ICE to Launch Nationwide Raids to Arrest Undocumented Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will carry out raids onJuly 14th to detain undocumented migrants in ten large cities, an operation which is expected to be focused mainly on those having final deportation orders. | RELATED: | Migrants Protest Against Bribe Requests by Mexican Officials | These raids were expecte…
telesurenglish.net/news/ICE-to-Launch-Nationwide-Raids-to-Arrest-Undocumented-Migrants-20190712-0001.html

Know Your Rights: Immigration Activists Prepare for Looming ICE Raids
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls,…
truthout.org/video/know-your-rights-immigration-activists-prepare-for-looming-ice-raids/

Venezuela: 'Progress' Reported in Gov't-Opposition Talks as US Sanctions Counter-Intelligence Agency
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-12
The agenda of the talks has not been disclosed but the topic of elections is reportedly being left for last.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14584

Know Your Rights: How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-12
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls, th…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/12/trump_ice…

The Glaring Holes in Michelle Bachelet's Venezuela Human Rights Report
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-12
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's report on Venezuela echoes the US government's talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. The report fails to acknowledge Venezuela's manifest accomplishments or even recognize victims of US-backed right-wing violence in Venezuela. The US economic war against Venezuela, US threats of a "military option," and opposition violence are treated in the Bachelet report as figments of the imagination, "alleged internal and external threats." | Mean…
mintpressnews.com/glaring-holes-michelle-bachelet-venezuela-human-rights-report/260552/

Know Your Rights: Immigration Activists Prepare for Looming ICE Raids
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls,…
truthout.org/video/know-your-rights-immigration-activists-prepare-for-looming-ice-raids/

The Media Is Complicit in Julian Assange's Torture
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-07-12
While it is rare that publishers themselves make headlines, reports about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now probably outnumber articles based on the information he published. This is the extent to which the man behind some of the most shocking revelations about U.S. war crimes has come under public scrutiny. Despite the profound journalistic importance of the work Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning have done, the two hav…
truthdig.com/articles/the-media-is-complicit-in-julian-assanges-torture/

Turkey Receives S-400 System Amid Sanctions Threat from US
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
Russia has completed its first delivery of their S-400 missile system to Turkey, making the latter the first NATO nation to receive this advanced weapon. | RELATED: | Russian-Made S-400 Air Defense System is En Route to Turkey | According to the Turkish Ministry of Defense, the first parts of the Russian-made S-400 system were flown to an airbase near the capital city of Ankara. | The United States says the Russian military hardware is not compatible with NATO systems and that th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Turkey-Receives-S-400-System-Amid-Sanctions-Threat-from-US-20190712-0003.html

Race Becomes New Flashpoint With Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-12
WASHINGTON–The debate between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats over migrant children in detention at the border was wrenching enough. Then it became about race. | First, the freshman's chief of staff compared more centrist Democrats to 1940s segregationists. Then Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of "singling out" her and fellow newcomers, all women of color. | By Thursday, the rhetoric escalated, overshadowing the agenda and pushing House Democrats way off message with the most divisive upheaval since they took control of the chamber this year. Longtime lawmakers were st…
truthdig.com/articles/race-becomes-new-flashpoint-with-pelosi-ocasio-cortez/

Race Becomes New Flashpoint With Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-12
WASHINGTON–The debate between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats over migrant children in detention at the border was wrenching enough. Then it became about race. | First, the freshman's chief of staff compared more centrist Democrats to 1940s segregationists. Then Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of "singling out" her and fellow newcomers, all women of color. | By Thursday, the rhetoric escalated, overshadowing the agenda and pushing House Democrats way off message with the most divisive upheaval since they took control of the chamber this year. Longtime lawmakers were st…
truthdig.com/articles/race-becomes-new-flashpoint-with-pelosi-ocasio-cortez/

Lights of Liberty Vigil Remarks
Russell Rickford | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Many folks have said "this is not who we are." This is precisely who we are. American concentration camps are not new. Look at our criminal justice system, a leviathan devoted to criminalizing, degrading and discarding masses of black and brown people. American torture is not new. Rape. Ripping families apart. This country was founded…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/lights-of-liberty-vigal-remarks/

Lights of Liberty Vigal Remarks
Russell Rickford | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Many folks have said "this is not who we are." This is precisely who we are. American concentration camps are not new. Look at our criminal justice system, a leviathan devoted to criminalizing, degrading and discarding masses of black and brown people. American torture is not new. Rape. Ripping families apart. This country was founded…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/lights-of-liberty-vigal-remarks/

De Zayas: UN Human Rights Council's Report on Venezuela is 'Unbalanced' (1/2)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-12
Former lawyer for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights, Alfred de Zayas, says that High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet's report on human rights in Venezuela mostly ignores the severity and responsibility of US sanctions against Venezuela…
therealnews.com/stories/de-zayas-un-human-rights-councils-report-on-venezuela-is-unbalanced-1-2

Lights for Liberty San Jose: End The Detention Camps & ICE Raids
Lights for Liberty San Jose | indybay.org | 2019-07-12
San Jose City Hall Plaza | 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose 95113…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/11/18824591.php

Marin County Supervisors Hear Moving Testimony at TRUTH Forum
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-07-12
ICE Out Of Marin demands sheriff end ICE cooperation and that Supervisors declare Marin a sanctuary. | Photos and text: Leon Kunstenaar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824571.php

Left-wing Israeli activist suffers knife attack due to pro-Palestine views
Bryan Wall | thecanary.co | 2019-07-11
A left-wing Israeli activist has been injured in a knife attack. Jonathan Pollak, a longtime pro-Palestine and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions ( BDS) activist, was attacked by two people who called him a "leftist asshole". A right-wing Israeli group had previously targeted him for his support of Palestinian rights. | The attack: | In an interview, Polla…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/12/left-wing-israeli-activist-suffers-knife-attack-due-to-pro-palestine-views/

US Trade War With France?>
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
On Thursday, The U.S. denounced France for proposing measures to stop tax dodging by big tech firms, many of whom are U.S.-based. The move follows the Trump administration's keenness for applying aggressive economic pressure, even against their own allies. | RELATED: | New Sanctions Mean 'Permanent Closure of Path to Diplomacy': Iran | The French parliament will vote friday on a bill that hopes to crack down on big tech companies that pay little or no tax to the countries they…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Trade-War-With-France-20190711-0012.html

Video: Prospects of War in the Persian Gulf Region
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-11
Since Donald Trump has been in office, Iran and the United States have faced the worst crisis in their relations since the fall of the pro-American Shah regime in 1979. The situation escalated in early May, when US sanctions came …
globalresearch.ca/video-prospects-war-persian-gulf-region/5683272

UK Labour Decries BBC's Documentary on Party's 'Anti-semitism'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
Britain's Labour Party is launching "all-out war" against BBC over a documentary it aired Wednesday the party says misrepresented facts and edited documents so as to present Jeremy Corbyn's support for Palestinian rights as anti-semitic. | RELATED: | The Neo-Liberal Roots of Jeremy Corbyn's 'Anti-Semitism Crisis' | The BBC's flagship investigative do…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Labour-Issues-Complaint-Exposing-Bias-in-BBCs-Documentary-on-Corbyns-Anti-semitism-20190711-0003.html

Manuel Duran, journalist who reported on ICE, freed from detention
splcenter.org | 2019-07-11
Manuel Duran, an investigative journalist who was detained after reporting on the collusion between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, was released today from ICE detention and will be reunited with his fiancée.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/11/manuel-duran-journalist-who-reported-ice-freed-detention

CBP Can't Detain Domestic Flight Passengers for Refusing Suspicionless ID Checks
aclu.org | 2019-07-11
The Constitution protects passengers deplaning domestic flights just as it protects people on the street or in a car. | In February 2017, two U.S. CBP officers stood on a jet bridge at New York's JFK Airport to meet Delta Flight 1583 as it taxied to the gate upon arrival from San Francisco. As passengers prepared to deplane, they were told by flight attendants — at the direction of the two officers — that all passengers would have to show identification documents to the officer…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks

Im/migrants and the repressive state
Editor | workers.org | 2019-07-11
A grassroots movement has been growing across the U.S. to counter the government's brutal campaign targeting im/migrants. As more people of all ages die horrible deaths in the desert north of the border, in the border rivers and in detention camps — including the hellholes set up to warehouse small . . . | Continue reading Im/migrants and the repressive state at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/11/im-migrants-and-the-repressive-state/

The Mop Closet of American History
Robert C. Koehler | commondreams.org | 2019-07-11
Some of the children who left the Central Processing Center were asked to draw what their time was like at the detention facility. They drew pictures of kids in cages. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP Photo) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/11/mop-closet-american-history?cd-origin=rss

Representative Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Jail Cells
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-11
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died after being held in an ICE detention center from a lung infection, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of…
truthout.org/video/representative-barragan-decries-detention-of-migrant-children-in-jail-cells/

"Unconscionable & Unacceptable": Rep. Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Prison Cells
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-11
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died from a lung infection after being held in an ICE detention center, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of refugees in U.S.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/11/nanette_b…

Trump threatens new sanctions amid farcical indictment of Iran
wsws.org | 2019-07-11
Washington used the International Atomic Energy Agency as a forum for charging Iran with violating a treaty that the US itself ripped up.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/11/iran…

Goal of Trump's ICE Raids Threat, Warn Rights Advocates, Is to 'Terrorize Immigrant Communities'
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-11
"No matter who you are or what your status is, this is the United States of America—where ALL people have rights." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/11/goal-trumps-ice-raids-threat-warn-rights-advocates-terrorize-immigrant-communities?cd-origin=rss

At Amazon's Annual Summit, Hundreds Demand Tech Giant Stop Providing 'Invisible Backbone' to Trump's Anti-Immigration Agenda
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-11
Both inside and outside the Amazon Web Services Summit in New York on Thursday, tech workers, immigrants, and rights advocates demanded that the company end its support of immigration enforcement agencies and what critics called President Donald Trump's "deportation machine." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/11/amazons-annual-summit-hundreds-demand-tech-giant-stop-providing-invisible-backbone?cd-origin=rss

Lights for Liberty Vigil to end detention camps and family separation
Carina Merrick | indybay.org | 2019-07-11
In front of the main Redwood City Public Library | 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/08/18824548.php

Judge Emma Arbuthnot refuses to recuse herself in show trial of Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-11
Assange's scalp must be taken at all costs to further imperialism's colonial-style wars of conquest and global war on the social and democratic rights of the working class…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/11/assa…

Lights for Liberty San Jose: End The Detention Camps & ICE Raids
Lights for Liberty San Jose | indybay.org | 2019-07-11
San Jose City Hall Plaza | 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose 95113…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/11/18824591.php

ICE's Expanded Use of Facial Recognition Threatens All Our Civil Liberties
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-11
Evan Greer of Fight for the Future discusses how giving ICE access to the DMV databases of driver's license photos poses universal risks. Facial recognition technology is risky, unreliable, and has the potential to cause mass false arrests, violating the rights of refugees, immigrants, and citizens alike…
therealnews.com/stories/ices-expanded-use-of-facial-recognition-threatens-all-our-civil-liberties

Marin County Supervisors Hear Moving Testimony at TRUTH Forum
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-07-11
ICE Out Of Marin demands sheriff end ICE cooperation and that Supervisors declare Marin a sanctuary. | Photos and text: Leon Kunstenaar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824571.php

Watch: Mother of 19-Month-Old Girl Who Died After ICE Detention Testifies on Abject Cruelty of Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-11
"I'm here today because I don't want another little angel to suffer like my Mariee. I don't want other mothers and fathers to lose their children." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/11/watch-mother-19-month-old-girl-who-died-after-ice-detention-testifies-abject-cruelty?cd-origin=rss

'Policing the womb' in Alabama
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2019-07-10
Marshae Jones The intensified attack on women, the gender-oppressed and reproductive justice, denounced as "policing the womb" by reproductive rights advocate and activist Michelle Goodwin, has reached a new level of violence in Alabama. On July 3, Marshae Jones, a young pregnant African-American woman, was arrested after being indicted by . . . | Continue reading 'Policing the womb' in Alabama at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/09/policing-the-womb-in-alabama/

Jewish protesters stand in solidarity with detainees in S. California
Cynthia Kao | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-10
"All of our liberation is connected."
liberationnews.org/jewish-protesters-stand-in-solidarity-with-detainees-in-s-california/

Acts of solidarity with migrants grow
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2019-07-10
The United States government is waging a white-supremacist, imperialist, neocolonial war on multiple fronts. While this war on oppressed people rages on, people across the country and the world are taking a stand against state violence. Violence abroad can take many forms like resource extraction, economic sanctions and regime change. . . . | Continue reading Acts of solidarity with migrants grow at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/09/acts-of-solidarity-grow-for-migrants/

UN experts voice 'deep concern' over Iran's 'consistent pattern' of denying life-saving medical treatment to detainees
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
Despite repeated calls, Iran continues to deny medical treatment to detainees in what amounts to "a consistent pattern", according to eight UN human rights experts, in a statement on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042141

The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It's a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/10/john_carl…

UN human rights chief denounces "outrageous conditions" for immigrants in US concentration camps
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
Indicating that the US government has no intention of heeding Bachelet's statement, DHS has requested another 1,000 National Guard troops on the border between Texas and Mexico.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/10/bach…

Kids in cages: House Dems scrub tweet with photo of Obama-era detention center used to attack Trump
rt.com | 2019-07-10
House Democrats have erased a tweet promoting a hearing on the effects of President Trump's border policies on children after finding out they used a photo depicting a migrant detention center under President Obama's watch. | …
rt.com/usa/463874-house-democrats-delete-tweet-obama/

Amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change
Federico Fuentes | mronline.org | 2019-07-10
One of the sectors hardest hit by Venezuela's economic crisis is the nation's LGBTI community. Lacking access to life-saving medicines and denied certain rights, activists say there is still much to be done within the revolution. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/10/amid-crisis-and-sanctions-lgbti-activists-continue-to-demand-change/

"This Is Not a Surprise": U.S. Sanctions and Saber Rattling Led to Iran's Renewed Uranium Enrichment
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-09
In ongoing fallout from the Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed on Monday that Iran has begun enriching uranium above the level agreed to by the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has threatened to continue to increase their production of enriched uranium if European signatories of the nuclear deal do not help ease the impact of the U.S. sanctions. We speak with Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the new think tank, the Quincy Institute, and author of "Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy."
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/9/trump_admi…

It is not the Non-existent Iranian Bomb; it is the Other Existing Bombs
Dan Lieberman | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
United States (US) demands that Iran promise to halt pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile developments distract from the real intent of the US actions. Knowing that the Islamic Republic is not pursuing nuclear weapons and will react aggressively to sanctions, the US ploy deters other nations from establishing more friendly relations with Iran …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/it-is-not-the-non-existent-iranian-bomb-it-is-the-other-existing-bombs/

Entry Ban at Israeli City Park Provokes Apartheid Warnings
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
The barring of a lawyer and her infant from a public park in the Galilee last week has triggered a legal battle over whether local authorities in Israel can segregate citizens on a racial basis. Human rights groups have warned that the ban marks a growing trend by local authorities representing the Jewish majority towards …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/entry-ban-at-israeli-city-park-provokes-apartheid-warnings/

Tuesday's Daily Brief: #GlobalGoals progress, essential meds, updates from Cox's Bazar, Sudan and DR Congo
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-09
This Tuesday's UN top stories are: high-level discussions on the progress made towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals; falling behind on universal education dream; the UN list of essential medicines updated; life-threatening floods in Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh; and human rights in Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042101

Detained Journalist Manuel Duran's Case Ordered Reopened
splcenter.org | 2019-07-09
The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran's case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/09/detained-journalist-manuel-durans-case-ordered-reopened

Detained Journalist Manuel Duran's Case Ordered Reopened
splcenter.org | 2019-07-09
The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran's case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/09/detained-journalist-manuel-durans-case-ordered-reopened

Socialists on Chicago City Council Fight for Affordable Housing, Immigrant Rights
Aída Chávez | theintercept.com | 2019-07-08
Democratic socialists now make up 12 percent of the City Council, the highest number that any major American city has seen in more than a century.
theintercept.com/2019/07/08/socialism-conference-chicago-city-council/

Georgian protests, military parade, Libya and Turkey
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-08
Georgian protests New protests took place this week in Georgia. On July 4, the Georgian Interior Ministry announced the detention of four people accused of assaulting police officers during rallies in central Tbilisi on June 20-21. On Thursday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it was investigating a meeting about organizing mass riots and an …
uwidata.com/4172-georgian-protests-military-parade-libya-and-turkey/