Scrooge-in-Chief: *Sanders and Tlaib Rip Trump 'Holiday Menu' of Gifts for the Rich and Nutrition Cuts for the Poor.*

Modi's repressive regime has expelled a German student who compared his regime to the Nazi regime.

His sign said, "1933-1945 — We have been there".

Bloomberg news published a fallacious criticism of Sanders and Warren. The article presumes that criticizing a company is hypocritical if you don't completely boycott that company. That is too rigid.

I think they should reject Amazon totally — that's what I do. The reason they don't is that they see only part of the danger of Amazon: the economic part. They don't understand the harm that Amazon does to each customer directly, through accumulating data and imposing nonfree client software.

The other candidates don't understand that either, and neither does Bloomberg News, so it is not in a position to criticize anyone else for not understanding it.

The right thing to do about this problem is to teach more people to recognize it and act accordingly.

Former soldier Danny Sjursen reports on how all the soldiers in his unit put on an act of "building democracy in Afghanistan", because that pretended the command was succeeding.

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