(2021-09-15). California Votes No: Governor Gavin Newsom Survives Republican-Led Recall Effort. democracynow.org 
Californians overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led recall effort against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday that cost close to $300 million in taxpayer funds. The failed recall was seen as a battle against the far right and a referendum on several key issues ahead of the 2022 midterms, including the pandemic, immigrant rights, the climate crisis and the related unhoused crisis. California voters cast their ballots in the recall because "as attention started being focused nationally on this election, people started realizing what was at stake," says Sasha Abramsky, "Left Coast" correspondent for The Na…
(2021-09-15). Headlines for September 15, 2021. democracynow.org Gov. Gavin Newsom Claims Victory in Right-Wing Recall Effort, Biden Calls for Vaccinating 70% of World in One Year as WHO Slams Ongoing Vaccine Inequity, Gov't Pandemic Assistance Led to Drop in U.S. Poverty Rates in 2020, Biden Warns Extreme Weather Is Killing More Americans, Costing Billions Each Year, Haitian Prime Minister Fires Prosecutor After He Seeks to Charge Henry in Killing of Jovenel MoàØse, South and North Korea Both Fire Ballistic Missiles as Tensions Mount on Peninsula, DOJ Charges 3 Ex-Military and Intelligence Officers over UAE Hacking Activities, DOJ Seeks to Block Texas's Near-Total Abor…
(2021-09-15). Federal Drilling and Fracking Update: Biden Promised a Ban — He's Doing the Opposite. counterpunch.org This week President Biden traveled to Western states to sound the alarm on climate action. But his administration has so far failed to deliver on one of its signature campaign promises: stopping drilling and fracking on public lands. During the campaign, Biden made it clear where he stood: "No more drilling on federal lands, period."
(2021-09-15). 20 Years Later, Undocumented Immigrants Who Aided 9/11 Recovery & Cleanup Efforts Demand Recognition. democracynow.org 
Following the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, advocates are calling for lawmakers to establish a pathway for legal residency for as many as 2,000 immigrant responders and cleanup workers at ground zero. An estimated 6,000 undocumented immigrants took part in the recovery efforts after 9/11, but many didn't seek medical help or went uncounted for their symptoms because they feared deportation. Undocumented workers exposed themselves to toxins and "sacrificed their lives" to assist with the cleanup, and, 20 years later, still lack recognition and medical aid, says Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, a licensed clin…
(2021-09-15). U.S. Drone Killed 10 Afghans, Including Aid Worker & 7 Kids, After Water Jugs Were Mistaken as Bombs. democracynow.org 
We speak with reporter Matthieu Aikins about how his investigation for The New York Times found an August 29 U.S. drone strike, which the Pentagon claimed targeted a facilitator with the militant group ISIS-K, actually killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children and Zemari Ahmadi, an Afghan engineer who had worked since 2006 for an American aid group. A review of video evidence by the Times shows Zemari loading canisters of water at the charity's office, after the Pentagon claimed surveillance video showed Zemari loading what they thought were explosives into a car at an unknown compound earlier in the d…
(2021-09-15). Mandates alone can't stop COVID. workers.org 
With pandemic rates surging, President Joe Biden on Sept. 9 announced plans to mandate vaccinations for tens of millions of U.S. workers against COVID-19, including in the private sector, health care and federally funded programs. He also announced plans to encourage K-12 schools to mandate masks for all, require vaccines . . . |
(2021-09-15). Abort the Illegitimate Court: End the Filibuster and Pack it. counterpunch.org Democrats cannot disgrace the Supreme Court by packing it (adding seats to it). It is already a disgrace. After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Texas on September 1, 2021—in a devious, single page, 5-4, shadow decision—three of its members blasted their five colleagues in the majority for ignoring their "obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of [the Court's] precedents and of the rule of law." Such a Court needs no help disgracing itself. The 'lofty' Court is and always has been a lowly political tool, resting on an illegitimate foundation since Marbury v. Madi…
(2021-09-15). Alternative to Mankiw's View on Tax Incentives and Work: Maybe Europeans Want More Free Time. cepr.net Greg Mankiw warned New York Times readers about the dangers of adopting the Biden agenda and moving more towards a European-style welfare state. In his "Compared with the United States, "Economists disagree about why European nat…
(2021-09-15). Alabama teacher calls for teachers to organize independently of unions to demand eradication of COVID-19. wsws.org A veteran Alabama teacher reflects on her experiences of the last year and discusses the policy of COVID eradication versus mitigation, the role of the Biden administration, and teachers unions.
(2021-09-15). Biden: Listen to the "Radicals" Or Risk Failure. scheerpost.com 
[ By Jeff Cohen | If President Biden fails to act boldly and quickly in improving the material lives of poor, working-class and struggling middle-class Americans of all colors, the right wing is likely to come storming back into power through the 2022 and 2024 elections. | With Biden's popularity lagging, success or failure for his administration hinges on who he listens to on various pressing issues. Will he side with the "radicals" or with the go-slow, yes/no, status-quo corporate media? | *** STUDENT DEBT: Biden should list…
(2021-09-15). More Mandated Vaccinations Will Not Solve Economic Failure One Iota: May Even Make Things Worse. dissidentvoice.org 
On September 9, 2021, President Joe Biden publicly issued sweeping statements and demands that make it clear that, whether they like or it, millions more people will have to get vaccinated or risk losing their livelihoods and security. His posture has been described by mainstream media as "aggressive." Many alternative news and information sources describe …
(2021-09-15). US resumes military aid to Egypt even as jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah threatens to commit suicide. peoplesdispatch.org US president Joe Biden had said during his presidential campaign last year that there will be no more "blank checks for Trump's favorite dictator," referring to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi…
(2021-09-15). "Infringement Upon Individual Liberties": Arizona Attorney General Suing Biden Administration over COVID Vaccine Mandate. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-15). The Heat: U.S. president faces pushback over COVID-19 vaccine mandates. america.cgtn.com 
U.S. President Joe Biden faces pushback as he gets tough with the unvaccinated. Plus — the pandemic rages on amid calls for more global cooperation.
(2021-09-15). The Handcuffing of Joe Biden. fpif.org The far right would like to impeach Joe Biden, kick him out of the White House, perhaps even throw him in jail. "Lock him up" has been a predictable chant at Trump rallies going back Bipartisanship? As Donald Trump would say in his New York accent: fuhgeddaboutit! | One day after Biden's inauguration, QAnon sympathizer Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
(2021-09-15). A Confederacy of the Malicious. counterpunch.org "Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best." — William Shakespeare People are getting sick and dying because Republicans are focused on attacking President Joe Biden for violating individual freedom for mandating injecting vaccines to combat the coronavirus, a systematic undermining of a policy implemented to save lives. These extremist Trumpist
(2021-09-15). To Avert Failure, Biden Should Listen to the "Radicals" — Not Corporate Media. zcomm.org If Biden won't even heed Schumer's urgent advice to give the country an FDR-like push forward — and instead listens to the "go-slow/go-small" warnings of giant corporations and their media — the GOP will win big in 2022…
(2021-09-15). The Met Gala: America's elite celebrates death and destitution. wsws.org New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the $30,000-per-seat event would send a "message" that COVID-19 restrictions are over.
(2021-09-15). People's Action Statement on House Committee Scrapping Medicare Drug-Price Provision in Budget Package. peoplesaction.org Contact: Johanna Kichton, press@peoplesaction.org, 202.660.0605 WASHINGTON, D.C.—People's Action today released the following statement by Health Care for All Lead Organizer Aija Nemer-Aanerud after three Democratic House Representatives sided with Republicans in the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee to eliminate a provision in the budget resolution that would have allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices: …
(2021-09-15). Australia's electoral laws a "naked power grab by the major parties," say SEP electoral members. wsws.org "The SEP is the loudest and most principled voice combatting and frustrating this attempt by the major parties to stifle democratic freedoms."
(2021-09-15). For a democratic polarization. indybay.org The financial markets in particular require a tight regulatory framework. A "good capitalism" is not one in which the "law of the jungle" determines income distribution, and where governments increasingly become "night watchmen" that save bankers when they run the system into a brick wall but otherwise keep out of long-term investment decisions.
(2021-09-15). Economic Crisis in the Anthropocene. indybay.org I think it's a full embrace by the Democratic Party of the reality that they are in a life-and-death struggle for the future of American democracy and from their point of view — and I happen to share this view — that depends on their not losing the congressional majority to the GOP in 2022, which doesn't necessarily end American democracy, but it takes us in a direction which is really bad.
(2021-09-15). Forced Entry: NSO Group Spies Secretly Seized Control of Apple Devices by Exploiting Flaw in Code. democracynow.org 
Apple has released an emergency software update to fix a security flaw in its iPhones and other products researchers found was being exploited by the Israeli-based NSO Group to infect the devices with its Pegasus spyware. The security exploit exposes "widespread abuse that we have associated with NSO Group and other companies like it," says Ronald Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which discovered the security flaw. "This is … the most important crisis around global civil society right now." Over 1.65 billion Apple products in use around the globe have been vulnerable to the spyware…
(2021-09-15). Whip Count: The Democrats Who Support the Progressive Reconciliation Strategy. dailyposter.com 
(2021-09-15). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' "Tax the Rich" Gown Is a "Designer Protest" Meant to Dull Class Struggle. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-15). AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Gown is Designer Protest Meant to Dull Class Struggle. counterpunch.org The left is currently dividing very publicly over a viral clip on social media of AOC — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — arriving on Monday night at an exclusive gala event in New York in a slinky, white satin, off-the shoulder, Marilyn Monroe-style gown with large red writing across the back demanding: "Tax the Rich." Maybe "divided"
(2021-09-15). National Guard deployed in Massachusetts as pandemic worsens school bus driver shortage in US. wsws.org Republican Governor Charlie Baker is deploying 250 National Guard troops to drive children back and forth from school as the opening of schools has led to a spike in infections and deaths among children and school employees.
(2021-09-14). Dems' reconciliation tax plan lets billionaires off the hook. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Progressives are shocked that House Democrats opted yesterday for taxes on income rather than billionaire fortunes to pay for their $3.5 trillion social policy and climate change package. Democrats, because of pressure from their own so-called moderates, went for a plan that taxes only official income earned by people making over certain amounts and on …
(2021-09-14). 'Dismaying': Human Rights Groups Blast Biden Plan to OK Millions in Military Aid for Egypt. commondreams.org "Governments have an opportunity now to transform agriculture into a major driver of human well-being, and into a solution for the imminent threats of climate change, nature loss, and pollution."
(2021-09-14). Headlines for September 14, 2021. democracynow.org Donors Pledge $1.2B in Aid to Afghanistan as U.N. Warns of Looming Humanitarian Catastrophe, Secretary of State Blinken Defends U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1 Million Public School Students Return to New York City Classrooms Despite COVID-19 Surge, Departing FDA Scientists Blast Biden's Plan for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters, Pressure Mounts on Germany to Support COVID-19 Patent Waiver as WTO Panel Meets, Public Citizen: Biden Could Share Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Recipe with the World, Hurricane Nicholas Brings Storm Surge and Heavy Rain to Gulf Coast, Biden Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Crisis After Tourin…
(2021-09-14). The United States' Recent Failures in War and Fighting Racism Should Serve as a Warning to Its Allies. counterpunch.org On May 26, 2021, President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to produce "analysis of the origins of COVID-19" within 90 days. This move followed weeks of speculation surrounding the claim that the virus had escaped from a Chinese laboratory, usually identified as the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Having rightly rejected this claim for more
(2021-09-14). Alabama coal miners on strike, nurses and students walk out. workers.org 
Centreville, Ala. Sept. 12 — At the beginning of July, Alabama's vaccination rate was the lowest among U.S. states, with only 34% of its people fully vaxxed. Now the state has been hit by the more contagious delta variant. Hospitalizations have risen five-fold in the last two months. On Sept. . . . |
(2021-09-14). Why Congress Must Codify Roe. indybay.org With all eyes on Texas Thursday [Sept 9] as the U.S. Justice Department sued the Lone Star State over its new abortion ban, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt held a ceremonial bill signing for nine so-called "pro-life" measures he approved during this year's legislative session—highlighting the need for Congress to protect reproductive rights at the federal level.
(2021-09-14). Democrats, Abortion and Phony Politics. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Sep 08, 2021 | Democratic party leadership are as uninterested in fighting for abortion rights as they are in addressing anything else their members need and want. | Most leftists in this country still remain loyal to the Democratic Party despite decades of deception, overt collusion with ruling class interests, and support of U.S. imperialism. The Democrats use a variety of means to keep the support of millions of people who yearn for something other than the excuses and double dealing they are constantly offered. | Pointing to Republicans as the embodiment of all evil is one of thei…
(2021-09-14). "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire": Deepa Kumar on How Racism Fueled U.S. Wars Post-9/11. democracynow.org 
According to the Costs of War Project, the wars launched by the United States following 9/11 have killed an estimated 929,000 people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. The true death toll may never be known, but the vast majority of the victims have been Muslim. "Racism is baked into the security logic of the national security state in the U.S., as well as in terms of how it operates abroad," says Islamophobia scholar Deepa Kumar, a professor of media studies at Rutgers University. "The war on terror was sold to the American public using Orientalist and racist ideas that these societies a…
(2021-09-14). In Video: Kurdish Factions Lose No Chance To Hit Turkish-Backed Militants In North-Western Syria. southfront.org 
(2021-09-14). Never Forget: Lessons Of The Post-9/11 Warpath. popularresistance.org As the US Empire tries to leave its 9/11 warpath on Afghanistan & Iraq in the past, Abby Martin reviews the core lessons. "We've witnessed a striking conclusion to the Afghanistan War, where for twenty years the US fought to make the country a neo-colony for bases and resource extraction only to suffer a historic embarrassment. Two trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives lost couldn't tamp down an insurgency that was bred by the CIA decades prior. As the war will fade into memory for most Americans, the Biden administration and the US government as a whole is already starting to rewrite the true lega…
(2021-09-14). Milwaukee: Activists rally to say 'Hands off Afghanistan' on 20th anniversary of 9/11. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – A group of anti-war students and community members gathered in downtown Milwaukee in the early afternoon of September 11 to protest continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Speakers acknowledged the significance of the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but pointed to history and actions taken since the evacuation of the U.S. embassy as a sign of things to come. | "It's a good thing that the U.S. has removed its forces, but we know that they're not going to allow the unimpeded expression of Afghan self-determination," said Ryan Hamann, speaking on behalf of Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Wisconsi…
(2021-09-14). Senate Dems Urge Biden to Redirect Billions of Unspent War Funds to Help Afghan People. commondreams.org The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties, a long and continuous history of union suppression, and without a major socialist party at the national level.
(2021-09-14). The True Lessons of the Afghan War. commondreams.org As Sen. Joe Manchin tries to build GOP support for the proposal, progressives call for "removing the filibuster from the Senate Republicans' obstructionist toolbox."
(2021-09-14). Science Doesn't Support Third Shot, Say Officials Who Left FDA in Spat with Biden over Boosters. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-14). Genealogist Finds Evidence That Biden Ancestors Owned Slaves. moguldom.com Four days after Barack Obama picked Joe Biden as his vice-presidential running mate in 2008, unsubstantiated claims began circulating on social media that Biden was the descendant of slave owners. New claims have resurfaced after a genealogist and a presidential lineage expert took a sweeping look into the lineage of President Biden — a Scranton, …
(2021-09-14). Twitter dodges election-meddling complaint over suppressing 'unsubstantiated' Hunter Biden laptop story. rt.com 
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has reportedly rejected a Republican complaint claiming Twitter gave Democrats an in-kind contribution by blocking a New York Post story about Joe Biden's son Hunter ahead of the 2020 vote. | The New York Times, which broke the news of the FEC decision on Monday, editorialized by describing the story as "unsubstantiated." The commission has yet to officially publish the ruling or any explanations. | NEWS: The FEC has dismissed claims that Twitter acted illegally when it blocked users from posting an unsubstantiated Hunter Biden article. | Decision not public yet but sets a…
(2021-09-14). Children's Health Defense Responds to Biden's 'Declaration of War Against Unvaccinated'. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-14). AOC's Stupid Dress and a Discussion on Opportunism. anchor.fm In this episode I use the stupid fucking dress that AOC wore to the gala the other night as an example as to how the ruling class elites use popular sentiment and slogan nearing to try to convince the masses that they actually intend on changing things. But in fact we as communists know that as contradictions rise and consciousness begins to heighten the re-formation and re-organization of the ruling class is necessary, and this is precisely what is happening in front of our eyes. They are not changing, they are restructuring. As Joe Biden said, " nothing will fundamentally change." And this is also the case when…
(2021-09-14). Selected Articles: 220,000 Military Service Members Say 'No' to Biden's Forced COVID Injections. globalresearch.ca 
By The Biden adm…
(2021-09-14). Experts Warn Biden's Global Vaccine Plan Lacks Ambition Crisis Demands. commondreams.org "Every fraction of a degree of warming is doing us harm," said one of the open letter's signatories. "This means that every day we delay cessation of fossil fuel burning, we come closer to catastrophe."
(2021-09-14). GOP governors cry crocodile tears over vaccine mandates. peoplesworld.org 
Republican governors all over the country have waded deep into the territory of hypocrisy by taking positions in opposition to President Joe Biden's plan to fight COVID-19. Opposing mandates for shots that they themselves have gotten even as they back mandates of their own in every one of their states exposes their hypocritical attempts to …
(2021-09-14). Do Ukraine and the United States Have a Similar Value System? strategic-culture.org 
"Ukraine and the United States have a similar value system," said U.S. President Joe Biden on September 1, 2021, meeting his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House. Some recent episodes may challenge this view. Or maybe confirm it? | (Click on the image to enlarge)…
(2021-09-14). Biden's Feed From Idaho Cut Off by White House and We'll Never Know What He Had to Say. sputniknews.com White House staffers earlier told Politico that they prefer muting President Joe Biden during his public speeches over anxieties that he may divert from the pre-planned course too much.
(2021-09-14). New York City reopens schools for in-person learning: The American ruling class "experiments" with children's lives. wsws.org With the reopening of schools, the American ruling class—led by the Biden administration and backed by both the Democrats and Republicans—is carrying out a criminal policy that guarantees the further spread of the deadly pandemic.
(2021-09-14). 9/11's Border Legacy: Razor Wire, "Smart" Surveillance, and Billions in Security Contracts. counterpunch.org Along the 20-foot border wall in Nogales, Arizona, six lines of coiling razor wire blanket the rust-colored bollards from top to bottom. Shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated in January, Nogales mayor Arturo Garino asked that it be cut down. Although the wall itself predated the Trump administration, the razor wire was installed by the
(2021-09-14). US Congress Exempts Itself from Experimental Gene Therapy "Vaccine" libya360.wordpress.com Niko House: The Biden administration has enforced its COVID vaccine mandate on companies as it blames the unvaccinated for rising cases of infected. Yet at the same time, the US Congress and judicial branch have been exempt from the rule.
(2021-09-14). To Avert Failure, Biden Should Listen to the "Radicals"—Not Corporate Media. commondreams.org A coalition of 18 organizations called the administration's decision "a terrible blow to its stated commitment to human rights and to the rule of law."
(2021-09-14). 'Unacceptable': 3 Corporate Dems Threaten to Block Drug Pricing Reform in Reconciliation Bill. commondreams.org At this crucial juncture, if Biden won't even heed Schumer's urgent advice to give the country an FDR-like push forward—and instead listens to the "go-slow/go-small" warnings of giant corporations and their media—the GOP will win big in 2022.
(2021-09-14). China And U.S. Are On the Brink of War. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Eric Zuesse, exclusively for SouthFront. | Right now, the neocons that Biden has surrounded himself with are threatening to accuse him of having 'lost Taiwan' if Biden backs down from his many threats to China, threats that the U.S. Government will reverse America's "One China" policy, which has been in place ever since the 28 February 1972
(2021-09-14). Tampa BLM protester facing 5 years in prison: The people fight back. liberationnews.org 
On Sept. 13, Tampa Bay PSL and supporters of Jamie Bullock, a 22-year-old life-long Tampa resident and activist, rallied outside of the Old Hillsborough County Courthouse demanding that her charges be dropped.
(2021-09-14). UT Austin students rally to stop police crimes and racism. fightbacknews.org Austin, TX — On the evening of September 9, a small group of students rallied in front of the University of Texas at Austin's Littlefield Fountain to protest against police crimes and racism. Austin Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) called the rally as part of the national SDS day of action to stop police crimes. | Students demonstrated both against police crimes and also against the university's practices that uphold racism on campus, with an emphasis on the need to organize and demand change. | In their speech, SDS member Soaring Falcon said, "After thousands of students petitioned last year to stop…
(2021-09-14). Meet Buffalo Mayoral Candidate India Walton. progressive.org After securing the Democratic nomination in June, she hopes to become the city's first socialist mayor in the upcoming November election.
(2021-09-14). Denver students demand defunding and disarmament of ACPD. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – About 50 students and campus community members gathered at Tivoli Commons for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Day of Action: "Cops Off Campus, Black Lives Matter!" Demands included the disarmament and defunding of Auraria Campus Police Department (ACPD) and more information regarding their participation in the Federal 1033 Program. Members of SDS and Freedom Road Socialist Organization gave speeches about strategies for community control of police and recounted stories of police violence, all while leading chants of "Down with mass incarceration, up, up with education!" and "Blac…
(2021-09-14). Filibuster Only Obstacle After Senate Democrats Unveil New Voting Rights Bill. commondreams.org "It's important to address the fact that billionaire heirs may never pay tax on billions in stock gains."
(2021-09-14). 'A Monumental Mistake': Wyden Warns House Democrats' Tax Plan Lets Billionaires Off Easy. commondreams.org We can't undo what we have done, but we can alter how bad the future becomes.
(2021-09-14). Is "one nation, indivisible," with "justice for all" any less clear a mandate than "certified election"? nationofchange.org If one connives to deny elections their paramount place in democracy, why not defy law, courts, precedents and thus justice?>
(2021-09-14). Video: The Committee for Public Education opposes anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org CFPE national convener Sue Phillips calls on all educators to become electoral members of the SEP and join the campaign to defeat these laws.
(2021-09-14). Conservatives concede defeat as center, left forces advance in Norwegian parliamentary elections. peoplesdispatch.org The ruling conservative coalition in Norway led by Erna Solberg lost the parliamentary elections and coalition of the social democratic Labour Party, Centre Party, and the left-wing Socialist Left party is likely to form the new government…
(2021-09-14). Parliamentarian Wants More Debate as Immigration Legalization Program Moves Forward in Congress. latinorebels.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats returned to Capitol Hill this week, where they expressed confidence in the prospects of passing a legalization program for up to eight million immigrants through the budget deal currently making its way through both chambers of Congress.
(2021-09-14). Fairy Creek: Indigenous-Led Blockade of Old-Growth Logging Is Now Canada's Largest Civil Disobedience. democracynow.org 
Tension is rising between Canadian police and activists who have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island's ancient forests. The protest has been underway for two years, led by environmental and First Nations activists, and is considered to be Canada's largest act of civil disobedience ever. Canadian authorities have arrested nearly 1,000 people at Fairy Creek in British Columbia, and the protests show no sign of slowing down. "We have a long history of asserting ourselves as coastal people, where our inherent right is not only based in our relationship to our communities but is base…
(2021-09-14). So-Called Democratic "Moderates" Are Actually Right-Wingers Who Have Always Thrown Up Roadblocks to Social Progress. commondreams.org Wars of unintended consequences.
(2021-09-14). Tulsi Gabbard Uses 9/11 Anniversary to Spread Islamophobic Message of Hate. counterpunch.org Tulsi Gabbard on Saturday used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to promote an anti-Muslim message, the latest in a series of moves by the former congresswoman aimed at courting the right-wing.
(2021-09-14). Remembering George Curry And The Brilliant 'Emerge' Magazine In The '90s. moguldom.com George Curry was an iconic journalist who dedicated his life to enriching Black America through his impactful storytelling. A former editor of both Emerge newsmagazine and the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service, Curry was very clear about his mission in life. He was also unapologetic about executing it. "The reason I do what I …
(2021-09-14). Michigan Republicans launch petition drive to overcome voter repression vetoes. peoplesworld.org 
DETROIT—Republican Lawmakers in Michigan have begun a petition drive to get around Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's veto of 39 bills that were introduced in the state's House and Senate in order to restrict voting rights. The focal point of some recently passed bills is to introduce stricter rules around ID requirements for those who vote in …
(2021-09-14). Larry Elder Claims "Fraud" Before California Even Publishes Recall Results. truthout.org 
The California recall election results have not yet been tabulated or released to the public — yet the leading Republican challenger in the race has already pushed discredited and errant claims of fraud in the election, disputing a loss that hasn't even officially happened yet. |