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Bipartisan lawmakers tell Trump to respect state marijuana laws

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“The group of 54 lawmakers sent a letter to the president on Thursday asking him to go against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempts to roll back protections on state marijuana laws, reports Marijuana Moment‘s Tom Angell.

As a candidate, you stated: ‘I really believe we should leave [marijuana] up to the states’ and that ‘it’s got to be a state decision.’ We trust that you still hold this belief, and we request that you urge the Attorney General to reinstate the Cole Memorandum,

wrote the group of lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO).”

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2018/01/26/bipartisan-lawmakers-tell-trump-to-respect-state-marijuana-laws/

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Judge Napolitano: A Conspiracy of Silence Assaults Privacy

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“Why were all members of Congress but the 22 on this committee kept in the dark about NSA and FBI lawlessness? Why didn’t the committee reveal to Congress what it claims is too shocking to discuss publicly before Congress voted on surveillance expansion? Where is the outrage that this information was known to a few in the House and kept from the remainder of Congress while it ignorantly voted to assault the right to privacy? The new law places too much power in the hands of folks who even the drafters of it have now acknowledged are inherently unworthy of this trust.”

Read more: http://www.judgenap.com/post/a-conspiracy-of-silence-assaults-privacy

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The Myth of Trump’s ‘Global Retreat’

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“Trump hasn’t forfeited America’s global leadership. On the world stage, his is a new flavor of the same dish. America is still playing the futile role of global cop, still reigns as the only superpower with a globe-straddling military presence and is still picking fights in distant regions remote to US national-security interests. The fact that it is Donald Trump at the helm of all this is fooling observers into thinking more has changed than actually has.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/the-myth-of-trumps-global-retreat/

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Donald Trump Flaunts the Dangers of Presidential Power

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“Barack Obama left office as the first two-termer in American history to have been at war every single day of his presidency. In his last year alone, U.S. forces dropped over 26,000 bombs on seven different countries. Trump blew past that tally nine months into his tenure. Indeed, this putatively ‘isolationist’ president has deepened entanglements on every battlefield Obama left him, ramping up airstrikes, kill-or-capture missions, and civilian casualties.”

Read more: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/donald-trump-flaunts-dangers-presidential-power

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South Korea ‘has very strong concerns’ the US might strike North Korea

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“Recent reports suggest the US is considering a ‘bloody nose’ strike — highly visible but materially limited — on North Korea to make a statement, and that President Donald Trump’s secretaries of state and defense are the key figures holding him back.  Experts have panned the idea of a strike on North Korea with near unanimity, but the Trump administration has consistently touted the use of force as a potential tool.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-strong-concerns-us-strike-north-korea-cia-korea-expert-says-2018-1

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Tillerson’s open-ended Syria war proves US is stuck in mideast quicksand

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“American forces went to Syria with the declared objective of pushing the ISIS terror gang out of territory it had seized there. This has been accomplished. It is an ideal moment for the U.S. to declare victory and depart. That, however, would be hauling down our flag. By Roosevelt’s logic — and evidently Tillerson’s — American soldiers should not be withdrawn from any country where they have ever been deployed.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/370344-tillersons-open-ended-syria-war-exposes-america-as-stuck-in-mideast

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How the Pentagon Enlisted Trump to Continue Its Perpetual “War on Terror”

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“Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan:  This trifecta of semi-permanent US military engagements reflects the extraordinary power of the Pentagon to sway even a president who had made opposition to such policies a central element of his campaign.”

Read more: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43327-how-the-pentagon-enlisted-trump-to-continue-its-perpetual-war-on-terror

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Blowback: How U.S. Drones, Coups, and Invasions Create More Violence

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“U.S. and Western politicians avert their eyes from this data and this correlation; acts of terror are explained away as ‘random,’ ‘mindless,’ and, perhaps most disingenuously of all, ‘unprovoked.’ The public, either unfamiliar with secret operations carried out by the U.S. military or intelligence services, or uninformed about the brutal nature of the foreign wars fought in their name, tend to buy into this fantasy of an ‘innocent’ America hated and attacked by hordes of ‘mad’ Muslims.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/22/blowback-cia-drones-middle-east/

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Trump slaps tariffs on foreign solar panels and washing machines

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“The announcement marks President Trump’s first major trade action of 2018 and follows his campaign promise to get tough on America’s trading partners.  A tariff, or tax, of 30% will be applied to imported solar panels, most of which come from China. Tariffs will begin at 20% on large residential washing machines, according to the announcement Monday from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.”

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/22/news/economy/us-tariff-washing-machines-solar-cells/index.html

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Black helicopters and ‘Ride of the Valkyries’: The war on pot in California

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“Still fighting the culture wars, Reagan and his advisers decided early on that marijuana was the biggest drug threat facing the country. And so a couple of years into his first term, federal and California officials came up with a battle plan to target cultivation in the northern part of the state. The phrase ‘battle plan’ isn’t much of an exaggeration here.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/01/22/black-helicopters-the-national-guard-and-ride-of-the-valkyries-when-reagans-war-on-pot-came-to-california/

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