Portside Digest - Fact Checking Trump's Inaccurate Statements January 28, 2017 Here’s an accounting of his public statements in the first seven days as president, not counting his error-plagued inauguration speech (which had eight problematic claims). https://portside.org/2017-01-28/fact-checking-trumps-inaccurate-statements War and Warming: Can We Save the Planet Without Taking on the Pentagon? January 28, 2017 Oil is indispensable for war and militarism. Think of it as the lifeblood coursing through our foreign policy, a policy based on maintaining superpower status and confronting those whom we perceive as challenging us. https://portside.org/2017-01-28/war-and-warming-can-we-save-planet-without-taking-pentagon Puerto Rico Redesigns its Business Environment Through an Overhaul of its Employment Regime January 28, 2017 Moderators Note: This article, which is not friendly to the workers of Puerto Rico, does list in detail the latest austerity measures enacted by the Government of Puerto Rico as dictated by Obama's Federal Control Board. https://portside.org/2017-01-28/puerto-rico-redesigns-its-business-environment-through-overhaul-its-employment-regime Our Alternative January 28, 2017 We need a socialist politics that challenges the Democratic Party's leadership, not just the Right. https://portside.org/2017-01-28/our-alternative “A Hostile Act: Mexico Braces for Trump’s Border Wall January 28, 2017 Faced with the Mexican government’s refusal to pay for the building of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, the Trump Administration announced it would impose a 20% tax on Mexican imports. But the very idea of a wall is imbued with aggression from the highest office of the U.S. government to the Mexican state. It is “a hostile act.” On Friday Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called an emergency government meeting to coordinate a response to Trump’s attack on Mexico. https://portside.org/2017-01-28/%E2%80%9C-hostile-act-mexico-braces-trump%E2%80%99s-border-wall Union Members Summary for 2016 January 28, 2017 The new figures have just come out, and we are slightly down again. https://portside.org/2017-01-28/union-members-summary-2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------- VIEW ONLINE: https://portside.org/portsidegeneral SUBSCRIBE: http://portside.org/subscribe VISIT PORTSIDE.ORG: http://portside.org TWITTER: https://twitter.com/portsideorg FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/Portside.PortsideLabor -------------------------------------------------------------------- Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via web: http://portside.org/submittous3 Frequently asked questions: http://portside.org/faq Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive ######################################################################## To unsubscribe, click the following link: https://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?SUBED1=PORTSIDE-SNAPSHOT
