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Observe 9/11 Anniversary by Calling for an End to the Afghan War Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Eighteen years after 9/11, it's long past time to end the $1 trillion U.S. war in Afghanistan, which has claimed the lives of 139,000 Afghan civilians and combatants, and more than 6,300 U.S. soldiers and mercenaries. The U.S. must withdraw all troops, CIA agents and mercenaries, as well as close its military bases and pay reparations to the Afghan people.
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Yoel Alonso Leal Is Facing Deportation. Doctors Say He May Die on the Plane. Mike Ludwig, Truthout Yoel Alonso Leal, a Cuban political dissident and a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, has a lung tumor and has been struggling with gout and pneumonia while being shuffled through immigration jails, facing deportation. Doctors and advocates say Leal's health is quickly declining and he could die before the plane he is on lands in Cuba.
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Don't Be Fooled — Kamala Harris's "Criminal Justice" Plan Is Not Progressive Dan Berger, Truthout Sen. Kamala Harris's plan for reforming the criminal legal system is more brand management than political vision. The plan is marketing Harris herself -- and her record as a prosecutor -- rather than offering substantive changes. In reality, Harris's prosecutorial record includes many repressive measures against incarcerated people and working-class parents of color.
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In Dorian's Wake, Bahamian Refugees Are Greeted by Trump's Cruelty Sophia Tesfaye, Salon As the Bahamas' death toll rises and more than 70,000 residents are left homeless by Hurricane Dorian, President Trump claimed that survivors seeking refuge in the U.S. included "some very bad people" who should be left stranded. Refusing refugees under these circumstances is a flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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In Push for Brexit, U.K.'s Conservative Party Shifts to the Far Right Sasha Abramsky, Truthout While U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been repeatedly defeated in his attempts to finalize Brexit, he continues to pursue increasingly desperate strategies to separate the U.K. from the European Union. Yet, support for Johnson has actually increased among the far-right wing of the Conservative Party and the ultra-nationalist Brexit Party, especially after he expelled several moderate members of the Conservative Party for disloyalty.
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Greta Thunberg on Climate: "If We Can Save the Banks, We Can Save the World" Jake Johnson, Common Dreams During an event in New York City Monday night with author and environmentalist Naomi Klein, 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg had a simple message for those who claim it is "too expensive" to boldly confront the climate crisis with sweeping policies like a Green New Deal. "The money is there," Thunberg said. "What we lack now is political will and social will to do it."
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Thousands of African Migrants Are Stranded in Mexico Hoping to Head North Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! Hundreds of African migrants in Mexico are protesting the country's refusal to grant them transit visas to travel to the United States or Canada, where they want to apply for asylum. For months, thousands of African migrants have been forced by the Mexican government to stay in the southern state of Chiapas, on the Guatemalan border.
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Activists Follow the Money Fueling the Amazon Fires Negin Owliaei and Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson, Inequality.org Last week, people around the world participated in the Global Day of Action for the Amazon. Activists in London, Stockholm, San Francisco, Boston and Hong Kong targeted BlackRock -- one of the largest companies profiting off deforestation -- by holding protests and die-ins outside the asset manager's offices.
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As in Vietnam, the U.S. Will Leave Afghanistan a Disaster for Its Citizens Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch We are a careless people. In Vietnam, we smashed up things and human beings with abandon, only to retreat into our money, leaving others to clean up the mess in a distinctly bloody fashion. Count on us, probably sooner rather than later, doing precisely the same thing in Afghanistan.
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Henry A. Giroux: The Terror of the Unforeseen Joy LaClaire, Forthright Radio In this interview with public intellectual Henry A. Giroux, we discuss his latest book, The Terror of the Unforeseen, published by LARB Provocations, from The Los Angeles Review of Books. Giroux's new book is a wide-ranging takedown of authoritarian politics, and tackles the resurgence of fascism in the age of Donald Trump's presidency.
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Puerto Rican Fight Lives On in People's Assemblies Locally and in Diaspora Jack Aponte, Truthout The years of political organizing that laid the groundwork for last summer's protests leading to Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's resignation is giving strength to a new form of political engagement. The burgeoning people's assemblies are drawing Puerto Ricans from across the political spectrum, and throughout the archipelago and diaspora, into a movement that has the potential to transform Puerto Rican society and politics far beyond deposing any particular politician.
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Populism Is Not the Answer to Neoliberal Fascism Henry A. Giroux, Truthout With populism growing on the far right, those attempting to defend liberal democracy are looking to a left-wing populism to save the day. But populism narrows the scope of power to the role of leaders and risks pitting groups against each other, which on the left often means pitting class against race. Populism also weakens the politics of resistance and undermines the building of a mass anti-capitalist movement.
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