2018-10-03: Social Media Postees

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Here Are 5 Things You Didn't Know About Psychopaths
The Conversation | alternet.org | 2018-10-03
Most people think they know what a psychopath is: someone who has no feelings. Someone who probably tortured animals for fun when they were little. But here are five things you probably didn't know about psychopaths. | Rich text editor, edit-body-und-0-value, press ALT 0 for help. | In the hit BBC TV show,

The U.S. Detention of Children Is Only Getting Worse
Michael Garcia Bochenek | progressive.org | 2018-10-03
No longer forcibly separating families at the border, the Trump Administration has merely changed the way children are harmed.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-u-s-detention-of-children-is-only-getting-worse-181003/

The Death Penalty Is Part of Our Shared and Tortured History
Kevin Cooper | truthdig.com | 2018-10-03
Understanding our history in this country is important, especially in our present day reality with Trump in the White House. | The post The Death Penalty Is Part of Our Shared and Tortured History appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/the-death-penalty-is-part-of-our-shared-and-tortured-history/

No One Should Be Detained Without a Hearing While Fighting Deportation
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-02
The government's sweeping interpretation of a 1996 law has expanded mandatory detention far beyond what Congress intended. | In May of 2013, Astrid Morataya, a legal permanent resident, woke up to a knock on the door. Looking outside the window, she saw law enforcement agents with bulletproof vests encircling her home in Illinois. | "They must have the wrong house," she thought. But they were, in fact, there for her. The government waited 15 years to attempt to deport Astrid for a low-level drug conviction that she received in the late '90s, during a period in her life when she was the victim of ongoing sexu…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/no-one-should-be-detained-without-hearing

A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn't a Rights-Free Zone
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-10-01
A federal court ruled in favor of an American family suing over their abusive detention at the U.S.-Canada border. | An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That's the result of a recent ruling by the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit we filed on behalf of…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/discriminatory-profiling/judge-just-reminded-cbp-border-isnt-rights-free-zone

Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-01
The barren tent camp in the desert on the Mexican border is built to house up to 3,800 children.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/01/immi…

Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange's Fate
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-01
The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere — for the moment. But go somewhere these parties would wish Julian Assange to do. For six years, cramped within a space in London a stone's throw away from Harrods, one he has made…
counterpunch.org/2018/10/01/tortured-solutions-ecuador-the-uk-and-julian-assanges-fate/

Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the "Good Germans" Who Let Hitler Rise to Power?
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-21
In his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," filmmaker Michael Moore interviews the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, who describes President Trump's policy of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and the large-scale detention of immigrant children as a "crime against humanity." Moore also looks at the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany and compares it to the rise of Trump in the United States.
www.democracynow.org/2018/9/21/michael_m…

Arreaza: Venezuela Will Continue to 'Fully Collaborate' With UN Human Rights Council
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-09-12
At the U.N., Venezuela's Jorge Arreaza compared the economic blockade to the economic war waged against Chile's socialist government in the seventies.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14045

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2018-10-02: News Headlines

teleSUR (2018-10-02). Mexican Land Activist Shot Outside Tlalmanalco Home. telesurtv.net Human Rights Organizations have requested state officials launch an impartial investigation into the murder.

Democracy Now! (2018-10-02). Trump Admin Sends 1,600 Kids to Texas Tent City as Number of Detained Children Hits Record High. democracynow.org The Trump administration is transferring detained migrant children from shelters across the country to a barren tent city in West Texas. The New York Times reports that hundreds of children are being sent each week from shelters to the tent city, which currently houses 1,600 children. The facility reportedly has no school, and children have only limited access to legal services. The U.S. government is now detaining a record 13,000 migrant children. We speak with Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the ACLU, who says, "We have more children in detention now than ever before."

INA (2018-10-02). Jalama Detention Center Deliberately Providing Dirty Water to Detainees during Interrogation. imemc.org A number of Palestinian detainees filed a complaint with the Detainees Committee, against Israeli Prison Services, for offering them dirty water while under interrogation at Jalama detention center. 41-year-old detainee Abu Rejleya told a lawyer, after his visit to Ofer detention center, that during his interrogation at Jalama detention center, […]…

Jake Johnson (2018-10-01). 'Horrific' Immigration Policy: In Dead of Night, Trump Administration Transferring Children to Tent Camp with No Schooling and Limited Legal Services. globalresearch.ca "A reminder that the Trump administration is diverting money away from Head Start, the National Cancer Institute, the HIV/AIDS programs, maternal and child health programs, and the CDC to pay for these human rights abuses." | With detention facilities overflowing due …

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2018-10-01). UN Human Rights Council Extends Mandate for Investigation of War Crimes in Yemen. mintpressnews.com "States at the UN Human Rights Council stood firm today, in the face of shameful efforts by the Saudi-led coalition to quash a UN expert inquiry." — General Director, Human Rights Watch

Julian Vigo (2018-10-01). UK's Snoopers' Charter Ruled Unlawful: What Does Privacy Mean to You? globalresearch.ca Two weeks ago the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave a landmark ruling against the UK government's mass surveillance program, stating that it violated human rights and offered "no real safeguards" to the public. This surveillance programme, according to …

Binoy Kampmark (2018-10-01). Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange's Fate. counterpunch.org The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere — for the moment. But go somewhere these parties would wish Julian Assange to do. For six years, cramped within a space in London a stone's throw away from Harrods, one he has made More

Staff (2018-10-01). Migrant Children Transferred to Tent Camp in Dead of Night. truthdig.com As detention facilities overflow, thousands are being moved to a Texas shelter that offers no schooling and only limited access to legal services.

Shared by Samantha Borek (2018-10-01). Trump Administration Transfers Immigrant Youth to Tent Camp With No Schooling. truthout.org With detention facilities overflowing due to President Donald Trump's monstrous immigration policies — which have sent the number of children detained by the US government soaring to a record 12,800 — the Trump administration is reportedly carrying out dead-of-night "mass transfers" of children from foster homes and shelters to a crowded Texas tent camp, where they have no schooling and limited access to legal services. | wsws (2018-10-01). Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp. wsws.org The barren tent camp in the desert on the Mexican border is built to house up to 3,800 children.

aclu (2018-10-01). A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn't a Rights-Free Zone. aclu.org A federal court ruled in favor of an American family suing over their abusive detention at the U.S.-Canada border. | An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That's the result of a recent ruling by the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit we filed on behalf of…

aclu (2018-09-27). The Government Dropped the Ball on U.S. Torture Accountability. Citizens Picked It Up. aclu.org A new report shows the North Carolina government's complicity with the CIA torture program and urges a state investigation. | Sheer stubbornness is required of us when our government violates the law and refuses to recognize it. | Seeking justice for the U.S. torture program of the post-9/11 period has required a lot of stubbornness. In North Carolina, a 12-year quest has led to a new report, "Torture Flights: North Carolina's Role in the CIA Rendition and Torture Program." | The report was released Thursday by the nongovernmental RT (2018-09-25). Amnesty International wants Kavanaugh vetting process halted over alleged role in post-9/11 torture. rt.com The US branch of Amnesty International has dived into the heated debate on whether US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is morally fit for the office, calling for his role in the post-9/11 torture program to be highlighted.

Democracy Now! (2018-09-21). Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the "Good Germans" Who Let Hitler Rise to Power? democracynow.org In his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," filmmaker Michael Moore interviews the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, who describes President Trump's policy of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and the large-scale detention of immigrant children as a "crime against humanity." Moore also looks at the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany and compares it to the rise of Trump in the United States.

TeleSur English (2018-09-12). Arreaza: Venezuela Will Continue to 'Fully Collaborate' With UN Human Rights Council. venezuelanalysis.com At the U.N., Venezuela's Jorge Arreaza compared the economic blockade to the economic war waged against Chile's socialist government in the seventies.

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