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As Trump Pulls Out of N. Korea Summit, Women Activists Head to DMZ to Promote Korean Peace Process; “It Is About Bloody Time”: Harvey Weinstein Assault Survivor Reacts to Arrest in NYC on Rape Charges; Bill Cosby Rape Survivor Says Black Women Face Disproportionate Pressure Not to Speak Out on Assault; Cuban Exile & CIA … Continued
NFL Bans National Anthem Protests On Same Day Video of Police Tasering of NBA Player is Released; Volcano Lava Reaches Geothermal Plant and Pacific Ocean in Hawaii, Risking Public Health Disaster; “The Tale”: Astonishing New Movie Tackles Filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse.
DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison: The Democratic Party Should Stay Out of Primaries, Let Voters Decide; The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Black Activist Jailed for Months After FBI Targeting & Surveillance; “We Are Lurching Toward Plutocracy”: Rep. Ellison on Rollback of Key Dodd-Frank Banking Regulations; Supreme Court Deals Blow to Workers’ Rights in 5-4 Decision … Continued
Pompeo Threatens Iran & Lays Out Unattainable Nuclear Requirements, Speeding U.S. March Toward War; British Royals Rebrand with Royal Wedding, but Critics Say White, Neoliberal Monarchy Needs to Go; Royal Wedding Celebrates Black Culture, But U.K. Gov’t Has Been Targeting Black Immigrants for Years; President Trump Is Not “Above the Law”: John Bonifaz Warns Against … Continued
After Santa Fe HS Shooting, Texas Lawmakers Have “Focused on Anything But Guns”; Malala, and Now Sabika: Pakistani Girl’s Death in Texas Should Prompt Reflection on Gun Violence; Soraya Chemaly on Mass Shootings: “Focus Should Be on Boys & Men Who Can’t Take No for an Answer.”
Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know Chemicals in Teflon Are Poisoning Waterways & Firefighters; Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: Civil Disobedience Against Vietnam War Led Me to Leak Pentagon Papers; Daniel Ellsberg: Whistleblowing is Needed to Avert Catastrophic U.S. War with Iran & North Korea.
Meet Tarek Loubani, the Canadian Doctor Shot by Israeli Forces Monday While Treating Gaza’s Wounded; 50 Years Ago Today: Catonsville 9 Burned Draft Papers with Homemade Napalm to Protest Vietnam War; Planned U.S.-North Korea Peace Talks in Jeopardy as Trump Adviser Bolton Pushes for Regime Change..
Norman Finkelstein: Outrage over Israeli Massacre Shows Power of Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance; Norman Finkelstein: Palestinians Have the Right to Break Free of the “Unlivable” Cage That Is Gaza; Key Democrats Back Gina Haspel’s Confirmation as CIA Director, Despite Her Record on Torture; A Wake-Up Call for Dems? 4 Women Running on Socialist Platforms Unseat Male … Continued
Palestinians Mark 70th Anniversary of Nakba After Israel Kills 61 & Wounds 2,700 Protesters in Gaza; Gazan Writer: Protesters Are Seeking Freedom from World’s Largest Concentration Camp; “The Disaster of My Life”: Nakba Survivor on the Day Israelis Bombed & Invaded His Village in 1948; While U.S. Refuses to Blame Israel, Int’l Court Could Launch … Continued
Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Kill 30+ Palestinians Protesting Nonviolently as U.S. Opens Jerusalem Embassy; “It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience; Rev. Barber Slams Anti-Muslim, Anti-Semitic Pastors Trump Chose to Open U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem; Yanis Varoufakis on Lost U.S. Credibility in Middle East, from Iran Deal to Israel Embassy … Continued
