The Breakfast Club (Jingle Bells)

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AP’s Today in History for December 23rd

The Christmas poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ is first published; Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo is executed; Mormon religion founder Joseph Smith, Jr. is born; North Korea releases the 82 U.S. Seamen.

Breakfast Tune Jingle Bells

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

MAJOR LIBERAL GROUPS SAT ON SIDELINES AS SENATE PASSED HISTORIC RESOLUTION ON YEMEN WAR
Clio Chang, Ryan Grim, The Intercept

THE SENATE VOTE this month to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen marked a historic break from a bipartisan embrace of a pro-war foreign policy, yet it was accomplished without strong backing from Washington’s liberal foreign policy infrastructure.

The resolution, co-sponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., invokes the rights laid out in the War Powers Act of 1973 that assert Congress’s authority over war, and it was the result of many months of work by a coalition of progressive activists and anti-war lawmakers. The war is Saudi-led, but the U.S. has provided critical support, and an end to that support effectively means an end to the war.

Backers of the effort approached the Center for American Progress, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the American Civil Liberties Union, and all declined to specifically endorse the resolution or become members of the activist coalition. And when a procedural vote on the resolution came to the House floor, it got the same kind of half-hearted support from Democratic leadership, falling just three votes short.

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• Bigoted Paternalism Behind “Russians Targeted African-Americans” NY Times Article
  Teodrose Fikre

• Failed Neoliberal Policies Caused Low African American Turnout in 2016 – Not Russians
  JEREMY KUZMAROV

• Jeremy Scahill’s Top 10 Takeaways on Mattis Exit and Possible US Withdrawal From Syria and Afghanistan
  Jessica Corbett

• Ralph Nader on How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency
  Amy Goodman

• ‘Time for a Jubilee!’: US Student Loan Debt Hits Record $1.46 Trillion. Funny, That’s More Than GOP’s Corporate-Friendly Tax Giveaway
  Jon Queally

• The whole world is at war…because of us
  OPOL

• Michigan Nurses union donates $9 million to cancel medical debt
  FOX 2 Detroit

• Bernie: Breaking The Cycle Of Mediocrity And Mendacity
  DownWithTyranny

• Coal Ash Dumps Are Contaminating Groundwater in 22 States
  Mike Ludwig

• Beto O’Rourke is the new Obama. And that’s the last thing we need
  David Sirota

Something to think about over coffee prozac

 
Bernie Sanders calls out Boeing for firing pro-union North Charleston workers

Boeing is feeling the burn after the plane manufacturer fired six employees who supported a union effort back in May.

In a letter to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sherrod Brown of Ohio accused the company of mounting a “campaign of intimidation” against flight readiness technicians at the company’s North Charleston campus.

In May, technicians voted 104-65 in favor of joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW). In the days leading up to the vote, Boeing mounted an aggressive “vote no” campaign that included a voter guide for workers to to oppose efforts to organize. Boeing is currently appealing its employees’ vote with the National Labor Relations Board.

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