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Yousef Munayyer: Trump Reverses Decades of U.S. Policy, Declaring Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land Don’t Violate International Law; Diallo Brooks: Civil Rights Groups and Legislators Demand Trump Fire White Nationalist Adviser Stephen Miller; Climate activists: Climate Activists Blockade New York’s New Cricket Valley Fracked Gas Power Plant, Demand It Never Be Opened; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Calls are coming in for the resignation of Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller, after leaked emails show him promoting white nationalist books and ideas to the far-right outlet Breitbart. We talk with the investigative reporter behind the story, Michael Edison Hayden from Southern Policy Law Center’s Hatewatch. Also: What happened to progressive U.S. Rep. Katie Hill? If you’re like many, you didn’t look too closely: something something nudes, something throuple…. And the next thing you know, an up-and-coming young Democrat is resigning. ...

When Rupert Read first appeared on TUC Radio with his talk: This Civilization is Finished – So what is to be done – he drew a huge response. Here is a professor and well established intellectual who risks arrest in his association with the Extinction Rebellion climate change movement in England. XR use civil disobedience to make governments, and really everyone, declare climate change emergencies and act on them.

When forests are logged or burned – carbon floods into the atmosphere. But that is not the end of it. The loss continues for decades as a significant factor in climate change. In fact, a new paper from a young Australian scientist says experts and planners underestimate the true costs of hacking into tropical rainforests by a stunning 626 percent. The damage to the atmosphere is six times greater than previously thought.

Bennis minces no words in this genuinely historical review, starting BEFORE the 1917 Balfour Declaration and running to the shameful present. She points out that USA support for the formation of Israel was fueled by antisemitism, including turning away ships loaded with Jewish refugees during the Hitler era. She describes the USA's fraudulent role as mediator of the "peace process" and its disastrous effects on Palestinians' struggle to survive. Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and author of numerous important books and articles. To learn more, go to https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/phyllis-bennis/ .

A growing list of organizations is urging the Internet Society (ISOC) to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain—to the brand-new private equity firm Ethos Capital. Our message is clear: the NGO community should have a voice in decisions affecting the future of .ORG. ... UPDATE: the $1.1 billion sale agreement was signed, despite 99% community opposition. Wikipedia's post says "there is some concern about self-dealing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital

Thomas points out that over 100 billion pieces of clothing are manufactured each year, but only 80 billion are ever sold, and much of that is quickly discarded. The waste is burned or ends up in the world’s landfills. Moreover, the synthetic fabric of most clothes is plastic-based and nonbiodegradable; some plastic microfibers have even been found in rainfall around the world. In order to produce today’s extremely cheap, disposable clothing, the supply chain is so fractured that even an item that says “Made in Italy” may have had only the buttons sewn on there, while the garment may have been manufactured in a sweatshop in Bangladesh.

According to this show's website, Swanson calls this piece his "rant" on impeachment! There are at least 25 good solid reasons for impeachment, but Congress is so incredibly timid and/or risk averse that it sticks to just one (the Ukraine aid deal).