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101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed his Populist Agenda

Alan Zibel Public Citizen
Trump has often said he would govern for the benefit of the middle class. But he blurted out the truth about which interests he actually represents when he told friends at his $200,00-a-year Mar-a-Lago club, “You all just got a lot richer.”

The Nunes Memo Is a Dud

Dahlia Lithwick Slate
The memo actually confirms that the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign started in July 2016, began before the disputed FISA applications against Carter Page.

Friday Nite Videos | Feb 2, 2018

Portside
Confounds the Science - (Parody of) Sound of Silence. Daniel Ellsberg Says We've Escaped Self-Annihilation by Luck. As You Are | Amandla Stenberg Movie. Humiliating: Watch Nunes Demolish Himself On Surveillance. 5 Ways Trump Has Betrayed His Voters.

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Ewa Chrusciel Spoon River Poetry Review
Inspired by a photography exhibition, the poet Ewa Chrusciel adapts the testimony of refugees describing what they took with them into exile.

The Evolution of Neoliberalism in Tunisia 1980-2017

Edna Bonhomme New Socialist
While the Arab uprisings of 2011 have been in a lull, the tentacles of capitalism continue to mutate in Tunisia. The Arab Spring was a mass movement to topple a dictator but it was strengthened by the self-activity of labour. Not only did they directly challenge capital but they helped to convert the decades of lethargy and state domination of the UGTT into a more active union.