Wednesday, August 21, 2019 
Chomsky: By Focusing on Russia, We Ignore Trump's Existential Threat to Climate David Barsamian, Truthout Campaign funding by the wealthy overwhelms the effect of any imaginable foreign interference, says world-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky. Meanwhile, the human species is facing questions of survival that have never arisen before, and any crime Trump may have committed pales in comparison to the fact that his administration and the Republican Party are escalating the race toward ecological disaster.
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Why Is a Freshman Democrat Attacking Progressives in a Washington Post Series? William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Freshman Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a "moderate" Democrat and former CIA operative, played the starring role in a Tuesday Washington Post article slagging House progressives over the issue of immigration and the recent border funding vote. There is nothing new about the Post going after progressives, but Spanberger's motives remain far murkier.
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The Return of the Federal Death Penalty Is an Attack on Democracy Lacino Hamilton, Truthout The return of the federal death penalty is a signal that the state is willing to go to any lengths to defend its brutal policies. The Trump administration is particularly targeting marginalized people, but history provides ample evidence that vulnerable populations often serve as a testing ground for practices later applied more broadly, especially toward those who dissent against the status quo.
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Trump Escalates War on Species as We Face an Extinction Emergency Curtis Johnson, Truthout The Endangered Species Act, which has saved more than 200 species from extinction, is being dismantled by the Trump administration. Proposed rule changes taking effect in September will allow economic calculations to be made when considering protection of species and will undo several protections for threatened species, including the establishment of critical habitat, which is crucial at a moment of global mass extinction and climate crises.
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Progressive Jews Hit Back After Trump's Anti-Semitic Smear Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Progressive Jews accused President Trump of blaring "straightforward anti-Semitism" after he said from the Oval Office on Tuesday that Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party are either ignorant or disloyal. The smear came after Trump once again baselessly accused Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar of hating Jews and Israel.
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Amid Warnings of Recession, Trump Proposes More Tax Cuts for the Rich Igor Derysh, Salon Despite the stock market plummeting over concerns of a looming recession, President Trump and his aides have flippantly dismissed concerns of an economic downturn. Meanwhile, the White House has floated a new round of tax cuts for the rich and is proposing slashing the payroll tax used to fund Social Security and Medicare to ease worries of a recession.
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An Artist Is Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States. In the past five years, Tucson-based artist Alvaro Enciso has built and installed more than 900 crosses across the treacherous Sonoran Desert in Arizona as part of his ongoing project.
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Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan to Protect Black Farm Ownership Lizzie Presser, ProPublica Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren released plans this month that intend to address discrimination against farmers of color and protect their heirs' property ownership. She noted that over the course of the 20th century, "Black farmers were stripped of 90 percent of Black-owned farmland and received a mere fraction of the value of the land they lost."
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New York Court Directive May Violate Rules Protecting Families From Deportation Aura Bogado, The Center for Investigative Reporting A high-ranking immigration court official has issued a requirement to judges in New York City that deportation cases involving families "must be completed within 365 days." The order may violate due process, as well as longstanding rules that protect families from deportation before their cases have been adjudicated fully.
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Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil, Truthout We are facing global environmental collapse. Yet capitalism would have us believe that the crisis is not imminent. For those of us who realize that it is, it's time to deeply reflect on strategies for living our everyday lives while on the brink of catastrophe.
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Portland Anti-Fascist Coalition Shows Us How We Can Defeat the Far Right Shane Burley, Truthout Another attempt by the far-right street gang known as the Proud Boys to hold a rally in Portland, Oregon, last weekend backfired once again when local anti-fascists crafted a counterprotest aimed at mobilizing and including nearly every segment of the local community. Portland chapters of the NAACP and the Industrial Workers of the World, along with Jobs With Justice and others joined Rose City Antifa and other anti-fascists to successfully overshadow the fascist rally.
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