Wednesday, August 28, 2019 
There's Poison in the Tap Water. The Government Must Act. William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Maximizing profit for the few at the expense of the many -- and especially at the expense of people of color -- remains the guiding principle of our violent economic model, and the ongoing water crisis is further proof of this. If poison in the water does not galvanize this government to act, its officials may as well drop all pretense and hang a sign on the White House door: "We Don't Care, You Can Die."
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Trump Moves to Open 16.7 Million-Acre Alaskan Rainforest to Exploitation Jake Johnson, Common Dreams President Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest -- the planet's largest intact temperate rainforest -- to logging and other corporate development projects. The move comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the "lungs of the world" in grave danger.
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Coup-Like Suspension of Parliament Sends U.K. Hurtling Toward Brexit Sasha Abramsky, Truthout This morning, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took the constitutionally extraordinary step of asking Queen Elizabeth II to suspend Parliament from mid-September to mid-October. Johnson's hope is that the suspension will give Parliament too little time to debate and vote on blocking a "No-Deal" Brexit, which would allow Britain to go crashing out of the EU even without a negotiated exit strategy with its European partners.
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From Kentucky Miners to Toys 'R' Us Employees, Workers Confront Corporate Greed Negin Owliaei, Truthout Over the last year, workers fed up with being grossly underpaid and cheated out of basic benefits -- in industries ranging from retail to mining to banking and education -- have organized large-scale work stoppages and public actions. It is worker organizing, not CEO platitudes, that is forging a path toward a more equitable future.
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Trump Reportedly Moving to Deport Kids With Cancer and Deadly Illnesses Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The Trump administration has reportedly ended a program which allowed immigrants with serious illnesses to temporarily remain in the United States. Immigrants living and receiving medical care in Massachusetts learned of the Trump administration's policy change when they received letters from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this month warning them they will be deported if they don't leave the country in 33 days.
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Beto O'Rourke Built His Career on Driving Out Low-Income Mexican Communities Susie Aquilina, Truthout The El Paso shooting was the culmination of the overt racism directed at the Latino community over the years, but it was also part of the ongoing, systematic effort by the city's wealthy to drive out low-income Mexicans. Former Congressman and El Paso City Council member Beto O'Rourke is best remembered for working to transform the city's downtown by demolishing traditionally immigrant neighborhoods.
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Israel's Airstrikes in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq Mark Escalation in Aggression Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Tensions are mounting across the Middle East following a series of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Israeli drones bombed targets in Lebanon on both Monday and Tuesday, and Lebanese President Michel Aoun likened the attacks to a "declaration of war." Meanwhile, some Iraqi lawmakers are calling on the United States to fully withdraw its troops following Israel's air assault.
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Pharma Cash Rolls Into Congress to Defend an Embattled Industry Emmarie Huetteman, Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas, Kaiser Health News In the first six months of this year, political action committees run by employees of drug companies and their trade groups have given the 30 senators expected to run for reelection nearly $845,000. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set a personal record for pharmaceutical industry contributions.
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New "Dark Money" Group Devotes Millions to Ads Helping Establishment Democrats Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics A new "dark money" group funded by secret donors plans to spend almost all of its $10.4 million budget on ads helping Democrats in House races heading into 2020. House Majority Forward was quietly incorporated in March but operated under the radar until its public launch in July as a new 501(c)(4) arm of House Majority PAC.
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Arrest, Release, Repeat: New Report Exposes Vicious Cycle of Imprisonment Victoria Law, Truthout Across the U.S., police arrest nearly 10.6 million people each year and send nearly half of them to jail. A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals that one quarter of those sent to jail are jailed more than once in the same year. Those arrested are overwhelmingly poor, unemployed and have less than a high school education, confirming that race and class are prominent factors in who gets targeted.
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Trump's Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History Talila A. Lewis, Truthout The Trump administration's new "public charge" rule -- which denies visas to people who rely on or are likely to rely on public benefits like food, housing and medical assistance -- is the latest iteration of a cruel law first applied centuries ago to enslaved Black people seeking freedom. Like its precedent, the current rule is racist, ableist and classist and harms people already victimized by U.S. government policies.
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