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The toll on\u00a0African-American males in the city is relentless, as evidenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2018\/09\/18\/detroit-white-castle-reopens-after-triple-homicide\/1344369002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">the\u00a0shooting of three young men<\/a>, all in their 20s, in the lobby of a White Castle restaurant on Detroit&#8217;s west side<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">DeShawn Gadson, 20; Trevaughn Anthony, 24; and Rashawn Harrington, 25. were slain about\u00a012:25 a.m. Sept. 9\u00a0inside the restaurant on the 6300 block of West Warren, just west of Livernois,\u00a0police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">According to FBI\u00a0data analyzed this year by the Washington-based Violence Policy Center, there were 7,014 black homicide victims in the United States in 2015. That translates\u00a0to a\u00a0homicide rate of 18.68 per 100,000 people among African Americans, compared with an overall rate of 4.62 per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Of those 7,014 victims, 88 percent were male. Michigan had the nation&#8217;s sixth highest rate of black homicide, according to the center&#8217;s report: 27.04 per 100,000. Of the 388 victims, 345 \u2014 89 percent \u2014 were male.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In Detroit, of 312 homicide victims in 2016, 279 were African American; 246 of those black victims &#8212; 88 percent &#8212; were male, according to figures from the Wayne County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office. While Detroit\u2019s rate of black male homicide is high &#8212; 97 per 100,000 &#8212; it trails that of Chicago, where the rate is 120 per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">And for younger African-American males, the numbers are even more startling. As of Aug. 1,\u00a064 African-American men between the ages of 18-35 had lost their lives to gunfire in Detroit, out of 175\u00a0homicides in the first seven months of this year,\u00a0according to figures from the Detroit Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">During all of last year, 107 African-American males\u00a0in the same age group\u00a0were killed by gunfire\u00a0in Detroit, out of 267\u00a0total homicides, and in the first seven months of 2016, 133 young black men were shot to death.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2018\/10\/21\/detroit-dealing-devastating-impact-black-male-homicides\/808535002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2018\/10\/21\/detroit-dealing-devastating-impact-black-male-homicides\/808535002\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-6d9a5d60\" class=\"css-17stvrt ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the \u2018Father of Android\u2019<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-12gutiq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/20\/business\/20GOOGLE01\/merlin_145484364_e49b0e5c-4f64-4548-b6cf-447a5306b0a9-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/20\/business\/20GOOGLE01\/merlin_145484364_e49b0e5c-4f64-4548-b6cf-447a5306b0a9-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/20\/business\/20GOOGLE01\/merlin_145484364_e49b0e5c-4f64-4548-b6cf-447a5306b0a9-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 808w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/20\/business\/20GOOGLE01\/merlin_145484364_e49b0e5c-4f64-4548-b6cf-447a5306b0a9-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1616w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-zeqekx ewc5vgb0\">The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero\u2019s farewell when <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/30\/andy-rubin-leaves-google-during-executive-shake-up\/\">he left the company<\/a> in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">\u201cI want to wish Andy all the best with what\u2019s next,\u201d Larry Page, Google\u2019s chief executive then, said in a public statement. \u201cWith Android he created something truly remarkable \u2014 with a billion-plus happy users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode. Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible, said the people, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, citing confidentiality agreements. Mr. Rubin was notified, they said, and Mr. Page asked for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms. The last payment is scheduled for next month.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/technology\/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/25\/technology\/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement and <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The War on Reason<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>With no structural analysis, Famed (plagiarist) liberal historian believes Trump is leading America to fascism<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/image.slidesharecdn.com\/10plagiarismtutorial2012-121213070240-phpapp02\/95\/10-plagiarism-tutorial2012-9-638.jpg?cb=1355382398\" alt=\"Image result for doris goodwin plagiarism\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin agrees President Donald Trump is leading the United States down the road to fascism \u2014 but she doesn\u2019t like to use that particular word.<\/p>\n<p>The historian and author believes the word is too strong and loaded with negative associations to persuade Americans to reject Trump and his abuses, but MSNBC\u2019s Mika Brzenzinski challenged her to call out what she see clearly sees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes this look like United States presidential leadership or would you argue, like Madeleine Albright does, that we are leading down a very different path here,\u201d Brzezinski said, \u201cand all the pieces are fitting together towards someone that is trying to make this a dictatorship?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin did not disagree, but she recoils at using such loaded terminology to describe a U.S. leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The historian and author believes the word is too strong and loaded with negative associations to persuade Americans to reject Trump and his abuses, but MSNBC\u2019s Mika Brzenzinski challenged her to call out what she see clearly sees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes this look like United States presidential leadership or <em><strong>would you argue, like Madeleine Albright<\/strong><\/em> does, that we are leading down a very different path here,\u201d Brzezinski said, \u201cand all the pieces are fitting together towards someone that is trying to make this a dictatorship?\u201dhttps:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/10\/19\/famed-historian-believes-trump-is-leading-america-to-fascism_partner\/<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was &quot;worth it&quot; wins Medal of Freedom\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/omnskeu-puE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-item__title \" style=\"text-align: center;\">Messianic Seminarian The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-item__thumbnail-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-Finger-850x586.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the age of 10 I was sent as a scholarship student to a boarding school for the uber-rich in Massachusetts. I lived among the wealthiest Americans for the next eight years. I listened to their prejudices and saw their cloying sense of entitlement. They insisted they were privileged and wealthy because they were smarter and more talented. They had a sneering disdain for those ranked below them in material and social status, even the merely rich. Most of the uber-rich lacked the capacity for empathy and compassion. They formed elite cliques that hazed, bullied and taunted any nonconformist who defied or did not fit into their self-adulatory universe.<\/p>\n<p>It was impossible to build a friendship with most of the sons of the uber-rich. Friendship for them was defined by \u201cwhat\u2019s in it for me?\u201d They were surrounded from the moment they came out of the womb by people catering to their desires and needs. They were incapable of reaching out to others in distress\u2014whatever petty whim or problem they had at the moment dominated their universe and took precedence over the suffering of others, even those within their own families. They knew only how to take. They could not give. They were deformed and deeply unhappy people in the grip of an unquenchable narcissism.<\/p>\n<p>It is essential to understand the pathologies of the uber-rich. They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration. The uber-rich cannot see the world from anyone\u2019s perspective but their own. People around them, including the women whom entitled men prey upon, are objects designed to gratify momentary lusts or be manipulated. The uber-rich are almost always amoral. Right. Wrong. Truth. Lies. Justice. Injustice. These concepts are beyond them. Whatever benefits or pleases them is good. What does not must be destroyed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-rule-of-the-uber-rich-means-tyranny-or-revolution\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-rule-of-the-uber-rich-means-tyranny-or-revolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top margin-16-bottom\">More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here&#8217;s Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn&#8217;t Better Known<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top margin-16-bottom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mnhs.org\/sites\/default\/files\/-paragraphs\/image\/edit\/cal_hermann_goering.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for lindbergh nazi\" width=\"296\" height=\"353\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>These days, and especially since the <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5009452\/charlottesville-white-supremacy-dennis-mothersbaugh\/\">deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., last August,<\/a> it has become clear to many Americans that the specter of Nazism in their country is not resigned to 1930s history. But until very recently, even that part of the story was less well known than it is today.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when Bradley W. Hart first started researching the history of Nazi sympathy in the United States a few years ago, he was largely driven by the absence of attention to the topic. Hart\u2019s new book <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9781250148957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hitler\u2019s American Friends: The Third Reich\u2019s Supporters in the United States<\/em><\/a> argues that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later \u2014 and not just because part of that story is the history of the \u201cAmerica First\u201d idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4273812\/america-first-donald-trump-history\/\">reborn<\/a> as a slogan for now-President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-leaderboard-fixed-1\" class=\"ad ad-container ad-wrapper type-728x90 instream-ad tablet-ad desktop-ad karma-ad\" role=\"complementary\" data-tier=\"1\" data-lazy-scroll=\"true\" data-dimensions=\"728x90\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CKHKpNXFpd4CFcd5Ygod8oEAgw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_3865\/tim.mdp.com\/tier1\/video_article\/history_2__container__\">\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s certainly a raw and visceral shock to seeing swastikas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/08\/13\/swastika-use-rise-nazis-trump-charlottesville-violence\/104488402\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displayed in American streets<\/a>,\u201d Hart tells TIME. \u201cBut this is a topic I\u2019d been working on for quite a while at that point, and while it wasn\u2019t something I expected, it was a trend I\u2019d been observing. I wasn\u2019t terribly shocked but there\u2019s still a visceral reaction when you see that kind of symbolism displayed in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hart, who came to the topic via research on the eugenics movement and the history of Nazi sympathy in Britain, says he realized early on that there was a lot more to the American side of that story than most textbooks acknowledged. Some of the big names might get mentioned briefly \u2014 the radio priest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Charles-E-Coughlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Father Charles Coughlin<\/a>, or the highly public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2017\/06\/american-nazis-in-the-1930sthe-german-american-bund\/529185\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German American Bund<\/a> organization \u2014 but in general, he says, the American narrative of the years leading up to World War II has elided the role of those who supported the wrong side. And yet, American exchange students went to Germany and returned with glowing reviews, while none other than Charles Lindbergh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleslindbergh.com\/americanfirst\/speech.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> Jewish people for pushing the U.S. toward unnecessary war. In its various expressions, the pro-Nazi stance during those years was mostly focused not on creating an active military alliance with Germany or bringing the U.S. under Nazi control (something Hitler himself thought wouldn\u2019t be possible) but rather on keeping the U.S. out of war in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Father Couglin In Action\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uFDuGNCxyl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So why was that past overlooked for so long?<\/p>\n<p>In part, Hart theorizes, it\u2019s because the American story of World War II is such a powerful national narrative. The United States, that narrative says, helped save the world. Rocked by Pearl Harbor, Americans stepped up to turn the tide for the Allies and thus solidified their nation\u2019s place as a global superpower. That narrative doesn\u2019t have much room for the relatively small, but significant, number of Americans who were rooting for the other side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been uncomfortable in this country to talk about isolationism, though the ideas are still out there,\u201d he says, \u201cIt\u2019s part of the American mythology. We want to remember ourselves as always having been on the right side in this war.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5414055\/american-nazi-sympathy-book\/?utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=social-share-article&#038;utm_content=20181026&#038;fbclid=IwAR2h46Gf670H6dyZJKy-Mx3FNpbJA4fqo4Q7dm9-TAftyjAJ3oDAbMogYuE\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">time.com\/5414055\/american-nazi-sympathy-book\/?utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=social-share-article&#038;utm_content=20181026&#038;fbclid=IwAR2h46Gf670H6dyZJKy-Mx3FNpbJA4fqo4Q7dm9-TAftyjAJ3oDAbMogYuE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loststory.net\/sites\/default\/files\/pq\/shrine.gif\" alt=\"Image result for coughlin shrine of little flower\" width=\"279\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coughlin&#8217;s Shrine of the Little Flower (St Theresa, patron saint of Nazis) in Royal Oak Mich.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top margin-16-bottom\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Pentagon To Order More Troops To Border After Trump Vows To Use Military To Halt Migrant Caravan<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan-500x491.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Caravan-768x754.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">The Pentagon is sending 800 or more additional troops to the Southwest border in response to President Donald Trump\u2019s vow to use the military to block a caravan of Central American immigrants from entering the United States, a U.S. official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">Defense Secretary James N. Mattis is expected to sign an order Thursday dispatching the troops. They will be limited to providing logistical support to the Border Patrol, which will remain responsible for apprehending anyone crossing the border illegally, the official said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he was \u201cbringing out the military\u201d to secure the border, calling it a \u201cnational emergency.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/pentagon-troops-border-trump-caravan\/?bsft_eid=82d2fc1f-222d-4617-94cc-5d2c46849037&#038;bsft_pid=638c1e5f-5d73-4568-9c51-66cdf2669e5b&#038;utm_campaign=tp_daily_friday_pm&#038;utm_source=blueshift&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&#038;bsft_clkid=e7a713b4-ff6d-4f33-baf4-906d57760298&#038;bsft_uid=7c674a6c-ae11-4ec4-84f1-aef0c34e44e5&#038;bsft_mid=47f66e6e-22e0-45bb-8632-e1c94b3ed9c6&#038;bsft_pp=8\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">taskandpurpose.com\/pentagon-troops-border-trump-caravan\/?bsft_eid=82d2fc1f-222d-4617-94cc-5d2c46849037&#038;bsft_pid=638c1e5f-5d73-4568-9c51-66cdf2669e5b&#038;utm_campaign=tp_daily_friday_pm&#038;utm_source=blueshift&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=tp_daily_pm_ricks&#038;bsft_clkid=e7a713b4-ff6d-4f33-baf4-906d57760298&#038;bsft_uid=7c674a6c-ae11-4ec4-84f1-aef0c34e44e5&#038;bsft_mid=47f66e6e-22e0-45bb-8632-e1c94b3ed9c6&#038;bsft_pp=8<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\">Saudi Arabia doesn&#8217;t deserve the benefit of the doubt, least of all from the president<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/nD2sh0nBt5JdgVRHUcv7QJDSe6U=\/1400x0\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bc7d669\/turbine\/la-1539823196-9po39halax-snap-image\" alt=\"Saudi Arabia doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, least of all from the president\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p data-page=\"1\">The Trump administration continues to send disturbingly mixed signals about whether it will hold Saudi Arabia\u2019s rulers accountable if it\u2019s proved that they\u2019re responsible for the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>It has been two weeks since the Washington Post contributor and Virginia resident, a critic of the current Saudi leadership, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork he needed for his marriage. He was never seen again. According to Turkish officials, audio recordings show that Khashoggi was interrogated, tortured and killed by Saudi intelligence officers inside the consulate. The officials add that his body was cut up with a bone saw and removed from the building. On Wednesday, the New York Times, citing a recording described by a Turkish official, reported further that Khashoggi\u2019 s fingers were severed before he was beheaded and dismembered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>It also reported that one of the men identified by Turkish officials in Khashoggi\u2019s disappearance was a frequent companion of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia\u2019s de facto leader, and that three others are linked by witnesses and other records to the crown prince\u2019s security detail. The crown prince has denied any knowledge of what took place at the Istanbul consulate, a denial relayed by Trump on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>In an interview with the Associated Press, Trump suggested that the Saudi rulers were being judged \u201cguilty until proven innocent\u201d \u2014 just like Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-trump-saudis-20181018-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-trump-saudis-20181018-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"art-headline\" class=\"t-headline--em h-mb--xxtight\" style=\"text-align: center;\">11 Killed in Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting; Gunman Yelled &#8216;All Jews Must Die&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn4.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/980x551\/public\/images\/methode\/2018\/10\/28\/fbdd5af8-da4f-11e8-a41d-3d2712b32637_1280x720_105844.jpg?itok=X6w7oKRB\" alt=\"Image result for robert bowers nazi\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"[ t-delta t-lede ] h-mb--xtight\">Shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue takes place during Shabbat service \u25a0 Shooter in custody, identified as far-right white supremacist \u25a0 Three cops shot \u25a0 Trump: Attack could have been avoided &#8216;if they had protection&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-body-text\">Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old white male who expressed far-right and white supremacist views on his social media accounts, was arrested over the attack and was reportedly hospitalized in fair condition with gunshot wounds. Eyewitness reports said he was heavily armed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-body-text\">Two hours before the attack, an account on the social network Gab under Bowers&#8217; name posted an attack on HIAS, a Jewish-American organization that helps refugees in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" title=\"Posts by Robert Bowers\" src=\"https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_625,h_361,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG\" sizes=\"513px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_468,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 468w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_640,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 640w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_748,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 748w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_936,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 936w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_1496,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 1496w\" alt=\"Posts by Robert Bowers\" width=\"\" height=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_625,h_361,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_468,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 468w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_640,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 640w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_748,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 748w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_936,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 936w,https:\/\/images.haarets.co.il\/image\/upload\/w_1496,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto\/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none\/v1540658124\/1.6595644.2204883997.PNG 1496w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/man-reportedly-opens-fire-near-a-pittsburgh-synagoue-1.6595493\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/man-reportedly-opens-fire-near-a-pittsburgh-synagoue-1.6595493<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/181025-police-captured-mail-bomber-feature.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1200\" alt=\"Image result for mail bomber arrested sayoc\" width=\"304\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" style=\"text-align: center;\">How suspected fascist mail bomber Cesar Sayoc got caught<\/h1>\n<p>Short of turning himself in, suspected mail bomber <a id=\"PEOCVC00478\" title=\"Cesar Altieri Sayoc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/crime-law-justice\/cesar-altieri-sayoc-PEOCVC00478-topic.html\">Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr.<\/a> could not have done more to get caught.<\/p>\n<p>The clues that investigators followed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-sayoc-van-pictures-20181026-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his gaudy white van<\/a> in <a id=\"SFL00022\" title=\"Plantation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/south-florida\/plantation-SFL00022-topic.html\">Plantation<\/a> reveal that he either ignored or failed to consider all of the ways he was laying a trail for them.<\/p>\n<p>He left a fingerprint on one of the packages he is accused of sending. His DNA was found on two of the bombs. By itself, that was enough to put feds on his trail, and everything else fell together quickly from there.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how investigators were able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-bombs-opalocka-mail-20181025-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find their man<\/a> \u2014 one person in a population of 327 million \u2014 in a scant five days after the pipe bombs began showing up.<\/p>\n<h3>The packages<\/h3>\n<p>The first suspected package turned up Monday, addressed to <a id=\"PEBSL00466\" title=\"George Soros\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/business\/george-soros-PEBSL00466-topic.html\">George Soros<\/a>, a billionaire philanthropist who has supported <a id=\"ORGOV0000005\" title=\"Democratic Party\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/topic\/politics-government\/democratic-party-ORGOV0000005-topic.html\">Democrats<\/a>. It was intercepted, but the number of packages grew on Tuesday. One to Barack Obama. One to Hillary Clinton. Another to former CIA Director John Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>All targeted prominent Democrats, and all bore a return address to South Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former head of the Democratic National Committee and a frequent target of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately South Florida was at the center of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Another package intended for former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was misaddressed and was shipped to Wasserman Schultz\u2019s office as the return address. By the end of the day Wednesday, the number of pipe bombs came to five, and the number ultimately climbed to at least 14.<\/p>\n<p>All of the bombs were nearly identical.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-how-mail-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-was-caught-20181027-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/florida\/fl-ne-how-mail-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-was-caught-20181027-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"Post-title\" data-reactid=\"163\"><a class=\"Post-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/27\/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last\/\" data-reactid=\"164\">Here Is a List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired. Cesar Sayoc Wasn\u2019t the First \u2014 and Won\u2019t Be the Last.<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219094\" src=\"https:\/\/theintercept.imgix.net\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2018\/10\/GettyImages-653630332-trump-1540591517.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;q=90&amp;w=1024&amp;h=683\" alt=\"NASHVILLE, TN - MARCH 15: Supporters hold up their hats during a rally held by President Trump on March 15, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. During his speech President Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare and also criticized the decision by a federal judge in Hawaii that halted the latest version of the travel ban. (Photo by Andrea Morales\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Update: October 27, 2018, 4:30 p.m. EDT<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Minutes after this story was published, news reports confirmed that multiple people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh had been killed by a gunman. The gunman taken into custody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/27\/us\/robert-bowers-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter.html?\">has been linked<\/a> to anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant posts on social media. At least 11 people were killed and six\u00a0injured at the Tree of Life synagogue.<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/27\/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last\/?fbclid=IwAR2gfsRdgMEVIA2zYqBtHUXsgt5BqwCK0SF3arL_R6VF26v9mHcpVzwlX6s\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/27\/here-is-a-list-of-far-right-attackers-trump-inspired-cesar-sayoc-wasnt-the-first-and-wont-be-the-last\/?fbclid=IwAR2gfsRdgMEVIA2zYqBtHUXsgt5BqwCK0SF3arL_R6VF26v9mHcpVzwlX6s<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Maine Governor Paul LePage criticised for &#8216;racist&#8217; remarks<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/2D36\/production\/_90947511_mediaitem90947510.jpg\" alt=\"Maine Gov. Paul LePage holds up news release with a booking mug shot from a three-ring binder of news releases and articles about drug arrests during a meeting with reporters on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016,\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The governor of Maine has said that people of colour were enemies of his state, and appeared to suggest they should be shot.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Maine&#8217;s effort to combat drug crime, Paul LePage said that &#8220;the enemy right now&#8230; are people of colour or people of Hispanic origin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you go to war&#8230; and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Leading Democrats have urged him to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Mr LePage made the comments while seeking to clarify remarks he made earlier in the week which were criticised as racist.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">WEDNESDAY<\/h2>\n<p>Mr LePage was asked about a statement he made in January, in which he blamed the state&#8217;s heroin problem on &#8220;guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty&#8221; who &#8220;come from Connecticut and New York&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday, he denied it was racist, but said that since January he had been putting together a binder cataloguing drug arrests in the state, and that &#8220;90-plus per cent of those pictures in my book, and it&#8217;s a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37204837?SThisFB&#038;fbclid=IwAR0LbQTt36AYgqYKnqETg4MkjEN6IznL17ZuZIeaZHt-BRt5VzIdWv6hYSU\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37204837?SThisFB&#038;fbclid=IwAR0LbQTt36AYgqYKnqETg4MkjEN6IznL17ZuZIeaZHt-BRt5VzIdWv6hYSU<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\">Obamagogue in Detroit: Vote because &#8216;character of our country is on ballot&#8217; (even if Detroit is still in ruins after 8 years of me)<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Barack Obama campaigns for Michigan Democrats at an event in Detroit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fj4Zi7W5eyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Barack Obama on Friday urged Michigan Democrats and others to vote on Nov. 6, arguing that &#8220;The character of our country is on the ballot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Obama addressed an overflow rally at Cass Tech High School in Detroit, where turnout in the mid-term election could be a critical factor for Democratic candidates like gubernatorial nominee Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;The main reason I\u2019m here is to make sure that all of you vote in what I believe might be the most important election of our lifetime,\u201d he said to applause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Michigan Democrats traditionally struggle to turn out voters in non-presidential election years, particularly in urban areas like Detroit. Beyond Whitmer&#8217;s running mate Garlin Gilchrist II, Democrats are offering a predominately white statewide ticket to voters in the majority African-American city.\u00a0https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2018\/10\/26\/obama-whitmer-democrats-detroit-rally\/1764712002\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"module-position-RSLE_U9QC54\" class=\"longformcovertop-bucket longform-headline-module longform-longform-headline-module\">\n<h1 class=\"longform-intro-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Cabin for retired leader rises as feds question UAW spending<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-selector aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/c87c58674e2021cad94ad083c8f6d8aa82c97d38\/c=0-74-2357-1846\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/06\/13\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/636645120206331190-061318-tm-Election086.jpg?width=2352&amp;height=1764&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"Former UAW President Dennis Williams.\" width=\"400\" data-wide-src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-RSLE_U9ivrY\" class=\"longformcovertop-bucket longform-subheadline-module longform-longform-subheadline-module\">\n<p class=\"longform-intro-text\"><em>Public records, blueprints and interviews offer insight into how UAW leaders spent money amid a widening corruption scandal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">A United Auto Workers nonprofit<b>\u00a0<\/b>is building\u00a0a\u00a0custom-made, lakefront cottage for\u00a0retired President Dennis Williams as FBI agents question union leaders&#8217; spending of membership dues and money from Detroit&#8217;s automakers on personal luxuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Public records, blueprints and interviews offer insight into how UAW leaders spent money amid a widening corruption scandal that is expected to lead to additional criminal charges. One previously undisclosed expense is the Williams cottage under construction at the UAW Black Lake Conference Center, a 1,000-acre retreat in northern Michigan financed with interest from the union&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/app\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Secretary-Treasurers-Report-for-2018-Convention.pdf\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">$721 million<\/a> strike fund, which is bankrolled by worker dues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The UAW&#8217;s nonprofit real-estate arm Union Building Corp.\u00a0started building a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath, 1,885-square-foot cottage for Williams\u00a0this year\u00a0on the shores of Black Lake in Onaway, a half-hour drive south of Cheboygan. The cost of the cottage was unclear but the initial estimate was $285,000, a cost that likely increased due to labor costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Williams retired in June and was implicated in the scandal one month later when prosecutors said he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2018\/07\/26\/uaw-president-dennis-williams-conspiracy-directed-use-automaker-funds-through-training-centers\/822741002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">directed subordinates<\/a> to use funds from Detroit\u2019s automakers, funneled through training centers,\u00a0to pay for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2018\/09\/19\/feds-question-uaw-officials-spending-palm-springs-trips\/844063002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">union travel, meals and entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The Williams cottage, featuring granite counters, stainless-steel appliances, a wood-burning fireplace, a wine cooler\u00a0and a patio overlooking Black Lake, was under construction Monday, and workers were spotted on\u00a0the lakefront property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Williams, 65, whose Michigan driver&#8217;s license lists the Black Lake resort as his home address, could not be reached for comment. He has not been charged with wrongdoing during the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Cabins at Black Lake have been provided for generations of former UAW presidents, but the Williams cottage is the first one being built during a federal\u00a0 investigation into union spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;This is absolutely ridiculous, it&#8217;s a dereliction of\u00a0duty and a complete misappropriation\u00a0of member dues,&#8221; said autoworker Terry Bowman, 53&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The timing of the cottage construction and appearance send a bad message to rank-and-file UAW workers, said Peter Henning, a Wayne State University law professor and former federal prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;This doesn&#8217;t help the view that the leadership has feathered its own nest over advancing the cause of the members,&#8221; Henning said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The Williams cottage is a contrast to the rustic lodging available\u00a0to rent at the 241-room resort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Opened in 1970, the center features a campground, gym, Olympic-size pool and an adjacent golf course. The ashes of former UAW President Walter Reuther and wife May were scattered on the center\u2019s grounds after the couple was\u00a0killed in an airplane crash nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-selector aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2018\/10\/24\/PDTN\/20521c2f-b55d-4e2f-b2fe-a5d55fc127ae-rendering_.jpg?width=2352&amp;height=1764&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"This rendering shows the Dennis Williams cottage being built by the UAW on the shores of Black Lake.\" width=\"400\" data-wide-src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The cabin construction started after the union faced a serious budget crunch in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In response,\u00a0members approved the first hike in membership dues in almost 50 years. The increase generated more money for the UAW strike fund, which bankrolls the union&#8217;s resort in Black Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Simultaneously,\u00a0prosecutors and former UAW official Nancy Adams Johnson say Williams directed subordinates to save money by having\u00a0Detroit&#8217;s automakers pick up entertainment, travel and meal expenses incurred by &#8220;senior UAW officials, their friends, family and allies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Once members started paying higher union dues, a UAW subsidiary started acquiring new boats. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/chrysler\/2018\/10\/26\/cabin-retired-leader-rises-feds-question-uaw-spending\/1512997002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/chrysler\/2018\/10\/26\/cabin-retired-leader-rises-feds-question-uaw-spending\/1512997002\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"single_title\">Union Report Exclusive: Internal Report Shows NEA Losses of 17,000 Members and 87,000 Fee Payers Since Janus Decision<\/h1>\n<p>The National Education Association is feeling the first effects of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0<em>Janus<\/em>\u00a0ruling, 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 \u2014 a decline of 17,000 since the last report in April. This erased much of the membership increase the union saw in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>More damaging to the union\u2019s coffers is the loss of its more than 87,000 former agency fee payers nationwide after the court\u2019s ruling. The percentage losses are comparable to those of the Maryland State Education Association,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/union-report-maryland-teacher-union-numbers-show-drop-in-membership-market-share-since-supreme-courts-janus-ruling\/\">reported here two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>EA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/exclusive-largest-union-to-slash-budget-by-50-million-in-advance-of-supreme-court-decision-300000-members-will-leave-within-2-years-leaders-predict\/\">already cut its budget<\/a>\u00a0in 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The open hearing on the union\u2019s strategic plan and budget, previously conducted in person the day before the RA opened, would be converted to a virtual meeting.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/union-report-exclusive-internal-report-shows-nea-losses-of-17000-members-and-87000-fee-payers-since-janus-decision\/?utm_source=The+74+Million+Newsletter&#038;utm_campaign=bd103fc297-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_24_09_21&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_077b986842-bd103fc297-176109065\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.the74million.org\/article\/union-report-exclusive-internal-report-shows-nea-losses-of-17000-members-and-87000-fee-payers-since-janus-decision\/?utm_source=The+74+Million+Newsletter&#038;utm_campaign=bd103fc297-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_24_09_21&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_077b986842-bd103fc297-176109065<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables&#8217; Dates and Times Declassified<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/epsa-bb-main-image\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/haspelcia-collge.jpg?itok=0rWO5dzj\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>FOIA Lawsuit Wins Chronology of Black Site Waterboarding Supervised by Future CIA Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Security Archive\u2019s Freedom of Information lawsuit against the CIA has won release of the previously censored dates and times on cables sent by future CIA director Gina Haspel when she commanded a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where interrogators tortured and waterboarded an al-Qaeda suspect, according to the new documents posted on the Archive\u2019s Web site today.<\/p>\n<p>The new versions of the Haspel cables now provide a detailed chronology of the CIA torture, which began on \u201cDay One\u201d of the suspect\u2019s confinement at the site, November 15, 2002, and continued even after his removal to a different black site, in Poland, on December 4, 2002.\u00a0 The torture included being slammed against walls, forced nudity, confinement in coffin-sized boxes, shackles and hoods such as seen in the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs, and waterboarding \u2013 which U.S. prosecutors established as a war crime in proceedings against Japanese soldiers after World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA had previously redacted the dates and times along with large portions of the texts when the Archive won release of the cables in August 2018.\u00a0 The CIA claimed that these details would reveal still-sensitive sources and methods of intelligence gathering that were exempt from the FOIA.<\/p>\n<p>But Archive staff, working through <em>pro bono<\/em> counsel Peter Karanjia and Lisa Zycherman at Davis Wright Tremaine, demonstrated to the CIA and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office that precisely such dates and times had been released in other FOIA cases with no damage to national security, thus casting serious doubt on the CIA\u2019s indiscriminate use of the \u201c(b)(1), (b)(3)CIA Act, (b)(3)NatSecAct\u201d claim to turn major portions of the released cables into Swiss cheese.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nsarchive.gwu.edu\/briefing-book\/foia-intelligence-torture-archive\/2018-10-18\/gina-haspel-cia-torture-cables-dates-times-declassified\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">nsarchive.gwu.edu\/briefing-book\/foia-intelligence-torture-archive\/2018-10-18\/gina-haspel-cia-torture-cables-dates-times-declassified<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" style=\"text-align: center;\">CIA director briefs president on audio purportedly capturing the killing of Jamal Khashoggi<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsapi.com.au\/image\/v1\/d662a7121341770e2c92729ad23c0470\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed President Trump on Thursday about her trip this week to Turkey, where she listened to\u00a0<a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/cia-director-flies-to-turkey-amid-growing-controversy-over-jamal-khashoggi-killing\/2018\/10\/22\/47d406d9-9f36-49fc-a187-a9a495b70a62_story.html?utm_term=.47a570b52c2c\">audio purportedly capturing the killing<\/a>\u00a0of Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia appeared to acknowledge that its agents had murdered the dissident Saudi journalist in a \u201cpremeditated\u201d operation.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">A statement issued by the public prosecutor in Riyadh, citing shared Turkish evidence of premeditation, marked the latest reversal in the Saudi version of events and put the focus directly on the question of who ordered Khashoggi\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers have said that the killing, in a foreign country, of a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was unlikely to have taken place without the knowledge of the kingdom\u2019s most senior leaders.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/saudi-arabia-says-khashoggis-killing-was-premeditated-in-latest-reversal\/2018\/10\/25\/d517f406-d7c4-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html?utm_term=.513a2e1df86b\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/saudi-arabia-says-khashoggis-killing-was-premeditated-in-latest-reversal\/2018\/10\/25\/d517f406-d7c4-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html?utm_term=.513a2e1df86b<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Undercover NCIS agents buy thousands of fentanyl-laced pills in operation after sailor&#8217;s death<\/h1>\n<p>A sailor\u2019s overdose death has led to charges against a suspected fentanyl distributor who sold thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills to undercover agents, concealing the drugs in everything from potato chip bags to laundry detergent bottles during handoffs near schools and in Starbucks parking lots, according to a complaint unsealed in San Diego federal court Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Marcell Travon Robinson III, of Riverside, is charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs. He was arrested Thursday after a long undercover operation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began with the Aug. 8, 2017, overdose death of a Navy service member in San Diego County. While the toxicology test found fentanyl, mitragynine, alprazolam, nordiazepam and ecstasy in his system, the medical examiner concluded that the level of fentanyl alone was enough to cause death, according to the complaint. The name of the sailor, a petty officer second class, was not released.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, investigators seized six blue pills marked with \u201cM\u201d on one side and \u201c30\u201d on the other, appearing to be oxycodone pills. A test of the drugs, however, found the make-up to be fentanyl, acetaminophen and other chemicals.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/courts\/sd-me-fentanyl-case-20181023-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/courts\/sd-me-fentanyl-case-20181023-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"dfm-title\">Rector at St. Wilfrid\u2019s in Huntington Beach confesses to theft, resigns <\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_feature lazyautosizes lazyloaded aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385\" sizes=\"494px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 620w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 780w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 1020w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 940w\" alt=\"\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 620w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 780w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 1020w,https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CHURCHPROBE-1025_02_HO-1.jpg?w=385 940w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Canon Michael D. Archer has resigned as rector of\u00a0St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church in Huntington Beach after confessing that he pocketed church contributions for his own use.<\/p>\n<p>Church leaders announced Archer\u2019s departure Monday, saying an audit would be conducted to determine how much he had stolen. Archer promised to pay back the missing money with interest, according to a letter to the 500-member congregation from church officials following a preliminary probe.<\/p>\n<p>As Fr. Michael states in his (confession) \u2026 and the investigation has confirmed, he has consistently and systematically deceived our congregation and used funds for his personal benefit that had otherwise been given generously to support the ministry and mission of St. Wilfrid\u2019s,\u201d the letter said. \u201cHe also discredited those who questioned him about his actions.\u201d The church did not file a complaint with Huntington Beach police.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Gary Hall will take over as \u201cpriest in charge\u201d on Nov. 18, said the letter jointly signed by Senior Warden Joan Pashley-Baynes and Junior Warden Allison Hainlen.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2018\/10\/24\/rector-at-st-wilfrids-in-huntington-beach-confesses-to-theft-resigns\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.ocregister.com\/2018\/10\/24\/rector-at-st-wilfrids-in-huntington-beach-confesses-to-theft-resigns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<header id=\"post-header\"><a class=\"post-cat-link\" href=\"http:\/\/deadstate.org\/category\/crime\/\"><span class=\"post-head-cat\">Crime<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title left\">Christian youth pastor gets measly 90-day jail sentence after raping 13-year-old from his church<\/h1>\n<div class=\"post-cont-out\">\n<div class=\"post-cont-in\">\n<div id=\"content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<section class=\"social-sharing-top\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"deadstate_300x250_InContent1\" align=\"center\" data-refresh-counter=\"25\" data-refresh-time=\"60\" data-view-percentage=\"100\" data-google-query-id=\"CL7Tz4HXp94CFQ3WZAodTtsDhQ\" data-refreshid=\"tkcif3s\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186\/deadstate_300x250_InContent1_0__container__\">After being found guilty of sexual assault on a child \u2013 a child who was under his care at his church, Denver youth pastor <strong>Christopher Hutchinson<\/strong> will spend only 90 days in jail.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <em>Denver Post<\/em>, the 13-year-old unidentified girl told a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/09\/30\/arapahoe-church-youth-pastor-sentence-sexually-assaulting-13-year-old-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">packed courtroom<\/a> about how she was considering suicide after Hutchinson \u201cviolated her trust and crushed her spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never punched me and he never hit me,\u201d the girl said. \u201cBut he broke me. As a person I trusted, he shattered what safety was.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/deadstate.org\/christian-youth-pastor-gets-measly-90-day-jail-sentence-after-raping-13-year-old-from-his-church\/?fbclid=IwAR0Ru1UI42V9gRtyJ3uUXBjAzX51VJ1kJxZGI-R-0bH34NKNTYTqZZsO2NQ\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">deadstate.org\/christian-youth-pastor-gets-measly-90-day-jail-sentence-after-raping-13-year-old-from-his-church\/?fbclid=IwAR0Ru1UI42V9gRtyJ3uUXBjAzX51VJ1kJxZGI-R-0bH34NKNTYTqZZsO2NQ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Moon-San-Diego-y-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Moon over San Diego, San Diego Reader<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post_date\" title=\"2018-10-25\">October 25, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/25\/thirty-five-years-on-the-mystery-of-the-grenada-invasion-remains\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Thirty-Five Years On: The Mystery of the Grenada Invasion Remains<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/rich-gibson\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rich Gibson<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Thirty-five years ago, in late October, 1983, U.S. troops under the direction of Ronald Reagan invaded Grenada, an island off Venezuela with a population less than Kalamazoo\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of Grenada presaged many of the events that blowback on the US today: unilateral warfare, official deceit about the motives for war, a massive military moving against an imagined foe, stifling the press, leaders proclaiming their guidance from God, denials of human and civil rights, systematic torture and subsequent cover-ups, an unsolved mystery that I will attempt to solve with a bit of speculation-and a hero who refused to go along.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the players in the George W. Bush regime cut their teeth on the invasion of Grenada. Obama and now Trump follow the same lead. It is more than worthwhile to review the events that lead to the invasion, as well as what came next.<\/p>\n<p>On March 13, 1979 a revolution took place in Grenada, the first in an African-Caribbean country, the first in the English-speaking world. The people who made up the revolutionary cadre were young, average age around 27. The uppermost leadership was predominantly middle class, educated abroad. They called themselves the New Jewel Movement (NJM). The revolution, or coup as some called it, was popular, replacing a mad dictator named Eric Gairy who spent much of the tiny country\u2019s (pop 100,000) resources investigating the reason Grenada was a favorite landing point for flying saucers. When I interviewed Gairy in 1996, he told me he was immortal, God. He died in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Gairy had modeled his rule on a mix of Haitian Papa Doc Duvalier\u2019s thuggery, populist appeals to peasant- workers and small-land-holders, and claims to mystical-sexual powers, a powerful constituency in Grenada. Gairy had been a teacher and union leader, was instrumental in winning Grenada\u2019s independence from Great Britain. Gairy was entrancing but he brooked no opposition and shared with few.<\/p>\n<p>His Mongoose gang was implicated in several murders. They served as the stick to Gairy\u2019s charm. The educated classes, and many others, were restive. The NJM \u201crevo\u201d of 1979 took 24 hours, the culmination of years of unarmed struggle. It was no mistake that but two people were killed in the revolution. Grenada\u2019s size means that everyone knows nearly everyone. Each death is a personal and collective tragedy. The NJM leadership never fit the bloodthirsty caricature later stamped on them by U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/r6P3eUyxBNI\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for grenada eric gairy\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the time of the uprising, Eric Gairy was in the US visiting with Nazi war criminal (and United Nations Secretary General ) Kurt Waldheim. Gairy simply didn\u2019t return. Maurice Bishop, Jacqueline Creft, Bernard and Phyllis Coard, were among the key New Jewel leaders. Bishop and Coard had been childhood friends.<\/p>\n<p>The NJM leadership were socialists, though their socialism was eclectic-hardly the doctrinaire image the U.S. later created. They borrowed judiciously and won investments from any government they could, from the British to the USSR to Iraq and Cuba (which provided mostly doctors, construction specialists, nurses, and educators). The exacting Brandeis-educated Bernard Coard, leading the financial sector, was recognized throughout the Caribbean as a rare, honest, economist.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/25\/thirty-five-years-on-the-mystery-of-the-grenada-invasion-remains\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/25\/thirty-five-years-on-the-mystery-of-the-grenada-invasion-remains\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image image-stretch-vertical frontImage aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51oiw6oN9DL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51oiw6oN9DL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[231,346],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51oiw6oN9DL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[333,499]}\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-50dd5629\" class=\"css-1l5i2on ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Statement from the Grenada Committee for Human Rights On the Illegal and Dishonest Nature of the US Invasion<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowgrenada.com\/2018\/10\/statement-from-the-committee-for-human-rights-in-grenada-chrg-uk\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nowgrenada.com\/2018\/10\/statement-from-the-committee-for-human-rights-in-grenada-chrg-uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/44896709_1001371496714667_1772331972819943424_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fsan1-2.fna&amp;oh=5b33e68395defda677f83aa5e0218753&amp;oe=5C403D86\" alt=\"Image may contain: 1 person\" aria-busy=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On this day, 27 October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, second-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused to agree with hi<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">s Captain&#8217;s order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships and setting off what might well have been a terminal superpower nuclear war. The US had been dropping depth charges near the submarine in an attempt to force it to surface, unaware it was carrying nuclear arms. The Soviet officers, who had lost radio contact with Moscow, concluded that World War 3 had begun, and 2 of the officers agreed to &#8216;blast the warships out of the water&#8217;. Arkhipov refused to agree &#8211; unanimous consent of 3 officers was required &#8211; and thanks to him, we are here to post about it on the internet!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-50dd5629\" class=\"css-1l5i2on ejekc6u0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">I Defended the Pentagon in 1967, but I Was Torn Between Duty and Conscience<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/20Vietnam-March2-copy\/20Vietnam-March2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/20Vietnam-March2-copy\/20Vietnam-March2-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/20Vietnam-March2-copy\/20Vietnam-March2-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/10\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/20Vietnam-March2-copy\/20Vietnam-March2-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-9wmysb e1olku6u0\">Outside the Pentagon during the 1967 demonstrations.<\/span><span class=\"emkp2hg1 css-6mpy6q e18m0s9i0\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1afaoz0\">Credit<\/span><span class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">Credit<\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">October 1967 was a time of simmering hostilities in the United States on two momentous sociopolitical fronts: liberal civil rights activists were battling conservative segregationists, while at the same time antiwar protesters were mounting street demonstrations calling on President Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s administration to end the Vietnam War. From coast to coast, college-age demonstrators picked up the year\u2019s most memorable chant: \u201cHey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">Last year on Oct. 20, The New York Times ran a story headlined \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/10\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/march-on-the-pentagon-oral-history.html?module=inline\">The March on the Pentagon: An Oral History<\/a>,\u201d about the tens of thousands of people who gathered in Washington 50 years earlier to protest the Vietnam War. I read every word, and then went back and read it all again. One of the interview subjects was Bob Gregson, a former company commander in the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment, \u201cthe Old Guard,\u201d whose soldiers are best known for rendering military honors at burials in Arlington National Cemetery. He and his men were assigned to fill in the outer defensive line at the Pentagon, directly confronting the army of civilians who had come to Washington to implore the government to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>I was riveted by the piece, partly because it worked like a time machine, transporting me back five decades. On Oct. 21, 1967, I was there on the front line, in uniform, with my rifle. Gregson was my commanding officer that day, though not the officer involved in the incident that would come to have such an impact on my short career as a soldier. In The Times, he was quoted as saying, \u201cMost of our men were draftees and perhaps had varying levels of sympathy for the protesters.\u201d Gregson didn\u2019t have me in mind, but I could have been a poster boy for those antiwar sympathies. This is my own personal recollection of my experience of the March on the Pentagon, the most significant antiwar protest of our nation\u2019s Vietnam era.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz euv7paa0\">For several months <\/strong>before the Pentagon event, we troops in the Old Guard were continually hectored by our noncommissioned officers to believe that antiwar protests in general were essentially unpatriotic, anti-American activities. At morning formations, they\u2019d tell us that the protest leaders coming to Washington were \u201ccommie agents\u201d supplied with guns and ammo, being sent in on chartered buses paid for by the Russian K.G.B.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 717w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1\/24atwar-vietnamprotest_1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 717w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-9wmysb e1olku6u0\">The author shaking hands with Col. Joseph B. Conmy Jr.<\/span><span class=\"css-nt1l96 e18m0s9i0\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1afaoz0\">Credit<\/span>Courtesy photo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">I wasn\u2019t buying it. Instead, I tried to paint a corrective narrative to anyone in my company willing to listen. I repeatedly told members of my platoon that I had donated money to antiwar organizations, that I had friends from New York who were planning to join the demonstration and that I had invited some of them to stay in the off-base apartment I was renting in Arlington. Some of my platoonmates, unswayed by my position, seemed excited to go head to head with the protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">As the demonstration neared, the press was predicting that at least 100,000 antiwar protesters would surge into the city to surround the Pentagon. The activist Abbie Hoffman and the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg announced that protesters would chant a magic mantra, the power of which would cause the Pentagon to shake loose from the earth. Its bulk would levitate and hover 300 feet off the ground. Savvy about attracting media coverage, they knew how an outrageous claim could draw a crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\">For \u201criot training\u201d leading up to the event, my unit was trucked to a camp in Virginia. It was fenced with wire and guarded by sentries. In a clearing filled with stubble, stones and dry brown earth, we stood \u2014 a solid block of uniformed men, packed together Roman-phalanx style. Through an olive-drab bullhorn, the drill sergeant shouted his orders: \u201cAdvance, advance. Don\u2019t <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330\">walk<\/em> forward with the left. <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 ehxkw330\">Stomp<\/em> that foot.\u201d Soldiers in the front rank advanced with rifles angled forward, bayonets pointed menacingly. The rest of us advanced with rifles stuck close to our bodies. We practiced pushing against imaginary bodies. The drill sergeant told us to use the bayonet and go first for the hands and then for the belly if people acted out. There was one type of person we were told not to stab in the stomach: pregnant women. For them, there was a special maneuver: a quick knock on the head with the butt of the rifle. We practiced the movement over and over again in the afternoon heat until it, too, became automatic. When we were called upon to defend the Pentagon from external threat, we would be prepared. Prepared to attack American kids with boot heels and billy clubs, bayonets and rifle butts.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/vietnam-war-pentagon-protests.html?action=click&#038;module=RelatedLinks&#038;pgtype=Article\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/24\/magazine\/vietnam-war-pentagon-protests.html?action=click&#038;module=RelatedLinks&#038;pgtype=Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>So Long<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" style=\"text-align: center;\">George Schmidt, passionate Chicago Public Schools teacher, dies at 71<\/h1>\n<p><img class=\"trb_em_ic_img trb_em_ic_img_108485956\" title=\"George Schmidt\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 750px, (min-width: 1060px) calc(100vw - 559px), (min-width: 840px) calc(100vw - 419px), (min-width: 800px) 800px, 100.1vw\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bcd09ee\/turbine\/ct-1540164066-lrr23iau5c-snap-image\/350\/350x197 350w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bcd09ee\/turbine\/ct-1540164066-lrr23iau5c-snap-image\/400\/400x225 400w, http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bcd09ee\/turbine\/ct-1540164066-lrr23iau5c-snap-image\/424\/424x239 424w\" alt=\"George Schmidt\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bcd09ee\/turbine\/ct-1540164066-lrr23iau5c-snap-image\" data-c-nd=\"424x238\" data-role=\"imgsize_srcsetdisplayitem\" \/><\/p>\n<article class=\"trb_ar\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_main\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_bd\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"1\">\n<p>George N. Schmidt was passionate about education and fighting injustice wherever he saw it. He pursued both in dual roles as a high school English teacher in Chicago Public Schools and as editor-in-chief of Substance, a controversial, teacher-produced investigative newspaper he co-founded that focused on the school system.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt also was known for his educational innovations \u2014 he was an early adopter of Apple Macintosh computers, which he brought into his classrooms \u2014 and his commitment to teaching lower-income high school students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeorge was passionate about the things he did believe in,\u201d said Chicago Teachers Union recording secretary Michael Brunson, a longtime friend who described Schmidt as a mentor. \u201cGeorge was a fearless individual, and he was not afraid to be the only one in the room speaking his mind. He had this thing where if he thought you were doing anything that was contradictory to the principles that we were supposed to be standing on or what we believed in, he would call you out and he\u2019d say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, 71, died of complications from lung cancer Sept. 17 at his home, said his wife of 20 years, Sharon. He had been a longtime resident of the Northwest Side Portage Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod\" data-v-ntidd=\"1069645\" data-adloader-networktype=\"nativo\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.nativo.init\" data-load-type=\"method\"><\/aside>\n<p>Born in Elizabeth, N.J., to World War II veteran parents, Schmidt grew up in Linden, N.J., where he became an Eagle Scout at 13. He graduated from St. Benedict\u2019s Preparatory School in Newark in 1964 and spent two years at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt moved to Chicago for his final two years of college, and he received a scholarship to study at the University of Chicago. While there, he studied under future U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky, joined the activist group Students for a Democratic Society and demonstrated during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from the U. of C. in 1969 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and the humanities, Schmidt took education courses at Chicago State University and Northeastern Illinois University. He worked as a substitute teacher in Chicago\u2019s pubic schools until 1971. A fierce opponent of the Vietnam War, Schmidt also volunteered to be what he termed a \u201cmilitary counselor\u201d for the Chicago Area Military Project \u2014 helping educate active and AWOL soldiers while also producing underground newspapers like Vietnam GI and Camp News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA-367x500.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AFT-CIA-500x681.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Substance co-founder Larry MacDonald, a former Marine, said he \u201creally appreciated\u201d Schmidt\u2019s antiwar activities.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod\" data-v-ntidm=\"1069648\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100&amp;topOffset=1000000\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.nativo.init\" data-load-type=\"method\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe had the right ideas about things, and I found his analysis of the war compelling,\u201d MacDonald said. \u201cAnd to know that he was out there to try to organize soldiers to speak out against the war, if you\u2019re outside Fort Riley in Kansas passing out leaflets outside of a gate, that takes some heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt later stopped teaching for a time and drove a taxi to make ends meet. He also attended DePaul University College of Law for two years, studying military law.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974, Schmidt returned to teaching in Chicago Public Schools as a day-to-day substitute teacher at Grant Elementary School and then at Prosser Vocational High School in the Northwest Side Hanson Park neighborhood. In 1975, Schmidt sought to organize substitute teachers.<\/p>\n<p>From 1976 until 1983, Schmidt was a regular presence in numerous Chicago high schools, including Steinmetz, Collins, Tilden, Manley, Marshall, DuSable, Gage Park and Kenwood. In January 1984, Schmidt was assigned a steady position teaching English at Amundsen High School in the North Side Ravenswood neighborhood. While at Amundsen, Schmidt taught every level of English and served as the faculty sponsor for the school newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt also built a reputation for his interest in technology, and after Apple rolled out its Macintosh computer in 1984, Schmidt won grants to bring the new computers into his classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt was a finalist for the first Golden Apple teaching award in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>After a dispute with Amundsen\u2019s principal at the time, Ed Klunk, Schmidt was reassigned to Bowen High School in the South Side\u2019s South Chicago neighborhood in 1993. While at Bowen, he also served as the school\u2019s security coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s work outside the classroom was as important to him as his time in the classroom. He ran for president of the Chicago Teachers Union three times, and he was at the helm of Substance from the time he helped found it in 1975 until his death.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt started Substance as a newsletter to air substitute teachers\u2019 grievances. The monthly publication produced stories that challenged Westside Prep founder Marva Collins\u2019 claims of success in teaching low-income students and uncovered how CPS administrators worked during vacation periods to pad their incomes.<\/p>\n<p>One of Schmidt\u2019s biggest stories was in April 1985, when Substance broke the news that James Moffat, the principal at Kelvyn Park High School on the Northwest Side, a powerful former deputy superintendent, had been molesting students in his office. Moffat was convicted in 1987 of sexually abusing five students in his office and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to know the truth to change the horror that is the Chicago Public Schools for (a) large number of children and teachers in the city,\u201d Schmidt told the Tribune in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald called Schmidt \u201ca fighter for a long time\u201d and \u201ca real intellect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a subject you couldn\u2019t talk to him about, although he\u2019d always want to turn it back to the schools,\u201d MacDonald said. \u201cHe knew something about everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s work for Substance created no shortage of enemies, including CPS administrators, union officials and local politicians.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In 1999, Schmidt\u2019s work for Substance cost him his teaching job at Bowen. In Substance, Schmidt acquired and published, page for page, end-of-semester CASE exams for high school students as a way to highlight what he thought were problems with the exams, which were a cornerstone in CPS\u2019 efforts to reform learning and teaching assessments under new local standards. Schmidt published the U.S. history, algebra, world studies and English exams.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThe exams have neither validity nor reliability,\u201d Schmidt told the Tribune in 1999. \u201cThis should be publishable, and it should be subject to public debate.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s action drew criticism from Mayor Richard M. Daley, schools chief Paul Vallas and school board President Gery Chico, and officials suspended Schmidt with pay and subsequently terminated him.<\/p>\n<p>After his firing, Schmidt worked for the Chicago Teachers Union as a researcher, director of school safety and consultant and also worked for SEIU Local 73 as the director of research. He continued to edit Substance until his death.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney Young High School English teacher Jay Rehak, who also is the president of the Chicago Teachers\u2019 Pension Fund, called Schmidt \u201cthe most tenacious journalist I ever met.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_ar_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"2\">\n<p>\u201cGeorge was skeptical of systems, and he always tried to keep everybody honest. Even though he was very powerful and a strong union advocate, he always held the feet to the fire of anyone in power, even in his own union,\u201d Rehak said. \u201cHe was such a purist that to be honest with you, nobody could make him 100 percent happy with what they did. His sincerity and his integrity are what I remember about him the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two previous marriages, to Linda Haase and Agatha Vasilescu, ended in divorce. In addition to his wife, Schmidt is survived by three sons, Dan, Sam and Josh; a brother, Thomas; and two sisters, Joan and Terry.<\/p>\n<p>Services were held.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_sc\" data-role=\"sc_information sc_container\" data-sc-c=\"page\" data-sc-url=\"\/news\/obituaries\/ct-met-george-schmidt-obit-20181021-story.html\" data-sc-ti=\"George Schmidt, passionate Chicago Public Schools teacher, dies at 71\" data-sc-th=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5bcd26d2\/turbine\/ct-met-george-schmidt-obit-20181021\" data-sc-desc=\"George N. Schmidt was passionate about education and fighting injustice wherever he saw it. 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Congratulations on the publication of: Women&#8217;s March\u00a0on the Pentagon October\u00a020-21,\u00a02018 &nbsp; The Least Important Election in History by\u00a0JASON HOLLAND The US midterm elections are almost upon us, but this is a needless bit of inconsequential trivia. 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