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David Crosby | Trump Is Completely Under the Control of Russia
 David Crosby, The Daily Beast Crosby writes: "In the 1950s, in the fearsome early days of the Cold War, American baby boomers learned to dive under their school desks in drills that even 8-year-olds knew were not going to do much good in a nuclear war that could end all human life on Earth."
EXCERPT:
Russia was no longer the powerhouse the Soviet Union had been, but Putin had a plan: Moscow would erode the Western democracies from within by exploiting their own weaknesses. That’s why it started its current campaign of attacks against us years ago, and why they are still going on.
Basically, the Russians take hold of any division in our society—racial prejudice, class war, fear of vaccines, any division that has two sides—and they work it. They pose as a group of radical people of color and say awful stuff about whites, and then they turn around and play white supremacist KKK crazies and say we should ship all blacks back to Africa. They do it with every issue they can. Their plan is to divide us and thus render us helpless.
In Donald Trump, they saw an opportunity that could not be better for them. Here was a man so ignorant, and so completely unaware of geopolitics, that he could be outwitted and misled before Putin got out of bed in the morning, easily—even without the very real possibility that Putin has incriminating evidence with which to blackmail the president.
 US Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait on November 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Why Conservatives Hate Democracy
Miles Culpepper, Jacobin Culpepper writes: "From the 1930s to today, the modern conservative movement has tried to restrict majority rule at every turn - because they know a mass democratic movement poses an existential threat to their power." READ MORE  Mourners at a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Dayton, Ohio. (photo: Maddie McGarvey/NYT)
A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
Julie Bosman, Kate Taylor and Tim Arango, The New York Times Excerpt: "The man who shot nine people to death last weekend in Dayton, Ohio, seethed at female classmates and threatened them with violence." READ MORE  Formal charges of making a terrorist threat in the second degree have been filed against Dmitriy Andreychenko, 20, prosecutors say. (photo: Greene County Sheriff's Office)
Rifle Carrying Man Who Entered Missouri Walmart to Test 2nd Amendment Charged With Terrorism
Bill Chappell and Richard Gonzales, NPR Excerpt: "Prosecutors in Springfield, Mo., have filed formal charges of making a terrorist threat in the second degree against a 20-year-old man arrested for wearing body armor and carrying a loaded rifle - and more than 100 rounds of ammunition - at a Walmart store Thursday." READ MORE  An American flag being raised by military personnel. (photo: DoD)
She Recorded Her Rapist's Confession. Now, the Supreme Court Could Hear It.
Catherine Valentine, CNN Valentine writes: "In a 20-minute long phone call in 2013, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Briggs confessed to raping SSgt. 'DK' in 2005."  Tijuana, Mexico, 2017: Melanie Rodriguez stands with her doll at the US-Mexico border overlooking border wall prototypes under construction. (photo: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy)
A World of Walls: The Brutish Power of Man-Made Barriers
Catherine Slessor, Guardian UK Slessor writes: "Words have consequences. And so do walls." READ MORE
THIS MATTERS! ROUNDUP IS CURRENTLY ON THE MARKET, BEING SOLD AND UNSUSPECTING CONSUMERS ARE PURCHASING IT WITHOUT BEING INFORMED. THE EPA & ANDREW WHEELER HAVE BETRAYED CONSUMERS.
 Roundup is made by Monsanto. (photo: Getty Images)
Trump Administration Says It Won't Approve Roundup Cancer-Warning Labels
CBS News Excerpt: "The Trump administration has told companies not to warn customers about products that contain glyphosate, a decision targeted at a California regulation that requires labels to warn consumers that the Roundup ingredient is potentially cancer-causing."
The Trump administration has told companies not to warn customers about products that contain glyphosate, a decision targeted at a California regulation that requires labels to warn consumers that the Roundup ingredient is potentially cancer-causing.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will no longer approve labels warning glyphosate is known to cause cancer. The chemical, marketed as a weed killer by Monsanto under the brand Roundup, is currently the focus of lawsuits from thousands of consumers alleging it caused their cancers.
Such labels are "irresponsible," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement. He cited the EPA's conclusions that the chemical doesn't represent a cancer risk.
The decision from the EPA highlights the growing debate over the safety of glyphosate, with scientific research often reaching contradictory conclusions. The World Health Organization's cancer agency has said that the chemical is "possibly carcinogenic to humans," yet on the other side of the debate are studies that refute reports of glyphosate's risks, such as a long-term study of agricultural workers that didn't find a link between Roundup and cancer.
Since Bayer bought Roundup maker Monsanto in June 2018, the company has lost lost three high-profile court cases that alleged the chemical caused cancer.
"It is critical that federal regulatory agencies like EPA relay to consumers accurate, scientific based information about risks that pesticides may pose to them," Wheeler said in the statement. "EPA's notification to glyphosate registrants is an important step to ensuring the information shared with the public on a federal pesticide label is correct and not misleading."
California's law
California requires warning labels on glyphosate products because the International Agency for Research on Cancer has said it is "probably carcinogenic."
Monsanto has sued to block California's warning label requirements. A federal judge blocked California from enforcing the labels while the lawsuit continues.
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