Trump's Concentration Camps for Children
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-24
This week, the Trump Administration declared that immigrant children can be detained indefinitely, and in conditions that can be described as concentration camps. We talk to Sasha Abramsky of The Nation…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-concentration-camps-for-children

Corporate Interests Use Voter Purges To Disenfranchise Citizens
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-24
The SCOTUS decision in Shelby County v Holder ruled that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional. Greg Palast talks about how what followed has been the expansion of the very issue that the VRA was implemented to curb…
therealnews.com/stories/corporate-interests-use-voter-purges-to-disenfranchise-citizens

ICE Raids Benefit Bosses by Creating Fear in Workers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| On August 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out coordinated raids at seven agricultural processing plants in Mississippi, detaining 680 immigrant workers. Officials told The Washington Post that the operation was "the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in U.S. history." | The massive operation generated terror in immigrant communities alrea…
truthout.org/articles/ice-raids-benefit-bosses-by-creating-fear-in-workers/

The Latest Victim in the Crucifixion of Julian Assange
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-08-23
The case of Ola Bini, a Swedish data privacy activist and associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been shrouded in mystery since his arrest in Quito, Ecuador, on April 11. He was detained on the same day Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in the United Kingdom, inevitably raising questions about whether Bini was being held because of his connection with Assange and whether the United States was involved in the case in some form. | Bini, who initially…
truthdig.com/articles/the-latest-victim-in-the-persecution-of-julian-assange/

World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
At 11: 30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The …
globalresearch.ca/world-watching-fate-iranian-tanker/5686898

Activists demand Minnesota divest from border militarization contractor
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-23
St. Paul, MN – On August 22, immigrant rights and Palestine solidarity activists presented over 1000 signatures of Minnesota residents petitioning the State Board of Investments (SBI) to divest state pension funds from the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems. Elbit sells cluster bombs and weaponized white phosphorus to the Israel Defense Forces, whose indiscriminate use on besieged Gaza has been widely condemned by international organizations. Elbit also manufactures surveillance equipment for the Israeli apartheid wall, and drones used in targeted assassinations of Palestinian political leaders. | Advertisi…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/23/activist…

Trump Regime Threatens Illegal Sanctions on Nations Legally Buying Iranian Oil
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US under both extremist right wings of its war party is a rogue state by any definition. | It operates extrajudicially at home and abroad. It's increasingly repressive and totalitarian, heading toward full-blown tyranny if the present trend continues unchecked….
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-threatens-illegal-sanctions-nations-buying-iranian-oil/5686908

Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Law that Ignores Landowners' Property Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty in Flawed Decision on Keystone XL Pipeline Route
commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/08/23/nebraska-supreme-court-upholds-law-ignores-landowners-property-rights-indigenous?cd-origin=rss

Double Standards in Iran Reporting
Florian Zollmann | indybay.org | 2019-08-23
Iran has not attacked any country militarily in the last 100 years. This is mostly unmentioned in the media. Demonizations occur in the Iran reporting. In comparison, reporting about human rights in Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/23/18825629.php

Indigenous People's Rights and Canada's 'Vampire' Pension Plan
Prof. James K. Rowe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Wet'suwet'en people have never ceded their land through treaty; like many Indigenous people they continue to practice relations of responsibility with the places and beings that give them life, including protecting them from ecological devastation. In January 2019, the RCMP …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-rights-and-canadas-vampire-pension-plan/5686990

Farmers Need a Bill of Rights
Jim Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
On January 11, 1944 in his annual State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt noted that while the Constitution guaranteed a set of political rights, they were in some respects inadequate. To ensure equality, Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights that would guarantee: -Full employment with an adequate income -Freedom from monopolies and unfair…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/farmers-need-a-bill-of-rights/

U of MN Teamsters demand year-round work
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-23
Minneapolis, MN — While the University of Minnesota top officials gathered for the opening of newly renovated Pioneer Hall, August 21, about 50 members of Teamsters Local 320 and other campus unions held an informational picket line to demand the year-round, full-time employment for workers in M Dining. The U of M has curtailed summer work opportunities for Teamsters and is trampling on seniority rights. | Mick Kelly, a member of the negotiating committee for U of M Teamsters told the crowd, "The university is plunging us into poverty, and this is something that we will never put up with. It is unacceptabl…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/22/u-mn-tea…

Routing the two-tier system: Part V: Justice and injustice
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-23
The two-tier system does not just exist in connection with our economic system. Despite our lauded Bill of Rights, our justice system is also a two-tier or multi-tiered system. This is true both in the civil and criminal law systems. Ask any lawyer and he or she will tell you that (if he or she …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/23/routing-the-two-tier-system-part-v-justice-and-injustice/

Sen. Merkley Condemns Trump's Decision to Indefinitely Jail Migrant Kids
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| The Trump administration is moving to indefinitely detain migrant children and their families, reversing decades of U.S. policy. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to issue a new rule today to withdraw from a 1997 federal court settlement known as the Flores agreement, which put a 20-day limit on migrant family detentions. We speak with Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, who made headlines last year when he was barred from entering an o…
truthout.org/video/sen-merkley-condemns-trumps-decision-to-indefinitely-jail-migrant-kids/

Suddenly West is Failing to Overthrow "Regimes"
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-23
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/suddenly-west-is-failing-to-overthrow-regimes/

Suddenly the West Is Failing to Overthrow "Regimes"
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If …
globalresearch.ca/west-failing-overthrow-regimes/5686967

Sen. Merkley Condemns Trump's War Against Migrant Families as U.S. Moves to Indefinitely Jail Kids
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-23
The Trump administration is moving to indefinitely detain migrant children and their families, reversing decades of U.S. policy. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to issue a new rule today to withdraw from a 1997 federal court settlement known as the Flores agreement, which put a 20-day limit on migrant family detentions. We speak with Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, who made headlines last year when he was barred from entering an old Walmart where the government was detaining about 1,500 immigrant children in Brownsville, Texas.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/23/jeff_merk…

Warnings of Grave Climate and Human Rights Impact as US Export-Import Bank Approves $5 Billion for Natural Gas Project in Mozambique
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
"If there is a project with serious alarm bells, it's this one." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/23/warnings-grave-climate-and-human-rights-impact-us-export-import-bank-approves-5?cd-origin=rss

Interview: Lebanese solidarity with Palestinian refugees
Joyce Chediac | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-23
"For the first time in Lebanon, and possibly in any Arab country, banners supporting the rights of Palestinian refugees were carried along with queer and trans flags."
liberationnews.org/interview-lebanese-solidarity-with-palestinian-refugees/

Statewide protest says 'Black Lives Matter'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-23
Indigenous rights Zebedee ParkesIssue 1234 Australia #Black Lives Matter justice SydneyAboriginal rights activists and supporte…
greenleft.org.au/content/state-wide-protest-says-black-lives-matter

Selected Articles: The Geopolitics of the Kashmir Crisis
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-geopolitics-kashmir-crisis/5686917

Trump schemes to smash immigration judges union
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
WASHINGTON –Anti-worker President Donald Trump, infamous for hating federal workers and their unions, has now taken the next step. Not satisfied with cutting back on workers' rights, he's scheming to literally obliterate the union sector that represents federal immigration judges. And, in the process, he's trashing immigrants, too — an even higher Trump priority. Trump's …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-schemes-to-smash-immigration-judges-union/

A Louisiana Parish Jailed a U.S. Citizen for Being Latinx. We're Suing
aclu.org | 2019-08-22
Officers in a Louisiana jail held a U.S. citizen for four days on an immigration hold simply because of his skin color and name. | Ramon Torres had been a U.S. citizen for nearly ten years when he was detained for four days on an immigration hold — despite having a U.S. passport, a Louisiana driver's license, and a Social Security card, and despite that fact that a court ordered his release. | Torres' ordeal began in August 2018, when he was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Torres, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2009, was carrying multiple forms of identification, inclu…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/louisiana-parish-jailed-us-citizen-being-latinx-were

Trump orders indefinite jailing of detained immigrant families, attacks birthright citizenship
wsws.org | 2019-08-22
Democrats have largely backed Trump's attacks on immigrants, with the New York Times describing his concentration camps as "family detention centers."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/22/immi…

'Anti-alien Hysteria:' Journalist Elizabeth Glendower Evans and the Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2019-08-22
In a case perhaps more relevant now than ever, the trial of the two immigrants became a rallying point for 1920s progressives, labor activists, and human rights advocates around the globe.
progressive.org/dispatches/anti-alien-hysteria-elizabeth-glendower-evans-sacco-vanzetti-stockwell-190822/

Trump Looks at Ending Birthright Citizenship for Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is "seriously" looking at ending the right to citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally. | RELATED: | Trump Imposes Rule to Detain Migrant Families Indefinitely | "We're looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Looks-at-Ending-Birthright-Citizenship-for-Migrants-20190822-0004.html

France: 'G7 and Its Summit are Illegitimate', Aurelie Trouve
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Environmental activists, human rights defenders, gender activists and social leaders began on Wednesday a "counter-summit" to protest the Group of Seven (G7) meeting which will be held in Biarritz, in the Basque Country, in France, from August 24 to 26. | RELATED: | Over 13,200 Police to Be Deployed at G7 Meeting | Convened by G7Ez Platform and Alternatives G7, the counter-summit was inaugurated in Irun, a town near the border with France, where spokespersons from different soci…
telesurenglish.net/news/France-G7-and-Its-Summit-are-Illegitimate-Aurelie-Trouve-20190822-0001.html

Bernie Sanders Backs Rescinding Medals for Wounded Knee Massacre
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-22
| This week 10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. During the two-day event, candidates individually answered questions from a panel of tribal leaders and Native American youth and elders on issues including treaty rights, voter suppression, and murdered and missing indigenous women. | TRA…
truthout.org/video/bernie-sanders-backs-rescinding-medals-for-wounded-knee-massacre/

Kashmir communications shutdown a 'collective punishment' that must be reversed, say UN experts
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-22
End the crackdown on freedom of expression, was the strong call to the Government by India from five United Nations independent rights expert on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044741

Farmers Need a Bill of Rights
Jim Goodman | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Kudos to Senator Warren for endorsing the Farmers Bill of Rights, and to Senator Sanders for seriously mentioning the farm crisis. (Photo: TumblingRun/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/22/farmers-need-bill-rights?cd-origin=rss

FIFA Overlooks Israel's Ban on Palestinians Footballers
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is accused of turning a blind eye towards an Israeli ban on Palestinian football players from Gaza who were supposed to compete with West Bank players for the Palestine Cup. | RELATED: | US Wins 4th FIFA World Cup Amid Chants for 'Equal Pay' | Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor said Wednesday that Isra…
telesurenglish.net/news/Rights-Group-Accuses-FIFA-of-Ignoring-Israeli-Ban-on-Palestinian-Footballers-From-Gaza-20190822-0003.html

How to fight for democratic rights in Hong Kong
wsws.org | 2019-08-22
Hong Kong workers and youth need to reach out to their class brothers and sisters in China who confront the same class enemy–the Stalinist regime in Beijing that defends the interests of the corporate elite and the super-rich.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/22/pers…

South Africa bans old racist flag as hate speech
Mark Waller | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
PRETORIA, South Africa — A landmark Aug. 21 ruling by South Africa's Equality Court has criminalized gratuitous displays of the national flag of the apartheid era. The case was brought before the court by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, backed by the South African Human Rights Commission. The apartheid flag is often displayed by far-right white …
peoplesworld.org/article/south-africa-bans-old-racist-flag-as-hate-speech/

Human Rights from the Ground Up
Jackie Smith | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
The goal of the human rights cities movement is to support local work that builds a bottom-up movement for a world where human rights are truly universal and indivisible. (Photo: Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/22/human-rights-ground?cd-origin=rss

Former Staffer Details Abuse Inside Chicago Child Detention Center
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-22
| In the past two years, many articles have been written exposing the link between Chicago based nonprofits and the broader system of mass detention and child separation at the border. Thanks to the work of community organizers and journalists with ProPublica, the existence of a network of nonprofits acting as child prisons for hundreds of so-called migrant detainees in Chicago has been…
truthout.org/articles/former-staffer-details-abuse-inside-chicago-child-detention-center/

Panama to US: We Won't be Your 'Safe Third Country'
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The Trump administration is looking to turn all of Central America into a 'safe third country', but Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo says that's "not viable" in his nation. | RELATED: | Won't Block Venezuela Ships Despite US Sanctions, Panama Claims | Newly-inaugurated President Cortizo ruled out the possibility of signing an agreement with the United States to make Panama a 'safe third country' to asylum seekers not allowed to stay within the U.S. while they await their…
telesurenglish.net/news/Panama-to-US-We-Wont-be-Your-Safe-Third-Country-20190822-0014.html

DNC Rejects Call for a Climate Debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-22
Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials reversed the previous ban on candidates participating in non-sanctioned climate forums, but Carmen Bouquin of the Sunrise Movement says that's not enough…
therealnews.com/stories/dnc-rejects-call-for-a-climate-debate

Warren Apologizes to Native Americans; Sanders Backs Rescinding Medals for Wounded Knee Massacre
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-22
This week 10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. During the two-day event, candidates individually answered questions from a panel of tribal leaders and Native American youth and elders on issues including treaty rights, voter suppression, and murdered and missing indigenous women.
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/22/frank_lam…

Water Rights Group Calls on Newark Officials to Resist Privatization of City's Water Supply Amid Lead Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Pointing to the public health crisis that ensued in Flint, Michigan after the city turned over control of its water to the state, water rights advocates called on leaders in Newark, New Jersey to retain their authority over the city's water as they confront their own lead crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/08/22/water-rights-group-calls-newark-officials-resist-privatization-citys-water-supply?cd-origin=rss

US to allow indefinite detention for migrant children following rule change
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a change in policy that could see migrant children detained indefinitely, replacing a previous restriction limiting confinement of undocumented minors to 20 days. | The department announced on Wednesday that it would terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement, which set requirements for detaining migrants, arguing the rules contained a "loophole" that drives illegal immigration into the US. | "By closing this key loophole in Flores, the new rule will restore integrity to our immigration system and eliminate the major pull factor fueling the crisis," acting Home…
rt.com/usa/466992-indefinite-detention-migrant-children/

Trump plan: Split migrant kids from parents, with no time limit
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-21
WASHINGTON–In yet another manifestation of Trump administration hatred for non-white migrants seeking to cross into the U.S., top Trump officials announced a new detention rule to split migrant kids from their parents — with no specified time limit on the splits. "A child is no longer a free pass" into the U.S. for the parents, …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-plan-split-migrant-kids-from-parents-with-no-time-limit/

We Have Been Here Before
Brandon Shimoda | thenation.com | 2019-08-21
We Have Been Here Before…
thenation.com/article/japanese-american-internment-migrant-detention-camps/

UN Delays Conference on Torture in Egypt After Criticisms
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
The United Nations says it's delaying a conference set to be held in Cairo, Egypt next month after human rights groups say the government is trying to use the conference to white-wash its own practices of torture and abuses. | RELATED: | Saudi Gov't Offer to Release Woman Activist If She Keeps Mum on Being Tortured | Spokesperson for the offic…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Delays-Conference-on-Torture-in-Egypt-after-Critics-20190821-0029.html

Orgs Sue Trump Over Anti-Endangered Animal Policy
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Environmental and animal rights groups on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its proposal to revise the nation's Endangered Species Act (ESA), seeking to block changes to the decades-old law they say will roll back protections for animals at risk of extinction. | RELATED: | Endangered Condors Face Fragile Existence in Andes | "The new rules move the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Orgs-Sue-Trump-Over-Anti-Endangered-Animal-Policy-20190821-0025.html

An Arizona Law Requires Surveillance of People Who Are Presumed Innocent
aclu.org | 2019-08-21
The government cannot take shortcuts around constitutional rights. | A pillar of our democracy is the presumption of innocence: before a person has been convicted of a crime, they are considered completely innocent under the law. Yet across the country, people who have not been convicted are punished–both explicitly and implicitly–based on the mistaken assumption that they are dangerous, purely on the basis of an accusation. We do not live in a society where you can be incarcerated or monitored simply because you have been accused of a crime. Doing so violates constitutional rights, fuels mass incarce…
aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/arizona-law-requires-surveillance-people-who-are

Washington intensifies its collective punishment of Venezuelans
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-21
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/21/washington-intensifies-its-collective-punishment-of-venezuelans/

Birth certificate reform set to win in Victoria despite fauxminist fear campaign
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-21
LGBTI rights Karen Fletcher Australia Birth certificate reform Victoria Victorian Women's GuildA bill to enable trans and gender diverse adults and children to obtain birth…
greenleft.org.au/content/birth-certificate-reform-set-win-victoria-despite-fauxminist-fear-campaign

Turkey: HDP calls for mobilisations against AKP attacks — 'We will not be silenced, we will not be stopped…'
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-21
Kurdish struggle Susan PriceIssue 1234 Turkey Turkish arrests Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)Human rights organisations, solidarity groups and the European Union have condemne…
greenleft.org.au/content/turkey-hdp-mobilise-against-akp-attacks-we-will-not-be-silenced

Political upheaval over Tlaib and Omar shows the power of BDS
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-20
We are in the middle of a political upheaval on Israel/Palestine in the United States, and Americans who are concerned with Palestinian human rights live for these moments. They are the moments of potential change: When more tarnish is added to Israel's image, and Americans get a clearer picture of what the Jewish state actually […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/20/political-upheaval-over-tlaib-and-omar-shows-the-power-of-bds/

Hong Kong: Flashpoint of Class Struggle in China
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-20
What began as isolated protests against a standard criminal-extradition law has somehow erupted into a violent fury throughout Hong Kong. The Chinese city's American-and-British-flag-waving protesters are, on the one hand, calling for "freedom, human rights, and democracy" while, on the other, assaulting police and even random bystanders alike. Western media have already been on the …
uwidata.com/4966-hong-kong-flashpoint-of-class-struggle-in-china/