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Political Comedian Lee Camp: How to Create NPR’s Propaganda (Very important read, TruthDig)
Russiagate Is Devolving Into an Effort to Stigmatize Dissent (The Nation)
What Happens When A Russiagate Skeptic Debates A Professional Russiagater (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)
What Collusion? (The interview referenced in the above post, YouTube)
Catalan Separatists Win Election in Rebuke to Spain and EU (Reuters)
Italian Bonds Slide As Market Realizes ECB Has Been The Only Buyer (The legacy financial system is terminal, Zerohedge)
Swiss Financial Regulator: JPMorgan Breached Money Laundering Rules in 1MDB Case (Naturally, nobody got punished, FT)
U.S. Politics/News
Why is the GOP Tax Bill So Unpopular? Maybe It’s All Relative. (Politico)
Facebook is Scrapping Its System of Flagging Fake News Because It Had ‘The Opposite Effect to What We Intended’ (Business Insider)
Professors: Farmers’ Markets Cause ‘Environmental Gentrification’ (Campus Reform)
Energy Drinks and Junk Food Are Destroying Teenage Brain Development (Big Think)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
U.S. to Send Anti-Tank Missiles to Ukraine (ABC News)
Haley Sends ‘Friendship’ Invites to Countries That Didn’t Vote Against U.S. Jerusalem Decision (Kindergarten diplomacy, The Hill)
Congress Calls Trump’s Bluff on Threat to Cut Aid Over UN Vote (Al Monitor)
New Zealand Won’t Be Bullied on Israel Vote – Ardern (Radio New Zealand)
How Trump Could Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal in January (Politico)
‘We Won’t Take Part in Occupation’: Dozens of Teens Refuse to Enlist in Israeli Army in Letter to Netanyahu (Interesting and ballsy, Haaretz)
Israel to Name Western Wall Train Station in Jerusalem After Donald Trump (Haaretz)
Finance/Economy/Crypto
Jamming on Crypto Economics: What Comes After the Summer of Love? (Interesting read, Coindesk)
Bitcoin: Would You Want to Get Paid in Cryptocurrency? (BBC)
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