(2019-07-04). 'Monstrous': Trump Blames Migrants for Appalling Conditions at Border Patrol Detention Centers. commondreams.org "It's hard to overstate the level of venality and depravity this man is capable of." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-04). Why is it so easy to monetise hate? greenleft.org.au 
The rapidity with which homophobic rugby player Israel Folau raised $2.2 million for his fight against Rugby Australia is just the latest example of how easy it is to monetise hate these days. It is a morbid symptom of a capitalist system plumbing the depths of moral bankruptcy. | Folau has taken Rugby Australia to the Fair Work Commission after he was sacked for breaching his contract by posting offensive public attacks against homosexual people on social media. | Folau's celebrity hate crusade has garnered a lot of the attention — but his is just one of many well-monetised hate campaigns. | For insta…
(2019-07-04). Another Whitewashed Trial of War Crimes by USA Invader. indybay.org The latest acquittal(except for an "unauthorized posing of a photo of a prisoner" charge) of a Navy SEAL is another case of Imperialist impunity of war crimes in America's global "War on Terror." Special Op. Chief Edward Gallagher was cleared of all other far more serious charges, including one for killing an injured teenage ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017. He was released without having to serve any more time, since his sentence of 4 months for the "photo posing" charge has been offset by his pretrial detention. Apparently, this is a prime example of "victor's justice" in America's long history of overseas Imperial…
(2019-07-04). Pediatricians Release Migrant Children's Drawings of Their Time in US Border Prisons. theantimedia.com (TMU) — Pediatricians have shared harrowing images drawn by migrant children separated from their parents while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention camps that show people in prison-like conditions. The drawings were released by a social worker at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas to the American Academy of Pediatrics, who …
(2019-07-04). UN says Libyan guards reportedly shot at migrants during airstrikes. cgtn.com 
The United Nations said on Thursday it had information that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee from airstrikes that killed at least 53 people, including six children, in a migrant detention centre late on Tuesday. | Blood stains are seen at a detention centre for mainly African migrants that was hit by an airstrike in the Tajoura suburb of Tripoli, Libya July 3, 2019. | A U.N. humanitarian report said there were two airstrikes, one hitting an unoccupied garage and one hitting a hangar containing around 120 refugees and migrants. | "There are reports that following the first impact, some re…
(2019-07-04). American Concentration Camps, Then and Now. theantimedia.com (FPIF) — In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst …
(2019-07-04). Mexico deploys National Guard, detains immigrants at record levels. wsws.org Mexico launched its 70,000-member National Guard as immigrant detentions rose by a third since May.
(2019-07-04). Libya's Civil War is Becoming a Proxy War. therealnews.com 
The shooting down of a Turkish drone near Tripoli and the capture of six Turkish sailors by Gen. Haftar's forces reveals the Turkey's and Egypt's involvement on both sides of the civil war. Meanwhile Haftar's forces are accused of bombing a migration detention center near Tripoli, killing 44 and injuring 130…
(2019-07-04). Latest Office of Inspector General report reveals inhumane conditions at US immigrant detention centers. wsws.org Children are being detained without access to showers or hot meals and in one instance adult immigrants were held in standing room only conditions for a full week.
(2019-07-04). Bombing of detention center in Libya kills at least 44 refugees. wsws.org The tragedy is the product of the 2011 US-backed war for regime change which has plunged Libya into nearly a decade of civil war and the EU's war on refugees.
(2019-07-04). Maduro Highlights Strength of Venezuelan Financial System. plenglish.com 04 de julio de 2019, 08: 11Caracas, Jul 4 (Prensa Latina) President Nicolas Maduro highlighted the strength of the country"s public and private financial system facing the economic sanctions imposed against Venezuela.
(2019-07-04). Trump's 180-degree turn on the S-400: a tactical move or a distraction? uwidata.com 
The multi-month crisis between the US and Turkey on the purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems recently took an unexpected turn. According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Donald Trump said that Washington would not impose sanctions over the deal during the summit in Japan. The statements were greeted with amazement all over …
(2019-07-03). Tucson protest tells Trump: No raids! No deportations! No family separations! fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – Over 100 people braved the intense desert sun Tuesday morning, July 2, to demonstrate their anger at Trump's threat for ICE raids aimed at thousands of undocumented families. Many demonstrators also expressed their demand to reunite families and to close the concentration camps operating as detention centers. | Outside the federal building protesters held signs reading "Close the camps!" and "Dismantle ICE!" The group then marched to the Pima County Office to demand an end to the Sheriff's collaboration with ICE and Border Patrol. Organizer from Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Isabel Garcia, said "The…
(2019-07-03). Libya detention centre airstrike could amount to a war crime says UN, as Guterres calls for independent investigation. un.org An airstrike on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed scores of migrants and refugees "deserves more than condemnation", UN agencies said on Wednesday, as both the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the head of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), insisted that it may amount to a war crime.
(2019-07-03). Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights "Pleased" Justice Department Will Print 2020 Census Questionnaire Without Bigoted Citizen Question. blackstarnews.com 
In response to the Department of Justice confirming the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement: | "The Supreme Court's ruling left little opportunity for the administration to cure the defects with its decision to add a citizenship question and, most importantly, they were simply out of time given the impending deadline for printing forms. We are…
(2019-07-03). I Spent 16 Months in Solitary Confinement and Now I'm Fighting to End It. aclu.org A new report proves that the degrading conditions in solitary confinement continue to harm people and communities. | I was just 17 years old when I was sent to solitary confinement in "Camp J," one of the most severe lockdown units at one of America's most brutal prisons, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I languished in solitary for 16 months. | Back then I didn't know that Louisiana was the solitary confinement capital of the world. All I knew was that I'd been convicted of a crime I didn't commit, and I had to maintain my humanity in one of the most dehumanizing places on earth. | It's called "23 and…
(2019-07-03). Florida makes the restoration of voting rights contingent on criminal debt payments. nationofchange.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure approved by state lawmakers that makes the restoration of voting rights for people convicted of felonies contingent on having paid off all criminal debt associated with their conviction. A coalition of civil rights groups immediately filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the new law by having it declared unconstitutional. I'm …
(2019-07-03). Migrants Denounce 'Psychological Abuse' in US Detention Centers. telesurenglish.net Central Americans allege they were victims of "psychological abuse" by U.S. federal authorities at detention centers in Arizona, which human rights defenders have described as "concentration camps." | RELATED: | 'Help, 40 Days Here!', Migrants in US Border Facilities: Images | Javier Torres, a Honduran father who crossed the border with his wife and his 5-year old son, stayed at three detention centers, where he was kept in extremely cold rooms, with music at full volume, perm…
(2019-07-03). As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas. theintercept.com As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency employs during such operations. | The documents, released Wednesday by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues to internally and publicly stress a "public safety" rationale for immigration arrests. | Most…
(2019-07-03). Thousands of Voices Are Telling the Supreme Court: Don't Roll Back LGBTQ Rights. aclu.org Businesses, women CEOs, civil rights organizations, Republicans tell the Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ employees like Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda. | President Trump has told the Supreme Court it should be legal to fire someone just because they're LGBTQ. The President may be a bully, but he's just one voice. Today, more than 2,000 voices from across the country joined together to tell the Supreme Court: Don't roll back our rights. | The message came in the form of friend-of-the-court briefs—nearly 50 in all—filed in a…
(2019-07-03). US: Case Dropped Against Woman Who Lost Fetus After Being Shot. telesurenglish.net Prosecutors in the U.S. state of Alabama dropped charges against a woman who lost her unborn baby in her fifth month of pregnancy when she was shot during a quarrel. | RELATED: | Thousands of Rights Advocates Against Alabama Abortion Law | "It is the appropriate decision, both for our client and for the state of Alabama," said Attorney Mark White, who represents Marshae Jones. | The woman was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter on May 1, concluding she intentionally caused t…
(2019-07-03). Ecuador: Security Forces Deployed Against Illegal Gold Mining. telesurenglish.net More than two thousand police and military were deployed Tuesday for an operation against illegal mining in the Imbabura province, just a few hours after President Lenin Moreno decreed a 60-day state of emergency at the Buenos Aires parish. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Ola Bini Released as Court Grants Habeas Corpus | Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo admitted…
(2019-07-03). Wednesday's Daily Brief: Libya 'war crime' attack, Sudan, Myanmar rights violations continue, 'xenophobia' in Assam, South Sudan update. un.org In the news this Wednesday: "Outraged" Guterres demands independent inquiry into fatal Libya migrant centre airstrike deaths; Violence and broken promises in Sudan and South Sudan, while Rohingya violations continue in Myanmar; "xenophobia" and citizenship in India's Assam state.
(2019-07-03). An Alabama Shooting Shows How Badly We Need Reproductive Rights. progressive.org What has happened here portends an uncertain future for women's reproductive rights throughout the nation.
(2019-07-03). As Drivers Sleep in Cars, Uber Co-Founder Buys a $72.5M Mansion. telesurenglish.net While Uber and Lyft drivers in the United States and around the world continue to struggle to fight for decent wages and dignified work conditions, Uber's co-founder Garrett Camp has purchased a record-breaking US$72.5 million dollars mansion in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles). | RELATED: | Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Defend Health System, Demand Labor Rights | Drivers from ride-sharing apps, many of whom are homeless and with no other choice than to live in…
(2019-07-03). Portugal's Doctors, Nurses Strike to Demand Labor Rights. telesurenglish.net Portugal's Independent Physicians Union (SIM), the National Federation of Physicians (FNAM) and the Democratic Union of Nurses (Sindepor) began Tuesday a four-day nationwide strike in the defense of the National Health Service (SNS). | RELATED: | Portugal: First Eurozone Country to Issue 'Panda Bonds' in Yuan | "Doctors are striking as a form of open protest against the degradation of work, welfare state and health services, which has been brought about by years of an uncontrolle…
(2019-07-03). Is US Democracy Dying a Slow and Barely Visible Death? therealnews.com 
Ret. Col. Larry Wilkerson examines the dangers that Republican efforts to abridge voting rights and that Trump's racist and violent exhortations represent to US democracy…
(2019-07-03). Scott Warren Faces Retrial for Providing Humanitarian Aid to Migrants in Arizona. truthout.org Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a jury refused to convict Warren for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Eight jurors found Warren not guilty; four said he was. Federal prosecutors will make their case against Warren again in an 8-day jury trial in November. They have dropped a conspiracy charge against him. If convicted on the…
(2019-07-03). Restrictions, unmet promises, unbridled violence in Sudan, a 'recipe for disaster', says Bachelet. un.org After nationwide protests across Sudan on Sunday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called on Sudanese authorities to lift restrictions on the internet and launch independent investigations into all acts of violence against demonstrators, and allegations of excessive force, including attacks on hospitals.
(2019-07-03). Grievous violations continue against Myanmar civilians, Human Rights Council hears. un.org Marginalized communities in Myanmar still face "grievous human rights violations" at the hands of security forces, a UN-appointed independent expert said this week, while repeating her call for an international and independent probe into the 2017 exodus from Rakhine state.
(2019-07-03). How the Third Temple Movement in Israel Rebranded Theocracy as "Civil Rights" mintpressnews.com 
The Temple Activist movement is now more mainstream than ever before and its effort to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, has advanced with great rapidity since the year began and has picked up precipitously in recent weeks.
(2019-07-03). California gig workers eye a win if landmark bill passes state Senate. peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO—If a law now wending its way through the state legislature passes its final hurdles this summer, hundreds of thousands of California workers now called "independent contractors" will be poised to gain essential benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, overtime pay, and workers' compensation, as well as vital rights like collective bargaining. Assembly Bill …
(2019-07-03). Scott Warren of No More Deaths Faces Retrial for Providing Humanitarian Aid to Migrants in Arizona. democracynow.org 
Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday they will retry humanitarian aid volunteer and immigration rights activist Scott Warren on two charges related to aiding migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This comes just a few weeks after a jury refused to convict Warren for providing water, food, clean clothes and beds to two undocumented migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Eight jurors found Warren not guilty; four said he was. Federal prosecutors will make their case against Warren again in an 8-day jury trial in November. They have dropped a conspiracy charge against him. If convicted on the tw…
(2019-07-03). 'Chuck Schumer Has Some Dinner Guests': Protesters Outside of Minority Leader's Home Demand Action on Detention Camps. commondreams.org "He's afraid to take a stand for immigrants, because he's afraid of how it's going to come off to white moderates." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-03). Nurses Redouble Commitment to Provide Critical Medical Aid to Migrants and Asylum Seekers as Details Emerge of Inhumane and Brutal Conditions in Federal Detention. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-07-03). Abhorrent Attack on Migrant Detention Center in Libya Must Be Investigated as a War Crime. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-07-03). American Concentration Camps, Then and Now. counterpunch.org 
In our history textbooks, "Japanese internment," as it's carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens — can be more accurately described as one of the worst More
(2019-07-03). Airstrike on a Detention Centre in Tripoli Leave More Than Forty Migrants Dead Hundreds Injured. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-07-03). Headlines for July 3, 2019. democracynow.org DHS Watchdog: "Dangerous Overcrowding" and Dire Conditions at Texas Migrant Jails, 30-Year-Old Honduran Migrant Dies in U.S. Custody, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Deny Bail to Asylum Seekers, DHS Fining Immigrants Up to $500,000 for Not Leaving the U.S., Nationwide Protests Demand Lawmakers #CloseTheCamps, Cory Booker Vows to End Immigrant Detention in 2020 Proposal, In Defeat for Trump Admin, 2020 Census Will Not Include Citizenship Question, House Dems Sue Treasury and IRS over Trump's Tax Returns, Airstrike Hits Migrant Detention Center in Libya, Killing At Least 40, Ethiopian-Israeli Community Protests…
(2019-07-03). Reporting a Rape in Immigration Jail: One Asylum Seeker's Fight for Justice. truthout.org Content note: This article contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault.In a shaky, melancholy voice over a staticky phone line from the Yuba County Jail in northern California, Rene Lopez told Rewire.News she is depressed, scared, and alone. | The gender-nonconforming 24-year-old, who identifies as a gay boy and uses she/her pronouns, said she was raped by another detainee this past spring. | Lopez and her attorney have sought justice without success. They have struggled to access basic information from officials at the jail and within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who are investigating t…
(2019-07-03). Our Immigrant Prisons Are an Atrocity. commondreams.org This administration is moving full speed toward atrocity and the government-sanctioned traumatization of an entire community. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-03). Cuba: Presents Economic Plan 2020, Includes Cryptocurrency. telesurenglish.net Cuba's Councils of States and Ministers met Tuesday to discuss the nation's economy and provide plans around the worsening and illicit economic sanctions by the United States on the island. | RELATED: | Cuba Condemns US Siege, Stresses Commitment to Socialism | Economic and Planning Minister Alejandro Gil said his department has come up with measures in its National Development Plan 2030 that are broad and "not static, and that can be changed depending the context" when he spoke at…
(2019-07-03). What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family. commondreams.org Iranians and Americans alike deserve diplomacy, not war — and that includes war by economic means. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
(2019-07-03). Minneapolis: 4000 march against Trump's separation of families, concentration camps at the border. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On June 30, 4000 people marched in South Minneapolis to stand with immigrants and Muslims who are under attack by the Trump administration. | The skies cleared from an earlier downpour as marchers went from Lake Street and Nicollet Avenue in the heart of the immigrant community, through Uptown and to the First Universalist Church, where there was an indoor rally. The church sanctuary as well as an overflow room were filled to capacity, with more people continuing to rally outside. | The huge protest came together quickly as word of the horrific conditions in the border concentration camps spread…
(2019-07-03). In photos: As fury grows, tens of thousands rally across us demanding immediate action to #ClosetheCamps. nationofchange.org 
Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention centers and prison camps where migrants are being held. The "Close the Camps" rallies were organized by MoveOn and other progressive organizations in response to growing public outrage over the Trump administration's treatment of asylum …
(2019-07-02). Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Speak During NAACP's 110th National Convention. naacp.org 
Speaker of the House of Representatives to deliver remarks at 110th NAACP National Convention BALTIMORE (July 2, 2019) — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's foremost civil rights organization, has announced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will give remarks at the 110th National Convention in Detroit on July 22, 2019. …
(2019-07-02). "THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN:" TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION XENOPHOBIA IS BEING IMPLEMENTED BY ROTTENLY RACIST BORDER GUARDS. blackstarnews.com 
Trump's racist immigration detention and child separation policy is causing death and misery… | Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America's Voice: "We are witnessing a human rights crisis in real time, the magnitude of which should shake us to our core. | As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. And Donald Trump has failed and corrupted the system from top to bottom, emboldening an already out of control agency, and advancing policies and actions that are resulting in a callous disregard for basic humanity and exacting a terrible toll that…
(2019-07-02). 2020 Census Form Will Not Include Citizenship Question, Trump Administration Says. theintercept.com The Trump administration admitted defeat on Tuesday, confirming that forms for the 2020 U.S. census will not include a question asking residents who respond to the survey if they are U.S. citizens. The change of plans follows last week's Supreme Court decision that the Commerce Department had failed to provide a valid reason for adding the question. | The news was conveyed in an email from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to lawyers who had contested the effort in lawsuits, and confirmed to The Intercept by…
(2019-07-02). Tuesday's Daily Brief: Hunger crisis in DR Congo, Swine Fever in Asia, Venezuela death investigation call, updates on Eritrea and Syria. un.org This Tuesday, UN News covers: Growing food crisis in DR Congo; Swine Fever threatens millions of livelihoods in Asia; Human Rights Council told of persistent violations in Eritrea; and the humanitarian impact of on-going fighting in Syria.
(2019-07-02). SPLC sues Florida officials to keep citizens from losing right to vote again. splcenter.org After completing her prison sentence and probation time, Rosemary McCoy had her voting rights restored and cast a ballot in the Jacksonville, Florida, runoff city council election earlier this year.