##  [ Trump’s New Year’s Gift to Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16815-trump-s-new-year-s-gift-to-putin-rouhani-and-erdogan "Trump’s New Year’s Gift to Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan")

      Details    Alon Ben-Meir    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 27 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/104b.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16815-trump-s-new-year-s-gift-to-putin-rouhani-and-erdogan)

WORLD WATCH--Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria is extremely reckless and is bound to backfire in more than one way.

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   ##  [ What Happens When Capitalism Devours a Society?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16796-what-happens-when-capitalism-devours-a-society "What Happens When Capitalism Devours a Society?")

      Details    Umair Haque    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 20 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/102d.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16796-what-happens-when-capitalism-devours-a-society)

SPOILS OF EXPLOITATION-There are three great lessons from the 20th century which we are only just beginning to learn, in the difficult and tumultuous adolescence of the 21st.

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   ##  [ Facebook Is a Problem … the System It Feeds Is a Bigger One](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16795-facebook-is-a-problem-the-system-it-feeds-is-a-bigger-one "Facebook Is a Problem … the System It Feeds Is a Bigger One")

      Details    Damon Beres    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 20 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/102q.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16795-facebook-is-a-problem-the-system-it-feeds-is-a-bigger-one)

TECH TALK--It’s easy, at this point, to see any Facebook scandal as more white noise; a few million people betrayed by the social network, an egregious overreach into a user’s personal data — another day online.

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   ##  [ Loud Noises from a Bonkers Year](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16793-loud-noises-from-a-bonkers-year "Loud Noises from a Bonkers Year")

      Details    Abby Zimet    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 20 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/102k.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16793-loud-noises-from-a-bonkers-year)

GUEST WORDS--During lo these long 300 years of his reign, Trump has committed crimes against many things: Empathy, decency, integrity, the rule of law, the environment and economy, the concept of orderly reasoned governance and - cue incoherence and racist, shameless, ceaseless lies - language itself.

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   ##  [ Could Trump be Correct? Could the Media be the Enemy of the People?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16792-could-trump-be-correct-could-the-media-be-the-enemy-of-the-people "Could Trump be Correct? Could the Media be the Enemy of the People?")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 20 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/102r.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16792-could-trump-be-correct-could-the-media-be-the-enemy-of-the-people)

CORRUPTION WATCH -Even a stopped watch is correct twice a day. Could not Grumpy-Trumpy be inadvertently right when he calls the media the “enemy of the people?”

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   ##  [ A White House Christmas Carol](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16767-a-white-house-christmas-carol "A White House Christmas Carol")

      Details    James Preston Allen    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 17 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/101w.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16767-a-white-house-christmas-carol)

AT LENGTH-It’s winter in Washington, D.C., snow has dusted the White House lawn, the West Wing staff has gone home for the evening and Donald is in the residence watching Fox News.

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   ##  [ Tear Gassing Children is a Crime Against Humanity](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16766-tear-gassing-children-is-a-crime-against-humanity "Tear Gassing Children is a Crime Against Humanity")

      Details    George Cassidy Payne    [IMPORTANT READS](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads)     December 17 2018       [  ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/101g.png)    ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16766-tear-gassing-children-is-a-crime-against-humanity)

VEW FROM HERE-Soon after President Trump positioned, encouraged, and sanctioned border patrol agents to deploy tear gas against migrants on the border, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a forceful statement: “Children are uniquely vulnerable to physiological effects of chemical agents.

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1. [ Bernie the Spoiler: Don’t Start This President $hit Again](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16760-bernie-the-spoiler-don-t-start-this-president-hit-again)
2. [ Inside China’s Bizarre Obsession with Jews](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16744-inside-china-s-bizarre-obsession-with-jews)
3. [ George H.W. Bush: A Legacy of Honor and Hypocrisy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/16743-george-h-w-bush-a-legacy-of-honor-and-hypocrisy)

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