(2021-09-07). The GOP: Worker's Party or Party of the White Republic? zcomm.org The Republican Party is a "working class party" now, according to its nationalist wing. But a deeper look at its pro-worker rhetoric reveals a longstanding trope of the "white worker" against invader populations…
(2021-09-07). Former US Marine sharpshooter murders four in Florida, including mother, baby and grandmother. wsws.org The shooter, Bryan Riley, 33, was a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and had worked as a private military contractor for multiple companies including Academi, formerly known as Blackwater.
(2021-09-07). US' recognition of Taliban 'a long way off,' Biden says. tass.com Last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated that the US administration was "in no rush" to recognize the Taliban as the new leaders of Afghanistan…
(2021-09-07). THE "LONGEST WAR" IS NOT OVER. warisacrime.org Speaking from the White House on August 31, President Joe Biden lied to the people of the U.S. and to the world: "Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan — the longest war in American history." The U.S. war on Afghanistan did not end— it has only adapted …
(2021-09-07). Biden Could Share Vaccine Data With The World. dailyposter.com 
(2021-09-07). Bolsonaro marches against democracy in Brazil. peoplesdispatch.org Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has called on his supporters to participate in mass mobilizations on September 7, Brazilian Independence Day, amid a continued drop in approval ratings and increased scrutiny from both the legislative and judiciary over his government's actions.
(2021-09-07). Democrats, teachers unions push school reopenings as pandemic expands across Pennsylvania. wsws.org This year, with almost no remote learning, class sizes will return to their previous overcrowded 20, 25 and 30 students per room. One can be certain that covid cases will explode throughout the state.
(2021-09-07). Video: Fight to eradicate COVID-19! Why you should become an electoral member of the SEP. wsws.org The anti-democratic electoral laws, designed to deregister most political parties, are a bid to suppress opposition to the major parties that are responsible for the upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
(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). "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). 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). New York Time Says Republican Critics of Biden Package Are Worried it Will Lead to Lower Unemployment. cepr.net It seems a strange concern, but I suppose it's what we would expect from a political party that is determined to block every effort to contain the pandemic. According to a NYT article on opposition to President Biden's plan to increase spending on various social program by $3.5 billion (1.3 percent of GDP) over the …
(2021-09-06). Why majority of Americans support costly foreign policies. asiatimes.com 
Democrats and Republicans may be at each other's throats when it comes to domestic policy, spending and the size of the US government. But they are on the same page on foreign policies, protecting American supremacy or stifling any country that is in a position to challenge US interests. In doing so, the US government …
(2021-09-06). Moroccan political activists arrested during protests demanding democratization. liberationnews.org 
The PSL extends our fullest solidarity to the imprisoned leaders of Democratic Way and condemns this blatant act of repression.
(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). 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). Please, Call It What It Is: Fascism. commondreams.org "The people of Brazil have struggled for decades to secure democracy from military rule, Bolsonaro must not be permitted to rob them of it now."
(2021-09-06). Democracy is Dying. Unions Can Help Save It. commondreams.org As the former president continues to stoke his base with his big lie that the election was stolen, GOP lawmakers are adding fuel to the fire, pushing more Americans into Trump's paranoid nightmare.
(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). 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). Warnings of Trump-Like Insurrection Ahead of Bolsonaro Rallies in Brazil. commondreams.org The bottom line is that the multi-trillion-dollar price tag of the Democrat's reconciliation plan is affordable, even modest, compared with the nation's vast income and wealth. The rich and the corporations need to be called to account.
(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.