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From Hong Kong to Kashmir to the U.S., Authoritarianism Is Rising Sasha Abramsky, Truthout With Trump at the helm, the U.S. now lacks even the appearance of moral authority to take a stand against the actions of autocratic regimes around the world -- nor does it have the will to do so. Meanwhile, every would-be dictator and authoritarian populist is seeing what they can get away with -- from vigilante violence and book burning to the dismantling of constitutional protections.
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Trump Guts Endangered Species Act in Gift to Big Business Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Environmentalists denounced the Trump administration for crashing a "bulldozer" through the Endangered Species Act on Monday after the Interior Department finalized a series of rollbacks to the 46-year-old law. The changes will further imperil hundreds of vulnerable animal and plant species while paving the way for business development projects.
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Democratic Candidates Must Pledge to End U.S. Aid for the Israeli Occupation Zak Witus, Truthout In just a matter of weeks, the majority of the Democratic front-runners have publicly stated that they oppose Israeli occupation. However, a new pro-Israel lobbying group has recently been coaching Democrats on how to maintain their verbal opposition to the occupation without actually challenging Israel in any serious way. Instead, the candidates must commit to ending U.S. aid for Israel.
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Puerto Rican Resistance Began Long Before Rosselló Yulissa Arce, Truthout The uprising that overthrew Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló was not a spontaneous and unique event but the culmination of decades of grassroots organizing and resistance by a people fed up with being the U.S.'s colonial experiment. The leaked social media texts that sparked the uprising are a revelation of the injustices and corruption foisted on Puerto Rico through decades of austerity, neglect and violence by the U.S.
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We Ignore Thousands of Threatened Plant Species at Our Own Peril Lorraine Chow, Truthout We take plants for granted because they are all around us, but more than 20 percent of the world's known plant species are threatened with extinction. Agriculture, resource extraction, invasive species and climate change are causing plant species to disappear rapidly. This doesn't bode well for our own survival. It's time to urge our elected representatives to protect plants with a stronger Endangered Species Act.
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Trump Keeps Cracking Down on Legal Immigration Because His Base Loves Cruelty Sophia Tesfaye, Salon The number of undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border appeared much more substantial precisely because the Trump administration was choking off access to legal ports of entry for many migrants. This was likely a strategic move by White House adviser Stephen Miller, deliberately turning would-be legal asylum seekers into lawbreakers.
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Since Charlottesville, White Supremacists Have Committed at Least 73 Murders Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! This week marks two years since white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, where a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer. Author and professor Ibram X. Kendi discusses the rise in white supremacist violence since.
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Could California's Investment in Child Care Be a Model for the Country? Zaidee Stavely, The Hechinger Report Beginning July 1, 2020, workers in California can take eight weeks of partially paid family leave to care for new babies or ill family members, in addition to the six weeks of paid disability leave for mothers after they give birth. As presidential candidates propose investments in child care and paid leave on a national scale, California's success or failure could act as a bellwether.
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How #MeToo Is Changing Sex Ed Policies -- Even in Red States Keren Landman, Kaiser Health News The 2019 state legislative season is producing a bumper crop of sex education bills across the U.S., with at least 79 bills introduced in the legislatures of 32 states and the District of Columbia. Several conservative states were among those taking steps toward broader sex education that, while not as far-reaching as some, represent important shifts that could lead to more comprehensive policies.
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Military Might Is Our National Religion William J. Astore, TomDispatch While U.S. wars of the 21st century never seem to end, almost unnoticed, they have been coming home in all sorts of ways. The increasingly worshipful attitudes of so many Americans (especially those in the seats of power in Washington, D.C.) toward the Pentagon and the U.S. military should be examined and criticized.
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They Survived Solitary Confinement. Now They're Fighting to End It. Victoria Law, Truthout Across the country, activists have been fighting to drastically reduce, if not end, the use of solitary confinement. Among the most vocal opponents of the practice are those who have spent years in isolation behind bars and who see the fight as part of a larger campaign to end the harms of mass incarceration.
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Leave Muslims Out of This. Let's Discuss White Violence on Its Own Terms. Maha Hilal, Truthout In discussing the recent mass shootings, pundits and news articles have repeatedly compared them to violence committed by Muslims. This framework diverts attention from white supremacy. In order to effectively confront acts of white supremacist violence, we must confront the racist culture that made them possible.
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