Israel Arrests Palestinian Minister 'Activities in Jerusalem'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-30
Israeli police said Sunday that they had detained and questioned the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs, Fadi Hadami. | OPINION: | War in Al-Aqsa: What Price Netanyahu's Victory | Hadami was arrested for "activities in Jerusalem" after he accompanied Chilean President Sebastian Piñera to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. He was released after hours of…
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Europeans Bowing to Trump on Iran Sanctions, Despite Their Opposition
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-30
Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council, says that military confrontation between the US and Iran becomes more likely, especially since Europeans who oppose US sanctions are not really pushing back against Trump…
therealnews.com/stories/europeans-bowing-to-trump-on-iran-sanctions-despite-their-opposition
Nationwide Demonstrations Announced to Protest Immigrant Detention Centers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-29
As appalling details of the conditions at immigrant detention centers in the U.S. continue to pour in–with one doctor recently comparing them to " torture facilities"–a coalition of rights groups on Friday announced nationwide "Close the Camps" demonstrations for next week to protest the Trump administration's treatment of migrant children. | "We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of child detention centers," said MoveOn.org, one of the groups help…
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Florida Republican Gives Felons Voting Rights with Conditions
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-29
New legislation offers Floridan convicts their voting rights back, but on the condition they pay fines in restitution prior to casting their ballot, the state governor determined Friday after signing the bill into law. | RELATED: | Florida Republicans Undermine Voting Rights of Former Felons | The text of the newly enacted law states that felons seeking to regain their right to vote must pay fines or restitution to victims as ordered by a court. | Republica Governor Ron DeSantis…
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Iran: Talks With Remaining Nuclear Deal Signers Not Good Enough
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-29
Iran's deputy foreign minister says progress was made between the remaining signatories of the nation's nuclear deal in Vienna talks Friday, but not enough to meet the demands of the Islamic Republic. | RELATED: | Protests in New Dehli Against US 'Imperialism' and Sanctions | "It was a step forward, but it is still not enough and did not meet Iran's expectations," Abbas Araqchi told reporters Friday after almost four hours of talks with senior diplomats from Britain, China, France…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Talks-With-Remaining-Nuclear-Deal-Signers-Not-Good-Enough-20190629-0008.html
The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World
Ian Lekus | thenation.com | 2019-06-28
The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World…
thenation.com/article/international-lgbtq-rights-legacy-imperialism/
Supreme Court Hands GOP Big Victory on Gerrymandering, Ensuring "Massive Election Rigging"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-28
The Supreme Court hands down two major decisions. The first is a victory for Republicans, allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocks the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We get response from Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America." He says the ruling that federal courts can't resolve claims of partisan gerrymandering is "almost guaranteed to facilitate massive election rigging in the future."
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Activists Lie Under Sheets to Protest Colombian Murders at OAS
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-28
Protesters covered themselves in white sheets and lay outside the Organization of American States (OAS) taking place in Medellin since Tuesday to demonstrate the increasing number of murders of rural leaders in Colombia, and OAS leadership contradicting state statistics. | RELATED: | Colombian Cartel Kills Woman Community Leader, Son Witnesses | Human rights organizations, Don't Kill, Peace in the Streets, and Peace Generation, organized the performance protest Friday to demonstra…
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In First Debate, Julián Castro Challenges Democrats to End the Criminalization of Immigration
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-27
The Democrats' first debate was held in Miami, Florida. The venue was less than an hour away from Homestead, Florida, where more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors are incarcerated in a for-profit detention center run by Caliburn. Trump's former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly sits on its board. Prior to the debate, Senators Warren and Klobuchar visited the facility. During the debate, Julián Castro, the former secretary of housing and urban development, criticized the immigration policies of fellow Texan, former Congressmember Beto O'Rourke. We air part of the debate and speak to Ana María Archila of the Center for…
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Trump's "Deal of the Century" Just Means More Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-27
Ali Abunimah discusses Jared Kushner's presentation of his peace plan's economic portion in Bahrain this week. He dangled fifty billion dollars for the Palestinian economy, but no freedom, political rights, nor an end of the Israeli occupation…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-deal-of-the-century-just-means-more-israeli-occupation-of-palestinian-land
MintPress Reporter Detained Amid Honduran Police Crackdown on Coup Anniversary Protests
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-06-27
Police have been relying on heavy-handed tactics to repress protests for over a month, including the use of live rounds and tear gas. In the past week, the situation has only worsened.
mintpressnews.com/mintpress-journalist-honduras-police-coup-protest/260048/
Juan González: There Are Refugees in Desperate Need of Help in Airports Across the United States
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-26
Co-host Juan González was at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport this past Sunday, where he encountered Central American refugee families recently released from detention centers. The families, who were from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, had been left there by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without guidance or a translator to help them navigate their flight information. The families were likely traveling to cities where they could reunite with loved ones already in living in the U.S. In the case of the Guatemalan families, most of them didn't speak Spanish, but indigenous languages. None of them spoke Engli…
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DHS Whistleblower Who Spoke Out Against Obama-Era Immigration Jails Condemns Conditions on Border
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-26
Immigration jails along the southern border are facing heightened scrutiny following horrific reports of dirty and unhygienic conditions at a detention center in Clint, Texas, and other facilities. We speak with government whistleblower Dr. Scott Allen, who was hired in 2014 to inspect facilities where immigrant families are incarcerated, who says degrading conditions for jailed migrants date back to Obama's presidency. He is calling for more government transparency about conditions in immigration facilities, saying, "I think most Americans, if they were confronted with the humanity of what we are doing here, wou…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/26/dhs_whist…
Survivor of WWII Internment Camp Speaks Out: Japanese Americans Know the Trauma of Child Detention
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-26
Amid reports of inhumane and degrading conditions at child immigration jails along the southern border, we speak with Satsuki Ina, a Japanese-American psychotherapist who was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum-security internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. "After decades of living our lives as compliant and quiet, and demonstrating and proving ourselves as good citizens, many of us have felt that it's time for us to speak out, to protest, to resist, and to speak out in ways that we haven't in the past, because we know what these children are experiencing," Ina said. "We know what it…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/26/japanese_…
Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump's true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty
splcenter.org | 2019-06-26
A year ago, America awoke to the shocking images of children being held in cages — children who had been stolen from their asylum-seeking parents at the border by an administration that had no plan to reunite them.
splcenter.org/news/2019/06/26/horrific-detention-center-conditions-expose-trumps-true-immigration-policy-unmitigated
White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating
Cassie Miller | splcenter.org | 2019-06-26
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/06/26/white-nationalist-threats-against-transgender-people-are-escalating
So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans?
Joe Emersberger | fair.org | 2019-06-26
FAIR.org ( 6/14/19) | I wrote on June 14 about Reuters burying (for over a month) a study (CEPR, 4/25/19) by prominent economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot that links economic sanctions President Donald Trump imposed on Venezuel…
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As Trump Imposes New Sanctions, Iran Says U.S. Has "Permanently Closed Path to Diplomacy"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-25
President Trump announced Monday his administration is imposing a new round of sanctions on Iran, targeting several prominent Iranians including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Iran said the move "permanently closed the path to diplomacy" between Iran and the United States. The latest tension comes after the downing of a U.S. drone by Iran on Thursday. Iran maintains the drone had entered its airspace, while the U.S. claims the drone was in international waters. The U.S. military prepared to directly attack Iran in retaliation, but Trump report…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/25/iran_war_…
UN Human Rights Head Visits Venezuela, Meets Maduro and Guaido
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-06-24
Michelle Bachelet commented on access to food and medicine, allegations of political prisoners, and the impact of sanctions, among other issues.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14554
Japanese-American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids at WWII Prison Camp
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-06-24
Democracy Now! was there when five Japanese-American elders, survivors of U.S. internment camps, engaged in civil disobedience Saturday outside the Fort Sill Army post in Oklahoma, where the Trump administration plans to indefinitely detain 1,400 immigrant and refugee children starting next month. Fort Sill was an internment camp for 700 Japanese-American men in 1942. It was one of more than 70 sites where the U.S. government incarcerated about 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, including one of 14 U.S. Army bases. President Obama first used Fort Sill in 2014 to detain migrant children seeking asylum…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/24/stop_repe…
Netfa Freeman on Cuba Sanctions, Reynard Loki on Indigenous Oil Victory
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-06-07
Media…
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US Treasury Department Tightens Sanctions on Venezuela Oil Sector
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-06-07
Washington is targeting diluent imports, hurting Venezuela's ability to export oil and produce fuel.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14527
Venezuela: Oil Production Reportedly Down as Gov't Defaults on Gold Swap
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-06-05
Sanctions have taken a toll on Venezuela's oil output and generated fuel shortages.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14523