{"id":284585,"date":"2016-12-14T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-otherwords-december-14-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T20:52:55","slug":"in-otherwords-december-14-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/in-otherwords-december-14-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In OtherWords: December 14, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s post-election hangover took a major turn for the dramatic this past week, when sources told the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>that the CIA believes Russia intervened in the vote to help Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The jury’s still out on the truth of the matter, but this week in OtherWords I reflect on the irony of the CIA accusing a foreign power of meddling in an election\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>a tactic that, once upon a time, was the agency’s calling card.<\/p>\n

Also this week, we continue our coverage of the next administration’s cabinet picks. Marge Baker looks at the troubling civil rights record of attorney general pick Jeff Sessions, while Jim Hightower counts several billionaires\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>and precisely zero working class populists\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>on Trump’s economic team.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Danielle Brian and Gary D. Bass lay out some steps Trump could take if he’s actually serious about “draining the swamp” in Washington. (Our cartoonist Khalil Bendib isn’t so sure he is, though.)<\/p>\n

Finally, my colleague Miriam Pemberton takes a look at another jaw-dropping story this week: the Pentagon’s cover-up of a report laying out $125 billion<\/em> in waste.<\/p>\n

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Khalil Bendib \/ OtherWords.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  1. Foreign Meddling in Our Vote? Remember How This Feels.<\/a> \/ Peter Certo
    \nDuring the Cold War, the CIA did everything it\u2019s accusing Russia of doing today \u2014 and more.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. The Pentagon\u2019s $125 Billion Cover-up<\/a> \/ Miriam Pemberton
    \nThe brass asked for a report on eliminating waste. When investigators found some, the military buried it.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. This Man May Be Trump\u2019s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick<\/a> \/ Marge Baker
    \nTime and time again, Jeff Sessions has put his own right-wing ideology above Americans’ constitutional rights.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Draining the Swamp: A How-To Guide<\/a> \/ Danielle Brian and Gary D. Bass
    \nIf Trump cares about un-rigging the system like he’s said, here are five things he can do.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Trump Is Taking on Wall Street, Literally<\/a> \/ Jim Hightower
    \nThe next administration will have plenty of billionaires \u2014 and no working class populists.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Conflict of Interest? Of Course Not.<\/a> \/ Khalil Bendib<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The post In OtherWords: December 14, 2016<\/a> appeared first on OtherWords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    This piece was reprinted from Other Words<\/a> by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    America’s post-election hangover took a major turn for the dramatic this past week, when sources told the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0that the CIA believes Russia intervened in the vote to help Donald Trump. The jury’s still out on the truth of the matter, but this week in OtherWords I reflect on the irony of the CIA accusing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":284587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}