#  IMPORTANT READS

   ##  [ Balance in Government is Not Possible So Long as the GOP is Allowed to Cheat](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17216-balance-in-government-is-not-possible-so-long-as-the-gop-is-allowed-to-cheat "Balance in Government is Not Possible So Long as the GOP is Allowed to Cheat")

      Details    S. Novi    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     March 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/019w.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17216-balance-in-government-is-not-possible-so-long-as-the-gop-is-allowed-to-cheat)

**MY TURN**--Politics has always been a dirty game, and it seems that it happens in a lot of countries. Our founding fathers knew this and had first-hand experience of it.

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   ##  [ The Age of Catastrophism: Why Forces Welcoming Economic, Social, and Planetary Collapse Are Rising](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17196-the-age-of-catastrophism-why-forces-welcoming-economic-social-and-planetary-collapse-are-rising "The Age of Catastrophism: Why Forces Welcoming Economic, Social, and Planetary Collapse Are Rising")

      Details    Umair Haque    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/018e.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17196-the-age-of-catastrophism-why-forces-welcoming-economic-social-and-planetary-collapse-are-rising)

IN THE SHADOWS OF LOSERDOM-It’s a topic you can’t mention in polite company. People will look at you like you’re a little strange, and probably call you depressing (it’s a compliment, by the way.) One of the great elephants in the room of now is that we live in an age of collapse.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17196-the-age-of-catastrophism-why-forces-welcoming-economic-social-and-planetary-collapse-are-rising)

   ##  [ Jussie Smollett and Hate Crimes: One Lie, Many Truths](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17194-jussie-smollett-and-hate-crimes-one-lie-many-truths "Jussie Smollett and Hate Crimes: One Lie, Many Truths")

      Details    Gray Ndiaye    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/018i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17194-jussie-smollett-and-hate-crimes-one-lie-many-truths)

**OTHER WORDS**-Jussie Smollett, a popular actor and singer-songwriter, was recently arrested and charged with filing a false police report. Smollett alleged that he was attacked in late January by two white men who spewed racist and homophobic slurs as they assaulted him.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17194-jussie-smollett-and-hate-crimes-one-lie-many-truths)

   ##  [ O.N.E.](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17193-o-n-e "O.N.E.")

      Details    Tom H. Hastings    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/018h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17193-o-n-e)

GUEST WORDS--Our National Embarrassment.

Our National Emergency.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17193-o-n-e)

   ##  [ Jussie Smollett and Due Process: A Tale of Respect Gained … and Lost … for the Chicago PD ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17176-jussie-smollett-and-due-process-a-tale-of-respect-gained-and-lost-for-the-chicago-pd "Jussie Smollett and Due Process: A Tale of Respect Gained … and Lost … for the Chicago PD ")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 25 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/017h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17176-jussie-smollett-and-due-process-a-tale-of-respect-gained-and-lost-for-the-chicago-pd)

VIEW FROM HERE-The pain across the country is real. What Jussie Smollett supposedly did is unspeakable. He staged his own assault and blamed it on white people.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17176-jussie-smollett-and-due-process-a-tale-of-respect-gained-and-lost-for-the-chicago-pd)

   ##  [ How Capitalism’s Traumas and Fears are Becoming its Delusions and Psychoses](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17175-how-capitalism-s-traumas-and-fears-are-becoming-its-delusions-and-psychoses "How Capitalism’s Traumas and Fears are Becoming its Delusions and Psychoses")

      Details    Umair Haque    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 25 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/017n.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17175-how-capitalism-s-traumas-and-fears-are-becoming-its-delusions-and-psychoses)

**THE REAL COST OF CAPITALISM**-Here’s a tiny observation, which you’re welcome to disagree with. I wouldn’t blame you.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17175-how-capitalism-s-traumas-and-fears-are-becoming-its-delusions-and-psychoses)

   ##  [ The Bernie-Can’t-Get-the-Black-Vote Myth Continues](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17143-the-bernie-can-t-get-the-black-vote-myth-continues "The Bernie-Can’t-Get-the-Black-Vote Myth Continues")

      Details    Earl Ofari Hutchinson    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 21 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/016g.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17143-the-bernie-can-t-get-the-black-vote-myth-continues)

URBAN PERSPECTIVE--It was repeatedly said as fact in 2016 and it’s being said again. Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has a big problem with black voters; namely that he can’t get many of them.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17143-the-bernie-can-t-get-the-black-vote-myth-continues)

   ##  [ Pogoism: The Foundation of America](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17132-pogoism-the-foundation-of-america "Pogoism: The Foundation of America")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 18 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/015j.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17132-pogoism-the-foundation-of-america)

ONE MAN’S OPINION-Forget what they told you in kindergarten and over the next 12 years of public school and through college and grad school, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are not the foundation of America. We are based on Pogoism.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17132-pogoism-the-foundation-of-america)

   ##  [ Sacrificing Greatness for Personal Ambition: An Open Letter to Turkey’s President Erdogan](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17131-sacrificing-greatness-for-personal-ambition-an-open-letter-to-turkey-s-president-erdogan "Sacrificing Greatness for Personal Ambition: An Open Letter to Turkey’s President Erdogan")

      Details    Alon Ben-Meir    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 18 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/015f.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17131-sacrificing-greatness-for-personal-ambition-an-open-letter-to-turkey-s-president-erdogan)

PROMOTING THE ISLAMIC AGENDA-Over the past year, I had the opportunity to speak to many Turkish scholars and former government officials, the majority of whom left your country because they feared for their lives and their loved ones.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17131-sacrificing-greatness-for-personal-ambition-an-open-letter-to-turkey-s-president-erdogan)

   ##  [ Happy Dictator’s Day](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17121-happy-dictator-s-day "Happy Dictator’s Day")

      Details    Robert Reich    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 18 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/015s.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17121-happy-dictator-s-day)

**HOLIDAY COLUMN**--*(Editor’s Note: This being national President’s Day, we went in search of a story that might honor the occasion. We headed for the Oval Office and found the US had experienced a change in leadership. Robert Reich explains.)*

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17121-happy-dictator-s-day)

   ##  [ Putin’s Orders: Trigger the Right with the Words Socialism and Venezuela](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17108-putin-s-orders-trigger-the-right-with-the-words-socialism-and-venezuela "Putin’s Orders: Trigger the Right with the Words Socialism and Venezuela")

      Details    S. Novi    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17108-putin-s-orders-trigger-the-right-with-the-words-socialism-and-venezuela)

MY TURN--Conservatives seem to love spreading fake news, especially when it relates to topics where they are clueless.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17108-putin-s-orders-trigger-the-right-with-the-words-socialism-and-venezuela)

   ##  [ Why I Care What Happens to the Children of Yemen](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17107-why-i-care-what-happens-to-the-children-of-yemen "Why I Care What Happens to the Children of Yemen")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014b.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17107-why-i-care-what-happens-to-the-children-of-yemen)

VIEW FROM HERE--For nearly six years I lived next to a family from Yemen. Today it is impossible for me to see people from that country as the nameless victims shown on TV.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17107-why-i-care-what-happens-to-the-children-of-yemen)

   ##  [ Green New Deal: Building a ‘Bold and Unapologetic’ Political Coalition](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17104-green-new-deal-building-a-bold-and-unapologetic-political-coalition "Green New Deal: Building a ‘Bold and Unapologetic’ Political Coalition")

      Details    Jessica Corbett    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014o.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17104-green-new-deal-building-a-bold-and-unapologetic-political-coalition)

CLIMATE POLITICS-Progressive organizers are mobilizing behind the Green New Deal resolution—[unveiled](https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/07/major-party-backing-ocasio-cortez-and-markey-unveil-green-new-deal-outlining-wwii) last week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)—with renewed energy to build "an unprecedented political coalition" to radically transform the nation's energy system and address the climate crisis while also facilitating a just transition to a new, greener economy.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17104-green-new-deal-building-a-bold-and-unapologetic-political-coalition)

   ##  [ Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17102-millennial-bashing-is-class-warfare "Millennial-Bashing Is Class Warfare")

      Details    Mattias Lehman    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014k.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17102-millennial-bashing-is-class-warfare)

EXPOSED-In 2013, *Time* magazine published [an article](http://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/) entitled “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” which bemoaned millennials’ inability to live up to the gumption and sturdiness of baby boomers or the entrepreneurial spirit of Generation X. It had a laundry list of criticisms, but the one that stood out was that millennials were “stunted, having prolonged a life stage between teenager and adult.”

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17102-millennial-bashing-is-class-warfare)

   ##  [ It’s Not Capitalism We Have to Save…So Why Can’t We Let It Go?](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17086-it-s-not-capitalism-we-have-to-save-so-why-can-t-we-let-it-go "It’s Not Capitalism We Have to Save…So Why Can’t We Let It Go?")

      Details    Umair Haque    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 11 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/013p.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17086-it-s-not-capitalism-we-have-to-save-so-why-can-t-we-let-it-go)

DOLLARS AND SENSE--Every so often these days, I read it. I think the *Economist* did a cover story on it. *Bloomberg*, an article. *The Times*, an op-ed. “We have to save capitalism!” LOL — my friends, laugh gently with me. We don’t have to save capitalism.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17086-it-s-not-capitalism-we-have-to-save-so-why-can-t-we-let-it-go)

   ##  [ Instead of Trump’s Border Wall, What Would a National Emergency Over Gun Violence Look Like?](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17085-instead-of-trump-s-border-wall-what-would-a-national-emergency-over-gun-violence-look-like "Instead of Trump’s Border Wall, What Would a National Emergency Over Gun Violence Look Like?")

      Details    Jared Keller    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 11 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/013s.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17085-instead-of-trump-s-border-wall-what-would-a-national-emergency-over-gun-violence-look-like)

GUN POLITICS--As President Donald Trump weighed the prospect of declaring a national emergency to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without dealing with Congress, one of the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, offered an [alternative](https://www.axios.com/david-hogg-trump-national-emergency-gun-violence-78b336e6-be09-42f3-b356-8ec0b9b5cdde.html): How about Trump declare a national emergency over gun violence instead?

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17085-instead-of-trump-s-border-wall-what-would-a-national-emergency-over-gun-violence-look-like)

   ##  [ Starving to Death: Why Trump Didn't Mention Yemen in his SOTU](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17064-starving-to-death-why-trump-didn-t-mention-yemen-in-his-sotu "Starving to Death: Why Trump Didn't Mention Yemen in his SOTU")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 07 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/012e.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17064-starving-to-death-why-trump-didn-t-mention-yemen-in-his-sotu)

VIEW FROM HERE-According to the Government Accountability Office, President Trump's early trips to Mar-a-Lago cost 13.8 million dollars. The Defense Department and Homeland Security incurred most of those costs, approximately 8.5 and 5.1 million respectfully.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17064-starving-to-death-why-trump-didn-t-mention-yemen-in-his-sotu)

   ##  [ Truthful Reporting in the Balkans Is Life-Threatening](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17063-truthful-reporting-in-the-balkans-is-life-threatening "Truthful Reporting in the Balkans Is Life-Threatening")

      Details    Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 07 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/012d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17063-truthful-reporting-in-the-balkans-is-life-threatening)

WORLD WATCH-Kosovo investigative journalist Parim Olluri knew the assailants who physically attacked him two years ago in front of his house, while the police and other security institutions remained silent. “I sent names to the Kosovo Police as well as to the Prosecutor’s Office, but none of them took any action,” says Olluri. Instead, the politicians, who were identified by the journalist to the police, sent messages to Olluri denying that they were involved in the attack.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17063-truthful-reporting-in-the-balkans-is-life-threatening)

   ##  [ You Know What’s Not Cool Anymore? Billionaires.](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17045-you-know-what-s-not-cool-anymore-billionaires "You Know What’s Not Cool Anymore? Billionaires.")

      Details    Emily Peck    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/011a.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17045-you-know-what-s-not-cool-anymore-billionaires)

INEQUALITY AND WEALTH-Their very existence is now the subject of political debate, sparked most recently by tax-the-rich proposals from two prominent politicians.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17045-you-know-what-s-not-cool-anymore-billionaires)

   ##  [ Saying HELL NO to Authoritarian Takeover](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17040-saying-hell-no-to-authoritarian-takeover "Saying HELL NO to Authoritarian Takeover")

      Details    S. Novi    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/011j.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17040-saying-hell-no-to-authoritarian-takeover)

MY TURN--Most Americans have been placated to the point of assuming that no group or leader could ever dupe them to the point of a complete takeover.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17040-saying-hell-no-to-authoritarian-takeover)

   ##  [ Impact of Global Warming On Thwaites Glacier Shocks Even Scientists](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17037-impact-of-global-warming-on-thwaites-glacier-shocks-even-scientists "Impact of Global Warming On Thwaites Glacier Shocks Even Scientists")

      Details    Robert Hunziker    [IMPORTANT READS](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/011h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17037-impact-of-global-warming-on-thwaites-glacier-shocks-even-scientists)

CLIMATE CHANGE--“It’s a disturbing discovery,” according to Pietro Milillo, a radar scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, who co-authored a recently published study: Heterogeneous Retreat and Ice Melt of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Science Advances, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 30, 2019.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17037-impact-of-global-warming-on-thwaites-glacier-shocks-even-scientists)

1. [ Many Hurdles … Plus the Afghan Government … Ahead Before the US and the Taliban Can Put Down Their Weapons](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17026-many-hurdles-plus-the-afghan-government-ahead-before-the-us-and-the-taliban-can-put-down-their-weapons)
2. [ ACLU Sues Entire Michigan School District for Being Racist AF](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17024-aclu-sues-entire-michigan-school-district-for-being-racist-af)
3. [ Young People are Giving Up on Capitalism Because It Has Failed Them](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17023-young-people-are-giving-up-on-capitalism-because-it-has-failed-them)
4. [ Despite a Rush to Judgement, Covington High School Students Still Bear Responsibility](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17022-despite-a-rush-to-judgement-covington-high-school-students-still-bear-responsibility)
5. [ Bulletin: End Times, Dead Ahead](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16997-bulletin-end-times-dead-ahead)
6. [ Want to Make America Great Again? Begin by Respecting Native Americans](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16979-want-to-make-america-great-again-begin-by-respecting-native-americans)
7. [ The Betrayal of Israel’s Historic Promise](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16976-the-betrayal-of-israel-s-historic-promise)
8. [ Is This America’s Reichstag Fire Moment?](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16962-is-this-america-s-reichstag-fire-moment)
9. [ 6 Things the Left and Right Can Agree On](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16960-6-things-the-left-and-right-can-agree-on)
10. [ Republicans Are Compromised AND Crazy But Not Without Support](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16933-republicans-are-compromised-and-crazy-but-not-without-support)

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