##  [ Putin’s Orders: Trigger the Right with the Words Socialism and Venezuela](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014i.png)    ](https://mail.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.

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   ##  [ Why I Care What Happens to the Children of Yemen](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014b.png)    ](https://mail.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.

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   ##  [ Green New Deal: Building a ‘Bold and Unapologetic’ Political Coalition](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014o.png)    ](https://mail.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.

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

      Details    Mattias Lehman    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 14 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/014k.png)    ](https://mail.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.”

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   ##  [ It’s Not Capitalism We Have to Save…So Why Can’t We Let It Go?](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 11 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/013p.png)    ](https://mail.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.

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   ##  [ Instead of Trump’s Border Wall, What Would a National Emergency Over Gun Violence Look Like?](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 11 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/013s.png)    ](https://mail.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?

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   ##  [ Starving to Death: Why Trump Didn't Mention Yemen in his SOTU](https://mail.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://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     February 07 2019       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Feb-2019/012e.png)    ](https://mail.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.

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1. [ Truthful Reporting in the Balkans Is Life-Threatening](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17063-truthful-reporting-in-the-balkans-is-life-threatening)
2. [ You Know What’s Not Cool Anymore? Billionaires.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17045-you-know-what-s-not-cool-anymore-billionaires)
3. [ Saying HELL NO to Authoritarian Takeover](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/17040-saying-hell-no-to-authoritarian-takeover)

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