Daily News Thread 3/12

Trump supporters in the heartland fear being left behind by GOP health plan

Republican proposal would upend a healthcare system in Indiana that covers many low-income people – in a program that Mike Pence put in place
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/12/republican-healthcare-trump-pence-medicaid-indiana

ICE detainees are asking to be put in solitary confinement for their own safety

Documents show widespread use of solitary confinement at immigrant detention centers
theverge.com/2017/3/10/14873244/ice-immigrant-detention-solitary-trump-corecivic-geo

Merkel meets Trump in clash of style and substance

On Tuesday, they meet for the first time - a high-stakes encounter that will be watched by governments around the world for clues about the future of the transatlantic alliance, a partnership that has helped shape the global order since World War Two but which Trump is threatening to upend.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-merkel-idUSKBN16J0KK

May Urged to Prepare for ‘Real’ Risk of a No-Deal Brexit

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May must plan for the “real possibility” that she emerges from two years of Brexit negotiations without a deal, according to a panel of lawmakers.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-12/may-urged-to-prepare-for-real-risk-of-a-no-deal-brexit

Turkey referendum: Clashes as Dutch expel minister

Dutch riot police have clashed with protesters in Rotterdam, amid a diplomatic row that saw a Turkish minister escorted out of the country.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-39246392

Turkey's Erdogan warns Dutch will pay price for dispute

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the Netherlands it will "pay the price" for harming ties after two of his ministers were barred.
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39248646

Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming

Thousands of female Romanian farm workers are suffering horrendous abuse
theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/12/slavery-sicily-farming-raped-beaten-exploited-romanian-women

Japan PM Abe's support slips amid questions over nationalist school land deal

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's support rate slipped six points to just under 56 percent, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, after weeks of questions in parliament about a murky land deal by a school operator to whom his wife had links.
reuters.com/article/us-japan-politics-abe-idUSKBN16J09R

U.S. Group Seeks Informal Talks With North Korea as Threat Grows

Joseph DeTrani, a former U.S. intelligence specialist who helped broker a 2005 agreement on North Korea’s nuclear program, said unofficial talks between the two sides usually take place about every six months.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-12/u-s-group-seeks-informal-talks-with-north-korea-as-threat-grows

Poland Starting Own EU Exit by Undermining Bloc, Opposition Says

Poland’s leading opposition party accused the government of seeking to take the formerly communist nation out of the European Union after the foreign minister pledged to undermine the 28 nation bloc following a row at last week’s summit.
bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-12/poland-starting-own-eu-exit-by-undermining-bloc-opposition-says

Other urls found in this thread:

jacobinmag.com/2017/03/canada-new-democratic-labor-party-ccf/
daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-shopping-mall/
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance
bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-09/how-to-become-an-international-gold-smuggler
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-never-ending-lukacs-debate/
youtube.com/watch?v=M0FvLkXDKIs
versobooks.com/blogs/3087-the-erasure-of-history-lukacs-forgotten
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

OP/EDs


The Common Sense of Socialism

What can the Canadian experience teach us about building a mass working-class party in the US?
jacobinmag.com/2017/03/canada-new-democratic-labor-party-ccf/


The Rise and Fall of the Shopping Mall

Although shopping centers helped kill downtowns, they weren’t immortal themselves.
daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-shopping-mall/


Bernie Sanders on Trump and the resistance: 'Despair is not an option'

The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism to the heartland in order to topple Trump
theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/bernie-sanders-interview-trump-democratic-party-resistance

How to Become an International Gold Smuggler

Harold Vilches, a 23-year-old Chilean, exported $80 million in contraband gold. It all started with a Google search.
bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-09/how-to-become-an-international-gold-smuggler


The Never-Ending Lukács Debate

ON JANUARY 25, 2017, the Budapest City Council decided to remove the statue of Georg Lukács from a park in the city’s 13th district. Philosopher G. M. Tamás comments on the significance of the gesture.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-never-ending-lukacs-debate/

Reminder that animu pics make anything 100% less relevant.

Who is she

The acceleration will accelerate soon, boyah

Same here

We have to take advantage of this fact while we still can and raise class consciousness so the populace doesn't look back to bourg politics as a solution. We have to present an alternative.

There is a lot of potential to be made.

kys

Will be funny to see Merkel stand up to Trump but then bend over for Erdogan.

I'm always looking forward to your posts

Excellent, it's all falling into place.

This stupid old fuck just doesn't get it anymore, does he?

Succdems will never get it.

There's a really good VOX video on Obamacare in deep Trump territory. It makes me feel bad for these people.

youtube.com/watch?v=M0FvLkXDKIs

He pivoted so hard during the DNC I don't see any other possibility than either he was a puppet from the beginning (and a very good actor) or he got strongarmed at the end. Given his history the second seems a lot more likely. The Clintons are not above killing people by all circumstantial evidence and I expect they threatened the lives of his family.

What's funny about it is that they still toe the party line even as they literally kill them.

muh dick

Just like they're "volunteering" to work for a dollar a day, right?

they'll defend them to the grave. such a shame the democratic party is in shambles because these people seem like such a rational group to have move left.

One woman says she detests the word "Obamacare" all the while proclaiming how it saved her from breast cancer.

I don't know if this is a general sentiment or Vox just selected that for it's shock value.

a huge part of it is that only a small fraction of the US population even understands how health care works, especially on the insurance side
I even have two siblings who are doctors that don't know how insurance works

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relevant blog post

:(

versobooks.com/blogs/3087-the-erasure-of-history-lukacs-forgotten

To be fair, it would be nice if they called the ACA instead of Obamacare so a large portion of the population weren't confused into thinking they were different things.

Can you really blame them in a way? I mean sure, they might have health insurance, but to them the apparent difference between their aca bronze plan and no insurance is basically nothing. When you have a multiple thousand dollar deductible you're not going to end up being able to go to the doctor more, particularly if you're now spending an extra few hundred a month just to have the insurance.

And what was Hillary offering them?

The lady there said it herself, they were playing Russian Roulette or slots with their vote. At least Trump was promising them that it would be better.

This year did make me want to kill reactionaries in opposition to moderate policy reform. Stalin is the man we need for the USA.

Damn I am not even into Hentai, but the shit posted on these threads is always hot as fuck.

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Lukacs had a hard life ;-;

Idk I like some drawn stuff but prefer it to be more realistic not to manga like and no ridiculous proportions.