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Media Bits and Bytes - August 27, 2019

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Big Tech's Taxes; Hacking Elections; Epoch Times; Brazil Blackout; Internet's Cleaning Crew; Israel's App; Online Tributes to Palestinian Grandmothers; Cherrypicking Tweets to Make a Media Myth

Bernie Sanders Picks Up Union Endorsement in Pittsburgh

Julian Routh Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“If there is going to be class struggle in the United States, it’s time that the working class got on the offensive and won that struggle,” Mr. Sanders said in an animated 45-minute speech.

David Koch Escaped the Climate Hell He Helped Create

Brian Kahn Gizmodo
head shot of David Koch
Climate change is a form of violence that will largely affect people with little power to address it or relatively little role in creating it. Death is an escape hatch for David Koch while the rest of us are left scrambling...

Solidarity with Blackjewel Coal Miners

Showing Up for Racial Justice SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice SURJ
aerial shot of miners' blockage
It is defined by the complete disregard by those in charge with the lives of those they exploit in the search for continuous profit and power.

The Great Land Robbery

Vann R. Newkirk II The Atlantic
Man looking at posted no hunting sign on farm in Mississippi.
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
The invisible hand is more like a thumb on the scale for the world’s elites. That’s why market fundamentalism has been unmasked as bogus economics but keeps winning politically.