(2021-08-05). Cuba and a Trumpist Named Joe Biden. orinocotribune.com 
By Iroel Sánchez — Jul 31, 2021 | Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has recently said in the pages of the Spanish newspaper El País that Cuba is a "military dictatorship," and that he has reached that conclusion through information he received from "the chronicles of correspondents." One can disagree with his opinion, but one must start from the understanding that for a writer of fiction, as he is, and one of the best, the truth is not the most important thing; and it is precisely the truth that has been scarce in the reports on Cuba by the mainstream media. | The press that has been demanding plurality from the i…
(2021-08-05). Cuba is not alone: love and solidarity prevail. workers.org 
Cuba solidarity activists in Belfast, Ireland. Credit: Cuba Solidarity Campaign Dublin The following lightly edited article first appeared in Resumen English July 29, 2021, one day before U.S. President Joe Biden took measures adding additional sanctions on Cubans, while openly assisting Cuban dissidents living in Miami. Many of the countries . . . |
(2021-08-05). Mobilizations force Biden to enact new eviction ban. peoplesdispatch.org The new eviction moratorium was put in place amid protests at the federal capital led by progressive legislator Cori Bush, along with various social movements in the US…
(2021-08-05). Brazil's U.S.-backed military regime casts shadow over hopes for 2022 election. mronline.org 
Bolsonaro's candidacy was democratic packaging for the long game of the military's return to government. As they look to defend their position a year out from elections, the situation has escalated.
(2021-08-05). Headlines for August 5, 2021. democracynow.org WHO Calls for Moratorium on Third Doses Amid Stark Global Vaccine Inequity, Amid Soaring Profits, Moderna and Pfizer to Raise COVID-19 Vaccine Prices , Over Half of China's Provinces Log New COVID Cases; Tokyo Olympics Registers Worst Daily Toll, Illinois Issues Mask Mandate for Schools; Arkansas Governor Regrets Signing Anti-Mask Bill, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Bans Mask Mandates, Blames Immigrants & Biden for Record COVID Surge, Landlords Ask Federal Judge to Block Biden CDC's New Eviction Moratorium, Protesters in Lebanon Demand Justice on First Anniversary of Beirut Port Explosion, Unfolding Climate Crisis Fu…
(2021-08-05). "They Killed Us from the Inside": U.N. Inquiry Demanded into Officials' Culpability in Beirut Blast. democracynow.org 
One year after the Beirut port explosion, a new Human Rights Watch report implicates senior Lebanese officials in the disaster that killed 218 people, wounded 7,000 others and destroyed vast swaths of the city. The blast on August 4, 2020, was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It resulted from the detonation of hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate, which had been sitting in a hangar at the port for years while multiple government officials who knew about the highly explosive chemicals did nothing. "We didn't find any Lebanese official who took any responsibility for securing the port and remov…
(2021-08-05). Las herencias republicanas de los demócratas y las "espontáneas" demostraciones. globalizacion.ca Según documentación pública, la administración republicana Eisenhower — Nixon asimiló tan temprano como el 17 de marzo de 1960 un plan presentado al Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, para el derrocamiento de la Revolución Cubana. El presupuesto aprobado…
(2021-08-05). Estados Unidos y sus Lacayos, contra Haití, Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela. globalizacion.ca Según documentación pública, la administración republicana Eisenhower — Nixon asimiló tan temprano como el 17 de marzo de 1960 un plan presentado al Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, para el derrocamiento de la Revolución Cubana. El presupuesto aprobado…
(2021-08-05). The Politics of Spectacle: On Eviction Moratorium, The Squad Talks the Walk. orinocotribune.com By Daniel Haiphong — Aug 3, 2021 | The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that not even the most "progressive" elected officials in the U.S. are willing to do what is necessary to meet the needs of the people. | Members of Congress departed for a seven-week vacation at the same time that the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) national eviction moratorium expired on July 31. The Squad, a subset of members of the House of Representatives who espouse Bernie Sanders' policy agenda, gathered at the Capitol building to demand that Congress come back to work and hold a vote to renew the moratorium. Cori Bush, Jamal…
(2021-08-05). Rep. Ilhan Omar: We Need to Cancel the Rent, Not Just Postpone Evictions. democracynow.org 
Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar was among the progressive Democrats who camped outside the U.S. Capitol to pressure the Biden administration into passing a new eviction moratorium after the previous moratorium lapsed July 31. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new two-month moratorium earlier in the week that covers areas of the country where there is "substantial" or "high" spread of the coronavirus. "As lawmakers, we have a responsibility to protect those that sent us to legislate on their behalf," says Omar, adding that she has personal familiarity with housing precarity. "I certainly…
(2021-08-05). Millionaire Democratic SF Rep Pelosi, Real Estate Donations & Eviction Moratorium. indybay.org "Chairman George Marcus also donated $263,400 that same month to a committee that benefits the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's campaign, and contributed at least $6.5 million to PACs that work to elect Democrats to the Senate and House." See www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/03/democrats-took-millions-real-estate-interests-allowing-eviction-moratorium-end…
(2021-08-05). Biden administration orders short-term delay in evictions. wsws.org The action, announced Tuesday, is almost certain to be overturned by the federal courts, based on a Supreme Court ruling last June 29.
(2021-08-05). Biden White House Dismisses WHO Call for Moratorium on Vaccine Boosters. commondreams.org
(2021-08-05). Pro-Israel PAC Defeats Sanders' Candidate Turner in Ohio. indybay.org Nina Turner, Bernie Sanders' campaign manager running for a House of Representatives seat in Ohio, was defeated by the reactionary Democratic and Republican parties, including the super PAC Democratic Majority for Israel, "a group founded by longtime Democratic pollster Mark Mellman and bankrolled by an oil and gas executive. The organization has also received money from Republican donors." See www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/04/conceding-defeat-ohio-special-election-nina-turner-says-our-justice-journey…
(2021-08-05). Moscow, are you listening? Biden names Brzezinski spawn ambassador to Poland. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Brother of Ian Brzezinski, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy in the George W. Bush administration, former member of the Pentagon's Policy Planning Staff, former advisor to the government of Ukraine and current member of the Strategic Advisors Group at the Atlantic Council, and of Mika Brzezinski, loudmouthed harridan at MSNBC. …
(2021-08-05). Why Community Broadband Matters. counterpunch.org President Joe Biden introduced "The American Jobs Plan," a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes broadband upgrades, on March 31st. "Broadband internet is the new electricity," he proclaimed. The White House Statement noted: It is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, to participate equally in school learning, health care, and to stay connected. Yet,
(2021-08-05). We Can't Log Our Way Out of Global Baking. counterpunch.org Late last week President Biden met with Western governors to discuss the wildfires that continue to scorch their states. Montana's Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, said he plans to tell Biden we need to log more of our forests — only of course he'll use the latest timber industry gobbledygook of "active forest management" instead of speaking
(2021-08-05). 'That Was Litigated': Psaki Grilled on Sexual Harassment Claims Against Biden Amid Andrew Cuomo Row. sputniknews.com A months-long investigation into allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo – sanctioned by New York State Attorney General Letitia James – concluded that he harassed multiple women, including younger colleagues. The New York governor is adamant that he's innocent and has refused to step down despite calls from fellow Democrats to do so.
(2021-08-05). "This Is What America Looks Like": Ilhan Omar on Her Refugee Journey from Mogadishu to Minneapolis. democracynow.org 
We speak with Minnesota Congressmember Ilhan Omar about her memoir "This Is What America Looks Like," the Biden administration's recent airstrikes in her birth country of Somalia and why the U.S. must remain a country of refuge for people fleeing war and poverty like she did. Omar adds that the Biden administration must stop enforcing Trump-era immigration rules that allow for expedited deportations of asylum seekers. "These policy choices have consequences. We have a moral imperative in this country to get our immigration policy right and make it a more humane system," she says.
(2021-08-05). Biden Administration Lets Oil Companies Disturb Polar Bears, Walruses in Alaska's Western Arctic, Beaufort Sea. indybay.org ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 4, 2021 — The Biden administration issued a final rule today allowing oil and gas companies operating in the Beaufort Sea and Western Arctic to harass polar bears and Pacific walruses when drilling or searching for oil for the next five years.
(2021-08-05). National Labor Relations Board calls for union revote at Alabama Amazon facility. wsws.org The NLRB and the Biden administration are seeking to promote the trade unions as a way of heading off and containing the struggles of workers.
(2021-08-05). Biden Administration Approves First Arms Sale to Taiwan. sputniknews.com Late last year, the Chinese Foreign Ministry imposed sanctions on several US defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin, after learning then-US President Donald Trump's administration approved an arms sale to Taiwan valued at $1.8 billion.
(2021-08-05). El dilema de los militares brasileños: Apoyar a Bolsonaro o a la democracia. globalizacion.ca El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, está estimulando una ruptura institucional en la segunda democracia más grande del continente americano, de manera similar a la que intentó Donald Trump en Estados Unidos. | Bolsonaro no solamente promueve la quiebra de disciplina…
(2021-08-05). Meng extradition case concluding. ecns.cn Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was back in British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on Wednesday for the final stretch of extradition proceedings that could send her to the U.S.
(2021-08-05). The New Committee on Inequality: a Fresh Look at Economic Disparity. counterpunch.org Members of Congress serving on a new "select" committee on inequality had no trouble social distancing at their inaugural hearing. That's because the six seats reserved for Republicans were all empty. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had dutifully invited the GOP to participate, but after she vetoed two of their nominees for a different body —
(2021-08-05). Rep. Ilhan Omar Backs Ballot Initiative to Abolish Minneapolis Police & Create New Public Safety Department. democracynow.org 
Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whose district includes Minneapolis, says she supports a ballot initiative to abolish the city's police department and replace it with a new "Department of Public Safety." Local activists have already gathered tens of thousands of signatures for the move. "We've had a very incompetent and brutal police department for a really long time," says Omar, who adds that while much of the world associates the city's cops with the murder of George Floyd, local residents have witnessed the department's violence for much longer.
(2021-08-05). 2021 California Admission Day, Equity and Inclusion Conversation. indybay.org The origin of the State of California and transition to US Statehood through the eyes of Indigenous, Pan African, Latino, European, Asian and Pacific Islanders poised this 2021 Admission Day…
(2021-08-05). U.S. closure of Fort Detrick lab not coincidental: expert. ecns.cn The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic's origins, a Russian political observer has said.
(2021-08-05). Why investigating U.S. EVALI outbreak important in COVID-19 origin-tracing?>. ecns.cn Amid global efforts in tracing the COVID-19 origins, the connection between the coronavirus and an outbreak of e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases in the U.S. in August, 2019 has raised many concerns.
(2021-08-05). Comicomment: In origin tracing, U.S. leads a 'blaming chorus'. ecns.cn The COVID-19 origin tracing is a serious scientific issue that must be studied by scientists and medical experts around the world through cooperation. However, some U.S. politicians placed their hope on the intelligence community, trying to answer a science question with political means.
(2021-08-05). French biosecurity expert dismisses Wuhan "lab leak" theory. ecns.cn "The theory that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab is not credible," a French biosecurity expert who had monitored the construction of the Biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has said recently in reference to COVID-19.
(2021-08-05). Republican Governors have gone too Far in Banning Local Mask, Vaccine Mandates. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — With the Delta variant of Covid 19 now producing escalating case counts and hospitalizations, talk among pundits has turned to the possibility of a federally imposed vaccination mandate. Many of these discussions and debates have revolved around familiar albeit simplistic dichotomies, such as voluntary choice versus government …
(2021-08-05). Xinjiang residents refute accusations of human rights violations. ecns.cn Residents of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have hit back at accusations of human rights violations, saying some Western countries' claims of "genocide" or "forced labor" are fabricated.
(2021-08-05). Shifting blame reflects selfishness of U.S. ecns.cn Recently, the U.S. has led several countries and media outlets in hyping up the claim that the novel coronavirus was the result of a "lab leak".
(2021-08-05). Iran lodges protest to IMO over rising rhetoric. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Ambassador to the UK Mohsen Baharvand has penned a letter to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to protest the rhetoric recently raised against Tehran after suspicious incidents with tankers in Persian Gulf.
(2021-08-05). Embassy urges caution against false flag operations in region. en.mehrnews.com Iran's Embassy in London reviewed the recent days' propaganda against Iran, urging vigilance against false flag operations in the Persian Gulf region.
(2021-08-05). Secret deal between U.S. Fort Detrick, Japanese germ warfare unit revealed. ecns.cn The United States pardoned members of a notorious Japanese germ warfare unit after World War II in exchange for their data on biological weapons, research by a Chinese historian has revealed.
(2021-08-04). Israeli warplanes pound southern Lebanon, as IDF vows to 'continue & intensify' retaliation to rocket fire (VIDEO). rt.com 
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanese territory, calling them retaliation for cross-border rocket attacks after earlier firing scores of artillery rounds in response. | The IDF Video footage has circulated online purporting to show the IDF strikes in progress. | BREAKING…
(2021-08-04). SDF Position In Deir Ezzor Attacked By Suspected ISIS Cell. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Injuries were reported among the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as a result of an attack on one of its headquarters in the Deir Ezzor countryside. | A number of SDF members were injured in an attack by unknown gunmen on one of their military headquarters in the town of Abu Hamam in the eastern Deir Ezzour countryside. | Unidentified militants in three pickup trucks opened heavy fire on the SDF position located near the water station in the town. | Following…
(2021-08-04). Massacre In Northeastern Syria: Father, Three Children Killed In Turkish Shelling (Photos). southfront.org 
Image: aa.com.tr | Late on August 3, a civilian man and three of his children were killed as a result of Turkish shelling on the northern countryside of Raqqa in northeastern Syria. | 54-year old Zidan Khalad al-Issa and his children, Ziad, Muna and Huda, were killed when Turkish shells hit their house which is located in the village of al-Safawiyah to the east of the town of Ain Issa. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) control the area. | A nurse in the Martyr Omar Alloush Hospital in A…
(2021-08-04). 'Truly Disturbing': Facebook Blasted for Blocking NYU Researchers Examining Ad Model and Misinformation. commondreams.org "This letter, signed by four House committee chairs, should send a clear message to President Biden: He has the political support to swiftly close the detention center at Guant√°namo."
(2021-08-04). People's Struggle Forces Biden to Extend Eviction Moratorium. liberationnews.org 
After public outrage and protest, including a sit-in outside Congress led by Rep. Cori Bush, Biden relented and extended the eviction moratorium.
(2021-08-04). CDC issues new eviction ban for most of U.S. through Oct. 3. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3, as the Biden administration sought to quell intensifying criticism from progressives that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic. The ban announced Tuesday could help keep millions in their …
(2021-08-04). Cori Bush, Progressive Lawmakers and Activists Hailed for New CDC Eviction Moratorium. scheerpost.com By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Pressure from progressive lawmakers and grassroots activists to extend the expired federal eviction moratorium paid off Tuesday when the Biden administration took action to shield most—but not all—U.S. renters at risk of losing their homes. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the new moratorium "is intended to target specific areas of the… |
(2021-08-04). Biden announces eviction moratorium extension. zcomm.org Bowing to mounting pressure and public outrage, the Biden administration has announced that the nationwide moratorium on evictions would be extended through October 3…
(2021-08-04). Eviction tsunami crashes, Democrats shrug shoulders. mronline.org 
On Saturday, Biden's half-hearted, last-minute plea for Congress to extend the federal eviction moratorium failed and the measure expired.
(2021-08-04). Headlines for August 4, 2021. democracynow.org CDC Issues New Eviction Moratorium Following Rep. Cori Bush Protest to Protect Renters, Rep. Tlaib Calls for House Democrats to Return Donations from Real Estate Tycoon, COVID Death Toll in Indonesia Tops 100,000; Tokyo Reports Record Daily Cases, Hospitals Fill Up in Florida & Louisiana with Unvaccinated Patients, Report: 72K Children Tested Positive for COVID Last Week in 85% Jump, New York City to Require Proof of Vaccine for Indoor Dining & Events, NY Gov. Cuomo Faces Call to Resign over Probe Finds He Sexually Harassed 11 Women, Ohio House Primary: Shontel Brown Defeats Nina Turner, Afghanistan: Car Bombing…
(2021-08-04). CDC Issues 60-Day Eviction Moratorium After Progressives Pressured Biden & "Moved Mountains" democracynow.org 
The Biden administration has issued a new two-month moratorium on evictions, covering much of the country, after facing public pressure from progressive lawmakers led by Congressmember Cori Bush of Missouri, who was once unhoused herself and slept on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in protest after the moratorium on evictions lapsed on July 31. The new moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will cover areas of the United States where there is "substantial" or "high" spread of the coronavirus. The belated renewal of the eviction moratorium shows that "people need to be willing to critici…
(2021-08-04). AOC Slams Democrats Who Would Rather Skip Town Than Vote to Extend Eviction Ban. zcomm.org "We cannot in good faith blame the Republican Party when House Democrats have the majority."
(2021-08-04). Backed By Big Corporate Money And Democrat Establishment, Shontel Brown Wins Ohio Congressional Seat. moguldom.com Shontel Brown's win in the Ohio special election primary represents a victory for the Democratic establishment in its bid for the congressional seat left vacant by Marcia Fudge, who resigned to join President Joe Biden's administration. Progressive Democrat Nina Turner lost the race against Brown, who received backing from not only the Democratic Party establishment …
(2021-08-04). Nancy Pelosi Lies While the Working Class Dies. realprogressives.org With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder the Democrats lost House seats in the highest turn out election of all time.
(2021-08-04). Nina Turner Says "Our Justice Journey Continues" After Conceding Defeat. truthout.org 
Promising to continue the fight for justice that animated her campaign, Nina Turner conceded defeat Tuesday night to establishment opponent Shontel Brown in the special election to fill a vacant seat in Ohio's 11th congressional district, marking the close of a heated Democratic primary fight that drew national attention and a late torrent of super PAC cash. | "Tonight my friends, we have looked across the promised land, but for this campaign, on this night, we will not cross the river," Turner, a f…
(2021-08-04). "Caught in Hell": Complaint Shows Horrors Inflicted on African Asylum Seekers. truthout.org 
In 2018, a crisis year in Cameroon marked by violent oppression inflicted by forces of the Francophone majority upon the English-speaking minority, Divine Tikum Kem, a shopkeeper in the country's English-speaking northwest region, was beaten unconscious by members of the military. Kem says his shop had been targeted as a site of resistance in the continuing struggle for increased autonomy in the Anglophone region following the questionably democratic election of President Paul Biya to a seventh…
(2021-08-04). The Progressive Death of Progressivism. dissidentvoice.org Emblematic of our times, the Berniecrat organization Our Revolution — never remotely revolutionary — has rebranded itself as "pragmatic progressive." This innovation is based on the realization that progressive reforms will never be enacted unless they are fought for. And, since they are not about to fight President Biden, then it is only programmatic to …
(2021-08-04). Make the People Happy: Erase Student Debt. progressive.org Biden has a perfect opportunity to deliver progressive change to the millennials who voted for him.
(2021-08-04). U.S. habitually ignores adverse int'l rulings: media. ecns.cn U.S. President Joe Biden's administration, which has lectured China about respecting a so-called arbitral tribunal ruling on the South China Sea, is in itself a breacher of the international rule of law.
(2021-08-04). Death by Sociopathic DeSantis: No Masks, No Vaccines, No Ice Cream and 233 Fewer Pythons. commondreams.org "President Biden promised bold climate action, but this is business as usual. Polar bears and walruses deserve better."
(2021-08-04). United Auto Workers and auto companies reverse course, reimpose mask mandate in factories. wsws.org The elimination of mask requirements in the auto factories in June was justified by reference to the policies of the Democrats and the Biden Administration, now exposed as based on lies.
(2021-08-04). Amnesty Follows House Dems' Letter by Imploring Biden to Close Gitmo 'Once and for All'. commondreams.org "Your efforts only add to the perception that you are attempting to bully your regulators, disarm the FTC, and avoid accountability rather than to strengthen ethics standards."
(2021-08-04). US Peace Groups Call for Biden and Congress to Adopt 'No First Use of Nuclear Weapons' Policy. commondreams.org The first-of-its-kind suit alleges U.S. weapons firms "design, market, distribute, and sell guns in ways they know routinely arm the drug cartels in Mexico."
(2021-08-04). Biden Interior Dept Denounced for Giving Big Oil Green Light to Harass Polar Bears, Walruses. commondreams.org Fully vaccinated people were more likely to report that they plan to wear masks in public.
(2021-08-04). Democrats Demand Amazon and Facebook End Efforts to 'Sideline' FTC Chair Lina Khan. commondreams.org White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki touted U.S. vaccine donations to poor countries, but public health advocates have warned the Biden administration isn't doing nearly enough.
(2021-08-04). Biden administration promotes fully opening schools amid surge of Delta variant. wsws.org In pushing to fully reopen schools, the White House is giving the green light to the banning of mask mandates in schools, now implemented in eight states that provide public education to a combined roughly 12.7 million children.
(2021-08-04). Should Progressives in Congress Oppose Biden's Infrastructure Deal If Reconciliation Bill Is Blocked? democracynow.org 
The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is making its way through the Senate this week. The outcome of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which calls for $550 billion in new spending and reuses some unused COVID-19 relief aid, will set the stage for debate on Biden's much larger $3.5 trillion package, which Democrats hope to pass with a simple majority using the reconciliation process in the Senate. Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic says progressives must fight for the larger package and be willing to block the bipartisan bill, if needed. "If that reconciliation bill looks like it's actually go…
(2021-08-04). Kamala Harris to Work Against China in Southeast Asia Tour. news.antiwar.com Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Vietnam and Singapore this month, as the US is increasing focus on boosting partnerships in Southeast Asia as part of its strategy against China. "We do not want to see any country dominate that region or take advantage of the power situation to compromise the sovereignty of others," the White H…
(2021-08-04). J.D. Vance markets himself as 'Hillbilly' Trump, but don't laugh too quickly. peoplesworld.org 
Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has made his name as a "hillbilly" turned venture capitalist. He met with Trump back in March and is now one of the many Ohio Republicans trying to get Trump's blessing in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Rob Portman. Even with all of his money and connections, Vance …
(2021-08-04). Missouri governor pardons St. Louis couple who brandished guns at BLM protesters. rt.com 
Missouri Governor Mike Parson has pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who rose to national prominence last year after they aimed guns at a group of protesters in their gated St. Louis community, resulting in misdemeanor charges. | The Republican governor
(2021-08-04). Shot with Rubber Bullets, Hospitalized, Jailed: Line 3 Protester Tara Houska Decries Police Attack. democracynow.org 
At least 20 water protectors were brutally arrested in Minnesota as resistance to the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline continues, and they say state and local police have escalated their use of excessive force, using tear gas, rubber and pepper bullets to repress opposition to Line 3, which, if completed, would carry Canadian tar sands oil across Indigenous land and fragile ecosystems. "The level of brutality that was unleashed on us was very extreme," says Indigenous lawyer and activist Tara Houska, who suffered bloody welts after she was shot with rubber bullets, then arrested and held in Pennington County Jail over th…
(2021-08-04). Major Companies Donate to Republican Group Despite Its Role in Jan. 6. truthout.org 
This article was produced by The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) was named as a "coalition partner" on the website of the January 6 protest that preceded the riots at the Capitol Building and the gro…
(2021-08-04). Cuomo Must Go: Sexual Harassment Report Prompts Demands for NY Gov. to Resign or Face Impeachment. democracynow.org 
Pressure is growing on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after the state's attorney general, Letitia James, released the damning findings of an independent investigation Tuesday about how Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women in violation of the law. "The report is devastating, and it is disturbing. And unfortunately, it's not surprising to anyone who has spent time in Albany," says New York state Senator Julia Salazar. We also speak with Sochie Nnaemeka, state director of the New York Working Families Party, who says removing Cuomo must include a wider reckoning with how Albany operates. "We need to u…
(2021-08-04). Democrats Signal Massive Citizenship Program for Undocumented Immigrants. latinorebels.com "We'd like to make it as robust as possible," Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) told Latino Rebels in the Senate tunnels on Tuesday afternoon.
(2021-08-04). Nina Turner's Loss Is Oligarchy's Gain. scheerpost.com NSPA & ACP / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Norman Solomon The race for a vacant congressional seat in northeast Ohio was a fierce battle between status quo politics and calls for social transformation. In the end, when votes were counted Tuesday night, transactional business-as-usual had won by almost 6 percent. But the victory of a corporate Democrat over a progressive firebrand did nothing to resolve the… |
(2021-08-04). The Civilian Climate Corps Could Be Transformative. Will Democrats Meet the Moment? inequality.org
(2021-08-04). Big Believer In Knowledge Of Self, Master Teacher Runoko Rashidi Passes Away. moguldom.com Runoko Rashidi — a historian, author, anthropologist, scholar and master teacher who was a big proponent of Black people having knowledge of self — died Aug. 2 while on his annual research tour of Egypt, also known by its ancient name Kemet. He was approximately 67 as his exact birth month in 1954 is unknown. …
(2021-08-04). A global anti-Olympics movement rises to challenge the games' darker side. nationofchange.org "The Olympics Games put tremendous pressure on the host city's local budget, crash the democratic government process and destroy the environment."