7-7-17 Nicole Sandler Show – Orwellian Election Integrity with Ari Berman
Donald Trump met with Vladmir Putin today in Hamburg at the G20. Here at home, the Trump DoJ is getting in on the voter suppression action along with Kris Kobach's "commission on election integrity". We talk about it with The Nation's Ari Berman. Ari Berman is a senior contributing writer for The Nation , where this week he wrote about the Kris Kobach voter suppression plan in the form of a “election integrity commission”… He also had a big piece in the June 13 issue of the NY Times Magazine, “The Man Behind Trump’s Voter-Fraud Obsession: How Kris Kobach, the [...]
Independence Day… or not!
I just finished reading a piece penned by the late, great Howard Zinn entitled "Put Away the Flags," which pretty much sums up how I'm feeling on this 4th of July. "Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? ... Our citizenry has been brought up to see our nation as different from others, an exception in the world, uniquely moral, expanding into other lands in order to bring civilization, liberty, democracy." Ahh, [...]