Thursday, August 22, 2019  Trump's Reinstatement of Indefinite Family Detention Could Kill People Mike Ludwig, Truthout The Trump administration is moving to incarcerate migrant families indefinitely while they wait to see an immigration judge. Advocates say reinstating indefinite detention for families endangers their lives, and that the practice would only benefit private prison companies and other contractors while appeasing Trump's nativist base ahead of the 2020 elections.
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The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames Dahr Jamail, Truthout Often referred to as the "lungs" of the planet, the Amazon rainforest is burning at a record pace, covering half of Brazil and parts of Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru in smoke. The Earth's largest rainforest has seen an 80 percent increase in wildfires since the same period last year, yet Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is working at breakneck speed to open up the Amazon for logging, mining and agribusiness.
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Trump's Greenland Comments Follow Tradition of Violent Colonialism William Rivers Pitt, Truthout As Wednesday morning vomited its cold and merciless light upon the land, we learned that Donald Trump had transformed his strange scheme to purchase Greenland into a full-fledged diplomatic crisis. The Greenland fiasco further proves that Trump could foul up the recipe for bathwater. It also points to a larger context of colonialism and U.S. -- and European -- entitlement.
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Sanders Unveils Plan Detailing 10-Year Mobilization to Avert Climate Catastrophe Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Calling the global climate crisis both the greatest threat facing the United States and the greatest opportunity for transformative change, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday unveiled a comprehensive Green New Deal proposal that would transition the U.S. economy to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million well-paying union jobs over a decade.
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Why the LGBTQ Community Should Be Worried About Trump's Gag Rule Julianna S. Gonen, Truthout The Trump administration's abortion gag rule against clinics receiving Title X funds has serious repercussions for members of the LGBTQ community who often face a lot of discrimination at mainstream health care facilities. For many of the Title X sites, the fact that they do provide abortion -- although not with Title X funds -- has led them to create welcoming nonjudgmental spaces for LGBTQ people.
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Former Staffer Details Abuse Inside Chicago Child Detention Center Ramona Benitez, It's Going Down Thanks to the work of community organizers and journalists, the existence of a network of nonprofits acting as child prisons for hundreds of migrant prisoners in Chicago has been exposed, along with the conditions inside. Now, a former child detention center staff employee details what they saw during several years inside one such facility.
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2020 Candidates Address Missing Indigenous Women at Native American Forum Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Following this week's historic Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, a panel of Indigenous figures responds to the 2020 candidates' proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community. At the forefront of the discussion were issues such as the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
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Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism Kelly Wilkins, Media For Us In this interview, cultural critic Henry Giroux discusses his latest book, The Terror of the Unforeseen, in which he warns that the economic tyranny of neoliberal capitalism and a culture of cruelty and objectification set the stage for Trump's rise and the emergence of fascism.
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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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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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