Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Let’s go back to last night’s debate. This is Senator Kamala Harris. SEN. KAMALA HARRIS: After the last debate, for example, I went to a place in Florida called Homestead. And there is a private detention facility,...
Month: August 2019
U.S. Troops Are Back in Saudia Arabia—This Will End Badly
Truthdig It was big news. U.S. military forces streamed into Saudi Arabia in response to a supposedly serious threat to the kingdom’s eastern region. The American troops were invited by nervous Saudi royals; it wasn’t an American invasion per se. Everything...
Media Downplay Climate Disruption’s Ever-Growing Role in Driving Migration
FAIR Journalists routinely dehumanize human beings crossing the southern border by comparing them to natural disasters like a “flood” or “deluge.” But while migration has always been a natural phenomenon, the increasingly forced migration of people escaping...
IF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PREVAILS IN A FLORIDA COURTROOM, MORE AMERICANS MAY SEE THEMSELVES STRIPPED OF CITIZENSHIP
The Intercept AS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT made its closing argument on Tuesday afternoon that a federal court should strip a 62-year-old truck driver of his U.S. citizenship, one question appeared to weigh on U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Barksdale’s mind: If...
Facebook dismantles Saudi-linked network of fake accounts
The Middle East Eye Facebook said on Thursday it had dismantled a network of fake accounts and pages linked to the Saudi government that promotes propaganda and targets Riyadh’s adversaries. More than 350 accounts and pages with some 1.4 million followers had...
The Real Winners of the Second Debate Were Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders
The Nation Detroit—Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm sighed after the second group of 10 Democratic presidential candidates finished the second night of the the second round of the exercises that the Democratic National Committee refers to as...