What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters

What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters   They’re drawn to the movement for reasons that have little to do with belief in extremist Islam.

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Hillary Clinton‘s Best Asset Is Also Her Greatest Liability   Her answers at the Des Moines debate revealed a fluency in the complicated global challenge. But can Democrats forgive her Iraq vote?   JOAN WALSH

To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account   And that includes the Saudi kings whose funding of Wahhabi doctrine gave rise to the scourge of Islamic extremism.   LAILA LALAMI

France Should Stop Listening to Saudi Arabia on Syria   ISIS is the most urgent threat to the West stemming from the Syrian war and must be destroyed. Assad’s murderous dictatorship can be dealt with next.   JUAN COLE

After Paris Attacks, a Call for Justice—Not Vengeance   The years after September 11 are a powerful reminder that an “all-out war” on terror only creates more terrorism.   PHYLLIS BENNIS

Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?   The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.   JESSE MCCARTHY

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We built our Social Security system, Wall Street billionaires have been fighting to tear it down.

		Friend, For the past 80 years, since we built our Social Security system, Wall Street billionaires have been fighting to tear it down. One of their most effective tactics has been closing offices and limiting services from the Social Security Administration, making every interaction as inconvenient as possible. But this isn’t limited to Social Security—The US Postal Service has been suffering from years of cuts, and has been forced to repeatedly consider service reductions. We must fight back. The US Postal Service—like our Social Security system—is a universal service that we all rely on. Instead of looking for ways to reduce that, we should be asking what more the Postal Service can do. One way we can protect and expand the U.S. Postal Service is by allowing them to offer more services such as postal banking.Click here to call on Postmaster General Brennan to take concrete steps toward implementing postal banking. Postal Banking is an affordable, non-profit, consumer-driven financial service for all U.S. residents including seniors living on fixed incomes, people with disabilities, veterans, and people living in rural areas. Right now, nearly 28 percent of U.S. households are underserved by traditional banks and are forced to turn to payday lenders, check cashers, and other financial predators, spending on average 10 percent of their income on fees and services. This totals $103 billion a year in lost income for American families. Our 30,000 postal branches across the country serve as a critical societal link for our underserved populations and act as a meeting place in many rural communities. In order to prevent the closing of rural post offices, protect 6-day delivery, and protect mail processing facilities across the country, it is critical that the USPS expands its current offerings.Stand with Social Security Works and our partners in calling on Postmaster General Brennan to take the necessary steps toward implementing postal banking. When we do, we’ll be expanding services for seniors and people with disabilities and strengthening the USPS for generations to come. Thank you, Michael Phelan Social Security Works
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Parents Are Putting Mayonnaise, Gasoline, and Raid on Their Kids' Heads. Here's Why.

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Parents Are Putting Mayonnaise, Gasoline, and Raid on Their Kids' Heads. Here's Why. At the Comb It Out salon in Concord, California, you can't get a haircut, a new hairstyle, or even a blowout. Here's what you can get: lice-free locks. Yes, Comb It Out is a lice-removal salon, where professional nit-pickers spend all day every day using special lice-repelling rosemary conditioner and fine-toothed metal combs to rid their clients of scalp-dwelling pests. During a recent visit to the salon, I learned many disgusting and amazing facts about lice—and what it's like to be a professional nit-picker. Here are a few of my favorites: [READ MORE]

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We are all France. Why aren't we all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq?

We are all.  Share this action on Facebook  Share this action on Twitter At this time of grief, our hearts go out to the people of France, as well as to the people of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and other countries traumatized by deadly violence -- people of all races, religions and nationalities. This is a time of shock and fear, but also can be a time of reflection and action. As a first step, you can add your name to this petition that makes a simple yet vital statement: "We want to express our condolences to all people who are suffering and mourning the results of organized deadly violence, from Paris and Beirut to Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Humanity is indivisible. We reject any attempt by political leaders to exploit tragic events to promote more war." Please forward this email to friends, then click here to participate in this global petition. Below are links to background with thoughtful analysis and key information. Thank you. -- The RootsAction.org Team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. Background: >  Institute for Public Accuracy:  After Paris: Is the “War on Terror” Feeding Terror? >  Joseph G. Ramsey:  Against Moral Imposters: Mourning the Dead as a Part of the World >  Vijay Prashad:  We Are in Pitiless Times >  Phyllis Bennis: After the Paris Attacks, a Call for Justice—Not Vengeance www.RootsAction.org

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Drone War Blowback

Drone War Blowback Edward Wasserman:Earlier disclosures indicating our government knows that drones are killing a lot of civilians provoked scant public response—and this Congress is hardly likely to hold hearings on an effort lawmakers generally support, whose victims are both faceless and distant. READ MORE shared from

SATURDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2015 Students Are Saying: Black Lives Matter on Campus, Too Olivia Davis: The Oxy students were sending a message that the events happening in Columbia, Missouri, are not unique, but rather a microcosm of the experiences of Black students at predominantly white institutions across the nation. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend The “New Democrats” Confront a New Reality RJ Eskow: Third Way’s argument against inequality as a leading source of our current economic woes puts them directly at odds with leading economists, including Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz. READ MORE Pundit LikenS Bevin to Trump, Hampton to Carson Berry Craig: David Love doesn’t pull punches. “Imagine Ben Carson, but as a woman living in Kentucky, with all the atrocious political positions and appeals to white racists. READ MORE Drone War Blowback Edward Wasserman:Earlier disclosures indicating our government knows that drones are killing a lot of civilians provoked scant public response—and this Congress is hardly likely to hold hearings on an effort lawmakers generally support, whose victims are both faceless and distant. READ MORE The Bogus 'Philosophy' of Sen. Marco Rubio, Esq. Michael Sigman: Sen. Marco Rubio grabbed the gold medal for bogus populism (and crappy grammar) by proclaiming, "Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers." READ HERE

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