(2021-09-06). Australian educators oppose anti-democratic electoral laws, support SEP campaign. wsws.org This meeting of school and university educators endorses the campaign launched by the Socialist Equality Party calling on the working class to defeat the new anti-democratic electoral laws rammed through parliament last week, spearheaded by the Labor Party.
(2021-09-06). Silvio Rodríguez destaca logros de ciencia cubana ante Covid-19. telesurtv.net Subrayó la "decisión histórica" de Fidel Castro de incentivar la formación de profesionales de la salud e investigadores.
(2021-09-06). US Troops 'Will Be Going Back Into Afghanistan': Lindsey Graham. sputniknews.com Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been ramping up calls to impeach US President Joe Biden over the hectic troop pullout from Afghanistan, insisting that the "derelict" commander-in-chief had "ignored sound advice" in relation to the withdrawal operation.
(2021-09-06). Spencer Ackerman: Today's Crisis in Kabul Is Direct Result of Decades of U.S. War & Destabilization. democracynow.org 
We speak to the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Spencer Ackerman about how the U.S. could have ended the War in Afghanistan two decades ago, when the Taliban offered to surrender and hand over Osama bin Laden. "It was the Bush administration, the United States, that said such a deal was unacceptable — not to the Afghans, but unacceptable to the United States, that now took it on itself, as it has so often throughout its history in so many parts of the world, to tell Afghans the way their country was about to be," Ackerman says.
(2021-09-06). "Massacre of My Dreams": Reporter Bilal Sarwary on Fleeing Kabul & How Afghans Are "Thirsty for Peace" democracynow.org 
We look at the crisis in Afghanistan with Bilal Sarwary, an Afghan journalist who was based in Kabul and reported on Afghanistan for 20 years before he fled with his family after the Taliban seized power. We first spoke to Bilal on August 18, three days after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan after the U.S.-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. At the time, Bilal was hoping to stay in Afghanistan, but just days later he and his family boarded a flight to Doha. He posted a message on Twitter reading, "The day I leave my country, my city, my Kabul. A massacre of my dreams and aspirations. A…
(2021-09-06). Michigan government complicit in use of unsafe X-ray bone scanners on Flint residents. wsws.org Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration allowed thousands of Flint residents to unknowingly subject themselves to radiation from an X-ray XRF fluorescent hand-held scanning device manufactured for detecting metals and other elements in inanimate objects, such as scrap metal.
(2021-09-06). Entrevista | Dilma Rousseff — "A corrosà£o da democracia comeàßou com o impeachment" globalresearch.ca Cinco anos depois de ser afastada da Presidência da República por um impeachment sem crime de responsabilidade, a economista Dilma Rousseff tem uma visà£o clara do processo que culminou com sua queda, levou o ex-presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva …
(2021-09-06). Spencer Ackerman on How the U.S. War on Terror Fueled and Excused Right-Wing Extremism at Home. democracynow.org 
In an extended conversation with Spencer Ackerman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national security reporter, he examines the connection he sees between the rise of right-wing extremism in the United States and the so-called war on terror, which he writes about in his new book, "Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump." He begins his book with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh visiting the far-right paramilitary compound in Elohim City, Oklahoma, before what was then called the worst terror attack in U.S. history.
(2021-09-06). Germany's Identitarian Movement. zcomm.org Germany's semi-fascist Identitarian Movement, like all right-wing extremists and adjacent Neo-Nazis, rejects the democratic order of Germany fighting with public stunts and violent force against democracy…
(2021-09-06). World leaders warn "fears of a coup" September 7 in Brazil. zcomm.org Former presidents, academics, and world leaders cautioned that on September 7, 2021 "an insurrection will endanger democracy in Brazil"
(2021-09-06). After 25 Years, There's a Reason MSNBC Can't Look Back. orinocotribune.com 
By Spencer Snyder — Aug 28, 2021 | On July 12, 2021, a photo of Rachel Maddow was posted to the "Community" tab of MSNBC's YouTube account. The accompanying To mark MSNBC's 25th anniversary, MSNBC Daily will feature 25 days of forward-looking essays on important issues from MSNBC anchors, hosts and correspondents. Today, Rachel Maddow writes about the future of election integrity. | Unlike Democracy Now!, which also just
(2021-09-06). Republicans step up efforts to disrupt January 6 investigation. wsws.org Republican leader Kevin McCarthy issued a series of provocative threats aimed against the House Select Committee investigating the attack on Congress.
(2021-09-05). To Be Like FDR, Joe Biden Must Strengthen Labor. commondreams.org Nobody has the legal right to put other people's health and well-being in jeopardy.
(2021-09-05). Texas: Students rally for women's rights. fightbacknews.org Arlington, TX – On September 1, the Progressive Student Union rallied 50 people to protest the recent attacks launched by Governor Greg Abbott and the GOP against women's rights, and democracy. The most egregious of these attacks came in the form of an anti-abortion bill that sought to restrict the access to abortion in Texas to only the first six weeks of pregnancy, and made it a liable offense to offer aid in a woman getting an abortion in any way if it was beyond the first six weeks. | Mark Napieralski, chief organizer of PSU, spoke to the long history of Texas's attempts to restrict and defund abortion provid…
(2021-09-05). Woo-(ah)/Yeah Yeah Yeah: Online Hipsters and Other Sentient Beings Are Busy Reporting "Abortion Tips" to Texas Bigots. commondreams.org In total control of the state, Republicans have a free hand that they've used to enforce extremism.
(2021-09-05). Chile, September 11, 1973: The Horrors of 'the First 9/11' Are Routinely Overlooked. globalresearch.ca On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende's democratic government in Chile was ousted by US-backed forces in one of the Cold War's defining moments. Allende himself was killed during the coup while his presidential palace, La Moneda, was extensively bombed.
(2021-09-05). Moroccan authorities crack down on pro-democracy protests ahead of elections. peoplesdispatch.org 
The Moroccan left-wing organization the Democratic Way launched a call to boycott the upcoming elections on Wednesday September 8, 2021. This past weekend, members of the organization participated in protests in major cities across the country such as Casablanca, Mohammedia, Tangier, Kenitra and others to spread awareness of their campaign and to condemn the undemocratic electoral process. | Their protests however were met with brutal repression by the state authorities and several members of the organization were beaten, arrested, and had their personal information taken down. The Democratic Way reported that th…
(2021-09-05). The Texas Taliban Wing of the Republican Party. commondreams.org I think I can speak for many of us when I say we're stunned.
(2021-09-05). Republicanism For The Anthropocene. counterpunch.org 
Image by You don't have to read the almost 4,000 pages of the grim new IPCC Climate Report to know the gravity of Earth's situation where