Amy Goodman: Needless arms race is alarming – Fri, 30 Dec 2016 PST

President-elect Donald Trump exploded a half-century of U.S. nuclear-arms policy in a single tweet last week: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” With that one vague message, Donald Trump, who hasn’t even taken office yet, may have started a new arms race.

TV baby blues

… shows are rarely able to match; and that commercial television tends to turn the news and everything else into entertainment, and every entertainment into some form of advertisement. The bloated presidential election campaign of 2016, as televised, …