{"id":23209,"date":"2019-05-05T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=23209"},"modified":"2019-05-05T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:34:11","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-make-mayday-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-make-mayday-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Make Mayday Everyday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1818<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Marx-birthday.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Marx-birthday.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Marx-birthday.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Marx-birthday-112x150.jpeg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congratulation on the publication of:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ohanian-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ohanian-book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ohanian-book.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ohanian-book-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Biting\u00a0satirical verses\u00a0mock Oval Office megalomania, greed, and Twittery.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join Susan at the book launch party organized by Onion River Press at Phoenix Books, in Burlington, <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>May 7, 7 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>\u00a0Be there! \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Book also available at Flying Pig, Amazon, and Barnes &amp; Noble.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On this day: Four killed in Kent State shooting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lmd6CHah7Wg?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 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">Martin Glaberman&#8221;s Work<\/h1>\n<div class=\"views-row views-row-6 views-row-even\">\n<div id=\"node-52036\" class=\"node clear-block not-page\">\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/library\/punching-out-other-writings-martin-glaberman-edited-staughton-lynd\">Punching out and other writings &#8211; Martin Glaberman, edited by Staughton Lynd<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"field field-type-text field-field-introduction\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>A great collection of the writings of former-auto worker Martin Glaberman, edited and introduced by Staughton Lynd, published in 2002. Covering topics such as life on the production line, the unions and methods of struggle. (and much more from the best of the Johnson Forrest Tendency).\u00a0<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/tags\/martin-glaberman\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">libcom.org\/tags\/martin-glaberman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Leopold&#039;s Ghost | Trailer | Available Now\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2_UGSVvAzs?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>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"node-title clearfix\">Plundering of DR Congo natural resources: Final report of the Panel of Experts (S\/2002\/1146)<\/h1>\n<p>I have the honour to refer to the statement by the President of the Security Council dated 19 December 2001 (S\/PRST\/2001\/39), whereby the Security Council renewed for a period of six months the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Council requested the Panel to submit to it an interim report after three months, followed by a final report at the end of its mandate. I refer also to the letter dated 12 July 2002 from the President (S\/2002\/763), by which the Security Council extended the mandate of the Panel until 31 October 2002.<\/p>\n<p>I have the honour to transmit to you the final report of the Panel, which was submitted to me by its Chairman, Mr. Mahmoud Kassem. This independent report comprises an evaluation of the situation on the ground and the Panel&#8217;s observations on the illegal exploitation of the natural resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I should be grateful if you would bring the report to the attention of the members of the Security Council.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/burundi\/plundering-dr-congo-natural-resources-final-report-panel-experts-s20021146\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">reliefweb.int\/report\/burundi\/plundering-dr-congo-natural-resources-final-report-panel-experts-s20021146<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/nZuJC786gGcvgPy3xB9Iu-3jJVE=\/0x0:3000x1680\/1200x800\/filters:focal(1260x600:1740x1080)\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/59743437\/redfored.0.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for red for ed\" width=\"304\" height=\"203\" data-iml=\"1557039330670\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">South Carolina teachers flex their activist muscles after decades of labor losses<\/h1>\n<p>..Rarely a hotbed of union organizing or labor demonstrations, the state of South Carolina nevertheless has a rich history of activism by its public school teachers. With or without a union, teachers have led charges to raise education funding, expand access to kindergarten, cap classroom sizes and occasionally topple their political enemies.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/south-carolina-teachers-flex-their-activist-muscles-after-decades-of\/article_e25dd566-6605-11e9-b779-63a44d23af8b.html?fbclid=IwAR3jvXx3OYyT97MGXUVT1nU-Bdon-1tgHb-mZV4cQ2ouehVkdOIbgLGYOE0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.postandcourier.com\/news\/south-carolina-teachers-flex-their-activist-muscles-after-decades-of\/article_e25dd566-6605-11e9-b779-63a44d23af8b.html?fbclid=IwAR3jvXx3OYyT97MGXUVT1nU-Bdon-1tgHb-mZV4cQ2ouehVkdOIbgLGYOE0<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-story__headline grid__scroll-hook\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-scroll-hook-name=\"article-story__headline\">South Carolina teacher rally draws 10,000 to Columbia<\/h1>\n<p>Teachers went to the South Carolina capitol to ask for better pay, smaller class sizes, and more support.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/plane-carrying-142-people-skids-into-st-johns-river\/77-b7db12b0-629b-4b78-83ba-e479f3d13cb5?ref=exit-recirc\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/plane-carrying-142-people-skids-into-st-johns-river\/77-b7db12b0-629b-4b78-83ba-e479f3d13cb5?ref=exit-recirc<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SPHS-walkout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SPHS-walkout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SPHS-walkout.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SPHS-walkout-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SPHS-walkout-281x500.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a>above from Broward City, Florida<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paris: May Day protests - BBC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RmeDlNi476g?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><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/58583843_10157141095656668_4785950597020909568_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fsan1-1.fna&amp;oh=dd779087c00111cb722a0a8cdce13059&amp;oe=5D66E530\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" aria-busy=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-592b1992\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Admissions Scandal: When \u2018Hard Work\u2019 (Plus $6.5 Million) Helps Get You Into Stanford<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student1\/9618f69617954d77ad6a0eb7a4e40ebd-articleLarge.png?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\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student1\/9618f69617954d77ad6a0eb7a4e40ebd-articleLarge.png?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student1\/9618f69617954d77ad6a0eb7a4e40ebd-jumbo.png?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student1\/9618f69617954d77ad6a0eb7a4e40ebd-superJumbo.png?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Sitting in a plush chair and wearing a white blouse buttoned up to the neck, the young woman looks into the camera, smiles and offers advice about getting into a top American university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cSome people think, \u2018Didn\u2019t you get into Stanford because your family is rich?\u2019\u201d the woman, Yusi Zhao, says in a video posted on social media. It wasn\u2019t like that, she says. The admissions officers \u201chave no idea who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">She adds, \u201cI tested into Stanford through my own hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MUB3XW6Fu9k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> was recorded in the summer before Ms. Zhao began her freshman year, in 2017. It now stands in sharp contrast with recent news: that her parents paid $6.5 million to a college consultant at the center of an international college admissions scheme, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Prosecutors say that the consultant, William Singer, tried to get Ms. Zhao recruited to the Stanford sailing team, providing a fake list of sailing accomplishments and making a $500,000 donation to the sailing program after she was admitted.<\/p>\n<p>The payment to Mr. Singer was by far the largest known in the case, and the disclosure immediately added Ms. Zhao and her family, <em><strong>pharmaceutical billionaires from China<\/strong><\/em>, to a cast of powerful figures swept up in the scandal, including two Hollywood actresses and prominent names from the American legal and business worlds. (below Zhao with Trumps)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/yusi-molly-zhao-china-stanford.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/yusi-molly-zhao-china-stanford.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1m50asq aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student2\/debd6eef572c4e49b4869fdb4a36c836-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"50vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student2\/debd6eef572c4e49b4869fdb4a36c836-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student2\/debd6eef572c4e49b4869fdb4a36c836-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 640w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/02student2\/debd6eef572c4e49b4869fdb4a36c836-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 640w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"content__headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Charles Koch gave $25m to our university. Has it become a rightwing mouthpiece?<\/h1>\n<div class=\"content__headline-standfirst-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<p>We are student journalists at Utah State University. Our investigation found an effort to inject universities with conservative thinking<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This story is published in collaboration with the university\u2019s student newspaper, the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\">Utah Statesman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content media-primary--showcase \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"8615e5d978f52706e9de4c37e755528856637e7f\">\n<div><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8615e5d978f52706e9de4c37e755528856637e7f\/0_0_3543_2362\/master\/3543.jpg?width=1300&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=3557d567de378e4e3d7e88352e1e4ac7 2600w\" media=\"(min-width: 1300px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1300px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" sizes=\"1300px\" \/><source 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sizes=\"465px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8615e5d978f52706e9de4c37e755528856637e7f\/0_0_3543_2362\/master\/3543.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=48d53d434894534664e6d11aea76b667 465w\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" sizes=\"465px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8615e5d978f52706e9de4c37e755528856637e7f\/0_0_3543_2362\/master\/3543.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3b08bacea5ea7ca2fbe19a9bed93bd35\" alt=\"Angel Lopez, Utah State University marketing graduate, was given a $1,000 award in the Koch Scholarship program.\" \/> <\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<header class=\"content__head content__head--article tonal__head tonal__head--tone-feature\">\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content media-primary--showcase \" data-component=\"image\" data-media-id=\"8615e5d978f52706e9de4c37e755528856637e7f\"><figcaption class=\"caption caption--main caption--img\">Angel Lopez, Utah State University marketing graduate, was given a $1,000 award in the Koch Scholarship program. Photograph: Kim Raff\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>At first, Angel Lopez felt honored to have won the scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the marketing student at <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/utah\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Utah<\/a> State University\u2019s business school was named a Koch Scholar, a program sponsored by Charles Koch, the ultra-conservative billionaire. Fifteen students are given a $1,000 stipend and selected to participate in the \u201creading group\u201d, tasked with reading one book a week.<\/p>\n<p>But Lopez, 23, the son of Latino immigrants who aspired to become a social worker, soon felt the program was promoting a hardline brand of rightwing politics. His required readings, with titles such as Order Without Law and Anarchy Unbound, could often be boiled down to a single idea: Government is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the Koch Scholars program is one example of how Charles Koch has sought to transform the Utah State business school into a libertarian mouthpiece.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/may\/02\/charles-koch-gave-25m-to-our-university-has-it-become-a-rightwing-mouthpiece?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA1MDI%3D&#038;utm_source=esp&#038;utm_medium=Email&#038;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&#038;CMP=GTUS_email&#038;fbclid=IwAR0d3Kk4iSayVjhizKV3-VuASiQBrbLj3Bs_XQIzReRPijS1KGyVZehW7zA\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/may\/02\/charles-koch-gave-25m-to-our-university-has-it-become-a-rightwing-mouthpiece?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTA1MDI%3D&#038;utm_source=esp&#038;utm_medium=Email&#038;utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&#038;CMP=GTUS_email&#038;fbclid=IwAR0d3Kk4iSayVjhizKV3-VuASiQBrbLj3Bs_XQIzReRPijS1KGyVZehW7zA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/ibIT4A9767EOBkcWrSjrvO2mxNo=\/800x0\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5ccd0693\/turbine\/la-1556940430-tfh35cnh0y-snap-image\" alt=\"In L.A. Unified elementary schools, library books could be off-limits to many students\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In L.A. Unified elementary schools, library books could be off-limits to many students<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p data-page=\"1\">Here we go again, tumbling down the shaft and into a bizarro world in which school libraries lock out students who need them most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>L.A. Unified elementary school libraries are on the chopping block once again, and library aides, many of whom could lose their jobs, are screaming for justice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>Some L.A. Unified board members, meanwhile, have made passionate pleas to keep the doors open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re not reading by grade level by third grade, you\u2019re going to struggle for the rest of your life,\u201d said board member Scott Schmerelson, who has introduced a resolution calling for the district to come up with the necessary funding.<\/p>\n<p>But just a few months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/education\/la-me-edu-lausd-teachers-strike-negotiations-20190122-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Unified teachers\u2019 strike<\/a> drew strong public support for better pay and more resources for the struggling district, budget woes are forcing miserable choices that will hit students hard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>\u201cAn elementary school library is one of the more magical places in a child\u2019s life,\u201d said Meredith Kadlec, a second-grade parent who has been writing letters in the campaign to ward off cuts. \u201cImagination is born from books, and what about the kids who don\u2019t get that enrichment at home? I feel like we\u2019re going the wrong way in America when libraries are at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>They\u2019ve been at risk for years now in L.A. Unified. Many years ago, every school had a fully funded librarian.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-lopez-lausd-libraries-20190504-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-lopez-lausd-libraries-20190504-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Below, Detroit school scrapped + waiting demolition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-school.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Detroit-school-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section id=\"module-position-RwH5qCcCO5Q\" class=\"longformcovertop-bucket longform-headline-module longform-longform-headline-module\">\n<h1 class=\"longform-intro-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Detroit schools face tough choices with too many repairs, not enough money<\/h1>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-RwH5qCdjZRc\" class=\"longformcovertop-bucket longform-subheadline-module longform-longform-subheadline-module\">\n<p class=\"longform-intro-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The district will spend $9.7 million to repair 46 school buildings and then ask the community to dec<\/em><em>ide the fate of what&#8217;s left to fix<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">\u00a0Detroit\u2019s public school district is struggling with two realities: Most of its buildings are broken, but it can\u2019t collect a single penny of taxes to address nearly $543 million in needed repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Inoperable boilers. Corroded plumbing fixtures. Missing ceiling tiles in classrooms. Exterior walls with cracks. Roof leaks. Incomplete fire alarm systems. Electrical panels in classrooms known to be fire hazards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">These expensive, growing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/education\/2018\/06\/22\/price-tag-fix-dpscd-buildings-500-million\/726186002\/\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">capital needs exist across\u00a0100\u00a0school buildings<\/a> at the\u00a0Detroit Public School Community District where facilities were neglected for nearly a decade under emergency management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Waiting another four\u00a0years to deal with widespread poor building conditionswould cause the price to soar to nearly\u00a0$1.5\u00a0billion, according to an\u00a0assessment by\u00a0engineering consulting firm OHM Advisors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But waiting is what DPSCD must do. The district\u00a0cannot issue debt to fund school construction through the\u00a0state\u2019s School Bond Loan Fund \u2014 the program most Michigan schools use to fund expensive school construction \u2014 because it has already borrowed the maximum permitted by law.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/04\/29\/detroit-schools-face-tough-choices-too-many-repairs-not-enough-money\/3232674002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/04\/29\/detroit-schools-face-tough-choices-too-many-repairs-not-enough-money\/3232674002\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subbuzz__media-image js-subbuzz__media js-progressive-image js-pinnable xs-col-12 xs-block img--loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2019-04\/25\/11\/asset\/buzzfeed-prod-web-01\/sub-buzz-23075-1556206682-1.jpg?downsize=1600:*&amp;output-format=auto&amp;output-quality=auto\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2019-04\/25\/11\/asset\/buzzfeed-prod-web-01\/sub-buzz-23075-1556206682-1.jpg\" data-mobile-src=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2019-04\/25\/11\/asset\/buzzfeed-prod-web-01\/sub-buzz-23075-1556206682-1.jpg?resize=990:681\" data-crop=\"68.80\" data-mobile-crop=\"68.79\" data-span=\"1\" data-bfa=\"@o:{ignore:[bfaBinder]};\" data-force-desktop-width=\"1600\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2019-04\/25\/11\/asset\/buzzfeed-prod-web-01\/sub-buzz-23075-1556206682-1.jpg?downsize=1600:*&amp;output-format=auto&amp;output-quality=auto\" data-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<h1 class=\"news-article-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Students Live In Tents, Do Homework Under Flashlights, And Deal Without Textbooks Months After California&#8217;s Massive Camp Fire<\/h1>\n<p><b>Jay Leaird used<\/b> to spend his afternoons mulling over math problems and texting his friends. Now, the 17-year-old devotes most of his time to filling out applications for things like financial assistance and food stamps. It\u2019s not how he imagined his last year of high school, but after the Camp fire wiped out his Northern California community in November, the challenge of entering adulthood has been an even steeper climb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying in school is the hardest thing to do now,\u201d the senior said.<\/p>\n<p>Months after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history destroyed more than 153,000 acres and killed 85 people, students are grappling with how to press ahead without things as basic as textbooks and WiFi, let alone a roof over their heads.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/briannasacks\/students-displaced-camp-fire?ref=bfnsplash&#038;fbclid=IwAR1z9F9ld_owHM6x82uXearaulcLRIaQhJd7wO3q8ov5zYKBGfiXzr9tAso\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/briannasacks\/students-displaced-camp-fire?ref=bfnsplash&#038;fbclid=IwAR1z9F9ld_owHM6x82uXearaulcLRIaQhJd7wO3q8ov5zYKBGfiXzr9tAso<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capitalist-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capitalist-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capitalist-school.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capitalist-school-150x80.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section id=\"module-position-RwH5qCdjZRc\" class=\"longformcovertop-bucket longform-subheadline-module longform-longform-subheadline-module\">\n<h1 class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\">\u2018Overtly racist\u2019 messages attributed to Newport Harbor High students spur school district investigation<\/h1>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p data-page=\"1\">The Newport-Mesa Unified School District said Friday that it is investigating a series of \u201covertly racist\u201d messages shared in a private Instagram group chat that included students from Newport Harbor High School in Newport Beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>In a statement sent to parents and the Newport Harbor community, the district stated that though \u201cthese online interactions are not school-related, we address them as they come to our attention and when they impact the school. We are in the process of gathering information.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>In a screenshot of one exchange that a student shared with the Daily Pilot, a participant in the conversation asked others if they \u201cwanted anything from alabama\/mississippi? I\u2019ll get you a real confederate flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<p>One person wrote back, \u201cOmfg yes plz,\u201d while another wrote, \u201cWhat do you want? Do they still sell black people down there?\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-racist-messages-newport-harbor-high-students-20190503-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-racist-messages-newport-harbor-high-students-20190503-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95782\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TimesofSanDiego-Otero.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TimesofSanDiego-Otero.jpg 640w, https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TimesofSanDiego-Otero-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TimesofSanDiego-Otero-320x180.jpg 320w\" alt=\"Tamara Otero, president of the Cajon Valley Union School District Board of Trustees.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Questions Raised as Cajon School Board President\u2019s Son Wins $655,000 District Pact<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>A $655,000 construction contract for a modular building at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cajonvalley.net\/loscochescreek\"><strong>Los Coches Creek Middle School<\/strong><\/a> in El Cajon was awarded last month to the son of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cajonvalley.net\/\"><strong>Cajon Valley Union School<\/strong><\/a>board president, East County Magazine has confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>n total, 37 contractors \u201cpulled plans\u201d for the project and eight submitted bids \u2014 with Otero Construction Inc. winning the work. The company is <a href=\"https:\/\/oteroconstructioninc.com\/management-team\"><strong>owned by Dryw Otero<\/strong>,<\/a> the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Tamara_Otero\"><strong>Tamara Otero<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, board member Jill Barto asked Otero: \u201cIs this your husband\u2019s company?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Otero replied \u201cNo\u201d and immediately brushed off the question, saying the internet connection to her computer on the dais was disconnected. (Barto says she asked about the family connections but her phrase \u201cand your family\u201d was masked by Otero\u2019s response.)<\/p>\n<p>Otero abstained from voting, but did not give a reason.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/education\/2019\/05\/01\/questions-raised-as-cajon-school-board-presidents-son-wins-655000-district-pact\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">timesofsandiego.com\/education\/2019\/05\/01\/questions-raised-as-cajon-school-board-presidents-son-wins-655000-district-pact\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<div class=\"card collection-item\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" card-content \">\n<h1 class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Profile of student porn worker allowed to run in Stockton high school newspaper<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/resizer\/tmRVlCyv9Rhjlc2T7sf_9Oh0vuQ=\/800x0\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5ccba9c5\/turbine\/la-1556851136-rqg7h6os5a-snap-image\" alt=\"Profile of student porn worker allowed to run in Stockton high school newspaper\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bear Creek High School student newspaper advisor Kathi Duffel, left, and student journalist Bailey Kirkeby talk about Lodi Unified&#8217;s attempts to suppress a story Kirkeby wrote about a student who works in the porn industry. The district decided to allow the story to run. (Clifford Oto \/ Stockton Record)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-porn-worker-student-profile-newspaper-20190502-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-porn-worker-student-profile-newspaper-20190502-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Loose-lips-sink-ships.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Loose-lips-sink-ships.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Loose-lips-sink-ships.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Loose-lips-sink-ships-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Loose-lips-sink-ships-500x267.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">US and China push global military spending to record high<\/h1>\n<p class=\"td-post-sub-title\">U.S. military expenditure along accounted for 36 percent of total global military spending, as much as the next eight biggest-spending countries combined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D5S94uEWkAAEYjW.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-aria-label-part=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"l-article-header__row l-article-header__row--title t-bold t-bold--condensed\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The Pentagon\u2019s Bottomless Money Pit<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government\u2019s greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD\u2019s $700 billion annual budget go?<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-crop__img wp-post-image visible\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=440\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 959px) 910px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=440 440w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=910 910w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=1440 1440w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=1910 1910w\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=440\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=440 440w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=910 910w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=1440 1440w, https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pentagon-bottomless-money-pit2-sm.jpg?crop=900:600&amp;width=1910 1910w\" \/><\/h1>\n<figure class=\"c-picture\">\n<div class=\"c-picture__caption\">\n<p class=\"c-picture__source t-semibold\">r Juhasz for Rolling Stone<\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"l-article-content\">\n<div class=\"c-content t-copy\">\n<p class=\"p1\">A retired Air Force auditor \u2014 we\u2019ll call him Andy \u2014 tells a story about a thing that happened at Ogden Air Force Base, Utah. Sometime in early 2001, something went wrong with a base inventory order. Andy thinks it was a simple data-entry error. \u201cSomeone ordered five of something,\u201d he says, \u201cand it came out as an order for 999,000.\u201d He laughs. \u201cIt was probably just something the machine defaulted to. Type in an order for a part the wrong way, and it comes out all frickin\u2019 nines in every field.\u201d Nobody actually delivered a monster load of parts. But the faulty transaction \u2014 the paper trail for a phantom inventory adjustment never made \u2014 started moving through the Air Force\u2019s maze of internal accounting systems anyway. A junior-level logistics officer caught it before it went out of house. Andy remembers the incident because, as a souvenir, he kept the June 28th, 2001, email that circulated about it in the Air Force accounting world, in which the dollar value of the error was discussed.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276\/?fbclid=IwAR13GodauKZkVkOkru-XBn3Y0y0BDnPJWnGrOuQ-iHww1RdexPEl-KhCL1U\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276\/?fbclid=IwAR13GodauKZkVkOkru-XBn3Y0y0BDnPJWnGrOuQ-iHww1RdexPEl-KhCL1U<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Never-before-seen video of B-2 Stealth Bomber\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EHFW20Kbvk?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>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"article-header__headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The New Revolution in Military Affairs<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article-header__deck\" style=\"text-align: center;\">War\u2019s Sci-Fi Future<\/h2>\n<p>..The idea of a future military revolution became discredited amid nearly two decades of war after 2001 and has been further damaged by reductions in defense spending since 2011. But along the way, the United States has also squandered hundreds of billions of dollars trying to modernize in the wrong ways. Instead of thinking systematically about buying faster, more effective kill chains that could be built now, Washington poured money into newer versions of old military platforms and prayed for technological miracles to come (which often became acquisition debacles when those miracles did not materialize). The result is that U.S. battle networks are not nearly as fast or effective as they have appeared while the United States has been fighting lesser opponents for almost three decades.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-inline-img--offset\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\u00a0A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter leaving an Iraqi police base in Baghdad, February 2007\" src=\"https:\/\/files.foreignaffairs.com\/styles\/large-alt\/s3\/images\/articles\/2019\/04\/12\/brose2.jpg?itok=nN7oKTFz\" alt=\"\u00a0A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter leaving an Iraqi police base in Baghdad, February 2007\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-inline-image-info\">\n<div class=\"article-inline-image-info\">\n<aside class=\"article-inline-image__photo-credit\">Carlos Barria \/ REUTERS<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"article-inline-image__figcaption\">\u00a0A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter leaving an Iraqi police base in Baghdad, February 2007<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet if ever there were a time to get serious about the coming revolution in military affairs, it is now.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/2019-04-16\/new-revolution-military-affairs?utm_medium=newsletters&#038;utm_source=fatoday&#038;utm_content=20190429&#038;utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20042919%20War%E2%80%99s%20Sci-Fi%20Future%2C%20Sanctions%20and%20Regime%20Change%2C%20The%20Global%20Language%20of%20Hatred&#038;utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/2019-04-16\/new-revolution-military-affairs?utm_medium=newsletters&#038;utm_source=fatoday&#038;utm_content=20190429&#038;utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20042919%20War%E2%80%99s%20Sci-Fi%20Future%2C%20Sanctions%20and%20Regime%20Change%2C%20The%20Global%20Language%20of%20Hatred&#038;utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sexual assaults in military rise to more than 20,000, Pentagon survey says<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/sexual-assault-military-ap-jpo-190502_hpEmbed_8x11_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: Statistics for sexual assault in the U.S. military for FY 2018.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>n a setback for the U.S. military&#8217;s efforts to reduce <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/survey-shows-50-percent-jump-sexual-assault-harassment\/story?id=60751487\">sexual assault in the military<\/a>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/sen-martha-mcsally-raped-senior-officer-air-force\/story?id=61513137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon survey<\/a> released Thursday shows the number of <a id=\"_ap_link_sexual assault_MeToo_\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/me-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual assault<\/a>s increased in 2018 to 20,500, almost the same levels as five years ago, a result that Pentagon officials say will lead to changes in its sexual assault prevention efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures are included in an anonymous <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/reports-sexual-assault-military-jump-10-percent\/story?id=54827619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagon survey conducted every two years<\/a> that estimates the &#8220;prevalence,&#8221; or rate, of sexual assault in the military. Sexual assault is defined as rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual contact, abusive sexual contact and attempts to commit those offenses. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/military-sexual-assault-numbers-increase-young-female-service\/story?id=62762858\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/military-sexual-assault-numbers-increase-young-female-service\/story?id=62762858<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1gYefb3TOvM\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1gYefb3TOvM<\/a><\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Details Emerge on Failed US-Backed Coup in Venezuela<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/642196696\/videos\/10156035792356697\/?t=18\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/642196696\/videos\/10156035792356697\/?t=18<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pagesub\">Opposition figure Lopez met with generals while under house arrest<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author vcard\"> <a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/author\/jason\/\">Jason Ditz<\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"posted-on\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Posted on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/05\/02\/details-emerge-on-failed-us-backed-coup-in-venezuela\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2019-05-02T18:17:33-08:00\">May 2, 2019<\/time><\/a><\/span><span class=\"cat-links\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Categories <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span><span class=\"tags-links\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tags <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/tag\/trump\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" rel=\"tag\">Venezuela<\/a><\/span><\/footer>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Venezuela has a recent history replete with cases of failed opposition uprisings, rebellions, and coup attempts. US involvement is usually alleged, often with evidence, but rarely confirmed. This week, however, the US was quick to put its stamp on the coup attempt, and seemed highly confident that it would be a great success.<\/p>\n<p>Once it failed, it was a bit too late for the administration to deny involvement. Days later, information continues to emerge on what happened, why the US was so confident, and how ultimately the assured victory they thought they had didn\u2019t pan out.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the coup, after all, is in the planning stages. The US spent weeks getting what thought was sufficient support on their side to force Maduro from power. This network of support was built by US diplomats and, in part, opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo and others have claimed the US got together a deal with the Supreme Court chief justice, the defense minister, and the head of the presidential guard. Lopez, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-politics-lopez-spain\/venezuelas-lopez-says-he-met-with-generals-while-under-house-arrest-idUSKCN1S827H\">considerable disadvantage of being under house arrest, said he met with a number of generals<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/05\/02\/details-emerge-on-failed-us-backed-coup-in-venezuela\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">news.antiwar.com\/2019\/05\/02\/details-emerge-on-failed-us-backed-coup-in-venezuela\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/Orinoco_USGS.jpg\/220px-Orinoco_USGS.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for venezuela oil fields\" width=\"220\" height=\"187\" data-iml=\"1557036978742\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Media lies in service of war for regime change in Venezuela<\/h2>\n<h5>3 May 2019<\/h5>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s abortive coup attempt initiated by the US puppet and self-proclaimed \u201cinterim president\u201d Juan Guaid\u00f3 in Venezuela has served once again to expose the criminal role of the US corporate media.<\/p>\n<p>Guaid\u00f3\u2019s video of himself and Leopoldo Lopez, the leader of Guaid\u00f3\u2019s extreme right-wing CIA-funded party, Voluntad Popular, appearing with a few dozen armed men in uniform and calling for a military uprising, was greeted with undisguised glee by the major media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>This stunt was staged as the 100-day \u201creign\u201d of Mr. Guaid\u00f3, existing only in the greedy imagination of US imperialism and Big Oil, appeared no closer to establishing control over Venezuela. Even as it became evident that it had turned into an unmitigated fiasco, the media continued to broadcast reports suggesting that the military was divided, and the people were in revolt.<\/p>\n<p>As the failure of the coup attempt became increasingly undeniable, CNN and the major networks all repeated the farfetched claims made by the regime-change operation\u2019s principal protagonists within the Trump administration as if they were incontrovertible fact.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/05\/03\/pers-m03.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/05\/03\/pers-m03.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DIEGO GARCIA. The Secret U.S. Naval Base\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ppIc0MiZpFg?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 id=\"link-74176112\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">ISIS\u2019 Mysterious Leader Is Not Dead, New Video Shows<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Five years ago, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi mounted the pulpit of a mosque in Iraq to declare himself the head of a rapidly expanding terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Since then, his group, the Islamic State, has transfixed the world with its apocalyptic violence while he has remained a mystery. Spottings were rare. Rumors swirled that he was wounded or dead. The United States put $25 million on his head and still failed to find him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/29baghdadi1\/3bfdf28a2f56474c8a4754d93ebdcfeb-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\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/29baghdadi1\/3bfdf28a2f56474c8a4754d93ebdcfeb-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/29baghdadi1\/3bfdf28a2f56474c8a4754d93ebdcfeb-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/29baghdadi1\/3bfdf28a2f56474c8a4754d93ebdcfeb-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1920w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">On Monday, he reappeared, leaning on a cushion with an assault rifle at his side, in a video seeking to rally his followers after the loss of the group\u2019s territory in Iraq and Syria and its execution of <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/25\/world\/asia\/isis-sri-lanka.html?module=inline\">one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in years<\/a>, on Easter in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cOur battle today is a battle of attrition, and we will prolong it for the enemy, and they must know that the jihad will continue until Judgment Day,\u201d he said in the video.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/middleeast\/isis-baghdadi-video.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/middleeast\/isis-baghdadi-video.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RebelHQ\/videos\/438967423585835\/?t=15\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/RebelHQ\/videos\/438967423585835\/?t=15<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ContentView-LeftRail\">\n<div class=\"sticky-part\">\n<div class=\"SocialShare\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"CardHeadline\">\n<div class=\"headline\" data-key=\"card-headline\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/media:0b32a66fe8554a1d849db0cbffe82cfe\/800.jpeg\" alt=\"John Kapoor\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance.<\/p>\n<p>John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty of racketeering conspiracy after 15 days of jury deliberations. Four ex-employees of the Chandler, Arizona-based company, including the former exotic dancer, were also convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most sensational evidence in the months-long federal trial included a video of employees dancing and rapping around an executive dressed as a giant bottle of the powerful spray Subsys, and testimony about how the company made a habit of hiring attractive women as sales representatives.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/82f638d6dfcf4193ad28ddf0e65897e1\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.apnews.com\/82f638d6dfcf4193ad28ddf0e65897e1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capitalist-corruption.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capitalist-corruption.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capitalist-corruption.jpeg 182w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Capitalist-corruption-99x150.jpeg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Labor Department says &#8216;gig economy&#8217; workers are contractors, not employees, in win for owners<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;Gig economy&#8221; workers are contractors and not employees, the Labor Department said in a letter to an attorney for one such website Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter strengthens the position of online companies \u2014 &#8220;virtual market economy&#8221; websites that connect customers with drivers, cleaners, deliverymen, or others providing \u2014 that argue they are not traditional employers and therefore are not bound by the usual legal obligations between management and employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the facts you provide in your letter, it appears that the service providers who use your client\u2019s virtual marketplace are independent contractors. Your client provides a referral service. As such, it does not receive services from service providers, but empowers service providers to provide services to end-market consumers,&#8221; the department&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/opinion\/FLSA\/2019\/2019_04_29_06_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter states<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/labor-department-says-gig-economy-workers-are-contractors-not-employees-in-win-for-owners\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/labor-department-says-gig-economy-workers-are-contractors-not-employees-in-win-for-owners<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-9u9xp4 ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 id=\"link-2e08dfb0\" class=\"css-fnr6md e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">\u2018996\u2019 Is China\u2019s Version of Hustle Culture. Tech Workers Are Sick of It.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1ifw933 e1wiw3jv0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Chinese programmers once embraced working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. But online, discontent is brewing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/18\/business\/00chinawork-1\/00chinawork-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\/2019\/04\/18\/business\/00chinawork-1\/00chinawork-1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/18\/business\/00chinawork-1\/00chinawork-1-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/18\/business\/00chinawork-1\/00chinawork-1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">China\u2019s richest internet moguls think their employees should work more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Jack Ma, a founder of the e-commerce titan Alibaba, called long work hours <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/oc0NugBjpsn1_mBtbib2Lg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201ca huge blessing.\u201d<\/a> Richard Liu, who runs the Alibaba rival <a href=\"http:\/\/JD.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">JD.com<\/a>, said people who frittered away their days <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.163.com\/19\/0412\/18\/ECJ6M1PE00097U7R.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201care no brothers of mine.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Rank-and-file tech workers in China, discouraged by a <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/14\/business\/china-economy-slowdown-white-collar-workers.html?module=inline\">weakened job market<\/a> and downbeat about their odds of joining the digital aristocracy, have other ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">They are organizing online against what in China is called the \u201c996\u201d culture: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">For years, Chinese tech employees have worked hours that make Silicon Valley\u2019s workaholics seem pampered. Now they are naming and shaming employers that demand late nights. Some programmers are even <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/996icu\/996.ICU\/blob\/master\/awesomelist\/README.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withholding their creations<\/a> from companies that they think overemphasize 996.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/technology\/china-996-jack-ma.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/technology\/china-996-jack-ma.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/hqdzui677o9z.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for Capitalist greed\" width=\"304\" height=\"226\" data-iml=\"1557038257590\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-7b39c323\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Profitable Giants Like Amazon Pay $0 in Corporate Taxes. Some Voters Are Sick of It.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Colin Robertson wonders why he pays federal taxes on the $18,000 a year he makes cleaning carpets, while the tech giant Amazon got a tax rebate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">His concerns about a tilted economic playing field recently led Mr. Robertson to join the Akron chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. At a gathering this month, as members discussed Karl Marx and corporate greed over chocolate chip cookies, it wasn\u2019t long before talk turned to income inequality and how the government helps the wealthy avoid taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cOne of the benefits of taxation is taking it and using it for the collective good,\u201d said Mr. Robertson, 25, comparing his minimal income to the roughly $150 billion net worth of Jeff Bezos, Amazon\u2019s chief executive and the world\u2019s richest person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cHe could be taxed at 99.9 percent and still have millions <a href=\"\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> over,\u201d Mr. Robertson said, \u201cand I\u2019d be homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/1d\/d0\/d7\/1dd0d7502093ebcaab52fda09a8f064f.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for double double toil\" width=\"282\" height=\"353\" data-iml=\"1557039080981\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\">As records fall on Wall Street, investors seek bets on economic growth<\/h1>\n<p>As the bull market gets a new lease on life, Wall Street is growing less fretful of a U.S. growth slowdown and betting on shares of companies in sectors that will benefit from the economic up-cycle, such as industrials and financials.<\/p>\n<p>After tumbling nearly 20% from its peak at the end of 2018, the S&amp;P 500 has rebounded strongly this year as U.S. economic data remain robust and the Federal Reserve has indicated a pause in interest-rate hikes. Last week\u2019s U.S. gross domestic product reading, which put first-quarter growth at a 3.2% annualized rate, further bolstered economic sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, fears of a stock market meltdown have given way to talk of a possible melt-up. The S&amp;P 500 has notched record highs in the past three trading sessions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-stocks-investments\/as-records-fall-on-wall-street-investors-seek-bets-on-economic-growth-idUSKCN1S74HU\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-stocks-investments\/as-records-fall-on-wall-street-investors-seek-bets-on-economic-growth-idUSKCN1S74HU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement and <\/u><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The War on Reason<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/01490\/guantanamo_1490303c.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for gitmo prisoners\" width=\"304\" height=\"190\" data-iml=\"1556579728133\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Commander of Guantanamo Bay detention center fired<\/h1>\n<div id=\"f0kk2nSbKit0or\" class=\"wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-slimline-byline col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"byline slimline col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div>\n<header>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"publish\">\n<h4 class=\"caption credit \">Navy Rear Adm. John Ring was fired Saturday as head of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo. (Sgt. Zach Tomesh\/U.S. National Guard)<\/h4>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"f0yjJhrbKit0or\" class=\"wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-body\">\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article-body article-body-elements container-fluid gutters\">\n<article>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The admiral in charge of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was fired Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcom.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Southern Command<\/a> officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Bio-Article-View\/Article\/1057094\/rear-admiral-john-c-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rear Adm. John C. Ring<\/a>, took command of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joint Task Force-Guantanamo<\/a> roughly one year ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">He was relieved \u201cdue to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,\u201d according to a SOUTHCOM statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The firing came about after the recent completion of a command investigation, according to SOUTHCOM spokesman Jose Ruiz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Ruiz declined to comment on potential future disciplinary or administrative actions against the admiral.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/04\/29\/commander-of-guantanamo-bay-detention-center-fired\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/04\/29\/commander-of-guantanamo-bay-detention-center-fired\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/6HqnJLaWVfIbv3mRnHh-6pjEUuA=\/1200x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/LURI4LDJH5AGPAJO3TUC4QMKRE.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Earlier this year: Guantanamo skipper indicted for lying about affair with dead man\u2019s wife, details of scuffle<\/h1>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The former commander of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was indicted this week for allegedly misleading investigators about the circumstances leading up to a man\u2019s death there four years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=85277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capt. John R. Nettleton<\/a>, 53, was indicted on several counts of obstruction of justice, making false official statements, falsifying records and other alleged infractions tied to the early 2015 death of Christopher M. Tur, a civilian Navy Exchange employee on the island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Nettleton is not charged in Tur\u2019s death. Instead, the indictment focuses on the days after Tur disappeared following what authorities suspect was a violent fight with Tur after a party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Investigators allege that Nettleton stonewalled subordinates, superiors and investigators during a search for the missing man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Nettleton\u2019s attorney, Marine veteran Colby Vokey, told Navy Times by email that Nettleton was \u201cinnocent of these charges\u201d and \u201cis looking forward to the opportunity to finally being able to rebut the allegations and the investigations after having this hanging over his head for several years.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/01\/10\/feds-indict-fired-guantanamo-co-for-misleading-death-investigators\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/01\/10\/feds-indict-fired-guantanamo-co-for-misleading-death-investigators\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content__headline-standfirst-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"content__header tonal__header\">\n<div class=\"u-cf\">\n<h1 class=\"content__headline \" style=\"text-align: center;\">US begins extradition case against Julian Assange in London<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<p>WikiLeaks founder declines to consent to being taken to US to face charges<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6bc279ee97e234c638f69abc663855aca058e090\/0_249_4800_2880\/master\/4800.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d655714cc65ea814538118db2fb482eb\" alt=\"Julian Assange\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"3l3x\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/julian-assange\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Julian Assange<\/a> has declined a chance to consent to his extradition to the US at a hearing in London as Washington started pressing its case to take him across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\" data-test-id=\"article-review-body\">\n<p>Appearing via video link from Belmarsh prison, Assange said: \u201cI do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many, many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben Brandon, the counsel for the US government, presented details of the US case against Assange at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday. He said the charges related to one of the largest compromises of information in US history.<\/p>\n<p>They were connected to the downloading of a \u201cvast amount of classified documents\u201d by <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chelsea-manning\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Chelsea Manning<\/a>, the US intelligence analyst who subsequently served a prison sentence.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/may\/02\/us-begins-extradition-case-against-julian-assange-in-london\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/may\/02\/us-begins-extradition-case-against-julian-assange-in-london<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>University Of San Diego: Mexico\u2019s Violence Isn\u2019t Just About\u00a0Drugs<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"3l3x\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pixel\" src=\"https:\/\/kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/img\/photos\/2019\/04\/29\/c4605eff-a51b-454b-9af2-4de7673b77c3_t800.JPG?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d\" alt=\"A Glock 23 handgun seized by Mexican authorities is pictured in this undated ...\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"story_lead_photo\">\n<p class=\"caption\">Above: A Glock 23 handgun seized by Mexican authorities is pictured in this undated photo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story_body\">\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s violence is like the many-headed mythical beast known as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com\/page\/Hydra\"> the hydra,<\/a> according to a new report from the University of San Diego&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/justiceinmexico.org\/\"> Justice in Mexico.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hydra can\u2019t be slain by chopping off one head \u2014 that just makes two grow in its place. The authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/justiceinmexico.org\/2019-organizedcrime-violence-mexico\/\">the report<\/a> explained that similarly, targeting drug kingpins has been &#8220;ineffective&#8221; to stop the violence in Mexico, instead causing a fracturing and multiplying of violent cartels.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote that Mexico has to target all criminals, including corrupt politicians and elite CEO\u2019s involved in money laundering, to &#8220;starve the beast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The annual report used to be called \u201cDrug Violence In Mexico.\u201d This year, on its 10th anniversary, the report has a new title: \u201cOrganized Crime And Violence In Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Octavio Rodr\u00edguez Ferreira said the change is meant to reflect the fact that oil theft and other criminal enterprises are fueling the violence now, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make clear that the reality that what used to be mainly drug trafficking phenomenon, now is becoming more broad,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, homicides hit an all-time high of more than 33,000 in Mexico. Men, mayors and journalists were the most common victims, although femicides remain a problem.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2019\/may\/03\/university-san-diego-mexicos-violence-grows-new-he\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.kpbs.org\/news\/2019\/may\/03\/university-san-diego-mexicos-violence-grows-new-he\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1063469\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1152+0+0\/resize\/840x473!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbimg.com%2Fimg-5c53c16a%2Fturbine%2Fsd-1548992870-twl6r4pr3l-snap-image\" alt=\"Tijuana murders\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Homicides in Tijuana continue to spike despite National Guard<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p>Mexico\u2019s president is expanding the use of a new national security force after claiming widespread success with the strategy in Tijuana.<\/p>\n<p>However, data shows homicides continue to spike in the border city, putting Tijuana on pace for another record-breaking year of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The new security strategy \u2014 which included sending 2,000 federal military troops \u2014 launched Feb. 4 in certain areas of Tijuana and made significant progress reigning in skyrocketing drug violence, President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador insisted during an April 12 news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot test program was initiated in Tijuana after 21 homicides were recorded here in a single day, state officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are about 2,331 federal troops working in the city \u2014 a number the president said he plans to expand to 21,000 within the next three months. Last week, he announced the newly created National Guard will also be deployed to Veracruz after 14 people died in a massacre there on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>Made up of the Army, Navy, federal police, state police, civilians and municipal police, the troops have been working in 11 priority zones in Tijuana like the La Morrita and Mariano Matamoros neighborhoods.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/border-baja-california\/story\/2019-04-30\/homicides-in-tijuana-continue-to-spike-despite-national-guard\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/border-baja-california\/story\/2019-04-30\/homicides-in-tijuana-continue-to-spike-despite-national-guard<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">San Diego has a long history with white supremacists<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6e4d80f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1434+0+0\/resize\/840x588!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trbimg.com%2Fimg-57cd464e%2Fturbine%2Fsdut-file-in-this-sept.-5-2000-fi-20160905\" alt=\"File - In this Sept. 5, 2000 file photo is Tom Metzger, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, speaks in in Coeur d\u2019 Alene, Idaho. Metzger told The Associated Press Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, he is returning property in Leith, N.D., that Craig Cobb deeded \" width=\"840\" height=\"588\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<p><em>File &#8211; In this Sept. 5, 2000 file photo is Tom Metzger, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of the White Aryan Resistance, speaks in in Coeur d\u2019 Alene, Idaho. Metzger told The Associated Press Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, he is returning property in Leith, N.D., that Craig Cobb deeded to him because he disagrees with his methods and he\u2019s too controversial. The prominent white separatists says he is distancing himself from Cobb, another white supremacist, who faces terrorizing charges for allegedly threatening residents of the North Dakota town he\u2019s trying to turn into an Aryan enclave. (AP Photo\/Barbara Minton, File)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"Figure-credit\"><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/div>\n<div>The Ku Klux Klan arrived here in the 1920s, targeting Mexican immigrants, and remained a presence for decades. A television repairman ran the influential 1980s separatist group, White Aryan Resistance, from Fallbrook. A 25-year-old in Lemon Grove was deemed by national watchdog groups \u201ca rising star among bigots\u201d in the early 2000s for using cyberspace instead of in-person meetings to recruit and encourage followers.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At one point in the early 2000s, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, identified six of the \u201cpillars of the old guard\u201d among white supremacists nationwide. Two of them were in Escondido. Recently, an Iraq War veteran with San Diego ties founded the group Identity Evropa, whose members helped plan the deadly 2017 \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville.<\/p>\n<p>Every community of any size has spasms of extremism, but they\u2019ve been common enough in San Diego County to merit special attention from local officials.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2019-05-03\/san-diego-history-white-supremacy\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2019-05-03\/san-diego-history-white-supremacy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>Solidarity for Never<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1j5kxti e1t57l6r0\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/00china-mayfour-1\/merlin_154135515_169351d6-9895-4f28-bb06-91f9d101c1a4-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\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/00china-mayfour-1\/merlin_154135515_169351d6-9895-4f28-bb06-91f9d101c1a4-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/00china-mayfour-1\/merlin_154135515_169351d6-9895-4f28-bb06-91f9d101c1a4-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/00china-mayfour-1\/merlin_154135515_169351d6-9895-4f28-bb06-91f9d101c1a4-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-156f04bf\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Xi Praises a Student Protest in China. From 100 Years Ago.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>..\u201cHistory profoundly reveals that patriotism has flowed in the blood of the Chinese nation since ancient times,\u201d Mr. Xi said in the Great Hall of the People, next to Tiananmen Square. <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c<\/strong>Those who are unpatriotic, who would even go so far as to cheat and betray the motherland, are a disgrace in the eyes of their own country and the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cChinese youth in the new era must obey the party and follow the party,\u201d Mr. Xi said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">May 4 is one of several politically charged anniversaries that the Communist Party must carefully manage \u2014 or muffle \u2014 this year. The party has reason to be on guard: The anniversary of May 4 has prompted protests in the past, including pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989 that soldiers <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/06\/04\/world\/crackdown-beijing-troops-attack-crush-beijing-protest-thousands-fight-back.html?module=inline\">extinguished<\/a> in a night of carnage on June 3-4 that year.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Mao-Long-March-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a>The party is also grappling with slowing growth that has magnified its fear of popular unrest. Officials have told schools to guard against displays of discontent around May 4 and other \u201csensitive\u201d dates, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/zzjy.zhengzhou.gov.cn\/tsxw\/1624561.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to notices on government websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cFrom the start of the school term, they told us that this is no ordinary year and is very sensitive, so don\u2019t speak out of line,\u201d said <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tsinghua.edu.cn\/publish\/Socen\/2749\/2010\/20101224015502330585062\/20101224015502330585062_.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guo Yuhua<\/a>, an outspoken professor of sociology at Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The May 4 protests in 1919 broke out after victorious Western powers at postwar peace talks in Paris decided to let Japan keep colonial territory in eastern China that Japan had seized from Germany, ignoring promises of national self-determination.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/china-xi-jinping-speech-may-4-protest.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/china-xi-jinping-speech-may-4-protest.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.no-gods-no-masters.com\/images_designs\/workers-of-the-world-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains-d0012754153.png\" alt=\"Image result for workers of the world unite you have nothing to lose\" width=\"304\" height=\"304\" data-iml=\"1557014038849\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Kwame Kilpatrick, the racists&#8217; fave mayor,\u00a0 a &#8216;remorseless&#8217; felon, feds say<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/17d477fb0bb3a2236fe6574bd711839d6d3157cb\/c=194-0-3309-2336\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/09\/23\/DetroitNews\/B99444548Z.1_20160923120934_000_GRS15A1JT.1-0.jpg?width=540&amp;height=405&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2016\/09\/23\/DetroitNews\/B99444548Z.1_20160923120934_000_GRS15A1JT.1-0.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4044b1e7645488621f157de466cf1a990870caa2\/r=500x333\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/09\/23\/DetroitNews\/B99444548Z.1_20160923120934_000_GRS15A1JT.1-0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is a remorseless felon whose latest attempt to shift blame for a racketeering conviction and 28-year prison sentence should be rejected, federal prosecutors said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Prosecutors filed a caustic, 22-page, legal brief responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/04\/09\/detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-sentencing-judge-edmunds-conflict-interest-appeal\/3416495002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">claims Kilpatrick leveled last month about his trial judge<\/a> having a conflict of interest that tainted the public corruption trial six years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Kilpatrick claimed U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds was <em><strong>biased in favor of his lawyer James C. Thomas and accused her of sending the attorney a wedding card during the trial.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/05\/03\/feds-rebuff-ex-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-bid-to-leave-prison\/1091336001\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/05\/03\/feds-rebuff-ex-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatricks-bid-to-leave-prison\/1091336001\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>Spy versus Spy<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/05\/01\/jerry-chun-shing-lee2---gettyimages-906483074_custom-069a67b107655f99501bb1dd9b18bfbf7718b312-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty To Spying For China<\/h1>\n<p>An ex-CIA officer pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to spying for China, the third separate espionage case in the past year linking a former U.S. intelligence officer to the Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 54, entered the guilty plea to the most serious of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1061631\/download\">three charges<\/a> he was facing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I conspired to gather and send secret information to the PRC (People&#8217;s Republic of China),&#8221; Lee said when asked by Judge T.S. Ellis to describe his actions.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., agreed to drop two lesser charges of retaining secret information after he left the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement calls for a minimum sentence of about 21 years. But Judge Ellis emphasized that this was only a recommendation and he is free to impose the sentence he sees fit when Lee is sentenced on Aug. 23. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison&#8230;.Lee becomes the third former U.S. intelligence official tied to spying for China over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/former-cia-officer-kevin-mallory-found-guilty-of-selling-secrets-to-china\/2018\/06\/08\/918a0b82-69ad-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html?utm_term=.c6b3164527ef\">Kevin Mallory<\/a>, a former officer with the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, was convicted at a trial last year and is scheduled to be sentenced this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-defense-intelligence-officer-pleads-guilty-attempted-espionage\">Ron Hansen<\/a>, a former DIA officer, pleaded guilty in March and is now serving a 15-year sentence.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/01\/719006289\/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-to-spying-for-china\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/01\/719006289\/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-to-spying-for-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/208016_600.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"Image result for trump spy cartoon\" width=\"304\" height=\"223\" data-iml=\"1557015909130\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-5cc43ead\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign\u2019s links to Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The American government\u2019s affiliation with the woman, who said her name was Azra Turk, is one previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point in the face of accusations by President Trump and his allies that American law enforcement and intelligence officials spied on his campaign to undermine his electoral chances. Last year, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-conspiracy-theories-spygate.html?module=inline\">he called it<\/a> Spygate.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The CIA\u2019s Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis<\/h1>\n<p>&#8230;Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the cold war\u2013the CIA\u2019s use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real winners of the cold war were Nazi war criminals, many of whom were able to escape justice because the East and West became so rapidly focused after the war on challenging each other,\u201d says Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Special Investigations and America\u2019s chief Nazi hunter. Rosenbaum serves on a Clinton-appointed Interagency Working Group (IWG) committee of U.S. scholars, public officials, and former intelligence officers who helped prepare the CIA records for declassification.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">ips-dc.org\/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/antichrist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/antichrist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/antichrist.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/antichrist-150x135.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p-name\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Michigan residents leaving the Catholic Church as many turn away from religion<\/h1>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">The Catholic Church has loomed large over Gloria Emmons\u2019 life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">Growing up in metro Detroit in the 1950s and \u201960s, her devout Catholic family was surrounded by other devout Catholics. Everybody went to church on Sundays. Nobody ate meat on Fridays. Almost every home had a statue of Mary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">Emmons attended Catholic schools through college. She married in the church, sent her two sons through Catholic schools and the family attended weekly Mass for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">But today, Emmons describes herself as an \u201cambivalent\u201d Catholic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph\">\u201cThere are lots of conflicts\u201d between Catholic doctrine and contemporary values such as equality for gays and women, said Emmons, 65, who lives near Kalamazoo. \u201cAs we move forward as a society, they stare you in the face.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/2019\/04\/michigan-residents-leaving-the-catholic-church-as-many-turn-away-from-religion.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;fbclid=IwAR3-91cS2WD3u2_OFXNm0dGQR0Y4233UQfIID1ifZc1jzjR4ddpOCxfOZs8\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.mlive.com\/news\/2019\/04\/michigan-residents-leaving-the-catholic-church-as-many-turn-away-from-religion.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;fbclid=IwAR3-91cS2WD3u2_OFXNm0dGQR0Y4233UQfIID1ifZc1jzjR4ddpOCxfOZs8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realrevere\/videos\/261757187859532\/?t=6\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/realrevere\/videos\/261757187859532\/?t=6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.org\/-\/media\/images\/sdta-site\/campaigns\/sunny-7\/sunsets\/oceanside-pier-sunset.jpg?h=485&amp;la=en&amp;w=727\" alt=\"Image result for sunset photos san diego\" width=\"304\" height=\"203\" data-iml=\"1557044110108\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">San Diego Sunset<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>So Long<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/a3\/34\/64\/a3346441e4d8f225d9801c3bd449a129.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for red kelly hockey\" width=\"282\" height=\"353\" data-iml=\"1557015028914\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;True hockey legend&#8217;: Red Wings Hall of Fame defenseman Red Kelly dies at 91<\/h1>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Red Kelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2019\/02\/01\/red-wings-retire-red-kellys-number-4\/2742630002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">whose No. 4 was raised to the rafters in February at Little Caesars Arena, <\/a>died Thursday in Toronto at the age of 91.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Kelly was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969, after having spent 13 of his 20 NHL seasons in Detroit. He played 846 of his 1,316 games in a Wings uniform \u2014 the remainder in Toronto in an illustrious career that included eight Stanley Cup championships.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=red+kelly+hockey&#038;client=firefox-b-1-d&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjGn_TrjIPiAhXmwMQHHbueA0YQ_AUIDygC&#038;biw=747&#038;bih=518#imgrc=XWraF9XzO7poNM\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.google.com\/search?q=red+kelly+hockey&#038;client=firefox-b-1-d&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjGn_TrjIPiAhXmwMQHHbueA0YQ_AUIDygC&#038;biw=747&#038;bih=518#imgrc=XWraF9XzO7poNM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/05\/01\/PDTF\/4d961f51-5251-42a0-b812-2a648d61badd-DFPC11531.jpg?crop=2685,3000,x0,y0&amp;width=180&amp;height=240&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Russ Gibb poses in front of a chalkboard in 1969.\" width=\"180\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/05\/01\/PDTF\/4d961f51-5251-42a0-b812-2a648d61badd-DFPC11531.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/05\/01\/PDTF\/4d961f51-5251-42a0-b812-2a648d61badd-DFPC11531.jpg?width=358&amp;height=400\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\">Russ Gibb \u2014 Detroit rock visionary, schoolteacher and &#8216;Paul is dead&#8217; prankster \u2014 dies at 87<\/h1>\n<div id=\"module-position-RwdLE3hO8pY\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">The gregarious, quick-witted Gibb was forever a young soul: He was in his mid-30s \u2014 notably older than much of his clientele \u2014 when he leased the Grande on Detroit&#8217;s west side and turned it into the city&#8217;s hippie-era rock mecca, helping nurture the careers of homegrown bands such as the MC5, the Stooges, Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent while putting visitors like Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Who and the Grateful Dead onstage for the city&#8217;s ravenous rock audience.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/brian-mccollum\/2019\/04\/30\/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-ballroom-paul-mccartney\/3635010002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.freep.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/brian-mccollum\/2019\/04\/30\/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-ballroom-paul-mccartney\/3635010002\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! 1818 \u00a0Congratulation on the publication of: Biting\u00a0satirical verses\u00a0mock Oval Office megalomania, greed, and Twittery. Join Susan at the book launch party organized by Onion River Press at Phoenix Books, in Burlington, May 7, 7 p.m. \u00a0Be there! \u00a0 Book also available at Flying Pig, Amazon, and Barnes &amp; Noble. Martin Glaberman&#8221;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23265,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions\/23265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}