The Intercept ST. LOUIS COUNTY Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, who was elected last year on a radical reform platform, has taken a huge new step in that direction, establishing a unit to tackle wrongful conditions and abuse by the police....
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Ola Qaradawi ‘in shock’, facing fresh charges day after court ordered her release
The Middle East Eye Egyptian prosecutors have detained Ola al-Qaradawi as they investigate a new case against her, one day after a court said she should be released, a source close to her family told Middle East Eye on Thursday. The daughter...
The US Is Making a Mockery of Its Asylum Obligations
The Nation Luisa and her 3-year-old son fled Honduras together to come to the United States to ask for asylum; now they have to choose between a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. After presenting at the US port of entry in El Paso, they were...
We Are All Repressors: A Potential Key to Ending the Empire
The Ghion Journal In the opening to a piece published here on The Ghion Journal a few weeks ago, The Noir Detective, Julian Assange and What Comes Next, I mentioned how important the keeping of secrets is to empires (and most authoritarian societies, for that...
NY Times admits it sends stories to US government for approval before publication
The Grayzone The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that it sends some of its stories to the US government for approval from “national security officials” before publication. This confirms what veteran New York Times correspondents like James Risen have said:...
Climate Change is Devastating India With Heat Waves and Water Shortages
The Real News Network India's climate disasters are fueled by its governments' resource mismanagement and fossil fuel consumption, says political economist Shouvik Chakraborty GREG WILPERT It’s The Real News Network and I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. A massive...
Syrian Refugee Terror Plot or Latest in Pattern of FBI-Manufactured Terrorism Cases?
CounterPunch On the surface, the story of 21-year-old Syrian refugee and Pittsburgh resident Mustafa Mousab Alowemer has the elements to strike fear in many Americans and give ammunition to the Trump administration for its war on immigrants and refugees, especially...
Activists Still Want a Separate Debate on Climate After It Received Just 7 Minutes in First Debate
Democracy Now! As the Democratic debate took place in Miami, climate activists from the Sunrise Movement protested the Democratic National Committee’s refusal to host a climate change-centered primary debate. Climate activists are still camping out in front...
Joe Biden, Tiffany Cabán and Democrats’ Two Paths Forward
Truthdig The stories provided a striking contrast, a portrait of the Democratic Party’s past and a glimpse of its possible future. Just after midnight on Wednesday, 31-year-old Tiffany Cabán claimed victory in her race for Queens district attorney, an...
So Who Is Reporting That Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans?
FAIR I wrote on June 14 about Reuters burying (for over a month) a study (CEPR, 4/25/19) by prominent economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot that links economic sanctions President Donald Trump imposed on Venezuela in August 2017 to...