By Guest Post on Aug 15, 2020 12:00 pm
Clashes between protesters and government-backed paramilitaries are growing increasingly violent as tensions in Bolivia reach a boiling point following the US-backed Anez administration’s decision to cancel elections for the third time this year. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivia is heading for a showdown between the government and the people after nearly two weeks of [...]
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By Ralph Nader on Aug 15, 2020 10:00 am
 Adequate housing, healthcare, food, public services, education, mass transit, health & safety standards, and environmental protections are the prerequisites for a humane democracy. (Common Dreams) Economic indicators – data points, trends, and micro-categories – are the widgets of the big information industry. By contrast, indicators for our society’s democratic health are not similarly compiled, aggregated, [...]
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By Guest Post on Aug 14, 2020 02:00 pm
 Iran’s ambassador to Venezuela, Hojad Soltani, said that neither the ships nor their owners are Iranian but did not address whether the gasoline came from his country. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In an escalation of President Donald Trump’s sanction regimes against Iran and Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the U.S. has for the [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Aug 14, 2020 01:00 pm
 “The determination by an independent congressional watchdog today invalidates actions Mr. Cuccinelli and Mr. Wolf have taken and both should immediately step down from their illegal roles.” The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has completed a review of leadership changes within the Department of Homeland Security. In a report issued Friday, it concluded two Homeland Security [...]
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By Guest Post on Aug 14, 2020 11:30 am
 “I have never in my career faced so much difficulty attempting to trial monitor as in Julian Assange’s case.” — Rebecca Vincent, Director of International Campaigns for Reporters Without Borders. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) There were bizarre scenes at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London today, as the extradition process of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Aug 14, 2020 10:00 am
 “The supernatural series takes place in the 1950s Jim Crow-era south, following a group of African American protagonists who must battle racism, monsters, and terror — with the lines blurring between all of those elements.” The new HBO series “Lovecraft Country” tackles racism through the lens of the horror genre. Written and developed by Misha [...]
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By Max Richtman on Aug 14, 2020 08:30 am
 On this anniversary, we must renew our commitment to preserving and expanding Social Security in the face of these relentless efforts to undermine it. (Common Dreams) When President Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law 85 years ago today, he expressed hope that the program would offer Americans a “measure of protection” from the “hazards and [...]
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By Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold on Aug 14, 2020 07:02 am
 This agreement is more about shoring up Trump’s slumping electoral campaign and improving Netanyahu’s battered image in Israel than bringing peace to the Middle East. “HUGE breakthrough today,” crowed Donald Trump on twitter as he announced the new peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The deal makes the UAE the first Gulf Arab [...]
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By Bill Blum on Aug 13, 2020 04:00 pm
 If Trump wins another term, the fascism we’re seeing in America today will pale in comparison to the fascism we’ll see tomorrow. The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow segment of the far left. It is now out in the open. Even mainstream columnists like the New York Times’ Michelle [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Aug 13, 2020 03:15 pm
 “The NCAA has failed generations of young men and women even when it comes to their most basic responsibility — keeping the athletes under their charge healthy and safe. The time has come for change.” Universities champion their athletic programs to summon school pride, but with the coronavirus pandemic jeopardizing fall sports seasons, schools are [...]
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By Jack Delaney on Aug 13, 2020 02:30 pm
 (Peace Data) On July 22, 2020, Twitter executives announced that the social media platform would suspend 7,000 accounts pushing the QAnon (Q) conspiracy. A spokesperson for the company stated that the move by the platform comes after Q-related accounts were violating terms of use agreements and reinforced after further promoting that the furniture company, Wayfair, was implicated [...]
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